Candy Candy

Infobox animanga/Header
name = Candy Candy


caption = Candice White
ja_name = キャンディ・キャンディ
ja_name_trans =
genre = Romance, HistoricalInfobox animanga/Manga
title =
author = Kyoko Mizuki (story) Yumiko Igarashi (art)
publisher = flagicon|Japan Kodansha, Chuokoronsha
demographic = Shōjo
magazine = flagicon|Japan Nakayoshi
first = April 1975
last = March 1979
volumes = 9Infobox animanga/Anime
title =
director = Tetsuo Imazawa
studio = Toei Animation
network = flagicon|Japan TV Asahi
network_other = flagicon|France Antenne 2 flagicon|Greece ERT flagicon|Dominican Republic Antena Latina
flagicon|Spain RTVE
flagicon|Italy Mediaset
flagicon|Bolivia Bolivision
flagicon|Indonesia RCTI flagicon|Philippines IBC-13

first = 1 October 1976
last = 2 February 1979
episodes = 115
episode_list = List of Candy Candy episodesInfobox animanga/Movie
title = Candy Candy: The Call of Spring/The May Festival
director = Noboru Shiroyama
studio = Toei Animation
released = 18 March 1978
runtime = Infobox animanga/Movie
title = Candy Candy's Summer Vacation
director = Yukio Kazama
studio = Toei Animation
released = 22 July 1978
runtime = Infobox animanga/Movie
title = Candy Candy the Movie
director = Tetsuo Imazawa
studio = Toei Animation
released = 25 April 1992
runtime = 26 min

Plot

"Based on the manga story"Candy Candy is primarily a love story. Candy's first love was a character named Anthony Brown, but the series is remembered by the majority of fans as a result of her heartbreaking separation from her true love and soulmate, Terrence "Terry" Grantchester. A recurrent story arc in the series is the "Prince of the Hill", a mysterious boy Candy encountered once as a child. His identity is revealed in the last pages of the manga and in the last chapters of the anime.

The early years

Candy is a six year old who lives in an orphanage near Lake Michigan with Ms. Pony and Sister Lynne. Candy was found by them when she was a baby, the same day that Annie--Candy's best friend--was also found during a cold winter day. She frequently causes mischief with her young friends, especially with Annie. She has a raccoon named Clynn that will accompany her in most of her future adventures. One day, Annie consents to be adopted by rich parents, the Brightons (Britter in some countries). This takes place after Candy refuses to be adopted by this same family when she realizes she will be separated from Annie after the proposed adoption. After Annie's adoption, she writes letters to Candy but soon she tells her that her parents prefer that she forget about her past. Heartbroken, Candy goes to her favorite place, Pony's Hill, to cry. Here, she hears the voice of a boy, telling her: "Little girl, you are prettier when you smile than when you cry"." The boy is dressed in a full Scottish outfit and carries a bagpipe. Candy is awed by his outfit but soon they become friends and he plays the bagpipe for her. When she turns around to pick up Annie's letter, the boy mysteriously disappears. The only suggestion that it was not a dream is a brooch in the shape of an eagle with the letter "A" on it. Candy nicknames him "The Prince of the Hill" and she will daydream about this encounter all her life.

