Product Details

• Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English, Japanese
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Viz Video
• DVD Release Date: October 22, 2002
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00006JMSD
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #196,477 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

Complications ensue when Cacao, the hero of this featherweight romantic comedy, awakens to find the green-haired Hinano in bed with him. As he reconstructs the previous day, he learns that he sneezed as Professor Ganache was casting a spell, causing a faerie to enter a marionette's body and create Hinano. Klutzy and perennially famished, Cacao is another in the long line of agreeable goofs with untapped potential, in this case the ability to become a "great sorcerer." Hinano adores Cacao, to the chagrin of the dashing Truffle, who is smitten with her. The filmmakers spoof the clichés of animated romances--sparkles, breaking waves, waltzes, princess costumes, etc.--in the relationship between blond Deborah and handsome Captain Muratake, who talks like Kuno in Ranma 1/2. Trouble Chocolate plays like a cross between Urusei Yatsura and Harry Potter set in Hershey, Pennsylvania. (Rated 13 and older: mild risqué humor, cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Trouble Chocolate is Very Yummy!, October 23, 2002

By 

Daniel Hubbard "Taoist Dad" (Lafayette. CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Trouble Chocolate, Vol. 1 (DVD)

Trouble Chocolate is fast becoming one of my favorites. I have only rented the first DVD and I am hopelessly hooked. It has everything a great romantic comedy needs. An excellent voice cast. Top of the line animation (for a TV shows not for a film). It's a bit in line with Saber Marionette J and Tenchi in some ways. We have an average student named Cacao who is learning magic. He has one slight flaw. Chocolate is like 80 proof Jack Daniel's to him he also has a habit of mass destruction when drunk. So one day when Professor Ganache (that's his teacher) is summoning a forest spirit Cacao snacks on a bar of magic chocolate that's 200 years past the expiration date. This gets him totally plastered and he sneezes and brakes the magic diagram of sand used in the spell. So the forest sprit takes over the body of a wooden puppet. Enter Hinano and of course she is a total babe with magic powers and with in twenty minutes we have another guy falling for her. A rich jerk named Truffle. Oh by the way she is made out of wood. We have a lot of jokes at DBZ and Gundum's expense. We have teachers that are vampires, wizards and a she\male Frankenstein that's a little oversensitive. I don't want to spoil the rest for you but its got magic, monsters, food and romance galore. My only complaint is that there are very little extra features on this DVD. I hope someday that Cartoon Network might run this show so others can see it. Enjoy and lay off the chocolate!

5.0 out of 5 stars I love chocolate!, November 2, 2005

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Ronnie Clay "R.C." (Winnsboro, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Trouble Chocolate, Vol. 1 (DVD)

One day Cacao, a young boy, woke up and find himself in a bed together with a green haired girl, Hinano, who possesed a magical power. Oddly enough her body is made of wood, and from there and on the troubles begin