Six years later, a petition/fan website called Candy Candy Reborn created by Vic Isono was published in November 28, 2008, set a goal on Go Petition to collect 1,000 signatures because she needed the voices of overseas fans to impact on the Japanese Government Agency. Unfortunately she got 700 in one and half years and will be closing it down as of March 31, 2011 (though she originally intended to close it on August 31, 2010 due to a kind-heared fan that sent her some translated text).
And if you think Mizuki is the one opposed of re-releasing the Candy Candy Anime, you are sadly mistaken. She had never forbid broadcast of the anime and stated that "she wishes the anime will be re-released, especially for overseas fans. She also stated that "The Anime is TOEI's works. Our consent is indispensable to re-broadcast but we not power to compel TOEI to re-release." TOEI also said the CC brand is mud and it is impossible for them to sell muddy Candy Candy, and they suspended the brand until Igarashi stops her criminal act and apologizes to Mizuki. But, she still refuses to apologize to them, and her partner company sold the anime DVD without TOEI's permission they have since broke their relationships off practically. As for the manga? In 2006 Kodansha said to a japanese journalist that "Igarashi swindled Mizuki. Unless she admitted her sin and apologized to Mizuki, Candy business will not be broken the deadlock." Thus it is too difficult to restore their relations.
Next my response.
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Latest Developments and Outlook
Latest Developments
At the time Anime News Network reported the feud between the two creators (witch I got most of the information in my last post), a toy manufacturer Saitama Prefecture (based in Misato City) sued two Tokyo Companies that manging the manga's rights. The manufacturer stated that the two companies commission new Candy Candy jigsaw puzzles without Mizuki's permission putting them in danger of Mizuki could pull out of production and sales at anytime. Saitama arguing that they were unable to sell the puzzles, sued for 11 million yen to make up for the massive overstock and lost profit.
In September 10, 2003 the Tokyo High Court ruled in favor of the toy company forcing the two others to pay over 7.8 million yen. The Candy Candy puzzles remain of the shelves in Japan, hitting the customers with another roadblock between themselves and the merchandise.
Outlook
It's seen that the ongoing legal battles are preventing any revival of the franchise. Although when ANN (Anime News Network) reported the article about it, a recent decision from the Supreme Court confirmed that Kyoto Mizuki is the author of the original novel suggested that she can publish it without Yumiko Igarashi's permission and possesses the authority to give any illustrator permission to draw new manga, and Toei Animation is free to produce new anime.
In 1992, Kodansha gave Mizuki a chance to remake the manga and Toei commissioned her to write the scripts several years before that, nothing was tangible in those two offers. In one of her post's in her Little Window BBS website she stated on Wednesday June 5, 2002 " I have a vague plan for the future...The foundation of the story is nearly complete, some editors have shows deep interests in the plan...The only anxiety was the course of the lawsuit, but now I've made up my mind to proceed without restraint..."
16 months later there no visible progress is of it, and it's series commercial value and complexity of the issues prevent any merchandises to hit shelves in the near future. Candy Candy has also have a history of having a difficult managing in licensing, but still fans (old and new) find ways to satisfy their sweet tooth.
At the time Anime News Network reported the feud between the two creators (witch I got most of the information in my last post), a toy manufacturer Saitama Prefecture (based in Misato City) sued two Tokyo Companies that manging the manga's rights. The manufacturer stated that the two companies commission new Candy Candy jigsaw puzzles without Mizuki's permission putting them in danger of Mizuki could pull out of production and sales at anytime. Saitama arguing that they were unable to sell the puzzles, sued for 11 million yen to make up for the massive overstock and lost profit.
In September 10, 2003 the Tokyo High Court ruled in favor of the toy company forcing the two others to pay over 7.8 million yen. The Candy Candy puzzles remain of the shelves in Japan, hitting the customers with another roadblock between themselves and the merchandise.
Outlook
It's seen that the ongoing legal battles are preventing any revival of the franchise. Although when ANN (Anime News Network) reported the article about it, a recent decision from the Supreme Court confirmed that Kyoto Mizuki is the author of the original novel suggested that she can publish it without Yumiko Igarashi's permission and possesses the authority to give any illustrator permission to draw new manga, and Toei Animation is free to produce new anime.
In 1992, Kodansha gave Mizuki a chance to remake the manga and Toei commissioned her to write the scripts several years before that, nothing was tangible in those two offers. In one of her post's in her Little Window BBS website she stated on Wednesday June 5, 2002 " I have a vague plan for the future...The foundation of the story is nearly complete, some editors have shows deep interests in the plan...The only anxiety was the course of the lawsuit, but now I've made up my mind to proceed without restraint..."
16 months later there no visible progress is of it, and it's series commercial value and complexity of the issues prevent any merchandises to hit shelves in the near future. Candy Candy has also have a history of having a difficult managing in licensing, but still fans (old and new) find ways to satisfy their sweet tooth.
