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

In this episode, powered by Audacity 4, we continue our intervallo-esque lookback at everything we've missed in our mainline Limbus Company episodes (the woke previously known as season 2, woke 2) doing a 10 pull of recent art to look at gamer Ishmaels and wormlike Gregors, thinking about Clockwork-Time-Roly-Poly and a little bit too much about Headless Ichthys, prompting a sticky question: So how uh, how do we feel about a certain fish with a certain, ahem, inflated sack around visible around the chest area? Surely asking this will cause no problems, right?

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In this episode, the new face of sexism, we zoom in the suave and sultry serpent-sheath shirtless scoundrel Saturne, who's proportions are simply a bit suspect, and ask a sickly question: Is there really a difference between being chronically ill and being a bottom? Because, okay, I know how it sounds, but hear me out -

To make sense of this episode you really should watch Demi Adejuyigbe explain Racism 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YFGJHSJ9ko

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In this episode, also known as "Oddly Enough,", we zoom in on our featured Operator and Food, the river-loving desert-roaming tomb-looting Philae, who is as gentle and kind as she is uhm I don't actually want a flyer, thanks, and the pollyp-producing prank playing pudgester Jellyfish Salad, who omg wow isn't she just so adowable I really just can't get over it, asking a game changing question: Chinese Egyptian Egyptian? Does anyone get this? Then, the worst 90s anime reboot ever with Swiss Roll, Courier, and Mullberry, asking: What if Cloud Strife was in Kingdom Hearts? Wouldn't that be crazy?

Glassblower Makes Intricate Horse Effortlessly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xf1Qwj7X_w

And we are OUT of swiss rolls: https://youtu.be/VCc6OejUhkg

Follow along: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Philae, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Jellyfish_Salad, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Swiss_Roll_(Kero), https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Courier, https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Mulberry

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In this episode, a locked OUT one, we continue our adventures with Saki, the premier (?) mahjong anime, with the pandering pudgy protrusion penguin pedestal porting Nodoka Haramura, who plays mahjong out of passion and NOT because she's gay, and ask a question of ash to just make sure they're okay: Are you sure you like this default art piece? Like, really sure? Everything going alright at home, buddy?

If you need a loser girl then you should click! This! Link! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDW_hnyFxNM

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A piece in three movements:

Movement One, the Prelude: Dinner...? Girl...? A sparse wasteland of decimation. Bellies are unfilled, mahjong unplayed. The seasons roll on with no regard for human suffering.

Movement Two, the Bridge: What Kind of Dinner Hits that Girl? Over the horizon, a distant ray of hope, though quickly frozen over. Still we must persist, with gloves upon our palms and ties around our necks.

Movement Three, the Finale: Let the Dinner Hit the Girl. As we reach the seaside, our wishes finally fulfilled with a feast fit for any girl; and a brush with death returns us to the apple-scented embrace of old friends.

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In this episode, an episode in which we say the words "gender politics" so many times it loses meaning, we zoom in on our first Gun Gale Onli - I mean, Sword Art Online colab character, the slithering stoic sure-shot sniper Sinon, who's been popping heads with style since she's been 5 years old, and ask a truly devistating question: Should you watch Sword Art Online? The answer will...surprise you?

The episode description is my domain, and you are all but thralls to my grand design; you WILL click on this link to see what we were referencing at the beginning of the episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-n56s-UEnA

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Fun fact: If you die while listening to Soul Mates!, you'll die in real life!

Watch this GGO clip that I didn't realize was a star wars edit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_nVZrKms0Qk

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In this episode, with a name that breaks all the rules, we zoom in on our featured Food and Operator, the distinctly disturbing dreamy duo Monkfish Liver, who are decidedly NOT here to look after you, good hunter, and the thunder-thighed thoroughly thought provoking Savage, here to whip you up a bowl of the good stuff (?) and ask a spooooky question: Is it possible for your sexy aunt to be scarier than a flesh eating mannequin? Because, here me out. Then, it's off to the community center with Burrito, Datemaki, and Figurino, asking: Now, we all know you can forcefemme a burrito (not mine please, I'm full) but CAN you forcefemme a taco...?

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Watch them say my name in the SGDQ 2026 SANABI run, and also whatever this is that we reference after the break: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7WM_9SJQw, https://www.tumblr.com/midnakoopa/705042572390825984/these-are-my-cats-i-dont-have-a-problem

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In this episode, the finale of I.S.Y.S.W.A.S.F.H.S.S. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for Hell Screen summer) we zoom in on the second half of Ryoshu's art, allowing our concepts to be fully incinerated in an endless tragic dance of blur filters and blue and pink light (H.P.) by B.O.T.H.O.S.R. (Blade of the House of Spiders Ryoshu) and adopt the following question: Which Ryoshu, in the end, is the most mommy? Which one is the coveted T.F.M.?

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In this episode, the midpoint of our titular I.S.Y.S.W.A.S.F.H.S.S. (I scream, you scream, we all scream for Hell Screen summer) we zoom in on the expressionist of excrutiation, the modernist of mauling, the romantacist of reaping, the, uhm, art deco-ist of agony, so on and so forth, Ryoshu (or at least, look at the first half of her art, with the rest coming next episode) who, while she might not always look it, is truly a M.A.H. (mommy at heart) prompting us to ask a childish question: Take a 5 minute break? You mean the break that makes you old?

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