Overview:
Studio Gainax has the highest reputation of any studio on MAL with the possible exception of Madhouse. So...everything they've ever made was gold right? Consider that even Madhouse made Junk Boy and Reign the Conqueror. Gainax it turns out has made some bad anime too and Chocolate Panic Picture Show is perhaps the worst.
Background:
The year is 1985. Some of the boys at Gainax just got done watching the 1980 film "The Gods Must Be Crazy" followed by some psychodelic European arthouse cinema. This was when Kamui Fujiwara decided to combine those 2 things and create...this...thing.
Plot:
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Alternative Titles
Japanese: ザ・チョコレートパニック・ピクチャーショー
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Type:
OVA
Episodes:
1
Status:
Finished Airing
Aired:
Sep 21, 1985
Producers:
TV Asahi
Licensors:
None found, add some
Studios:
Tezuka Productions
Source:
Manga
Demographic:
Seinen
Duration:
25 min.
Rating:
R - 17+ (violence & profanity)
Statistics
Ranked:
#139332
2
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Popularity:
#9844
Members:
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Favorites:
4
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Your Feelings Categories Aug 10, 2018
Hello there, traveler! I'm sure you've come to this page after watching Evangelion, FLCL, Gunbuster and/or Gurren Lagann, and you wondered to yourself, "What else does Gainax have to offer?"
There's...THIS. I am not sure what you would call this besides bottom of the barrel trash. The Chocolate Panic Picture Show was made after the Daicon shorts and Studio Gainax became its own beast. I think that the studio was still just three guys in a garage at the time. Obviously, they were still putzing around, still trying to come into their own. Anyway, I can't really explain this, since there's no plot and it's just a bunch ... Jan 26, 2017
Rate of 4 (decent)
audio a mix of japanese/english Feelings upon watching this is mainly confusion. Surprisingly after watching it up to the end i found myself re-watching it. I must be more bonkers than they or he is. Ever watch the three stooges? Now, imagine a more African theme and comical song overplay. Then imagine a more childlike in attitude. Likes: art- depending on what plot segment they were going for they changed the background, audio, and appearance to make it fit. Any coop operation requires a lot of work. Having blended the way they did is interesting to say the least. ... Dec 17, 2018
As the joke goes, there was some much money floating around in the mid-eighties that just about any (and every) story concept that was proposed could get green-lit as an OVA.
And this, my fine friends, is the proof that is true. I can only imagine that the director decided to chomp down on a whole pile of mushrooms, and then tell his assistant, "Okay, now write down everything that I say for the next three hours. And we will turn that into an anime." So what is the result? ... May 28, 2025
This was shit, but it could have been shit in the way where you think "hey, at least they tried" and you're charmed by it. Instead it's shit and it's full of itself like it did something really funny and cool. I'm basing this off of the final song where the mambo chinbo chonbo guy is laughing his ass off after repeating the three names ad nauseum.
When it starts it's got a weird ambient atmosphere and this breathing noise that almost puts you in a trance, like you might be about to experience something more cerebral than you were expecting from The Black Monkey Lips ... |

