Should you watch Candy Candy?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.

Candy Candy
Anime · 1976
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.
The sides of Candy Candy
- An orphan girl from Pony's Home
- A cruel adoptive family
- A boy met on the hill behind the orphanage
Candy Candy is good for you if…
- you like a story that makes you cry over Candy's losses.
- you like a girl looking for the boy she met as a child.
- you like following an orphan who stays cheerful as she grows up.
Candy Candy is bad for you if…
- you don't watch anime.
- you find 1970s animation dated.
About: loss · hope · first love
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