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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S▮E2 Homophobic Hairmogging Begets Bisexual EnlightenmentBad news, folks: We found out that Ksitigarbha, the patron bodhisattva of Planned Parenthood, already cleared ash out of hell by... Well, you'll see. Along the way we made plenty of friends, though, starting with the bell-ringing bodice-bound bamboo beauty Temptress, who IS wearing a bisexual jacket, a real thing that I will defend to the death, and end by asking a truly enlightened question: If hardline hairline homophobia puts you in hell, what sexuality services your ascent to heaven? Meet me at the club, and let's find out? Follow along: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/post/815020286591303680/s...
2026-04-272h 10Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S▮E1 We're Going To Hell For This OneContent warning: Discussion of s▮ic▮de and s▮lf h▮rm after the break. Listener discretion is advised. Bad news, folks: ash has gone to Hell, and it's up to Ivy and May to save them. Guided by our chain-clad cheerless chinese-underworld champion Black Impermanence, we dive into the depth of this year's (the Horse's year) hottest mahjong roguelike, battling buxom babes in tile throwdowns all while asking: But what if your mom was doggy? Well, and tiger, and lion, and dragon, and qilin... Follow along: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast/813746464806305792/some-women-from-demonic-mahjong Fol...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E9 Ivy is tired.In this episode, in which Ivy is tired, we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the gloriously garish green and outrageously orange Bryophyta, who you can tell is AMERICAN from his AMERICAN pockets and his AMERICAN, uhm, banh mi, and the checks notes white, black, cream, yellow, purple, green, red, and black Laba Congee, who's as delicious in the winter as she is underdressed for it, and ask a quality question: Why is it that sometimes the image that's the worst, is actually the best? Then, two guys with three cats with Mingsixi, Rotini, and the Terra R...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E8.5 LCB Catch Up #1: The Heishou Haters ClubIn this episode, our de-facto intervallo if you will, we look back on all the Limbus Company we've missed in our two years of covering the game, doing a 10 pull of recent art to look at [beep]sucking Heathcliffs and bag toting Rodions, thinking about Pink Shoes and Basilisoup (two things you would hope to find at the function) ultimately asking a question of palette swaps: Is it really a proper mirror identity if they barely look like the sinner at all? Are you sure that's Gregor, and not just white Hoenheim? Follow along: https://limbuscompany.w...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S?E1 Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era Spotlight - Flapping In The WindIn this episode, featuring multiple members of the LGTPH community, we zoom in on...is that a horse? Is that girl? Both! It's finally time for us to do an Umamusume episode, spurred on by Ivy going to see a movie and the technical issues of an unrelated wiki, we take a look at the characters featured in the film Umamusume: Beginning of a New Era, pondering things like who is Jungle Pocket doing yuri with (Agnes Tachyon? Dantsu Flame? Fuji Kiseki? All three?!) can your mom be your girlfriend be your lighting ghost, and why does TM Opera...
2026-03-082h 01Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E33 Tangled Up In The MichaelphoneIn this episode, a drift compatible one, we zoom in on our second Saki colab character, the one eye closed two girlfriend on lock Mihoko Fukuji, who you need to really, REALLY be careful with if you bring her to cosplay kareoke, and ash challenges Ivy with a bold question: Will you not admit that this is the best image, possibly in the entire world? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/MihokoFukuji Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Fol...
2026-02-161h 55Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 11 Saki Live Action: The Movie Watchalong: It's Time For Me To Yuri Dap You UpIn a world where yuri nap rooms are too bright, where your ghost girlfriend might push you down the stairs at any moment, where your parents dying turns you into a scary doll with too many particle effects, and even catgirls can find redemption... Two podcasters embark on a frantic paced journey to uncover a terrifying secret: Saki in real life. Will they get their Yakuman, or will it all go bust? Watch along with us: I believe in you dawg you can find it if you look Support the show: https://ko-fi.co...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E8 Participating In Certain SubculturesIn this episode, a markedly dissociative one, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the red hooded white robed yellow...leafed Sekihan, who will soon not be with us as she ascends to the heavens, and the fantastically flowery fuscia floutist Hibiscus the Purifyer, a normal girl with a very abnormal instrument, and we sing a lyrical question: If you've travelled down the road and back again, can I thank you for being a bean? Then, one right makes two wrongs with Carnelian, Tomahawk Steak, and Dusk, asking: If you're part of a certain subculture, how rude...
2026-02-022h 59Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E32 Woke Luigi's MansionIn this episode, and don't ask me why it's named that, we zoom in on the maidenly maid who might maintain martial arts mastery Riu Kujou, who's chest is definitely one solid piece that isn't clipped together like a doll, and ask a playful question: Can YOU spot the maid? Can you reach the Maid Unlocked State? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/RiuKujou Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.yout...
2026-01-192h 19Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E31 Steppin' On Santa ClausIn this episode, carrying on our tradition of our Christmas episode being delayed a week, we zoom in on the beautiful, bountiful, bootlickable boss of Bamboo Cloud Fuuka Minami, famously fair with her rewards (stepping on you) and her punishments (stepping on you) and ask a spring-heeled question: Can exposure to Louboutins at a young age turn you gay? Or does it just make you inclined to secretarial work? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/FuukaMinami, https://mahjongsoul.club/inventory/OraclesLegacyHinataTakanashi, https://mahjongsoul.club/inventory/shape-fading-echo-yuiyagi Support the show: https://ko-fi.com...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E8B Hey Guys, It's ConfuciusIn this episode, the analectical finale of our Dream of the Red December, we zoom in on the second half of Xhulong---er, Hong Lu's art, including the teardrop tarnished tyrant himself... hey guys, it's evil Confucius (aka Lord of Hongyuan) and we ask a question that sheds Light on an underdiscussed topic: When you think about it, isn't Limbus Company just the same thing as Kingdom Hearts? Heathcliff got norted!? Read this episode's companion fanfic, That Which Was Lost Part 2: The Twelve Beauties of Limbus Company and the Cherry Blossom Club: I'M WORKING ON IT IT'LL B...
