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- Region:Japan
- Type:TV
- English name:Sugar Sugar Rune
- Official name:シュガシュガルーン
- Chinese name:魔界女王候补生
- Other names:魔女的考验
- Premiered:July 2, 2005
- Status:Finished Airing
- Tags:Funny / Fantasy / Love / For girls(L) / Source manga
- Original author:安野モヨコ
- Director:ユキヒロマツシタ(福島宏之)
- Scenario:吉田玲子 / 金春智子 / 池田眞美子 / 丸尾みほ / 高橋ナツコ
- Storyboard:津之田三蔵 / 小林常夫 / 今千秋 / 岩永彰 / 大畑晃一
- Co-director:佐伯昭志 / 清水明 / 福島宏之 / 篠崎康行 / 佐藤光敏
- Studios:Studio Pierrot
- Family:Sugar Sugar Rune
- Rating:9+
Sugar Sugar Rune
Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux are both witches and childhood friends, pitted against each other in a contest to see who will become the next queen of the Magic World!
In order to win, the two queen candidates must attend school in the human world, cultivating relationships to bring out their classmates hearts of friendship and love... But if a witch gives their heart to a human, they'll die?!
In an exciting adventure filled with transformations, mystery, jealousy, and romance, join Chocolat and Vanilla as they work alongside their knights to protect the kingdom from the threat of the Ogres and do their best to become the next queen!
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EP1 - Chocolat, Hearts, and the Shooting Star
Young witches Chocolat Meilleure and Vanilla Mieux are chosen as compete to become the Magical World’s next Queen. They’re sent to the Human World, where they’re to collect human hearts ; crystallized emotions that can be used as money and energy. Whoever takes the most by the end shall be crowned Queen.As they arrive in the Human World, the girls are introduced to Rockin Robin, a witch who uses his pop idol career to steal the hearts of women. His job is to guide them through their challenge and monitor their progress.The girls are enrolled at school. Both expect bold and feisty Chocolat to be the most popular, but are surprised to learn that human boys prefer timid, gentle girls like Vanilla. Chocolat encounters an icy boy named Pierre from the middle school division, and takes an instant dislike to him.
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EP2 - The Love Battle between the Frog and the Mouse
Chocolat has earned the lowest ranking heart while Vanilla still hasn't won any! To increase their chances, the girls summon their familiars. Instead of being loyal slaves to the girls though, each familiar has its own personality and soon a war rages between white mouse Blanca and Duke the frog.
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EP3 - Unscheduled Newspaper Club Interview
Nishitani, a boy who runs the school newspaper, develops a crush on Chocolat, giving him an Orange heart. Chocolat is ecstatic, but every time she talks to him she forgets to take it! Nishitani decides to make the next issue about her, leading the rest of the newspaper club to call him selfish and quit. Chocolat finally captures his heart, just as it changes from Orange to Rose. To show her gratitude, Chocolat uses her magic to give Nishitani an interesting story for the next issue, and the club forgives him.
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EP4 - The Magic Lipstick Hints of Love
The class is putting on a production of Romeo and Juliet, with bossy class representative Manabe as the director. Chocolat thinks the world would be better if everyone was as honest about their feelings as she and Manabe are, so she orders a magical lipstick of truth from a catalogue. On opening day the girl playing Juliet comes down with a fever, and Manabe is the only one who knows the lines well enough to replace her. But she's too nervous about pretending to love Romeo, when she really does love the boy playing him! Chocolat uses the lipstick on Manabe, who finally confesses her feelings.
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EP5 - Crazy Nervous! Home Visit
Chocolat and Vanilla's teacher decides it's time to give the girls a home visit, motivated mostly by her wanting to see their father Rocking Robin again. Robin is called away to a photoshoot at the last minute, leaving Chocolat and Vanilla to make sure the visit runs smoothly and their teacher doesn't see any magic in the house.
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EP6 - Aim at the Heart! Fencing of Love
When Chocolat discovers a star fencer by the name of Night-switch, (who turns out also a witch and excels at capturing hearts) she comes to find human boys are not only into the shy and quiet types and is determined to use her fiery personality to her advantage. In order to join the fencing club however, Chocolat not Night-switch of love must first score a point against middle school student Pierre, a rude and cold boy the entire female population seems to go nuts over. Will Chocolat be able to accomplish her goal or will her single and only heart be snatched away by the boy as well? In the night.
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EP7 - Chocola lost her Qualifications as the Queen Candidate!?
