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Is Marina's voice and Android 18 in DBZ voice the same person, their voice sounds similar
They might sound similar, but ultimately are two different seiyuus.

While Android 18's voice actress is Itou Miki, a veteran who voiced all of Android 18's roles in DBverse:

Marina's on the other hand is Kobato Riku, a relative fresh talent in comparison, who is exclusively active in eroge industry:
 
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They might sound similar, but ultimately are two different seiyuus.

While Android 18's voice actress is Itou Miki, a veteran who voiced all of Android 18's roles in DBverse:

Marina's on the other hand is Kobato Riku, a relative fresh talent in comparison, who is exclusively active in eroge industry:
some voice actors don't use their real names when in hentai's, one example is dan green who voices yugi also voices a character called ash in a hentai, a japanese example would be Asami Imai who uses Makise Kurisu as an alias, so its not too far fetched to believe some anime va's voice eroges with different names
 

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some anime va's voice eroges with different names
And I agree. Believe me I've seen my fair share of anime VAs skirting into eroge territory. Case in point who outright ended up doing an that was based on an eroge.

In this case however, I still have high doubts that both Marina and Android 18 are the same VAs. Call it guts or simply an observation by ear, but Android 18's seiyuu is more deeper sounding and mature while Marina's is more bubbly and youthfully joyful. And yes, I know VAs are near witches who can really field a spectrum of voices, so I can't claim to be 100% sure on this, but it's really hard to twist the audible foundation to that degree.
 

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LOL, what a coincidence, few days ago i tried with Marina too. Ofcourse they are far from perfect hahaha.
here is my SDXL1.0 lora for marina


i have my own stashe as well...

my attempt at AI assisted paintings. Essentially, rough sketch, then custom trained lora by me on Marina and then custom edits to fix issues:

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Heh, I've a feeling, one day I'll wake up and read a Marina fan posting,

"Hey fellow Marina enjoyers, I've finally perfected AI art, and it's time to retcon the third game and continue with a fan made story.
PS: To A-S: You won't do it right? Fine, I'll do it myself."
 
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You can tell that the director was different this game. The MC felt like he turned a 180 in personality with how unlikeable he is goddamn.
 

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Meh honestly hahaha. It just Hiroto having quickies with Marina secretly from Kenji. It wasn't that bad, but also nothing special too.

There's also Sadly no one upload it yet.

Also don't forget audio drama cd collaboration between Onboro, Gentle Sasaki, and Kobato Riku (Marina's seiyuu)
are these canon?
 

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Meh honestly hahaha. It just Hiroto having quickies with Marina secretly from Kenji. It wasn't that bad, but also nothing special too.

There's also Sadly no one upload it yet.

Also don't forget audio drama cd collaboration between Onboro, Gentle Sasaki, and Kobato Riku (Marina's seiyuu)
Is there a translation of the audio?
 

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what about "Marina's seiyuu"?
Probably bound by AS contract. Even if the original writer departs or is no longer associated with the series, the publisher still retains original rights. As the ultimate paymaster for other artists involved, including seiyuus, if they greenlight something that is or isn't canon, she will retain her role until her contract stands.
 
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Alright so, I know I'm late to the party but I don't usually comment on game threads, but I like this game series enough to make an exception in this case.

This series was the one which kinda got me in to NTS so it kinda holds a special place for me.

Now, I managed to play the three main line games in order, albeit with a pretty big gap between the 1st and 2nd games, so my opinion comes from experiencing all that build up.

Now, I won't say anything that already hasn't been said ad nauseum, but imho the plot was actually kinda interesting. Marina has made explicitly clear that Kenji is the only guy she truly loves from the very beginning (despite enjoying the multiple orgasms that the other guys give her), so him asking her to cheat emotionally would definitely be a gut punch to her. So I can totally see her taking the hard route in teaching him a lesson. That being said, things could have been executed better, like Kenji not being total dumbass.

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Other than all that, I have some other minor opinions that are more like Post-Nut Thoughts:

Marina lies a lot. I mean, I get that she does it for Kenji's sake but damn. And Kenji never seems to call her out on it, lmao.

Like I said before, Marina emphasizes her love for Kenji every game, and even says the sex with other guys is like masturbation because it doesn't have any love in it, but having played her perspective, it's hard to see that when she seems to have mind melting orgasms with every guy, tells them she loves them, goes bareback and even spends all night with them.

The writers shot themselves in the foot by writing the ending this way. Kenji could have just asked her to do the normal NTS play with the ex-bf and the added thrill of her actually being stolen away would have come through anyways, the story wouldn't even have changed much except the ending. But now writing a sequel with these characters would be insanely difficult without changing a fundamental part of them, so they might be stuck with spin offs.

Hiroto's fall off needs to be studied. This dude started off banging his coworker, who is way older than him, at her husband's request, then gets replaced suddenly,
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and never recovers from it.

TL;DR Saki best character
 
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