Rising hologram of show business. All about Hatsune Miku Anime singer with blue hair

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The question of who she is can be answered in different ways.
In three words, this is a Japanese virtual singer.
In short, this is a character who personifies the voice of the program "Vocaloid", synthesizing singing, developed by the company Yamaha.(Actually, from the name of the program the term “ Vocaloids“, of which a fair number have already appeared).
If you want to know everything, sit back, the conversation will be long!

Hatsune Miku - backstory

Do you know that such a seemingly purebred Japanese woman like Miku has Spanish roots? The story begins in 2000, when at the University of Barcelona, ​​with funding from the corporation Yamaha development of a singing synthesis program has begun Vocaloid. The idea took root, including in Russia, where the First Vocaloid music album was released and the First live Vocaloid concert took place.
At that time, many companies began developing software based on this technology. Luckily for us, among them was the Japanese “Crypton Future Media” and an English source from the city of Sapporo. This company has been working with sound since 1995, developing applications for synthesizers, creating libraries of sound effects and background music for computer games and commercials, and collaborating with such giants as Sega, Sony, Nintendo, Apple, Dell, Microsoft, Roland and Yamaha. She carried out orders from the Japanese Ministry of Defense, as well as the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology.
In 2004 and 2006, Crypton created voice banks MEIKO And KAITO accordingly, providing the program boxes with colorful illustrations of virtual singers. Since then, the combination of the voice bank and the character inherent in it began to be called vocaloid.
Despite the progressiveness of the singing synthesis method, sales of the software were not going well. But 2007 came, Yamaha updated the program engine " Vocaloid"up to version 2 and president of Crypton, Ito Hiroyuki, decided to go on the offensive.

Hatsune Miku - birth

Hiroyuki-san He knew very well that to successfully promote any product, at least in Japan, you need to create a bright image that matches the product being offered, so he focused his efforts on creating a new virtual star. At birth there were no small details. Firstly, she was destined to be born as a girl, since male voice banks sold much worse than female ones. The age, 16 years old, was also not chosen by chance - such a singer’s repertoire can be both on “adult” themes and completely children’s. The determined height is 158 cm and weight is 42 kg, good indicators for Japan.

The very first illustration of Hatsune Miku

Last name 初音 could be translated as " first sound" or " first bird singing", the name was even more difficult, Miku 未来 , meant “future”, but if you read the syllables separately ( and, a little later, the spelling of the name changed to ミク , the same in sound, but different in meaning, essentially like “Beatles” with its own changed letter in the name), the number 39 turned out (by the way, thanks to this we got Miku Day or Day 39, which is celebrated on March 9, since in Japan it is customary to indicate the month first and then the day). And that’s not all, Mi Ku is the so-called kun (actually Japanese) reading of the numbers 39, but in the Japanese language they also use an on (based on the Chinese language) reading and 39 will be San Kyu. Reminds me of the English “Thank you”, doesn’t it?
And that's all! Crypton marketers did not give any more information, rightly believing that the fans will come up with the rest for themselves and everyone will have their own Mika, unique and, naturally, the best!
The next step was to contact a famous Tokyo illustrator Keiu Garo(Kei Garou Japanese source). Here Ito Hiroyuki had to slightly indicate the character of the future star for the sketch - “sweet, but with a slightly harsh character.” Kei drew two versions of the image of Hatsune Miku, with one and two tails, but, as he says in, the second option was accepted ( picture on the right ), which Kay was incredibly happy about. By the way, the costume and color scheme of the Vocaloid were created not only by order of Crypton, but also of Yamaha, so they practically mean something.
It’s worth adding that Miku’s voice was given by a seiyuu (voice actress) who was little known at the time. Saki Fujita English source who was 22 years old at the time. Before working with Crypton, she managed to sing a couple of opening and ending songs, as well as voice minor characters in a dozen anime.
Shortly before the release of the program, Eiji Hirasawa wrote a demo song " Star Shards“, which turned out to be in a series of thousands of hits of the future star.
On August 31, 2007, all the components came together, the program went on sale and Hatsune Miku was born!

