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** Apparently Azusacan't sing at all.is during the restart manga, as she's asked to front the new Light Music Club band and finds out her singing voice is quite scratchy.
** Apparently Azusa
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* The otherwise angelic Aya Hirano's screaming/singing as Konata on ''Anime/LuckyStar''.
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* The otherwise angelic Aya Hirano's screaming/singing as Zigzagged with Konata on ''Anime/LuckyStar''.from ''Manga/LuckyStar''; the end credits for the first half of the anime show that Konata can be ''very'' off-key when singing upbeat, passionate theme songs from anime and TV shows (such as when she sings "Cha-La Head-Cha-La" from ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' in Episode 5), but she's a much better singer when she's singing calmer and slower-paced songs.
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** In the soundtrack [=CDs=], Eimi's seiyuu sings her signature song straight, proving that she's at least a competent singer--except it sounds completely wrong and disappointing, because Eimi's song ''should'' be sung lethally off-key and with great gusto.
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** In the soundtrack [=CDs=], Eimi's seiyuu voice actress sings her signature song straight, proving that she's at least a competent singer--except it sounds completely wrong and disappointing, because Eimi's song ''should'' be sung lethally off-key and with great gusto.
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* ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth'': According to WordOfGod, Hikaru Shidou has singing as her worst subject in school. Surprisingly, her seiyuu Hekiru Shiina was actually an accomplished singer. This is played around in one moment when Hikaru seems like having NoIndoorVoice.
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* ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth'': According to WordOfGod, Hikaru Shidou has singing as her worst subject in school. Surprisingly, her seiyuu voice actress Hekiru Shiina was actually an accomplished singer. This is played around in one moment when Hikaru seems like having NoIndoorVoice.
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** Although [[Creator/AkiToyosaki Yui's]] {{seiyuu}} is quite a talented singer, during a childhood memory scene, she sings an ear-grinding song about turtles, not only off-key, but mostly off-beat as well.
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** Although [[Creator/AkiToyosaki Yui's]] {{seiyuu}} VA is quite a talented singer, during a childhood memory scene, she sings an ear-grinding song about turtles, not only off-key, but mostly off-beat as well.
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* Once in ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' Victorique singing was mistaken for her moaning in pain.
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* In ''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'', the titular character sings the ending ''very'' half-heartedly. The fifth episode, she duets with Kagami -- the former sings normally and the latter sings half-heartedly and doesn't know the words.
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* In ''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'', ''Literature/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'', the titular character sings the ending ''very'' half-heartedly. The fifth episode, she duets with Kagami -- the former sings normally and the latter sings half-heartedly and doesn't know the words.
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* Whenever Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[PowerCopying copies]] a singing ability in the anime, his own allies shudder in dread of his [[BrownNote apocalyptically bad singing]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The Manual]] stats this is how the enemy-erasing "microphone" ability in the game works. One of the opening sequences in one of the games even has him being attacked by his own music notes.
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* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': Whenever Franchise/{{Kirby}} Kirby [[PowerCopying copies]] a singing ability in the anime, ability, his own allies shudder in dread of his [[BrownNote apocalyptically bad singing]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The Manual]] stats states this is how the enemy-erasing "microphone" ability in the game works. One of the opening sequences in one of the games even has him being attacked by his own music notes.
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* ''Anime/{{Pecola}}'': Coco. One episode has her practice singing for Pecola's band, which was assaulting on the ears of everyone in Cube Town. [[spoiler:Towards the end of the episode, she strains her voice, causing her to lose it... but it makes her singing beautifully smooth.]]
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* Miyuki Shirogane in ''Manga/KaguyaSamaLoveIsWar'' is so bad at singing it causes [[SuckinessIsPainful severe pain]] to anyone who hears it. His rapping is even worse, actually knocking a girl unconscious. Eventually he overcomes these difficulties with training and goes on to become amazingly adequate.
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* Lucia without her pearl in ''Anime/MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch''. Accidentally averted in the same series with Caren, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c669tIMT2EE a genuine]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAoiylgrMKk terrible singer]].
* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' Yomi is [[InformedFlaw supposedly]] a bad singer, but when you consider that her VA is Creator/RieTanaka, another very famous actress known for performing anime theme songs, the "bad" singing ends up sounding completely fake.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxRFoJURRc It's still hilarious, though.]]
* Averted in [[Anime/HighSchoolStarMusical StarMyu]] - the issues with Hoshitani's technique in his audition in episode 1 are real. Also, compare most of his diegetic singing - e.g. that audition, or his [[spoiler: attempts at Alexis' Shadow's song in season 2]] - with his non-diegetic "Hoshi no Stride" in the end of episode 1. (His diegetic singing is good when the song matches the mood of Hoshi no Stride).
* In episode 16 of ''Anime/MyHime'' Natsuki attempts to sing and does a horrible job of sounding like she can't. As a bonus for viewers, the song she's pretending she can't sing was sung by Saeko Chiba, who voiced... Natsuki.
* An obscure show called ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91xDq42C-Y singing]] (go to about 1:50) by a character named Miya that is truly indescribably horrible and you can understand how it [[BrownNote knocked everyone out]].
* The otherwise angelic Aya Hirano's screaming/singing as Konata on ''Anime/LuckyStar''.
* ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'' takes this to the n-th degree with [[DreadfulMusician Tokino's]] karaoke. Not only is her singing completely over-the-top tone-deaf, [[Creator/JojiNakata it's not even her own voice actor doing the singing]].
* A recurring gag in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' is that Gian/Big G is a terrible singer. One time he was on TV, his singing voice was so bad that it actually ''hospitalized'' several people.
* Several characters exhibit this trope in a karaoke-themed episode of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. It's present in both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WT6YqXq6aY Japanese]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soy8rqmJs1o English]] versions.
* Eimi Date in ''Anime/PrettySammy TV'' (aka Anime/MagicalProjectS). Her classmates have to silence her whenever the class sings.
** In the soundtrack [=CDs=], Eimi's seiyuu sings her signature song straight, proving that she's at least a competent singer--except it sounds completely wrong and disappointing, because Eimi's song ''should'' be sung lethally off-key and with great gusto.
* Coco from ''Anime/{{Pecola}}''. In one episode, she was practicing her singing for Pecola's band, which was assaulting on the ears of everyone in Cube Town. [[spoiler: Towards the end of the episode, Coco's screechy voice became smooth during vocalization, and Pecola compliments her on it.]]
* Whenever Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[PowerCopying copies]] a singing ability in the anime, his own allies shudder in dread of his [[BrownNote apocalyptically bad singing]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The Manual]] stats this is how the enemy-erasing "microphone" ability in the game works. One of the opening sequences in one of the games even has him being attacked by his own music notes.
* Shinichi (and therefore Conan) in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is tone deaf and can't sing worth beans. (His [[Creator/MinamiTakayama Japanese voice actress]], however, [[IronyAsSheIsCast makes up half of the J-Pop duo Two-Mix.]]) This isn't consistent; in a NonSerialMovie he has perfect pitch, but still sings terribly.
* Akira Nagisa in ''Chrome Breaker'' - so bad she scares [[spoiler: magical sidekick]] birds.
* In ''Anime/HidamariSketch'', Yuno's bad singing manifests as a completely different (but consistent!) melody line -- which [[DitzyGenius Miyako]] can subsequently sing back perfectly.
* Maya Natsume in ''Manga/TenjhoTenge''; she loses her karaoke "battle" with [[FriendlyEnemies Friendly Enemy]] Mitsuomi because she's a terrible singer. Since her voice actress in the anime was Creator/AyaHisakawa, they telegraphed this by making her this trope - in the karaoke scene, she basically just groans into the mic.
* ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth'': According to WordOfGod, Hikaru Shidou has singing as her worst subject in school. Surprisingly, her seiyuu Hekiru Shiina was actually an accomplished singer. This is played around in one moment when Hikaru seems like having NoIndoorVoice.
* Some characters' renditions of the Zetsubou Sensei Drawing Song in ''Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' delve into this, most noticeably with Kaere Kimura. Who is voiced by Creator/YuuKobayashi, who, like Creator/RieTanaka, is a fine singer.