The Ardlay Family

At age 12, Candy is "adopted" by the Leagan family to be a companion to Eliza and later ends up as a maid. The children, Eliza and Neal, often play cruel pranks on her and delight in tormenting her. Mrs. Leagan, whose name is Ruth, does not like her, but Mr. Leagan is kinder to Candy, though he is frequently away on business and therefore cannot be a reliable ally. One day, she meets three cousins: the brothers Archibald (Archie) and Alistair (Stear) Cornwell, and their cousin, Anthony Brown. They are also Eliza and Neal's cousins, and they all belong to the Ardlay family (Andrew family in some countries). It is soon apparent that the boys all have a crush on Candy, but she clearly prefers Anthony because of his striking resemblance to the Prince of the Hill. While Candy is a maid at the Leagan house, Annie and her parents pay a visit to the Leagans. When Annie is introduced to Candy, she acts as if she had never seen her before in order to conceal the "embarrassing" fact that she was an orphan from Pony's Home--following Annie's adoption, the Brightons had told friends and family that Annie was the orphaned daughter of a relative of theirs, rather than a child from an orphanage. Candy is sad that she cannot talk to her best friend, but has a chance to interact with her when she Annie and the Leagans are preparing to go out for a horse ride and Annie's horse takes off with Annie screaming for help (she calls Candy's name, rather than her parents'). Candy gives chase with another horse, and manages to rescue Annie from her hellish horse ride. Before Annie and her parents leave the Leagan's residence, she leaves a ribbon tied to a post so Candy can find it. Candy does find it and is later accused by Eliza and Neal of stealing it from their guests. These two manage to persuade their parents that Candy cannot be trusted to stay living inside the house, and she is sent to live in the horse stable. When Archie, Stear and Anthony discover Candy's mistreatments (and after many adventures), they have the head of the Ardlay house adopt Candy. This mysterious and very wealthy gentleman (referred to as Great Uncle William or Grandfather William in some translations) is never seen. Candy also befriends Albert, a bearded vagabond that lives in a hunter's lodge with lots of animals.

Now Candy has a new social situation and while some of the Ardlay relatives still dislike her (namely Eliza, Neal, their mother and the "apparent" head of the family, Great Aunt Elroy), the three boys make her feel welcome and help her become "a real lady". Her romance with Anthony develops tenderly, and he grows a new breed of white roses that he names "Sweet Candy" in her honor. This romance, however, is brutally cut short when, on the day Candy is officially introduced as an Ardlay, he falls from his horse during a fox hunt and dies--interestingly, seconds before his death, he was going to tell Candy about a boy who looked very much like him and who was always around his mother when he was a baby. Aunt Elroy and Eliza blame Candy for Anthony's death. Candy is heartbroken and returns to Pony's Home to overcome her grief. She does not stay long, for Great Uncle William has other plans for her: he is sending her to the Saint Paul Academy, a boarding school in London. While on the ship to London, Candy wanders out into the deck and she sees a young man who resembles Anthony in the shadows. She tries to approach him because he is crying, but he mockingly brushes her off while denying he was upset. She has met Terry Grantchester.

aint Paul Academy

This boarding school is co-ed, but contact between girls and boys is very limited and severely punished. The Ardley cousins--Candy, Stear, Archie, Eliza and Neal--are all students there. Because Archie and Stear are her adoptive cousins, Candy is allowed to see them, but not as much as she would like. She quickly starts to sneak into the boys residence at night to chat with them. She does this by crossing the park that separates the boys and girls quarters while swinging from tree to tree until she lands on the balcony to their room. Soon after the school year begins, Annie is enrolled in this same school and Candy hopes to finally be able to resume her friendship with her former best friend. Annie, however, pretends not to know her at first. One day, when Annie--who is in love with Archie--witness Archie trying to confess his love to Candy, she runs crying and Candy goes after her to try to calm her down. When Candy finally catches up with Annie, the later speaks of the subconscious resentment and jealousy she had felt since they were children at Pony's Home. Annie compares the perceived favoritism that Ms. Pony and Sister Maria showed Candy, to Archie's love for Candy (which at the time was stronger than the feelings he also had for Annie). While Annie is bitterly crying in this way, Eliza and her friend overhear this exchange. Annie's secret comes to light, and this allows Annie to become Candy's friend again. Candy also makes a friend of her neighbor, Patricia (Patty) O'Brian who ends up being Stear's love interest. The school days are full of mischief as Candy tries to avoid Eliza's evil schemes, and the harsh discipline of the Academy nuns. Also in London, she finds her old friend Albert working at a local zoo. He has shaved his beard and looks like a young adult in his twenties.

