Comments on: Candy Boy

By: Tangent

Tangent — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:38:56 +0000

I didn’t notice their surname with the streaming video. And to be honest, I looked up the series on Wikipedia before finishing the first episode I watched (Episode 5). I was sharing it with Steve Anderson because of the bizarre dream sequence and looking it up on Wikipedia while letting the embarrassment quotient subside when I learned they’re sisters.

But if I went into the full story, that review would have been more rambling and less coherent and taken twice as long to tell, so I cut out bits. ^^;;

By: Bo Lindbergh

Bo Lindbergh — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:29:54 +0000

It would not be until I read the Wikipedia article on Candy Boy that I learned that our couple? They’re twin sisters.

The two of them having the same family name didn’t clue you in?

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Wed, 13 May 2009 14:17:25 +0000

Good choice in anime. I’ve been watching Candy Boy ever since the original ONA episode came out, or what the fans now call Episode 0. It’s a well-drawn and well-animated little series of short episodes, with very nicely done characters.

Sakuya kind of freaked me out at first with her stalkerish photo collection (not to mention her ability to get portrait-sized pictures from cell-phone cameras), but I found myself liking her as time went by. Obviously she’s the third wheel in this relationship, and she’s never going to have much success in splitting up a couple as close as the twins, but she’s not really TRYING to interfere with their relationship. She just loves Kana, and it trying to get close to her. It’s an important distinction, I think, because there’s no malice involved. Sakuya is a GOOD person. Creepy, but good all the same.

I like this series a lot. I’m glad to see you do too.