Update 25 Jan 2025
Five of my blog posts in this blog have been moved to "draft" because I used unlicensed manga images with English translations. Well, to make these posts appear again, I have to delete those manga images. Sorry guys, I don't have time to look for images right now, so I have five pages with no manga images... but at leat you can still read the post again now.
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I’ve recapped the summary of a Japanese blog about Anohito last weekend (I nicknamed the author as "Nee-chan"). It’s a rather long post, so I better make a more simplified recap of Anohito facts and analyses. I will also present an interesting epiphany I obtained from listening to Candy Candy end theme (“Ashita ga suki”), the lyrics of which were written by Mizuki Kyoko (a.k.a Nagita Keiko) herself.
In
recapping the analyses of Anohito, I use Nee-chan’s blog posts and also Scottie’s post. To be fair(er) to
pro-Albert fans, I’ll refrain from talking about two main events in the Candy
Candy the Final Story, i.e. Susanna Marlowe’s
death and Terry’s letter to
Candy
afterwards. I will not analyse Candy’s unsent email
to Terry,
because, assuming that Candy later fell in love with Albert, that letter, and
Terry’s letter to Candy post-Susanna’s death, became a moot point. However, if Candy
later fell in love with Albert, I don’t think that Candy would not reply to
Terry’s letter, as Bequi claimed. I think Candy would
still write to Terry, but she would inform the poor man that her heart now
belonged to someone else…
I will
also exclude the last few letters between Albert and Candy in the Epilogue of CCFS, because as
I said in my previous post, the nature of those
letters is such that those letters had to be exchanged immediately after Candy
learned that Albert also the Prince of the Hill. Thus, those letters cannot be
the chronological epilogue, as Scottie rightly argued. Those letters should be
placed way earlier in the chronology. Regarding a letter from Candy to Albert where she was thinking of returning her own diary back to Albert for safe keep, I still think that the letter is also not part of the chronological epilogue. The tone of her letter (p. 322 Japanese ver.) makes me think that her heartbreak (because of the separation with Terry) wasn't truly healed yet, hence she wanted Albert to keep her diary once more. She did say that she was happy, but the tone denies that ("At this time, the diary that you have returned to me is with me. But I have not opened it."). You can read the translation at CT Forum, but you need to register first (contact Nila for registration).
