Tokyo Demons is being serialized as a fully voiced audio book that lags behind the prose serialization by a few months. Download below with a right-click and “save as,” or listen to it streamed on YouTube:
Files are uploaded here first and later added to YouTube, so bookmark this page for the newest stuff.
New: The first part of chapter 7 is up!
| Tokyo Demons: Book 1 Dramatized Audio Book |
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| Prologue | ||||||
| Chapter 1 | Free Talk 1 | |||||
| Chapter 2 | Free Talk 2 | |||||
| Chapter 3 | Free Talk 3* | |||||
| Chapter 4: Part 1, 2, 3 | Free Talk 4 | |||||
| Chapter 5: Part 1, 2, 3 (all fixed) | Free Talk 5 | |||||
| Chapter 6: Part 1, 2, 3, 4 | Free Talk 6* | |||||
| Chapter 7: Part 1, 2, 3 | Free Talk 7 | |||||
| Chapter 8: Part 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 | Free Talk 8 | |||||
| Epilogue | ||||||
| Extras | ||||||
| Audio Book Set for Book 1, Part 1 | Outtakes 1, Kiyoshi Love Fight | |||||
| Free extras for Book 1 | Outtakes 2** | |||||
| Miki Date CD (see below) | Complete | |||||
*Chap 3 Free Talk features spoilers for Chapter 5 and mild romantic spoilers for Book 2; Chap 6 Free Talk features spoilers for Book 2: Chapter 1 and mild other spoilers for Book 2.
**Outtakes are even LESS safe for work than the rest of Tokyo Demons
Right-click and “save as” to download.
| Miki Date CD: A Kickstarter stretch goal determined by vote, this CD is in real-time first-person perspective, but you can’t hear your own voice. That means Miki responds and reacts to the listener and the listener’s actions (the listener opens the glove compartment in the first scene, for example), and his answers/actions will imply what the listener said. Noticeable pauses signify when the listener is “speaking.” This is to optimize immersion, but it’s also fairly intuitive – the listener will be “asking” pretty obvious questions. In some cases, Miki will repeat the listener’s question so it’ll be clear what was asked. This is based off the “Talk/Character CD” format used in Japan, the same used to launch the franchise Starry Sky. |
Chapter 7, Part 2 of the audio book will be up in Summer, 2013.
Tokyo Demons audio book © Lianne Sentar and Rebecca Scoble, December, 2011 and February, 2013
Miki Date CD © Lianne Sentar and Rebecca Scoble, December 24, 2012
Credits
Cast
Ayase: Moonklutz
Jo: Alex O’Shea
Sachi: Dov
Kiyoshi: Dallas Turner
Mitsuko: E. Kim
Touya: Jae Rodgers
Kadoyuki: Lianne Sentar
Nick: Jae Rodgers
Seiya: Paul Kuypers
Detective Nakajima: Krystle Tabujara
Miki: Jennie Fiddes
Priest Daniel: Bilal Durrani
Mai: Jill Astley
Zayd: Eric Kim (separate from E. Kim)
Emi: Jill Astley
Adam: Adam Ford
Shouri: J. J.
Additional voices: Rebecca Scoble, Sunita Sidhu, Elizabeth Sheeran, Nancy Frey, Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, Alexandra, Neil Hendry, Muhammad Velji, Florence Ting, Andy Fiddes, Anthony Rinaldi, Anders Azzopardi, Tory Woollcott, M.A., Chris Rentschler, Michael Hurlbut, David Namisato, Nestor Sanchez, Jae Jae Lopez, Dylan Waite, Babette Hodis, Phu Nguyen
Many of the sound effects used in the Tokyo Demons audio book were available for free online, click here for the complete list. All music and additional sound effects by Rebecca Scoble.
I’m loving the story. The audio book is really well done! Great job Big Bro at being a creeper. Keep it up, all.
Wait, Big Bro? I think I know who you are now. You’re one 13-year-old we’ll allow to listen…since half your family is in the cast. ^_^
Heh, I know you left this comment a while ago, but I wanted to comment anyway. I’ve been editing your brother’s lines this weekend and I keep having to take breaks because he’s too creepy and it skeeves me out. Before we started this, I really didn’t know he was capable of this level of creepiness!
Maybe you don’t have 12-year-olds listening, but you do have 13-year olds.
Thank you for the support, but we officially discourage any readers under the age of 16 unless they get, like, a parent to read/listen to Tokyo Demons first. Chapter 6 and up are pretty damn adult. (Almost put a trigger warning on Chapter 6.)
This is seriously cool! I stumbled across this site while perusing another webcomic, and I’m thrilled that I followed the link to something truly awesome.
It’s not every day that you find a serialization that has such an obvious amount of dedication to the story and finds new and cool ways to keep readers (and listeners) wanting more.
Major props to you and your crew for all the hard work you’ve put into this project.
Thanks so much! It’s comments like this that keep me going through the slow, slow process of audio editing!
To be honest, when I found out that there was an audio-reading for this, I got really excited because it meant I could listen while I worked on something else that would be otherwise tedious. But when I found out it was not just a reading, but an amazing amalgam of *voice actors* and *sounds*? I just sit with headphones on and this goofy grin on my face while I listen.
Aw, you’re sweet. I’m obsessed with Japanese drama CDs. Obsessed. So when Rebecca agreed to turn our audio book into something dramatized and fully voiced, making us several step closer to an actual drama, I geeked all over her. It only exists because she’s a magical wizard.
