I guess this is the next step up from my interest in OS-tans a while ago; I've been browsing around for Hatsune Miku songs. I've known about the Vocaloid software and the Miku voice for quite a while but never looked into it much until Dagger linked to a beautiful rendition of Ishikawa Chiaki's Uninstall (the OP theme for Bokurano) on her myOtaku page a while ago. Yes, I'm blaming her for my little obsession here.

The songs I've found have ranged from good, like Ne Tou ge de Reset! from Lucky Star's Hiiragi Tsukasa character CD, to just plain funny as in the case of this version of the Star Wolf theme. Another couple of good video game ones are the Final Fantasy VI Decisive Battle boss theme and Dancing Mad end boss theme. Miku's imitation of Kefka's laugh in the second one is hilarious. I just wish the people posting these knew how to encode decent mp3 audio because the sound quality on most kind of sucks.

And then there are the memes. Miku seems to have inherited the Ievan Polkka from Bleach's Orihime, of leekspin fame. There are leeks all over in the animations and art I've seen of Miku. Caramelldansen is another one I've come across which is way, way too catchy, and dancing Miku is cute too. Apparently someone wrote a program called MikuMikuDance just for making 3D animations of her.

It's times like these I wish I knew Japanese so I could browse Nico Nico Douga for this stuff. Almost every Hatsune Miku video I've seen on YouTube was ripped from there. I found Mikufan.com, which reposts videos off Nico Nico Douga, but there isn't a whole lot there yet.