Tokyo Marble Chocolate

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Tokyo Marble Chocolate
東京マーブルチョコレート (Tokyo Marble Chocolate)
OVA
Director	Naoyoshi Shiotani
Studio	Production I.G.
Episodes	2
Released	December 5, 2007
Runtime	50 minutes

Tokyo Marble Chocolate (東京マーブルチョコレート, Tokyo Marble Chocolate^?) is a Japanese anime OVA directed by Naoyoshi Shiotani and animated by Production I.G..

It was screened at the Tokyo International Film Festival in October, 2007^[1] and released to DVD on December 5, 2007 in Japan.

The animation is a collaboration between Production I.G and BMG Japan in commemoration of both companies' 20th anniversaries.^[2] The story follows a boy and girl, both unlucky in love, as they begin to fall in love on Christmas Day - thanks to the intrusive actions of a Mini Donkey and the romantic backdrop of Tokyo Tower.

1 Staff
2 Awards
3 References
4 External links

[edit] Staff

Naoyoshi Shiotani - Director and Mini Donkey character design
Fumiko Tanikawa - Character designer
Kyoji Asano - Animation director
Masaya Ozaki - Screenwriter
Production I.G - Original story
Takeshi Yanagawa - Music
Francesco Prandoni & Andrez Bergen - English edit

[edit] Awards

Tokyo Marble Chocolate was awarded the Grand Prize in the Feature Film Category of the 12th Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival (SICAF 2008), held in Seoul, Republic of Korea, from May 21 to 25, 2008.

The jury was composed of Giannalberto Bendazzi (a professor of the history of animation at Milano State University in Italy), Noriko T. Wada (a Japanese producer) and Kyung-jo Min (a South Korean director). The award ceremony took place in Seoul on May 25, 2008.