Aishen Qiaokeli-ing...

There's nothing wrong with shows that are silly or absurd yet have their strong points and somehow manage to keep the audience entertained. I'm a fan of ecchi harems myself and am able to enjoy even really average shows. However, Aishen Qiaokeli-ing, aka Cupid's Chocolates, is hopeless in my eyes.

The story revolves around Haoyi and his harem, which consists of girls that, just like him, ate some cursed chocolates. This caused them not only to be in love with a dull and idiotic guy but also made them believe they're married to or even pregnant with him. So Haoyi's job is to help the girls ... and fulfill their wishes in order to lift the spell.

It didn't have to be this bad. If you look at the recommendations section, you can see people comparing this show to Kami nomi, where the main character also has to help the heroines with their problems and magic is apparent there too. Kami nomi is however a well written, clever and interesting anime that actually makes sense. Cupid's chocolates is a show filled with absurdity, unfunny gags and irrational characters. It's just dumb and offensive.

The only good things about this cartoon is its art. The animation is definitely above average and the heroines look simply beautiful. Their character designs are detailed and can be only described as a real eye-candy.
I have to say not all the heroines are that bad, I actually liked two of them - the pink rich girl and the crazy yandere. Mei Tata is quite cute as well. Not that they have much of personality - I'm probably just fond of their looks.

The soundtrack isn't anything outstanding but it's not bad either.
What's worth noticing is the fact that it is literally a chinese cartoon. So the voice acting may sound a bit strange at first but I got used to it quickly and I actually found it refreshing to hear the characters speak Chinese.

All in all, Cupid's chocolates is far from being good. It's not even average. It doesn't offer you anything apart from cute heroines and good animation. Even if you tend to like silly harem shows, I recommend you to stay away from this one. Watching Cupid's chocolates only satisfied my eyes and left me with a feeling of having wasted my time, because what I just saw can't be even called mindless fun. No fun at all.

I usually steer away from Chinese anime as they're usually not very good. Of course there are good ones, but this one? It is not one of them. It can't decide what it is. It can't decide if it's serious, a comedy, or a harem. It doesn't fuse the three together well, if that's what it was going for. I enjoy the comedy aspect of it a lot, I found it to be pretty funny. I also think it had some aspect to be a good serious anime. The plot is unique. If it had just been the first girl we see, or just any ... one of them, I think it could have been much better as a serious anime. Hell, even if it wanted to do all of them, it could be him trying to fix it. However? I don't think it's a good harem anime. The harem aspect comes off as very generic and boring, and sometimes a bit painful.

The art is very average, or slightly below average. Sometimes the art was stunning in a generic anime way.

The sound track, in my opinion, is also very lacking. It had no real presence.

All in all? It had some potential to be a game changer for Chinese anime, since they're pretty lacking, but flopped.

To keep it short and sweet, this anime is just plain tedious to watch. It follows all of the generic tropes in a harem, romance anime centred around a male MC. Of course, there is no explanation behind the characters and who or what they are. The female characters just throw themselves onto the MC. Paired with a horribly executed plot, it is just plain unenjoyable to watch and kind of gives me second-hand embarrassment. It's a shame because the art is decent and goes to waste. Also, the voice acting is not clear at all and sounds like it has been recorded in a ... bathroom. I decided to drop this immediately after watching the first episode as I couldn't watch more of it.

An interesting Donghua (Chinese anime). With short episodes (10 to 12 minutes each) and average story. What can you do both seasons in just 3 hours. But the problem is that the audio of this anime sucks (yes, I know that some kid will ask - or say - if/that the version of Anime Fire is bad. NO, IT IS NOT! I use 247 tabs in the browser and More than 30 of them are from different anime sites and they are all at that level, INCLUSIVE, THE ONLY site I found to download the original version - not subtitled - of the anime in ... MKV with 1.1 GB of each episode and the audio is the VERY SAME thing) and the animation is not good either. I don't recommend watching it, unless you've already watched the 500 best anime ever produced by human beings AND you have nothing else to do with your life, not even watch the episodes of the anime that are coming out. Because it is very serious for an anime to have such shitty audio in today's times. Even more so when it comes to Chinese production, where a country with 1.2 billion people, 8000% more than Japan, the land of technology, has many more audiovisual resources than the Japanese country. I thought this anime's low rating on MAL was because of it having Chinese dubbing, as the standard of its production nativity, obviously. But the low score is for several reasons. Especially the technician. Note 4 for this donghua and, if it weren't for the bad animation, the story and script are good that would easily give this production a note 7.