"Candy Candy" is one of the best anime of all times. I'm Belgian and I was watching this anime on French television as a kid. Only recently, I finished the 115 episodes as an adult and "Candy Candy" is still beautiful. The quality of pictures is amazing and the characters are well drawn. It depicts the story of Candy, a young orphan in the US at the end of the 19th and beginning of 20th century. It's a coming of age story and historical romance. I'm very nostalgic thinking of Candy, her triumph, passions and hardship. It's a beautiful tale about finding yourself, romantic love and friendship. Candy has to find herself even though she doesn't know where she comes from, being an orphan. On her way to womanhood, she will encounter many demons in the shape of her attempted adoptive brother and sister: Neil and Elisa. Ruth Lagan, their mother, is more like the evil stepmother from Cinderella. Candy has also a lot of friends who can be compared to angels, always watching over her: Annie, Archibald, Patricia, Alistair, Anthony, Miss Pony, Miss Maria, Terry and Albert aka William Andre. It seems that Candy doesn't have much luck in love with the death of her first love Anthony and the separation from Terry, the passionate love. However at the end, she finally meets Uncle William who is Albert and the prince of the Hill, she always longed for. She saw a resemblance of the prince of the Hill in Anthony and that's how she fell in love. Terry resembled Anthony in a way. Candy was therefore longing for the prince of The Hill in all her romantic relationships and it's only at the end of her journey that she uncovers the truth and meets him again. "Candy Candy" is a great anime and such quality isn't found anymore nowadays. It deals with such deep issues and brings the spectator to intense moments of sentimentality and nostalgia through the story and the music playing in the background. I really hope this anime will be shown again. It doesn't age and resonates through all generations.
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