Candy Candy (キャンディ・キャンディ) is a Japanese manga series created by Keiko Nagita under her penname Kyoko Mizuki. It first appeared in Kodansha Nakayoshi Comics in April 1975 with illustrations by Yumiko Igarashi and won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for the shoujo category in 1977. It gave an anime adaptation by Toei Animation that aired between 1976 to 1979, followed by three short films.
Candy is a very nice, warm-hearted and cheerful girl. Many people like her or love her because of her kind personality. When she was a little child, she lived in an orphanage. There she met a handsome mysterious boy on a hill behind her home. This "prince on the hill" becomes an important person in her life.... She lived in the orphanage until she is adopted by a very influential big clan. Candy is a very good friend of the teenagers Annie, Archie, Stear and Anthony. Though she and Terence love each other very much, she leaves him because another girl, who is hopelessly in love with him, needs him more. Finally she devotes herself to Albert, a handsome young man and a very good friend of her. (from Anime News Network)
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