* One episode of ''Anime/MapleTown'' has Puriprin picked for the lead role in a play. HilarityEnsues as everyone is kept up at night by her ear-shredding attempts at "singing practice". The kicker? The VA for Puriprin is none other than Satoko Yamano, who sings the opening and ending theme songs.
* Averted with Creator/TakehitoKoyasu, of all people, in ''{{Anime/Macross 7}}.'' Even though he's an accomplished singer, he manages to be very believably, incredibly off-key when singing the theme song. (His character, Gamlin, is tone deaf.)
* Both English and Japanese versions of female Ranma in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' belt out an off-key verse during the "Tendo Family's Christmas Scramble" OAV, where she's shanghaied into joining Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane, and Shampoo in a song to entertain the guests. Similarly, the [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] "Hot Song Battle Contest" album and OAV have her ''screeching'' out a cloyingly cute kiddy song about balloons. While Brigitta Dau's singing credentials are unknown, Music/MegumiHayashibara is actually an excellent singer, including her in-character performances as part of the [=DoCo=] supergroup (which is composed of those same five characters) as well as the rest of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' ImageSong collections.
* Rio in ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' -- played by the aforementioned Creator/YuuKobayashi -- sings a god-awful [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage snippet of the opening theme song]] in one of the DVD-only extra episodes. Then again, the character is a trumpeter, not a singer, and is completely drunk at the time.
* ''Manga/KOn'':
** Although [[Creator/AkiToyosaki Yui's]] {{seiyuu}} is quite a talented singer, during a childhood memory scene, she sings an ear-grinding song about turtles, not only off-key, but mostly off-beat as well.
** Azusa can't sing at all.
* In the KaraokeBox episode of ''Manga/KannagiCrazyShrineMaidens'', some of the characters sing their songs pretty badly. The singing is made better for the ImageSong release.
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', Miho is nervous about Mashiro hearing her singing, because she says she's not very good. The first time she's heard on TV, her best friend Kaya laughs at her and Mashiro feels as embarrassed as he thinks she must have felt. Creator/SaoriHayami, on the other hand, is praised as one of the best singers among modern voice actresses, and sings fairly well. Eventually, however, Azuki gets better at singing, and sends Mashiro some of her songs on a disk.
* Once in ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' Victorique singing was mistaken for her moaning in pain.
* Giroro from ''Manga/SgtFrog'' has ''no'' singing talent at all. Made painfully clear when he's ordered to [[ItMakesSenseInContext lullaby the temporarily age reverted Kururu]]. His screeching singing is so horrible, it drives Kururu to hit the self destruct button on his human suit to make it stop.
** However, his voice-actor is the ''lead singer'' on the show's first theme song.
* In the last episode of the first season of ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', a sleep-deprived and delirious Keima sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQj4IswJA_E a beautiful song]] - with backup singers!
%%* Haruka in ''Manga/KotouraSan'' does this with the anime's OP and ED.
* In ''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'', the titular character sings the ending ''very'' half-heartedly. The fifth episode, she duets with Kagami -- the former sings normally and the latter sings half-heartedly and doesn't know the words.
* In ''Manga/RecentlyMySisterIsUnusual'', Yuuya cannot sing, at all. He even butchers something as simple as the "Happy Birthday" song. Even Hiyori, who practically worships the ground he walks on, cannot stand his singing.
* Tomoko Kuroki's voice actress sings the Ending Theme of ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' with an exaggerated whiny, nasal voice and off-key and, as the song goes on, she starts to have an emotional breakdown, resulting in singing worse.
* In the seventh episode of the original ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime, Usagi and Naru [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage sing the title theme]], but are badly off-key. Usagi's Japanese voice actress, Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, is an accomplished singer who recorded multiple [=CDs=] both related to the show and not. Also, Naru's voice actress in the Creator/VizMedia redub, Creator/DanielleJudovits, has sung in theatrical musicals.
* The main protagonist Urno from ''Manga/DamekkoDoubutsu'' has a terrible singing voice. So bad that it can be heard throughout the entire forest.
