Celebrating Valentine’s Day?
Hello my friends, are you going to do anything special on Valentine’s Day this year? Here where I live we don’t necessarily celebrate only with partners or significant halves. We can share the happiness...
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Anniversary gifts as promised!
As promised in my previous post, 2nd anniversary!, below are my gifts to the top commenters on my blog. I’ve modified the original drawing slightly by removing Candy’s tears on her face. 🙂 Hope you...
Expressions of love
There are various ways to express love in Japanese. The direct translation of “I love you” is aishite-imasu (愛しています) or aishite-ru (愛してる), but according to How to Say ‘I love you’ in Japanese, Japanese people hardly...
A magic spell?
It’s been a while since I last colored a favorite scene in the manga version of Candy Candy, and this time I selected the episode in which Candy had just successfully escaped Neil’s trap...
A memorable embrace
Have any of you watched the movie, The Time Traveler’s Wife? I enjoyed watching it, and it actually brought tears to my eyes at some points. Anyway, (SPOILER ALERT) near the end of the movie,...
A generous present
Remember Judy Abbott and Master Jervie from “Daddy-Long-Legs” by Jean Webster? Judy grew up in an orphanage just like Candy, and it was called John Grier Home. Unlike Pony’s Home though, John Grier Home...
Favorite Scenes in Candy Candy manga (2)
As I have mentioned in Love grew into romance (Part 2), the classic novel, “Daddy-Long-Legs” by Jean Webster, had inspired the author of Candy Candy, Mizuki. (SPOILER ALERT) I read this book a long while ago,...
Favorite Scenes in Candy Candy manga (1)
I’ve always wanted to color some of my favorite scenes in the manga version of Candy Candy, and Page 147 of Volume 8 is my number one favorite. When I first read this page, it...
Emotional Wall
I talked about Terry building emotional wall around himself in my previous post, but in fact, most of us have some kind of a fortress around our hearts to guard and protect ourselves from getting hurt or...
Everything Has Changed?
Thank you, Nilva, for letting me know about “Everything Has Changed”, a song written by the American recording artist Taylor Swift and the British singer Ed Sheeran. Here is the link to the video (very...
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