First steps

Just before sales of the program began, Crypton created a special website where an illustration of Miku appeared, describing who M is Iku Hatsune and, most importantly, where users of the program could post their creations and communicate freely. By the way, the site piapro.jp still exists and new works are constantly appearing on it.
The green-haired virtual star caught the eye of the Japanese; her new songs flooded not only the Krypton website, but also the popular Japanese video hosting site NicoNicoDouga, from where they splashed out onto Youtube.
Soon the marketers' prediction came true; Miku, completely independent of the creators, had the most famous accessory, which was not even in sight when she appeared - “negi” or onion, a close Asian relative of the leek. With this seemingly purely Japanese plant, Miku also acquired Russian-Finnish roots. It all started in 2006, when a flash video went viral all over the Internet, in which the song “ Eva's Polka"(known to us as "Yap tsup tsop") by the Finnish folk group "Loituma", the heroine of the anime "Bleach" Orihime Inoue twirls a bow in her hands. Mute the sound when opening the link!!! Almost immediately after Miku appeared, on September 6, the catchy melody was covered by the newly minted star and posted on Nico and Youtube. Along with the melody, Miku also had leek, which somehow imperceptibly, over time, replaced the original trampoline.
Well, where do the Russian roots come from? The melody itself appeared in Eastern Finland at the end of the 18th century, when Sweden ceded rights to Finland to Russia and, quite often, at that time in some Finnish cities there were more Russian soldiers than local residents. The melody almost completely repeats the Russian folk dance “Smolensk Gusachok”, popular among soldiers from Western Russia. The dance took root on new soil, became popular, and in 1937 Eino Kettunen wrote a Finnish text for the polka. The funny thing is that the chorus “Yap tsup tsop...” was not in the original song, it was added by the Loituma group itself and it consists of meaningless words (like tili-tili, trali-vali). According to the group members, he was born during a tour in Moscow in the 90s at a rehearsal in the House of the Red Army. Unsuspecting representatives of Krypton were quick to point out that “Finnish Polka”, like nothing else, shows the capabilities of their software for creating entertainment content.

Illustration for the song MELT

Meanwhile, less than 2 weeks after the program's release, sales revenue exceeded 57 million yen, significantly exceeding the revenue of any other software in Japan. And on Nico Nico hundreds and hundreds of new songs appeared with Miku's vocals. In the wake of the popularity of the new program, new talented musicians appeared and gained popularity.
In particular, on December 7, 2007, the musician’s song appeared on Nico Ryo“Melt” (Meruto), which instantly gained hundreds of thousands of views. But then there was a slight embarrassment. Ryo, who did not expect such popularity, used an illustration when designing the video ( picture on the left ) artist 119 ( Hikeshi) without the latter's permission. I had to apologize. Unexpectedly, Hikeshi became interested in Ryo's work and, at the end of December, they united into a group Supercell, which included a total of 11 musicians and illustrators. Already in February, the song “Koi wa Sensou” (Love is War) was posted on Nico, in May “World is Mine” (Worudo izu Main), in June “Black Rock Shooter” (Burakku Rokku Shutu), (by the way, the song was written by the composer inspired by the illustration ( the one below ), and the anime of the same name was released 2 years later, based on the song), and in August 2008 at Comiket 74, the musicians presented their first album called “Supercell”, which reached 4th place in the national hit parade.

The very first Rock Black Shooter

In December of the same year, the group posted their last song on Nico Nico Douga - “Hajimete no Koi ga Owaru Toki” (When the first love leaves), after which Sony Music grabbed the musicians with a stranglehold. Last song with vocals Ryo presented at the end of August 2012, it was “Odds & Ends” (14th place in the charts), after which he finally focused on working with live vocalists...
Almost immediately after the release of the program, on September 21, 2007, the song “Packaged” appeared on Nico, from the group Livetune(consisting of kz and left after a year and a half Kajuki P). Already at Comiket 73 in December 2007, the group presented the album “Re:package”, which reached number 5 in the national chart. The musicians soon joined another giant of the music industry, Victor Entertainment, and under his wing they released the remix album “Re:Mikus” in 2009 and the single “Yellow” in 2010. In 2012, having jumped to the Toy’s Factory studio, already alone, kz presented the album “Tell Your World EP” (4th place), a year later “Re:Dial” and in the spring of 2014 “Decorator EP”. Despite working with live vocalists, it doesn't look like kz is going to leave Mika, despite the fact that his latest album, at the time of writing, only took 19th place.
It is not surprising that the popularity of the albums of the “masters” of wok music is declining; new composers are appearing, such as an extremely productive interview or an interview with his secrets of super realistic vocals..

The number of composers working with Hatsune Miku is incalculable, and Miku herself is the most prolific performer in the World, with at least one new album with her vocals and countless singles appearing every week. The popularity of the virtual star has captured all corners of the planet, informational fan sites have appeared, such as mikufan.com in English and www.. In addition to the usual Asian region, Miku gained the greatest popularity in the United States (thanks to an aggressive advertising campaign), France and literally swept the Latin America.

