Tokyo Demons is being serialized as a fully voiced audio book that lags behind the prose serialization by a few months. You can listen to it streamed on our YouTube channel here or download below with a right-click and “save as.” Files are uploaded here first and later added to YouTube, so bookmark this page for the newest stuff.
New: We’ve finished posting all of Chapter 4! It’s in three parts, all of which can be downloaded below. Thank you for your patience!
| Tokyo Demons: Book 1 Dramatized Audio Book |
| Prologue |
| Chapter 1 |
| Chapter 1 Free Talk |
| Chapter 2 |
| Chapter 2 Free Talk |
| Chapter 3 |
| Chapter 3 Free Talk* |
| Chapter 4 Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 |
*Note, Chap 3 Free Talk features spoilers for Chapter 5 and mild romantic spoilers for Book 2.
Right-click and “save as” to download.
The first tracks of Chapter 5 of the audio book should be up in June, 2012.
Tokyo Demons audio book © Lianne Sentar and Rebecca Scoble, December, 2011 and April, 2012
Credits
Cast
Ayase: Moonklutz
Jo: Alex O’Shea
Sachi: Dovreshin MacRae
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
Adam: Adam Ford
Emi: Jill Astley
Shouri: J. Jung
Additional voices: Rebecca Scoble, Sunita Sidhu, Elizabeth Sheeran, Nancy Frey, Lillian Diaz-Przybyl, Alexandra, Neil Hendry, Muhammad Velji, Florence Ting, Andy Fiddes, everyone else already listed
The Tokyo Demons audio book contains sound effects that were made available for free on the internet, usually under a creative commons license.
From Freesound:
- S: good kick in the head sound.aif by mwl500
- S: laughter.wav by sagetyrtle
- S: Bedroom Door Knocks.wav by fogma
- S: volleyball convo.WAV by labailey
- S: door_close.WAV by Sir Smith
- S: Metal squeaking chair.wav by Razzvio
- S: MetalChairTiles.wav by mikaelfernstrom
- S: WoodenChairTiles.wav by mikaelfernstrom
- S: RBH_Household_closet 02.wav by RHumphries
- S: sodacanmachine.mp3 by morgantj
- S: CTR intermition.mp3 by Omar Alvarado
- S: 07 Sliding_door_real.aif by stereostereo
- S: btn121.wav by junggle
- S: click 1 d.wav by TicTacShutUp
- S: FlyLoop.flac by acclivity
- S: bee1.aif by sofajoe
- S: Buzzing_bee_24_96_stereo.wav by higginsdj
- S: zippo_open_8shots.wav by vibe_crc
- S: cigarett_zippo.mp3 by dobroide
- S: cigarette_lighter.wav by xyzr_kx
- S: subway_ueno_asakusa.wav by volivieri
- S: Gotanda2ShibuyaYamanoteSen_120.wav by markystar
From Tam-music:
School Wind Chime (2) Long things (chime21.wav) [Title translated by Google]
From PacDV:
Party Crowd (party_crowd_1.wav)
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.
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 
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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~