A wooden puppet possessed by a tree spirit shows up in your bed, decides she likes you, and enrolls in your magic school. Everything that follows operates on pure comedic momentum, no plot required. The jokes land fast enough that you stop asking why a demon boy and four-eyed cat are even here, and start waiting to see what ridiculous situation explodes in the next five minutes. This is 90s comedy anime working exactly as it was designed to work: low stakes, high velocity, zero pretense. If you watched Urusei Yatsura and wanted more of that energy without thinking too hard, Trouble Chocolate is already waiting for you.

Cacao, a student at Micro Grand Academy, wakes one morning to find a wooden girl asleep in his bed. She is Hinano, a tree spirit who ended up inside a wooden puppet after Cacao bungled a spell belonging to his magic teacher. Hinano takes to him right away and signs up at his school. From there, Cacao's days fill with monsters, a pair of odd twins who answer to a four-eyed cat, a demon boy, and a crowd of peculiar teachers and classmates. On top of all that, he may have what it takes to become one of the most powerful magic users ever. The result is a comedy with romance and sci-fi touches, built around a young magician whose life keeps getting stranger.