Image Song: Difference between revisions

* ''[[One Piece]]'' has quite a few image songs for the Straw Hats and for other noteworthy characters like Shanks and Mr. 2. Some of the Straw Hats' image songs have only one character singing, but there are often ones with multiple characters (for example, Hurricane Girls features Nami and Robin), or the entire crew.

** At one point during the Skypeia arc, Luffy and Usopp sing one of ''Sanji's'' songs. Badly.

* ''[[Ouran High School Host Club]]'' has some very fun image songs, as well as a song sung by all of the characters together. Noticeably missing is Haruhi's image song, and she only speaks in the group song. This makes sense as canonically, she's a horrible singer.

** Although Haruhi in-character cannot sing her Japanese voice actress, [[Maaya Sakamoto]], most certainly can. Haruhi may not have been given an image song or even have been allowed to sing with the boys in "Mata Ashita" due to Maaya's record contract. [[Caitlin Glass]], Haruhi's English voice actress, is also a lovely singer.

* [[Dancougar]] has some sung by the voice actors themselves. Some of the notable ones are Ai Wa Zankoku No Fairytail and Ai Wa Shitta Yajuu No You Ni. The former was sung by the entire Juusenki Tai, the latter's just [[Kazuki Yao|Shinobu]].

* ''[[Marginal Prince]]'' features a song by any of the characters in [[Once Per Episode|focus of the particular episode]] - episode Nine even features ''three'' of them. This was probably mainly done to promote the [[Dating Sim|game]] the anime is based on, as it main feature is the songs as a "reward" for completing a character route. Luckily, [[Ryotaro Okiayu|most]] [[Masakazu Morita|of]] [[Kenji Nojima|the]] [[Kouki Miyata|seiyuu]] are good singers. Unfortunately, not all songs from the game made it into the anime series (but therefore, some new ones were created).

* ''[[Hidan no Aria]]'' has a few, notably "First Contact" and "Ring a ding on, Riko-rin" for Aria and Riko

* [[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]] has [[Hot-Blooded|Kamina]] and [[Badass|Simon]] do a duet by the name of "Break Through the Dream." It is filled with about as much [[Rated "M" for Manly|manliness]] as you can cram into a song.

== Video Games ==

 

* ''[[Sakura Taisen]]'' might be one of the most extreme cases. There are literally dozens of versions of the original theme song, recorded by every possible cast member or combination of cast members. In addition, there are straight Image Songs for each of the main cast, which sometimes find their way into the program as individual themes.

* The ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]]'' series has had loads of CDs released. The first game in particular had MANY image songs and that was just for the lead character, Shiori.

* ''[[The King of Fighters]]'' has a few image songs on every arranged sound track from '94 to '98. Most of them are usually sung by Athena's VA, but '95 has a song where the entire cast gets in on the action, and '97 has a Kyo/Iori duet. Hell, even Choi gets to sing!

** The tail end of it is even the short song that's played in his intro during KOF '98 if he's the first character out on the team or if it's a 1v1 match. The song, for the record, is called the "Choi Bounge Ondo."

* The Masou Kishin/Elemental Lords in ''[[Super Robot Wars]]'' mostly had their [[Leitmotif]]s turned into Image Song. Other than Masaki's, they're usually sung by their own seiyuus (Masaki's Image Song is sung by [[JAM Project|Ichiro Mizuki and Hironobu Kageyama]].) There's also image songs by [[JAM Project]] about the SRX Team's [[Leitmotif]].

* Mai Shiranui, from the ''[[Fatal Fury]]'' games has gotten 2 image songs, based on her background music themes: "Kachou Fuugetsu Otome Mai" (not by her voice actress, but Reiko Chiba) and "Dear MAI Boy" (by her actual voice actress, Akoya Sogi). From the same series, Blue Mary also has an image song, "Blue Mary's Blues" which also has a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khbd5Pcj9g4 sprite-based video].

* The two-part episode of ''[[Kappa Mikey]]'' had a karaoke theme and each character had his or her own song included. Being a parody of anime, this is appropriate, although the voice actors' singing abilities are far from ''[[American Idol]]'' quality.

* "I Don't Need No Instructions (To Know How to Rock)" from ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]] [[The Movie|Colon Movie Film For Theaters]]'' would fit this trope for Carl down to a T if it weren't for the fact that Carl's voice actor never actually sings this in any known media.

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' had "Do the Bartman" and "Deep Deep Trouble" (among others; the cast recorded an album called ''The Simpsons Sing the Blues'' which was about half these and half blues songs sung in character, but those two are the best known). The former gets referenced in later episodes occasionally in order to poke fun at the show's initial reception; in one episode, Bart sings a bit of it only to be dismissed by Ralph Wiggum --

{{quote|'''Ralph:''' That is ''so'' 1991!}}

** This album also gave birth to a live stage tour, which Shredder temporarily takes over to sing an image song of his own, in which he sings about... how much he hates music. Figure that one out.

* The ''[[Around the World with Willy Fog]]'' soundtrack CD features image songs for Romy, Rigodón (joined by Tico), and Dix and Transfer (as antagonists with different goals, they share a [[Distant Duet]]).

{{quote|'''June''': * singing* I'm flying, lighter than air, up in the skies, whithout a care, I'm-OOF! * slams into TV screen*}}

* ''[[Action League NOW]]'': "THUNDERGIRL, FLYING LIKE THUNDER, WHILE OTHERS MUST WONDER, WHAT IT'S LIKE TO BE MEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

* Christy Carlson Romano, [[Kim Possible]]'s voice actress, sings "Say The Word" ''as'' Kim, which is a braggy song about her released on the soundtrack CD. She sang a remixed version in the "Hidden Talent" episode.

* Toad in ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' has one.