ChocoTan!

Chocotan! (チョコタン ！, Chokotan) is a Japanese manga written and illustrated by Kozue Takeuchi. It was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon from October 2011 to September 2017. An anime special produced by J.C.Staff was shown at Ribon Festa in 2013.

Chocotan!
チョコタン ！ (Chokotan)
Genre	Romance[1]
Manga
Written by	Kozue Takeuchi
Published by	Shueisha
Magazine	Ribon
Demographic	Shōjo
Original run	October 3, 2011 – September 1, 2017
Volumes	13
Anime film
Music by	Asuka Sakai
Studio	J.C.Staff
Released	March 17, 2013
Runtime	10 minutes

Plot

Chocotan is about a puppy named Chocotan and her owner. Chocotan is able to talk to her owner due to her eating a plant that gave her the ability to speak. Nao, her owner, has a crush on someone that she goes and sees every day at the park to walk their dogs.

Characters

Chocotan

Voiced by: Rie Kugimiya^[2]

Nao Hatori

Voiced by: Ayane Sakura^[2]

Media

Manga

Written and illustrated by Kozue Takeuchi, Chocotan was serialized in Shueisha's shōjo manga magazine Ribon from October 3, 2011 to September 1, 2017.^[1][3] The series' chapters were collected into thirteen tankōbon volumes from April 13, 2012 to March 23, 2018.^[4][5]

No.	Release date	ISBN
1	April 13, 2012[4]	978-4-08-867195-6
2	September 14, 2012[6]	978-4-08-867223-6
3	January 15, 2013[7]	978-4-08-867247-2
4	April 15, 2013[8]	978-4-08-867263-2
5	August 9, 2013[9]	978-4-08-867281-6
6	January 15, 2014[10]	978-4-08-867306-6
7	June 13, 2014[11]	978-4-08-867327-1
8	December 15, 2014[12]	978-4-08-867348-6
9	May 25, 2015[13]	978-4-08-867371-4
10	November 25, 2015[14]	978-4-08-867394-3
11	August 25, 2016[15]	978-4-08-867425-4
12	May 25, 2017[16]	978-4-08-867463-6
13	March 23, 2018[5]	978-4-08-867494-0

Anime

An anime special produced by J.C.Staff was shown at Ribon Festa in March 2013.^[2]