Candy Candy Complete Series

 This is a 12 dvd-r set of the complete anime series Candy
Candy. Japanese language w/English, Spanish, and Korean subs. No
artwork and discs come in plain dvd envelopes. Paypal, money
orders, and checks accepted.
 
The Candy Candy manga is a "slice of life story" in the
ShÅjo genre. While the protagonist experiences love in the
series (and one significant love in the words of the author Keiko
Nagita/Kyoko Mizuki in the essays found on Misaki's website




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"the great love that cannot bear fruit"), 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 anymore 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 neighbouring 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.