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_Black Rock Shooter_ 's [opening
theme](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nPBUC1ZF6dE) is sung by Miku Hatsune.

Are there any other anime soundtracks that incorporate a vocaloid singer (or a
similar synthesized voice program) such as Miku?

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vkC6Dm.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/vkC6D.jpg)


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Is Black Rock Shooter the only anime soundtrack that features vocaloid singers?


It's probably going to be pretty rare for anime soundtracks to be featured
with a Vocaloid singer, since the talent tie-ins and money for making anime
want to promote their in-house talent so they want to use their own (live)
singers. You can see a lot of famous vocaloid producers get hired for their
music but instead of the vocaloid voice track, they use in-house talent for
the voice:

  * _ryo(supercell)_ gets hired by Sony Music to make [Bakemonogatari's ED, "Kimi no Shiranai Monogatari"](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSaZQyUi3ME), but sung by Yanagi Nagi
  * _kz(livetunes)_ gets hired by Sony Music to produce the song ["Irony" for Oreimo](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SaP1Xk0A44), but sung by ClariS
  * _Toku-P_ had one of his existing Vocaloid songs ["Color" used for the Freezing OP](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7Is9Y4N184), but sung by MARiA
  * _40mP_ also had one of his Vocaloid songs ["Evidence" used for one of the Fairy Tail OPs](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bs0zed2Fhzw), but sung by DaisyxDaisy

[source](http://mylifemyword.wordpress.com/2011/03/10/vocaloid-producers-who-
produced-songs-for-anime/)


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Jon Lin's answer is good, so I don't think I have anything to add in that
direction. As he says, using Vocaloid singers for songs of full-length anime
(rather than animated music videos) is rather uncommon. It sometimes happens
that a Vocaloid singer will be used in early stages of production, but by the
time they are ready to release the song it's usually done by a live singer,
which is generally more profitable.

I only know of two instances of Vocaloids being used other than in the Black
Rock Shooter shows (which you mentioned). Both of these were atypical.

[The ending of episode 13 of
Akikan!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeATxC406Y) (the final episode) used
Miku (as Mikkuchu Juuchu). However, each episode of Akikan! had the same song
(Koisora Recycling) sung in a different arrangement by Nomiko, sometimes with
guest artists, so Miku wasn't really the focus.

Meguriau Sekai, a 15-minute low-budget independent anime, has an insert song
by Miku called Wish: Kutsuhimo o Musunde. I was not able to find this song
anywhere, though if you can find the anime it plays from 12:00 until the end.
This was very likely done to keep costs low. The anime only has one voice
actor, and licensing a professional musician would probably have been beyond
their budget.

I searched for any other anime with Vocaloid songs, but I was not able to find
any for the top 10 or so most popular Vocaloids. If there are any others, they
are low-budget independent productions like Meguriau Sekai, since a high
budget show using Vocaloid songs would probably be notable enough that it
would be documented in many places.


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Episode 6 of Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaetemo Omaera ga Warui was sung
by Miku, but it's kinda sad that it was only for an episode. And it seems like
it wasn't even an original song, I think, but just a cover. Not sure, though.


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Black Rock Shooter, in fact isnt the only OP sung by Hatsune Miku. Heat Haze
Days, from Mekaku City Actors is also sung by Miku.


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[Paprika](http://myanimelist.net/anime/1943/Paprika), a 2006 anime movie, has
a theme song called "The Girl in Byakkoya" by Susumu Hirasawa which was sung
by Vocaloid [LOLA](http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/LOLA_\(VOCALOID1\)).

It's considered as the first anime movie to use Vocaloid in its OST.

> The last track, "The Girl in Byakkoya", features three spoken lines in
> Vietnamese. The soundtrack is significant for being the first made for a
> film to use a Vocaloid (using the Lola voicebank) for some vocals.
>
> From [Wikipedia article of
> Paprika](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paprika_\(2006_film\))

You can listen to the song and download it freely on [Susumu's official
website](http://noroom.chaosunion.com/modules/opus/index.php/photo/46/?ml_lang=en).


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