Anime & Internet
Anime, otaku culture, doujin and the internet: music grown from 2D culture and the web.
This family is grouped by use: anime songs serve a show, otaku and doujin are fans' own creative scenes, and internet culture comes from TikTok, Douyin, livestream rooms, SoundCloud and memes.
What they share
- Closely tied to visual works
- Dense arrangements
- Community and remix culture
Branches
- Anime Songs
Songs written for anime: battle openings, ballad endings, idol songs and tokusatsu themes.
Otaku & DoujinMusic fans make themselves: vocal synths, denpa, Touhou arranges, J-core and rhythm games.
Internet CultureSounds grown from short video, livestream rooms and SoundCloud: the phonk family, Chinese DJ edits, hanmai and kawaii future bass.
All styles
- Anisong
In a very short time, it makes viewers remember the characters, the world and the next encounter.
- Battle Anime Opening
Max out the hype in 89 seconds: fast guitars, a declarative chorus and a title you can shout.
- Anime Ballad Ending
The song that rises softly as an episode ends: piano, strings and a gentle voice leaving the afterglow to you.
- Japanese Idol Song
Group unison, sparkling arrangements and gaps left for the crowd's chants, songs written for cheering.
Tokusatsu / Super Robot SongShowa-style hero themes: brass fanfares, male voices shouting attack names, robots and heroes charging out.
- Vocaloid
With no real singer present, a voice can still become a character people create together.
- Denpa
Turns excessive cuteness, repetition and strange logic into a channel of its own.
- Touhou Arrange
Touhou Project themes rearranged into rock, metal, electronic and jazz; one game raised an entire doujin music scene.
J-CoreUltra-fast hardcore kicks, moe vocal samples and goofy effects, the frantic electronic music of Japan's doujin scene.
Rhythm Game MusicHigh-BPM electronic music designed for fingers and eyes: dense notes, sudden tempo shifts, the harder the better.
- Phonk
Tape hiss, eerie samples and slow, hazy rap: dark hip-hop grown from '90s Memphis underground rap.
- Drift Phonk
Distorted cowbell melodies, blown-out 808s and relentless drive: the go-to soundtrack for drift edits and gym montages.
- Brazilian Phonk
Brazilian funk's bouncing drums meet phonk's cowbell: hypnotic Portuguese vocal chops, dark yet danceable.
Chinese DJ RemixChinese pop songs remixed into pounding slow-rock and car-stereo DJ edits, cheesy yet addictive.
Hanmai (Chinese MC Shout-Rap)Half-shouted, half-chanted bravado from livestream rooms: four syllables at a time, all swagger, so over-the-top it becomes addictive.
Chinese Internet SongNo record label and no packaging, spread through websites and ringtones to every street: Chinese viral songs of the 2000s.
Kawaii Future BassFuture bass's soft chords plus bells, toy sounds and cute vocals, like a trampoline in candy clouds.
Nightcore / Sped UpSpeed a song up, raise its pitch, add an anime picture: an online remix culture that grew out of a Norwegian school project.
DreamcoreEmpty pools, corridors with no way out and warped old records: an internet aesthetic that turns childhood memory into a dream.