How did you discover the r18 cd scene?

[amazingzoe]

Inspired by How did you discover otome games genre?.

For me, I was looking for "anime manga" battle scenes and saw some post about Silverio Ragnarok which is an eroge (didn't know anything about eroge at the time). The scene was the mc fighting with a blonde knight (my type) (picture below) Rufus voiced by 初時チェリー himself. I thought he sounded so good and was feeling so sad that he died so pitifully so I went looking for other characters voiced by him to comfort myself by searching his name on google. This was around 2022 so he didn't have much cd so the only thing that returned was his twitter account and see his retweet about his new cds on dlsite. I clicked the link not knowing wtf was even dlsite and my face when I heard his panting in the preview audio (made an account and bought immediately)??? Then I discovered that there was a whole ass industry (?) for this thing.
Thinking back there were so many coincidences. If Rufus didn't die in the prologue (which is the only thing available for me to watch for free on youtube at the time), I wouldn't have felt sad and went looking for the voice actor's other characters. If 初時チェリー didn't make his twitter account EXACTLY during 2022 and shared his works, I wouldn't have discovered dlsite.

And then me discovering that popular voice actors have alias for r18 works is another story. I played this game called Gunvolt Luminous Avenger iX 2 and there was a silver hair ninja boss voiced by Makoto Furukawa himself that was my type (again) who died (again) so I felt sad (again) and went around looking for other characters voiced by him (again) and then I wanted to just hear his cool voice monologue so I decided to be brave, or naive, and searched "古川慎 dlsite". I expected to hear him pantings but found his non-r18 cds instead which was not good enough for me. So I just googled "古川慎 dlsite bilibili" because people were posting cds there. Then something caught my eyes. It was a bilibili post that has dlsite in the title and 古川慎 [(*insert his alias here*)] in the body (quite concerning how this was lowkey so accessible). I googled his alias and my face when I heard his panting in the preview audio (bought immediately)??? Then the rest is history lol.

 

[ninnikuryona]

mine is stupid as fuck. i was part of an anime database (like mal or anilist), and there was an ability to comment under many pages, seiyuu's included. so i randomly saw a comment under hanae natsuki's page, linking a soundcloud playlist with his r18 works.. and i got hooked.. then i went to check sttk's works out of pure interest (because he voiced my number one hasubando), and i got HOOOOOKED........ it was in like. 2018? maybe even earlier than that. but my obsession went for a long time. i still remember watashi no kemono and aishi kimi ni koibumi wo...... i was so defeated when soundcloud started cracking down on piracy............. but watashi no kemono was recently re-shared here, which im irrationally happy about..........;w;w;w;w;w;w;
and i discovered more of the scene through translation blogs! they used to be very prevalent back then, and they translated a lot of stuff, which i feel like doesnt happen much nowadays? or maybe im just not looking hard enough haha
also, one time my sheer curiosity caused me to google "kenjiro tsuda cddrama r18" just to discover he doesnt have any. i felt a little relieved.

nowadays though i prefer listening to audios of non-veteran seiyuu, but rather those who are focused on r18 scene. yagami sen, uitoki cherry, mitsuhashi wataru, like that. though i would be happy if they appeared in some r18 otome games eheehehehehehe
mitsuhashi wataru has a role in these two vns but both are from succulent so im a little iffy on that. and in this one apparently which is from magic house so i have a little more trust in it. both are pretty old however:(

now that i check closer, it seems that both yagami sen and uitoki cherry have some otome works as well? thats so cool...... since r18 otome as a whole seem to be coming back slowly but steadily, maybe we will hear more of them in the nearby future..^^

 

[ninnikuryona]

Thinking back there were so many coincidences. If Rufus didn't die in the prologue (which is the only thing available for me to watch for free on youtube at the time), I wouldn't have felt sad and went looking for the voice actor's other characters. If 初時チェリー didn't make his twitter account EXACTLY during 2022 and shared his works, I wouldn't have discovered dlsite.

its always so fun to think about how much stuff you discovered on pure accident, how dumb these accidents are sometimes, and what would your interests turn out to be if you didnt. your story was very fun and insightful! (although i feel a little bad for you losing your faves so easily......) thank you for sharing^^