History Main / IMageSOng

* While not sung by any voice actors from the cartoon adaption, there were a few songs back in ''MyLittlePony'' G1 that described some ponies. The CD was based off the toy line and was European, so it makes sense they wouldn't use anyone from the American cartoons.

** Several albums of songs sung by their wrestlers were put out that are supposed to provide more insight on the characters, including ''The Wrestling Album'', ''Piledriver: The Wrestling Album II'', ''Wrestlemania: The Album'', and ''WWE Originals''. With few exceptions, they all pretty much suck.
** Both of Wrestling/JohnCena's best-known and longest-lasting entrance themes ("Basic Thugonomics" and "The Time is Now") were written and performed by him. Basic Thugonomics was good. The Time is Now? YMMV.

* The ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' did this in the early 1990s with the ''Coming Out Of Their Shells'', an album featuring the eponymous characters as a rock band, singing character building and motiviational songs about their lives. It's obscure because it's terrible, and not sung by the actual voice actors. (On the bright side, one song from the album - "Pizza Power" - was good enough to be featured in the arcade/SNES title ''Turtles in Time''.) 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.

** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-F1Stpj7jWc Ryder or Riot!!]]'' is one for Wrestling/ZackRyder, in which he [[BoastfulRap boastfyully raps]] about himself.

* As a tribute to the show ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'', Ken Ashcorp created the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm7bTvTtXJg Supernatural]][[http://kenashcorp.bandcamp.com/track/supernatural ,]] a "slower and more melodic song" where Dipper expressing his feelings about the paranormal activity.

* Creator/SeananMcGuire has used her songwriting talents to create two image songs for her UrbanFantasy character Rose Marshall: "Pretty Little Dead Girl" tells the urban legend (or as [=McGuire=] puts it, the "filthy libel") version of Rose's story as a hitchhiking ghost, while "Graveyard Rose" tells the flipside of Rose's legend as the "Lady in the Diner" truck driver's psychopomp.

* All the main characters from Brazilian comic ''ComicBook/MonicasGang''.

--->''I've [[ReluctantPsycho carved my own path]] / you've [[BloodKnight followed your wrath]] / but maybe [[NotSoDifferent we're both the same.]]''

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'':
** The "Best Day Ever Album" contains several original songs performed by the main characters: Employee of the Month for [=SpongeBob=], Under My Rock for Patrick, Superior for Squidward, You Will Obey for Plankton, Who Wants to Race Me? for Sandy, and Fishin' For Money for Mr. Krabs.
** In Germany, there are multiple German Spongebob albums that contain original/cover songs sung by the characters, such as [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4thxGmdDl4 Bargeldlos (Mr. Krabs)]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TPyWT1wN478 Tief im Ozean (Spongebob and Patrick)]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDsdwCzG1wc Witzig, Witzig (Sandy)]],[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzOp0JIZGUs Weil ich ein Burgerbrater bin (Spongebob)]], and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3i5Le87KH8 Lecker Lecker (Spongebob)]].

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

* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' had "Tears", performed by HEALTH and specially made for the game, which would later catapult the band into success. The song is about Max's constant hanging onto the past and how he needs to let go the death of his wife and his daughter. It's a very gritty song which fits specially well with Max's depressed character.

* ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure'', ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'' and ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog2006'' have character songs for all the playable characters plus the game's theme tune. ''VideoGame/SonicHeroes'' replaced individual character themes with team themes (fitting the game's gimmick). The trend varyingly continues with the most recent games (different songs for different endings in ''VideoGame/ShadowTheHedgehog'', only one theme song for ''VideoGame/SonicUnleashed'', etc).

* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w4ZYGCsgKrQ made one for Johnny Crawfish]] called "Special".

** ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' and ''Series/KamenRiderWizard'' pare back the per-form image songs, with ''Fourze'' only featuring JK and Yuki Jojima on the soundtrack for in-show songs, and relying on franchise-wide official bands Rider Chips and Kamen Rider Girls for ending themes in ''Wizard'' for Wizard's main forms and Beast's base and super forms.

* Edd Byrnes recorded the hit song "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb" (with Connie Stevens), which was based on his character in the ABC DetectiveDrama ''77 Sunset Strip''.

** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' follows suit with each of Kamen Rider OOO's Combo forms getting their own theme song sung by Shu Watanabe as Eiji Hino: Tatoba Combo's [[https://youtu.be/n-fcfmS5Jyw "Regret nothing ~Tighten Up~"]], Gatakiriba Combo's [[https://youtu.be/yidIvPzWMkc "Got to keep it real"]], Latoratah Combo's [[https://youtu.be/7mugFMcL0sk "Ride on Right time"]], Sagohzo Combo's [[https://youtu.be/TXbT1IemrQQ "Sun goes up"]], and Shauta Combo's [[https://youtu.be/ausbsYj13CE "Shout out"]]. He gets duets with Ryosuke Miura as Ankh on Tajador Combo's [[https://youtu.be/ebwl1M6G5Yw "Time judged all"]] and Creator/AkiraKushida on Putotyra Combo's [[https://youtu.be/ELyORdgoc34 "POWER to TEARER"]]. The two bearers of the Kamen Rider Birth belt also get a duet in the song [[https://youtu.be/ZJQsVAhEHvU "Reverse/Re:birth"]].