2025-12-222h 51Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!2nd Anniversay Special! Q&A&M (Questions & Answers & Mahjong)We've been doing Soul Mates! for two years! Incredible! Thank you so much to everyone who's listened in to join us on this journey. For our anniversary this year we're taking it easy, racking up some tiles with prior guests of the show Kit and May while we answer YOUR questions! What's our least and most popular episodes of the show? Given the opportunity, is there anything we would do different? And do any of us know anything about Scooby Doo? Tune in to find out! Oh, and just so you know, this episode also comes in...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E8A A Proper Cup Of Pu'er TeaIn this episode, the midpoint of our Dream of the Red December (look, we didn't come up with a good one for this one, okay?), we zoom in on the affluent, the adorable, the always-staring-into-the-middle-distance appreciable perfect object Hong Lu (or at least, look at the first half of his art, with the rest coming next episode) and ask a question about one of his favorite topics, girls: So, when exactly do they start drawing him like a woman? Read this episode's companion fanfic, That Which Was Lost Part 1: The Twelve Beauties of Daguanyuan and the Crab F...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 10 Dream of the Red Chamber Book Club Retrospective: 8 Months, 8 Persons, 8 Gates120 chapters. 2,500 pages. 800,000 words. The least accessible of the great Chinese novels, Dream of the Red Chamber. Sound daunting? Not to us. We read it. And like a celestial stone at the foot of Greensickness Peak etched with tales of the Realm of Illusions, we'd like to fill you in. So hop in your palanquin, open up the gate, and the other gate, and the other gate, and join us for a wild ride through Prospect Garden. Please keep your fans inside the vehicle at all times. Content warning: Discussion of s*icide Support the show:
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E7 Shimei Over Here, Twink Over ThereIn this episode, our last Season 3 episode of the year, we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the two test tube toting thigh-high touting Silcence, who's exact number of arms and wings remains a true mystery, and the science-scared silken softie Vanilla Muffin, who is definitely NOT a horse and NOT from Umamusume, and we fixate on a translation question: Why is he called vanilla muffin? Why specifically vanilla muffin I NEED TO KNOW I— Ahem. Then, a throuple, with Jieyun, Asbestos, and Udon, asking: Can women be twinks? Because she does t— Wait, I can't say that...
2025-12-013h 06Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E30 The Realm Of Forms Is ComingIn this episode, a platonically ideal one, we zoom in on the mystifyingly mischevious mammal-manipulating magician Ryan, a teenage boy who is also an adult woman who is also an object summoned from a hyperdimentional realm but OMG he has cute bunnies, ahem, and ask a question to Marketing: Sorry, who exactly is this for? What huh huh what what huh? Please reach out to us via the YouTube or Tumblr with questions for our Second Anniversay Q&A Special! Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/ryan Support the show: https://ko...
2025-11-172h 17Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E29 Her Face A Dinner PlateIn this episode... yaaawn, a sleepy one, we zoom in on another Blue Archive colab character, the lazing laxidasical loligagger Hoshino, who's old man schtick is done ABSOLUTELY no justice whatsoever, and ask an adaptive question: If you're gonna pull in characters from other games, why change their art style for literally no reason? Just to make them look worse? Support us streaming for Extralife 2025, raising money for children's hospitals, at the links below! Extralife links for Nov 8-10 and Nov 14-16 respectively: https://www.extra-life.org/participants/SteelSoul4TheKids, https://www.extra-life.or...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E6 Popping Fish Oil SupplimentsIn this episode, alternatively titled "The New Player [CENSORED] Experience", we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the magnificiently mousey mediterranian Cheese, who is specifically greek despite cheese's complex origin, and the sultry sarkaz se...er, host Midnight, who one can't help but be prejudiced against, and Ivy asks a question of Google: Show me dark electronic music? Show me dark electronic music cyberpunk popular? Then, a gender journey with Morgan, Hot Dog, and Korn, finally asking: Hey, hang on a second, are you telling me that gender and sexuality might actually be constructs? This whole time?