Terry, the boy she met on the ship, is also attending the same boarding school. He is a rebel and always causes trouble with the nuns who can't really punish him since his father, the Duke of Grantchester, supports the school financially. Terry teases Candy every time they meet, seemingly because he's in love with her but is afraid to admit it. Most of their meetings end up in a fight. He mostly teases her about her freckles, a fact that makes Candy furious, and her tree-swinging habits. This leads Terry to give candy the nickname "Freckled Tarzan." Candy in the beginning is still grieving the memory of Anthony, and cannot understand Terry's role in her life. She's troubled by this rebellious boy, particularly because she has seen him cry before, and she suspects there is tragedy in his life. One night, instead of entering Archie's room, she accidentally enters Terry's room and finds out he is the son of Eleanor Baker, a famous American actress. Terry is an illegitimate son, and feels torn between a father who has married for duty to his name and social status, and a mother who loves him dearly but thinks it is best not to see each other.

One day Candy reveals to Terry about her first love Anthony. Jealous of the feelings Candy has about another boy, Terry cruelly tells her a person cannot have romantic feelings for somebody that is dead. The school's May Festival dance arrives but Candy is unable to attend because she is placed on detention in a cell-like room by sister Grey for her mischievous ways. Whilst on detention, Candy receives a package from her Great Uncle William who has sent her two costumes for the ball: one of Romeo and one of Juliet. Candy comes up with a plan to attend the ball by initially disguising herself as Romeo in order to escape the detention tower to go to the ball. There she first dances with Annie. Then quickly she runs to the woods where she has hidden the Juliet outfit and changes into Juliet. But Terry catches Candy whilst she is getting changed into Juliet in the woods. At the ball, Terry requests to dance with "Juliet" who he knows is Candy. During the dance, Candy reminisces in her memories of Anthony and tells Terry hoping he would understand. However Terry gets upset by Candy's continuous longing for Anthoy and knowing Candy's fear of horses since Anthony's accident, he takes her to the stables and shoves her brutally on his horse. Candy cries but slowly overcomes her fear of horses, and begins to understand that life after Anthony must go on.

Candy and her friends go to Scotland during the summer. Terry is also there and eventually reconciles with his mother thanks to Candy's intervention. He admits to Candy that he likes acting too and would like to pursue a career in theatre. Over the summer Terry and Candy really bond; she is more comfortable around him, and he is no longer rude to her. One day, while they are sitting alone under a tree, Terry asks Candy to dance with him so she will have nice memories of her summer in Scotland. Candy accepts the invitation and they begin dancing. But soon after they begin their dance, Terry abruptly stops and kisses Candy. Candy, feeling embarrassed, slaps him and tells him that nobody has ever disrespected her in that way. She still cannot admit her feelings for Terry.

When they go back to school in September, Eliza is jealous of Candy's relationship with Terry, which came to her attention during the summer. Eliza had developed a crush on Terry during the summer in Scotland, and vows to separate them. She sets up a rendezvous in the stable for them, fooling them into thinking one needed to talk to the other. She brings the nuns to the stable and they are caught "in scandal." Sister Grey, the head nun at Saint Paul Academy, decides that Candy is to be expelled from the school, but that nothing will happen to Terry because his father financially supports the school. Terry is opposed to the discrepancy in punishments, and decides to solve the problem: he will leave the school instead of Candy, and will go to the United States to pursue his dream of acting on Broadway. Before he leaves the school, Terry plays the harmonica all night for Candy while she is locked in a punishment cell. This was Terry's farewell to his beloved Candy. However, Candy is unaware of his decision and when she finds out, she finally understands how much she loves him and she runs to the port to tell him she's in love with him. However, she arrives too late, and can only watch as Terry's ship leaves across the Atlantic. As Candy cries and calls his name, she decides to return to America too.

Nurse years

After a dreadful journey as a stowaway in a cargo ship from England to America, Candy goes back to Pony's Home and finds that Terry was there only minutes before she arrived. Encouraged by Ms. Pony, she decides to study to be a nurse and takes classes in a school in Chicago, where she excels because of her interpersonal skills. She is reunited with her friends from school when they come back from Europe because of rumors of war. Terry's theatre company comes on tour to Chicago, and they meet very briefly after chasing each other in the city (their meeting being sabotaged by Terry's partner, Susanna Marlowe, who has an unrequited crush on Terry). They start writing letters to each other and maintain a long distance relationship. World War I begins and there are some thoughts of sending young nurses to the war, but Candy is not selected.

