Candy Candy
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Candice White
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キャンディ・キャンディ♡ (Kyandi Kyandi) |
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| Genre | Romance, historical drama |
| Novel | |
| Written by | Kyoko Mizuki |
| Published | April 1975 |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Kyoko Mizuki |
| Illustrated by | Yumiko Igarashi |
| Published by | Kodansha, Chuokoronsha |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Magazine | Nakayoshi |
| Original run | April 1975 – March 1979 |
| Volumes | 9 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Hiroshi Shidara Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Produced by |
Kanetake Ochiai Shinichi Miyazaki Yuyake Usui |
| Written by | Noboru Shiroyama Shun'ichi Yukimuro |
| Music by | Takeo Watanabe |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Original network | TV Asahi |
| Original run | 1 October 1976 – 2 February 1979 |
| Episodes | 115 |
| Anime film | |
| Candy Candy (Original film) | |
| Released | 17 July 1977 |
| Runtime | 20 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Candy Candy: The Call of Spring/The May Festival | |
| Directed by | Noboru Shiroyama |
| Music by | Takeo Watanabe |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | 18 March 1978 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Candy Candy's Summer Vacation | |
| Directed by | Yukio Kazama |
| Produced by | Chiaki Imada |
| Music by | Takeo Watanabe |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | 22 July 1978 |
| Runtime | 15 minutes |
| Anime film | |
| Candy Candy the Movie | |
| Directed by | Tetsuo Imazawa |
| Produced by | Chiaki Imada |
| Music by | Takeo Watanabe |
| Studio | Toei Animation |
| Released | 25 April 1992 |
| Runtime | 26 minutes |
Candy Candy (キャンディ・キャンディ Kyandi Kyandi?) is a Japanese historical romance novel, manga, and a classic anime series. The main character, Candice "Candy" White Audley is a blonde girl with freckles, large emerald green eyes and long, curly hair, worn in pigtails with bows. Candy Candy first appeared in a prose novel by famed Japanese writer Keiko Nagita under the pen name Kyoko Mizuki in April 1975. When Mizuki joined forces with manga artist Yumiko Igarashi, the Japanese magazine Nakayoshi became interested in Candy Candy. The series was serialized as a manga series in the magazine for four years and won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo in 1977. The story was adapted into an anime series by Toei Animation. There are also four animated short films.
The Candy Candy manga provides a "coming of age story" in the shōjo genre. Candy, an abandoned orphan taken in by the orphanage Pony's Home near Lake Michigan around the start of the 20th century, spent the first years of her life at the orphanage, to where she would often return to repose and to decide her next course in life. When Annie, her best friend at the orphanage, was adopted, she ran outside crying, and met briefly a young man in kilt who told her not to cry. Candy retained fond memories of the young man and, not knowing his name, remembered him as her "Prince on the Hill". The young man will have great influence and importance in her life later on.
When she turned thirteen, Candy was taken in by the Lagan family as a companion for their Lagan family daughter, Eliza. The Lagans treated her poorly and eventually made Candy a servant girl. When the Lagan family accused Candy of stealing and sent her off to work in their family farm in Mexico, Candy was rescued from being sent to Mexico by William Audrey, the sole heir of the very wealthy Audrey family and the owner of the Audrey estate. William Audrey became Candy's adoptive father, but his true identity remained a mystery and she would not meet him until the end of the story. He was also the uncle of Candy's first love, Anthony Brown, and a relative of Anthony's cousins, the Cornwell brothers Archibald (Archie) and Alistair (Stear), as well as the Lagan children.
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