VOCALOID in other media

This is a list of references and allusion to VOCALOID as well as the illustrated vocalists in other media. Miku's popularity has expanded enough to have her appearance make cameos in various anime, manga, video games and magazines. For appearances in official licensed VOCALOID media, see Category:Vocaloid related products‎.

Note: This list is for mass media appearances only; please do not post or link to fan art or fanfiction unless notable to the subject.

Accel World
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In Accel World, episode 21, two posters of Project Diva Extend are shown on a shop in Akihabara.

Danball Senki
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In Danball Senki, Miku was mentioned when Ban and his companions met Otacross.

Baka To Test To Shoukanjuu
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In Baka To Test To Shoukanjuu, episode 11, Miku is in the B class. .

Hyouka
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In Hyouka, episode 12-16, there are Miku, Rin, Len, and Luka cosplayers.

Kämpfer
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In Kämpfer, episode 7, during the first half of the eye-catch you can see the character Mikoto wear a recolored version of Miku's outfit.

Lucky Star
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In Lucky Star, OVA, Hiiragi Kagami is forced to cosplay as Miku by the power of Konata's wand.

MM!
MM!

In MM!, episode 9, a recolored Miku is also seen at the school festival holding a stick in the shape of a leek.

Maria†Holic
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In Maria_Holic Maria†Holic, episode 12, Miku and Rin are featured in a choir.

Nichijou
In Nichijou (日常, lit. Regular Life), Sweet ANN can be heard singing the words "Helvetica Standard", as well as being apart of the background music.

Un-GO
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In Un-GO episode 1, there is a costume party and a girl dressed like Miku is seen in a hall area.

WataMote
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In WataMote, the ending theme for episode six is "Natsu Matsuri" (Summer Festival) by Utsu-P & Minatsukitoka, and features vocals by Hatsune Miku.

Zoku Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei
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In Zoku Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, Miku is seen in the auditions of the role of Meru Meru. Other fellow Crypton Vocaloids like MEIKO, KAITO, the Kagamines have look-a-likes that are seen in the waiting line during auditions for the role of Meru Meru, however, the look-a-likes do not have their known colors.

Bee and Puppycat
Bee & Puppycat is a Cartoon Hangover series featured on Youtube. In the series Oliver is mostly speaking gibberish in the episodes. However, he randomly spurts out swear words such as "fuck" and "shit", as well as on occasion other things such as "laugh hohoho". This series is also acknowledged for being the first two videos to reach 1 million views using Oliver's voice, as well as 1 million views using a PowerFX Vocaloid. Unlike all other cases of English Vocaloids being used, however, this is the only case where the Vocaloid was a co-starring vocal as all other English Vocaloids were only used as singers in soundtrack related elements.

The project is by Natasha Allegri, notably recognized as the character designer and storyboard artist for popular cartoon series "Adventure Time". The series became an immediate hit on YouTube and received much praise. It was the first major usage of the English VOCALOID OLIVER. Part 1 was published on YouTube. Once available for viewing, it received 1 million views within several weeks. Part 2 was eventually made viewable to the public and later went on to receive 1 million views as well.

According to Natasha, when she originally pitched the story board to Nickelodeon, it was rejected. However, she later received a call in the middle of the night, being told that the decision had been changed and that they would like to make it into a short. The story was inspired by Sailor Moon, the early 90's animation look in general, and another anime series called "Super Book". The use of a Vocaloid was Natasha's own idea, though she did not get to use Oliver's vocal directly.

Mememe no Kurage
Miku was selected to sing the opening theme for Takashi Murakami’s first film, Mememe No Kurage. Murakami specifically requested the song "Last Night, Good Night" by kz as the theme song and it was rearranged especially for the movie.

Paprika
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A Japanese electro-pop artist, Susumu Hirasawa, announced that he used a female VOCALOID in the original soundtrack of film by Satoshi Kon on his blog. Since Susumu Hirasawa did not reveal which VOCALOID he used for quite some time, except the fact it was a female, many producers speculated it was MEIKO. However, he later mentioned in a magazine interview that it was LOLA.

7th Dragon
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The 7th Dragon 2020 video game featured an opening song written, composed and arranged by sasakure.UK and sung by Miku. The song is called "SeventH-HeaveN". The opening for the sequel, 7th Dragon 2020-II, is once again written by sasakure.UK and performed by Miku. It is titled "HeavenZ-ArmZ". The sequel also features Miku singing the background music when the "Diva" setting for choosing BGM Mode is selected. Diva mode has music from 10 different producers: kiichi, Keeno, Clean Tears, koyori/Denpol-P, SHIKI, take, nak-ami, millstones, Lemm and Wonderlandica. In addition to this, Miku will also be featured in the game, appearing as the mysterious songstress who goes by the moniker "Hatsune Miku Type2021". While it is unknown what role Miku plays, SEGA has stated she will appear somewhere in the middle of the game.

Miku is due to appear in 7thDragon 2020 II for the PSP.

13-Sai no Hello Work DS
In 13-sai no Hellowork DS (Job Placement for the Age of 13), Nintendo DS, marked Miku's first appearance in a video game, she is included as one of the characters.

Dynasty Warriors 8
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The outfit design for Akikoloid-chan is used for the character Wang Yuanji in Koei's series Dynasty Warriors 8.

Idolmaster 2
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 * Idolmaster 2, a visual novel. Miku was included within the game as part of the collaboration between this franchise and Project Diva game series. She appears singing "The World is Mine" and "Melt". Her costume is also unlockable.

