

If you watched the Shin Chan anime series you will know what I'm talking
about. (I don't know if Chocobi appears in the manga, too.) Was Chocobi an
existing snack that just appeared in the Shin Chan series? Or was it invented
with the series and later produced as a real snack for merchandise?


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Was the Chocobi (チョコビ) snack from Shin Chan fictional or did it exist before Shin Chan?


[![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pURj1.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/pURj1.jpg)

Chocobi (チョコビ Chokobi) is a fictional chocolate star-shape snack brand
favoured by Shin. **It is a famous brand in real-life and continues to do so
via the anime's popularity**.

so your last statement is the correct one.


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According to various Japanese sources ([Japanese
Wikipedia](https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AF%E3%83%AC%E3%83%A8%E3%83%B3%E3%81%97%E3%82%93%E3%81%A1%E3%82%83%E3%82%93#.E3.82.B3.E3.83.A9.E3.83.9C.E3.83.AC.E3.83.BC.E3.82.B7.E3.83.A7.E3.83.B3),
[NicoNicoPedia](http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93),
[pixiv dic](http://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%81%E3%83%A7%E3%82%B3%E3%83%93),
[Geocities JP](http://2nd.geocities.jp/tyomo_pi5/meshi/chocobi/tyocobi.htm)),
**the Chocobi snack was originally came from _Crayon Shin-chan_**.

However, according to the interview with Mitsuru Hongo (Director of _Crayon
Shin-chan_ 's anime), it was based from Lotte's _Koala's March_.

![Lotte's Koala's March](https://i.stack.imgur.com/88RmJm.png)

... until 1993, when Lotte did a collaboration with _Crayon Shin-chan_ to
produce a peanuts chocolate flavored snack with 2 types: Chocobi, and Royal
Chocobi (with almond). However, they're pretty much different from the one in
anime. Couldn't find any images of them.

Later on, Orion also produced Chocobi snack with star-shaped, but the package
was totally different.

[![Orion's
Chocobi](https://i.stack.imgur.com/19anwl.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/19anwl.png)

Bandai also produced Chocobi snack, but instead of star-shaped, it's a biscuit
stick. The package was also totally different.

![Bandai's Chocobi](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ySp7xm.png)

Moving forward to 2006, Tohato released a real Chocobi snack.

![Tohato's Chocobi](https://i.stack.imgur.com/nI9cgl.png)

Lastly, since 2014, Morinaga did a collaboration with the movie to produce
Chocobi Ice.

![Morinaga's Chocobi Ice](https://i.stack.imgur.com/fWYERm.jpg)


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When the manga version of _Shin-chan_ was published, he always ate Koala's
March, not Chocobi.

When the anime version is adapted, there is a trademark and sponsor problem.
If Shin-chan eats Koala's March and the CM shows for a different snack, it
will become a huge problem.

Thus, the anime director creates a new snack with non-existence name.

After the anime aired, the manga version also changed the snack to Chocobi
too. Snack for Shin-chan in the manga is different between first few volumes
and later episodes.

This kind of problem is happening for many anime too. For example, in the
manga version of Bakuman, they talk about Shonen Jump. But in the anime
version, the name was changed to Shonen Jack.


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