History NightmareFuel / Vocaloid

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yEyMu5h3iX4 "Pink Rabbit"]], sung by Len, is a distressingly eerie song about the titular "pink rabbit", a costumed mascot at an amusement park who is pretty quickly revealed to be a kidnapper, serial killer and [[WouldHurtAChild child murderer]]. Already there's [[AdultFear an inherent terror]] in the idea of a lunatic in a bunny costume luring children with his seemingly cutesy ways so that he can murder them, but the overall chaotic tone of the song makes it all the worse, as it switches from unsettlingly calm to jarringly loud at the drop of a hat. And then there's the ending, where the rabbit turns to the camera and says [[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou "Now it's YOUR turn to play with me..."]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFGrpQy0YE "Don't Look At Me In That Way"]] is more [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]] than scary, but some lines (and imagery) may suggest that the narrator wasn't aborted or miscarried as is commonly theorized, but killed via a car crash, [[AdultFear while he was out riding his bike.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] - a blunt narration of [[AbusiveParents parental abuse]]. No self-destructive fixations, no over-the-top gore, no child-murdering dystopias, [[AdultFear just the story of a terrible mother and her pitiful child]]. In the end, he kills himself.

* From the same writer, we have [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4inb07HqpI8 Halloween Requiem]] ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nH-x_p8nwEw updated version]]) A group of teenagers try to summon dead spirits but it goes horribly wrong and a bunch of evil spirits emerge from their Ouija board. The spirits are extremely offended at the fact that nobody is afraid of them because of Halloween and promptly start attacking people to "strike fear back into their hearts (and it's implied that [[AdultFear their first victims were a bunch of trick-or-treaters]]). Leon is shown being in a total panic while running from demons. Miriam, a nun, believes that it's the apocalypse. Lola is suddenly attacked [[ParanoiaFuel in her own home]]. Big Al, a doctor, tells a wounded Leon/Sweet Ann that he can't help him because "the hospital is overflowing" and that he should probably stay there because "it's safer there" and "free space is growing" (implying that [[FridgeHorror more people are dying than he can treat]]). Sonika/Sweet Ann is lying in an ambulance/the hospital and implied to be dead at the end of her verse. Eventually something happens that causes the monsters to leave, but their fear remains in the world's heart as it's revealed at the end that due to the incident nobody celebrates Halloween anymore; instead, they celebrate the day that October ''passes''. At the end, the Engloids give us some advice: "If you choose to laugh at evil make sure you think twice".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxTTOaszH6c Prisoner]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfPKTzq0LRM Paper Airplane]] ride on [[AdultFear the anxiety caused by being permanently separated from a loved one]]. Except in this case, one part of the couple (Rin) is a terminally IllGirl, and the other part of the couple (Len) is in a prison--no, a '''concentration camp.''' One with backdrops derived from '''Auschwitz.''' We first, in "Prisoner", witness Len being put to death in a gas chamber. Then in "Paper Airplane", we see Rin being put on gradually more life support, until she ultimately passes away.

** FridgeHorror for those with knowledge of Japanese: the lyrics are written in hiragana, without katakana or kanji. Standard Japanese writing uses a mixture of all three writing systems; writing entirely in hiragana is considered childish because it means you don't know how to write the complicated kanji characters. Implying that the singer is a ''little girl''.

** FridgeHorror for those with knowledge of Japanese: the lyrics are written in hiragana, implying that the singer is a ''little girl''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PlK1SHlwqyY Okaasan]] is the undeniable master of all HONF for Vocaloid, hands-down. Lyrics are in the comments.

** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Esz9ONM9X8 Love Ka?]]" [[note]]The song name is intended to be a pun on "ラブカ" (Frilled Shark) and "Love"[[/note]]: Features a shark monster girl with a perpetual SlasherSmile on her face and BlackEyesOfCrazy. At the 2:12 to 2:14 mark (where the song reaches its climax), a JumpScare will appear; the girl turs around, then stares at you with a frenzied expression until the climax ends. And then it gets repeated AGAIN, at the end.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUGHD_YWOe4 "Cotton Candy"]] is very hard to describe, with the most common theories being that it's either about drug addiction or about someone suffering from depression or some other mental illness who's recalling happier times, [[TakeaThirdOption if not both both]]. That's not what makes it Nightmare Fuel. What makes it Nightmare Fuel it's [[HellIsThatNoise the downright]] ''[[HellIsThatNoise eerie]]'' audio distortions and reversing tracks the song has, giving an upsettling, anxiety-inducing feel to it. Most songs by Kikuo have this quirky, kinda cheerful feel to them, [[LyricalDissonance even when the lyrics are anything but]]. This one just feels... ''[[NothingIsScarier Off.]]''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFGrpQy0YE "Don't Look At Me In That Way"]] is more [[TearJerker gut-wrenching]] than scary, but some lines (and imagery) may suggest that the narrator wasn't aborted or miscarried as is commonly theorized, but killed during wartime, [[AdultFear while he was out riding his bike and possibly without realizing anything was wrong with the town being empty.]]

* The lyrics to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kzUmM-uQVOM This is the happiness and peace of mind committee, by Hatsune Miku.]] It's about Miku wondering why everyone in the world isn't happy. So, she seemingly brainwashes everyone into being happy by... singing. Her face is in the video is quite an unsettling {{slasher smile}} too.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XCyKJD6uQyg&list=LL&index=2 "Bitter Choco Decoration"]] by syudou is rather unclear as to what exactly is going on, but the images of a young boy in what appears to be a ''prison jumpsuit'' being served god knows what by [[NothingIsScarier a serving woman with a cloth over her face]] are certainly enough to make a viewer rather paranoid.

* Mushi-P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yjnVjgDjs Color & Electricity]] sounds upbeat and happy, but the lyrics, [[LyricalDissonance not so much.]] The song is about a monster that collects a whole variety of colors, except yellow. To find this color, the monster finds a child wearing a yellow raincoat, and [[WouldHurtAChild murders and eats them]], hoping to become yellow... but instead, the monster becomes red--the color of blood. Not only is the concept creepy, some of the art and the lyrics are creepy as well.

* Mushi-P's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yjnVjgDjs Color & Electricity]] sounds upbeat and happy, but the lyrics, [[LyricalDissonance not so much.]] The song is about a monster that collects a whole variety of colors, except yellow. To find this color, the monster finds a child wearing a yellow raincoat, and murders and eats them, hoping to become yellow... but instead, the monster becomes red--the color of blood. Not only is the concept creepy, some of the art and the lyrics are creepy as well.

How strrange\\

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9yjnVjgDjs Color and electricity]] sounds upbeat and happy, but is about a monster that collects colors, except yellow. To find this color, the monster finds a child wearing a yellow raincoat, and murders and eats them. After this, the monster wonders why their body is red, as they're covered in blood. Not only is the concept creepy, some of the art and the lyrics are creepy as well. Lyrics like:
-->How Strange...\\
How Strange...\\
My Body is Dyed Red\\
Even Though I Ate the Yellow Child\\
the crimson dyes,\\
will\\
not\\
go\\
away.

-->I want to become.\\
I want to become!!\\
My Original body!!\\
I want it back!\\
Pure,\\
and Transparent,\\
electricity is What I want to be!\\
Drinking it all up,\\
No Matter What,\\
Until Death I will Drink Water.

-->But the color of blood...\\
Surrounding me, Not Vanishing as my eyes\\
roll to the back of my skull\\
Even if I was Born Reflecting the Word's Colors,\\
Life however, remains bloody red.\\

** Then there's the remake, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqileYfhbes Okaasan Rebirth]]. [[NightmareFuel If you thought the original was disturbing...]] This version is also notable for containing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlqwd3Yfj0M backmasked message]] hidden in it at some point, though it hasn't been subbed or translated anywhere yet. However, online translators all seem to translate the final line of it the same way: [[ParanoiaFuel "I'm right behind you now."]] If one google translates the Youtube page and reads the comments, this translation is further supported by how several Japanese users mention [[ParanoiaFuel looking over their shoulders.]]

* "SHOTA=RELEASE", sung by Len. It tells the story of a boy who has fallen in love with an older man. The story is mostly told in the present, where Len is doing...''something'' in a dark, quiet room. It quickly gets creepier when he makes mention of his lover's significant other, musing that she's [[{{Yandere}} in the way]], and then cuts back to the present. It turns out that he's ''having sex'' with the older man and makes mention of wanting the man to ''rape him''.
** You don't see any of it, though. Just the room, and Len's changing expressions.

