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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds Hatsune Miku Crossover refers to the inclusion of Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku as a driver in the 2025 racing video game Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds. Miku was revealed to be in the game on June 6th, 2025, during Summer Game Fest, inspiring discourse and reactions online, including memes and fan art depicting Sonic, Miku and other characters from the game together. Some posts refer to Sonic and Miku as brother and sister, which is not canon.

Origin

On June 6th, 2025, a new trailer for Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds was released during Summer Game Fest and was posted to the Sonic the Hedgehog YouTube^[1] channel, garnering over 558,000 views in three days. At the 00:36-second timestamp, Hatsune Miku is announced as a playable character.

Spread

The news of the character's addition to the game in early June 2025 garnered viral spread online, inspiring discourse, memes and fan art.

On June 6th, 2025, the news was posted to the /r/Vocaloid^[2] subreddit, garnering over 1,700 upvotes in three days. That day, X^[3] user @rue_bit posted a video about Miku and Joker's additions to the game, garnering over 70,000 likes in three days.

On June 7th, X^[4] user @paranoid_ghosts posted a piece of artwork showing Miku and other Vocaloids standing with Sonic the Hedgehog characters, garnering over 40,000 likes in two days.

On the same day, X^[5] user @IronicnotSavage posted a piece of art of Miku in her racing outfit, garnering over 9,700 likes in two days.

On June 8th, 2025, X^[6] user @refresqito posted a piece of fan art showing Sonic and Shadow with Miku and Kasane Teto, garnering over 11,000 likes in a day.

Also that day, Tumblr^[7] user citrus-c0la posted a comic based on the announcement, garnering over 400 notes in a day. It was then reposted to the /r/SonicTheHedgehog^[8] on June 9th, garnering over 520 notes in a few hours.

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