Alone After School with Your Clingy, Cool-Downer Kouhai [CV: Rio Tsuchiya]

This is a story about spending sweet moments with 'Hyomuro Erika,' a [downer-type junior] played by Rio Tsuchiya. Thank you all for coming. Point! 《Pick up》 ☆Character☆ 'Erika': A cool wolf-cut girl (1st year) at an all-girls school. She hates lively places and prefers quiet ones. Her personality is dry, and she spends a lot of time alone. Toward people she lets her guard down with, she seems to want to tease them a little. She apparently picks up on things quickly. ☆Tips☆ The key phrase to keep in mind is 'your hobbies and gratitude.' ☆Event☆ ◎ She's bad at connecting with people, but as the days pass and you grow closer, you start to feel like she's actually a girl who really loves connecting with people. I found myself wishing I could do silly, meaningless things with her, talk and laugh together, wishing we were classmates. ◇ For the ear cleaning, since it was her first time, she was nervous and anxious, carefully making sure not to hurt me — but the second time, she'd leveled up from before and did it so smoothly it surprised me! I couldn't believe how much she'd improved. She also had a bit of a mischievous streak, teasing me a little during the ear cleaning. ◯ Being with her, I noticed a side of her that was different from usual — some worries (?) about her classmates. Since these are important concerns, please make sure to listen closely. Recommended both for those who like being ear-cleaned and those who just want to enjoy the sounds of ear cleaning. Please do check out the main story! Thank you very much! "Good night ♪"

Hold on, hold on right there. As a devoted fan of Rio Tsuchiya's downer voice, let me give you three points that make this particular work stand out. Whether you're on the fence about buying it or not, I hope this helps. [Recommended Point 1: 'Kouhai (Junior)'] The heroine of this work, Hyomuro Erika, is a junior who calls you 'senpai.' And actually, there aren't that many ASMR works where Rio Tsuchiya calls you 'senpai' in her downer voice!! This ASMR is packed full of nutrients you can only get from her cool 'senpai' calls — please experience it with your own ears. [Recommended Point 2: 'Unexpectedness'] At first she's a bit hesitant, but gradually she gets into it and awakens to the charms of ear cleaning. Whenever she gets the chance, she'll whisper something that makes your heart skip a beat, or blow a soft breath into your ear — she's surprisingly playful and mischievous, and her actions hit hard!! [Recommended Point 3: 'Zero Distance'] True to the tagline 'Zero Distance Girl,' the conversations that let you feel her presence right beside you are another highlight of this work. Through casual chit-chat and her sharing her worries with you, you can feel, through your ears, how the distance between you keeps closing. Why not bathe in the voice of a girl who is 'zero distance' both physically and emotionally? That's it!! This is a full-on fan review so I'm totally biased, but this work made me realize once again just how much hidden charm there still is in Rio Tsuchiya's downer voice. You too should fall into the 'Rio Tsuchiya downer voice pit'!!

As the title suggests, this work depicts the days spent with a junior who has become attached to you, the listener. The key point is that she's merely 'attached' to you — nothing more. If the protagonist and the heroine, Hyomuro Erika, were to eventually become lovers, they seem to be somewhere around the halfway point of that journey. There's no doubt she has a good impression of him, but it doesn't feel like they're right on the verge of dating either. But that's exactly what makes it good! Unlike media such as bishoujo games, audio works have a limited runtime, so the relationship between the listener and heroine is often set at a high affection level from the start (or they're already a couple), or the relationship rushes forward at a hurried pace. This work, however, ends all the way through as a heartwarming senpai-kouhai relationship. A blood-sugar-spiking, lovey-dovey smooching relationship is great in its own way, but a daily-life story that depicts a relationship as faintly sweet as this one is also wonderful, isn't it...! In the character introduction, Hyomuro Erika is described as having a 'dry personality.' However, she doesn't seem to show that kind of attitude toward the protagonist, the listener. If anything, she comes across as a character who clearly feels quite attached to him. Yet, several months pass within the story, and even though her relationship with the listener is good, when her lip balm gets stolen, the girl in the next seat treats her as the culprit — which shows that her attachment to the listener specifically is something special. It's probably like a cat that doesn't usually warm up to people, but for some reason takes a liking to one particular person. Still, it's clear that building this relationship with the protagonist has brought about some change in Hyomuro Erika, so I'd love to see their relationship progress a bit further! After her affection grows a little more, I'd love to see a scenario where the protagonist gets confessed to by someone else — and at first she tries to celebrate for him, but then she realizes her own feelings for her senpai and can't quite manage to celebrate properly... or actually, he turns the confession down, and she feels relieved — that's the kind of Hyomuro Erika I want to see.