* Mana Aida of ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' has a singing voice so hideous that Rikka and Alice covered their ears and ran for cover when she tried singing a lullaby for baby fairy Ai-chan, also sending birds flying in terror. When she tries to sing again in ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars Spring Carnival'', the entire ''Doki Doki'' team covers their ears (especially for Rikka, as she went concerned as she saw Mana got hold of the microphone and has her hands halfway up to her ears before the rest of her team even lifted their hands) and it catches pretty much everyone, especially the much more musically-inclined ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' team, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/prettycure/images/d/df/Beat_Muse.png/revision/latest?cb=20161001115720&format=original completely]] [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/prettycure/images/2/2c/Music.png/revision/latest?cb=20161001115803&format=original off-guard]].
-->'''Mana:''' ''[completely off-key]'' THE WORLD IS LIKE A MERRY GO-ROUND!\\
'''Hibiki:''' T-This is ''music''?!
* Tomoyo Kurosawa has to deliberately sing badly in episode 4 of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' during several scenes where Itsuki is struggling to sing in [[PerformanceAnxiety front of other people]] because of her shyness. The rest of Kurosawa’s vocal work for the series, [[spoiler:especially in episode 9]], shows that she’s actually a very good singer.
* Yuu Kashima of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', despite being TheAce at nearly everything else, can't sing at all. When she demonstrates her ability to Seo, who she asked for voice training from, Seo reveals that she had earplugs in the whole time.
* In the Blu-ray version of the final episode of the first season of ''Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki'' Creator/HarukaTomatsu sings her own ending theme in character as Yatogame at karaoke. While she generally hits the correct notes, she manages to stay slightly ahead of the beat for most of the song, making it sound quite amateurish.
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* In ''Manga/AzumangaDaioh'' Yomi is [[InformedFlaw supposedly]] a bad singer, but when you consider that her VA is Creator/RieTanaka, another very famous actress known for performing anime theme songs, the "bad" singing ends up sounding completely fake.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIxRFoJURRc It's still hilarious, though.]]
* Averted in [[Anime/HighSchoolStarMusical StarMyu]] - the issues with Hoshitani's technique in his audition in episode 1 are real. Also, compare most of his diegetic singing - e.g. that audition, or his [[spoiler: attempts at Alexis' Shadow's song in season 2]] - with his non-diegetic "Hoshi no Stride" in the end of episode 1. (His diegetic singing is good when the song matches the mood of Hoshi no Stride).
* In episode 16 of ''Anime/MyHime'' Natsuki attempts to sing and does a horrible job of sounding like she can't. As a bonus for viewers, the song she's pretending she can't sing was sung by Saeko Chiba, who voiced... Natsuki.
* An obscure show called ''Manga/KoiKoi7'' features [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-91xDq42C-Y singing]] (go to about 1:50) by a character named Miya that is truly indescribably horrible and you can understand how it [[BrownNote knocked everyone out]].
* The otherwise angelic Aya Hirano's screaming/singing as Konata on ''Anime/LuckyStar''.
* ShowWithinAShow ''Anime/KujibikiUnbalance'' takes this to the n-th degree with [[DreadfulMusician Tokino's]] karaoke. Not only is her singing completely over-the-top tone-deaf, [[Creator/JojiNakata it's not even her own voice actor doing the singing]].
* A recurring gag in ''Manga/{{Doraemon}}'' is that Gian/Big G is a terrible singer. One time he was on TV, his singing voice was so bad that it actually ''hospitalized'' several people.
* Several characters exhibit this trope in a karaoke-themed episode of ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. It's present in both the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WT6YqXq6aY Japanese]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soy8rqmJs1o English]] versions.
* Eimi Date in ''Anime/PrettySammy TV'' (aka Anime/MagicalProjectS). Her classmates have to silence her whenever the class sings.
** In the soundtrack [=CDs=], Eimi's seiyuu sings her signature song straight, proving that she's at least a competent singer--except it sounds completely wrong and disappointing, because Eimi's song ''should'' be sung lethally off-key and with great gusto.
* Coco from ''Anime/{{Pecola}}''. In one episode, she was practicing her singing for Pecola's band, which was assaulting on the ears of everyone in Cube Town. [[spoiler: Towards the end of the episode, Coco's screechy voice became smooth during vocalization, and Pecola compliments her on it.]]
