Chocolove McDonell

Chocolove McDonell (チョコラブ・マクダネル Chokorabu Makudaneru, Joco in the english anime) is one of the main characters in the manga and anime series of Shaman King.

Appearance
He is African American boy of average height and he always has his hair in an Afro. He wears an African wrap on the lower half of his body, an open white dress shirt and cloth booths as his street clothes. His battle outfit is a yellow native dress with red and green patterns and a black open vest. The dress and the accessories where all from a tribe in South America and was given to Chocolove by his master Orona.

When he was still a part of the Shaft Gang he was clean shaved and wore cargo pants knickers and a black jersy. As he was clean shaven one could see the scar he recieved the day his parrents were killed and is a symbol of his sad childhood.

Personality
Chocolove likes to tell jokes to his companions a lot; the only draw back is that his jokes and puns are corny and make no sense most of the time. The others have the tendency to run after him or beat him up after telling a joke. Typically, he gets on people's nerves with his jokes though Yoh occasionally let off a light chuckle to them, and both Tamao and Pirika laugh hysterically. One time, Ren states that he is jealous of Chocolove's courage to tell an obviously corny joke.

His goal in life is to be the Shaman King and a great comedian because he was inspired by his master. Both of them believe that laughter is the best medicine, so even if people do not believe that his jokes are that funny, he does not give up and he tries even harder to achieve his goal to give the world what it needs the most, laughter.

Abilities and Powers
Chocolove is a supposed comedian but in reality is not really funny, although one of his jokes did save his friends. His oversoul is different than most shamans since he and and Mick literally become one. This uses the full power of both Chocolove and Mick at the same time but is taxing since they both have to be synced the entire time they are oversouled. While in his oversoul, he tells a joke which only the spirits seemed to understand (the other shamans responded with an ellipsis...). Most of his techniques involve making spirits (and very rarely, humans) laugh, making them a vulnerable target to attack. After going blind to atone for his sins, some of his other senses seemed to have been increased as he is able to smell the position, of Yoh and the others, who were currently at the time running from Golem.

While fighting his way through the Plants, Kyōyama Anna looked through the Furyoku values of Chocolove and the others. There it is revealed that his Furyoku is about 197,500, thus giving him the highest Furyoku reserve of the Five Elemental Warriors. He also possesses the power of wind, allowing him to use his Furyoku to erode anything in his vicinity.

Spirits



 * See More: Mic the Jaguar|Pascal Avaf|Spirit of Wind

His former master used to own a guardian ghost named Mic Jaguar(Mic in the english anime) (a takeoff from Mick Jagger), who was passed down to Chocolove when he died. With Mic he creates an Over Soul in a pair of Shaft Claws on his right hand and the rest of his body, thus giving Chocolove the speed and keen senses of Mic.

During the second rounds he gains a second spirit guardian named Pascal Avaf(パスカル・ァパフ). His oversoul with Pascal is a giant stone head. It is the same as most other shaman in the sense that he is literally using Pascal as a weapon but it also differs than most shaman in that it uses absolutely no attacks. Instead it provides Chocolove the power to literally walk on air and move at an incredible speed. With the power of Pascal Avaf and Mic, Chocolove creates his new armor oversoul, O.S. "Jaguarman"(O.S.ジャガーマン).

He also gains the Spirit of Wind, that according to Pascal Avaf has the ability to slice the wind with it's wings.

Past
He was born on October 2, 1985. His parents were murdered on a Christmas day, and Chocolove was brought up in the streets, where he eventually became the leader of a gang named Shaft. After killing a man on Christmas day with his gang members, Chocolove walks alone on the streets, reflecting on the horrible murder of his parents on the very same day years ago.

After making a little comment, an old man named Orona appears and makes a pun with a sight gag using fake blood. After telling him to go away, Chocolove shoots his gun, but Orona dodges all his shots. Saying that he could not use laughter to help Chocolove, Orona uses his oversoul with Mic to punch him. The fact that Chocolove laughs at Orona's comment about using laughter to save the world and that Chocolove sees Mic forges a relationship between the two. The two lived together for some time until Chocolove's old gang appeared before the two and killed Orona, but not before Orona made a passionate speech that made Chocolove believe in saving the world with the winds of laughter.

Shaman Fights Second Round
Chocolove was first shown during the three month wait at the patch village. He was the one who explained the team stipulation to Asakura Yoh and company and also told them about the X-Laws, Hao's followers and a third unnamed team. Tao Ren quickly made a team with Chocolove and Usui Horokeu naming them Team "The Ren" much to the others objections.

When the second round began where Chocolove and his team pittet against Hao's Team "Tsuchi-Gumi" in the first match. The BoZ Brothers attacked first and was easily defeated by Chocolove's Shaft attack. Peyote however used the BoZ Brothers as mediums for his oversoul. Chocolove tried to fight back but was almost defeated by them. He then remembered his past and pulled out the winds of laughter and the Ayers Rock Sunrise. This forced the spirits within the BoZ Brothers to laugh and freed them from Peyote's control. Chocolove, however, ran out of power and fainted, beeing saved in the last minute by Ren who finished off Peyote and won the match.

