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The story begins with Kanna Aoyagi, who on her 16th birthday is asked by her older sister Yayoi to help out at her game company. She neglects to mention said company produces [[Eroge]] and that she wants her little sister to become their resident [[Voice Actors|seiyuu]]. Kanna knows little to nothing about sexuality, let alone H-games, so she is less than thrilled at first. Nevertheless she goes along with it, partly for her sister's sake and partly because she has no idea [[Hilarity Ensues|what awaits her]]. Now she must learn how to be a good voice actress, while being extremely embarrassed by the different things she must say. At the same time she is struggling to keep her career a secret from her friends at school. Can she do the job properly while she is still innocent and inexperienced?

Related works include three [[Audio Adaptation|Drama CDs]], a [[Picture Drama]] and an ongoing [[OVA]] series. ''Koe De Oshigoto! The Animation! take:1'' was released on November 17th 2010, with ''take:2'' following on May 11th 2011.

 

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* [[Audio Erotica]]: Constantly invoked in-series, though obviously the medium can't properly covey it. That is where the [[Audio Adaptation|Drama CDs]] and anime come in.

* [[Author Appeal]]: [[Word of God|According to the author]], the manga basically started as an excuse to draw embarrassed blushing girls, with the seiyuu plot thrown in to make it publishable in a general magazine.

* [[Bland-Name Product]]:

** Dismeyland.

** All the doujins shown at Comika are early Konno Azure works as well.

* [[Censor Box]]: The OVA uses a creative type of this that looks like black and yellow police lines along with weirdly sounding bleeps. One of the bleeps is "Dame!", which is Japanese for "No!"

* [[Censor Steam]]: There's one shot of Hadzuki in the hot springs chapter with exactly one tiny puff of steam concealing her breast.

* [[Cooking Duel]]: A seiyuu contest, instigated by Sakanami, between Fumika and Kanna with Motoki as the target of their fierce attacks.

* [[Ink Suit Actor]]: In-universe example with the eroge characters deliberately modeled after their voice actors on at least two occasions.

* [[Innocent Innuendo]]: The first finger sucking scene for Natsumi, Fuyumi and Yokoyama.

* [[Inspired By]]: A song about an eroge seiyuu by [[J Pop]] group Mosaic.wav, who themselves started by doing eroge theme songs. Appropriately enough, they went on to record Kana's first [[Image Song]], way before there were even plans for an OVA.

* [[Joshikousei]]: Kanna, Hadzuki and Kotori are always wearing their uniforms, including to the recording sessions, which presumably [[School Uniforms Are the New Black|take place on off days]].

* [[Meido]]: A common theme, including at least two meido-themed games. Chapter 14 is devoted to a [[Maid Cafe]].

* [[Miko]]: Chapter 26 adds mikos to the endless list of exploitable character archetypes. Yes, there is apparently a sub-genre of miko-themed eroge.

* [[Moment Killer]]: Happens to Kanna and Motoki twice due to overly-eager matchmakers spying on them.

* [[Mythology Gag]]:

* [[Playing to The Fetishes]]: The series as a whole revolves around exploring the most common fetishes in eroge, so this is to be expected.

* [[Plot What Plot]]: [[Invoked]] by Kanna at the very start of the appropriately named fapping game.

* [[Punched Across the Room]]: [[Dirty Old Man|Sakanami]]'s [[Large Ham|hammy]] fellatio lecture embarassed Kanna so much that Fumika had to "sucker-punch" him. It becomes this trope when this is taken [[Up to Eleven]].

* [[Punny Name]]:

** Later in the manga, a second brand is established under the title "Blue Orange". The first character in Kanna's name is the character for the fruit.

* [[Rape Is Love]]: Touched upon when Yayoi describes the two main genres of eroge - love and rape - and says that this distinction is not always clear enough.

* [[Safe, Sane, and Consensual]]: Discussed in the context of eroge, with Yayoi saying that hard SM games don't sell, but themes like domination, servitude and slave training are perfectly fine as long as there's [[Bondage Is Bad|no whips and chains involved]].

* [[Serious Business]]: Everything related to eroge voice acting is treated with the kind of passion you'd expect from a [[Fighting Series]].

* [[Shown Their Work]]: About the eroge business.

* [[Take Our Word for It]]: An [[Enforced Trope]] in the manga. Since it is a print work about voice acting, the only way to tell whether a delivery was good or not is through characters' comments.

* [[Theiss Titillation Theory]]: Discussed in-universe by Hadzuki and Kotori, resulting in Kanna getting a string bikini.

** But, this ''is'' Japan we're talking about, so...

* [[Thick Line Animation]]: The OVA uses this style most of the time, which is unusual for an anime and reminiscent of the sprite-and-background look of most actual eroge.

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