Manga image, colored by Letita

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12 Responses

  1. CKati says:

    oh, this is so sweet and beautifully colored!

  2. Antlay says:

    Bonsoir Ms Puddle

    Tout d’abord félicitation à Letita pour avoir colorié cette scène du manga.
    Eh bien Ms Puddle vous me surprenez une fois de plus, je n’avais pas fait le rapprochement entre la scène sur la couverture du premier tome et celle dans le dernier. C’est éloquent.
    Quant aux fils invisibles, je pense à mon avis que Candy en a parlé après la confession d’Albert, car à partir de ce moment là, elle a réalisé qu’elle avait rencontré Albert pour la première fois à l’age de 6 ans et non pas à l’age d’environ 12 ans quand il a sauvé de la noyade.
    Entre la chaîne de fleurs et les fils invisbles, oui ils étaient liés l’un à l’autre, une ronde éternelle…

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Bonjour Antlay! Yes Letita is great at coloring, and this one is amazing!

      About the connection of this manga cover image and the other one near the end of the manga, I happened to notice that just recently! 😉

      About invisible threads, I’m writing a new post on that actually, so I won’t repeat myself here. Have a nice weekend!

  3. SweetCandyAndley says:

    Wow, wow, wow!!!! I am still astonished about this revelation!!! I was looking at this picture the day before yesterday, and I got a glimpse of a thought. That was when I saw your drawing and left my message. Now I understand what you meant about writing in another post. (Of course, someone had already said this in another comment!!!) But now what I really want to say is that this is enough evidence provided since the begining of the manga about the end of it. Circle! Remember? The story starts where it ends! Who is ANOHITO after all?

    Please, please keep writing!!!

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Hola SweetCandyAndley!

      I felt the same when I paid more attention to this manga drawing. I mean it wasn’t the first time I saw it, and I remember thinking this must be little Candy’s fantasy of her prince spending time with her. However, lately, when I compared various official drawings of Prince on the Hill by Igarashi, I astonishingly realized that in this picture, little Candy was making a flower chain for her prince on Pony’s Hill. Instantaneously, the scene in the manga in which Candy was happily making a long flower chain for Albert popped up in my head.

      Like you, I don’t think it was a coincidence. Igarashi knew right at the beginning who would be THE ONE… the only male character who had ever come to Pony’s Hill (Candy’s favorite refuge). Yes, it’s a circle indeed.

  4. Agnès says:

    Bonjour Chère Ms Puddle,

    Je ne suis pas surprise du succès de vos dessins, c’est bien mérité car ils sont magnifiques de plus, vous savez restituer l’émotion, notamment dans les yeux des personnages. Quant à cette image, elle rappelle effectivement une certaine « Afternoon nap » ! La même situation à environ onze ans d’intervalle, quel clin d’œil ! 😉 🙂

    Au sujet de la première rencontre entre Albert et « Cry-baby Candy », c’était la rencontre entre deux âmes boulversées. Albert a dû se sentir connecté avec la douleur de cette petite fille puisqu’il a compris qu’elle était venue sur cette colline pour déverser ses larmes à l’abri du regard de ses proches. En fait, ils avaient tous deux perdu une sœur (le décès récent de la sœur d’Albert et le rejet d’Annie dans sa lettre pour Candy) et tous deux étaient orphelins. Même si aucun d’eux ne savait alors l’histoire de l’autre, Albert s’est rendu compte que sa souffrance était sincère, authentique et que ce n’était pas des larmes juste dues à un caprice enfantin. Comment pouvait-il donc passer son chemin ? Impossible pour ce jeune homme qui devait déjà avoir son côté altruiste même s’il s’était révolté en s’enfuyant de chez lui ! Ensuite, ils se sont mutuellement fait rire apaisant momentanément leur chagrin.