** Some Sentai characters did perform their own image songs, including [[Series/DaiSentaiGoggleFive Goggle Pink]], [[Series/ChoujuuSentaiLiveman Blue Dolphin]] and [[Series/ChoujinSentaiJetman Black Condor]]. There was also an album named ''Sentai Heroine'' that included most of the female rangers' and villainesses' (including [[Creator/MachikoSoga Bandora]]) songs sung by their actors from 90 to Gaoranger.

** On ''Go-onger'', along with the three female leads (Saki, Miu and Kegalesia), Hiroto also got not one, but two Image Song(s). Not so surprising since his actor is also a singer as well.
* ''Franchise/KamenRider'' occasionally does this as well, but how many of the actors sing on the album depends entirely on whether their characters would be the ''type'' to sing.
** ''Series/KamenRiderRyuki'' has one for each of its four main riders (for any measure of 'main' given in the setting). ''Lonely Soldier'' for Ren, ''Kienai Niji'' for Kitaoka and ''Spinnin Around'' for Asakura.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDenO'': Ryoutarou has a duet with each of his Imagin and he has his own song. The Imagin also do their own version of the opening song!
** ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' gives it a twist in that the primary Riders (and Kiva's [[MultiformBalance alternate forms]]) all have Image Songs, but these are all sung by TETRA-FANG, a "limited band" formed for this express purpose, with Kiva star Koji Seto providing the vocals.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDecade'' has ''Ride the wind'' for Tsukasa Kadoya and ''Treasure Sniper'' for Daiki Kaito.
** ''Series/KamenRiderOOO'' pretty much runs on the stuff. There's one for each of the main character's "Combo" forms [[labelnote: *]]Ride On Right Time for [[https://youtu.be/dUTHU3Fuu1I LaToraH]], Sun Goes Up for [[https://youtu.be/rRihTS9ArFQ SaGoZo]], Got to Keep It Real for [[https://youtu.be/gmoArPO727k GataKiriBa]], Shout Out for [[https://youtu.be/u2K1v3c_kEU ShaUTa]] and Regret Nothing ~ Tighten Up for [[https://youtu.be/h_V-0m4H6kM TaToBa]] and its modified version for every random combination. [[/labelnote]](his base form plus every SetBonus), all of them sung by the main character's actor. The two full-on SuperMode combos are duets with a different character [[labelnote: *]]Time Judged All for [[https://youtu.be/WeBzcqYisSQ TaJaDor]], with Ankh and Power To Tearer for [[https://youtu.be/4a24m9Z6LeY PuToTyra]], with Akira Kushida[[/labelnote]]. There is also [[https://youtu.be/xZDJyBikt-A Reverse/Re:Birth]], the duet of the series' two secondary riders.
** ''Series/KamenRiderGaim'' decribes its insanely twisted character dynamics with two songs - ''Ranbu Escalation'', the duet of Kouta and Kaito and Mitsuzane's ''Point of No Return''.
** ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'' has ''Spinning Wheel'', sung by of the series' rider trio - Shinnosuke, Gou and Chase.
** ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'' has ''Real Game'' for Parado, ''Wish In The Dark'' for Kuroto Dan, ''JUSTICE'' for Masamune Dan and ''PEOPLE GAME'' for Poppy Pipopapo, which was sung by the character herself and used in-universe in commercials for Kamen Rider Chronicle.
** ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'' has ''Zi-O, Toki no Oja'', for the title character, Sougo, and ''Future Guardian'' for TheLancer, Geiz.

* ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'''s Ariel has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=suoqDGNMX2g "One Dance"]] (contrary to popular belief, not a CutSong composed for the film), written by Chris Martin (not the Music/{{Coldplay}} singer) and released on the compilation ''The Little Mermaid and Friends''.

* ''Series/TheNoddyShop'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nx0yKgTFbEo made one for Johnny Crawfish]] called "Special".

* ''Series/{{Batman}}'' had a SoBadItsGood one for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAlfr7wsqcM The Riddler]], released as a 45 and with a song by Frank Gorshin as himself as the BSide.

