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Candy Candy #5

キャンディ・キャンディ 5

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181 pages, Paperback

First published March 25, 1977

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Kyoko Mizuki

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Kyoko Mizuki (水木 杏子) is one of the pen names of Keiko Nagita (名木田 恵子, Nagita Keiko). She is a Japanese writer who is best-known for being the author of the manga and anime series Candy Candy.

Kyoko Mizuki won Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shōjo Manga for Candy Candy in 1977 with Yumiko Igarashi.

Keiko Nagita won Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize for Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo (Rainette - The Golden Apples) in 2007.

Her short story Akai Mi Haziketa is printed in Japanese Primary School Textbook for 6th grade (Mitsumura Tosho Publishing Co.,Ltd.).

Her picture books Shampoo Ōji series (art by Makoto Kubota) was adapted into anime television series in October 2007.

When she was 12 years old, her father died. Then she created "imaginary family Andrews" to relieve her loneliness and wrote their stories on a notebook. Mizuki said "I feel Andrews family have watched me affectionately. They are the origin of my story writing".

She spent a few years as an actress of Shiki Theatre Company in her late teens, and some of her works reflect this.

In eleventh-grade, she won a prize short story contest for young girls' magazine Jogakusei no Tomo. After selling her short story Yomigaeri, Soshite Natsu wa to the magazine when she was 19 years old, she decided to become a full-time writer.

In those days she was a frequent contributor of poems to Koukou Bungei magazine, famous poet Katsumi Sugawara appreciated her talent and she joined his poetry club. When she was 20, she published a collection of poems Kaeru privately. 5 years later, her Poetical Works Omoide wa Utawanai was published by Sanrio Company, Ltd.

She wrote short stories and love stories for young girls' magazines, and Kodansha commissioned her to write stories for their shōjo manga magazine Shōjo Friend. In the 1970s, she wrote many shōjo manga stories as Ayako Kazu, Akane Kouda, Kyoko Mizuki and Keiko Nagita.

In 1975, she wrote the story of freckled hearty girl, Candy Candy for monthly Nakayoshi. She said "I lost my mother when I was 21, then I was all alone in the world. To write the story healed my sorrow". The manga was adapted into anime television series in 1976 by Toei Animation. Since then Candy Candy have made her one of the more successful female manga writer.

The last episode of Candy Candy was written at Domaine De Beauvois, a chateau-hotel in France. Mizuki said "I wanted to say good-bye to Candice in beautiful place. If possible, I wanted to go to the U.K. When I was into the room, tears welled up in my eyes because a picture of fox hunting was hung on the wall. Fox hunting--it took Anthony’s life. When I remember Candice, autumn days at the beautiful hotel came to my mind. The hotel was like the villa of Ardray family."

Since 1980, she is mainly writing juveniles and love stories for young girls as Keiko Nagita. Her Fūko to Yūrei series is especially popular.
Music for Fūko to Yūrei series was composed by Toru Okada (岡田 徹, Okada Toru?, born April 23, 1949 in Tokyo) who is a member of Japanese famous rock group Moonriders, the album called Siriau Maekara Zutto Suki 知りあう前からずっと好き was released in 1995.

In 2001, she returned to publishing with the concluding part of Fūko to Yūrei.

She won Japan Juvenile Writers Association Prize 2007 for Rainette, Kin Iro no Ringo, a love story of a Japanese girl and a Belarusian boy who was exposed to radiation of Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant.

May 2008, she wrote a story for Shōjo manga after an interval of 18 years. The manga Loreley was drawn by Kaya Tachibana.

She has a husband and a daughter, they enjoy vacation at their cottage in Prince Edward Island every summer. Terry Kamikawa, a student of Anne of Green Gables and hostess of Blue Winds Tea Room in P.E.I, is her best friend.

She has a collection of heart shaped objects, a part of her collection is shown on Aoitori Bunko official site

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364 reviews63 followers
July 13, 2019
El drama nunca termina con Candy, y ahora que ha encontrado su profesión la muerte está más presente al estudiar y trabajar en el Hospital San Joseph como enfermera, pero eso sí, nunca pierde la esperanza de que las cosas pueden mejorar.

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942 reviews206 followers
August 11, 2012
The ”Candy Candy” manga is a "slice of life story" in the shōjo genre. While the protagonist experiences love in the series, the recurring story arc in the series is Candy's love for Pony's Home, a place where she constantly returns to when life deals her great injustices or trials. It is here where the story begins, and the story ends. The plot can be divided into seven arcs. The first arc deals with the first ten years of her life at the orphanage, coping with the demands of her first foster home and resolving her living circumstances into a happier situation.

”Pony's Home and The Hilltop Prince”
The first ten years of her life, the orphan Candice White grows up at the orphanage Pony's Home, together with Annie who was found on the same day as Candy. The two girls are best friends, regarding each other as sisters. In order to avoid being separated they boycott any visit from people who hope to adopt a child there. The adoption of the slightly older Tom by the rich cattle farmer Steve though, feeds Annie's growing desire to have parents of her own.