* Whenever Franchise/{{Kirby}} [[PowerCopying copies]] a singing ability in the anime, his own allies shudder in dread of his [[BrownNote apocalyptically bad singing]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The Manual]] stats this is how the enemy-erasing "microphone" ability in the game works. One of the opening sequences in one of the games even has him being attacked by his own music notes.
* Shinichi (and therefore Conan) in ''Manga/CaseClosed'' is tone deaf and can't sing worth beans. (His [[Creator/MinamiTakayama Japanese voice actress]], however, [[IronyAsSheIsCast makes up half of the J-Pop duo Two-Mix.]]) This isn't consistent; in a NonSerialMovie he has perfect pitch, but still sings terribly.
* Akira Nagisa in ''Chrome Breaker'' - so bad she scares [[spoiler: magical sidekick]] birds.
* In ''Anime/HidamariSketch'', Yuno's bad singing manifests as a completely different (but consistent!) melody line -- which [[DitzyGenius Miyako]] can subsequently sing back perfectly.
* Maya Natsume in ''Manga/TenjhoTenge''; she loses her karaoke "battle" with [[FriendlyEnemies Friendly Enemy]] Mitsuomi because she's a terrible singer. Since her voice actress in the anime was Creator/AyaHisakawa, they telegraphed this by making her this trope - in the karaoke scene, she basically just groans into the mic.
* ''Anime/MagicKnightRayearth'': According to WordOfGod, Hikaru Shidou has singing as her worst subject in school. Surprisingly, her seiyuu Hekiru Shiina was actually an accomplished singer. This is played around in one moment when Hikaru seems like having NoIndoorVoice.
* Some characters' renditions of the Zetsubou Sensei Drawing Song in ''Anime/SayonaraZetsubouSensei'' delve into this, most noticeably with Kaere Kimura. Who is voiced by Creator/YuuKobayashi, who, like Creator/RieTanaka, is a fine singer.
* One episode of ''Anime/MapleTown'' has Puriprin picked for the lead role in a play. HilarityEnsues as everyone is kept up at night by her ear-shredding attempts at "singing practice". The kicker? The VA for Puriprin is none other than Satoko Yamano, who sings the opening and ending theme songs.
* Averted with Creator/TakehitoKoyasu, of all people, in ''{{Anime/Macross 7}}.'' Even though he's an accomplished singer, he manages to be very believably, incredibly off-key when singing the theme song. (His character, Gamlin, is tone deaf.)
* Both English and Japanese versions of female Ranma in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' belt out an off-key verse during the "Tendo Family's Christmas Scramble" OAV, where she's shanghaied into joining Kasumi, Nabiki, Akane, and Shampoo in a song to entertain the guests. Similarly, the [[NoExportForYou Japan-only]] "Hot Song Battle Contest" album and OAV have her ''screeching'' out a cloyingly cute kiddy song about balloons. While Brigitta Dau's singing credentials are unknown, Music/MegumiHayashibara is actually an excellent singer, including her in-character performances as part of the [=DoCo=] supergroup (which is composed of those same five characters) as well as the rest of the ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' ImageSong collections.
* Rio in ''Anime/SoundOfTheSky'' -- played by the aforementioned Creator/YuuKobayashi -- sings a god-awful [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage snippet of the opening theme song]] in one of the DVD-only extra episodes. Then again, the character is a trumpeter, not a singer, and is completely drunk at the time.
* ''Manga/KOn'':
** Although [[Creator/AkiToyosaki Yui's]] {{seiyuu}} is quite a talented singer, during a childhood memory scene, she sings an ear-grinding song about turtles, not only off-key, but mostly off-beat as well.
** Azusa can't sing at all.
* In the KaraokeBox episode of ''Manga/KannagiCrazyShrineMaidens'', some of the characters sing their songs pretty badly. The singing is made better for the ImageSong release.
* In ''Manga/{{Bakuman}}'', Miho is nervous about Mashiro hearing her singing, because she says she's not very good. The first time she's heard on TV, her best friend Kaya laughs at her and Mashiro feels as embarrassed as he thinks she must have felt. Creator/SaoriHayami, on the other hand, is praised as one of the best singers among modern voice actresses, and sings fairly well. Eventually, however, Azuki gets better at singing, and sends Mashiro some of her songs on a disk.