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* ''Manga/AkumaNoRiddle'': Each of the girls get their own image song in the end credits. Except Shiena, poor thing.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' alone had one song for each of the Digi Destined, one song for each of their Digimon partners, and one song where they sang together, for a total of 36 -- in ''addition'' to ensemble songs and a Christmas album. ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' and ''Anime/DigimonTamers'' also had songs for secondary characters and antagonists. ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'' and ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' eventually leveled off on the practice, and ''Anime/DigimonXrosWars'' and ''Anime/DigimonXrosWarsTheYoungHuntersLeapingThroughTime'' has none at all. Tai's Image Song was used as an insert piece late in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' proper, Matt performed his in a concert in ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'', and several other characters' instrumental themes seem to be derived from theirs (or vice-versa).
** In a German example, the first album of Digimon put out by RTL II has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmjJDwThivA Mimi's Song,]] while the second one has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SxZ339oMuRU Matt's Song.]]
** ''Anime/DigimonSavers'' did eventually get an Image Song CD, but [[DemotedToExtra Yoshi and Lalamon were missing altogether]]. Frustratingly ironic, as their BackStory is that they met after Yoshi failed in a piano recital and Lalamon ''has an attack called Sing A Song'' which does ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin. Later in the year, another CD was released that included all new songs from the five "[[TheHero goggle boys]]" for ''Digimon'''s tenth anniversary (bonus points for one of the songs being called "GOGGLE BOY").
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'' has between one to three image songs between each of the major characters (including one of the villains, [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Valgaav]]), and there is both the infamous "Maiden's Prayer" duet by Lina and Amelia's voice actresses from the second season of the anime, and a song where the four leads all sing together. The [[AnimeThemeSong opening and ending themes]] (sung by either Masami Okui or Music/MegumiHayashibara, or both) are all Image Songs for heroine Lina Inverse, as they tend to describe her personality directly.
* ''LightNovel/SisterPrincess'' had an extensive soundtrack with solo and group songs for all 12 of the sisters.
* Similarly for ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'', featuring all ''thirty'' of the girls from Negi's class, alone and [[CastHerd in combinations]]. The Opening Theme for the second anime features several re-recordings by different combinations of the girls, which were then used for the actual opening of different episodes. Many of the important characters (i.e. Ala Alba) are given their own songs as well.
* One episode of ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' features some of the characters singing their image songs as karaoke. Interestingly, some characters turn out to be horrible singers in the "reality" of the show, whereas their voice actors are always at their best on the [=CDs=] (even when in character). In a later episode, when Yomi's listening to the radio, the DJ starts to play a request: "Kokoro wa Shoujo de Parachute" by Asakawa Yuu. This is Sakaki's image song and voice actor. They also use Tomo's image song, "Poi Poi Peace", as her ring tone.
* Some of the earliest examples of image songs may well be found on the various soundtrack albums released for ''Anime/BubblegumCrisis'' in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
* ''Anime/WeissKreuz'' is the poster anime for this trope. For lack of a better term, Creator/TakehitoKoyasu, Creator/HiroYuki, Creator/ShinichiroMiki and Creator/TomokazuSeki basically formed their own boy band.
* The ''Anime/DiGiCharat'' franchise is extremely guilty of this trope, with lots and lots of discs and singles released. Somewhat [[JustifiedTrope justified]] since the main characters want to be idols and the franchise itself born as an marketing strategy. There was even a crossover CD with ''Anime/GalaxyAngel'' featuring [[ActorAllusion characters with the same VA]].
* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', thanks to its immense popularity put out 9 character albums, 4 soundtracks, 3 drama [=CDs=], 8 combination soundtrack and drama [=CDs=] that shipped with one of the DVD versions, a live concert, an orchestral concert, followed by 7 more character albums for the 2009 re-airing from the FiveManBand, plus [[GenkiGirl Tsuruya]] and [[ThoseTwoGuys Taniguchi]]. All this for just 28 episodes! Emiri Kimidori, who only appears in a single scene for less than three minutes, gets a [=CD=] (although she later received an increased role in the later books that hadn't yet been adapted), and [[Manga/HaruhiChan Churuya]] has 6 image songs. Naturally, the GenderFlip faction has redone even these image songs. And they're GOOD.
* ''Manga/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'', being a musical, uses every image song in the episodes, as well as every other song in the vocal box.
* The ''Anime/TenchiMuyo'' series -- or group of series variants -- has released a whole lot of [=CDs=], including a Christmas album. Characters have several songs that could be Image Songs, and some made their way into the first television series (which followed, and re-structured, the {{OVA}}), during karaoke on-board ship. A few of these were released in America by Pioneer, including one CD called "Meet The Tenchi Muyo" that mimicked the appearance of several Beatles albums.
* ''Manga/LuckyStar'' has a large collection of image songs thanks to its overwhelming popularity. And it's not just the four main girls, either. Kagami's classmates and even Konata's deceased mother get songs. Misao, formerly one of ThoseTwoGuys, became enough of an EnsembleDarkHorse to get an album all to herself. Shiraishi got more songs than anyone else thanks to him taking the lead for the second half of ending songs. One of the songs that got a full version was none other than ''Ore no Wasuremono''.
