Kaia
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*Almost* spoiler free review!

The premise is simple: You meet four (main) characters who become voice acters at your studio, learn how to produce bl (and other) audio dramas, get to know and/or romance one of them and live happily ever after.
The graphics are HQ, the voice acting is obviously the main focus. So what's wrong with Voice Love On Air?

Firstly, next to the very pretty anime artworks, the game also features AI art for the drama CD covers. Do with this info wahtever you want to. I do not support this and would like to know beforehand next time.

The gameplay loop is boring and repetitive and the main management part is a game based on luck rather than skill or good preperation.
To produce dramas, you have to reach a certain amount of points in 3 different skills. These skills are leveled by taking courses for 5 days in-game time (the player is looking at the screen, hands off of the keyboard), after you passed the threshhold you appoint 1 or 2 VA's and then you have to execute the acting by picking cards to support the actors in the voice booths. Your stats have no influence on which cards you can pull and if you pull bad cards you can't meet certain requirements, deliver a worse product and get less cash as well as affection from your actors. But none of this really matters, because you will swim in money after Y1. Or rather I did, but I also only produced S rank dramas because of lucky card draws.

I normally do not gravitate to this kind of game, but I know there are a ton of good VN's out there. This one is just boring. The story is bland and has no depth beyond ' my sister died ' and now the MC has a special emotion based power that's not getting explained in any detail at all.
The love interests are uninspired BL tropes I just can't take serious anymore at this day and age.
We have the ditzy cute one who's also abrasive at times when he feels inadequat but cries easily.
The cool and mysterious smart guy wearing glasses and being rich. His MO? He likes building bricks. (Thats kinda cute ngl, he's also my favorite)
The other cool but strong one who does not know how to show softness, because he has to be strong for his little sick sister.
And your childhood best friend. Who is obviously down bad for you (Aki) since minute one.
Is there nothing more original than this?

Before I end this review I'd like to open up another unpleaseant conversation. Please bare with me. I do not consider myself a fujoshi. I actually dislike this term a lot because of the community that surrounds a lot of BL works and makes me feel uncomfortable to sometimes even play or read anything like this openly, because of the blatant fetishization in the genre. I don't know anything about the studio behind this game, but I hope they will at least try better next time.
80% of the explicit dramas we can produce in this game are r* fantasies, non-con or hurting one character in the process. Why. WHY?
The very first audio drama is one. I actually thought about getting a refund, but I thought it might be random at first. It is not. The romances with the cast are 'normal' but at the same time, very same-y, like you can clearly feel that their focus is in a very specialized corner of BL. Now if you like this, please go on and pay 30€ (don't it's overprized, there are typos and bad translations everywhere), perfect game for you. I do not and that's why I won't recommend.
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