Chocolat travels back to the Magical World and meets up with her old friends Saule and Houx (nicknamed Soul and Woo) to learn more about her mother, Cinnamon. Clearly she wasn't listening to Robin when he told her that leaving the Human World without permission can get her disqualified! When Robin (their guardian) found out about this, he went back to the Magical World trying to save Chocolat from being disqualified. But suddenly Vanilla enters then the palace and says that she herself left the human world to go back to the Magical World without the permission of their Guardian(Robin), everyone was shocked.
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EP8 - The Vacance Date of a Lady
Deemed to capture Prince Pierre's hearts, Chocolat volunteered a trip to Pierre's villa...together with a very annoyed gang of his fan club and a very scared Vanilla. She decides to purchase a pair of magic shoes in order to look older and more attractive. But being a lady isn't easy...
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EP9 - A Green Heart Present
Akira, the sci-fi fan in Chocolat and Vanilla's class (who believes them to be extraterrestrials after witnessing them falling from the Moon) is on sick leave, and Chocolat is asked to deliver a note to him. However, they realize his sickness was a pretense as he was searching for Hirotsu, his dog, who has disappeared. Chocolat organises a search party, but fails to find it. Later Hiroshi is found waiting for a ferry bearing Akira's dad.
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EP10 - Learn from Robin! Love Love Mission
Chocolat and Vanilla sneak into Robin's studio, looking for clues on how to become an excellent heart-collector like him.
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EP11 - More Important than Love!? Friendship Magic
Vanilla is so popular with the boys that Shiratori from her class requests her help in getting a middle school boy to notice her. Vanilla is happy to help out a new friend, but doesn't realize the boy prefers her to Shiratori!
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EP12 - Chocola turns into a Cat!?
After discovering everybody is keen on cute cats, Chocolat decides to turn into a cat herself. However, she accidentally loses her magic necklace. Vanilla and the familiars help with the search. Chocolat eventually finds it but falls into a river. She is rescued by Pierre's cat and is brought to his home. She runs away after Pierre kisses her on the forehead and is finally restored to normal.
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EP13 - A Brilliant Heart! The Queen Candidate Test
The Mid-term exam for the Queen Candidates is near; in order to pass, they must capture as many rainbow-coloured hearts as possible from other girls. Vanilla tries to give cookies, then Chocolat holds a party in their house. The party is a success and Chocolat gathers many more hearts than Vanilla. She receives a magic broomstick from Queen Candy.
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EP14 - The Magic-Using Transfer Students
Chocolat's friends from the Magical World, Houx and Saule, are sent to live in the Human World and enrolled at the girls' school. Queen Candy has ordered them to protect the Queen Candidates from a mysterious evil she can sense drawing near. The boys have a hard time adjusting to the customes of the Human World. They take an instant disliking to Pierre instantly. Three boys are arguing and Pierre challenges the twins to a tennis match. The twins decide to accept his challenge and they cheat using magic, but lose.
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EP15 - The Contrary Macaroon Pandemonium!?
Chocolat decide to purchase Hair-Care Macarons through the magic mail-order system. She shares them with Vanilla, but they find themselves within each other's body! Chocolat had written the wrong code and received a box of Contrary Macarons instead! Their class notices their personalities now are very different, and they get mad at each other. After apologizing and hugging each other they switch back.
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EP16 - Chocola becomes an idol!
Everybody in the town is so into the hit TV series The Magical Knights . They are thrilled when the actors pay a visit to a fair, and even more so when told they will be able to visit them in person in the studio! Chocolat, however, does not believe that one of the protagonists, Coco, is that much of an actress. Then, by the next minute, she finds herself clad in the very costume of that actress, ready (sort of) to roll on the camera.
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EP17 - Grandpa's Invasion! Dance of Love Showdown
Chocolat's grandfather decides to come for a visit. Chocolat and the others quickly get annoyed by his crazy antics: stealing Chocolat's bed, showing up at school, turning the bathroom into a sauna, and dragging them out for all night parties. When Chocolat demands Grandpa leave, he challenges her to a heart-collecting contest. If she wins, he will return to the Magical World, but if she loses, he moves in permanently. Though Chocolat manages to capture a lot of hearts, Grandpa wins. He then admits the contest was just to get Chocolat more motivated about collecting hearts, bids them farewell, and heads back to the Magical World.
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EP18 - Super Scary! Halloween Test of Courage!?
