A Japanese online store has recently revealed that four drama CDs for Fire Emblem Fates will be released on September 21, 2016. The drama CDs will expand on the story of Fire Emblem Fates, particularly focusing on Takumi, Leo, male Corrin, and female Corrin. The titles of the four CDs are as follows:
- Takumi’s Prequel – Corrin’s Homecoming Tale
- Takumi’s Prequel – Decision Time Tale
- Northern Fortress Tale – Leo and Xander’s Conflict
- Corrin’s Birthday Tale – Turbulent My Castle
Looks like the Birthright Drama CDs will focus on Takumi's perspective, specifically on the events leading up to male Corrin's first visit to Hoshido and the events leading up to the Branch of Fates. The Conquest Drama CDs will probably focus on female Corrin's time in the Northern Fortress, while the latter focuses on some slice-of-life My Castle fun. In addition, Intelligent Systems has fully supervised the stories for all the drama CDs as they were written by the development staff, and the voice actors of much of the characters from the game will return to voice them for this special occasion.
Another noteworthy treat coming with the drama CDs is that it will feature brand new character art illustrations (hopefully, it will feature all of them and not just a select number of characters). On that note, the Complete Box edition will come with two IC card stickers featuring Takumi + his retainers and Leo + his retainers respectively.
Look closely and you'll notice these card stickers have given us our first glimpse of Hinata, Niles, and Odin's official artworks!
The rest of the details regarding the Drama CDs can be read here. The voice cast even reveals which characters will appear in them.
I'm pretty excited for this myself! It will be very interesting to gain a deeper perspective on Takumi during those early game chapters. I don't know if I'll be lucky to purchase them, though those card stickers have already given me some incentive to get my hands on them sometime in the future.