Around the same time ANN did this article, a fansite "Candy Candy Reborn" maintain by ITOMARU (a.k.a Vic Isono), post that same fan message in detail translated by Cotton Candy (if anyone knows her real name please e-mail.me) on Sunday April 28, 2002. You can read the entire message through this link. http://sekichiku.freehosting.net/cc/message01.htm.
Monday, June 7, 2010
Popluarly and the Copyright Infringement Nightmare
Following in the years of the Manga serialization and the broadcast of the Anime, Candy Candy became the most popular series of it's time. In fact, the reason of this is not because of it's historical setting, but the first in the slice of life genre that rivals other titles of this type like Air, Kanon, Clannad, Strawberry Marshmallow and Doki Doki School Hours to this day. The series has been translated into several languages internationally in the early and mid 1980's, in Europe, Southeast Asia, Africa and Latin Amercia.
However, in the late 1998, Igarashi filed lawsuit against Mizuki for exclusive for the series(even though Yumiko did merchandising without Mizuki and Toei Animation's approval). During the court battle Mizuki stated that she is the primary owner of the entire series, but Igarashi argued back that she said she didn't need Mizuki permission to sell merchandise of Candy Candy.
In Feburary 1999, The Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of Kyoto Mizuki of two precedents,
they both shared equal copyrights and Igarashi must obtain Mizuki permission when using Candy Candy. The case was settled in Tokyo High Court and Supreme Court of Japan in March 2000 and October 2001.
One year after the case was settled Igarashi sued Toei Animation for copyright of the TV series. To avoid cultivating mistrust other Mangaka and the continued circulation of the now-"illegal" Candy Candy material, Toei freeze broadcast of the series.
In the final stages of the conflict Kyoto Mizuki won another lawsuit against Yumiko Igarashi and the five companies that merchandise the series, and on May 30th Judge Mimura Ryoichi rewarded 29,500,000 yen for fixing 3% of the franchise.
Next I'll be covering the series reestablishment, my response and what can you do to help revive this series.
However, in the late 1998, Igarashi filed lawsuit against Mizuki for exclusive for the series(even though Yumiko did merchandising without Mizuki and Toei Animation's approval). During the court battle Mizuki stated that she is the primary owner of the entire series, but Igarashi argued back that she said she didn't need Mizuki permission to sell merchandise of Candy Candy.
In Feburary 1999, The Tokyo District Court ruled in favor of Kyoto Mizuki of two precedents,
they both shared equal copyrights and Igarashi must obtain Mizuki permission when using Candy Candy. The case was settled in Tokyo High Court and Supreme Court of Japan in March 2000 and October 2001.
One year after the case was settled Igarashi sued Toei Animation for copyright of the TV series. To avoid cultivating mistrust other Mangaka and the continued circulation of the now-"illegal" Candy Candy material, Toei freeze broadcast of the series.
In the final stages of the conflict Kyoto Mizuki won another lawsuit against Yumiko Igarashi and the five companies that merchandise the series, and on May 30th Judge Mimura Ryoichi rewarded 29,500,000 yen for fixing 3% of the franchise.
Next I'll be covering the series reestablishment, my response and what can you do to help revive this series.
Monday, May 24, 2010
About Candy Candy
Before I start the series bio, I'm posting two images of Candy (her manga and anime pics) just to get an idea of what the series look like. Note these images are copyrighted to their owners.
About the series
Candy Candy is about an Amercian blonde, long, curly haired girl with pig tails held up by bows (and aslo has freckles and emeraled eyes) named Candice "Candy" White Ardlay. She is a very nice, warm-hearted and a cheerful girl who meets a handsome mysterious boy at a hill behind her home and becomes the very important person in her life. When she was little she was raised at a orphanage until she was adopted by a big and an influential clan as a teenager. She becomes good friends with four other teenagers in the village she now lives in. They are Annie, Archie, Stear and Anthony, she develops a relationship with Terence but later he leaves her for a different girl and eventually devotes her life to Albert an handsome and a good friend to Candy.
Series Delevopment
Like I said Candy Candy was created by Kyoko Mizuki and Yumiko Igarashi (in my earlier post). The series began as a prose novel by Kyoko Mizuki and later team up with manga artist Yumiko Igarashi to be published in 1975. The manga was serialized from April 1975 to March 1979 on the Nakayoshi magazine published by Kodansha and Chuokoronsha, and there were nine volumes in compiled books. It was the first to won the first Kodansha award for shojo in 1977.
The series was also adapted into a Anime, Toei Animation is the studio that did production for the anime (TV and Movies) and aired on TV Asahi . The TV series ran from October 1, 1978 to February 2, 1979, it lasted for 115 eposdies. There were also two movies, the first Call of Spring/May Festival was released on March 18, 1978 and the second Candy Candy's Summer Vacation was release on July 22, 1978. The remake film was released on April 25, 1992 but there is more movies in the anime series, but they never got released internationally.
I decided not to profile the series popularly as you find out in this next post.
Monday, May 17, 2010
Welcome fans
As you can see, this is a fan blog about the famous/old school Manga/Anime title Candy Candy. In the next few posts, I will profile the series, the creators ,the feud between the two of the main creators about the series copyright infringement and it's affect it has on the fan community.
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