Halloween is coming up, and Chocolat volunteered substituting Vanilla for a membership in the Commission of Halloween Activities...aka Prince Pierre's fan club! Gulp! Surprisingly, Chocolat's suggestion has been passed. and one of its members, Yurika, is kindly offering Chocolat to her grand mansion of a home for further discussions on the activity. They had become good friends and Chocolat's suggestion was a big hit. But then when it was time for Chocolat to light the Bonfire, she was locked in by the members (Pierre's fan club) and was stuck inside. Pierre then went to Chocolat and made it look like he was planning to get them out. Then Yurika then unlocks the door seeing Chocolat's hand being held by Pierre but soon lets go. Chocolat saw her Black heart and was thinking that it's because of her. But Chocolat was happy seeing that Yurika and her were still good friends after that.
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EP19 - Familiar Blanca's Bite-Sized Love
Blanca has suddenly taken an interest in cooking, and all her dishes are made using cheese. As Chocolat is walking home one day, she discovers why: Blanca has a crush on Yoshiyuki, the man who runs the cheese store. Chocolat begrudgingly agrees to keep her secret. When they all become sick of eating cheesy foods, Blanca decides to use a magic spell to disguise herself as human and get a part-time job at the cheese store, so she can continue to be around Yoshiyuki.She notices he always has such sad eyes and requests Chocolat to use her magic to find out why. Using a magic mirror, they see that Yoshiyuki's girlfriend Mizue is currently studying in Paris and he misses her terribly. Putting aside her own feelings, Blanca asks Chocolat to magically transport Yoshiyuki to Paris so he can reunite with Mizue.
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EP20 - Chocola Pinch? Application for Lovely Witch
Chocolat used her magic to boost her ice-cream, and oh no, her process of magic-using has been witnessed: by a little girl called Sophia! Panic-striken, Chocolat tried to cover the whole thing up...in vain. And now the little girl sounded SO keen to learn magic from her! Will Chocolat get out of the mess she created...
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EP21 - The Dreamy Magical Teacups
Chocolat decides it would be fun to see what other people dream about, and purchases a magic teacup that allows you to do so when someone drinks from it. With the help of Vanilla, Houx, and Saule, she opens a mini-cafe in the school gardens in order to see as many dreams as possible. As they're closing up, Pierre arrives and requests some tea. Chocolat serves him with the dream cup, believing if she sees into his dreams she'll have a better chance of capturing his heart.Pierre's dreamscape is a frozen Wonderland, where he and Chocolat are the only two people in existence. They have fun skating together, but when Chocolat decides it's time to leave, Pierre won't let her. He's lonely, and wants Chocolat to stay forever. She's only freed when the others smash the dream cup. She wonders if Pierre is truly that lonely all the time.
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EP22 - Chocola and Vanila's Triangle Relationship?
Chocolat and Vanila are capturing hearts, as usual, but a mysterious boy shows up, and Vanilla has set her eyes on him. But, Chocolat has a lack of hearts, and is determined to get his heart.
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EP23 - Run Run! Friendship Relay
Chocolat is now in a four-girl relay team for the Athletic Carnival. Unfortunately this might be the last time Sakiko, probably the most keen runner in the team, can run with her friends because her father is being transferred to London. However Sakiko is now suffering a strained ankle and a heart almost shattered by the fact that she might have to quit the game! Chocolat decides to save the day again.
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EP24 - Bye bye, Heart-shaped Hair Accessory
Chocolat has got herself a heart-shaped hair clip, spiked with a little magic to keep herself shine among the boys, who soon become as tired as zombies because they keep getting their love-hearts drained by the power of the hair clip. One boy, however, seemed rather immune to this power... And Chocolat seems to have gotten herself another admirer. He tells her about how she inspired him to keep on going on and not to give up. Later, she finds him practising, then goes to his room and gives him a wonderful dream to consider. The next day, she sees him having a great time and takes his heart that is pink. Later that night when she is talking to Vanilla she thanks him for what he has given her – a bright and beautiful pink heart.
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EP25 - Pierre's Secret, The Diary's Secret
Robin tells them about the presence of the race of Ogres in their school. Robin and the others believe that Pierre is an Ogre and is targeting Chocolat.
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EP26 - Christmas is for Hearts of Love
It's Christmas, and Vanilla and Chocolat are holding a party at their house. They discover their friend Mayu likes someone who may like her back, and take it upon themselves to get them together by the party's end.
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EP27 - A Tiny Heart, Crimson Heart
After an flying accident, Chocolat and Vanilla find themselves at Akira's house, with a little boy who turns out to be his cousin.
