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- S1E30 The Realm Of Forms Is Coming
In 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://vg-mjg.github.io/MajsoulData/en/characters/200047/
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 18 min - S1E29 Her Face A Dinner Plate
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 14-16 respectively: https://www.extra-life.org/participants/SteelSoul4TheKids, https://www.extra-life.org/participants/bing-bong-4-kids
Follow along: https://vg-mjg.github.io/MajsoulData/en/characters/200087/
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
1 hr 46 min - S3E6 Popping Fish Oil Suppliments
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 asking: Hey, hang on a second, are you telling me that gender and sexuality might actually be constructs? This whole time?
Follow along: https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Cheese, https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Midnight, https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Morgan, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Hotdog, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Korn
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 37 min - S1E28 A Full Cup Of Juice
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://vg-mjg.github.io/MajsoulData/en/characters/20000103/
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
1 hr 42 min - S2E7B WHEREIN THE GALLANT DON QUIXOTE IS SAID TO PREFER FOR HERSELF THE COMPANY OF THE FAIRER SEX
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: https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/wiki/Don_Quixote
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 41 min - S2E7A IN WHICH THE HONORABLE FIXER DON QUIXOTE IS WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF ENGAGING IN MERE FISTICUFFS
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 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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 14 min - BONUS 9 Don Quixote's Many Countenances: The Lady May Play Her Guitar By The Close Of The Fifth Act
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 amalgamate uma musume. My wish would be simply to present it to thee plain and unadorned, without any embellishment of preface or uncountable muster of customary sonnets, epigrams, and questions, such as are commonly put in the episode description; I have given thee condensed all the squirely drolleries that are scattered through the swarm of these vain images of Don Quixote. And so—may God give thee health, and not forget us. Vale.
Follow along: https://soul-mates-podcast.tumblr.com/post/794722326630514688/soul-mates-s2e7-bonus-images
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 53 min - 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 still the current hotness, right? It hasn't been eclipsed by some other, newer big indie game?
Follow along: https://vg-mjg.github.io/MajsoulData/en/characters/200024/
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
3 hr 10 min - S3E5 Oatmeal For Yaoi Doctors
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 who care for our communites, who care for our loved ones, our children and our qilin, deserve love, support, and nutrients of their own? We do. That's why Soul Mates! is a proud supporter of the #OatmealForYaoiDoctors movement, and we want you to be to. Share it on your social media, or with your friends and family. Don't let this important cause go unnoticed.
Join the movement. Get it trending. #OatmealForYaoiDoctors
Follow along: https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Lumen, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Jello, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Jade_Noodles, https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Wi%C5%A1%27adel, https://food-fantasy.fandom.com/wiki/Phoenix_Tail_Prawn
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
2 hr 43 min - Gone Fishin'! E6: Infinity Nikki: There Is Nothing More Inspiring Than An Electrician
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 an electrician? The answer is no! Wait, it's only a four star!?
Gone Fishin'! cover art by ash!
Follow along with the Outfit of the Day: https://www.tumblr.com/soul-mates-podcast/791447398883917824/soul-mates-gone-fishin-infinity-nikki-outfits
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 Rewatch Podcast: https://bunnygirlbrainwave.substack.com/archive
Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden
Music by Sueños Electrónicos: https://suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com/
Follow and support ash: https://ko-fi.com/asherlark
3 hr 13 min
About Soul Mates! - The Art and Design of Gacha Game Characters!
From the publisher's feed
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!