* Once in ''LightNovel/{{Gosick}}'' Victorique singing was mistaken for her moaning in pain.
* Giroro from ''Manga/SgtFrog'' has ''no'' singing talent at all. Made painfully clear when he's ordered to [[ItMakesSenseInContext lullaby the temporarily age reverted Kururu]]. His screeching singing is so horrible, it drives Kururu to hit the self destruct button on his human suit to make it stop.
** However, his voice-actor is the ''lead singer'' on the show's first theme song.
* In the last episode of the first season of ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'', a sleep-deprived and delirious Keima sings [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQj4IswJA_E a beautiful song]] - with backup singers!
%%* Haruka in ''Manga/KotouraSan'' does this with the anime's OP and ED.
* In ''LightNovel/SasamisanAtGanbaranai'', the titular character sings the ending ''very'' half-heartedly. The fifth episode, she duets with Kagami -- the former sings normally and the latter sings half-heartedly and doesn't know the words.
* In ''Manga/RecentlyMySisterIsUnusual'', Yuuya cannot sing, at all. He even butchers something as simple as the "Happy Birthday" song. Even Hiyori, who practically worships the ground he walks on, cannot stand his singing.
* Tomoko Kuroki's voice actress sings the Ending Theme of ''Manga/NoMatterHowILookAtItItsYouGuysFaultImNotPopular'' with an exaggerated whiny, nasal voice and off-key and, as the song goes on, she starts to have an emotional breakdown, resulting in singing worse.
* In the seventh episode of the original ''Manga/SailorMoon'' anime, Usagi and Naru [[DiegeticSoundtrackUsage sing the title theme]], but are badly off-key. Usagi's Japanese voice actress, Creator/KotonoMitsuishi, is an accomplished singer who recorded multiple [=CDs=] both related to the show and not. Also, Naru's voice actress in the Creator/VizMedia redub, Creator/DanielleJudovits, has sung in theatrical musicals.
* The main protagonist Urno from ''Manga/DamekkoDoubutsu'' has a terrible singing voice. So bad that it can be heard throughout the entire forest.
* Mana Aida of ''Anime/DokiDokiPrecure'' has a singing voice so hideous that Rikka and Alice covered their ears and ran for cover when she tried singing a lullaby for baby fairy Ai-chan, also sending birds flying in terror. When she tries to sing again in ''Anime/PrettyCureAllStars Spring Carnival'', the entire ''Doki Doki'' team covers their ears (especially for Rikka, as she went concerned as she saw Mana got hold of the microphone and has her hands halfway up to her ears before the rest of her team even lifted their hands) and it catches pretty much everyone, especially the much more musically-inclined ''Anime/SuitePrettyCure'' team, [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/prettycure/images/d/df/Beat_Muse.png/revision/latest?cb=20161001115720&format=original completely]] [[https://vignette.wikia.nocookie.net/prettycure/images/2/2c/Music.png/revision/latest?cb=20161001115803&format=original off-guard]].
-->'''Mana:''' ''[completely off-key]'' THE WORLD IS LIKE A MERRY GO-ROUND!\\
'''Hibiki:''' T-This is ''music''?!
* Tomoyo Kurosawa has to deliberately sing badly in episode 4 of ''Anime/YukiYunaIsAHero'' during several scenes where Itsuki is struggling to sing in [[PerformanceAnxiety front of other people]] because of her shyness. The rest of Kurosawa’s vocal work for the series, [[spoiler:especially in episode 9]], shows that she’s actually a very good singer.
* Yuu Kashima of ''Manga/MonthlyGirlsNozakiKun'', despite being TheAce at nearly everything else, can't sing at all. When she demonstrates her ability to Seo, who she asked for voice training from, Seo reveals that she had earplugs in the whole time.
* In the Blu-ray version of the final episode of the first season of ''Yatogame-chan Kansatsu Nikki'' Creator/HarukaTomatsu sings her own ending theme in character as Yatogame at karaoke. While she generally hits the correct notes, she manages to stay slightly ahead of the beat for most of the song, making it sound quite amateurish.
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