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| Hikari no Densetsu | |
 Hikari no Densetsu, Vol. #1 | |
| 光の伝説 (Legend of Light) | |
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| Genre | Sports, romance, slice of life |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Izumi Aso |
| Published by | Shueisha |
| Magazine | Margaret |
| Demographic | Shōjo |
| Original run | 1985 – December 1988 |
| Volumes | 16 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Tomomi Mochizuki |
| Written by | Hideki Sonoda, Asami Watanabe, Yasushi Hirano |
| Studio | Tatsunoko Production |
| Original network | ANN (ABC, TV Asahi) |
| Original run | 3 May 1986 – 20 September 1986 |
| Episodes | 19 |
Hikari no Densetsu (光の伝説, lit. Legend of Light) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Izumi Aso about a girl named Hikari Kamijou who dreams of becoming a national rhythmic gymnastics champion. The manga series title translates into English as "Legend of Light" (the female lead character's name, Hikari, means "light" in Japanese). In the mid-1980s, the manga series was adapted into a nineteen episode anime series produced by Tatsunoko Productions, directed by Tomomi Mochizuki and broadcast on ABC.
Hikari no Densetsu is a love story that it is set in the late-1980s junior high school atmosphere, one of the few sports anime and manga to have dealt mainly with rhythmic gymnastics as the main subject matter. Hikari Kamijou is a young, naïve, and care-free young woman who dreams of becoming an Olympic Champion in the sport of rhythmic gymnastics ever since she witnessed a performance of the young Diliana Gueorguieva (a champion Bulgarian rhythmic gymnast). Although she was unconfident in her skills as a rhythmic gymnastics, she gradually shows brilliance, achieving her dreams.