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Many times when I see images of Hatsune Miku, she is shown holding a leek or
spring onion.

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8Eby.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/d8Eby.jpg)
[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S5CuN.png)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/S5CuN.png)
[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9n5Zl.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/9n5Zl.jpg)
[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tM9n.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/4tM9n.jpg)

Apart from headphones and microphones, other popular and well known Vocaloids,
such as Rin, Len, Kaito and Luca, don't seem to have any strange items like
vegetables.

So why is Miku shown with a leek? And if there aren't any other Vocaloids with
strange items, why is she the only one?


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Why is Miku shown with a leek?


Hatsune Miku holding a leek comes from a parody video of the Leekspin meme.
The Leekspin meme is a video of Orihime from _Bleach_ spinning a leek in one
of the episodes with the Finnish folk song _Ievan Polkka_ playing in the
background.

On another note, the vegetable she is holding is actually a "negi" or green
onion. However, the English dub for Bleach called it a leek.

Sources:

  * The Hatsune Miku parody video: <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbbA9BhCTko>
  * Leekspin meme: <http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/leekspin-loituma-girl>


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> Apart from headphones and microphones, other popular and well known
> Vocaloids, such as Rin, Len, Kaito and Luca, don't seem to have any strange
> items like vegetables.

Actually, many vocaloid (and other voice software) have items associated with
them

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ptOMrm.jpg) ![enter
image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ee9dym.jpg) ![enter image
description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/wsZ7Bm.png)

  * GUMI (a Megloid) has a carrot for her item

  * Teto Kasane (an UTAUloid) has bread

  * Luka is often associated with fish, or because of her hair, octopuses.

[There are more listed here](http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/vocaloid-character-
items)

Most of these originated from fans rather than the original creators, and are
not official - even though there is a casual acceptance of the character
items. For example Leek shaped glowsticks are occasionally given out at Miku
concerts. Character items frequently feature in artists videos also


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The reason Miku usually has a leek with her most of the time when you see her,
is because since she is a vocaloid, someone (I guess) wanted to make her sing
Ievan Polkka, a Finnish song, and that's what got her popular at first.

*Luka 

And as one of the answers already stated this, these vegetable pairings with
Vocaloids came from the fans themselves, so it's not exactly official.

Actually, many Vocaloids (even UTAUs) have been associated with vegetables.
Here are some examples:

Megurine Luka - Fish or Tuna Kagamine Rin - Orange(s) Kagamine Len - Banana(s)
KAITO - Ice cream MEIKO - Sake (A traditional Japanese alcohol)

GUMI - Carrot(s) Camui/Kamui Gakupo - Eggplant

(UTAU)

Kasane Teto - (French) Bread or a Baguette Namine Ritsu - Chocolate Crisps

* * *

So Luka is paired with fish because she has a chibi head character who has
hair like an octopus.

Rin has an orange for her fruit because her neckerchief resembles an orange
peel.

Len was paired with a banana mostly because of his hair color and that piece
of his hair sticking upwards resembles a banana, just a bit.

KAITO with ice cream because fans notice the scarf he wears and in his new V3
update, boots. People thought he seemed to wear winter-special clothes and
since his hair is blue it easily resembles snow/ice and relating things, they
decided his food was going to be Ice cream.

MEIKO with sake because she seemed to look older and mature so I guess they
thought it'd be fun if they made her drunk (?) Not quite sure about this one.

GUMI with carrots because of her color scheme mostly, since she has green hair
and orange official clothes so it reminds people of carrots.

Gakupo with Eggplant because he has purple hair and a stronger/deeper voice so
I think it reminded them of an eggplant

Now, the UTAUs were officially paired with random foods because they were
sorta supposed to be a parody April fool's joke. (?)

Here is a picture of them with the foods too: [![enter image description
here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ON7A6.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/ON7A6.jpg)


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