2025-10-202h 36Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E28 A Full Cup Of JuiceIn this episode, a juicy one, we zoom in on our first look at the Noctchill—er, rather, the THE IDOLM@STER SHINY COLORS colab charaters, the "happy" Hinana Ichikawa, a being who appears to subsist entirely on liquid drawn in through her funnel-shaped mouth, and as a measured question: Exactly how much juice does she actually have? I'm talking mililetres here. Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/HinanaIchikawa Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on Yo...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E7B WHEREIN THE GALLANT DON QUIXOTE IS SAID TO PREFER FOR HERSELF THE COMPANY OF THE FAIRER SEXIn this episode, the filial impiety finale of our Sancho September, we zoom in on the second half of Don Quixote, including the boldly blasphemous, bodaciously blood-drenched, bad-hair-day blonde big sister Manager of La Manchaland Don Quixote, who is somehow sad despite having a very cool lance, and ask a question that's a matter of degrees: Why isn't she straight? No I don't mean in her personal preferences, I mean like, you know, orthagonally? Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Don_Quixote Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow th...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E7A IN WHICH THE HONORABLE FIXER DON QUIXOTE IS WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF ENGAGING IN MERE FISTICUFFSIn this episode, the midpoint of droll Sancho September, we zoom in on the dashing, the daring, the deftly puntable, the daft and drollest of them all THE DON QUIXOTE (or at least, look at the first half of her art, with the rest coming next episode) and ask a question fitting of her, on occasion, somewhat unsettling countenance: Hey, is this guy actually a bit messed up, or...? Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Don_Quixote Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: htt...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 9 Don Quixote's Many Countenances: The Lady May Play Her Guitar By The Close Of The Fifth ActIdle listener: thou mayest believe me without any oath that I would this podcast, as it is the child of our brain, were the fairest, gayest, and cleverest that could be imagined. But I could not counteract Nature's law that everything shall beget its like; and what, then, could this sterile, illtilled wit of ours beget but the study of a dry, shrivelled, whimsical man, in arts beset by drunken dads and sickly pale horses, by guitar playing ladies and miniature squires, by star wars heads and amalgamate uma musume. My wish would be simply to present it to...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E27 It's Mommy Time!In this episode, one for the moms, we zoom in on the Mature, Intelligent, Lovely, and Friendly Sawako Kitami, a mother you'd like to meet at the grocery store, a mother you'd like to hangout with at an evening party, a mother you'd like to rob a casino with, a mother you'd like to...so on and so forth, and we ask a question and then ask it 98 more times: Do you love mommy? Well, then why do you never call her? ...If it isn't clear, there's a lot of Deltarune chapter 3 references in this episode. That's...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E5 Oatmeal For Yaoi DoctorsIn this episode, an episode about eating semisolid foods while experiencing a medical crisis, we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the styling stormswept seafaring fish doctor Lumen, who's delicate constitution needs to be warmly nurtured, and...Jello...who's scary...we ask the question...what flavor is she...scary flavor...? Then, bring out the band with Jade Noodles, Wiš'adel, and Phoenix Tail Prawn, asking a very important question of you, dear listener: Do you think the hardworking men who care for our communites, who care for our loved ones, our children and our qilin, deserve love, s...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin'! E6: Infinity Nikki: There Is Nothing More Inspiring Than An ElectricianIn this, Ivy's first time Gone Fishin' and the finale of Unceasing Summer Fun, it's time to play fully thirty hours of Infinity Nikki! In everyone's favorite machine for teenage girls questioning their identity, we're sent back in time to prevent the end of the world by hanging out with the coolest girl you've ever met, holding hands with extradimentional versions of ourselves, uncovering forgotten histories about snake marriage, and asking a truly sovereign question: Is there anything cooler than an electrician? The answer is no! Wait, it's only a four star!? Gone Fishin'! cover art by...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 6: Infinity Nikki: Divinely Inspired Christian PunkIt's time for part 2 of Unceasing Summer Fun, getting acquainted with our new game through a Great Gacha World Tour! Local medium-level expert Kit is our fashion correspondent as we look around the streets of Florawish in Infinity Nikki. Keep an eye out for edgy ghost dresses, plastic bath cap fashion, river water boots, and the cutest overalls imaginable as we ponder a question that maybe only Kit can answer: Are all these dressup clothes... like... good? The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by ash! Follow along: https://game8.co/games/Infinity-Nikki/archives/487909
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin! E5: Disney Twisted-Wonderland: Genderqueer Disney Lore EntrapmentOn this, Gone Fishin'!'s return voyage, we obey Harry (from Soul Mates!)'s twisted whims and play Disney Twisted-Wonderland! In the officially licensed Disney twink game where they're not allowed to show nipple, I am saddled with the burden of Trey Clover, get sick of the movie Alice in Wonderland, play the same rhythm game chart three separate times, and ask an impossible question: Is it good to be evil? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: https://twisted-wonderland.fandom.com Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 5: Disney's Twisted-Wonderland: Oh, I Just Can't Wait To Be Drag KingIt's the start of Unceasing Summer Fun, and the circle of life has brought us back around to another trip on the Great Gacha World Tour! Be prepared for returning local expert Harry, as she takes us to the proud land of Disney's Twisted-Wonderland, and delivers a morning report on the luxuriously loafish lionboy Leona Kingscholar, and we ask a question about another word that starts with L: Hey, why does this guy look so much like a lesbian? Like, can you feel the love tonight or what, know what I'm saying? Not that I mind - Hakuna Matata...