When he goes to see his friends(the shaft gang members)he sees that they were each killed Redseb and Seyram Munzer who are using their Golem robot,and shot Chocolove in retribution for killing their father Camel Munzer. After he dies he arrives in hell where he is trained by the spirit of Orona and also given the spirit of Pascal Avaf a former participant of the Shaman Fights a thousand years ago. Chocolove returns to help his friends and a new oversoul he named O.S. "Jaguarman"

Invading the Plants
After being transported to the Continent of Mu by the Patch Tribe, Team "Funbari Onsen", Team "The Ren" and Team "X-I" decided to forfeit the tournament saying that none of them was able to face Hao. Luchist and Opacho both agreed to this, thus making Hao the next Shaman King by forfeit.

The three remaining teams watched him walk into the plants led by Lip and Rap, the Ten Patch Priests and Goldva. Chocolove enters the plants with Yoh and his friends but does not really do much except provide assistance when needed.

When they reach the plant of the Ocean everyone else has problems getting through Thalim's plant type oversoul. Chocolove steps up and battles him. Thalim unleashes oversoul Rafflesia to combat choco's enhanced sense of smell easily overwhelming his nose. Chocolove overcomes it by stabbing his claws into his nose forcing himself to smell blood instead of the flower. Thalim then uses his O.S. Great Impatiens Balsam to attack from every angle. Chocolove begins to think about the powers the five of them have gained from training in hell, and reveals that he has yet to discover his power of wind.

As Thalim fires the gigantic seeds at him, Chocolove dissolves his Armor Over Soul and uses Pascal Avaf and Mic to Over Soul with the air itself as a medium and manipulates air currents literally eroding away all of Thalim's plants. Thalim then reveals that he knew such an attack would come and hoped to defeat Chocolove before he himself would realize it. Chocolove only chuckles and asks about his full strenght and exclaims his turn to attack creating Ayers Rock one more and ending the fight.

Chocolove is later seen being carried out of the plant by Ryu complaining that Thalim was not fighting at full power. They all then enters the 9th Plant of the Glacier to face Silva of the Ten Patch Officiants. There he and the others watch the fight between Yoh and Silva, that Silva calls Yoh's final test, which he eventually passes.

As the group finally arrives at the 10th and final "Plant of the Universe" they realize that there is no oxygen and no gravity and begin to wonder how they are supposed to fight in there. At first Lyserg suggest that they all protect themself with their own personal O.S. but Ryu suddenly interrtups and suggest that they all use the heads of his O.S. Yamato No Orochi so that the rest can fight at full strenght. As Ren questions the responsibility he would suddenly have he says that he wants to be usefull too as the seven is currently his best place.

When Hao finally awakens he sends a message to the Oracle Bells that reads "'so small" He arrives at the final plant and effortlessly kills everyone with a simple glance, excluding Rutherfor, Opacho and Yoh. After Hao attempts to banish Yoh from his area in the Great Spirit Ren, Lyserg, Chocolove and Horohoro appear within it, with the Five Grand Elemental Spirits. A fierce battle between the 5 Elemental Warriors and the Shaman King begins.

Funbari no Uta
In the "Funbari no Uta" miniseries, Chocolove is now 22 years old. He is noticeably taller and more muscular and and he has shaved his head clean once again.

During the time skip, Chocolove has tried to make amends of his earlier crimes, by turning himself in. He is currently doing time in jail, having about ten years to go according to Umemiya Ryunosuke. On the request of Tamamura Tamao, Ryu and Asakura Hana was to break him out of jail and bring him and the other Five Elemental Warriors back to the Funbari Onsen, to bring back business though Ryu winds up in jail in the process.

He arrived at the meeting place with Lyserg and repriments Horohoro for scarring Hana. When Horohor wonders why he is out of jail he reveals that Lyserg helped relieve him of his prison sentence early though it wasn't easy to get permission for him to travel abroad. He like the others is shocked to see Ren arrive in a Horse Carriage. He goes to the party at the In with Yoh and the others where he is beaten by Ren for still pulling jokes and puns.

Anime/Manga Difference
In the manga Chocolove met his mentor after having killed a man. In the anime, Chocolove met his mentor, Orona, on a snowy night when he was young. Orona was among the crowd of people who circled around a victim who was being robbed. The police had the robber surrounded, but he threatened everyone by threatening to kill the victim. Orona stood out from the crowd and asked the police to give him a chance. Chocolove was watching him, and before he knew it, the robber was laughing his head off and was being carried off by the police. Also, in the manga Chocolove chooses to be revived without his sense of sight when this is done by the Gandara. There is no reference to Chocolove's sight loss in the anime.

Dub/Translation Errors
Chocolove's jokes differ between the Japanese and American versions.

Typically, the Japanese Chocolove makes jokes based on puns between Japanese words and uses some visual effect to enhance it. (ex: The word for "impossible" in Japanese is pronounced "bakana". As a play on words he would hold up a banana). Since the jokes cannot make sense when translated to English, the English manga and anime have new jokes made in English. In the english version, all he usually does is say words that sound like ones that have already been said and includes a visual accompaniment. An example is when Ren says "no apeal", Chocolove says "No peel" and holds up a partially peeled banana.

The U.S. manga edits Chocolove's lips so that they match that of the other characters. This was to avoid a blackface stereotype. His lips remain unedited in the 4Kids Entertainment and Disney Jetix versions of the anime and the credits for the game Shaman King: Master of Spirits.