One day, a mysterious patient arrives at the hospital: he was injured in a train explosion in Italy and has amnesia; he was brought to Chicago because it is the only name he says in his delirium. Candy is shocked to recognize her good old friend Mr. Albert, and personally monitors his needs. Because he has no family or relatives, Albert must leave the hospital and Candy suggests that they get an apartment together so she can continue to take care of him. The thought of her Mr. Albert who has shown her so much kindness in the past going out alone without his memory greatly distresses her. Albert agrees reluctantly at first, but soon they become excellent friends and are very happy living together.

In the meantime, Terry has landed the lead role of Romeo Montague in William Shakespeare’s "Romeo and Juliet". Terry invites Candy to New York to the premiere. His intentions seem matrimonial: he's been saving money and has sent Candy a one way ticket. Candy daydreams about being his wife and having breakfast with him. However, a terrible accident happens during one of the rehearsals: a lamp detaches from the ceiling right above Terry, but Susanna (who still has an unrequited crush on him, despite him telling her that he loves Candy and should leave her alone) lunges and pushes him away. Her injuries are so severe that her leg must be amputated. Feeling horribly guilty for what happened, and even more so because he knows of her unrequited feelings for him, Terry does not know what to do, as there is increasing pressure that he should marry Susanna from both Susanna and Susanna's mother. It is in this tense atmosphere that Candy comes to New York. Terry tries to keep the incident from her until a better time, but unfortunately Candy finds out during the premiere. She is stunned, and knows that Terry is probably suffering a great deal because of this moral dilemma, yet she is angered that Susanna is blackmailing him into marriage.

Candy decides to go and confront Susanna about this but when she arrives at the hospital she realises there is something wrong. Susanna is missing and the hospital is in a frenzy. Candy quickly rushes to the roof fearing that Susanna may be there to commit suicide. Once on the roof Susanna reveals that she has done what she did because she loves Terry and that she was doing this because she wants Terry to be free of the guilt to love her back. This shocks Candy and she begs Susanna to live because that would be the best thing she could do for Terry if she loved him. Realising that Susanna's love for Terry is real, Candy sadly decides to end her relationship with Terry because she believes that removing herself from the equation is the way to resolve this problem.

In what is probably the most remembered scene of both the manga and the anime for the full emotional impact it carried for both characters, Terry and Candy break up on the hospital stairs. Candy tries her best to farewell Terry by showing her happiness for his future with Susanna but is overcome with tears despite her best efforts to hide them from Terry. Hurt from seeing the tears on Candy's face Terry runs to embrace Candy from behind on the stairs. There Terry also torn between his love for Candy and the moral gratitude for Susanna does not try to convince Candy to continue their relationship. Instead he says the most famous heartfelt line of the manga that he wishes the time would stop there forever. Then they both promise to be happy, as if hoping that the sacrifice of the relationship for someone else's wish would not be in vain. Therefore heartbroken, Candy returns to Chicago under the haze of a high fever and is tormented with the realisation that her dream of marrying Terry has been shattered. In this state, she is consoled and supported by Mr. Albert who has always been the one to kindly provide a shoulder for her to cry on.

