The little superstars

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The Little Superstars ( Japanese光 の 伝 説Hikari no Densetsu , lit. The Legend of Hikari ) is a manga series by the Japanese manga artist Izumi Asō , which was also implemented as an anime television series. The approximately 2,800-page manga, which is mainly concerned with rhythmic gymnastics , is aimed primarily at young girls and can therefore be assigned to the Shōjo genre.

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Hikari is a member of the team of the rhythmic gymnastics association at her school. She's not particularly confident, but she has potential. Hikari admires her teammate Shiina Hazuki, who is considered Japan's queen of rhythmic gymnastics.

Hikari falls in love with Ōishi, a gymnast from the apparatus gymnastics team. Hazuki is also in love with him, and the two girls become rivals, both privately and in sports. In addition, Hikari's childhood friend Natsukawa apparently feels more for her than he shows.

Publications

The manga, which Asō drew without the help of an assistant, was published in Japan from 1985 to 1988 in weekly individual chapters in the manga magazine Margaret , in which Riyoko Ikeda's The Roses of Versailles and Kyōko Ariyoshi's Swan had previously been published. The Shueisha Publishing House brought this single chapter from February 1986 out in sixteen anthologies. In 2002, the series was reissued in eight volumes in a different format, the Bunko version.

Star Comics published the sixteen volumes of the manga monthly from May 2003 to August 2004 under the title La Leggenda Di Hikari - Hilary in Italy.

filming

Origin and publications

Television series
German title The little superstars
Original title 光 の 伝 説
Hikari no Densetsu
Country of production Japan
original language Japanese
Year (s) May 3, 1986 - September 20, 1986
length 25 minutes
Episodes 19th
genre Anime , adventure , shōjo , drama , sports
idea Asou Izumi
production Tatsunoko
music Eiji Kawamura
First broadcast 1986 (Japan) on Asahi Broadcasting (ABC)
German-language
first broadcast		 1994 on RTL 2
synchronization

The animation studio Tatsunoko produced nineteen approximately 25-minute episodes of an anime series based on the manga. The series was directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and the music was written by Eiji Kawamura . The screenwriters of the anime re-introduced the character of Natsukawa. He had never appeared in the manga before. Izumi Asō therefore decided to incorporate him into the manga series from then on.

The television station TV Asahi first broadcast the 19 episodes from May 3, 1986 to September 20, 1986. It was repeated on Japanese television in 1988 on the occasion of the Summer Olympics in Seoul . The series has not been broadcast in Japan since then. It was also not released there on VHS or DVD.

In Germany, the series was broadcast by RTL 2 in 1994 as Die kleine Superstars . In 2001 the complete series was published in Germany on four VHS cassettes and in 2010 the 19 episodes were released in a DVD box ( Hikari - Die kleine Superstars ). In France, the anime was shown as Cynthia ou le rythme de la vie on television, in Italy as Hilary and in Spain as Piruetas .

synchronization

The original voice actor for Natsukawa, Yoshimasa Inoue , is primarily a songwriter. He wrote all of the songs Natsukawa sings in the series himself. Among other things, he also wrote the title songs for Die Macht des Zauberstein and Peter Pan . In Hikari no Densetsu he had his only appearance as seiyū .

figure Japanese speaker German speaker
Hikari Kamijō Tsukasa Ito Stefanie Kindermann
Takaaki Ōishi Nobuo Tobita Till Demtröder
Hazuki Shiina Michie Tomizawa Ulrike Ritscher
Mao Natsukawa Yoshimasa Inoue Konstantin Graudus
Kantoku Ishizaki Rihoko Yoshida
Wife (Hitomi) Kamijō Hiromi Tsuru Isabella Grothe
Lord (Takeshi) Kamijō Aruno Tahara
Miyako Kamijō Hiromi Tsuru
Toshiaki Ōishi Fumio Matsuoka
Yukiko Doi Yūko Kobayashi Simone Seidenberg
Satomi Yamazaki Miki Ito Eva Michaelis
Megumi Mita Chie Kōjiro Daniela Reidies
Jimmy Marek Erhardt
Keesu Uwe Job
Charlie Alexander Draeger
Shimada Yūsaku Yara

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