Retailing for the same price as the Godzilla Can (¥1201 yen), the Disk Chocolates (ディスクチョコ) are some of the more unique chocolate treats in the Godzilla Valentine’s Day Chocolate line. The boxes, which are similar in size to the Illustration Block boxes, also share a similar theme, except this time each box features a different movie— Mothra vs. Godzilla (1964), Godzilla vs. Biollante (1989), Godzilla Against Mechagodzilla (2002) and Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters (2017).

Now for this review the latter two chocolate treats were picked up: both for the 2002 Mechagodzilla entry and for the recent Godzilla animated title. Likely the four are similar in terms of taste if not the same, but keep this in mind.

Eschewing the chocolate colored ribbons found on many of the other chocolate sets, the design of the boxes also contrast nicely with the designs of the Godzilla Illustration Blocks boxes; where the Illustration Blocks boxes featured black-background images of Godzilla carved out with white, the Disk Chocolate boxes feature clean white backgrounds with monsters etched out with stark black imaging. It looks really cool. The boxes also fold open kind of like a CD case, with an image from the poster on the inside front cover, the title of the movie from which the poster came, and a little information about monsters that appeared for the in that film. For the two I got, Mechagodzilla and Servum are listed, respectively.

And it is appropriate that these boxes are made to look something like CD boxes, given that the white chocolate disks inside are made to look like CDs! What is especially impressive is that each white chocolate disk sports an incredible recreation of the poster art on the disk itself! You can compare the quality of the image to the nearly identical image printed on the inside front cover of the box, and while the image on the chocolate certainly does not match the quality of the image on the box, it still looks incredible for something you can eat!

How about the taste? Gosh, of all the chocolates here, it is hard to work up the nerve to bite into these because they look like pieces of art! That, and I don’t really care so much for white chocolate, and adding the amount of coloring put on these puppies does not inspire great confidence in the flavor department either. Oh, well, here goes—and that white chocolate ain’t too shabby! I took a big old brave bite out of the Planet of the Monsters disk and that is some creamy smooth white chocolate that just melts as you are munching away. Not bad at all! I think I will take another bite actually!

Awesome box art for chocolate disks of Godzilla goodness. I never wanted to eat a Godzilla poster… until now.

In closing, I can’t help but wonder where Hunter Confectionary came up with the idea of creating Godzilla chocolates in the image of CDs, which by all accounts seems to be a dying medium. For me at least, a CD is not the first thing that pops into my head when I think of Godzilla—but maybe DVD packaging just seemed too bulky to recreate for a chocolate!

Don’t these look like CDs?

Actually, the Godzilla choco CD reminds me of a Japanese movie I recently saw, The 100th Love with You (2017), which featured a magical record player, and a record made of chocolate. That movie featured a story about holding on too tightly to time and to experiences and to loved ones—that you should be willing to let things go. The lesson of these chocolate disks may be the opposite—while these suckers taste pretty dang good for white chocolate, you’re still ultimately better off hanging on to your money!

If you look closely, you can see that the disk has an indentation like a CD.