The months pass and Candy tries heals from her grief, by devoting herself to her work and to Albert's recovery of his memory. Unfortunately, people begin to whisper about her living with a man she is not married to. Also around this time, Stear, who had joined the army, dies in combat. Soon after Stear's death Patty leaves Chicago. Albert recovers his memory abruptly and remembers who Candy really is and more importantly, who he really is. He hides this from her at the beginning, but once the rumours become unbearable and Candy is fired from the hospital, he decides to leave to avoid causing her more problems. Candy misses him a lot and is worried about his health, as she is unaware he's recuperated his memory in full. One day he sends a package to her and hoping to see him to ensure he's fine, she goes to Rockston, Illinois only to find that Terry is now acting in a low class theatre, drunk. Candy realizes he has arrived to that state because of the pain he feels over their breakup. Since Susanna is still dependent on Terry, Candy knows that the only way she can help him come out of this is to remind him of his dream. By sheer willpower, she manages to reach the actor, who snaps back into action. He sees Candy from the stage in his drunken stupor and delivers a performance worthy of his talents. Afterwards, despite acknowledging that he cannot forget Candy, he finds the strength to go back to his life in New York, and in some way perhaps honoring their mutual wish when they broke up: to be happy despite the circumstances of their separation. This is the last time they see each other, each seeming to go in their separate ways. Before leaving Rockston, however, Candy runs into Terry's mother, who tells her that only one person was capable of saving her son.

Back in Chicago, the days go by peacefully until Neal starts wooing Candy. He is unsuccessful because she remembers how cruel he was to her as a child. He arranges a forced marriage telling her it's Great Uncle William's will and that she has to obey. By Neal's side there are Mrs Leagan, Eliza and the Great Aunt Elroy all trying to talk Candy into this commitment. Astonished, Candy decides to seek the mysterious Great Uncle William to forbid the union. George, his faithful lawyer and consigliere, drives her to the mansion where he is staying. There Candy discovers shockingly that the Great Uncle William is none other than her old friend Mr. Albert. He was the brother of Anthony's mother Rosemary, to whom he had been greatly attached. This also explains the resemblance between the two men (uncle/nephew). His identity was hidden from all partly because of his young age and because he did not wish to be the head of the family and run the business. He makes a dramatic appearance in front of the Chicago society to prevent Candy's arranged marriage to Neal.

The end

Still shocked by her discovery that Albert is the Great Uncle William, Candy goes back to Pony's Home to reflect on the events in her life. On Pony's Hill, she remembers her friends Anthony and Stear who have died. A tear falls from her eyes and a familiar voice says; "Little girl, you are much prettier when you smile..." As she looks up, she has a new surprise: Albert is standing there. Candy realizes he has been the Prince of the Hill all these years. "Albert, Great Uncle William... and then my Prince!" she exclaims as she runs to him. The anime ends with a gathering at Pony's Home front yard, besides Albert there are Annie, Archie, Ms. Pony, Sister Maria, the children of Pony's Home, Clynn (Candy's raccoon) and Mina a dog that was given to Candy by one of her patients. Candy makes a toast to her friends that helped her overcome troubles in life.

Candy Candy: The Novel

Kyoko Mizuki's (the pen name of Keiko Nagita) Candy Candy novel, consisting of three volumes, has piqued the interest of the Candy Candy fans outside of Japan for some years. This novel was only available in Japan and published in Japanese.

Of particular interest is the 3rd volume, which covers the period after the events chronicled in the manga and anime. There is some work being done by Western fans to translate parts of the novel. However, what little has been translated has confirmed that true to her artistic form, Kyoko Mizuki does not provide a concrete closure to the story. Yet, in the last letter that closes out the novel, Candy is still an optimistic, life-loving and cheerful heroine.

Manga and anime

Manga serialization in Nakayoshi

Announcement of a new series appeared in the March 1975 issue of Nakayoshi. First chapter published in April 1975, and continued until the last chapter in March 1979. However, it did not appear in the following issues due to various reasons: November 1975, December 1976, January 1978 and June 1978.

Anime Cast

:*Minori Matsushima as "Candice White Ardlay":*Makio Inoue as "William Albert Ardlay":*Kazuhiko Inoue as "Anthony Brown":*Ryou Horikawa as "Anthony Brown (1992 film)":*Kei Tomiyama as "Terruce Graham Grandchester":*Kaneta Kimotsuki as "Alistair Cornwell":*Miyoko Aso as "Mary Jane":*Yuji Mitsuya as "Archibald Cornwell":*Mami Koyama as "Annie Brighton":*Yumi Touma as "Annie Brighton (1992 film)":*Chiyoko Kawashima as "Patricia O'Brian":*Eken Mine as "Garcia":*Taeko Nakanishi as "Anii Jirarudo, Narrator":*Yumi Nakatani as "Eliza Leagan":*Eiko Hisamura as "Eliza Leagan (1992 film)":*Kiyoshi Komiyama as "Neal Leagan":*Ryuusei Nakao as "Neal Leagan (1992 film)"