** The answer song ''Vampire's ∞ pathoS'' reveals that the aforementioned man is actually a very cynical and sadistic vampire who's even taunting the nun about her being far from a "hero". Was this all a MercyKill to prevent the vampire from feasting on them...?

* Gyakuzai Koushinkyoku. The lyrics are very confusing, but fans have theorized out that Kaito and Miku were in a relationship, but then he dumps her(saying that 'if a toy gets old, just throw it away') for Meiko. That's not the NightmareFuel. The NightmareFuel is that Kaito then murders her [[ForTheEvulz for no real reason]] and manipulates Meiko into ignoring it. [[FridgeHorror The ending implies that he's going to do the same to Meiko if he sees someone prettier.]] And that's not even getting into the really creepy PsychoticSmirk in the PV.

* [[http://video.niconico.com/watch/sm16866804 "Bacterial Contamination"]] (or Saikin Osen). The song is about an unpopular girl being mocked and bullied by others, in turn becoming a bully herself in an attempt to make herself feel better, and then committing suicide to try and get away from the "infection." In the end, she states that, even though she could die to get away from the suffering, she still couldn't even die with dignity because of the things she'd done. And the singer herself is the aforementioned Calne Ca. It certainly doesn't help that the video's filled to the brim with [[BodyHorror what appears to be human-mantis hybrids.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGThHuZ3lBQ Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance]]. It's basically about a very jealous stalker girl, who spies on the object of her affections. When she realizes that person is seeing another girl, she goes insane and plans to kill the girl and send her dismembered in a box to the person. And possibly kidnaps and murders them. That, coupled with the audio, piano, and random screeches in the music, makes all the more horrifying. It gets scarier when you listen to the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfEFQRgmakk Rockleetist]] version, where you can actually understand it. Oh, and don't forget the picture of Miku in the video. And the sound of her cutting off a kitten's head to give to her boyfriend. And as if it couldn't get any creepier... someone has managed to sing an English dub of it... and it happens to be rather awesome yet terrifyingly disturbing at the same time: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfEFQRgmakk Click and behold]]. And [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEglNzlLQgM here's]] a lovely PV.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFJbK3PX7YI Hateful Wonderland.]] The video's artist is the same from "Rotten Girl, Grotesque Romance," so [[UncannyValley the imagery is quite unnerving...]]

** Then there's the remake, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqileYfhbes Okaasan Rebirth]]. [[NightmareFuel If you thought the original was disturbing...]] This version is also notable for containing a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XgxzR_9Js backmasked message]] hidden in it at some point, though it hasn't been subbed or translated anywhere yet. However, online translators all seem to translate the final line of it the same way: [[ParanoiaFuel "I'm right behind you now."]] If one google translates the Youtube page and reads the comments, this translation is further supported by how several Japanese users mention [[ParanoiaFuel looking over their shoulders.]]

** And then there's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfpKh8TGv3s "Onibi"]], which currently provides the page image. This song is about a vengeful spirit trying to kill her murderer (as usual, they're respectively portrayed by Miku and Gumi). The [[MadnessMantra chorus]] and the occasional [[HellIsThatNoise ghostly moans]] make it worse.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9CNK9nBzvs "Black Hole Artist,"]] also by Utsu-P. [[SlasherSmile Rin's face]] is horrifying.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yFnhclbCA1w "Poster Girl's Prank"]]. The imagery in this song's video is more tame than others and seems to be less explicit, and more dark-artsy. Miku. Rin, and GUMI are portrayed as idol girls with abstract artwork for faces. Burton-esque men in suits and ties with animal heads are also featured. The scary parts though, are some of the lyrics: while the first battery of questions from what appears to be an interview are innocent enough, they turn right around (An adoring male fan?/Bring him back home with me!", "What are your favourite foods?/The hands and feet!")

** There's also a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jokfMOd58Ho cover using the Vocaloid Sachiko]], who is designed to sing traditional Japanese music, and it just adds to the creepy atmosphere. Even worse is how her voice begins distorting near the climax of the song...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQuHKtJKeBA This.]] It's a Megurine Luka song, in English, based on the following [[Fanfic/TheRugratsTheory Rugrats theory]]: "The Rugrats really were a figment of Angelica's Imagination. Chucky died a long time ago along with this mother, that's why Chaz is a nervous wreck all the time. Tommy was a stillborn, that's why Stu is constantly in the basement making toys for the son who never had a chance to live. The [=DeVilles=] had an abortion, Angelica couldn't figure whether it would be a boy or a girl thus creating the twins."

