Trouble Chocolate (1999): cast, story & where to watch

Released in 1999, Trouble Chocolate is an animation and comedy series.

What it’s about. Features Cacao, a student at Micro-Grand Academy studying magic. One day, while his magic class teacher, Ghana, is performing a spell to summon a tree spirit, Cacao finds and eats some chocolate, which turns out to be 200 year old magical chocolate. After eating the chocolate he becomes drunk and causes a wreck. During this, he interferes with Ghana's spell, letting the spirit, Hinano, escape. She inhabits the body of a marionette, who then moves in with Cacao. Subsequent episodes of Trouble Chocolate have little connected storyline. Rather, the show is a parody of other anime. The dubbed dialogue in Trouble Chocolate often bears little or no resemblance to the original script, as opposed to the normal convention of translating the words as directly as the change in lip-sync will allow.

Who’s in it. Trouble Chocolate stars Naoki Yanagi as Cacao, Sakura Tange as Hinano, Tomohiro Tsuboi as Ghana and Yasuyuki Kase as Truffle, among others.

How it landed. With an audience score of 9.0/10, Trouble Chocolate sits among the best-reviewed titles in the catalogue.

Where to watch. Streaming options change often. See the full, country-by-country breakdown on our where to watch Trouble Chocolate page.

If you liked it. Fans of Trouble Chocolate tend to enjoy Rick and Morty, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Attack on Titan and Attack on Titan: No Regrets.