I will look into my favorite seiyuu's work and choose his CD with my preferences. Both matters for me because my specific taste of voice and story makes it more enjoyable.
Yes!! the teenager me love shota (basically the cute looking guys) and yandere very much. but i prefer characters more mature, kind, or quiet now. sometimes i still love yandere too.
I love writing my thoughts while playing or after. This help me to remember plot of the games after months because i easily forget everything. My notes are full of spoilers, or i can say it is like thoughts and plot summaries.
I am also self-taught Japanese from japanese media. Not from otome games because it's too hard to read kanjis, so i gave up on otome game at first. then mostly i learnt from anime and idols. Then i started to watch TV shows and youtube because they usually put japanese subtitle too. that really...