Candy Candy
1976
Original language: Japanese
- animation
- drama
- kids
The story
This story is about a girl, Candy, who is a orphan. She is a nice and optimistic girl and she has a warm heart. When she was a child, she lived in an orphanage called Pony's Home. She had a good friend called Ann. And she met the "handsome boy on the hill" who is a important person in her life, on the hill behind the orphanage. She was adopted by the Loka's family. What's awaiting her are the bad-hearted Leo and his sister, Eliza. One day, in the rose garden, she met a boy, who is identical to the "handsome boy on the hill" who she had met in her childhood. The boy is called Antony. Thereafter, a fantastic story that she has never expected begins.
What it’s like
Hand-drawn cel animation with soft pastel backgrounds, warm earthy browns, and wide, sun-washed meadows, the 1970s shoujo look that softens every edge. Rose gardens, stone orphanage walls, and grand Victorian-style manor interiors frame the story in gentle daylight, and dusk tends to arrive in amber and lilac. Characters have large, glistening eyes and flowers drifting across the frame at emotional beats, and the score leans on sweet, wistful melodies that swell into melodrama. The pace is leisurely across a long run of episodes, with plenty of room for quiet domestic scenes and friendships. The tone is sentimental and hopeful, with a current of sorrow: illness, loss, and a cruel rival family that bruise the cheerful heroine. Violence is minimal and nothing is graphic. The emotional weight comes from tearful goodbyes and cruelty rather than physical danger. It suits a rainy afternoon, a comfort rewatch, or a long evening alone with a warm drink, for viewers who love earnest romance and bittersweet, tender drama.
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