Candy Candy 2001

Candy Candy was the more important shojo phenomenon in its time, it even surpassed in sales to some manga dedicated to the masculine public. It got to break records of sales, between the manga, books and merchandising. The anime series was reboadcasted worldwide, causing rage in countries like Italy and France. In Italy it arrived to such an extent that they made a continuation of the manga.

Part of its success is based on the message that the series has, in which the main character makes sample of a great force and braveness to face the adversities that the destiny presents, many desires to live and an immense patience towards them who make her life to be more difficult, and mainly hope. She is an orphaned girl far from the so habitual super heroes in whom the children identify themselves easily, this youngster girl is an example of joy to live, of honesty and kindness, also she has the great humor and good-natured, in additiona courage and a valour to surpass the bad plays of the destiny.

The creators of the manga were Yumiko Igarashi, who took charge of the drawings, and Kyoko Mizuki, who made the script. They were the result of the boom that happened in the 60's in Japan, where shojo began to be commercial and to be enough successful. The two demonstrated their worth to several publishers, until a day they meet each other and they decided to make the manga that projected to them towards a worldwide fame. The publication of the manga was and 1975 and consists of 9 volumes with a total of more than 3000 pages. They also did two artbooks of Candy

A year later Toei. Animation took the story to tv screen, the anime consisted of 115 episodes and it was until ´79 in antenna. Where Kyoko Mizuki, whose true name is Keiko Nagita, was in charge of the letters of the songs, Mitsuo Shindo became position of the designs and Takeo Watanabe of melodies of the songs. But the differences between the manga and anime are remarkable in spite of following the guidelines of the original authors of the manga, according to Kyoko Mizuki.

In 1992 the last Candy Candy OAV was for sale, it was also titled "Candy Candy", it lasts more or less half an hour and it's about the childhood of Candy in the Pony's Home. To this one they preceded two in 1978, the first one made in March was titled "Candy Candy Haru no Yobigoe", and it happened during the Saint Paul school when Candy goes to the spring festival. The second was made in July and it was called "Candy no Natsuyasumi", it occurs on the summer that Candy passed in Scotland next to Terry.

At the moment the authors of the manga maintain a legal conflict, that maintains paralyzed the merchandising of Candy Candy, therefore the permissions of emission in antenna too. The conflict began when Yumiko made sales using the image of Candy Candy without making contributor of the benefits to Kyoko, when the rights of author of Candy Candy are of the two to equal parts. So Kyoko interposed a demand to Yumiko , the judgment lasted three years, until in March of the 2000 judge he considered sentence in favor of Kyoko Mizuki, but Yumiko appealed and to the aim, the 25 of October the judge sentenced again in favor of Mizuki. Agreed with this Mizuki judgment the Co-creator of Candy Candy has been confirmed as and has the rights of copyright next to Igarashi. The desire of Mizuki is that Candy Candy is re-emitted again, but there will be a problem since Igarashi also is in judgment with TOEI. Animation, that has the rights of the videos of Candy Candy.