* ''Manga/HayateTheCombatButler'':
** The "Butler Network" segment advertises the show's image songs in a very direct, NoFourthWall kind of way, including having Nagi wonder how well her song is selling.
** Although not technically her character song, Hinagiku sings the ending of season two, it could fit for it though. Also for the second ending of season two, Hayate and Nagi sing, what could be considered, an image song.
** Aside from the Season One mini-albums for the major characters (containing 2 songs, karaoke tracks, and interviews), there are a few albums for Season 2, TheMovie, Can't Take My Eyes Off You, and Cuties with a few characters tracks for pretty much everyone - notably most characters got an Image Song for the ending of their personal episode in Cuties.
** Due to astronomical PopularityPower, Hinagiku has ''three full character albums'' ([=HiNA=], [=HiNA=] 2 Spring Has Come, and [=HiNA=] 3 Message). The IdolSinger character has only just gotten ''one''. Both also get a {{Crossover}} album with ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'' featuring that series' {{Tsundere}} Haqua and IdolSinger Kanon.
* Urara from ''Anime/YesPrettyCure5'' has two Image Songs which, in the show's reality, she wrote herself. She regularly sings them in concerts, accompanied in at least one case by the rest of the main cast.
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'':
** In a rare English language example, there is a soundtrack CD released titled ''Pokemon: 2B A Master'' that features Image Songs associated with characters from the show, but not performed directly by their English voice actors. Later, there was even a live theater show -- ''Theatre/PokemonLive'' -- that featured the characters singing some of the songs from that soundtrack. The exception would be "Double Trouble", sung by [[TerribleTrio Team Rocket's]] [=VAs=]. The Totally Pokémon CD released during Johto had a particularly memorable one sung by Brock's VA, Creator/EricStuart ("Two Perfect Girls").
** On the Japanese side, there's Satoshi's (Ash's) themes "Spurt!" and "XY&Z" which are openings, Haruka's (May's) theme is "Watashi Makenai", Hikari (Dawn) has "Kimi no Soba de", Serena has "[=DoriDori=]" and Eureka (Bonnie) has "Puni-chan no Uta" (with all of their themes used as an ending theme of their saga). Instrumentals of these are usually heard during their contest appears. Team Rocket have "Rocket-Dan Yo Eien Ni" which they have occasionally sung in place of their motto. Takeshi (Brock) has "Takeshi no Paradise", originally an EndingTheme which he later started singing in episodes whenever there's a need for some kind or distraction. And Kojiro (James) has "Lucky Lucky", a flirtatious [[HurricaneOfPuns Hurricane of (Pokémon) Puns]]. Vocal versions of both these songs have made it into the dub.
* Another rare English language example, (also courtesy of 4kids no less) is the [[Anime/YuGiOh Yu-Gi-Oh: Music To Duel By]] album which features "Face up Face Down" a theme song for Maximillion Pegasus sung by his voice actor Darren Dunstan.
* ''Manga/FushigiYuugi'' had quite a few of these, most of the main characters had two image songs. A few of these were used in the series to punctuate serious moments [[spoiler:i.e. character deaths]]. Notably, several of the image songs were actually background music from the show with lyrics.
* ''Manga/RurouniKenshin'' had quite a few image songs, though they were not actually used in the show. These included songs for characters from mini-arcs.
* ''Manga/MyBrideIsAMermaid'' has a massive collection of image songs to its name, most prominently by San and Luna. MagicMusic is such a major part of the show it was to be expected.
* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' had four songs for each girl[[labelnote: *]]Five for the original trio.[[/labelnote]] by ''Dokkan'', though Pop still only had two (and one wasn't even sung by her seiyuu). There are also two separate [=CDs=] featuring songs sung by their classmates and teachers.
* [[http://www.wikimoon.org/index.php?title=Image_song Here's the full list]] of ''Franchise/SailorMoon'' albums. A lot of money was made off TheMerch.
** The anime has image songs and singles for central characters in almost every season; only some of them actually appear in the show. There was also a CD of image songs sold in North America called "Lunarock!", which featured songs that appeared in a few episodes. Sailor Moon had more than one for herself on there, unlike common anime practice in Japan [[NonSingingVoice different voice actresses]] were used to sing for the girls, due to the album being recorded in L.A and the voice talent for the show being based in Canada.
** Its live-action adaptation ''Series/PrettyGuardianSailorMoon'' has these as well, as did, predictably, The Musicals ''Theatre/SeraMyu''.
** Creator/StephanieBeard wrote the song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kSRUKG1BuU "The Real SugaBayBee."]] Supposedly it was for her radio character persona, but she had to have at least drawn some inspiration from her [[AmericansHateTingle hated character]] in the series. Most people consider it her image song for Rini.
* ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' follows the suit, with two character songs for each Mew Mew -- except Mew Ichigo, who got ''five''.
* Even thirteen-episode ''Manga/{{Pretear}}'' has image songs for the four older Leafe Knights on the second soundtrack CD.
* ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'':
