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Candy Candy (1976)

Series · 25m episodes · In Japanese

Animation, Anime, Drama, Family, Foreign (non-English)

An optimistic orphan with a warm heart navigates melancholy and heartwarming moments at Pony's Home.

Earnest and nostalgic. A family watch at a measured pace. Emotionally it is heavy.

Not on a US subscription service as of Oct 26, 2026.

Candy Candy parents guide

There is no US rating to lean on. What we tagged stays mild: no real violence and no gore.

Scare
Not scary
Jump scares
None noted
Gore
No gore
Violence
No real violence
Sex and nudity
None flagged
It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.
Language
None flagged
It has no US rating to check against, so treat our zero as unconfirmed.

How we rate: an AI reads what is known about each title and tags it 0 to 3; we check the tags against a hand-rated set and correct them by hand when readers tell us. Estimates, not a scene-by-scene review. Spot a mistake? Tell us.

What is Candy Candy about?

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.

Cast and crew

Created byKyoko Mizuki
StarringMinori Matsushima, Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kaneta Kimotsuki, Yuji Mitsuya

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