29/03/2011

週刊添い寝CDシリーズ vol.1 翔

 週刊添い寝CDシリーズ vol.1 翔


Shuukan Soine is a CD in which your boyfriend cuddles next to you in bed and talks with you  until you fall asleep.

As soon as I heard that this was going to be made I first cracked up, and then  I knew I just had to listen to it. The series is recorded with the 'dummy head  microphone', which means the characters sound as if they are really talking  into your ear, the concept is just lol, and the first in line is Hirakawa  Daisuke so I just had to listen to this.

The first thing I noticed are the blanket sounds, the character doesn't just  talk but when moving around there are (much too realistic xD) blanket sounds.  The entire talk itself is just too cute. Kakeru comes to bed after receiving an  urgent call from his work, and you've been lonely while he was away so he tries  to calm you down.

Btw, somewhere halfway through the CD you discover that you are sleeping in a  single bed xD (sleeping in a single bed with Hirakawa Daisuke his voice xD  ahahahaha) He does say that he'd like to buy a new one, and want you to help  him to choose a new one. And then he asks whether it would be ok to go to the  bookstore along the way... such a logical combo xD

The reason he wants to go to the bookstore is to search for a specific book  that seems to be part of a series of four, and is some sort of a fairytale.  This story btw, returns in the other Soine CDs as well. In each CD they tell a story that they link back to their own relationship.


Track 5 is (>///<) Because you're not falling asleep Kakeru eventually decides  that 'he is not going to let you sleep'. Hearing someone say that so close to  my ear nearly made me faint.

The last two tracks are when you've already fallen asleep, and the next morning when Kakeru wakes you up. Both are very cute, especially his almost falling  asleep when he whispers that he already bought an engament ring is just too cute.

The first press has a cast comment bonus track. The first time I was listening  to this I really was falling asleep, and because Hirakawa-san is very excited  while doing the cast comment I shot awake from my dreamy half-sleep. His  excitement is just too cute though. Apparently he did the recording of the cast  talk while wearing a headphone so that he can hear the effects of the dummy  head for himself as well. And he obviously has a lot of fun with it. (He  mentions that this is the first time that he is experiencing how it sounds for  himself, so that he's using this as a way to experiment xD). The best part is  when he has to do a message from Kakeru, and then almost squeels at how it  turns out xD

The use of the dummy head recording is very effective. Of course because Kakeru is constantly talking into your ear, but the way they switch from where you  hear him is nicely executed. Kakeru sleeps right of you, so you'll mostly hear  him from your rigth side, but every now and then he also whispers in your left  ear. The CD is 48minutes, which is -as I've experienced- more than enough to  actually make you fall sleep. (55min if you include the cast comment, but that  is more likely to wake you up)


This is one of those CDs that has a high risk of falling sleep. I had to listen to it trice before I finally heard everything. I recommend keeping the cast  comment apart if you are listening to this at night. No matter how cute  Hirakawa-san his excitement is, it does break the mood.

3 comments:

  1. I just wanted to pop in and leave a comment on how your site convinced me to delve into the world of Drama CDs. I first started by playing the Starry Sky game and realized that the Starry Sky series had a lot of drama CDs and after listening to them I just got hooked.

    Currently, I'm listening to the 週刊添い寝 series too and your reviews to them were really fun :). My Japanese isn't good enough to fully understand everything (especially when they tell the fairytales) and so it was a life-saver to find your review and makes sure that I was on the right track, haha.

    I hope you don't mind if I follow your site :D!

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  2. Hey! Just found your blog recently and wanted to let you know that I ADORE it. I'm a long-time Drama CD fan and relatively new Talk CD fan, and since my Japanese is still pretty weak, your blog has helped me make better sense of my more complicated dramas. And introduced me to so many new series! I had no idea that "cooking with your boyfriend" series existed and I can't wait to get one. Your reviews are great.

    So I'm going to try NOT to sound like a creep when I ask you a question that's been bugging me for a while. With the release of more "adult" Talk CDs, like most of the stuff out of Black Butterfly and series like Kiss x Kiss, I can't help but wonder if any company has gone ahead and just...made an 18+ Talk CD. It seems like a natural progression for the industry, especially since these seiyuu make a lot of money on BL stuff, which can get quite filthy. That said, an 18+ talk CD would be genuinely bizarre, so I'm not sure anyone's tried it yet.

    You're one of the best-read drama/talk CD fans I've come across online, so I figured I'd ask you. Thanks, and sorry for being creepy.

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  3. the latter entries of the Kannou Jikan series could count as such. The talking gets more and more suggestive with each entry, and by now they are actually describing some things, though still in slightly vague terms.

    And I'm planning on listening to the drama CD for Kin to Kuro no Akanai Kagi, which was described as being the game's scenario. The game itself is a H game but I don't know how the drama CD will be. A review should be up soon so check back every once in a while if you're interested.

    Other than that, I don't know of any done by well known seiyuu but (oh god I'm actually going to talk about this) there is an entire community out there for "saimin onaniwa" in other words masturbation hypnosis (oh this feels so weird to talk about). Most of it seems to be aimed at male listeners, but there are a few aimed at women, too.

    But with the current more "adult" releases I think it is only a matter of time before an actual 18+ CD turns up...

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