Candy & Cigarettes (Candy and Cigarettes)

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Japanese: CANDY & CIGARETTES

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 11

Chapters: 54

Status: Finished

Published: Jan 6, 2017 to Jul 19, 2021

Genre: Action

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Magazine (Monthly)

Authors: Inoue, Tomonori (Story & Art)

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Score: 7.35¹ (scored by 3,254 users)

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Ranked: #4260²

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Popularity: #1151

Members: 17,012

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MangaYoung Magazine (Monthly)Inoue, Tomonori (Story & Art)

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Raizou Hiraga, a 65-year-old former police officer, is forced out of retirement after learning that his grandson Shouta has fallen comatose due to an incurable disease. While searching for high-paying work, he comes across a job posting for the SS Agency, offering a salary that exactly matches the monthly one million yen needed for Shouta's treatment.

In the bureau located at Desperado, a second-hand bookstore, Raizou meets his new employer Kinume. Although she discloses little about his upcoming duties, his desperation for money brings him to accept the job. Convinced that he would serve as a hotel housekeeper, Raizou quickly realizes that his cleaning work is starkly different when he stumbles upon a dead body—assassinated by an 11-year-old girl, Miharu Suzukaze.

Nonetheless, Raizou's successful first mission leads him to become Miharu's hitman partner. Having protected political figures his entire life, Raizou is now brought into a world of murder as the pair slowly uncover the criminal scheme unfolding behind the scenes.

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Candy & Cigarettes has been published in English by Seven Seas Entertainment since October 18, 2022.

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Suzukaze, Miharu

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Hiraga, Raizou

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Shapiro, Gabriel

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Saburou, Musou

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Radom

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Moloch

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Saitou

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Rem

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Khan, Shurood

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Taurus

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Aug 9, 2024

Lexi_1

Recommended

Candy & Cigarettes is a manga I picked up half as a joke, initially expecting a trashy loli comedy along the lines of "Kill Me Baby", with some crime elements sprinkled in.

However, I was very pleasantly surprised at the high quality of the art, story and characters, as well as the general lack of fanservice.
Instead, C&C serves a quick-witted, fast-paced and fun crime action story, with just the right amount of comedy occasionally popping up here and there. The author's love for film noir and classic American crime stories shines through every page, with the story and artstyle both emitting a strong vibe of western ... influence.

As is the nature of spy/assassin stories, C&C follows an episodic style of the main duo getting a "job" and them executing it. However, a simple yet clever backstory is spun around the main characters, that ends up connecting quite nicely to a story divided into several arcs. Overall, the pacing is very honest, giving us action and cool fights when we want them, as well as calm dialogue scenes as breaks in-between, giving us time to breathe and avoiding the action becoming too loud and unejoyable.

Unfortunately, C&C does suffer from a few classic problems/tropes for this type of story. There, again, we see the inspiration by American works of the like, reminding also of the early James Bond movies at times. Namingly:
1. There are apparently no other spies/assassins who could fight against evil conspiracies in the entire world. For some wild reason, the main duo has to do everything by themselves.
2. As a direct result, the kill:death ratio is absolutely insane, with our protagonists basically committing genocide, if you add it all up.
3. As a direct result, the story ends up being laughably predictable.

But I am willing to accept those for the sake of a fun read. The author clearly intended for it to be this way, aiming to achieve exactly that type of story. And I will concede that he does make occasional attempts at justifying these points. Aside from this, C&C does suffer from a handful of plain logical errors in the writing, that are difficult to overlook. And one more unfortunate thing I will point out and don't think can be excused, is the sudden surge of clearly fanservice shots of our underage main girl from volume 2 onwards. It's a very stark contrast between volume 1 and 2, so I personally suspect that the publisher asked the author to spice it up a bit to make the series more attractive, or something like that. That wouldn't be the first time I see that.
These shots don't take away anything, but they certainly don't add anything either. It just feels unnecessary.

So, in conclusion, 7/10. Fun, action, good pacing, hits the mark for the genre. If you want deep, complex plot and character development, probably not. This isn't an outstanding work nowadays, simply due to the fact that the main inspiriation seems to be material that is itself pretty outdated. But Candy & Cigarettes is very good at what it does, so if you are into this type of story, 100% recommend.

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Mar 5, 2024

Phoxniiix

Recommended

Candy and Cigarettes perfectly nails my personal love for the stereotype of little girl+old man combo and the wit and dialogue that comes off the two of them all to the backdrop of an amazing crime action story about politics and secret societies. The story is about an ex-cop becoming an assassin with a schoolgirl who has known nothing but murder her entire life and how their differnet lives up until now influence who they are as well as their opinions on their new partnership in this world of kill or be killed. The Characters overall are solidly written with plenty of likable characters and ...

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Aug 22, 2017

2015071

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (4/54 eps)

(since this is an early review, my ratings will be lower than usual)

Candy & Cigarettes is a new manga about an old man trying to earn money for his grandchild's medication but soon found himself into a high paying job where he helped a 11 yr old girl and an organization to assassinate high profile people whom were involved a secret criminal organization that operates and corrupt Japan behind the scene.

So far the manga had shown some very nice action scenes and ok character development. However, this premise is not something really eye opening as it had done a millions times before not just in ...

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