Intelligent Systems announced two newFire EmblemDrama CDs will be released on August 11, 2025, in Japan. We’ve got anAwakeningDrama CD, and aThree HousesDrama CD. They will be priced at 2000 Yen (tax included) each.
TheFire Emblem AwakeningDrama CD will feature protagonist Reflet (male)/Yoshimasa Hosoya, Chrom/Tomokazu Sugita, Lucina/Yū Kobayashi, and Jerome/Tarusuke Shingaki.
TheFire Emblem Three HousesDrama CD will feature Edelgard/Ai Kakuma, Dimitri/Kaito Ishikawa, Claude/Toshiyuki Toyonaga, Sothis/Tomoyo Kurosawa, and the gate guardian/Shinobu Matsumoto.
Samples for the two Drama CDs are included below.
If you don’t know about Drama CDs, these are audio CDs with side stories about a game, anime, manga or novel. Most of the time they’re comedic in nature and don’t include any important plot points. Usually, when a novel or manga is popular, the first thing it ever gets isn’t an anime adaptation or a game adaptation but a Drama CD. You often find Drama CDs in Limited Editions of games or manga volumes. Sadly they rarely ever officially leave Japan. For example, the most recent case I can think of isRune Factory 4 Special. TheJapanese limited edition included a Drama CD, butthe western version won’t.
SeeingFire Emblemalways had a very dedicated fanbase, with fan translators, even beforeFire Emblem Awakening’s boom, it’s highly likely you’ll end up finding English translations of these two Drama CDs on the net.
These two upcoming Drama CDs are part of theFire EmblemExtra Drama CD series. This series is pretty new. It started with aFire Emblem: The Blazing BladeDrama CD and aFire Emblem: Radiant DawnDrama CD, released simultaneously on July 17, 2025.
In related news, Nintendo and Intelligent Systems are also organizing theFire Emblem Expo IIeventon May 5 and 6, at Zepp Namba in Osaka. I imagine anyone reading this and actually planning to go to this expo know enough Japanese to check theofficial sitefor more details by themselves, as I don’t have the time to cover that myself.
Fire Emblem Three Housesis available on Nintendo Switch. Its protagonist Byleth wasaddedtoSuper Smash Bros. Ultimateon January 28. Nintendo recently started sharing details about the upcomingThree Houses Cindered Shadowsside story DLC. Wemost notably learnedthat this side story features four new characters called the Ashen Wolves, along with Edelgard, Dimitri, Claude, Linhardt, Ashe, Hilda, and Byleth.
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