Editing Candy Candy (section)

==Plot==
The ''Candy Candy'' manga provides a story for the shōjo demographic of young girls in early adolescence. Candy is an abandoned orphan taken in by Pony's Home, an orphanage near [[Lake Michigan]] around the start of the 20th century.<ref name="tv.com">{{cite web | url = http://www.tv.com/candy-candy/show/30404/summary.html | title = Candy Candy | publisher = TV.com | access-date = 2007-04-08 | archive-date = 24 August 2008 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20080824033611/http://www.tv.com/candy-candy/show/30404/summary.html | url-status = dead}}</ref> She spends the first years of her life at the orphanage, to where she would often return to repose and to decide the next course in her life. When Candy was 6 years old, Annie, her best friend at the orphanage, is adopted. Without her friend, Candy runs to Pony's Hill while crying. There she briefly meets a mysterious boy dressed in a Scottish kilt and carrying a bagpipe, who tells her she is more beautiful when she laughs. Candy retains fond memories of that boy. She remembers him as the "Prince on the Hill". After he disappears, Candy finds a badge left behind by the "Prince"; this becomes her happiness talisman later in life. 

When she turns 12, Candy is taken in by the Leagan family as a companion for their daughter Eliza. The Leagans treat her poorly and eventually make Candy a servant girl. While there, Candy also meets three boys: Anthony Brown, who looks exactly like the "Prince on the Hill", and the Cornwell brothers, the inventive Alistair and the flamboyant Archibald (Stair and Archie). They all become smitten with Candy and become friends. Candy has special feelings for Anthony, and he is her "first, innocent love". This does not go unnoticed by Eliza, who is also interested in Anthony, and she wants desperately to send Candy away. Both her and her brother Neil bully Candy at every opportunity. On one such an occasion, the two siblings plot against Candy, and she ends up being accused of stealing, causing her to run away. She wants to return to Pony's Home, but falls asleep inside a small boat and is in danger of falling off a waterfall. A mysterious bearded man who lives in a hut with animals saves her, introducing himself as Albert. Candy feels how kind this man is and he leaves a deep impression on her. Candy returns to the Leagans, and as a punishment for "stealing", she is sent away to work on their family farm in Mexico. Through the efforts of her friends, who write a letter to their rich Great Uncle William Ardlay, the head of the Ardlay clan, Candy is rescued when Great Uncle William allegedly adopts her. His true identity remains a mystery until the end of the story and the adoption is never confirmed but continuously disputed, especially amongst the members of the Ardlay family. 

During Candy's pseudo-adoption party, Anthony dies in a hunting accident when he was thrown off his horse. Candy is completely distraught and decides she wants to return to Pony's Home. Georges, the personal assistant to Great Uncle William, appears one day and asks Candy to come with him. Great Uncle William will be sending her, along with Archie, Stair and the Leagan siblings, to [[London]] to study at the prestigious St. Paul's College. It is here she meets and becomes attracted to Terrence (Terrius/Terry) Granchester, the illegitimate child of a British Duke and an American Broadway actress, Eleanor Baker. Candy sees him for the first time, crying, on New Year's Eve while both are aboard the boat to London. Terry is Candy's "second and passionate love that has to be broken".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://lakewood.srv7.biz/ |title=Srv7.biz 無料サーバーはサービスを終了しました |access-date=25 October 2009 |archive-date=22 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221222181735/http://lakewood.srv7.biz/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Circumstances divide the pair when Eliza Leagan schemes to have Candy expelled from St. Paul's by manipulating them into a scandal.

After the scandal, Terry leaves St. Paul's to protect Candy's reputation and pursue his aspiration to become a theatre actor. When Candy finds out, she also decides to leave the school in order to find her own path in life. She is hopeful she will meet Terry and Albert again as all characters embark on their individual life journeys in the United States. Candy is training to become a nurse in Chicago around the time of [[World War I]],<ref name="tv.com"/> and Terry is pursuing a career as a rising star actor in New York. Meanwhile, they find each other again and hope to resume their relationship, albeit only a long-distance one through letters. At the same time, an actress and colleague in his theatre troupe, Susanna, is attracted to Terry. She confesses her love to him one evening at the theatre, but Terry never tells her about Candy even though he had numerous opportunities to do so. Instead, Terry confesses to himself that he is also attracted to Susanna. Furthermore, rumors had been surfacing that Terry and Susanna were intimately involved as they were spending much time together during their rehearsals as "Romeo and Juliet". During a rehearsal, a stage light comes loose and before it falls on Terry, Susanna pushes him aside, but in the process she gets injured and eventually loses her leg. Susanna's mother blackmails Terry to marry Susanna, as he is the reason that her daughter's career is over. In the meantime, Susanna descends into depression and she attempts to commit suicide, feeling that as long as she is alive she will be a burden for both Candy and Terry. Candy winds up saving her from falling from the hospital roof, but Terry, feeling responsible, is torn between his love for Candy and his duty to stay by Susanna's side. Candy, upon seeing the desperate turmoil on Terry's face, decides to sacrifice her own happiness, and leaves Terry behind with Susanna. She returns to Chicago to continue her life. Terry, on the other hand, does not stop Candy from leaving but returns to Susanna, whom he is also attracted to. Besides, Terry had already decided to stay with Susanna and Candy eventually came to realize his intentions.

Before Candy and Terry broke up, Candy had become the nurse and caretaker of Albert, who by chance was brought to Chicago hospital suffering amnesia after a WWI bomb explosion on a train in Italy. After a while as a hospital patient, Candy decides to take Albert into her apartment in Magnolia House, to care for him and help him regain his memory. Albert is the one who comforts Candy when she returns severely depressed after her break up with Terry. Albert ultimately regains his memory, and briefly disappears, leading Candy once more to a broken Terry, who is acting at a travelling theatre stage in Rockstown. She returns home when she sees Terry regaining his old spark, supposedly having seen her in the audience. Candy continues her quest to try to find Albert but to no avail. Once back at Pony's Home, Neal Leagan, who has become infatuated with her, tries to force Candy to accept an engagement. Albert reappears and finally reveals his true identity to Candy; he is the "Great Uncle William". He stops the engagement with Neil, and at the end of the manga, Albert also reveals to Candy that he was the seventeen year old boy at the Hill that day she was crying; hence, her "Prince on the Hill". Candy runs with tears into his open arms.