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifumhRovfU "Ward Room 305"]], the completed form of the song, is likewise fairly nightmarish in lyrics, and the fan theories used to create the fan-animated [=PVs=] are accordingly dark.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b_DG3PvoMGQ Halloween Candy (MAJOR DISTURBING CONTENT WARNING.)]] You were expecting an innocent yet creepy halloween song? ''Too bad.'' The cheerful tone does nothing to mask the fact that it's a song about a ''child molester looking for new victims.'' You know a song is gonna be disturbing when its opening lines are "The friendly child molester"!

--> [[HarsherInHindsight Climate change isn't real]]

** Here, here's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovIQ9p43e3U Rin's]] cover of it. Good night, kids! Oh, and, how would you like to die?

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hY234dk3DM To say nothing of Len's and Tei's version...]] This, while being just as scary as either Miku's or Rin's, ''doesn't explain if Len's controlling Tei, if Tei's controlling Len,'' or both being lovers...'''''
* By the same person as above, we have Miku's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1bRPDSSQYQ The Path to Eternal Happiness, I found it]]. It starts out pretty cute with a Bride Miku who tells a story of newly-wed couple on a beach and the bride asking if the groom knows about 'a paradise to the south, the city of hopes where wishes come true'. She then says that she found a way to go there and disappears to find immortality. Then we see another Miku who acts like a host and is most likely the ruler of the place. Bride Miku then has to play 'The Original Sin Game', while she plays we see panels with words flashing by, but you have to pause them at the right time to actually be able to read them. Miku wins and we cut back to the beach and we learn see that the Groom always continued to wait for her at the beach, until his death. She apparently wrote him a letter, but it was never read. Then we go to the game show again and see that the host is surprised that Bride Miku is there again. This time Bride Miku has to play 'The Game of Guilt', which she wins again and as a reward she becomes a zombie.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVjfnNQR3bU&t=29s What Can We Do (NSFW and epilepsy warning)]] is pretty much MindScrew in its purest, unadulterated form, featuring Miku apparently consuming copious amounts of drugs while [[ADateWithRosiePalms touching herself]]... and then it just gets weirder, with [[BodyHorror Miku's skin covered in crawling maggots]], two Mikus stabbing each other in the head with syringes (in 3D), Miku's head twitching violently, and [[ItMakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext Miku chasing down apparently sentient drugs through a field of weed with copious eyes]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2RFcrreoE8 Circle You, Circle You]]. If you don't feel like watching the PV, [[http://i26.tinypic.com/x0whf4.png this image]] pretty much sums it up. Children dismembering each other for all of eternity.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbHZ6uWeR3U Rockleetist's dub]] makes it even scarier, especially the last verse:

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zHpuq3vqyzY SF-A2 Miki singing the Lavender Town theme, from Pokemon,]] a song frequently used or at least referenced in the horror stories of the Pokemon fandom.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8OIkvyozQA "50/50,"]] a Miku song about a girl who is jealous of her best friend Mari-chan's new boyfriend... so she cuts him in half so that they can share. "Mari-chan and I go halfsies on everything." [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZMEl49qmeE Now available with English subtitles.]]