Pirated Versions

There are many pirated copies of the manga and anime series in various languages. All non-Japanese language manga volumes or anime VHS, VCD or DVD can be assumed to be pirated copies. However, the anime series was legally (though briefly) syndicated on TV in the US and Canada in the early 1980s, in English and French. The English version ended up in various European countries, like Italy, Greece and Spain. Both versions also had at least one volume released on VHS in the mid-1980s. In Hong Kong, "Little Candy Candy" was broadcast by TVB in late 1970s and early 1980s.

Popularity

"Candy Candy" reached great heights of popularity for several years in a row, with different types of "Candy Candy" toys for sale in the Japanese market. These toys included dolls, girls' watches, and other items. Seeing that the manga had become so popular among Japanese girls, in 1976 a Japanese anime series was produced for NET (now known as TV Asahi). In 1978, one animated feature film about "Candy Candy" and her friends was released in Japanese cinemas. Another one would be released in 1992.

"Candy Candy" reached international fame throughout the early and mid-1980s, becoming extremely popular Fact|date=May 2007 among children in places such as Europe, the United States, Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America. "Candy Candy" toys were also sold in large quantities in these areas.Fact|date=May 2007 In Puerto Rico, where the show was known as just "Candy", the series actually made a cross-over of sorts, because a large number of Puerto Rican and other Latin American boys also became fans of the show, even though the show was supposedly geared towards girls. Although "Candy Candy" was an animated program, it contained soap opera elements, and it had a continuous story, so every chapter began where the last chapter had left off.

The internet fanbase of "Candy Candy" is particularly divided between those who feel Terry is Candy's true love and so should be reunited, and those who feel the series did reach a satisfactory conclusion with Albert as Candy's love interest from the beginning to the end, despite the obvious legal ties of adopter/adoptee.

During the 2000s, "Candy Candy" episodes began to be sold on bootleg DVD format, as the legal lawsuits between the authors halted any production of licensed goods.

Controversy

In the early 1990s, the Candy Candy franchise became a subject of controversy. [http://sekichiku.freehosting.net/candybl_top.htm]

Igarashi allegedly tried to take complete ownership of "Candy Candy" to collect all royalties related to the character and its products. She began to produce "Candy Candy" material without the consent of her former friend and partner Mizuki, as well as Toei, the film making company in charge of "Candy Candy's" recorded productions. This infuriated both Mizuki and the Toei company.

In 1998, Mizuki, one of the better known female manga and anime writers in Japan, filed a suit on a Tokyo district court. Mizuki did not ask for full copyright ownership of the character; she just asked the court to recognize that she and Igarashi have the same rights of ownership over the copyrights of "Candy Candy" for future "Candy Candy" anime, film, and toy sales. Due to this and other lawsuits, the series has not been broadcast in any country since early 1998.

In 1999, the court ruled in favor of Mizuki. The ruling made history, because it is believed that it was the first time in Japanese justice that two people were given the same amount of copyright percentage over a Japanese product.

The ruling was supported by Tokyo's High Court in 2000 and the Supreme Court in 2001. Igarashi then sued Toei, the studio behind the anime adaptation, and Toei immediately stopped showing the series on Japanese national television, but the case fell through.

On May 31, Mizuki was awarded 29,500,000 yen by a court. That money was given as compensation for the emotional stress she allegedly went through while all these cases were dissolved in the Japanese courts.

In 2003, a company in Saitama Prefecture that had been producing "Candy Candy" toys for a large number of years won a case against two Tokyo companies that had been illegally producing "Candy Candy" jigsaw puzzles. The Saitama Prefecture-based company earned 7.8 million yen and a ban on the publication of further jigsaw puzzles with "Candy Candy" as a central character.