2025-07-201h 41Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E26 The Time Vampire DiariesIn this episode, a frustrating! episode, we zoom in on the mahjong maven of mechanical mastery Mirai, who's happy to help you out with her quirky inventions, or suck out all of your blood throughout all time, and I forgot to ask a question on the podcast so I'm putting it in the episode description: Hey, why did we decide that Yui Yagi is straight and then decide that the two other women in the National University of Fuuchi Mahjong Club are unrequitedly in love with her? That's not very based and feminist of us? Follow along:
2025-07-142h 21Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E25 Man! I Feel Like A Wolfman!In this episode—let's go girls—we zoom in on old man (he's 33) Zan Tsukimi, the candy-wielding wandering warrior who just wants to be loved by all, not understanding that he mostly just sucks at everything, and ask the perfectly reasonable and normal question: If you had a wheel on your chin and could be wheeled around like a suitcase, wouldn't this be a convenient way to get around the airport? Editor's note: For some reason my noise suppession pass hated us being in the same room, so keep in mind that those bits of crackly quiet are...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E6B Cathy And The Gender Binary New World OrderIn this episode, the thrilling end of Hot Heath Summer, we zoom in on the second half of Heathcliff's identities, including the nightmare-commanding, no-nonsense, no-expression, no-head-on-his-horse-dog leader of the Wild Hunt, with all his cool shadow guys and lots of cool objects, and ask a question of identity to you, dear listener: In the gender binary new world order we've created, are you a Cathy, or a Person Who Loves Cathy? Let us know! Content warning: This episode contains casual reference to self-harm throughout, and graphic discussion of cuts from 19:05 to 21:00. Read this episode's official...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E6A He's Inherently Doggy-WoggyIn this episode, the midpoint of Hot Heath Summer, we zoom in on our favorite bat-wielding, head-bashing bullheaded bri'ish boy Heathcliff, (or at least, look at the first half of his art, with the rest coming next episode) and ask a question that is fairer and kinder to him than anyone has been to him in his life: Why they always gotta make him either sad or stupid? A lot of the time, he's both! Like I know he's Heathcliff from Wuthering Heights but why's he gotta be so bad and sad at nail sharpening? Read this e...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 8 Wuthering Heights (2003) Watchalong: The Picture Of Your Mom That Makes You DieFeeling co-o-old? Come on into our window! That's right, it's me, I'm Cathvy, along with my only master, ashcliff, here to welcome you to our Wuthering, Wuthering Wuthering Heights... MOVIE WATCHALONG! That's right baby, it's the start of HOT HEATH SUMMER, and what better way to begin than to watch perhaps the worst film adaptation of the book, Wuthering Heights (2003) produced my MTV. Join us, watch along with us, as this film raises many, many questions: Why does it take them so long to tell us anyone's name? Wait, is that the guy from Malcom in the...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E4 Wind, Turn To Binding Chains!In this episode, a Windy episode, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the adorable chipper chef Claypot Rice, who doesn't need glaze to amaze, and the most aloof mechanist Passenger, who designs cool robots you're too distracted by his outfit to look at, and ask a question of depth: How do layers work? Clothing layers, art layers, physical layers of space... Then, crossover-heavy Sakura Tea (Sakura), Vina Victoria, and Doc, and twenty minutes after recording while in the shower I asked the question: Why didn't we realize that Doc is obviously CPR just because he's a...
2025-06-022h 55Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E24 Sometimes One Of 'Em Just Comes Out Snakes (It's Mormon Rules)In this episode, an... episode, featuring our dear friend May, we zoom in on operatic Hua Yuqing, the sister-starstruck spunky snakelike songstress who is definitely not secretly a writhing mass of snakes or secretly in a rock band (wink), and ask all manner of awful questions: I'm sorry, would it make you feel more comfortable if I told you what they were? EDITOR'S NOTE: Two things; one, we had to use a backup recording after the break so that's why the audio quality dips a bit, two, listener discretion is advised! We're a little unhinged in this...
2025-05-192h 29Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E23 ♪Cat Boy Soda♪In this episode, a musical episode, we zoom in on the cat boy hacker Ling, a misanthropic, mahjong-hating computer whiz with no regard for electrical safety, and ask a legal question: How much of Hatsune Miku's Black Rock Shooter can we put in the episode without being sued? Editor's Note: The audio in this episode is a little bit rough! We had some technical issues that should be fixed next episode. Thank you for your patience. Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/Ling Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart F...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E3 Barks At YouIn this episode, woof woof, we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the ontological butler and part-time magician certified Nice Guy Steward, and the boxer (swordfighter? wrestler???) who you could never mistake for anything but a cutie Ganache, and ask a snark question: Have you ever seen a better pair of guy who can serve punch and guy who can take one? Then, we look at a grab bag of Special Rice, Windflit, and Ebenholtz, asking... uhm... I've got nothing, sorry. Writing descriptions while sick is hard... Follow along: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/S...
2025-04-212h 38Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E22 She's In Good HandsIn this episode, our April Halloween special, we zoom in on spooky girl Ayako Morikawa, the occult loving, arm-cursed teen with lots of friends (as long as dolls, ghosts, and mirrors count) and ask a moving question: Was the ancient curse posessing your human form just a lack of self-acceptance all along? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/ayakomorikawa Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast List...
2025-04-062h 13Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E21 Friendly Bird InvestigatorsIn this episode, back to our roots in many ways, we zoom in on college girl Hinata Takanashi, the nature-loving, photograph-taking, undercover-agenting, Yui-Yagi-desiring, all around normal girl, and while definitely not normal ourselves ask things like: There's no freaking way I'll be your image... unless!? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/hinatatakanashi Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewa...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E5B Can I Get Back To Being In Very Mild Ennui?In this episode, our Ishmael finale, we zoom in on the second half of Ishmael's indentities, including the good captain of the Pequod who will gaslit-guide you to glory against the great crimson whale, while talking like, TOO much, and ask a mostly unrelated question that I forget to actually answer: Which R Corp Pack Captain is which of the three musketeers? I only mention it because if you have a good answer, please reach out and let us know. Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "international small arms traffic blues": https://archiveofourown.org/works/63743119
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E5A Call Me?In this episode, the middle of our Ishmael trilogy, we talk about the seafaring saffron-haired, snarky and sharp-witted as a harpoon fixer herself, Ishmael (or at least, look at the first half of her art, with the rest coming next episode) and ask a bold and quivering question of the woman herself: Hey, I just met you, and this is fishy, but here's my number, so...? Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "international small arms traffic blues": https://archiveofourown.org/works/63743119 Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Ishmael Support the sh...
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Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 7 The Cetology of Ishmael: Imagine A Whale In Your RoomTired of your land-locked hum-drum life? Well, in the style of the great American novel Moby Dick itself, why not look to the sea, and join us a voyage? Join Ishmaivy and ashmael on a voyage of science and art, as we plunge into the depths of cetelogical study, gazing upon depictions of the great leviathanic beast with a scrutinizing eye, swimming through plate-etched waves of Mephistophelean grins and Pagliaccigan noses, past Larsonian sharks and Antedalivian surrialisms, to arrive at that most pressing question, that no great podcast has sought to answer and so we must give our poor...
