Guess what?
Before I elaborate further, read the following passages:
“Somehow, it seems like I was mesmerized by your marvelous eyes.”
“If you were going to be this busy, it would’ve been better for you not to reveal yourself, isn’t it, “Little Bert”?”
If you read my letter 2 rambling, you know that I think Albert is courting Candy through their correspondence. How long do you think their courtship lasts? Going back to the final scene of the manga, we see Albert presenting … Continue reading
Here you go, the first update. A short rambling on our favorite subject. Umm… Okay, maybe that’s not completely true. To some of you, this may be a brand new article you’ve never read before, but to some of you, … Continue reading
Happy weekend everyone!
Finally, there’s no more issue with login and registration for Reverie reported.
Yay!!!
You know what that means? We can go back to the fun stuff.
Yay!!!
Sorry for the spill of enthusiasm there. But I’m just happy everything seems to be in perfect order.
And…
I have a treat for you. A real update this time.
Yep. Letter 2 has been posted and can be found here. It’s a short one, so I was able to finish working on it within a day.
In addition, I also did some minor editing and refinement on letter 1 and 10. Plus I replaced the images with the correct ones for Letter 1.
Letter 1, if you haven’t read it yet, picks up right after the final scene in the manga. Well, I’m using the words right after very loosely here, since the actual timing when Candy wrote the first letter is unknown–yet from the content, I can tell it must have happened not too long after Albert’s POTH revelation on Pony Hill since the letter is pretty much filled with her candid thoughts and profound feelings about that, something that manga readers can only entertain a guess upon. Perhaps she wrote it the night after the revelation?
As for letter 2… Let me say that once again it includes more details (of which I wasn’t aware previously) pertaining to the scene at the end of the manga. The main context of this letter is Albert’s reply to Candy. He answers all her questions (and the readers’ as well) and more.
Apparently, our debonair hero decided to pull off one last runaway stint… Well, sort of…
And he’s insecure and also jealous? Hmmm… 😕
😀
Hello everyone,
I don’t have much time now as it’s my bedtime and tomorrow is the usual workday. And I’m half asleep while I’m typing this. (So please pardon any mistake in advance)
But I decided to sneak in bearing more treat for you before I turn in for the night 😀
Another update in less than a week?
Yep. I feel bad for the severe lack of updates. So you could take this as a compensation.
It took me a while to finish translating this particular letter. And that was simply because I had no time. If that hadn’t be the case, I would’ve been able to translate more letter.
I know I didn’t do the translation in the right order. But I will in the next update, starting with letter 2 and so on. As for letter 11 and a portion of letter 10, they were already translated a while back to be included in the manga rambling post.
Anyway…
Letter 10. A very engaging letter I must say. A long one that contains a lot of interesting details.
Did you know that the Andrews weren’t ‘actually’ of noble blood?
And Albert was quite bitter… very bitter–poor man…
But he certainly was smooth in the end when he asked Candy to come with him on a trip 😀
Well, those are some of the details revealed in the letter. I’ll write a separate post to talk more about this.
In the mean time, enjoy reading it–but you can ignore the images as I haven’t uploaded the correct ones (and there’s no note). I’ll do that and add the notes once I have more time.
PS – Shortly, I’ll send the password through email to those who had requested it.
I don’t know how many times I’ve chanced upon comments about readers expressing their disappointments over the ending of the Candy Candy manga.
“That’s it? Where’s the happy ending?”
“Oh well, Candy Candy is not really centered around romance, so it makes sense when…”
“The main plot is about growing up, about overcoming adversity, about never giving up.”
“While there’s a bit of romance, the actual message is…”
And so on and so forth.
So the argument here is that Candy Candy is not a romance story, and supposedly that’s propagated by the less-than-satisfying ending, an ending that many claim as open and ambiguous.
However…
If the main theme is NOT romance, then shouldn’t it end on a much subdued note and the last panel appear like this?
Where Candy is by herself, reminiscing over the past and sighing in gratefulness for everything she has experienced. And now she’s ready to face tomorrow, whatever tomorrow might bring. Wiping her tears, she smiles wistfully at the sky before her lips stretch wider and wider into a hopeful grin. The end.
BUT…
We all know it doesn’t end like that. It ends on a high note. She doesn’t end up alone. Someone is there with her. Albert. A man who has been her everything. Her friend, her knight, and her prince.
That sounds like the perfect ending of a true, classic romance novel to me, don’t you think?
So why some people still insist Candy Candy is not a romance story, the ending is unclear and not final, and Albert is not the male protagonist?
Beautiful Illusion 