** Song Calendars and the "Hot Song Battle Contest" album display the voice actors singing wholly in character, sometimes purely for humor (such as Genma trying to sing while in Panda form), but for surprisingly dramatic effect at other times (girl-Ranma singing an unusually angsty song while crying in the rain).
** Shampoo's ''[[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx9TaTUa7eU Wo De Airen (My Beloved)]]'' is also surprisingly touching.
** The juxtaposition of Akane's two song really shows her Tsundere nature. Her infamous [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=XYofkxAVg7s Baka Song]] shows the tsuntsun, while [[http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=CBFXUospjjk Akane's Lullaby]] is very deredere.
** A little in-joke for the fans was the duet by Ryouga and the Jusenkyo Guide - the two characters share the same voice actor.
* ''Manga/MagicKnightRayearth'' often mixed image songs along with traditional soundtrack themes. Although they were usually performed by [[PowerTrio Hikaru, Umi, and Fuu]], sometimes Emeraude and Eagle would get a chance to perform. Even [[NonHumanSidekick Mokona]] got in on the fun with at least two songs.
* A more extreme case is ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis'', which keeps delivering image songs, duets, group releases and/or image CD's for ''almost each player in the show'' in a more-or-less regular basis. It's gotten to the point where the number of image songs is probably somewhere near ''four hundred.''
* The second ''Anime/{{Simoun}}'' OST has an Image Song for [[TheOjou Rodoreamon.]]
* Several of the ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'' characters have Image Songs released on CD, though they have never appeared in the anime itself.
* ''Manga/RosarioToVampire'' has a usual share of image songs in both its seasons, as well as covers of 80's J-Pop songs. In both seasons, all of these have been gratuitously inserted into the anime, with the poolside karaoke in season one and the singing in class in ''Capu2'' being the most obvious.
* Several characters from ''Manga/{{Kinnikuman}}'' have one of these. Justified thanks to the cast being wrestlers, thus having ribg entrance themes.
* ''[[Anime/MobileFighterGGundam G Gundam]]'' has five [=OST CDs=], titled ''Gundam Fight'' Rounds 1-5 (though 1-2 are a two-disc set). Round 5 features image songs from most of the main cast, although while Domon Kasshu gets two songs of his own ''and'' a duet with Rain, Sai Saici and Argo Gulskii have to share "China Shuffle". And Argo's singing voice [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rLjj4TVbjo8 has to be heard to be believed.]]
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' has four [=OSTs=], five if you include ''[[TheMovie Endless Waltz]]''; out of those, two are peppered with Image Songs, while a third is given over to them entirely (the only non-Image Song track being the show's second opening theme). Most of the primary cast gets songs, with the central characters (the Gundam Pilots and Relena) getting at least two while lesser-but-still important characters like Zechs, Treize, Lady Une, and Dorothy each get one. The 2-CD AudioPlay ''Blind Target'' features an additional song for each of the five pilots.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEEDDestiny'''s second OST features "Shinkai no Kodoku", Stella Louisser's image song, which is also an insert song for her important scenes in the series, particularly her chance meetings with Shinn, her [[spoiler:[[AnguishedDeclarationOfLove death scene]] and Shinn interring her body]].
* ''Manga/ZettaiKarenChildren'', being done by the same creative staff as ''Hayate'', has a pretty large collection to its name. There are songs for the expected characters ([[PowerTrio The Children]]) and some less expected ([[HardGay Muscle Okama?]]).
* Both seasons of ''Manga/HidamariSketch'' have these, though much more extensively in the second season. Even the Principal gets to sing.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' 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.
* ''Anime/MaiHime'' gratuitously inserted three image songs - one for each of the main players - into the show in episode 15. The show also got two full albums full of image songs for just about all of the main characters.
* ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'' 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.
* ''Franchise/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** There are five ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist'' image song [=CDs=], with three image songs each, one for Ed, Al, Roy, Winry and Hughes. And of course, there's the compilation CD with all of those on it, plus a few group songs. Sheska joins Winry for a duet (likewise Riza Hawkeye does one with Roy, and Hughes' daughter Elycia joins her daddy for a song that really TastesLikeDiabetes). The Homunculi manage to get in a really strange talk session set to trance music, when an Elric brothers duet probably would be a much better choice for Al's CD.
** Meanwhile in America, Creator/VicMignogna (Ed's voice actor) wrote an unofficial tribute song in this style called "Nothing I Won't Give".
** ''[[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist Brotherhood]]'' has an image song by "Creator/RomiPark and the Alchemists", which is AGoodNameForARockBand.
* ''Manga/{{Saiyuki}}'' has numerous image albums from the three separate anime series and almost every major character has at least one song. And try not to count how many the four main characters have, you'll give up half way through. The only exception is Hakkai, since Creator/AkiraIshida doesn't like to sing--when Hakkai absolutely needed an Image Song as part of the "Four Seasons" promotional CD for the movie, he simply delivered a monologue to music. This has led original author Minekura to playfully refer to the group of Goku, Gojyo and Sanzo's seiyuu as "-8," or "Minus Eight," as the "ha" in "Hakkai" is written with the kanji for 8.
* Pretty much the entire vocal soundtrack of ''Anime/PaniPoniDash'' is sung by the characters involved.
* Standard practice in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' is to include three tracks worth of Image Songs in each [[AllThereInTheManual Sound Stage]] as extra incentive to buy them. [[Creator/YukariTamura Nanoha]] and [[Creator/NanaMizuki Fate]] naturally gets a good chunk of these, with [[Creator/KanaUeda Hayate]] a close third.
* ''Webcomic/AxisPowersHetalia'':