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EP28 - Danger! Aquarion Date
Pierre asks Chocolat out on a date to the aquarium. Vanilla told Chocolat not to go but Chocolat insist, and she thinks that this might be the chance to find out Pierre's true identity, as well as to take Pierre's heart. But then, a team of Pierre's middle school fanclub came, and they saw Pierre and Chocolat. They are jealous, and their Noir heart appeared. Pierre created a dimension and took all their noir heart. Chocolat was nearly defeated, but thanks to Vanilla's fragrances, Chocolat was saved.
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EP29 - Demon World Genesis, Secret of the Ogre
Chocolat and the gang attends a former teacher's wedding, during which she sneaks away to seek answers from the Queen regarding Ogres. The founding of the magical world is revealed.
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EP30 - Ogre's Declaration of War! Crisis of the Heart Factory
This time the candidate exam is being held in the Magical World. Whoever converts the most hearts into energy passes, but Chocolat bosses her workers around and now they refuse to work! The Heart Factory is then attacked by a black dragon.
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EP31 - The Harrassing Witch, Waffle makes her Appearance!
Chocolat goes boy crazy due to Waffle's potion. Will she be able to keep her heart when she meets up with Pierre? He makes Chocolat an offer...
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EP32 - Chocola, Desirious Thoughts of Chocolate
It's Valentine's Day and everyone's excited, the girls are planning who to give chocolates to, while the boys bet on who will receive the most. But while Vanilla has chocolate for all, Chocolat can only think of Pierre...
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EP33 - Heart of Friendship, Important Feelings
Chocolat has been thinking of Pierre lately, but when she thinks of him she is just hurt. But her friend Mimura noticed that Chocolat is not herself, so invites her to an amusement park. But when they got there it was closed so Chocolat had to use magic and Waffle helps her so that she can have fun too. After everything, Mimura thinks that it was a dream and Chocolat sees a green heart in Mimura, but she didn't take it for the sake of their friendship.
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EP34 - Chocola and Vanila and the Star of Dreams
Waffle has made breakfeast for Woo but he turns her down as her breakfeast doesn't seem to be edible. After Chocolat insults her saying she is cute and looks like she is playing house with Woo, she decides to try and make Chocolat young again, thinking that if Chocolat is younger than her, Woo will fall in love with Waffle. But the plan backfires as Baaya performs the wrong spell for the occasion and ends up letting Waffle see a childhood memory that Woo, Soul, Vanilla,and Chocolat share.
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EP35 - Waffle becomes Queen!
When waffle saw the man from the magical item shop she asked him if he had something to make someone fall in love with her but the man from the shop refused her and run away. Waffle chased after the man but then a package fell and Waffle seem to open it. When she tried to put it on she decided to test it, everyone was under her spell. Finally the man from the shop came and said that they need to take it out from her because it's defective, but the crown has a mind of its own. But Chocolat manages to use magic on the crown to weaken it.
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EP36 - Stop the Old Man! Baaya's Secret Mission
Chocolat's Grandfather came back to the human world and invited Chocolat and the others to relax for a while. But baaya is ticked off with her Grandfather. So they made a plan to make him return to the magical world but in the middle of the date baaya's magic couldn't handle anymore so she confront him and asked why he has to return in the human world. There they realized that he is doing this for Chocolat because he was worried that she was sad and alone.
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EP37 - The Black Heart and the Ogre's Trap
Pierre asks Chocolat to be his Ogre Queen.
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EP38 - Piere's Temptation, the Broken Friendship
Chocolat is asked to be a candidate for student council and Vanilla gets jealous. Pierre pretends to gain her trust to turn her into his dark Queen. Chocolat's popularity causes Vanilla to doubt herself. Pierre steps in offering comfort, causing a rift between the friends.
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EP39 - Birth, Queen of Ogre
Vanilla becomes a Noir Princess, with a black heart.
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EP40 - Needle of Envy
Chocolat begins seeing a boy from another school. Vanilla casts a spell to turn his Rose heart Noir, making him jealous and possessive. Chocolat is at a loss for how to save him, as attempting to collect a Noir heart can kill a regular witch.
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EP41 - Showdown with Vanila! The secret spice
Chocolat gives Vanila some berries from a plant which Vanila loved. Will Vanilla return back to normal? Or will it make her worse? Pierre's servant enters the school and gives out a potion that makes food more delicious, Also making the Chocolat class mates have black hearts.
