Candy

Candy is an American-Canadian-Japanese animated Slice-of-life series created by DHX Media and Toei Animation for Gingo. The show revolves around a 17-year old girl named Candy and her adventures in Food City. Her and her siblings, Jelly and Fruity try to stop various bullies and villains.

The show was first seen as a concept by DHX Media Studios before getting a license from Gingo in 2016 and premiered on October 6, 2017 at 7 PM. It also airs on Disney Channel in Asia, The CW in France, Nicktoons in England, and Family Channel in Canada. and is still running at four seasons. With a motion picture announced by Universal Studios. New episodes air on Sunday (Friday and Saturday for the first 16 episodes).

Premise
The show revolves around a 17-year old Girl named Candy and her adventures in Food Land. A land made of food. She has two siblings. A brother named Jelly and a sister named Fruity. Each episode contains a villain named "Sour Mobs" and it's up to Candy to stop them.

Production
The show was first seen with screenshots of a child with white hair. Originally, she was named Pastry but was then later changed to Candy. Later, Pastry was used for a name for her boyfriend. The two character names were both copyrighted by Cookie Jar Entertainment and Toei Animation in 2011. Candy later had a show copyrighted in 2016 by the two studio and a pilot was made. Eventually the pilot was pitched to Fox. But the network rejected it for being "Too childish". Eventually, the show as picked by Gingo for a full time series. An English dub was produced by Gingo Animation.

Reception
The show met manly positive reception. With critics praising the show for it's Magical girl-like animation. But criticized the villains being too nice at times. The show was most popular among girls between the ages to 11 to 16.

Books
Candy has revived novels published by Random House from 2018 to 2020. With production being halted due to COVID-19.

Movie
Candy, while not has a film out, was announced by Universal Studios that the show would have a film by DHX Media and Toei Animation with Universal Feature Animation. The title was confirmed to be called "Candy and the Amazing Dream".

Video Games
Candy has two video games. A remake of the 2007 game "Gingo Adventures featuring DiC" for PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Xbox one and Nintendo 3DS and "Candy vs The Chocolate Kights" for the Nintendo Wii U.