I first became interested in voice actors who worked on titles I liked. While looking for more of their content, such as character songs and OSTs, I came across drama CDs. I remember being pleasantly surprised to find some works where they also sang. Eventually, I got hooked on being able to enjoy the world of the story and the voice actors' performances for a long time through drama CDs.
I think the first time I came across it was while looking up a list of works featuring a voice actor I liked after watching an anime.
I really started getting interested after I found a thread discussing Otome drama CDs on a forum I was using at the time.
Years ago I started by reading comics and watching anime (like Ouran High School, La Corda, Haruka, etc), and then I came across to their drama CDs. I joined a forum where many fans shared these resources and engaged in discussions about their favorite voice actors.
Then I started listen to their counting sheep series Cds...in bed ...well they were all so good they never help you sleep tho
A long, long time ago, I discovered otome drama CDs through a random comment I saw while reading a manga. Someone mentioned them, and I got curious. Later, I found out that some manga also had drama CD adaptations, which made me even more interested.
it all started back when i was obsessed with mobile otome games. i was downloading everything i could find on the play store...
and one of them happened to be Love & Poke (らぶらぶつんつん), an app that combined voice audio with screen interaction (though it's gone now). the app was made by bizCROWN and that's where i discovered the Reversible series and completely fell in love with Sawa Manaka's voice ><
once i realized Reversible was actually an otome drama CD series, i started looking for other otome drama cds and discovering more voice actors. i fell into the rabbit hole and i've been into otome drama CDs ever since! ^^
unironically it was tiktok... i think, i remember that i'm scrolling through tiktok and found a video where the audio is basically from an otome cd. i got curious and opened the comment section, turns out it is an otome cd! and i start to search on soundcloud, youtube, and the rest is just history ^_^
I think the first time was I happened to stumble upon something uploaded on Soundcloud and learned the existence of drama cds and that a lot of my favorite seiyuu do work under a pseudonym. I remember looking up a list of seiyuu pseudonyms, and land then cd titles under their name.