Monster Hunter
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CAPCOM began promotional videos for the collaboration between its Monster Hunter Frontier G online video game for the PC and Xbox 360 and virtual idol Hatsune Miku.

PangYa
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 * The Japanese version of this Korean online mulitplayer game, had a campaign with Hatsune Miku on May 22, 2008, in which she is included as one of the characters.

Phantasy Star Portable 2
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In Phantasy Star Portable 2, PSP, her hairstyle is available for female characters, and her costume and multiple weapons themed after negi are unlockable by inputting certain passwords.

Recettear
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In the Indie game Recettear, the skill icon for Nagi's "Hundred Trusts" resembles Miku.

Tales of Graces
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In Tales of Graces, Wii, she is a downloadable costume for one of the characters.

Transformice
/ Wikipedia In Transformice, an online game, a Hatsune Miku hairstyle was added as a purchasable item.

Yakuza 5
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In Yakuza 5, PS3, Miku snow sculptures can be seen around town and you can win Miku toys from UFO catchers (like claw-arm games). When playing as the character Sawamura Haruka, you have the option to wear a Miku costume. Instead of getting into street fights, Haruka has dance "battles" that play like a rhythm game.

Comptiq
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Snow Miku 2013 is on the cover of Comptiq, a Japanese computer game magazine, from the February 2013 edition.

Binbougami ga!
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In Binbougami ga!, one of the chapters in the manga series shows Momiji cosplaying Miku in the chapter's front cover.

Comic Party
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In the manga Comic Party, during the fair there is a person wearing Rin's ribbon and the same hairstyle.

Weekly Jump strip
Miku also made a cameo appearance in a Weekly Jump strip.

Kerli
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The Estonian singer has made several references to Miku in her videos. In the most direct reference, Miku's music was used as the background music in a video for the making of a prop for one of her videos. In "Tea Party", a twin pigtailed doll is seen. In "Army of Love", a megaphone is used by the singer, a reference to "Love is War". In 2011, the singer also dyed her hair the same color as Miku's hair and even wore it in long pigtails.

deadmau5
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deadmau5 (pronounced "dead mouse"), is a Canadian progressive-house music producer and performer from Toronto, Ontario. In the music video "Professional Griefers" (@3:37) there is a woman wearing a twintail wig. deadmau5 has also been seen wearing a shirt with Hatsune Miku graphics.

Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies
At CEATEC Japan 2009, Boffin, in joint with Yamaha, had the robot model HRP-4C react to the Vocaloid software for demonstration purposes. She was dressed up to look like Hatsune Miku for the demo. Miku was one of 3 voicebanks HRP-4C was set up to react to, the other two were Gumi and Crypton's CV-4Cβ.
 * HRP-4C as Miku

Gaia Online
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Gaia Online is an avatar community site whose main feature is forums and the use of chibi avatars to portray the members. With Vocaloids growing popularity the community has long requested for Vocaloid items to be created to wear. Since Gaia can only work under the law fair use by parody and reference there has been items that imitate Crypton Vocaloids without directly infringing on their property. Unlike the former avatar site, TinierMe, Gaia has yet to be sponsored by anything VOCALOID.

The items created are: The Melody series, "Happy, Perky, and Tragic" and a small doll was wearing the entire Perky Melody set, the doll also has a pose that is reminiscent of Hachune Miku's face. . The "Stereo Hearts" item has two Vocaloid based accessories, the hip modules from Miku Append and the other is cat eared speakers as seen on SeeU's head. The item "Vocaltude", is based on Kaito and the hair that comes with it is based on Len. The description for the item is a reference to the Supercell song "The World Is Mine". More items in relation to Supercell is the Princess of the... series, which are "World" and "Universe", both reference the popular handrawn PV. In continuation, there are other Supercell items such as the "Ai no Taisen" which is based on "Love is War".

Two questionable items are the 'leek' item, which could reference the meme involving Ievan Polkka. and 'Devoted Spica' which some Gaians see as a blue recreation of Miku's appearance in the song SPiCa.

Google
To promote Google Chrome and Google+, Crypton partnered with the company to have Miku official featured. There are skin themes, promotional videos, and an official site.

TinierMe
The Japanese avatar community @Games has done a collaboration with Crypton Vocaloids, involving a special (virtual) dispenser machine called "Tinier Gacha" which where also transferred to the English dubbed site Tinierme. This machine dispenses random items for members to equip, they are limited edition and not available in the regular shops. The campaign started on Tinierme July 20, 2010 and ended on November 30, 2010 with a full line up of all Crypton Vocaloids. The Vocaloids preformed songs on an outdoor stage and handed out album covers. Members were encouraged to listen to Vocaloid songs on KarenT, an online entertainment site, which gives musicians a place to feature their music.

With the success of the first release, additional gacha were released called Music Festa*(@Games)/Persona Gacha Vol*(Tinierme), these gacha were based upon popular outfits seen in animated PVs and artwork. The promotion for them ended in December 2010 on Tinierme but still on-going at @Games.

As of now the Tinierme site is closed. Items obtained through Tinierme and account details were not transferred to @Games so old Tinierme members are required to make a new account if they wish to play on @Games.

Miku Hakkeijima Sea Paradise
As part of the Caveran 39 event, a series of rides at the Sea Paradise in Yokohama Hakkeijima. As part of the attraction, large models of Nendoroid figurines were also on display as well as Vocaloid related artwork.