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It's a good manga, with good characters and an initially fun idea. the visuals are nice and the plot has a parody style with a lot of comedy in moments that should be drama or tragedy. I don't think that's bad, it's the style of the story and it fits more with the idea of sweets as superpowers, in addition to making everything unpredictable and surprising us a lot. There are jokes that even make us stop and question various clichés in shounens. It's a good manga to read, very light and quiet, a shame it was cancelled, it had potential, but because it didn't ... sell well, the plot was rushed and this greatly affected the development and immersion of the plot, unfair. For some this may demonstrate to start reading, but I don't regret having read it, I liked it

Short and sweet

Candy Flurry feels like Jungle Juice meets Boku no Hero Academia.

The main theme is having about your own outlooks and views on life and staying true to them while understanding conflicting view points without shutting them out, I'm over simplifying it by a bit and I'm very baked but idk it feels that way to me.

The arcs, if you can even call them that, are so fast paced they don't really qualify as arcs but they're enjoyable nonetheless.

I mainly read this to see how far the sweets themed powers would go and honestly I'm disappointed.

I would recommend it though it's ... really short

Honestly, nothing this series did was anything another series didn't already do, but better and less annoying.

The basic premise of the manga isn't bad. People with the power to summon a specific type of sweet commit terrorism and only a select few aren't terrible people who try to ruin the lives of others. It's nothing special, but it could be great in the hands of a good writer.

So this may not surprise you considering I'm putting not recommended: It wasn't a good writer.

There are so many insane plotholes or just weird decisions in this manga. Okay, at the start it establishes that there are only ... 100 sweets s because they only gave out 100 candies that gave people the sweets powers. This causes me so many questions right off the bat: How did they destroy such a large portion of Japan, and then like...why did everyone just collectively leave it? Nobody is going to try to fix what happened at all with the destruction? No? Okay. Why did so many of these sweets s immediately decide to be evil? Not even one of them went "Hmm I could help the homeless" or ANYTHING? No? I mean I guess that's not totally unrealistic, honestly...but almost all of them outright becoming criminals? How is there an entire army dedicated to capturing these 100 people-of which some of said 100 WORK FOR THE ARMY-and they can't capture them all? 100 isn't really that high of a number. A few of these questions are answered, most aren't. The ones that are answered are in such an unsatisfying way. The story also continues to have problems like this with almost every plot point that's brought up. (Also, I feel like "100 candies" is kind of way too similar to devil fruits from One Piece, but that may just be me) On top of this, the series has a pretty rough start where it fails to get into its groove for a while, and by the time it does it's clearly too late and it's already been set on its way to be axed.

Another early example of an issue: The main character says that there aren't supposed to be any doubles of a specific sweets . For example, two different people can't use macarons. Basically within five pages she gives further information that means that that's untrue. So why even establish this as a rule when it's straight-up not the case? It just serves as a goofy vehicle to stop her from being able to use her sweets all the time, which she does anyway. Later, another character is addressed as using a specific *flavor* of a sweet. So you're telling me that of the 100 sweets s, at least two of them must've gotten the same sweet but in different flavors and somehow that's randomly okay? This whole thing is a mess.

The sweets powers are also just not explained very well. Looking at the main character, she uses lollipops. That's fine. She can also use them to do other things, like extending the lollipop stick, and these alternate things she can do are...not explained. There's no insight into why she can do this, why she knows automatically that she can do this, what the limits of the power are...there's a particularly egregious version of this for the ending, but I won't go into spoilers.

The characterization of the characters is pretty loosey goosey and not that interesting. A lot of them don't really have a solid personality beyond their single basic motivation (if they even have that), so they come off as very one-note and almost oddly gimmicky. A character even makes fun of another one at one point by saying that "your only attribute is that you're really serious" like the writer knows they've written slop and they just shrugged and went for it anyway.

Listen, making fun of your own faults can be funny, but when it's a serious flaw in your story and you just look at it and go "eh" and poke fun at it instead of fixing it, that's kind of bad. Of course, the joke was made when the series had already been put up to be axed, so at that point it doesn't matter, but that also doesn't absolve the issue that the characters are just poorly done and proves that the writer knew that they were and just didn't care.

These problems are furthered by the series trying to inject weird jokes into the story constantly, which always feels off-beat and done at at the wrong time. Most of the jokes do not land and feel awkward. Sometimes the awkward factor is done on purpose. Awkward humor, when intentionally done, can be pretty awesome, but in this case, it almost always feels forced and like the reader is being poked at like "Hey this is pretty funny right? Eh? Eh?"

I feel like the art quality also goes all over the place. The spreads are pretty nice, the combat is...okay, sometimes hard to follow, but man, the characters themselves. They are just not always cutting it. Especially the faces and facial structure, you can see them going all over the place in quality all throughout the manga. It's actually kind of funny how off-model they occasionally get, but that's not exactly a good thing since that's not really the thing I'm meant to be amused by.

It's a shame that this concept was wasted on this manga, because I feel like in the hands of someone else, it might've been able to shine. But as is, there's a pretty good reason this series got axed.