Though I like to pretend this is a respected Visual Novel review blog, I mostly write it for myself. It’s no secret to the people who know me that I absolutely adore Kagamine Len, and that I have a big long playlist of Vocaloid songs that I listen to over and over and share with my good friend Jane Titor.

While I slacked a bit on writing for a few months while adjusting to my new job, it’s not really new anymore and I’ve got the creative juices flowing through me once again. I’ve been working on some SECRET PROJECTS and I figured I’d write up a blog post about some Vocaloid songs that I really enjoy.

Songs to Sing

I have a tendency to sporadically type out lyrics in capital letters to my friends and they’re beginning to recognize the songs that I repeat over and over. Though I barely know any Japanese, the following songs have sections that are easy to repeat.

Lovin’ That Beat

One thing I love about Vocaloid is that there’s no shortage to the sheer range of genres you can find, and a genre I always find myself jammin’ to in the car is electronic. *Excuse me, as I’m not extremely well-versed on music genres, but I think this one is broad enough to cover what I’ve posted below. I’m a terrible dancer, but I love to shake my hands around and do some upper body dancing to these.

Weird Stuff

The Vocaloid fandom, as most fandoms, can be weird. You can find a song about pretty much anything. You can find covers of English pop songs to original Japanese songs about a girl cutting off her finger because she broke a promise. The songs I’ve listed here include a Len cover of a familiar hammer song and a dystopian society where Miku is Big Brother.

Giga-P, Pinocchio-P, PowaPowa-P

Surely someone out there has wondered why I go by Bishounen-P. It originally began as an Idolm@ster joke. A friend and I were discussing that fans of Idolm@ster will make their game usernames with their favorite type of girl or related thing, like Cute-P (a type of idol) and then I named myself Bishounen-P, and it’s stuck. However, the original reason I noticed the -P on names was because of Vocaloid producers. So here, I’d like to say a little something about my favorite producers.

Giga-P is the reason I got into Vocaloid in the first place. A few years ago, when I was still in college, I thought I’d search up Vocaloid on YouTube and see if I could find something I’d like. The first song that I found was Giga’s remix of Suki Kirai and I absolutely adored it. Since then, I’ve followed his work and I honestly can’t say there’s a single Giga song that I don’t like. I’m also a big fan of his utaite (singing cover) work! I’m a huge Giga stan and I’ll take that to my cold, weeaboo grave.

I discovered Pinocchio-P through Project Diva. I originally was exclusively listening to Kaito covers of his songs featured in Project Diva, such as Common World Domination (and the Kaito version is still my favorite!) but I listened to more and more of his songs and loved the weirdness and realism in them. The song listed below is one of my diehard favorite Vocaloid songs, period.

Ah… PowaPowa-P. I discovered him far too late. After listening to Strobe Light, which is probably his most popular song (and a fantastic one at that), I listened to his entire discography. His songs are beautifully crafted and his lyrics ingenious. Discovering that he released this song as a suicide note tore me apart and nearly every time it comes on I have to stop what I’m doing and just listen.

For those of you that made it to the end, thanks for reading (and hopefully listening to) my self-indulgent post. And always remember, Kagamine Len is the best.

|Art for me by Ghiri