Concert activities

Before Hatsune Miku showed up, this part would have definitely raised eyebrows. A computer program and suddenly concerts... However, by 2009, the popularity of the virtual star had become such that it became clear that it was time to go public... The Crypton team accepted a new challenge and on August 22, 2009, as part of the festival Animelo Summer Live accompanied by live musicians, took place where she performed 2 songs. And just half a year later, on March 9, 2010, in the Zepp Tokyo hall, a full-size solo concert, known to all fans, took place!

After this epoch-making event, Miku traveled to all major cities of Japan, went on tour in Asia and the USA, and gave 2-3 full-length concerts with live accompaniment per year (this does not include concerts based on MMD technology, without musicians) and finally, in September 2015, performed at the main concert venue in Japan, in. The Beatles were the first Western group to perform in this hall, Hatsune Miku was the first virtual performer. It’s simply impossible not to draw parallels! Moreover, the virtual singer has already been accepted as one of their own in the world of popular musicians - she recently performed as the opening act for Lady Gaga.
In 2012, Miku became interested in the classics. At the end of the year, she performed with the Japan Philharmonic Orchestra, and a little later she took part in (the link is not working yet) which was staged in the theater less than a year later in the center of Paris. There were also classical music projects with the participation of Vocaloids, but they did not receive a serious continuation.

MikuMikuDance or simply MMD

MMD model TDA Miku

MMD model TDA Miku

In the wake of Miku's popularity in February 2008 Yu Higuchi presented a 3D animation program that allows you to create a dance of a three-dimensional model of Hatsune Miku and make a video, including with sound. The program is blatantly free, there are options in Japanese and English, and it’s easy to learn.
Miku's first default model is Animasa Miku was quite popular for a long time and many variants of Miku and others were released on its basis. Successful models can be called DT Miku- extracted from a SEGA game and, unexpectedly, (picture on the left ) - extremely popular not only for its own merits, but also for its ease of editing, the versions of which in the form of not only Miku, but even guys, clearly exceeded more than one thousand.
But, undoubtedly, the best model was (the link does not work yet) from Mama, which is not called anything other than kawaiiloid (from the Japanese “kawaii” - cute)!
The program was constantly evolving, the ability to capture movements using the Kinect sensor appeared, the ability to place Miku in Reality, along with this, the number of models (not necessarily Miku and not necessarily Vocaloids), scenes where the model could perform, and objects that she could use increased. Twice a year, almost since 2008, Nico Nico hosts video competitions MMD Cup.
However, in May 2011, the program developer announced that he was leaving his brainchild. It lasted a little more than 2 years, in the summer of 2013 Higuchi-san returned with the 8th version of the program. (By the way, the latest version of the program at the time of writing is 9.26/9.26 (64-bit) / December 2014)
And in February 2013, an anime from an English source, made entirely with the help of MMD programs. However, we have moved a little away from the topic of our conversation.

Hatsune Miku and the Winter Festival

Miku's first illustration in winter style

First sketch of Sakura Miku

Since 2010, Miku has been actively participating in (the link is not working yet) in the city of Sapporo. Now the festival is unthinkable without an abundance of Miku ice figures, winter concerts, exhibitions and sales, as well as a tram painted with portraits of Miku. Thanks to the Winter Festival, we got acquainted with the image Snow Miku, whose hair and eyes are a deeper blue. Lately, on the official design Snow Miku Competitions are held among illustrators, and the design theme changes every year.
Now I was almost ready to say that Snow Miku inspired illustrators to create a symbol of spring - Sakura Miku, but it turned out that the first spring Miku is in cherry tones ( picture on the right ) appeared much earlier - in December 2008. And here is the first winter version of Miku ( picture on the left ) appeared only in January 2010, apparently under the influence of the Winter Festival. The picture is not even called “Snow Miku”, but “Ice Miku”. There is also a summer version - Strawberry Miku with green hair and an autumn version with hair the color of tea with milk.

