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Black Rock Shooter
ブラック★ロックシューター
2012 · TV series · 23 min episodes · 1 season
On the first day of junior high school, Mato Kuroi happens to run into Yomi Takanashi, a shy, withdrawn girl whom she immediately takes an interest in. Mato tries her best to make conversation with Yomi, wanting to befriend her. At first, she is avoided, but the ice breaks when Yomi happens to notice a decorative blue bird attached to Mato's phone, which is from the book "Li'l Birds At Play." Discovering they have a common interest, the two form a strong friendship. In an alternate universe, the young girls exist as parallel beings, Mato as Black★Rock Shooter, and Yomi as Dead Master. Somehow, what happens in one world seems to have an effect on the other, and unaware of this fact, the girls unknowingly become entangled by the threads of fate.
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We've already seen various things in that direction: characters performing plays (e.g. Monsterpiece Theater), one show doing a pastiche of another (e.g. the Death Note episode of Absolutely Lovely Children), fictional bands continuing outside the show they came from (EARPHONES or egoist) or bands that are simultaneously fictional and real (e.g. the one in Love Live), free-floating virtual characters being pushed as "celebrities" outside a particular show (e.g. Kizuna Ai). Look at e.g. the Hatsune Miku cover of the Virtual Insanity music video.
Black Rock Shooter is arguably already an example of what you described: a character "played" by Hatsune Miku. (Similarly subsequent efforts like Mekakucity Actors).