Once felt, Annie's need cannot be denied any more when the two girls spend a day at the Brighton hunting estate, after Mr. Brighton rescued the two girls from drowning. The two girls differ not only in character with Candy being the tomboy, but they have different needs as well. Candy is not just bound to Annie. She loves and regards Pony's Home as her true home and the two women that run the place, Miss Pony and Sister Mary, as her parents. Mrs. Brighton chooses to adopt Annie but does not wish her social circle to learn she grew up in Pony's Home. This forces Annie to break all ties with Pony's Home and Candy to promise never to reveal Annie's secret.

The loss of Annie's friendship breaks Candy's heart and she tries to find solace on the hilltop near Pony's Home. A mysterious prince in kilt and playing bagpipes manages to cheer her up, but disappears into thin air as quickly as he appeared, only leaving a pendant with a family sign as evidence that he exists. When the steward of the rich Leagan family visits Pony's Home to inform Miss Pony and Sister Mary that his employer is prospecting for a girl that could be a playmate for his daughter, Candy instantly volunteers for it, because the Leagan car carries the same symbol as the pendant of Candy's hilltop prince. When she learns that the Leagans live in Lakewood, which is near to Jasper where Annie lives, Candy's mind is made up.

”Lakewood”
But life at Lakewood is not what Candy envisioned. The two spoiled Leagan children, Eliza and Neil, pester Candy from day one in the hope to chase her off back to where she came from. Their mother who was against the idea in the first place does nothing to stop the pestering. And while Mr. Leagan knows Candy's worth and questions his children's stories, he is more absent than present. Before long, Candy is downgraded from Eliza's playmate to servant, and moved from the attic into the barn.

While Candy has every reason and opportunity to run away and return to Pony's Home, she opts to stay, because she believes her hilltop prince to live in the neighboring estate of the Ardley family. She meets Anthony Brown in almost similar mysterious circumstances in front of the estate's closed rose gates that carry the same symbol as her pendant. Although he is Eliza's favorite, Anthony prefers Candy's company and even grows a new type of rose for her birthday which he names "Sweet Candy". Anthony has two charming cousins who often help Candy: the Cornwell brothers Archibald and inventor Alistear. Candy also finds a friend in the maidservant Dorothy and the vagabond Albert. While Candy is under the initial impression that Anthony actually is the hilltop prince, she soon learns he cannot be: he has never been to Pony's Hill and he met Candy for the first time at the gates of his late mother's rose garden.

As the child romance between Candy and Anthony blooms, Eliza's attempts to rid herself of Candy become more drastic. Neil frames Candy and makes her out to be a thief. As a consequence, Candy is sent packing as a manual laborer to Mexico. Neither Anthony, the Cornwell brothers, Albert or Dorothy can prevent Candy from leaving. Before getting to the intended destination, however, Candy ends up being kidnapped in Texas. Though she is richly taken care of by her kidnappers, Candy fears she will be trafficked and sold to childless Europeans. Not wanting to put anymore distance between herself and Anthony, she manages to escape in New Orleans and returns to Lakewood by freight train. There she learns that her kidnapper was an employee of a benefactor she has never met: grandfather William Ardley. Anthony, Archibald and Alistair had written him letters, pleading him to adopt Candy in order to save her from a harsh fate.


Candy feels as if she lives in a dream: a rich life at the Ardley home, together with Anthony, Archibald and Alistair. Eliza and Neil cannot hurt her anymore. And even the severe Ardley matriarch, great-aunt Elroy, eventually warms a little to Candy. But Anthony is envious of this mysterious hilltop prince who stole Candy's heart before he ever met her. He fears Candy only likes him because he looks like him. Candy manages to appease him by stating she does not care anymore who the hilltop prince might be and that, yes even if they might be twins in looks, she loves the fourteen year old Anthony because he is Anthony. After their first romantic date in town, nothing seems to stand in Candy's way to live a happily ever after from her twelve years on. Anthony even manages to figure out who the hilltop prince must have been. But before he can explain to Candy during a fox hunt, he dies in an unfortunate accident after a fall from his horse.


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Book Details:

