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Amazon Prime Video Streams Candy Caries Anime in N. America, Other Regions
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The anime premiered within the Yoru no Brunch variety program on TBS on April 15 at 11:56 p.m. (10:56 a.m. EDT).
The anime stars:
- Miyuki Satō as Ame, a girl
- Hana Takeda as Caries, a cavity in Ame's mouth
- Jin Katagiri as the Mad Dentist
- Ryōgo Matsumaru as Harold, Caries' boyfriend
- Kayo Noro as Ame's mother
- Masahito Yabe as Beef
- Rie Hikisaka as Mikan
- Ayaka Saitō as Shark
Misato (Pui Pui Molcar) and Wit Studio are credited for the original work. Misato will direct the series at TORUKU from WIT STUDIO. Kenshirō Morii (Anime-Gataris, Grand Blues!) will serve as assistant director. Chiaki Nishinaka (The Ancient Magus' Bride, Shinkalion Change the World) will write the script and Akari Saitō (Etotama, Spy×Family) will edit the series. Keigo Hoashi (Summer Time Rendering, Dusk maiden of Amnesia) will compose the music. Japanese girl group IS:SUE performs the theme song "Telepathy."
Other staff members include:
- Sound director: Yasunori Ebina
- Sound production: Sound Team Don Juan
- Animation producer: Kenta Yamada
Candy Caries was first revealed as a stop-motion anime promotional video in 2021 after Wit Studio had established a stop-motion studio with Misato in December 2020.
The Candy Caries anime is a slapstick comedy about Ame, a child who loves sweets, and the tooth decay that lives in her mouth called Caries. Caries lives a carefree life inside Ame's mouth and even calls her "Mama," and Ame's body is always at Caries' mercy.
According to Misato, he used plastic board and acrylic for Candy Caries, and describes it as a semi three-dimensional animation that's "flat like an illustration, but plump and thick."
The Pui Pui Molcar stop-motion series premiered in January 2021 within TV Tokyo's Kinder TV children's variety program. Netflix began streaming the series worldwide outside of some Asian territories in March 2021. Tobidase! Narase! Pui Pui Molcar, the series' compilation film, opened in Japan in July 2021.
The series utilizes stop-motion animated puppets made of wool felt.
This series marked Tomoki Misato's directorial debut on an animated television series. Misato also wrote the script, and he worked on the storyboards along with Hana Ono and Kei Sato. Misato was also credited as chief supervisor for the 2024 Pui Pui Molcar the Movie: MOLMAX 3D CG film.
Misato directed at TORUKU from WIT STUDIO the My Melody & Kuromi stop-motion animation series that premiered on Netflix in July 2025. The series won the Best Animation award at Singapore's 2025 Asian Academy Creative Awards.
Sources: Candy Caries anime's website and YouTube channel, Amazon Prime Video via @WTK