2025-03-022h 31
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E2 Children Should Have GrenadesIn this episode, an Italian Episode, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, pink-petaled playboy photographer Prosciutto di Parma, and the Fake Japanese/Fake Italian/Fake Alice Liddell Suzuran, and ask a concerned question: Wait, are there child soldiers? And possibly pig soldiers? Then, we look at the freaks, Focaccia, Crepe, and Shamare, asking, well... Hey, do all these guys kinda suck, actually? Follow along: https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Prosciutto_di_Parma, https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Suzuran, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Focaccia, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Crepe, ...
2025-02-242h 36Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 6 Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Vow in the Snow Watchalong: Our $1000 Trip To Germany, Yet Is Our Body Still Made Of Swords?Happy Vowentine's Day! Er, Valentine's Day. In this very special bonus episode that all of you donated $1000 to charity to make us record, we watch the prequel to... beloved? Let's go with a tentative beloved, anime movie Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Licht: The Nameless Girl, IN PERSON, and let me tell you, we have a lot of questions: Is this movie good? Is it even really a movie? What does any of this have to do with Prisma Illya? Why does it look like that? What's with ball? Will there actually be a vow? What's with his body be...
2025-02-231h 51Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E20 The Belts, The Gun, And The TummyIn this episode, which may or may not be for the tummy people, we zoom in on Aru from fellow gacha game Blue Archive, a scheming and villainous... young woman, maybe, who is definitely evil don't question it, and ask an ephemeral question: What makes a character in a piece of art look like a teenager? WHY can you tell, when you can? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/aru Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the sho...
2025-02-092h 16Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E19 On The Brink Of Death In Our Second YearIn this episode, following last week's watchalong, we zoom in on Toki (from Toki(and Saki(Side A))) the thigh-loving and future-seeing chronically ill girl who was on the brink of death in her second year of highschool, and ash asks a sanity-check question: Hey, what's up with her weird riichi thing? Why does nobody ever talk about this? Why won't they acknowledge it's weird!? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/TokiOnjoji Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Fol...
2025-01-262h 02Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 5 Saki Episode of Side A Watchalong: My Girlfriend, My Butch Girlfriend, And FunaQPlease join us for four episodes of Saki Episode of Side A (yes it's really called that) in an effort to make ash understand- and maybe even appreciate- an anime that they do not like. But this isn't just any four episodes of Saki: This is the Toki arc, where the stakes raise and more than just making it to finals is on the line, where the very life of girl-beloved and illness-stricken Toki Onjouji is in peril! Will she be able to stop Teru's weird tornado arm? Will the actual protagonist of this anime do anything? And most...
2025-01-192h 10
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S3E1 Take Me To Fish HeavenIn this episode, our first of our Arknights/Food Fantasy season, we first zoom in on our featured duo, the partygirl priestess Pallas and the friendly- but scary- lignified lady Chishui Moth Tea, and ask: So these two are gonna kiss, right? And in our second half, a trio of consumate professionals in Sea Bream Sashimi, Turducken, and Mostima, asking: Will we be blessed by fish heaven, or damned to bird hell? Listen to this season's pilot episode, S3E0 Two Different Kinds Of Parties: https://ko-fi.com/Post/SM-Season-3-PILOT-EPISODE-Two-Different-Kinds-Of-B0B517SCY9 Follow a...
2025-01-122h 53Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E18 Nya Nya! Purr Purr~In this episode, the first episode in my heart, we zoom in on the mascot of Mahjong Soul herself, the feline of the shrine, Ichihime! And as we start our 2025 and the second year of the pawdcast, we'd like to extend a gloved hand to you and ask: Hey-nya, won't you join us for some Ichimanthropology, purr? :3 Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/Ichihime Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube: https://www...
2025-01-052h 51
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Season 3, Arknights/Food Fantasy, Available NOW!!! Plus, Soul Mates! 2025 Plans!First and foremost, you can listen to our pilot episode of Soul Mates! Season 3, Arknights/Food Fantasy, RIGHT NOW, RIGHT HERE: https://ko-fi.com/Post/SM-Season-3-PILOT-EPISODE-Two-Different-Kinds-Of-B0B517SCY9 WE'RE VERY EXCITED ABOUT SEASON 3 SO PLEASE CHECK IT OUT. Aside from that, with a third season in the mix, a revamped Season 2 ( the Limbus Company one) format, and new, surgery-free summer plans, next year is looking exciting for Soul Mates! and we've prepared this announcement as a little guide so you know what to look forward to. Episode 1 of Season 3 (the Arknights/Food Fantasy one...
2024-12-2204 minSoul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!1st Anniversary Special! Goddess Tryst: Headpiece Heist!The first anniversary of the podcast is upon us! On this humble day one year ago, we released our first episode of the show, talking about the art of the moon goddess Kaguyahime, and what better way to celebrate that than with... a tarot-based lesbian tabletop RPG about having an encounter with a goddess!? Join our hapless mortal Sarah as she gets embroiled in a plot to steal back Kaguyahime's headpiece, and faces twists, turns, and crises of faith along the way, fate asking her the question: When it comes to your goddess, how deep is your love?
2024-12-182h 20Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E17.5 Better Than PunkIn this episode, the last episode of the first year of the podcast, we zoom in on the second half of Yui Yagi, getting a little fantastic and a little romantic about her gorgeous ballgowns as we reflect on all we've accomplished in our debut 365 days, while Ivy asks a question she desperately needs an answer to: What actually is Sanrio? She NEEDS to know this so she knows what's appropriate to do in front of Hello Kitty. PLEASE HELP. Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/YuiYagi Support the show: https://ko-fi.com...
