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“Psychedelic musical OVA follows three zany characters causing chaos in a bizarre world, satirizing cultural imperialism.”
The Chocolate Picture Panic Show
ザ・チョコレートパニック・ピクチャーショー
4.34
14,678 rank · 4,080 viewers · 4 favorites
Avant Garde
Comedy
Seinen
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Synopsis
Psychedelic musical OVA follows three zany characters causing chaos in a bizarre world, satirizing cultural imperialism.
The Chocolate Panic Picture Show is a wacky musical OVA based on a manga by Fujiwara Kamui, serialised in Monthly Super Action and partly inspired by Jamie Uys's The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980). Follow Manbo, Chinbo and Chonbo as they are flung into a strange, psychedelic world of madness they don't understand. See them cause chaos through their zany, unpredictable antics in this comical take on cultural imperialism.
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Derived from 6 sampled reviews
3.0
/10
What 6 viewers settled on.
0%
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Score distribution
median 3
mode 3
σ 1.29
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Mostly aligned
σ 1.29 · some divergence
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 2.00
Running avg · Sep 2009 → May 2025
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· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 5 “An experimental, stream-of-consciousness short whose surreal beach nightmare of military imagery and improvised soundtrack at least deserves credit for ambition. Yet the disjointed style keeps both...”
- 3 “The animation is decently flashy and the soundtrack passable, but this mid-80s OVA offers no story, no plot, no dialogue—just a stream-of-consciousness jumble of disconnected, racist imagery that...”
- 4 “The show’s strength lies in its willingness to mutate art, audio, and visual style to match each story segment, a gamble that ultimately hooked me into a rewatch. Yet the same stylistic whiplash...”
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Short · 17%
Medium · 83%
Long · 0%
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- Format 1 × 25′ eps × min
- Total runtime 0h 25m all episodes
- Aired Sep 1985 – ongoing
- Source Ova media type
- Rated R 17+ (violence & profanity)
- Ref. BS-4230 catalog
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- TV Asahi Producer