* Despite its [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic awesome tune]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONyfbDPc7y0 Kagerou (translation: Heat Haze) Days]] can be a bit scary to watch, especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBnAY4VH9T4 PV Version]]. The song is essentially about a {{Groundhog Day Loop}} wherein a boy is forced to watch his friend die in [[CruelAndUnusualDeath increasingly horrible ways]], no matter how much he tries to prevent it. In order to break the loop once and for all, he goes back to the first death (the girl gets smashed by a speeding truck) and sacrifices himself so the girl could live. And just when you think that all is said and done, the ending of the song shows the girl seemingly ''[[HereWeGoAgain going through the same loop, only with the boy dying instead]]''.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BgoVbRXvJw Escape the Princess]] is about a princess (Miku) in a loveless marriage with an emperor and is secretly in love with the emperor's sister. When the sister marries and moves away, the princess falls into despair, starts seeing one of her ladies-in-waiting (Gumi) as the sister's lookalike, and then violates her, causing the lady-in-waiting to attempt to flee. The song itself is incredibly frantic and fast-paced with intense piano chords, making the listener feel the desperation of the lady-in-waiting as she attempts to escape. In the end, the princess catches her and it is implied that the lady-in-waiting becomes the princess' sex slave.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eesglyxc3Mo This]] English cover of "Story of a Poor Blue Rabbit". It manages to be creepier than the original song with the slow, soft singing, and the sound of ''a cutting knife'' in the middle.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2tOwg6CPrHg Chanagi-P's Onii Yuukai]] at first seems like a really weird story about how Kaito's three sisters (Luka, Miku and Rin) want him as [[BrotherSisterIncest their boyfriend]]. They all seem to give up and satisfy themselves with fantasizing about it instead since he obviously doesn't feel the same. But then they dare to finally enter his room and you only hear him scream. Everybody wonders where he has disappeared to by the end of the song while the sisters all disappear into his room...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9AREPiePhQ Limelight]] has a very disturbing presentation.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xcqGS83Dgs "Splatter Party"]] by Camelia is about Miku committing mass murder with a chainsaw.

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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s4dL9tdV-N4 Miku wants a hug.]] The miniature image of the video looks innocent enough and it seems like it would be a nice video. [[SurpriseCreepy It doesn't last long.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U2eTmgpJSrs Strange Masquerade Halloween]]. Upon reading the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ5eUHcAoWg translation]], the story goes like this. A group of people were invited to someone’s house for a Halloween party. Their invitations (which the song says “has an address, but no sender”) tell them to cover themselves with a mask so their wishes will be granted. At the party, there is banquet of food, sweets, drinks, and, well, something censored, as we see blurred items among the food floating down the screen. Then, the song talks about the guests spending who knows how long dancing, eating, and obtaining sexual pleasure. And then… “The mask – I –can’t – take – it – off! Aa – aaa – aaa – aaaa!”]] Just then, everyone changes into monsters (“squirming in pain while laughing”), each one resembling the masks they wore, while the owner of the house watches while laughing.

--> These flavors of personality
--> Are hindering my likability
--> MY IMPULSIVE DESIRE
--> MY APPETITE HAS
--> SPOILED MY URGE TO SATISFY
--> Everyone will like me more without it
--> [[LossOfIdentity EVERYONE WILL LIKE ME MORE WITHOUT IT]]

** It might actually be ''worse'' than that. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUZRIbdJQ7E Here's the version with the uncut ending.]] [[spoiler: What is the last thing we see in the PV before it cuts to black? [[SelfMadeOrphan The child about to push his (pregnant) mother down the tracks of an upcoming train]]. Now listen to that ending again: Doesn't it sounds a whole lot more [[SickeningCrunch like flesh and bones?]]]] [[NauseaFuel ...Yuck.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRd7gOfIS-0 Machine Muzik]]. Seriously. There's a reason it was the page image. [[SchmuckBait Just see for yourself]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0CRCP0DPyM The PV of the song]] reveals that [[spoiler: ''the nun'' was actually the vampire all along and ''the man'' was the one who was trying to stop her reign of terror.]]

* In general, Ive has a uniquely bleak worldview, complete with morbid lyrics, tends to tune his Miku in an eerily serene or monotonous fashion and the occasional frightening MV. Basically every other song could be NightmareFuel in one way or other.

* This artist isn't well-known, but still has a uniquely bleak worldview, complete with morbid lyrics, tends to tune his Miku in an eerily serene or monotonous fashion and the occasional frightening MV.

* The lyrics of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th-_oE5Js8Y Heta na Uso o Tsukanaide]] are so morbid that it leaves nothing to the imagination -- it's basically about the resentment of a girl who killed her abuser (presumably her mother) and killed herself.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2qM6NbCoe0 Hito wa Obake ni Naru]] is largely written in metaphors, but the title is based on a poem about the [[UsefulNotes/AtomicBombingsOfHiroshimaAndNagasaki Hiroshima bombings]] and the lyrics make similar references.

* This artist isn't well-known, but still has a uniquely bleak worldview, complete with morbid lyrics, DissonantSerenity and the occasional frightening MV.