Vocals by Miku Hatsune

Initially, the virtual star appeared with one voice bank (the bank is characterized by certain voice properties that cannot be adjusted in the program). But on April 30, 2010, an addition to the program called Hatsune Miku Append, consisting of six!!! additional voice banks, which significantly expanded the capabilities of the program. Now the singer's voice could have the following shades: Soft (gentle voice), Sweet (clear, childish voice), Dark (powerful, emotional voice), Vivid (bright vocals), Solid (loud, clear tone) and Light (innocent, angelic tone ).
In 2011, Crypton announced English version of Hatsune Miku. My God! It would be better if he didn't do this. Fujita-san, the voice actor who gave Miku's voice, clearly had no talent for foreign languages. The work was very difficult, we even had to send specialists from America. Nevertheless, 2012 passed, demo recordings appeared that did not stand up to any criticism, but at the end of the year the English-language Miku appeared, accompanied by such an illustration that I cannot even imagine it in this article. The new voice bank was received very coolly. Only in September 2013, a software update was released to version 3 of Vocaloid, which included an English-language voice bank of acceptable quality.
At the time of writing, in the fall of 2015, Miku Hatsune’s program was almost updated to version 4, at least the demo recordings promise that the new version will be very successful!

Cover of the first game in the series

Sensing the smell of money, the SEGA corporation did not stand aside, developing by the summer of 2009 a rhythm game featuring Miku Hatsune and other Vocaloids. The essence of the gameplay is to press certain buttons corresponding to certain symbols that appear on the screen in the background of a particular clip.
Commercial success turned the game into a whole series...
The game was originally released on PlayStation Portable, a year later Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA Dreamy Theater for PS3 and Project DIVA 2nd were released. Variants of games (including for street machines) are still being developed. New songs, costumes, items appear, graphics improve, online services appear, but the essence of the gameplay does not change.
In 2012, a version appeared with chibi forms of Miku and her friends, Project Mirai for the Nintendo 3DS platform, a sequel to this version of the game was released a year later.
In the same 2012, Project DIVA-F was released for PS VITA, and in 2016, the X version was being prepared for release.
SEGA did not ignore the iOS platform, releasing two mobile versions of the game Miku Flick.
The Android system is less fortunate; the Hatsune Miku Live Stage Producer version has only 25 songs and no updates are planned for it...
The game, despite its obvious simplicity, turned out to be extremely popular in Japan. By 2014, it had sold almost 5 million copies. Recently, the market has expanded significantly to include the United States, where adapted (with subtitles) games are supplied.

Miku in all seasons

Prospects

With all the diversity of Vocaloids lately, Miku is confidently, by a large margin, ahead of his virtual colleagues, seriously (at least in Japan) competing with live performers. It cannot be admitted that the novelty effect has disappeared and interest in technology has disappeared. Vocaloid and the virtual star itself is gradually decreasing, nevertheless, Hatsune Miku has firmly occupied her niche in musical culture.
The further fate of our favorite animal greatly depends on the development of technology. This mainly concerns holographic visualization. Recent work in this area will not only make it possible to bring the image of a virtual star into Reality, but will also make it possible to feel its touch.
How long to wait for a breakthrough and what the appearance of many green-haired singers in our world will lead to, we still have to find out. Not much time left...
Thank you Natache for your help and edits!
Thanks for the clarifications to the Old Ghost, Dina B, Electric_A….

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Today, 16-year-old Japanese singer Hatsune Miku gave another triumphant concert in Tokyo. We would hardly talk about this if the girl was real. But she is completely computer synthesized, including her appearance, voice and dancing. Even her very figure is drawn with lasers in the air during concerts.

Japanese electronic engineers and producers managed to promote the new star in just a few weeks. And now world show business is wondering: maybe this is the future? And live performers are no longer needed?

NTV correspondent Sergei Malozyomov I also tried to understand.

She appears from under the stage, and hundreds of fans erupt in screams of delight. The world's first hologram star, in which everything is synthetic, and not just some parts. Hatsune Miku!

The army of fans of the virtual singer is growing rapidly. At first it was only the Japanese, but now, judging by the blogs and sales of her music on the Internet, also Americans, Australians, and Europeans.

The technology that allows you to synthesize singing when you put text into a computer has existed for a long time. But in this project, firstly, it was improved, and, secondly, to create the image, artists, composers and several real singers united, who gave the timbres of their voices.

Saki Fujita, singer: “It doesn’t matter to me that she, the virtual one, is loved and known more than the real me. The main thing is that it sounds great and people like it!”

YouTube is already full of clips of Hatsune Miku, and fan love is spurred on by the fact that the Vocaloid program, which synthesizes her voice, has a free simplified version, and in fact, Internet users can sing whatever they want in her voice. There is even a Finnish polka performed by the new star.

