Idol Densetsu Eriko

Legendary Idol Eriko
Cover of the first DVD-box
アイドル伝説えり子 (Idol Densetsu Eriko)
Genre	Drama, Music
Anime television series
Directed by	Tetsuro Amino
Produced by	Masahiko Miyoshi (TV Setouchi) Tomoyuki Taguchi (Big West)
Written by	Takao Koyama
Music by	Toshiyuki Watanabe
Studio	Ashi Productions
Original network	TV Tokyo
Original run	April 3, 1989 – March 26, 1990
Episodes	51
Manga
Written by	Ayumi Kawahara
Published by	Kadokawa Shoten
Demographic	Shōjo
Magazine	Asuka
Original run	1989 – 1990
Volumes	3

Idol Densetsu Eriko (アイドル伝説えり子^?, trans. Legendary Idol Eriko) is a Japanese anime series by Ashi Productions (now Production Reed). It ran in Japan from 1989 until 1990, spanning 51 episodes. The story has been adapted into a 3-volume manga series by Ayumi Kawahara. The title character Eriko is based on real-life Japanese idol Eriko Tamura, who performs the opening theme song and the last episode's ending theme.

Eriko Tamura is the chairman of Tamura Productions, a renowned music company and the only daughter of Minako Tamura, a former famous idol singer. Having had a talent for singing since birth, she has always loved her parent's media world. Then one day tragedy strikes when her parents get into a horrible car accident, which kills her father and leaves her mother in a coma. Now Eriko must take the path of singing, a path her parents did not want her to pursue. Things get worse when her uncle sets out to destroy her career. But in spite of all the hardship, she becomes an idol and wins hearts all over Japan.