** Music [=CDs=] exist for the eight main characters (or nine, since [[TalkingToHimself Italy's seiyuu does a song for North and South Italy]]). They also sing their own versions of the EndingTheme of the anime, which are included as extras on the [=DVDs=]. The endings for the first four seasons were all compiled into two [=CDs=], and feature versions for other countries such as Poland and Lithuania.
** The movie has "Wa! Wa!! World {{Ondo}}", in which the eight main characters all sing together, and the "Character CD Perfect Guide" gave [[EnsembleDarkhorse Prussia]] his own image song "Mein Gott!" as well as a joint image song for Chibitalia and Rome called "Ren Ren Renaissance".
** Then there are songs for Ukraine and Belarus, Prussia's ''other'' song "Song of the Awesome Me", "With Love From Iceland" with [[TheStoic Iceland]] and [[HollywoodToneDeaf Puffin]], the digital-release songs for Hong Kong, Taiwan, Canada, and Rome (which were all put together along with two new songs; one featuring the Baltics, and another featuring France, Spain and Prussia in a commercially-released CD), as well as the songs from the Interval [=CDs=] featuring Prussia, Spain and the Nordics respectively.
** In 2015, eight more [=CDs=] were released to tie-in to season six, featuring the main eight, Prussia, the Nordics, Estonia and Hong Kong.
* The ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' drama [=CDs=] all feature image songs to their respective dolls, sans Kirakishou, who doesn't have any drama CD.
* The Hit Square Character Songs of ''Manga/{{Saki}}'', a music CD containing the Image Songs of the two most popular characters from each of the four teams.
* The anime ''Manga/SoulEater'' has several albums of songs from the anime out along with at least three image albums out. The image albums each include one song (along with two other versions of the same song and a song from the anime not sung by the voice actors) sung by the Japanese voice actors. Soul Eater Evans along with Maka Albarn have a song sung together, Black Star and Tsubaki have a song sung together, and Death the Kid along with Liz and Patty Thompson have a song sung collectively. All of the tracks are quite awesome.
* ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'' has these for all of the major characters: Syaoran's being 'Kizuna,' Sakura's being 'Towa no Omoi,' Fai's being 'Smile,' Kurogane's being 'Zankou,' and Mokona's being 'Tabi no Tochuu de Kibou no Uta wo Utaou'. Though really, Yuui Makino (Sakura's Seiyuu) actually sings quite a couple of songs for the anime.
* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'' gives an image song to Gola Mosca, a machine who [[TheSpeechless can't talk]], much less sing. Instead he makes depressurizing noises from his exhaust ports which sound like creepy breathing. One of the Anime's endings was Sakura Addiction, a duet ''Image Song'' for Hibari Kyouya and Rokudo Mukuro.
* ''Anime/ZettaiMutekiRaijinOh'' is quite generous with its image songs; the three pilots and TheChick get two or three each, and the remaining 14 main characters each get a song. Even the villains get a shot in a "karaoke showdown" themed song.
* ''Anime/RoninWarriors'' has many soundtrack [=CDs=], often containing image songs. Touma's singing voice is [[MemeticMutation infamously bad]] and most of the others aren't much better - but a lot of the songs, especially groups, are fun anyway.
* ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' has several, from Clare's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GsgOdjmdOb4 "Memory"]] to Irene's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ojo6e_yA1eg&feature=related "Shippu."]] They're surprisingly good.
* ''Manga/ShugoChara'' has three "Character Song Collections".
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'' has received many of these from over the years:
** The ''Manga/DragonBall'' anime started the practice with the Red Ribbon Army arc, including "The Son Goku Song", "The Teachings of Master Roshi", and "Red Ribbon Army" for the villains themselves. "Wolf Hurricane" was also introduced and used for Yamcha's fight with Tenshinhan in the next arc. These supplemented several InsertSongs as well, such as "Aim to Be the Greatest on Earth", "Mystery Wonderland", "The Dragon Ball Legend", "With A Burning Heart! Defeat the Red Ribbon Army!" and "The Blue Travelers".
** For ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', one of a great many is "Vegeta-sama no O-Ryouri Jigoku" or [[YouAreTheTranslatedForeignWord "Lord Vegeta's Cooking Hell,"]] a song about [[{{Jerkass}} Vegeta]]... [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin making okonomiyaki]]. [[spoiler:[[SomethingWeForgot He forgets to add the mayonnaise]]]].
** ''Anime/DragonBallKai'' gave the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Ginyu Force]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcgDgwNR1ZE "Sanjou!! Ginyu Tokusentai!!"]] a VillainSong that is exactly as hammy as one would expect.
* ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' has image songs for the entire cast as well as many duets. With five [=CDs=], covers by each girl for a song from their respective country from around that era, and a solo for each character (Yoshika got two solos) The ending theme for both seasons are sung by different cast members each episode as well. So far one of [[TheQuietOne Sanya]] and [[FortuneTeller Eila's]] duets, "Sweet Duet" has inserted into the end of season two's sixth episode.
* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' came out with character singles for Mikado, Kida, Shizuo, Kadota, Anri, Shinra, Izaya, and Celty. All the songs are covers of old songs from anime or otherwise. For example, Celty's song is a cover of "Message in Rouge," the Japanese theme from ''Anime/KikisDeliveryService''.
* The Image Songs for ''Manga/{{Kannagi}}'' are the same ones from the KaraokeBox episode, although with improved vocals.
* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Creator/YuiHorie sings Midori's.
* ''Manga/KOn'' has ''two'' for each of the five main characters, as well as for some of the side characters.
* ''Manga/MinamiKe'' has a few image song albums; in addition, the soundtracks include versions of the opening and ending themes by each of the three sisters.
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' while there was not much in the way of ''image songs'', [[{{Catgirl}} Merle]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krEE_CJGjCM got one]] and it was great.
