Candy Boy
Twin sisters navigate love and jealousy at an all-girls school.
Candy☆Boy is an eight-minute original net animation from Anime International Company, directed by Takafumi Hoshikawa. It began streaming on November 22, 2007, via Cho! animelo and Nico Nico Douga. A seven-episode series followed, streaming from May 2, 2008, to May 8, 2009. This romantic school comedy centers on twin sisters Kanade and Yukino Sakurai, second-year students at a Tokyo all-girls high school, as their close bond develops into a romantic relationship. Freshman Sakuya Kamiyama complicates things with her obsessive crush on Kanade, offering Yukino candy in exchange for photos and personal items of her sister.
Quick Facts
- Genre
- Romantic comedy, yuri
Facts from the source article.
Plot
Yukino and Kanade Sakurai are twin sisters from Hokkaido who move to a Tokyo student residence for high school, leaving their younger sister Shizuku with their parents. A first-year student named Sakuya Kamiyama develops an obsessive crush on Kanade, stalking her and bribing Yukino with candy in exchange for photos and personal items of her sister. Kanade later worries that her close bond with Yukino is weakening because of her own schoolwork and Yukino's part-time job.
Characters
Kanade Sakurai is the younger twin, although generally considered more mature than her sister. She is also somewhat easy to ruffle emotionally, especially by Yukino. She often worries that Yukino is sacrificing herself for her benefit. Kanade is an artist and wants to pursue art studies, however, she understands that it would be difficult to pursue a career in the field and maintain a close relationship with Yukino. Yukino Sakurai is the older twin. She likes snacks and often trades photos of Kanade to Sakuya for them. She is a member of their school's swim team and writes a daily blog about her life. She cares deeply for Kanade and will support her in any way she can. Sakuya Kamiyama is an extremely wealthy freshman who has an obsessive crush on Kanade. She is prone to stealing Kanade's things for her collection. Despite her overwhelming presence, the twins seem to like her as a friend. Shizuku Sakurai is Kanade and Yukino's younger sister who attends middle school, nicknamed Shi-chan. She hates being apart from her sisters. She is a lot more level-headed than her older sisters. She is deeply affected by the actions of Yukino, who she seems to care about more than Kanade. Unlike her sisters, she buries all her emotions deep down without expressing them but they later resurface in various ways, such as her skipping school. Manga characters include Yuriko Takanashi, Kanade's short-haired classmate nicknamed Yuripe, whose parents own a restaurant and she is quite good at cooking, and she generally tells off Kanade for her perverted thoughts about Yukino. Isako Mikanagi is Sakuya's classmate and self-proclaimed rival in love for Kanade's affection, however she secretly loves Sakuya, a fact which is obvious to their other classmates. Eri Miyagi is Sakuya's classmate and Sakuya and Isako's friend who comes from a white collar family, close friends with Masumi and more perceptive of Isako's love for Sakuya than Masumi. Masumi Kurasuma is Sakuya's classmate and Sakuya and Isako's friend who helps out with sports clubs as a substitute player or practice partner, close friends with Eri but not as perceptive as Eri is in reading the romantic moments Isako has for Sakuya.
Media
On December 5, 2007, Candy Boy was released on DVD along with the limited edition of Korean artist Meilin's Candy Boy CD single. This is the first release from a project called Anime 2.0, in which a single is sold accompanied by an OVA. A follow-up seven-episode series began streaming on May 2, 2008. The first DVD volume of this new series was released on December 10, 2008. A single by Nayuta called Bring up Love was released on August 13, 2008, the DVD edition of which contains the first EX episode of the series. The second DVD volume was released on June 24, 2009, containing another episode. Music includes "Candy☆Boy" (Original ONA) by MEILIN, "Koi no Katachi" (ED of Episodes 1, 3, EX01, EX02; Episode 2 Interlude) by KΛNΛ, "Bring up...LOVE" (Episode 4, 5, 6 ED) by NAYUTA, and "ROMANCE" (Episode 7 ED) by Sakurai Sisters (Hitomi Tenme and Ryoka Yuzuki). Additional background music was also used from the Nash Music Library. A manga adaptation of the series by Hiro Tōge began serialization in the seinen manga magazine Comic Flapper on November 5, 2009. A spin-off manga also by Tōge, titled Candy Boy 〜Young girls fall in love!〜, follows the lives of Sakuya and her classmates behind the scenes of the main story, was distributed on Flapper Mobile alongside the main story release. Both series were compiled into two tankōbon volumes, released on June 23, 2010, and December 22, 2010, respectively.
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