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.
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