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PODCAST

Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!

asherlark, Ivy Fox

A podcast exploring the worst and the best of character design in the silly little games we"re obsessed with, including Mahjong Soul, Limbus Company, Arknights, Food Fantasy, and more!

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02:38:15

S3E3 Barks At You

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2025/04/21

In 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

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02:13:39

S1E22 She's In Good Hands

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2025/04/06

In 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

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02:26:18

S1E21 Friendly Bird Investigators

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2025/03/23

In 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

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02:24:51

S2E5B Can I Get Back To Being In Very Mild Ennui?

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2025/03/16

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,

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02:07:59

S2E5A Call Me?

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2025/03/10

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

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02:31:28

BONUS 7 The Cetology of Ishmael: Imagine A Whale In...

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2025/03/02

Tired 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

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02:36:10

S3E2 Children Should Have Grenades

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2025/02/24

In 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,

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01:51:36

BONUS 6 Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA☆ILLYA: Vow in the...

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2025/02/23

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

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02:16:16

S1E20 The Belts, The Gun, And The Tummy

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2025/02/09

In 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/

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02:02:01

S1E19 On The Brink Of Death In Our Second Year

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2025/01/26

In 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

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02:10:52

BONUS 5 Saki Episode of Side A Watchalong: My...

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2025/01/19

Please 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

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02:53:03

S3E1 Take Me To Fish Heaven

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2025/01/12

In 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:

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02:51:36

S1E18 Nya Nya! Purr Purr~

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2025/01/05

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

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04:38

Season 3, Arknights/Food Fantasy, Available NOW!!!...

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2024/12/22

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

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02:20:03

1st Anniversary Special! Goddess Tryst: Headpiece Heist!

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2024/12/18

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

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02:44:33

S1E17.5 Better Than Punk

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2024/12/15

In 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

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03:31:08

S2E4 I Do Not Wish To Share An Image With Anyone But...

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2024/12/01

In 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:

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58:07

BONUS 4 Yi Sang's The Wings Soporific Reading To...

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2024/11/24

Yi 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

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02:15:07

S1E17 An Engagement With Estrogen

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2024/11/17

In 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

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02:18:07

S1E16 Fellas Stay With Me/Fellas We're Back

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2024/11/03

In 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:

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