[Hits Home] A Special Feature on Dark/Vent Vocaloid Songs

I'm a good girl.Namiguru

Me, a Good Girl / Namiguru feat. Yuka Satoishi

This piece portrays the pain of a child striving to meet their parents’ expectations.

It’s a song by Namigure, released in November 2025, created as part of the Yuka Satoishi compilation project.

Focusing on a mother–daughter relationship with the theme of “self-sacrifice,” it depicts a daily life where lessons take priority over friendships, and even a perfect score is dismissed as “only natural.” Through repeated questioning, the girl’s earnest struggle comes into sharp relief.

Notably different from the artist’s usually bright style, it drew attention as a bold new direction.

post-mortem careGray Slumber

post-mortem care

A song by Nemuri Haiiro titled with a word that means the procedure of preparing one’s appearance after death.

It was released in December 2025.

This approximately 1-minute-45-second piece features the UTAU voicebank Nurse-robo_Type T.

It portrays a perverse psychology: a rejection of ever hearing that spoiled, needy voice again, an attachment that still can’t let go, and a self that can only stay intact by offloading pain onto the other.

The vocal, where mechanical coldness and fragility coexist, alternately illuminates images of bodily pain and clinical, cold procedures.

Please experience its dark, decadent world.

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【NicoKara】 Interviewer (on vocal)

A world where even if I swapped places with someone else, no one would notice.

Is there any meaning to living in such a world? I’ve kept up appearances and stubborn pride all this time, but deep down I just wanted to be loved…

This song expresses those feelings.

If you listen to it when you’re feeling down, the tears won’t stop.

NightmareAzari

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A wave of people are getting hooked on this dark electric tune! It’s a track by Azari, a popular Vocaloid producer with many overseas fans, released in 2022.

The heavy, thundering bass and flower’s noisy vocals leave a strong impression.

It feels like something is slowly closing in on you… Listening to it evokes that sensation, that fear.

Perhaps the very fear stirred up by the sound arrangement is the “Nightmare” itself.

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Picon – Playback ft. Hatsune Miku

The sorrowful soundscape and vocals stir my heart.

It’s a track by Picon, a Vocaloid producer known for highly original and artistic works, released in 2021.

The song was written specifically for the unit “25-ji, Nightcord de.” from the mobile game Project SEKAI COLORFUL STAGE! feat.

Hatsune Miku.

Its lo-fi yet grand sound arrangement pairs strikingly with Hatsune Miku’s murmuring, almost whisper-like singing.

And as the chorus approaches, the swell of emotion.

It’s not an intense song by any means, so why does it unsettle the heart so deeply?

I’ve been alive for 1,000 years.Iyowa

Living for 1,000 Years / Iyowa feat. Hatsune Miku (living millennium / Iyowa feat. Hatsune Miku)

It sounds catchy, and yet… why does it feel so suspicious? This piece, released in 2020 by iyowa, a Vocaloid producer known for a one-of-a-kind, distinctive musicality, has a unique charm.

Its swaying rhythms and noisy timbres offer a flavor distinct from lo-fi music.

The lyrics, written from the perspective of a painting that has been inside a frame for a thousand years, are crafted in a way that makes you think: only iyowa could write this! We humans, who can live at most about a hundred years—so, how shall we go on living from here?

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Yui Kizuna / Hifumi feat. Otomachi Una

There are probably some of you who’ve been told by your partner that you’re “too much.” For you, I recommend this Vocaloid rock song.

It’s a track by the Vocaloid producer Hifumi, who became well-known with the hit “Moudoku ga Osou.” It was released in 2019.

The song is yandere-themed, sung from the perspective of someone thinking about a lover who’s gradually drifting away.

The Japanese-style melody is lovely, isn’t it?