Candy Candy manga in English
One of the most favorite memories of my childhood was Candy Candy. The famous manga written by Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi that was later made into a popular anime. Like most of Candy Candy fans, I knew first the anime and later read the manga. The manga was quite different from the anime, and it took me some time to understand that the manga was the original story and the anime was just a TV adaptation for children. The Greek manga which I read was based on the Italian one, and went beyond the original ending. At the time I couldn't know that the Italian continuation was not written by Mizuki. However, the ridiculous plot and the ugly drawings which had nothing to do with Igarashi's work gradually lessened my interest in the story, and so I dropped the manga without getting to the (supposed) end. For many years I forgot about Candy until a few years ago, when I accidentally came across a Greek forum containing information about the manga and the anime. I was enlighten...