is a Japanese manga

Manga

Manga is the Japanese word for "comics" and consists of comics and print cartoons . In the West, the term "manga" has been appropriated to refer specifically to comics created in Japan, or by Japanese authors, in the Japanese language and conforming to the style developed in Japan in the late 19th...

 written and illustrated by Satomi Sugita. It is licensed in North America by Digital Manga Publishing

Digital Manga Publishing

Digital Manga is a company that licenses and releases, in English, Japanese anime, manga, and related merchandise. The company has several subdivisions: Digital Manga Publishing, which publishes Japanese manga, novels and instructional and illustration books in North America with multiple imprints,...

which released the manga on 26 August 2008.

Reception

Rachel Bentham, writing for Active Anime, felt Candy was "explicit without being too graphic and attractive for its tender-hearted characters and bon-vivant tone." Leroy Douressaux praised the varied character designs and the amount of humour in the work, which he felt was enough to lighten the mood. Danielle Van Gorder, writing for Mania Entertainment, appreciated the reactions of the "various townfolk" to Takara, saying that this helped create a sense of "depth" to the world.