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Candy Candy (Vol.1-115 End) DVD Anime _ English Sub _ All Region _ Complete Set
One snowy night, two babies were abandoned at an American orphanage: one of whom was dubbed Candice White due to her complexion and the name of a doll found with the child. As a young girl, ‘Candy’ lives a carefree life with her fellow friend Annie, until one day Annie is adopted by a rich family and forced to forget about her time at the orphanage. Candy soon follows suit and is adopted into a cruel situation, where love, reunions and other challenges await her. From country to country, Candy will experience the tragedy of heartbreak and the joys of friendship – but above all else, she will dream of the day that she met her beloved ‘Prince of the Hill.’
VALUE SECTION: 7/10 [Like old wine, it only gets better as time goes by.] This title is quite famous in Greece for being the first shojo series that aired on a Greek channel. Up until then, there were only a few soap operas with real actors that were watched only by middle-aged women. This series was the first to aim at little girls. Of course, it ended up being watched by boys as well, since there wasn’t genre variety to choose from. Plus, Internet and cell phones were still a myth, so there wasn’t anything else to be occupied with. ENJOYMENT SECTION: 7/10 [You will like it if you are not a Narutard-like viewer.] Anyway, sentiments aside, it is a good series. The story is quite sappy and melodramatic most of the time but it is still the best historical, girly drama I know of. If only some parts were more fast-paced, it wouldn’t be boring at times. I must also point out that I consider it overall far more exciting that any other World Masterpiece Theater anime, as I felt it was winning them all in variety and development. STORY SECTION: 5/10 [Hard to swallow but digests nicely.] If you are not accustomed to melodramatic stories, you will definitely hate it. It is filled with Deus Ex Machina situations, were every plot twist is either too good or too bad to be true. In the beginning of the 20th century, a baby girl is abandoned in the doorstep of an orphanage. The girl was named Candice (Candy for short) and was raised by nuns, along with other orphans. The first part of the story is her happy life there, making friends and playing games, while wishing for lovable parents to come for her. Really cute and joyful times, most of us would find vomiting…She is eventually taken as aid in a rich family. After a really tearful departing from the orphanage, she expects to have a happy life in an easy-going household. Unfortunately, the kids in the mansion are a pair of spoiled aristocrats that spend their carefree lives by tormenting peasants and pulling cruel jokes on Candy. And the adults there are snobby and joyless who dislike all aspects of her cheery personality. It will make you want to strangle them! It’s here where she falls in love with a (literally) prince in shinning armor and experiences her first romance. There are good times and there are bad times but this relationship will have a tragic conclusion. She later becomes a nurse during First World War and experiences one tragedy over another. She reunites with old friends, falls in love again and starts to learn about her real family. There is a lot of things going in it for an otherwise slice of life. The conclusion is sad but satisfactory, making you weep at the series’ end. As I said already, you must bear its unreal plot twists. It is only a good drama/romance thanks to them. CHARACTER SECTION: 9/10 [Extreme versions of good and evil but likable nonetheless.] Heck, what is there to say? Every character in the series seems to be cursed as the worst of possibilities happens always when things are about to pick up. They are all either too sweet or completely heartless. Candy is always cheery and cries a lot. Most orphans and poor people are kind and perky. The aristocrats are serious and complete assholes all the time. Grown men are the epitome of kindness and ideal husbands.I am not going to lie though; there is a lot of character development going on here, as everybody grows old and changes perspective or even dies. Plus, all those optical tricks (see below) make them enjoyable most of the time. ART SECTION: 9/10 [The animation is quite old but at its prime, it was a sight for shore eyes.] The animators used every optical trick used for atmosphere enhancement there was. The girls have big, star-filled eyes, really sweet smiles, tears of sadness and joy every 10 minutes, sun rays that pass before their faces, cherry blossoms fill the screen and many more. The depiction of the era the story takes place is not very detailed but it is romance inspiring by itself, so it improves the atmosphere even more. But seriously, for the time it was made this was as good as it gets. SOUND SECTION: 8/10 [Good but not great.] Music themes are really elegiac, making you remember the simpler, older times in the pastures and your first love struck (unless of course you grew up in a city or are too young to have felt that yet). Voice acting was as kawai as it can get without using ridiculous high-pitched voices. VERDICT: 7.5 / 10 The accused is found … NOT GUILTY! … He is very naïve but his heart is pure and intact. SUGGESTION LIST Anne Of The Green Gables, Eikoku Koi Monogatari Emma, Alps no Shoujo Heidi, Poor sisters story. All of them have a sad, old European atmosphere to them.
I can’t watch the series again because it’s so darn long. You might think the same way, but if you love it, you might feel free to watch it again. The art, well, it’s okay, but it’s kind of squished up with each other, which makes it hard to see. The animation is bad, since it has characters jumping from frame to frame in an inconsistent kind of way and thus, it makes me really confused. The music really fits the tone of the anime and how the impact on the characters’ feelings and emotions. They’re very beautiful to hear, thus, very catchy. The characters kinda annoy me since they don’t have very much development into them. I couldn’t really get in touch with them because they’re boring to watch. Although, there’s some characters that I love, but most of them are just rigid. I didn’t like Candice because she depends on life too much and, thus, she’s too arrogant; in a way where if somebody doesn’t tell her something she craves for, she wants to start a warfare with them. I dislike people like that, that think everything’s given to them and get mad when something doesn’t go their way. The ending is sad, and that’s literally what made me cry the most, but the thing is, this anime sorta irritates me since it takes depression too seriously; trying to be like Full Moon o Sagashite, and bring up the sad parts too quickly and impatiently. People who do that rather make me feel humilated for watching it rather than being touched by the scenes. Candy Candy is a very good anime, but not one of the greatest. The one I find the greatest is Shokujo Sara.
