do you know any website where you can buy drama cds but basically only get a mp3 download of it? like itunes but for drama cds?
I vaguely alluded to this in an answer to an ask I once wrote (although not in detail), but there’s something (a site/app) called ポケットドラマ (Pocket Drama) that partners with a few drama CD labels (like Velvet Voice and Melty Drop) to provide streaming (not quite downloads, unfortunately) for select drama CDs, including Kare Pillow. *The website is optimized for use on a smartphone, so ideally, you should visit the website on a mobile browser.
ポケドラ also sells their own original mini-dramas of the R-18 variety (what else?), and I’d be a complete liar if I said that I’ve never dropped a couple hundred yen on a few of their dramas here and there… ( • v • ) Their payment system was previously restricted to cell-phone payment systems only accessible by people who owned a phone in Japan, but you can now use your credit card to purchase dramas. I’m totally enabling you again, don’t mind me.
But besides that, anon, I don’t believe digital downloads are a thing yet in the drama CD world—which is a shame, really, because I think it would be way easier for everyone to purchase and enjoy drama CDs if you could get them instantaneously, and at the same time that they were released in Japan.
Until the day comes where a drama CD label finally makes the decision to sell digital copies of their CD (and then the practice becomes widely adopted), though, guess I’ll keep wishing for that to happen. ( ´• ‸ •` )