2024-12-152h 44
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E4 I Do Not Wish To Share An Image With Anyone But My WifeIn this episode, our fourth Limbus Company episode, in which we get extremely into the weeds about modernist korean poetry, we look at the scientist and ideally odd and strange man Yi Sang, and ask a question about someone that we regard as that precious: Who, or what, in this image is Yi Sang's wife? And are they about to bite him randomly all over, or...? Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "Composing Beneath The Covers": https://archiveofourown.org/works/60982669 Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Yi_Sang Support the...
2024-12-013h 31
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 4 Yi Sang's The Wings Soporific Reading To Sleep/Chill ToYi Sang, born Kim Haegyŏng, 1910-1937, was a prolific and influential Korean writer and poet during the Japanese imperial occupation of Korea. An outstanding member of the literary group Guinhoe, or the League of Nine, Yi Sang was known for his biting wit and his distinctly detatched and self-critical autobiographical style, and is an influential figure in Korean literature today. Soul Mates! is proud to present this reading of one of his most accomplished works, The Wings, published shortly before his tragic death at 26. Featuring an original soundtrack by Pandora Grace, we ask you to join u...
2024-11-2458 minSoul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E17 An Engagement With EstrogenIn this episode, our first ever first part of a two-parter, we zoom in on the first part of Yui Yagi, estrogen-infused perpetual shy girl with a poor sense of taste but a great taste in overcoats, and ask a question that considering our proclivities we really should know the answer to: What does spironolactone do? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/YuiYagi Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/ Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube...
2024-11-172h 15Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E16 Fellas Stay With Me/Fellas We're BackIn this episode, in which we excessively discuss the creation and consumption of goop, we zoom in on the very attractive and stylish witch/teacher/herbalist Leia, who prompts us to ask a prudent question of all you fellas (gender neutral): Are you with me? Fellas, are you staying with me? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/leia Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast ...
2024-11-032h 18Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!News! We're Streaming For Extra Life 2024 On November 2nd!On November 2nd, the cast of Soul Mates! will be streaming for Extra Life 2024, raising money for children's hospitals! We'll be playing Dokapon Kingdom Connect, and have a bevvy of fun donation incentives, including assigning Cute/Appealing/Kinsey numbers to guys of your choice, and making us watch another Fate movie! More information on our donation page below. Check out our Extra Life donation page: https://www.extra-life.org/participant/asherlark Follow ash on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/asherlark Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@Soul-Mates-Podcast
2024-10-2602 minSoul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E15 She's Got Those Hands Like A MiiIn this episode, in which we cover SEVEN outfits, we zoom in on the perpetually terrified specifically of the viewer shrine maiden Mai Aiahara, who prompts a very spooky question, when it isn't even Halloween yet: Are we sure that this girl is like, alive? Flesh and blood, and not a mere wandering spirit? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/MaiAihara Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on Tumblr: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast Follow the show on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com...
2024-10-203h 02Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E14 Put Your Thumb Over This Old ManIn this episode, fueled by an anime watching experience that was certainly, uhm, well, anyway, we zoom in on Washizu Iwao from mahjong anime Akagi, who plays mahjong with your blood, but not necessarily with your heart because he's kinda, well, anyway, we ask a very geometric question: What are the shapes on this man's face actually supposed to be? Why does he look so different sometimes and exactly the same others? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/IwaoWashizu Create a Soul Mates! Surgery Recovery Tier List: https://tiermaker.com/create/soul-mates-characters-surgery-recovery-tier-list-17453479 Support...
2024-10-062h 38Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 3 Akagi Watchalong: Enter NOW For Your Chance To Win FREE Tickets To See Smooth Hands & The Hole LIVE In Concert!!!In this episode we watch Akagi. But more importantly, Soul Mates! is giving away 5 FREE tickets to see Smooth Hands & The Hole LIVE in concert, featuring the WORLD PREMIER of their newest single from their upcoming album! Plus, one of those winners will get a GRAND PRIZE featuring tonnes of Smooth Hands & The Hole merch, a commemerative 12" vinyl record of their first album, Show Me The Blood! plus a backstage pass to meet Smooth Hands & The Hole in person! How do you enter? Just send us a message using the Tumblr asks feature or the YouTube comments f...
2024-09-292h 03
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E3 Worst Boy Grip Who Shall Grip AKA I Can't Think Normally About Milk AnymoreIn this episode, our third Limbus Company episode, and also our longest episode ever and certainly our most infected, we look at perpetual failboy trapped in his egg Emil Sinclair, and ask a truly insane question that I promise by the end of the episode you will maybe understand: How much milk could you drink out of a woman's gambeson? Read this episode's official companion fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/59099272 Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Sinclair Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show on tumblr:...
2024-09-223h 13Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E13 Back And Bird-er Than EverIn this episode, our first one back after our summer of surgical fun, we're very excited to have our friend Ema on to zoom in on Joseph, also known as Joe Ron Mike Wazowski's Dad, the fun and goofy adventurin' man, and he prompts an obvious question: Will we ever get bored of how he says word funny? Dear listener, ron? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/joseph Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast You can also follow us on YouTube now:...
2024-09-092h 48
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin'! E4: Arknights: Special Disease BeamOn this, Gone Fishin'!'s final voyage, we do the thing that Ivy has had as a called shot since day one and play Arknights! In the critically acclaimed tower defense gacha game featuring music by Mili and published by Yostar, I think that cute girl should be an old man, autobattle autobattle autobattle autobattle, cheer a lot for furries as a concept, and ask a beleaguered question: Why 14 gigabytes? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Arknights_Terra_Wiki Support the show: https://ko-fi.com...
