Hatsune Miku
One of the Vocaloid compilations, "Exit Tunes Presents Vocalogenesis feat. Hatsune Miku", debuted at number-one on the Japanese weekly Oricon album charts dated May 31, 2010, becoming the first Vocaloid album ever to top the charts. Another album, "Supercell", by the group Supercell also features a number of songs using Vocaloids. Other albums, such as 19's Sound Factory's "First Sound Story" and Livetune's" Re:package", and "Re:Mikus" also feature Miku's voice. Other uses of Miku include the albums by Absorb and by OSTER-project. She had sung the original Nyan Cat called "Nyanyanyanyan!" by daniwell-P. Kagamine Len and Rin's songs were covered by Asami Shimoda in the album "Prism" credited to "Kagamine Rin/Len feat. Asami Shimoda". Another song original sung by Miku, "Color", was covered by Maria, and featured as the opening theme of the 2011 anime series "Freezing".
Ichirou Mizuki
In addition to his vocalist career, Mizuki has been cast in several roles as both a voice actor and a live-action actor. As a voice actor, he played the roles of Yoldo in the first episode of the OVA Dangaioh, Rat Hector in "Coral no Tanken", and the villain Keisar Ephes in the video game "Super Robot Wars Alpha 3". His live-action roles include Dr. Ben in "Jikuu Senshi Spielban" and (most notably) Voicelugger Gold in "Voicelugger", a Tokusatsu show based on the last concept written by Shotaro Ishinomori before his death. He also performed as a guest appearance in the Japanese Television Comedy show, Gaki No Tsukai. He voiced the title character Bobobo-bo Bo-bobo in the first PlayStation 2 game of the series, as well as singing the theme song. In 2010, he had a role in an episode of arc of "Kamen Rider W" along with fellow musicians Aya Kamiki and TAKUYA. In 2012, he starred in one of the episodes in "Tokumei Sentai Go-Busters" as well as singing "Li-Oh! Kenzan Champion!" which is a theme song for the new robot introduced in the episode. His voice is also used as the voice for the robot's control system.