And I listen to it (and most audio dramas) while doing the dishes. We’re trying to corner the market of People Who Want To Listen To Stuff While Doing Something Boring.
I must say, I prefer “Magical Wizard” to “Failed Music Major.” That’s a much better title!
And if anyone tries to interrupt you while editing, you can just yell, “YOU SHALL NOT PASS!” (Would’ve made an Oz joke, but I’ve never seen it. And LoTR is awsome). If that doesn’t work, just throw a shoe at the trespasser and call them a Balrog.
Well, you’ve totally got my “listening while doing something boring” corner of the market sold. This has become my go to work listening (and not just because I like hearing my creeper fiance’s voice every now and again).
Thank you! And I look forward to more installments
Jae told us you’ve listened to the audio book no fewer than 10 million times, which is very flattering and we love you.
Also, I like how this page is being overrun with the friends, family, and loved ones of Jae Rodgers. Did you know his mom did a voice in the audio book, too? She’s Jo’s second-to-last foster mother. JAE RODGERS FEVER.
Just found out I can download the audio to my PSP. Takes up a lot of memory, but it’s time for spring cleaning, right?
Couldn’t help but notice the slight accents, you guys’ based in U.S. or Canada? (accents didn’t effect awsomeness; though I laughed when Ayase said “oot” once) Don’t worry, I’m from Pennsylvania so I have a slight slur 
.
Most of our actors are Canadian, but a few are American (from New England). The accent is pretty similar between both places, but there are enough differences to make recording hilarious and weird. Lots of “how did you just say that word” moments.
Yeah, that scene where Jo (Alex) and Kiyoshi (Dallas) are talking about Mai and fighting over the pencil? The Canadian accents are SO THICK in that one that it always makes me laugh. But we thought it gave the audio drama a little culture, so we mostly left mild accents in. The actors who speak English as a second (or third+) language, like Bilal, are voicing characters who speak Japanese as a second language (in Bilal’s case, Daniel). Daniel, Nick, Zayd, etc. are supposed to sound like they’re speaking a language other than their mother tongue.
?? I don’t think they have Canadian accents. Or maybe I’m just not good at noticing subtle accents…
It’s definitely subtle if you don’t know what you’re listening for — it’s usually the pronunciation of a few particular words that give them away. We made Moonklutz redo a line like 5 times before realizing that’s just how Canadians say the word “blouse.”
That one was hilarious – I really couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong, so I had to ask Rebecca and Lianne to say the line and then we all just sort of stared at each other, marvelling over the word “blouse.”
It’s how they pronounce words like “sorry,” “about,” and “been.” Once you’ve been around Canadians long enough, you can’t NOT hear it.
Hm, I see. I don’t think I’ve come in contact with many Canadians if any living in closer proximity to the Mexican Border.
yaaay for the part 2 of chapt. 4 \:D/
good luck for the completion
Thanks, Sayaka~
Is there a new predicted date for the release of chapter 5 in audio?
Really enjoying the audio version, hope the next chapter comes soon!
Oops, forgot to revise this. The beginning of Chapter 5 should be out one week from tomorrow (aka Sunday, July 22nd). More details in tomorrow’s update.
GRRR. WHY DID I DO THIS TO MYSELF.
So I fond out about TD while you were doing your Kickstarter, and I said to myself, “That looks interesting, I’ll have to check it out sometime.” And then last night I decided to finally read it, but you had a link to the audiobook version at the top of the prologue, and I was like “Why not, I’ll give the audiobook a quick listen,” because I hadn’t listened to an audiobook since I was a kid. I was planning to just listen for maybe half a minute, and then before I knew it I’d finished the prologue and I was starting Chapter 1, because the audiobook was SO GOOD.
And so now I’m current on the audiobook version, so I’m faced with the choice of whether or not to wait for the next section or to start just reading the rest, but now I can’t imagine Tokyo Demons WITHOUT being read by those awesome VAs, and OH GOD WHY DID I DO THIS THIS IS AN IMPOSSIBLE DECISION WHY.
This paragraph is just here to demonstrate that I am, in fact, capable of using non-run-on sentences like a rational human being. I simply chose not to do so in the above, so as to convey the depth of my dismay.
So… um… yeah. The audiobook is good. Keep it up.
Hehe, thanks so much for the feedback! I’m really glad you’re enjoying it — doing the audio book this way, with all the different actors and music and sound effects, takes a ton of work, but I think it’s worth it. And I’m constantly surprised and impressed with how all our amateur actors have stepped up and done such an excellent job! There’s that wonderful moment when you’re recording and the actor gets the line just right, particularly important, emotional lines… we’ve been working really hard to get recording done for the rest of the book, and seriously, it’s only getting better.
The next part of chapter 5 will be out on Sunday! I totally understand if you want to read ahead, but we’re going to be on a faster audio schedule as of next month, so following the audio will hopefully be a less slow, frustrating, never-ending-wait kind of experience from now on.
I can only hope
WOOOOOOOOOOAH!!!!!! Chapter 5 part 3 end was such good voice acting I almost started crying with him!!!! I love the audio so much!!!!! X’C
Anyway, awesome story! I can’t wait to find out the powers of the characters and who else has powers!!!! SOOOOOOOO GOOOOOOOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aw, thanks for the love! I know what you mean about Dallas (voice of Kiyoshi) — he’s really, really talented, especially at the screaming/crying/freaking out parts. During recording, I literally started tearing up at one point just listening to him cry.