Candy Boy


Candy☆Boy is an eight-minute original net animation produced by Anime International Company, and directed by Takafumi Hoshikawa. Since November 22, 2007, the ONA is available through streaming on the Cho! animelo audiovisual website and the Nico Nico Douga online video service. This was followed by a seven-episode series, with episodes being streamed between May 2, 2008, and May 8, 2009. Additional episodes were released on DVD, one with the DVD version of the single, "Bring Up Love" by Nayuta, and another released with volume 2 of the series. A spin-off manga series by Hiro Tōge was serialized in Media Factory's Comic Flapper magazine between November 2009 and December 2010, with another series, also by Tōge, distributed on mobile phones.
As a romantic school comedy setting, the story focuses on the budding romantic relationship between Kanade and Yukino Sakurai, twin sisters in their second year at an all-girls high school in Tokyo, and the conflict provided by freshman Sakuya Kamiyama's feelings towards Kanade.
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Plot

Yukino and Kanade Sakurai, twin sisters and natives from Hokkaido, move together to a student residence in Tokyo to attend high school leaving their younger sister, Shizuku "Shi-chan" alone with their parents. Sakuya Kamiyama, a first year student, seeks out and stalks Kanade, saying that she's in love with her and will do anything to be with her, she pays Yukino with candies in exchange of photos and personal stuff of her sister. Later, Kanade feels that the close relationship between Yukino and her is falling apart because of their lack of spending time due to her schoolwork and Yukino's part-time job.

Characters

Main characters

;Kanade Sakurai
;Yukino Sakurai
;Sakuya Kamiyama
;'''Shizuku Sakurai'''

Manga characters

Characters who appear in the two different manga series for the magazine and mobile reading manga service.
;Yuriko Takanashi
;Isako Mikanagi
;Eri Miyagi
;'''Masumi Kurasuma'''

Media

Anime

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

  • "Candy☆Boy"
  • * Lyricist: CHIHIRO
  • * Composer: CHIHIRO
  • * Arranger: Kono Keiuge
  • * Song: MEILIN
  • "Koi no Katachi"
  • * Lyricist: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Composer: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Arranger: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Song: KΛNΛ
  • "Bring up...LOVE"
  • * Lyricist: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Composer: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Arranger: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Song: NAYUTA
  • "ROMANCE"
  • * Lyricist: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Composer: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Arranger: Toshiro Yabuki
  • * Song: Sakurai Sisters
  • Additional background music was also used from the Nash Music Library

Manga

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.