This used to be one of my favorites 20 years ago but I never had the chance to watch the entire series until now. Wonderful character design (Albert is my favorite), unique music that makes about half of the nostalgy and atmosphere of the series. Now the tough part. After watching the entire series I’m disappointed and see it from a different angle than as a little girl. The first 30 episodes are a syrupy and quite childish Cinderella story that fails to make an impact. I also took some points off because of the ending conclusion, the 10, 20 or 30 last episodes of the series that I was especially disappointed about. However, with adult’s eyes I find the series getting better, more serious, realistic and nuanced towards the end. I especially enjoyed the episodes where Candy matured and found her purpose. Also, since I didn’t like the beginning nor the ending, I think this series is at its sweetest and most enjoyable somewhere down the middle, say episodes 33 to 70 or there about. My conclusion is that I still love the series but not as much as I used to as a child unaware of the ending conclusion.
Candy Candy: The Call of Spring
Candy Candy: Candy no Natsuyasumi
At twelve years old, Candice White (otherwise known as Candy) is the oldest remaining child at the Poni Orphanage. With her spirits held high, Candy dreams of the day a wonderful family will take her home; and on one fateful day, it seems her dream has come true… or has it? Instead of joining a family, Candy is adopted to be a companion for the snobby daughter of a wealthy household. Now, our young heroine sets off to join her new family and experience the joys of first love and the heartbreak of cruelty. Whatever the case, her life will never be the same!
StoryI’ll admit it: shoujo normally isn’t my thing. I’m not a big fan of girlish delights and sappy friendships and romances. Give me sci fi or horror any day! Nevertheless, the Candy Candy movie wasn’t in the database yet and it was short, so I decided to watch it anyways. As it turns out, I ended up being fairly surprised at how much I enjoyed it, and how little I disliked it. The story itself follows a young girl named Candy, as she is adopted into a less than pleasant situation: to become a servant for a perfectly beastly girl named Eliza. Really, it’s basically a Cinderella tale, shoved into twenty-five minutes. Everything from Cinderella can be found, from the party to meeting the perfect young man, to overcoming the cruelty of the “stepsisters” (in this case, Eliza and her terrible brother). All it’s missing is the pumpkin and the glass slippers! Now, I’ll be the first to say I haven’t seen the TV series, and I knew nothing about the franchise prior to seeing this. Based on what I’ve read, the movie is a very condensed version of the 100+ episode TV series, and given the pacing of the story, I can see that being the case. Often times, condensed anime is never a good thing to watch unless you’ve seen the original, and it usually seems rushed and… well, bad. In this case, though I presumably could have enjoyed it a lot more having seen the TV series, I felt like it was perfectly decent to watch standalone as well. So did I like the plot? Yeah, it ended up being a lot better than I would have thought. If you are looking for something deep and thought provoking, this isn’t the anime for you. On the other hand, if you want something short, sweet, and sentimental in a storybook sort of way, the Candy Candy movie would be a good choice for you. The pacing is rushed indeed, but we are shown the important factors of the story effectively. Though only twenty-five minutes, you still become attached to Candy and her plight, and by the end, are happy that she has been shown at least a small amount of happiness. Overall, a decent plot with a happy conclusion… so even though shoujo isn’t my favorite, I can still rate this section highly as I know fans of shoujo would consider this a short treat to view. AnimationLike the original TV series, the Candy Candy movie adopts a very old looking animation style, similar to such things as Brother Dear Brother. Characters all are very wide eyed with strange hair that looks almost like it was modeled after vegetable leaves. For 1992, I feel like the overall quality could have been a little bit better and a little less choppy. I understand wanting the designs to look like the original, but the actual quality just seemed a little shoddy. Movements looked a little jerky and the occasional still scene didn’t help. The colors used were also very shoujo, primarily consisting of pinks and other pastels. I don’t know… in general, the animation was fitting as far as the designs, but the overall animation itself I think needed a little help. SoundThe majority of the movie was devoid of any music, and the music itself was really in the background and uninteresting. Piano was the main instrument used, and though it was fitting for the shoujo atmosphere, it wasn’t inspiring enough to warrant a decent score. In addition, the voice actors all were decent except the brother who had one of the worst chosen seiyuu EVER. In this case, it was the guy who did the voice of Kir in Jing, and one of the characters in Hundred Stories. Totally inappropriate for the character in question. CharactersNow, for a twenty-five minute movie, it’s hard to rate the characters highly unless they all fit various stereotypes that were portrayed well. That, or unless they are all very unusual and interesting characters. Indeed, the characters are very stereotypical to a Cinderella type story. Eliza is the perfect evil stepsister of sorts, and Candy is a wonderful heroine who refuses to give up, even in the face of cruelty. In only the short period of time, we are convinced very easily who is good and who is bad, and feel empathy for Candy… especially when Anthony comes into the picture. At the same time, I felt like the length left a little to be desired for the characters’ development. We see flashbacks, for example, of Candy and her childhood friend Annie, but the five or so minutes on screen doesn’t help paint a convincing picture of their feelings. I would have appreciated more development with all of the characters, but the length prevented it. OverallFor an intro into the world of shoujo, I think the Candy Candy movie would be a fine choice. Though short and lacking in some ways, the gentle story with its touching ending will probably appeal to a good variety of folks. Those looking for a deep story or character development should probably look elsewhere, as Candy Candy is more of a shallow look at a whole genre, rather than a good look at a specific series.
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