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40mP

40mP, also known as 40meterP, is a Japanese Vocaloid producer who began posting Hatsune Miku songs in 2008 and is known for Karakuri Pierrot, Torinoko City, and Renai Saiban.

81 Produce

81 Produce is a major Japanese voice-actor talent agency founded in Tokyo in 1981, managing more than 400 voice actors and producing sound for anime.

A-RISE

A-RISE is a fictional three-member school idol group in the Love Live! franchise, the reigning champions and chief rivals of μ's across the 2013 and 2014 anime seasons.

Ado (アド) (singer)

Ado (アド) is a Japanese utaite singer born in 2002 in Tokyo, face-concealed and represented by ORIHARA illustrations. Debut single "Usseewa" (2020) and One Piece Film Red's "New Genesis" made her a chart-topping, stadium-scale touring artist.

Aimer (エメ)

Aimer (エメ) is a Japanese pop and rock singer and lyricist, famous for anime theme songs including Demon Slayer's record-breaking "Zankyou Sanka," who debuted in 2011.

Aira Yuuki

Aira Yuuki (結城アイラ), born 1981, is a Japanese anison singer, lyricist, and composer on the Lantis label who debuted in 2007 with the anime sola's opening theme "colorless wind".

Akai Haato

Akai Haato (赤井はあと), nicknamed Haachama, is a Japanese Virtual YouTuber of Hololive's first generation who debuted in 2018, known for experimental streams and a split-persona storyline between her idol character and the chaotic Haachama.

Aki Rosenthal

Aki Rosenthal (アキ・ローゼンタール) is a Japanese VTuber with Hololive's first generation, debuting in 2018 as a half-elf from another world with an active music career.

ALI PROJECT

ALI PROJECT (アリ・プロジェクト) is a Japanese gothic duo of vocalist Arika Takarano and composer Mikiya Katakura, active since their 1992 major debut and known for dark anime theme songs for Noir, Rozen Maiden, and Code Geass.

Alstroemeria Records

Alstroemeria Records (アルストロメリアレコーズ) is a Japanese doujin music circle and label, owned by Masayoshi Minoshima, best known for the 2007 track "Bad Apple!! feat. nomico."

Amane Kanata (天音かなた)

Amane Kanata (天音かなた) was a hololive 4th-generation VTuber, active December 27, 2019 to December 27, 2025; an angel character and singer of Unknown DIVA and Trigger who held the solo live LOCK ON, then graduated.

Anime Friends

Anime Friends is an anime and Asian pop-culture convention founded in 2003, held every July in São Paulo, Brazil, and described as the largest of its kind in Latin America.

Animelo Summer Live

Animelo Summer Live (アニメロサマーライブ), nicknamed Anisama, is an annual anime-song concert held in Japan every summer since 2005 and billed as the world's largest anime-song live event.

Anisong

Anisong (アニソン), a contraction of anime and song, is the Japanese term for songs written for anime, a genre dating to 1963's Astro Boy and now a global streaming market.

Anisong World Matsuri

Anisong World Matsuri (アニソンワールドマツリ) is an anime-song concert series created by six Japanese entertainment companies, first held at Anime Expo in Los Angeles in 2016 and revived in 2025 as J-POP Sound Capsule.

ASCA

ASCA is the stage name of Asuka Ōkura (大倉明日香), a Japanese anison singer born in 1996, known for anime theme songs from Fate/Apocrypha through Bye Bye, Earth.

Aya Uchida

Aya Uchida (内田彩, Uchida Aya) is a Japanese voice actress and singer, known for voicing Kotori Minami in Love Live! and for solo albums on Nippon Columbia.

Bad Apple!!

Bad Apple!! (バッドアップル), Touhou Project song by ZUN from Lotus Land Story, famous for the 2009 black-and-white shadow art music video by Anira on Nico Nico Douga.

beatMario

beatMARIO (ビートまりお) is a Japanese doujin musician, composer, and vocalist who leads the circle COOL&CREATE, best known for Touhou arrangements such as "Help me, ERINNNNNN!!" and "Night of Knights".

Bemani

Bemani (ビーマニ) is the unified brand name for Konami Arcade Games' music games, derived from beatmania, the 1997 DJ rhythm game, and covering DanceDanceRevolution, beatmania IIDX, and SOUND VOLTEX.

Bitter Choco Decoration

Bitter Choco Decoration (ビターチョコデコレーション) is a Hatsune Miku song written and composed by Vocaloid producer syudou, released on January 4, 2019, and later added to the rhythm game Project SEKAI.

Booth

Booth, also known as booth.pm, is a Japanese online marketplace run by Pixiv Inc., launched in December 2013, where anyone can sell physical and digital creative works.

Brilliant Green

The brilliant green is a Japanese rock band formed in Kyoto in 1995 by vocalist Tomoko Kawase, bassist Shunsaku Okuda, and guitarist Ryo Matsui, debuting in 1997.

Chinozo

Chinozo (ちのぞー) is a Japanese Vocaloid producer, active since 2018, best known for the 2020 song 'Goodbye Sengen', one of the most-viewed Vocaloid-sung songs on YouTube.

ChouCho

ChouCho (ちょうちょ) is a Japanese singer from Suita, Osaka, known for anime theme songs including Hyouka and Girls und Panzer, who debuted on Lantis in 2011.

ClariS (クラリス)

ClariS (クラリス) is a Japanese pop unit under Sony Music, debuted October 2010 with "irony" (Oreimo OP); known for "Connect" (Puella Magi Madoka Magica OP, 90M+ streams), anonymous illustration-based identity, and since 2025 a trio of Clara, Ellie, and Anna.

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット)

Diana Garnet (ダイアナ・キャロライン・ガーネット) is an American anison singer, voice actress, and sound director from Washington, D.C., based in Tokyo; winner of Nodojiman the World 2013 Spring and singer of the Naruto Shippuden ending theme "Spinning World".

DJ Sharpnel

DJ Sharpnel is a Japanese doujin hardcore unit, active since 1998 on its Sharpnelsound label, that converts anime and video-game material into hardcore techno and is credited with pioneering J-core.

Doriko

doriko is a pseudonymous Japanese Vocaloid producer who began posting Hatsune Miku songs on Nico Nico Douga in 2007, best known for Romeo and Cinderella.

Dramaturgy (music)

Dramaturgy (ドラマツルギー) is a 2017 song by Japanese singer-songwriter and Vocaloid producer Eve, whose animated music video by Mah established him as a major internet-born artist.