Hikaru in the Light! TP (2025)

Best friends compete for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become pop stars in this funny, feel-good manga series perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-Sitters Club. Middle-school student Hikaru Ogino is known as the songbird of her family's bathhouse in Tokyo. Her beautiful singing echoes from room to room as she cleans up after school, but she dreams of holding a microphone, not a mop! When her best friend, Ran-a former girl group idol-invites her to try out for a pop star survival camp together, it's the chance of a lifetime to put her talents to the test. Can Hikaru outshine the competition and make her stage debut, or will she fall flat?

The competition is underway as best friends compete for the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become pop stars in volume 2 of this funny, feel-good manga series, perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-Sitters Club. Hikaru and her best friend, Ran, have made it past auditions... and now the real tests begin: dance tests, vocal tests, nerve-racking rankings, and devastating eliminations, all to see who has the star potential to make it through to the next round. The competition is growing fierce, and with so much talent in the room, Hikaru will need to dig deep to let her voice shine.

The competition heats up, as best friends go after the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become pop stars in volume 3 of this funny, feel-good manga series, perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-sitters Club. Hikaru's dreams of stardom are so close... and yet so far! She’s pushing herself to the limit to improve her singing and dancing skills for the Girls in the Light pop idol competition, but she still doubts she can ever hold a candle to her best friend, Ran, and the other girls. When the contestants are divided into competing groups for the next round, will Hikaru shine for her team... or risk elimination?

The final round is here! Best friends go after the once-in-a-lifetime chance to become pop stars in the fourth and final volume of this funny, feel-good manga series, perfect for fans of K-On!, The Tryout, and The Baby-sitters Club.It's time for the final performance and the final day of judging as the Girls in the Light Competition reaches its grande finale... It's time for Hikaru to dig deep and sing from the bottom of her heart! But will it be enough to win?