Hiroyuki Ito, head of the project to create a virtual singer: “Miku will open up new opportunities for composers, artists and musicians around the world, because computer synthesis will allow them to realize their ideas without the problems associated with a producer, money and the search for a real performer.”

Music critic Boris Barabanov watches the recording of the Japanese show with curiosity, but without delight. He says that the idea sounds attractive, but only a real performer can become a real idol for a long time. Interest in something invented quickly disappears.

Boris Barabanov, music columnist for the Kommersant publishing house: “There are Garillaz, there are these Japanese characters. You can also remember some of our Masyanya or Glucose, who at first was also a purely cartoon character. It’s just one type of attraction, it’s a form of pop culture, but it won’t replace live communication.”

The first Russian virtual singer Glukoza recalls that for the same reasons she quickly turned into the real Natalya Ionova.

Natalya Ionova (Glukoza), singer: “We drew one video, then a second. The viewer began to guess; everyone, of course, wanted to see who was singing and what she really looked like. The revival of the project and me specifically going on stage was inevitable.”

However, technology is developing. The synthesized voice is becoming more real, as are the three-dimensional dances. And how beneficial all this is for show business bosses! Such a star will never demand a raise for her salary, there will be no whims, children, husbands, or problems with alcohol. Although they will probably come up with all this for PR purposes too.

Hatsune Miku is a Japanese virtual singer created by Crypton Future Media on August 31, 2007. To synthesize her voice, technology is used to sample the voice of a live singer, namely the Vocaloid program from Yamaha. The voice donor was Japanese seiyuu Saki Fujita. It was first released on the Vocaloid2 engine, later Append (Sweet, Dark, Soft, Light, Vivid, Solid) was added, and was also re-released on the Vocaloid3 engine. Discs with Miku's songs won first positions in the Japanese charts. Also, thanks to laser 3D holography technology, she gives live concerts.

Miku Hatsune is 16 years old, with a height of 1 m 58 cm, she weighs 42 kg. Hair and eye color is green-blue. The name Hatsune Miku consists of three words: First (Hatsu), Sound (Ne) and Future (Miku). This can be roughly translated as “The First Sound from the Future.” In order to understand all aspects of Miku’s appearance, you need to understand the fact that she first appeared as a kind of mascot of the Vocaloid program, and only then, with increasing popularity, she went “free swimming”, becoming a semi-independent character, nevertheless remaining , Vocaloid's mascot.

Hatsune Miku EXPO 2015 in ShangHai Full ver.
The Vocaloid program is essentially a synthesizer of human singing. She was initially unpopular until Crypton Future Media decided to create an official mascot for the next generation of products (a mascot is any recognizable character that represents a school, sports team, community, military unit, event or brand). Of course, Crypton’s mascot had to implement the company’s main concept - to sing. Thus, Hatsune Miku was born.

The task of coming up with an image of Miku was given to artist Kei Garo. When Kei took on Hatsune's appearance, his only guidelines were that she was an android and her color scheme should be based on the turquoise color signature of the Yamaha synthesizer.

Initially, Miku could have a variety of hairstyles, but Kei settled on braids after trying out different options. Crypton has officially created Miku's "passport". However, it contains only its physical and technical parameters. Crypton decided not to work on Miku's personality characteristics, which now allows them to create situational traits that best suit a particular song or concert.

Each new voice for the Vocaloid program was created based on the voices of living singers and singers. Those in front of the microphone repeated all the sounds, which the program then had to put together into songs, just like putting together a mosaic from pieces.

But simple mechanical combination of sounds will not give good results and “reliable” singing. The Vocaloid program, in addition to pairing sound fragments, can automatically or manually change many voice parameters during the course of a song - from pitch to vibrato. Thanks to this, for example, Vocaloid is able to hit higher notes than the person who gave him his voice.

Initial sales of Vocaloid under the patronage of mascot Hatsune Miku were so high that Crypton's capabilities even lagged behind demand. In the first 12 days of sales, about 3,000 copies of the program were sold.

Globally, this is approximately one in 250 sales in the music software industry. On September 12, 2007, Amazon.co.jp reported sales of Hatsune Miku totaling 57,500,000 yen, making it the number one selling software at the time.

Hatsune Miku sings only in Japanese, despite this, the singer is becoming popular in the English-speaking world. She, for example, opened concerts for Lady Gaga during her world tour in 2014.

Hatsune Miku & Megurine Luka - Magnet Live in Tokyo Japan

Release year: 2019

Genre: maho-shoujo, drama, musical

Type: TV

Number of episodes: 13 (25 min.)