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EP42 - Chocola and Piere’s adventure
Chocolat and the whole class are invited by Vanilla to a magic ocean. Chocolat gets trapped in Forgotten Cave with Pierre after he rescues her. Pierre then becomes confused over his feelings for Chocolat. Is it love? Will Chocolat fall back in love with Pierre now that he isn't cold? Will they escape? They enter a space of memories and discover that there were friends when they were little.
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EP43 - Invitation to the night of Valplgis
Chocolat is invited to the Walpurgus festival held for the magical community of the human world. Pierre and Vanila are there too. But the Ogre faction breaks the wards to the occasion - will war be close at hand? And Duke saves Chocolat once again.
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EP44 - Message from Mama
Using a special treasure picked up from the mysterious witch, Chocolat's able to summon the key to her mama's diary, discovering the links between Cinnamon and Queen Candy as well the reason behind her death.
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EP45 - Piere’s strategy, Vanila’s heart
Pierre's statergy enables Vanila to collect more hearts which however causes her more pain. Chocolat, in desperation to help her friend, decides to seek the witch of Cocoa desert, whose existence was found on a note in her mother's diary. However, she lives on the edge of the Magical World...
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EP46 - Witch of Cocoa Desert, Amble
Chocolat didn't give up searching for Ombre and then suddenly, Ombre's house appeared because of Chocolat. They look for the ingredients but Waffle always cause troubles, but still they forgive Waffle and look for the last ingredients.
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EP47 - Frozen memories, Piere’s past
Still on the quest of helping Vanilla get rid of her black heart, Chocolat and her friends seek out the last ingredient to make a powerful magic. Together with her friends they seek out to find the silver berry. The search led them to Ginger Village where Chocolat used to play as a child. There she met two old people who used to give her ginger cookies and they reminisce old times. It was there that the dog they brought to smell the silver berry led them to the forest where the ogres live. There Chocolat saw Pierre and flashes from the previous episode where they saw the picture of them together when they were children. Chocolat decided to use magic in order to see her forgotten past and so did Pierre. So they team up and they saw that when they were children they used to play in the forest and eat ginger cookies and a red berry. Suddenly a group of ogres came and took Pierre and placed a black heart in him which made him forget about his childhood and about Chocolat.
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EP48 - Noal and tears of friendship
Chocolat goes to Pierre's house alone to rescue Vanilla. Led by Pierre's cat, she finds Vanilla in a lot of pain. She then removes the noir heart from Vanilla and finds she has hurt Vanilla while being friends with her. Together with help from Pierre, Chocolat and Vanilla escape. But will Chocolat be intact from the power of noir heart? Afterward, Robin discovers that the noir heart chocolat picked up turned white. They discover that Chocolat has the power to purify noir hearts.
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EP49 - Queen's final test, begin!
The final test of the Queen selection starts! The test is to obtain a unicorn's horn. However, it is unapproachable unless the person has a kind heart and sincerity, then the white unicorn will appear. Approaching to the mountain where the unicorn lives, both of the girls met a boy with light hair, who takes care of the mountain. He gave Chocolat a compass and runs away. Upon reaching the mountain, Chocolat and Vanilla go separate ways, but eventually meet each other on the journey. Pierre appears, but he doesn't have the heart to kill them at all. After fighting with his two hearts, withdraws. The boy with light hair appears and scolded the girls for harming the mountain, admoishing the girls to leave as the unicorn would surely punish him for it. However, Chocolat insists to staying (Vanilla as well), willing to take what punishment the unicorn would impose. And the boy begins to glow...
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EP50 - Question from the Unicorn, the Heart Being Tested
Chocolat and Vanilla have to pass 3 tests by the unicorn before its willing to give them its horn. Eyes that can discern the truth, courage of heart against the unknown and the third test – which they probably don't have to take as the magical world may no longer exist... Pierre appears, no longer as himself, but as the King of Darkness – and he is here to reclaim both the magical and ogre worlds!
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EP51 - Shining heart! The next Queen selection
Chocolat purifies Pierre, and in the process, switches hearts with him. He turns good. After Chocola defeated Pierre, Vanilla wins, but she refuses to take the crown. Instead, she gives it to Chocolat because she thinks that Chocolat will be a better queen. Chocola and Vanilla wish to study further in the human world; Queen Candy permits them to do so. Then Pierre and Chocolat get married in the Magical World, making Chocolat the first queen of the Magical and Ogre worlds. Pierre now doesn't collect noir, he collects pink and orange hearts.