Otacore
Otacore is a label from Spotify's genre system for music tied to anime and game fandom, such as anime theme songs, Vocaloid tracks and game soundtracks.
The name joins 'otaku', the Japanese word for a devoted fan of anime, manga and games, with the '-core' ending used for many genre names. It is not a style that musicians set out to make, and the songs under it can be rock, pop or electronic. What they share is an audience, so the tag describes a listening habit more than a sound.
- Family
- J-Pop & Anime
- On Spotify
- No longer returned by Spotify’s API
- What it is
- A label Spotify coined
- Trackify listeners who play it
- 4%
About 3,300 of 83,000 Trackify listeners with public profiles have otacore among their top artists of the last four weeks. Rounded; updated 13 November 2026.
Otacore artists
The Living Tombstone
JT Music
Mili
Linked Horizon
CG5
My Little Pony
Tryhardninja
Black Gryph0n
Dagames
Masafumi Takada
The otacore artists most Trackify listeners have in their top fifty. Each opens on Spotify.
Sources
The definition is written for this site from open sources, and was checked against them on 13 November 2026.