Description: The world of people, as it was for centuries, no longer exists. Creepy monsters are scurrying around everywhere. They destroy everything that was created by people, and the world changes dramatically. The people themselves were forced to leave their homes. Civilization is on the verge of total destruction. It’s a matter of time, but there is one more circumstance that holds the remnants of the world and does not allow them to disappear from the face of the Earth. And these are the special abilities of a group of individuals. Several people have the ability to awaken powerful forces contained in very ancient relics. This method has not yet failed.

The sound frequency that can be extracted from the relics has a noticeable effect on monsters. The onslaught of these can be contained. Humanity gets a break. There are some things people can do while relaxing. A concert of popular performers is taking place. And in the midst of the event, a monster attack occurs. Hibiki Tachibana was confused. She didn't have time to get into cover. The girl’s life hung in the balance, but Canada’s appearance saved her. The owner of superpowers became the savior of a schoolgirl. Hibiki becomes imbued with the personality of his savior. The future will provide girls with a lot of adventures.

Anime about a rock or metal band is a relatively rare genre if we take into account the entire animation industry. Although the very component of the musical genre is quite often present in TV series, it is not often that you see an interesting story about a singer or guitarist. Let's look at the most popular and interesting representatives of this interesting genre.

BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad (Beck)

Tanaka Yukio is an ordinary schoolboy who does not have any bright hobbies and does not strive for anything. A chance meeting with Minami Ryusuke changes his whole life. Ryusuke dreams of creating his own rock band and on the way to his goal he recruits a team into which Yukio, who has not previously been involved in rock or music in general, hesitantly and gradually joins.

The anime focuses on the unhurried and slow formation of a rock band and the improvement of the main character as a singer and guitarist, where the main part of the story can be divided into rehearsals and concerts, school life and the internal conflicts of the group. One of the best music anime

Detroit Metal City (Detroit, metal city)

Parody anime about metal from Studio 4°C. Soichi Negishi is a harmless young man and an exemplary son who dreams of becoming a pop singer. However, having arrived in a big city, after finishing his student life, circumstances force him to act as the vocalist of a death metal band. So the exemplary Soichi in ordinary life, on stage, turns into the great and terrible Krauser-sama - the embodiment of the hellish king of metal, who is an idol among Japanese fans of des matel. In the hope of one day becoming a famous pop singer, Negishi has no choice but to continue his musical career in the band that has gained fame - DMC (Detroit Metal City), writing absurd and harsh lyrics and performing on stage in terrifying makeup.

An excellent parody series, one of the best anime about rock bands and metal in its genre. Hard and dark humor, which will not be accepted by everyone, really makes you laugh. The absurd and ridiculous everyday situations that Souichi encounters and is dealt with by Krauser-sama are some of the funniest in anime.

NANA (Nana)

The story is about two girls with the same name Nana, who accidentally meet on a train. Despite the fact that they are as different as fire and water, the girls are united by music, without which they cannot imagine their lives. The anime tells about the heroines, their personal lives and problems, ups and downs.

Kaikan Phrase (Sensual words)

44-episode shoujo anime about a rock band. The anime tells the story of an unfamiliar street band and the path of its formation in the world of music and J-rock (Japanese rock). A leisurely narrative diluted with the personal lives of the main characters, many everyday problems and conflicts throughout the story.

The Legend of Black Heaven (Chief Oji)

Fantastic musical comedy. The main character of the anime is Tanaka Oji, an ordinary office plankton who hates his job. He also has a constantly oppressive wife and a young son. Going through a midlife crisis, Oji remembers his younger days when he was in a rock band.

However, Tanaka's life changes dramatically with the arrival of charming Leila, a new employee. After all, the beauty turns out to be none other than an alien agent who must recruit the protagonist. After all, only the sound of his guitar can stop the enemy alien force, ready to wipe out all life from the face of the Earth.

K-On! (Kayon!)

The anime is not about a rock band, but about a team of girls playing lighter music (something like pop rock). The main characters are schoolgirls who are fond of playing musical instruments. Ritsu Tainaka, in the hope of preserving the light music club, recruits a team of like-minded women who unite into a single team and begin to rehearse.

Despite the fact that Kion is not an anime about rock or metal, it is worth including in this list, if only because of the rarity of the appearance of such series as such. On the other hand, anime is nothing more than the progenitor of the genre about cute girls... (insert word here)