Title Candy Candy Vol. 5
Author Kyoko Mizuk & Yumiko Igarashi
Reviewed By Purplycookie
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436 reviews7 followers
June 7, 2017
Salah satu alasan yg bikin aq suka komik ini adalah setting dan tokoh2nya yg bukan orang Jepang. And believe it or not, aq baru ngeh klo pengarang-nya orang Jepang wkwkwk maklum baca pertama kali waktu masih piyik, udah gitu boleh minjem pulak! Tapi waktu itu aq memandang tinggi komik ini. Karena kisah-nya yg dewasa! Sedikit tragis juga. Well, setelah tuwir trus baca lagi, masih berpikiran sama. Satu2nya komik yg butuh waktu agak lama membaca-nya. Yaah...ngga lama2 amat siy hihihi
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1,311 reviews7 followers
March 21, 2018
Un cinquième tome moins intéressant qui m’a donné la sensation d’être un volume bouche-trou. Beaucoup moins de planches mignonnes, leur taille est plutôt petite et les plus grandes images sont des souvenirs des jours heureux… sur ce coup-là, c’était un peu saoulant à mon goût. J’espère que le prochain sera mieux.
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157 reviews8 followers
May 27, 2019
OMG... no quiero que le pase nada malo :(
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81 reviews2 followers
April 13, 2020
De verdad que el drama no falta 😌
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77 reviews
July 18, 2024
Empieza su vida como aprendiz de enfermera
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54 reviews
December 9, 2023
“En el puerto, en la colina de Pony, siempre termino corriendo detrás de él” “Pasaremos un día junto al lago todos juntos: tú, Mina y yo…” 😭😭😭
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Author 2 books21 followers
November 20, 2021
Mangas recomendados: ''Candy Candy'', de Yumiko Igarashi y Kyoko Mizuki. Relaciones varias, sentimientos, crecimiento, villas, enfermería, orfanato, teatro, guerra...

Candy Candy fue mi primer manga. Y me enamoré del detallado dibujo y de la historia.

Mi abuela me regaló el 1º tomo y coleccioné hasta en la versión revista, las entregas que Bruguera nos ofrecía, hasta que las autoras, dos, nos estropearon la maravilla, como si de un mal encantamiento se tratara. Y tuvo que pasar algún tiempo para que pudiera acabar de leer en mi idioma original, la continuación y el final de esta historia. Desde aquí, agradecer a los fans que lo hicieron posible, entre otras cosas.

Tengo la versión de 9 tomos en japonés. Además de esos 3 coloridos tomos de Bruguera. Y algunas cosillas más…

Y todavía hoy me sigue encantando observar esos dibujos, que, aunque a veces en versión menos seria…, también siguen siendo encantadores.

Seguro que hay muchos que no conocen este manga, pero hay muchos que sí. Es un manga clásico, precioso y lleno de valores en muchos aspectos de la vida. También hay maldad, porque en la misma vida la hay. Pero en este caso hay que aprender de ello.

Lo que non entiendo todavía, casi dos generaciones después, es cómo dos personas adultas se metieron en un berenjenal y dejaron a una legión de admiradores de su obra con las ganas… Es algo irónico.
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391 reviews9 followers
January 24, 2016
Akhirnya Candy meninggalkan asrama St. Paul secara diam diam dan kembali ke Amerika kerumah Pony. Diperjalanan Candy ditolong oleh sebuah keluarga. Dikeluarga inilah Candy akhirnya menemukan keinginan dan cita cita menjadi seorang perawat. Candy juga menyusup disebuah kapal yg menuju Amerika dengan bantuan beberapa teman yg ditemuinya di dermaga. Di atas kapalpun Candy berjumpa dengan orang orang yg baik memiliki kemauan dan kerja keras yg menyadarkan Candy akan arti hidup dan keinginan seseorang untuk meraih cita cita agar kelak berguna bagi orang banyak.

Setiba dirumah pony, Candy hanya selisih sedikit waktu dengan Terry yg berkunjung kerumah dan bukit pony. Dengan bantuan ibu pony dan suster Lein serta anak anak panti, Candy menata hatinya karena perpisahannya dengan Terry.

Dimusim panas berikutnya Candy masuk sekolah perawat Mary Jane. Pasien pertama yg dirawat Candy, William Mc Gregor. Awalnya candy mengira ia adalah paman William. Paman William Mc Gregor akhirnya meninggal. Tapi sebelumnya Candy sudah berusaha keras merawat dan membawa kebahagiaan untuk orang tua itu.
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174 reviews5 followers
February 3, 2016
Fiuuh, setelah nahan napas di buku keempat, saatnya bersantai sejenak dari akal bulus Eliza dan kesedihan Candy karena ditinggal pergi sama Terry, saudara-saudara.

Satu yang saya suka dari volume kelima ini tak lain dan tak bukan adalah kemunculan sosok Cookie yang mirip Candy. Sama-sama pendek, sama-sama jerawatan dan sama-sama bandel del del...

Sayang banget Cookie nggak dimunculkan lagi, padahal Cookie dan Candy lumayan serasi. Bahkan saya sempat kepikiran kalau jangan-jangan Cookie itu beneran saudara kandung Candy. Candy kan yatim piatu yang dititipkan entah oleh siapa di depan pintu Rumah Pony.
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Author 6 books386 followers
October 15, 2024
Η Candy κυνηγάει τον Terry κι ο Δίας κάνει ότι κάνει συνήθως και δεν τους θέλει μαζί κι εμείς σπαράζουμε και λιώνουμε από την αγωνία και η ένταση όλο ανεβαίνει...
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128 reviews1 follower
November 24, 2016
Candy cocok banget menjadi perawat. Biarpun serampangan, hatinya sangat lembut.
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