

I recently discovered a cover for the song "Kokoronashi" on SoundCloud, so I
tried to find the original version of the song, or at least information about
who the original artist is, on YouTube.

However, this song seems to have been covered by so many different people so
many times that I cannot find out who sang the original as some singers who
covered it cite conflicting original versions/artists of this song.

(The search queries that I performed on YouTube were "kokoronashi",
"kokoronashi original)

![the cover art of the song](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wjm5Vm.jpg)

I noticed that the picture above was almost always associated with this song
on YouTube and it had an anime art style, so I imagine that it might be some
anime song, but upon performing a reverse image search, all the results simply
brought me to the YouTube covers that contain the picture instead of pointing
me to an anime where I can find the original song.

Does anybody know who sang the original version of this song and/or what anime
it comes from, if any?

I realize that this is a very vague description of a song since I only provide
the name, but I guarantee that if you search "kokoronashi" on YouTube, you
will find many covers of the song that I am referring to without trouble on
the very first search results page.

If it helps, [here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xM-6fHqXvig) is a link to
a fairly popular English cover of the song. I did not link to a Japanese cover
because they tend to be more likely to be taken down by YouTube due to
copyright violations than English covers, but the English melodies are very
much the same as the Japanese covers that I have seen.


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Origins and information about the song "Kokoronashi"


This is a original Vocaloid song featuring GUMI, with music and lyrics by
Chouchou-P,
[心做し](http://vocaloidlyrics.wikia.com/wiki/%E5%BF%83%E5%81%9A%E3%81%97_\(Kokoronashi\))
(same name).

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SkNrZnoK5w>


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