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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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01:45:30

S1E29 Her Face A Dinner Plate

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2025/11/09

In 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

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02:36:36

S3E6 Popping Fish Oil Suppliments

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2025/10/20

In 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

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01:41:12

S1E28 A Full Cup Of Juice

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2025/10/05

In 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:

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02:40:33

S2E7B WHEREIN THE GALLANT DON QUIXOTE IS SAID TO...

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2025/09/29

In 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:

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02:13:11

S2E7A IN WHICH THE HONORABLE FIXER DON QUIXOTE IS...

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2025/09/22

In 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

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02:52:21

BONUS 9 Don Quixote's Many Countenances: The Lady May...

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2025/09/15

Idle 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

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03:09:19

S1E27 It's Mommy Time!

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2025/09/07

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

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02:42:54

S3E5 Oatmeal For Yaoi Doctors

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2025/08/25

In 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

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03:12:16

Gone Fishin'! E6: Infinity Nikki: There Is Nothing...

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2025/08/10

In 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

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01:46:42

The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 6: Infinity Nikki:...

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2025/08/04

It'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

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01:34:33

Gone Fishin! E5: Disney Twisted-Wonderland:...

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2025/07/28

On 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

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01:41:42

The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 5: Disney's...

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2025/07/20

It'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

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02:21:24

S1E26 The Time Vampire Diaries

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2025/07/14

In 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

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01:59:30

S1E25 Man! I Feel Like A Wolfman!

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2025/06/29

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

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02:39:25

S2E6B Cathy And The Gender Binary New World Order

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2025/06/23

In 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

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02:07:30

S2E6A He's Inherently Doggy-Woggy

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2025/06/16

In 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

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02:01:45

BONUS 8 Wuthering Heights (2003) Watchalong: The...

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2025/06/08

Feeling 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

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02:55:15

S3E4 Wind, Turn To Binding Chains!

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2025/06/02

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

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02:29:56

S1E24 Sometimes One Of 'Em Just Comes Out Snakes...

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2025/05/19

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

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01:57:32

S1E23 ♪Cat Boy Soda♪

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2025/05/04

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

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