Modern Candy Candy

In 2005, the "Candy Candy" franchise began to try to re-establish itself in the United States Fact|date=February 2007. Due to all the court cases that unfolded after "Candy Candy" became a television program, however, it is very unlikely that it will be shown on television again, as Nagita/Mizuki communicated on January 16, 2006 in an open letter to fans that the very thought of Candy Candy made her head hurt.

In 2005 and 2006, Candy Candy Boxsets began to appear. The first being from France, included the French and Japanese Dialogue. Two Korean boxsets are now in print, they include the Japanese and Korean dialog, and Korean Subtitles. 20 Discs altogether were divided evenly into two boxsets and available from HanBooks and Sensasian.

Prior to the release, Spanish DVD sets with poor audio and video were widely available on eBay.

On January 10, 2007, Chilean newspaper "Las Últimas Noticias" began issuing DVDs of "Candy Candy" with its issues every Wednesday, with plans to continue to do so until all 115 episodes were released.

The 2007 French animation short film "Candy Boy" by director Pascal-Alex Vincent was inspired by Candy Candy.Fact|date=August 2007

Trivia

*Mizuki/Nagita has stated on her website that she was highly influenced by Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series, which was a beloved to her growing up. Candice White is more akin to Anne Shirley (orphaned, cheery, pig tailed freckled tomboy girl).
*Mizuki/Nagita has also stated that writing Candy Candy was a cathartic experience for her, as being orphaned as a young age herself, she used the Candy character to help heal from the pain of losing her parents.
*Candy Candy also somewhat resembles the American novel "Daddy Long-Legs" by Jean Webster from the 20th century. The story is about a young orphan girl named Jerusha "Judy" Abbott, through her college years. She writes the letters to her benefactor, a rich man whom she has never seen.
*The two heroes of the recent opera "Anthony's death" by Greek composer Kharálampos Goyós constantly refer to a character named "Anthony", whose televised death traumatized their childhoods. There has been some speculation that they are referring to Candy Candy's Anthony Brown, which was ultimately confirmed when a teaser trailer became available on the opera's official site [http://thebeggarsoperas.gr/anthonyen.htm] . The trailer features a few seconds of the anime's footage (Candy and Anthony riding a horse), although obviously taken from a partly-degaussed vhs source.
*Candy shows great resembles to Georgie from the Lady Georgie TV and manga series. Probably due to the fact that they were both drawn by Yumiko Igarashi.
*Candy's surname via adoption: There's a debate about Candy's surname, that's because in some countries the name of the family that adopted Candy is quoted to be Andrew, Audrey, and Ardlay. Candy's original name is "Candice White Ardlay" as it appears on many letters in the anime series (such as the letter that Candy receives from Terry in episode 87).
*In France, and maybe other countries, Anthony's death is canceled out after a few episodes. First, he dies; then, at his funeral, Eliza accuses Candy of being responsible of his death. From that point on, Anthony is referred to as "very sick", and it is made clear that he was never dead, despite previous depictions of his funeral and Eliza's comments. Alistair and Archibald sometimes talk about how he misses Candy and how he feels at lonely in his hospital bed. Towards the end of the series, when Candy lives with Albert, he too mentions Anthony as that boy who got badly hurt after falling from a horse. It is likely that a child's death was considered too emotional for the very young audience that the show catered to.
*In Italy, the episodes were condensed into a movie, but was edited so that Candy ends up with Terry. This was done by using a "daydream" from a previous episode, and some script changesFact|date=September 2008.

ee also

*List of Candy Candy episodes

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*cite web | url=http://www.hahnlibrary.net/comics/awards/kodansha.shtml | author=Joel Hahn | title=Kodansha Manga Awards | work=Comic Book Awards Almanac | accessdate=2007-08-21

External links

* [http://lakewood.srv7.biz Candy Candy] Misaki's Candy Candy official fan site. This site has obtained the consent of Kyoko Mizuki. language icon|JP|Japanese
*ann manga|id=3929|title=Candy Candy
*ann anime|id=545|title=Candy Candy