* ''Anime/{{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 [[Creator/KazukiYao Shinobu]].
* ''Anime/MarginalPrince'' features a song by any of the characters in [[OncePerEpisode focus of the particular episode]] - episode Nine even features ''three'' of them. This was probably mainly done to promote the [[DatingSim game]] the anime is based on, as it main feature is the songs as a "reward" for completing a character route. Luckily, [[Creator/RyotaroOkiayu most]] [[Creator/MasakazuMorita of]] [[Creator/KenjiNojima the]] [[Creator/KoukiMiyata seiyuu]] are good singers. Unfortunately, not all songs from the game made it into the anime series (but therefore, some new ones were created).
* ''Manga/{{Working}}'': Takanashi, Popura, Inami, Yachiyo, Sooma, Satou and Yamada have their own image songs, plus their own versions of the song "Wagnaria Sanka." Additionally, the opening and ending theme songs for both the first and second seasons are [[DoItYourselfThemeTune sung by the voice actors themselves, while in character.]]
* ''Manga/BambooBlade'': Each of the five main character got their image song. Sayako's song "Only Track" , sung by Sachiko Kojima was featured in the first soundtrack album. Kirino's song "For You Shine" and Tamaki's one "Sunflower", respectively by ''Creator/MegumiToyoguchi'' and ''Creator/RyoHirohashi'', in the second soundtrack. Miyako's song "All in all", by ''Creator/HoukoKuwashima'', and Satori's song "No looser", by ''Creator/RinaSato'', where included in the drama cds.
* ''LightNovel/AriaTheScarletAmmo'' has a few, notably "First Contact" and "Ring a ding on, Riko-rin" for Aria and Riko
* ''Anime/TengenToppaGurrenLagann'':
** [[HotBlooded Kamina]] and Simon do a duet by the name of "Break Through the Dream." It is filled with about as much [[RatedMforManly manliness]] as you can cram into a song.
** Yoko has two "Trust" and "S.t.a.r.S.", the latter of which also has it's own [[http://youtu.be/GFLRsgKqku0 full-length music video]] depicting Yoko's inner IdolSinger... and then Yoko ''with'' her inner IdolSinger. As can be expected from the series, it's actually quite awesome.
* Seeing as ''AudioPlay/SaintBeast'' has an AllStarCast of VoiceActors and began as an audio drama, there are multiple image songs and [=CDs=] for the series.
* ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' has Madoka's ''See You Tomorrow'' and Kyouko's and Sayaka's duet ''And I'm Home''.
* ''Anime/SpiritedAway'' has an image album, unusually for a standalone film. Probably the highlight is No Face's [[LyricalDissonance oddly bouncy]] song about his loneliness.
* Multiple major characters in ''{{Franchise/Anpanman}}'' have an image song, most of them sung by their voice actors, with a couple sung by the musical duo Dreaming. A shortened version of Anpanman's song is the theme song for the whole series. For multiple characters, an instrumental version of the image song will be used as a {{leitmotif}} for their scenes. An interesting case is the Donburiman Trio: they each have their own song that they sing in-show, but their image songs are different (Tendonman's has slightly modified lyrics, Katsudonman's is tacked on to the very end of his image song, and Kamameshidon's is completely different). It's also common for very major characters to have more than one image song (Baikinman has one that glorifies him and another one that basically spells out his defeat).
* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'' has them for Kirito and almost every female main character (Asuna, Leafa, Sinon, Lisbeth, Silica, Yui, and Yuuki), featured on the bonus discs included with the Blu-Ray sets of the series. Several of them have multiple cast members singing at once.
* ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' has a few: "GO NEXT!!" and "My Song" for Karina/Blue Rose, "POWER OF JUSTICE" for Barnaby, and "Hamidashimono Sanka" for Kotetsu/Wild Tiger. "Seigi no Koe ga Kikoerukai" is a [[DuetBonding a duet with with Kotetsu and Barnaby]] while "Natsu no Koi wa, Otsukare Summer" features all three of these characters.
%% The ones in all caps were done that way because they were like that in the ''T&B'' wiki; I'm not sure if they're correct.
* This is actually the theme of ''Anime/SenkiZesshouSymphogear''. Every Symphogear has at least two image songs per season and at least one of them is used in the anime. This is justified because their powers can only be displayed when they sing. There are also some other songs and duets they do.
* ''Anime/MekakucityActors'', being the anime extension of ''Franchise/KagerouProject'' (a Vocaloid project) has a ton of these. Every character gets at least one (Takane and Mary get two, Momo and Hibiya get a joint-second), plus several other 'plot-based' songs. There are 23 songs in total, with one actually topping the [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/39943124 2013 Yearly Vocaloid Rankings]].
* ''Manga/DailyLifeWithMonsterGirl'' has a soundtrack CD for each of the girls, each one consisting of two original songs, the featured girl's version of the anime's opening theme, and instrumental versions of the original songs.
* Oddly, ''Manga/BlackButler'' has these. Characters who got songs are Sebastian, Finny, Grell, William, Lau, Undertaker, Agni, Soma, Viscount Druitt, and Ronald.
* ''LightNovel/SundayWithoutGod'': Protagonist Ai has a beautiful song called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppXkHtdRFm0 "Hohoemi no Ame,"]] released as a bonus for the first press edition of the original soundtrack.
* Rem from ''LightNovel/ReZero'' has a song titled [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ4Ons2_26o "Wishing"]], which played during the latter part of Episode 18. Additionally, the second ending theme, "Stay Alive", is one for Emilia.
* All twenty-three ''{{LightNovel/Bakemonogatari}}'' openings.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/UglyDolls'' soundtrack has a song on the soundtrack that's sung by Ox's voice actor Blake Shelton called "Wallflowers and Weeds" that seems to serve this purpose since it doesn't appear in the film.

