#i dont add stuff i listened to at work bc it was just bg noise i wasnt really focusing

[cruelsister-moved2]

tagged by @wizardcurse ^_^

last song: help me by hako yamazaki

currently watching: we just started star trek TNG and ofc im a datainator already but finding time to fit a 45 minute episode into my schedule regularly is so hard </3

currently reading: taliesin by stephen lawhead which is objectively a bad book but im enjoying it so much because it's nostalgic for me and its sooo whimsical. im also always listening to lord dunsany short story audiobooks while i work + working my way through odd girls and twilight lovers on the nonfiction front^_^

current obsession: my red russian kale plants i need to remember to post a pic but they're so much nicer than curly kale and they literally look cute too. and my spring onions are finally almost ready to harvest it feels like it's been forever

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[foxstens]

lets talk about drama cds (DONT READ)

long and rambly and probably makes no sense don’t read

its really weird cause im tempted to compare drama cds to audiobooks but theyre not really that.  they can be sort of like ovas, as in they adapt certain chapters of a manga but this particular variety can’t really stand on its own. usually theyre just something extra for the source material

but then there’s drama cds that adapt the full source material and thus they can stand alone. they might add some things, cut some things, switch some things around, as any adaptation, but a lot of the time you can listen to them without the context of the source material (provided you understand the language lmfao)

and then there’s blcds which as far as i’m aware usually fit into the second category. and they’re a lot less like audiobooks, and a lot more like listening to the audio of an anime. as in there’s a full cast and sound effects and music and it really feels acted. audiobooks can have that too but i haven’t found an audiobook that feels as real as one of these.

also they tend to be shorter? audiobooks are like anywhere from 5 to 27 hours depending on the length of the source material, whereas these ones usually adapt manga or light novels and so they’re usually 1-5 hours long. 

i’m the kind of person who usually prefers the source material to any sort of adaptation and yet in this case i’d sort of like to keep them separate because if i read the source material first i’d have already imagined voices to the characters and there’s a higher chance of me disliking the voices in the drama, also i’d be hella nitpicky about possible changes

but if i listen to the drama first i’d have already imagined everything while doing the listening so when i read the source material there’s a higher chance of me disliking it. this might make no sense but that’s how my brain works so i’d rather take no risks

AND WHEN IT COMES TO BLCDS SPECIFICALLY the voices are incredibly important bc i am very picky abt that but it’s great bc they allow me to experience the same story twice or to experience the story of a manga whose art i might not like

u feel

and its so interesting bc i hate audiobooks with a full cast or music but here it doesn’t bother me at all. neither does the fact that i don’t understand 100% of it, it’s very great for language-learning purposes or for background noise-purposes or for.......... other purposes

B)

and it’s so weird when a seiyuu i know pops up in one of these (that’s usually the case actually lmfao) bc they often feature some kind of h-scene OR SOMETIMES ARE ALMOST PWP and i wouldn’t have expected respectable seiyuus to take part in smth like this but i hear they use it to kind of get their voices out there and sometimes retire from it after they establish themselves in the industry. which is fine i mean this is a job as any other so like

BUT THEN IT’S REALLY WEIRD when a lot of their voices i’ve already heard in  very great very beloved anime roles and that definitely changes the experience of listening to such a drama

bc while they’re very good at portraying different characters in different situations in general, there’s just some roles that are too influential and might make me not want to listen to a particular drama if it features a particular seiyuu (has happened before)

and then there’s the h-scenes themselves which sure are interesting. i mean i am well-versed in audio p0rn but it feels completely different when it’s acted and with voices i know and might even have a story around it like wow

it took some getting used to. like at first i was just like O_O and i felt so embarassed??? now they just make me grin like an idiot because they’re great and also seiyuus are really fucking talented literally wtf

i swear i will develop a pokerface one day

they’re really great tho bc i can totally use them as background noise. i tried putting on some anime episodes as bg noise at some point but it didnt really work bc i always had the urge to just watch them. but there’s no such thing with these dramas so they’re great while doing chores or writing this post or possibly even doing homework???? lmfao that’s probably not the reason they were made but who cares

also most of them have really fucking amazing background music WHICH I TOTALLY DO NOT UNDERSTAND ESPECIALLY ??? SAD PIANO MUSIC DURING H-SCENES ??? i’d sure like to download the osts to some of them tho wtf

i do guess that some people get off to them which i 1000% support but i just keep wondering what ............. certain people............... would say if they knew these existed and what purposes they were used for

‘YOU’RE FETISHIZING PEOPLE’S VOICES’ or smth like that probably l m f a o

i really have no idea how i should experience them tho bc i’m s h i t at imagining things like even when reading books if something is described in a lot of detail i’ll be able to imagine it but other than that it’s just shapeless blobs doing things in a colourless void. and when listening to drama cds i dont even bother trying to imagine anything idek. so i have no idea how ppl who can imagine stuff experience them omfg. OR PEOPLE WHO KNOW JAPANESE FOR THAT FACT AHGJNDGDNJ.

im really glad i found them tho i really am (they have..... made me start paying attention to some seiyuus i barely noticed before which is gr9)