Secret in the Rain — Review

Not every situation voice release has to pick a lane between comforting and arousing. This one refuses to choose, and reviewers say the balance is exactly why it works as well as it does.

What You’re Getting

circle white mist built this around CV 三橋渡, with a full official English-translated script, tagged for repeated climax, toys, sweetness, embarrassment/humiliation, teasing, and creampie content. It’s priced at ¥594 and includes a genuinely generous bundle of extras: the full translated script, an after-story novel, and bonus manga — all translated, not just the core audio. Reviewers repeatedly cite that bundle as unusually strong value for the price. Released in July 2019, it’s the oldest white mist release covered in this batch, and its continued strong standing alongside several of the circle’s more recent works suggests a consistent creative approach rather than one that’s shifted dramatically over time.

Story & Scenario

Reviewers describe this as a well-balanced mix of wholesome comfort and real eroticism, specifically recommending it to listeners looking for gentle, healing content that’s still genuinely hot rather than one at the expense of the other. There’s a specific listening strategy multiple reviewers recommend: listen once for the mood, then go back through with the translated script, since several say the scenes read as considerably more explicit on the page than they initially seemed from the audio alone. Small callback details — a remembered childhood gift, an established dislike of frogs worked naturally into the plot — are singled out by reviewers as thoughtful writing that specifically rewards attentive, repeat listening rather than a single pass.

That kind of detail-oriented writing is a good sign for anyone deciding whether a release is worth listening to more than once, which isn’t a given in this genre — plenty of situation voice is built for a single, mood-driven listen and doesn’t reward close attention beyond that. Reviewers treating the callbacks as a specific strength suggests the script was written with rewatchability (or re-listenability) in mind from the start, rather than assembled purely around a sequence of intimate scenes.

Sound & Voice

三橋渡’s performance supports that gentle-but-heated balance well, and the fact that reviewers recommend a second, script-assisted pass says something meaningful about how the audio and text complement rather than duplicate each other — the vocal performance sets a soft, comforting mood while the script fills in explicit detail that the delivery alone doesn’t fully carry. That’s a distinctive combination compared to releases where the audio does all the work.

Who Will Love This

This is a strong pick if you want situation voice that functions as genuine comfort listening without sacrificing heat, and if you enjoy stories with small, attentive callback details rather than pure surface-level intensity. The fully translated script, novel, and manga bundle also make this a good value pick for readers who like extending a story well past the audio itself — there’s meaningfully more content here than the base price suggests.

The Verdict

Our score: 4.5/5. DLsite’s average sits around 4.63, and the reviews are consistently positive with no significant recurring complaints in what we found — a fairly rare pattern in this batch. Between the well-balanced tone, the thoughtful callback writing, and the unusually generous translated bonus content, this is one of the easiest all-around recommendations in this group, especially for readers who like reading along with a script. If gentle, healing-adjacent situation voice with real narrative care is what you’re after more broadly, this is also a reasonable jumping-off point into white mist’s wider catalog, several entries of which appear elsewhere in this roundup. The generous translated-extras bundle also makes it a reasonable pick for readers who specifically want more reading material to accompany the audio, rather than audio alone.