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Candy Candy #7

Candy Candy, Vol. 7

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245 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1991

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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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344 reviews64 followers
July 15, 2019
"Mientras vivamos, nuestros caminos acabarán cruzándose".


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Tengo el corazón hecho pedacitos💔😭, éste volumen sin duda ha sido el más difícil de leer, recuerdo que de niña odie que pasara esto en el anime sin entender muy bien, y ahora de adulta lo sigo odiando y más porque comprendo las circunstancias que están pasando.

Todas las personas que vimos el anime sabemos perfecto quien es Susana Marlow y todo lo que desencadena su relación con Terry, como al salvarle la vida se ve obligado a elegir a Susana y dejar a Candy que era a la que amaba.

No se si la autora quería quitar a Terry del camino de Candy y decidió que esto era lo mejor para sus personajes, que fueran infelices, porque tanto Susana, Terry y Candy lo son.

Susana porque sabe que Terry la elige por remordimiento y chantaje tanto de ella como de su madre, y no porque la ame, y eso al final tampoco la hará feliz, Terry decide quedarse con Susana como una forma de "pagarle" por salvarle la vida y dejar a la persona que realmente ama que es Candy, y así calmar un poco sus remordimientos y culpa, y Candy decide hacerse a un lado porque piensa que Susana ama más a Terry que ella por querer quitarse la vida para dejarle el camino libre, y eso NO es amor.

Y al final los 3 sufrirán por esa decisión, y aunque Candy es feliz al final, me molesta que el personaje de Terry terminé así, atándose con una persona que no ama y sólo con el recuerdo de quién realmente amo.💔
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391 reviews9 followers
January 24, 2016
Perang yg terjadi membayangi Candy dan teman temannya di sekolah perawat. Fanny teman satu kamar Candy terpilih sebagai kandidat perawat korban perang.

Satu hari, rumah sakit Chicago tempat Candy bertugas sebagai calon perawat menerima pasien perang yg tidak sadarkan diri. Pasien ini dinyatakan sebagai mata mata musuh. Candy mengenali pasien ini sebagai Albert karena wajah dan hewan yg ada disampingnya. Karena statusnya yg tidak jelas, Albert ditempatkan dikamar yg tak layak dan hanya Candy yg merawat Albert. Saat siuman Albert tak dapat mengingat siap dirinya dan juga Candy. Agar dapat merawat Albert dengan semestinya Candy mengikuti ujian perawat dan akhirnya lulus.

Albert melarikan diri dari rumah sakit karena tahu kalau dirinya tidak dilayani dan diabaikan disana dan tidak ingin Candy mengalami kesusahan karena dirinya. Setelah menemukan Albert, Candy berusaha menyakinkan Albert kalau Candy kenal dan tahu kebiasaan Albert. Bahkan Albert adalah penyelamat dan pemberi semangat Candy, dan Candy ingin membalas kebaikan Albert selama ini dengan cara mengurus Albert dan meminta Albert menjadi seorangkakak bagi Candy. Dan Albert akhirnya bersedia tinggal bersama Candy.

Tak berapa lama Terry mengundang Candy untuk menonton pertunjukannya di Broadway. Dengan diantar Stea di kereta api Candy berangkat tanpa mengetahui kehilangan yg akan dialaminya.

Setiba di Broadway, Candy akhirnya mengetahui situasi yg sedang dialami oleh Terry. Candy dan Terry sadar bahwa cinta mereka tidak dapat bersatu. Terry harus bertanggung jawab terhadap Suzanna Marlow akibat kecelakaan yg membuat Suzana kehilangan kedua kakinya. Dan Candy rela mengorbankan perasaannya melepaskan Terry untuk Suzana.
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942 reviews205 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. 7
Author Kyoko Mizuk & Yumiko Igarashi
Reviewed By Purplycookie
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1,288 reviews6 followers
April 14, 2018
C’est un coup de cœur pour ce septième tome. J’aime l’atmosphère qui y est instaurée, les relations entre les personnages sont touchantes et j’ai pris énormément de plaisir à le lire. Une chose est sûre, je n’attendrai pas pour dévorer le prochain.
https://psylook.kimengumi.fr/2018/04/...
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41 reviews
December 9, 2023
“Mientras vivamos, nuestros corazones terminarán cruzándose” 😿

Es tan doloroso entender por qué Candy, Susana y Terry toman esta decisión… Dios mío. A veces desearía que Candy fuera más egoísta pero esa no sería ella en lo absoluto, la abrazo desde otro plano y realidad.
79 reviews2 followers
December 9, 2020
Duele que la relación de Terry y Candy haya terminado de esa manera...
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103 reviews3 followers
January 9, 2021
Odio todo nadie me hable odio todo
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69 reviews
July 23, 2024
:( Candy y Terry toman la decisión de no estar juntos
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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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68 reviews6 followers
August 18, 2018
Candy candy is a classic romance. Slow but so intense. The moral that leave me thinking and the end that leave me depressed
However I -myself-even ever think that it's a real story. The vivid and logical (and dramatic) story line get me interested in life of 1900 people
The characters tell all the side of humans, Love, doubt, gentle, rebel, angry, depress, etc. The story is somehow tragic too... but in a really lovable way
here's my full review
http://jessillesille.blogspot.com/201...
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128 reviews1 follower
November 24, 2016
Candy merawat Albert yang hilang ingatan. Terry telah menjadi seorang aktor. Ada seorang aktris cantik bernama Suzanna yang mencintai Terry. Pada suatu ketika, saat latihan, Terry nyaris kecelakaan, tapi Suzanna menolongnya hingga kehilangan kakinya. Akhirnya Terry merasa bertanggung jawab atas kecelakaan yang menimpa Suzanna. Ia memilih mengakhiri hubungannya dengan Candy, lalu terpaksa memilih Suzanna.
Pada vol. 7 ini, terdapat cerita seru. Di suatu tempat, Neil diganggu oleh preman. Candy yang melihat hal itu segera menolong Neil..
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Author 6 books384 followers
October 15, 2024
Το τεύχος που μας ράγισε την καρδιά όσο κανένα άλλο... το τεύχος που η Candy και ο Terry θα μπορούσαν να είναι μαζί και η μοίρα τα έφερε έτσι ώστε να χωρίσουν για πάντα. Το τεύχος που μας έκανε να πενθήσουμε τότε και να πενθούμε ακόμα και σήμερα όποτε το σκεφτόμαστε.
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174 reviews5 followers
February 3, 2016
Ya amplop, komplit banget feeling di jilid ketujuh ini. Kemunculan Albert yang amnesia dan luka-luka akibat perang, perjumpaan kembali antara Terry dan Candy yang menghanyutkan sampai klimaks cerita yang menyedihkan.

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36 reviews
January 28, 2013
Ceritanya paling nyedihin karena hrus pisah dengan Terry
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