Why "Candy Candy" instead of "Candy" only?
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Actually,
it is a matter of language difference. This is rather a description
than a name. In Asia, names are often repeated to emphasize something
cute, soft, tendre, like a baby, therefore like Candy ! ;o)
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Candy and
Terry's information sheet
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I've
always wondered what Candy Candy's characters would look like if they
were real. The answer to this question is given through an article
published in June 1977, in the
Japanese magazine Nakayoshi... In this article, the author, Kyoko
Mizuki, gave a physical description of the main characters, Candy and
Terry.
Thus...
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Candy White
Date of birth
May 07, 1898
(Her discovery date in front of Pony's home)
In the anime, Candy is found on a snowy day while it happens in spring in the manga.
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Terry G. Grandchester
Date of birth
January 28, 1897
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Size
1m55
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Size
1m73
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Weight
45 kg/99 pounds
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Weight
53 kg/116,5 pounds
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Shoe size
22 cm/35/4
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Shoe size
25.5 cm/40/8
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Blood type
0
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Blood type
AB
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Favorite color
red
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Favorite color
black
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hair color light auburn
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hair color
dark
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eye color
green
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eye color blue-green
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They were both 14 years old when they met on the boat, on a new year's eve, just before Terry celebrates his fifteenth birthday!
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Chronology of Candy's adventures
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1904
Candy meets the Prince of the hill
1910
Candy is 12 years old, and goes to the Leagan's (Niel,
Eliza, and their parents), where she will become later their maid.
1911
Candy is 13 and is adopted by the Andrew family.
Janvier
1912
Candy is 14 and leaves for London to study at Saint Paul Academy. (That
year, the Titanic cruise ship will take the same road...)
1913
Candy is 15 and leaves Saint Paul Academy to join Terry in America.
1914
Candy is 16 and lives in Chicago where she's following nursing studies.
That year, Stair will die and she will break up with Terry... :-((((((((
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Is there an Italian sequel to Candy Candy ?
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In
Italy, like in most countries, Candy Candy airing was a HUGE success.
When the serie ended, the Italian tv channel that aired it, received so
many claims from the fans who totally disagreed the ending, that they
decided when they aired the serie for the second time, to add some
images at the end.
Thus,
the tv channel took some images of Candy's dreams
in relation with Terry (those in which Candy imagines herself taking
the train to join Terry in NY...), and they added them at the end of
the last episode. Thereby, they created a new ending from old images of
the serie. The fans thought it was a new ending in which Candy and
Terry met again... sob!
The images of the final editing of the Italian version

Nota : There is another version in the form of a comics...
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Did you know that in the French version of the anime, Anthony dies, then comes back to life for ending in an hospital ?
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In
November 1979 was aired in France the tragic episode
in which Anthony died. Kids were so desperate that their parents wrote
en masse to the tv channel to complain about this traumatizing episode
that had broken their beloved child's heart! (Mine certainly wrote
too!.. ^^)
This
is why, after christmas break, the tv channel announced that this
episode had been misunderstood, that Anthony was not dead but injured
only, and had to stay at the hospital. Thus, the dubbing was modified
which made things more difficult to understand as the dubbing was in
complete contradiction with the images. For example, as Anthony, with
this new dubbing is supposed to be alive, we cannot understand why, in
the final episode, Albert evokes Stair and Anthony's funerals...
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Are there any vidéos or DVD of Candy Candy ?
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Go to candyterry.com devoted page to CC videos !
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Will there be a sequel to Candy Candy?
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There is one! It's called "Candy Candy, Final Story"!
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Where can I get CC mangas?
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There are no CC mangas in English, but you can read them translated online :
https://mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-39270 http://mangakakalot.com/manga/candy_candy http://fanfox.net/manga/candy_candy/
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Did Stair really die at war?
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Undortunately, he did... :o(
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Are the Prince of the hill and Anthony the same person?
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No, they are not...
^__^
When Candy meets the Prince, she is only six years old...
This meeting with her Prince will change everything. This will encourage her to go and live at the Leagan's, when noticing
the same coat of arms on the car of their servant coming to Pony's home in search of a "lady companion".
She
is 12 when she meets Anthony, who, if he had been her Prince, would
have grown up
and changed in the meantime, and consequently, would have looked like
his uncle Albert... Actually, Candy made that mistake by not realizing
that time had passed
and by also ignoring the family bond between Albert and Anthony. She
was only able to make the connection at the end... Just like we did!...
^__^
The
anime encourages us in this confusion because when Candy meets the
prince, she is not six but twelve years old, and then, she immediatley
goes at the Leagan's. This is why those who knew the anime at first
(like I did), got very confused by Albert's real identity.
We
suppose that there is an age gap of six/height years between Albert and
Candy. Anthony was two years older than Candy. He was even older than
Terry
though Terry looks older than him...
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Candy's address
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Who
knows, you might get an answer!... ^__^
This address appears in one of the first episodes, in which this latter
is desperately waiting for news from Annie who has been recently
adopted by the Brighton.
Miss Candy White
South Field
La Porte
Indiana
U.S.A.
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The death that Mizuki had imagined for Anthony and that was denied
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We
all know that Anthony dies in a tragic horse riding accident.
Kyoko Mizuki's original idea was very different. In fact, her first
thought wa sto make Anthony die of some illness, the excessive use of
pesticides
for his roses had to kill him little by little. And he was supposed,
one day, to fall and die into Candy's arms, in the middle of the rose
garden. But Kodansha, the publishu-ing company
denied this idea for an unknown reason. May be they wanted something
more symbolic, more violent, more unexpected...
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Terry's address !!! |
Terrence G. Grandchester
10 West 45th St. Broadway
New York
USA
You can try to write to him. May be he will anwer... ;o)
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Did merchandising influence Terry's removal after Saint Paul Academy? |
When
CC manga came out in Japan, its success, especially with little girls,
was so important that toys manufacturers put pressure on Kodansha, the
publisher, to limit Candy's love life...
Indeed, how can you sell toys to little girls if Candy's character
would grow up and become adult??? Thus, Kodansha insisted to the author
to move Terry away... This is why the manga ends with an open ending.
The manga just like the anime, ends with a single Candy, with her
little Klint as only companion
(at least in the anime!...)
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