    A propos de savoir à quel moment Candy a parlé de ces « fils invisibles » qui les unissent, selon moi, c’était probablement entre l’annulation des fiançailles de Candy avec Neal et son retour à la Maison de Pony donc avant son « importante confession ». En effet, ils ont eu du temps pour discuter de choses sérieuses après la révélation de la véritable identité d’Albert, ils ont forcément dû parler beaucoup considérant tous ces évènements. Au départ j’avais pensé que c’était au moment où Candy a découvert qu’Albert était son Prince mais ils n’ont pas dû avoir le temps étant donné que « a priori » Georges est venu le chercher pour une affaire urgente. Cela a pu aussi être un indice pour Albert de l’évolution des sentiments de Candy envers lui car parler de tels liens invisibles me fait plutôt penser à une fille amoureuse, pour moi c’est une vue plutôt romantique de sa relation avec lui, elle devait penser qu’ils étaient finalement destinés l’un à l’autre : un fil invisible reliant deux âmes sœurs. Peut-être même que cela a pu pousser Albert à lui dire qu’il était son Prince ? De toute façon cela devait être un fait marquant puisqu’Albert en parle dans sa lettre et un fait répété puisqu’il écrit « as you ALWAYS tell me ». Ne pensez-vous pas ? 🙂

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Bonjour Chère Agnès! Merci beaucoup, mon amie! Your kind words about my drawing once again make me grin from ear to ear! 😀

      I’ve seen this manga drawing before but didn’t pay much attention to the details till recently. 😉 Like you, the image of Candy happily making an extremely long flower chain for Albert suddenly popped up in my mind, and thank you for remembering my short story “Afternoon nap”. 🙂

      The stories behind their first meeting were actually beautiful as you have described. You’re right, in a sense, they had both lost their sisters. Unlike the manga, Candy didn’t cry because Annie didn’t want to write her letters anymore. In CCFS, Candy cried after Annie left with the Brightons. She had tried to appear strong until her best friend left, and then she climbed the hill to cry her heart out. There she met the handsome boy (also lonely and an orphan himself) up there. You’re so right saying that their brief encounter somehow consoled them both. No wonder neither of them could forget each other, and that also explains why Albert decided to help her when he saw her again near the waterfall.

      About “invisible threads”, the important point is that Candy was the one who had arrived at the conclusion, not Albert. Also, as you agree as well, Candy must have told Albert more than once about her implication that they were destined together. What a romantic girl! She was in love with him. 😉 Like I said to QuevivaCandy in my reply to her, I’m planning to continue talking about this in a new post. 🙂

  5. Quevivacandy says:

    MsPuddle, what can I say, I love Letita’s work. She’s amazing couloring our favorite scenes. Now, I guess some girls left me behind asking you to use your drawing…. lol… May I?please??? 😀

    Yep, I agree with you about the distance between Lakewood and PH and now, about the threads, I also have thought about it. It is clear that she had a crush with her Prince, and around him, she took important decitions. Then she met Albert in the cascade and met him over and over again until finally he had the train accident and then found out he was Uncle William. You can say she had reasons to tell him there were threads between them but I sense, she didn’t tell him by that time. It’s my guess the first time she told him that was in the moment she knew he was her POTH ’cause until then, she connected everything.

    I don’t know if I am wrong, but I sense she mention that in a way that they were predestinated…. :/ what do you think?

    • Ms Puddle says:

      Dear QuevivaCandy, yes, Letita did an excellent job coloring this precious image of little Candy and her prince! Those girls asked me in private, and you might have known that Letita was one of them. 😉 Sure you can go ahead and get the cover photo on my Facebook page, my dear. 🙂

      Like you, I used to think Candy didn’t tell Albert about her theory of “invisible threads” until after she knew that he was her prince. It makes sense because as you said, Candy connected everything together afterwards. However, recently, I thought about it again and realized that Candy could have arrived at this conclusion earlier (even before she found out that he was her prince). Why? Even without that, she figured that she and Albert (the vagabond she used to know) had been connected somehow. Anyway, that’s what I’m planning to talk in a new post. 🙂

      I think what you said was true, and Candy implied that she and Albert were destined to be together. Isn’t that clear enough where her heart was? 🙂

      • Quevivacandy says:

        LOL… I better hurry to write, before you made change my mind…lol… but now, there is no space for that… :p lol

        • Ms Puddle says:

          Hahaha… QuevivaCandy my friend, it doesn’t matter too much whether it was before or after the confession. The important point is that Candy was the one who figured it out, don’t you think? As you said in one of your comments before, knowing that Albert was her prince was like adding more icing to an already delicious cake. 😉

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