* Music/MiracleOfSound creates songs based on video games. When he did one for ''VideoGame/{{Portal 2}}'', he decided to create ''[[http://miracleofsound.bandcamp.com/track/wheatleys-song Wheatley's Song]]'', and it fits [[CloudCuckoolander Whea]][[BewareTheNiceOnes tley]] just perfectly. ([[BerserkButton "So don't call me a moron]] / I'm super astute / [[EarWorm There is no conundrum that / My core cannot compute."]])

** During the airing of the anime, we had Jessica's EarWorm-inducing "Dokkyun Heart" and Maria'a absolutely ''adorable'' "Happy Halloween MARIA", as well as Beatrice's "Chain" and George's "Love Declaration".

* The songs in '''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' don't normally have lyrics, though a handful of album exclusive ones do, a few of them acting as Image Songs for the characters. The first is the original (Scrapped) version of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GqKvmyPhUf8 The Ballad of Jack Noir,]] which serves as an image song for, well, Jack Noir. The second is Eridan's Walkabout which, while not having a vocal track, was released with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBB7nP6m5OA a set of lyrics]] that serve as this for Eridan... or at least, for his pirate persona. Interestingly, the lyrics seem to indicate that Eridan is not, in fact, the one singing. The third is [[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/temporal-shenanigans Temporal Shenanigans,]] which acts as a theme for Aradia, illustrating her character development through the comic. "G4m3 Grl" serves as one of these for Latula, although perhaps not with Latula singing.

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* ''Anime/OjamajoDoremi'' had four songs for each girl by ''Dokkan'', though Pop still only had two (and one wasn't even sung by her seiyuu). There is also a separate 2 CD set with songs sung by their classmates and teachers.