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Chocolate Underground (ONA)

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Alternative title:
チョコレート・アンダーグラウンド (Japanese)
Genres: adventure
Themes: police
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Chocolate is now illegal. The story takes place in present day, the Good for You Party has won the election and announced the amazing Chocolate Prohibition law. They prohibit all sweet things, including chocolates, because they are harmful to ones health. Two boys, Huntley and Smudger, stand up to fight against the law. With help from Louise and other friends, they begin to bootleg chocolate.
User Ratings: 133 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 2 votes (sub:2)
 Excellent: 2 votes (sub:1, raw:1)
 Very good: 13 votes (sub:13)
 Good: 34 votes (sub:33, others:1
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Decent: 39 votes (sub:35, dub:1, others:3
2 Spanish subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
)
 So-so: 17 votes (sub:16, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Not really good: 10 votes (sub:10)
 Weak: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Bad: -
 Awful: 7 votes (sub:7)
 Worst ever: -
Seen in part or in whole by 263 users, rank: #3274 (of 9585)
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.812 (Decent−), std. dev.: 1.8277, rank: #7742 (of 9708)
Weighted mean: 5.796 (Decent−), rank: #7766 (of 9708) (seen all: 6.00 / seen some: 3.75 / won't finish: 3.62)
Bayesian estimate: 5.956 (Decent), rank: #6506 (of 7289)
Running time: 5 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage:
2008-06-12
2010-01-29 (Italy - Future Film Festival)
Ending Theme:
"Make Up" by Kana Nishino
Trivia: We have 2
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Palm Beach International Film Festival to Screen Chocolate Underground (Apr 6, 2012)
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Chocolate Underground Film to Open in Japan in January (Sep 11, 2008)
UK's Bootleg Novel Animated for Mobile Phones in Japan (Feb 14, 2008)
Alex Shearer's Bootleg Novel Made into Manga, Anime (Dec 13, 2007)
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Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Takayuki Hamana
Screenplay:
Kiyoko Yoshimura (eps 1-13)
Storyboard:
Jun Takahashi
Takayuki Hamana
Unit Director:
Akihiro Saitō
Daisuke Takashima
Jun Takahashi
Takashi Andō
Music: SUPA LOVE
Original creator: Alex Shearer
Original Character Design: Aiji Yamakawa
Character Design: Takayuki Goto
Art Director: Seiko Akashi
Chief Animation Director: Takayuki Goto
Animation Director:
Hideaki Matsuoka
Hiroshi Oikawa
Masato Numazu
Mechanical design: Yoshinori Iwanaga
Sound Director: Takuya Hiramitsu
Cgi Director: Kenji Isobe
Director of Photography: Kenichi Dai

2nd Key Animation:
Akiko Itagaki
Eriko Itō
Kantaro Suzuki
Mamoru Tamiya
Masami Yamauchi
Mayu Hoshino
Narumi Takahashi
Seiji Nishida
Tetsurō Nireki
Yuka Tabe
Yūsuke Suzuki
Yutaka Sugiura
Assistant Animation Director: Jouji Sawada
Color design: Misako Akama
Editing: Junichi Uematsu
In-Between Animation:
Ayano Yoshida
Chie Saito
Emi Furukawa
Eriko Itō
Fumi Hirai
Hime Kanenobu
Hiroyuki Hojo
Ichizō Ueoka
Kaname Takizawa
Kantaro Suzuki
Mai Okegawa
Miho Takinose
Yuka Nagata
Yuka Tabe
Yukimichi Iniwa
In-Between Check: Eriko Itō
Key Animation:
Akiko Seki (Sakura Create)
Akiko Taniguchi
Akira Tabata
Akira Takahashi
Ayako Karatani
Daisuke Sakō
Eriko Itō
Erina Oshima (Sakura Create)
Haruyo Sakai (Studio Create)
Hiroyoshi Iida
Hitomi Matsuura (Studio Jungle Gym)
Ichiro Hattori
Jouji Sawada
Kaori Saito
Mamiko Nakanishi (Dogakobo)
Mamoru Tamiya
Mariko Aoki
Masaki Miyauchi
Masami Yamauchi
Masato Numazu
Mayu Hoshino
Michiaki Sugimoto
Michiyo Hirabayashi (Studio Create)
Miho Aoki
Miyuki Arai
Naoko Ozawa
Narumi Takahashi
Nobunori Wakana
Risako Yoshida
Ryuutarou Sakaguchi (Sakura Create)
Taeko Oda
Takashi Hirabayashi (Studio Create)
Takashi Narikawa
Tomofumi Koizumi (Studio Gimlet)
Tomohiro Kamitani
Tomomi Murayama (Studio Create)
Tomoyuki Kinoshita (Studio Gimlet)
Yasunori Miyazawa
Yasunori Yamaguchi (Studio Jungle Gym)
Yasushi Tanizawa (Studio Zain)
Yōko Nomura (Studio Create)
Yuichiro Masuda
Yuka Tabe
Yuki Satō
Yukinobu Yamada
Yukiyo Komito
Yūko Fujii (Studio Gimlet)
Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa
Theme Song Performance: Kana Nishino
Fumie Mizusawa as Smudger Moore
Toshiyuki Toyonaga as Huntley Hunter

Mikako Takahashi as Louise Bubby

Katsuyuki Konishi as Director of Headquarters
Keiji Fujiwara as Ron Moore
Kenjiro Tsuda as Joe Crawley
Maaya Sakamoto as Carol Hunter
Rie Nakagawa as Kylie Moore
Rintarō Nishi as Healthy leader
Tatsuhisa Suzuki as John Blades
Japanese companies
English staff
English companies
(none)
Distributor:
Eleven Arts (Worldwide except Japan.)
GKIDS (New York international Children's Film Festival)
Seminal Films (Unreleased)
English cast
(none)
German staff
German companies
(none)
Distributor: Animaze Germany
German cast
(none)

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