2024-08-271h 38
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin'! E3: Bandori BanG Dream! Girls Band Party: Beginners' Punch CardOn this, Gone Fishin'!'s third voyage, we come to a well-fished harbor to take a gander at Bandori BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! In this, one of the only rhythm gacha games that is on the market which I have not played, I fistfight Apple, affirm who is and is not a freak, out myself as a fan of a particular webtoon for some reason, and ask a yet-unanswered question: When will MyGo release on the global version? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: https://bandori.fandom.com/wiki/BanG_Dream...
2024-08-181h 57
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin'! E2: Food Fantasy: Fruity EnergyOn this, Gone Fishin'!'s second voyage, we cast a wide net to get a taste of Food Fantasy! In this 'Food Personified RPG', I wade through a world of inexplicable food reviews, try to take care of Peking Duck's many children, and ask a clarifying question: Is it, like, noodles? Chocolate? Cake? Cookies? Glutinous rice cake? Please, I just want to know. Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Food_Fantasy_Wiki Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https...
2024-08-111h 47
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!Gone Fishin'! E1: Fate/Grand Order: Imagine Yourself Becoming A Fighter JetOn this, Gone Fishin'!'s first voyage, let's dip our toes into Fate/Grand Order! In this supposed entry point to the Fate series, I try desperately to escape the land of bad art, Marie Antoinette fails the Bechdel test, and I ask a desperate question: What the hell is a Spiritron Dive? Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash! Follow along: https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Fate/Grand_Order_Wikia https://fategrandorder.fandom.com/wiki/Arctic_Summer_World Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https...
2024-08-042h 13
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!TRAILER: Gone Fishin'!Next week: A whole new voyage across unknown seas! Whaling, but if the whaling was for jpegs! ash gets into some gachas! Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy: cohost.org/iv...
2024-07-2805 min
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 4: NU:Carnival: WLWLBLBLE (Women who Love Women who Love Boys Love who are Boys Love Experts)CONTENT WARNING: This episode is about a NSFW game and contains explicit sexual content. Listener discretion is strongly advised. Timestamp for the skip-ahead mentioned in the episode is 1:27:34. For our fourth and final (for now!?) stop on the Great Gacha World Tour, we visit the land of NU:Carnival, a sensual place of smooth men- smooth physically, not so much in the talking department. Guided by our local expert Harry, we take a look at Quincy, and more importantly his furry pet Topper, and I am asked a frankly embarassing question: Can you tell if this smooth...
2024-07-211h 35
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 3: Bandori BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!: The Two-For-One SpecialFor our third stop on the Great Gacha World Tour, we visit the land of Bandori BanG Dream! Girls Band Party! A rockin' place of teenage girls jammin' out and makin' friends. Guided by our local expert Frankie, we take a look at two seperate characters, Misaki Okusawa and the pink bear Michelle, and ask a puzzled question: Why do you never see these two in the same room together? Do they not like each other or something? ...We will not back down from the position that this bit is funny. The Great Gacha World Tour cover...
2024-07-142h 20
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 2: World Flipper: She's Got Such A Subtle WristFor our second stop on The Great Gacha World Tour, we visit the land of World Flipper, an electrifying place of cool guys turning into adorable little pixel art pinballs. Guided by our local expert Tam, we take a look at like, SO many different guys, and ask about a lot of them a thrilled question: How do you think she does it? I don't know! What makes her SO good? ...It's a Pinball Wizard reference. A reference to Pinball Wizard by The Who. The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by ash! Follow along:
2024-07-072h 36
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 1: Project Sekai: Diagnosing Diagonalitis DiseaseFor our first stop on The Great Gacha World Tour, we visit the land of Project Sekai, a sparkling place of idols, dreams, and 45 degree angles. Guided by our local expert Birb, we take a look at Haruka Kiritani, and ask her a guiding question: Hey girl, have you noticed that your friend Minori is like, REALLY into you? Has this clicked for you? ...I may get a little bit too mad about framing in this one. The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by ash! Follow along: https://www.sekaipedia.org/wiki/Kiritani_Ha...
2024-06-301h 53Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E12 Some Joke About Frogs And KissingIn this episode, we revisit Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Licht - The Nameless Girl to zoom in on Kuro, the girlkissing demon girl- and considering how badly this went for us last time, we ask a pleading question: Can you please not be that bad? Can you please just be kind of normal? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/character/kuro Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by...
2024-06-172h 27
PodpodcastcastPlanet Money and other pods (feat. Ash)This episode the crew is joined by Ash, an excellent podcaster in their own right, who's trying to bring some professionalism, business, and freaks to the pod. Become enraged as Sam talks out of order about the fantastic NPR podcast Planet Money, and how he won't shut up about economics. Get genuinely interested by Ash's podcast, The Dream, a investigative pod about scams with a weird final turn. Fall ill with ball-fever as Honor waxes poetic about sports and Go! My Favorite Sports Team, another pod by famed youtube buffoon Markiplier. Tune in as Ash, through sheer force of...
2024-06-041h 17
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E2 I See Myself Reflected In Her Beautiful Blue EyesIn this episode, our second of our Limbus Company season, we zoom in on the flirtatious and charming gambler and... well, axe murderer Rodion, aka Rodya, and ask ourselves a dubiously respectful question: Should you pay attention to a woman's great assets or to her greataxes? Well, why not both? Read this episode's official companion fanfic: https://archiveofourown.org/works/56493103 Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Rodion Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena...
2024-06-032h 51Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E11 Biting And Killing, AND Killing And Biting?In this super special birthday episode, featuring furry art expert guest Harry, we zoom in on the fuzzy young tigress and lady-aspirant Hannah, and whisper into your ear a most temptuous question: Isn't being human just the worst, actually? Don't you just feel like an animal? Editor's Note: This episode was recorded under suboptimal conditions and so it's a bit echo-y sometimes. You have to be nice to me about this it's my birthday Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/Hannah Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show:
2024-05-192h 57Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E10 Britannian Brown Bear Safety TipsIn this episode, a loose episode, we zoom in on the first of several Code Geass crossover characters, the demure schoolgirl/firery mech pilot Kallen Kozuki, and ask a potentially life saving question: What do you do when you encounter a bear in the woods and don't have the proper equipment? WE ARE NOT BEAR EXPERTS THIS ADVICE IS INTENDED FOR ENTERTAINMENT ONLY Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/KallenKouzuki Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An...
2024-05-052h 13Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 2 Mahjong Soul Pon☆ Watchalong: Tamagotchi Stimulation Simulation RecreationalIt's time for our second bonus episode as, on the brink of Mahjong Soul's new "anime" we watch Mahjong Soul's first "anime" which is. Well. Why don't you watch along with us and find out? Surely nothing will go wrong. Surely this will be a completely normal time. Follow along: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoAgSyWcJ8j8WXFvySEhiWqMDLobymxFT Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden:
2024-04-291h 00Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E9 The "Wallet Alarm" IncidentIn this episode, in which an emote definitely doesn't make one of us cry, we zoom in on the oh-so-cool teenage android KR-967, and ask a- hey, wait, is that my wallet? Hey! HEY! Get back here! Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/AnjuSuzumiya Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: https://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.ba...
2024-04-212h 20Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E8 The Man Of The MistIn this episode, in which our energy is totally normal, we zoom in on the diligent student council president Miyuki Shirogane from Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, and ask a forward-thinking question: Why are men designed this way? Does it have something to do with the mist? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/MiyukiShirogane Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: ht...
2024-04-091h 34
Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S2E1 Aah, The Texture Of A BugIn the first episode of Season 2 of the podcast (don't worry, we'll get back to Season 1 next episode) we zoom in on the loser burnout [redacted] mutant Gregor, from Project Moon's seminal game Limbus Company, and ask honestly just a great question: What's the best texture for an arm? One that makes you wanna just reach out and... nng, y'know? Follow along: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Gregor (Korean military recruitment ad) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tkac6i2JLOw (Garden of Thorns Gregor promo video) https://www.youtube.com/watch...
2024-03-252h 50Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E7 :O Aaaaaaomph!In this episode, featuring a BONUS SEGMENT at the end (that you can play along with!) we zoom in on the voracious young (kind of?) dragonling Lin Lang, and ask an innovative question: What if the good art could just eat all of the bad art? Y'know, aaaaaaomph? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/LinLang Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow as...
2024-03-102h 30Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E6 A Newborn Baby DeerIn this episode, featuring a special guest who may or may not be ash's mom, we look at the shy (and alegedly, gardening) schoolgirl Hana Ninomiya and ask a surprisingly difficult question: What is this girl supposed to look like? And are we sure that that thing is human? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/hananinomiya Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Fo...
2024-02-262h 44Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E5 How Deep Is Your LuckIn this episode, we zoom in on probably our favorite woman so far, mahjong... dojo? owner Fu Ji, and are prompted by the game itself to ask, repeatedly, a very important question: How old is this face? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/fuji Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy: cohost.or...
2024-02-112h 32
The Mad BirdThe Mad Bird 5. Paranoia (The Plexiglass Box)Eyes. Content warnings: psychiatric institutions, ringing noises, repetition, distorted audio, violence, death Written, performed and recorded by Ivy Fox. Music by Sueños Electrónicos. Featuring asherlark. https://linktr.ee/suenoselectronicos https://cohost.org/ivyfoxart
2024-02-1013 minSoul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E4 ash is mad. In this episode, we zoom in on our first crossover character, Miyu (who of course we all know from Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Licht - The Nameless Girl) and ask an almost desperate question: Why does art have to be bad? Why does art have to be THIS bad? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/Miyu Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com
2024-01-292h 00Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!BONUS 1 Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Licht - The Nameless Girl Watchalong: Don't Kill Yourself; Sludge Sludge Sludge Sludge SludgeJoin us as, in preparation for the next character we look at, we do a watch through of Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Licht - The Nameless Girl- and you can, and probably should, watch along with us! I promise you it's a super normal movie that we are super normal about. Support the show: https://ko-fi.com/ivyfoxart Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/ashe...
2024-01-211h 52Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E3 Huuuge YuriIn this episode, we zoom in on the celestial, deific nun Lily Kitahara from Mahjong Soul, and ask a poignent question: Are lesbians allowed to be evil? Is that okay? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/lilykitahara Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy: cohost.org/ivyfoxart
2024-01-141h 49Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E2 Coming To An AgreementIn this episode, a climactic finish to 2023, we zoom in on the book-loving Nanaha Onodera from Mahjong Soul, and ask the only slightly prudish question: how horny about book should you be in public? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/nanahaonodera Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy: cohost.org/ivyfoxart
2024-01-011h 46Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!S1E1 Dripping With Good TasteIn our first episode we zoom in on the moon goddess Kaguyahime from Mahjong Soul, and ask a season-deciding question: Can the art of Mahjong Soul be good actually? Follow along: https://mahjongsoul.club/content/kaguyahime Follow the show: https://cohost.org/soul-mates-podcast Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark Follow Ivy: cohost.org/ivyfoxart
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