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| S1E33 Tangled Up In The Michaelphone | 16 Feb 2026 | 01:55:30 | |
In 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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 11 Saki Live Action: The Movie Watchalong: It's Time For Me To Yuri Dap You Up | 08 Feb 2026 | 02:07:16 | |
In 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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E30 The Realm Of Forms Is Coming | 17 Nov 2025 | 02:17:10 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E29 Her Face A Dinner Plate | 09 Nov 2025 | 01:45:30 | |
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: Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E6 Popping Fish Oil Suppliments | 20 Oct 2025 | 02:36:36 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E28 A Full Cup Of Juice | 05 Oct 2025 | 01:41:12 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E7B WHEREIN THE GALLANT DON QUIXOTE IS SAID TO PREFER FOR HERSELF THE COMPANY OF THE FAIRER SEX | 29 Sep 2025 | 02:40:33 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E7A IN WHICH THE HONORABLE FIXER DON QUIXOTE IS WRONGFULLY ACCUSED OF ENGAGING IN MERE FISTICUFFS | 22 Sep 2025 | 02:13:11 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 9 Don Quixote's Many Countenances: The Lady May Play Her Guitar By The Close Of The Fifth Act | 15 Sep 2025 | 02:52:21 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E27 It's Mommy Time! | 07 Sep 2025 | 03:09:19 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E5 Oatmeal For Yaoi Doctors | 25 Aug 2025 | 02:42:54 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| Gone Fishin'! E6: Infinity Nikki: There Is Nothing More Inspiring Than An Electrician | 10 Aug 2025 | 03:12:16 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E8 Participating In Certain Subcultures | 02 Feb 2026 | 02:59:38 | |
In 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 can you be to your fellow, erm, subculture participants? Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 6: Infinity Nikki: Divinely Inspired Christian Punk | 04 Aug 2025 | 01:46:42 | |
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 ash! Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| Gone Fishin! E5: Disney Twisted-Wonderland: Genderqueer Disney Lore Entrapment | 28 Jul 2025 | 01:34:33 | |
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: | |||
| The Great Gacha World Tour Ch 5: Disney's Twisted-Wonderland: Oh, I Just Can't Wait To Be Drag King | 20 Jul 2025 | 01:41:42 | |
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 saying? Not that I mind - Hakuna Matata, after all! The Great Gacha World Tour cover art by ash! Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E26 The Time Vampire Diaries | 14 Jul 2025 | 02:21:24 | |
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 feminist of us? Follow along: Follow Birb on Tumblr: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E25 Man! I Feel Like A Wolfman! | 29 Jun 2025 | 01:59:30 | |
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 mostly us laughing raucously. Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E6B Cathy And The Gender Binary New World Order | 23 Jun 2025 | 02:39:25 | |
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 to self-harm throughout, and graphic discussion of cuts from 19:05 to 21:00. Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "Dog Days": Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E6A He's Inherently Doggy-Woggy | 16 Jun 2025 | 02:07:30 | |
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 sharpening? Read this episode's official companion fanfic, "Dog Days": Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 8 Wuthering Heights (2003) Watchalong: The Picture Of Your Mom That Makes You Die | 08 Jun 2025 | 02:01:45 | |
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 anyone's name? Wait, is that the guy from Malcom in the Middle? Why is his beard always so terrible? Why did they make Isabella gay but unable to accept this part of herself? What's with the audio balance? What's with the telescopes? And finally, does Ivy actually know what happens in Wuthering Heights? "Wuthering Heights" by Kate Bush 8-bit cover by RubenEdit: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E4 Wind, Turn To Binding Chains! | 02 Jun 2025 | 02:55:15 | |
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 doctor!? Follow along: What the hell we're on about in the last segment: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E24 Sometimes One Of 'Em Just Comes Out Snakes (It's Mormon Rules) | 19 May 2025 | 02:29:56 | |
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 one, openly discussing some taboo topics and making some naughty jokes. Follow along: Follow May on Tumblr: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E32 Woke Luigi's Mansion | 19 Jan 2026 | 02:19:07 | |
In 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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E23 ♪Cat Boy Soda♪ | 04 May 2025 | 01:57:32 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E3 Barks At You | 21 Apr 2025 | 02:38:15 | |
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 sick is hard... Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E22 She's In Good Hands | 06 Apr 2025 | 02:13:39 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E21 Friendly Bird Investigators | 23 Mar 2025 | 02:26:18 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E5B Can I Get Back To Being In Very Mild Ennui? | 16 Mar 2025 | 02:24:51 | |
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": Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E5A Call Me? | 10 Mar 2025 | 02:07:59 | |
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": Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 7 The Cetology of Ishmael: Imagine A Whale In Your Room | 02 Mar 2025 | 02:31:28 | |
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 pressing question, that no great podcast has sought to answer and so we must give our poor attempt: What is a fish? Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E2 Children Should Have Grenades | 24 Feb 2025 | 02:36:10 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| 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? | 23 Feb 2025 | 01:51:36 | |
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 being made of swords? And most importantly, will we ever ultimately reach that most hallowed destination? That's right, I'm talking about Germany. Please watch along on your favorite legal website, and let's find out together. Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E20 The Belts, The Gun, And The Tummy | 09 Feb 2025 | 02:16:16 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E31 Steppin' On Santa Claus | 04 Jan 2026 | 02:14:09 | |
In 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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E19 On The Brink Of Death In Our Second Year | 26 Jan 2025 | 02:02:01 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 5 Saki Episode of Side A Watchalong: My Girlfriend, My Butch Girlfriend, And FunaQ | 19 Jan 2025 | 02:10:52 | |
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 anime do anything? And most importantly, will it be marvelous~? Watch along on your favorite legal website, and let's find out together! Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S3E1 Take Me To Fish Heaven | 12 Jan 2025 | 02:53:03 | |
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: Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E18 Nya Nya! Purr Purr~ | 05 Jan 2025 | 02:51:36 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| Season 3, Arknights/Food Fantasy, Available NOW!!! Plus, Soul Mates! 2025 Plans! | 22 Dec 2024 | 00:04:38 | |
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) will debut on January 12th, but until then, GO LISTEN TO THE S3 PILOT! GO GO GO! Listen to S3E0 Two Different Kinds Of Parties: https://ko-fi.com/Post/SM-Season-3-PILOT-EPISODE-Two-Different-Kinds-Of-B0B517SCY9 Support the show: 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://togetherweshine.podbean.com Art by Ryegarden: https://www.instagram.com/ryegarden Music by Sueños Electrónicos: suenoselectronicos.bandcamp.com Follow and support ash: | |||
| 1st Anniversary Special! Goddess Tryst: Headpiece Heist! | 18 Dec 2024 | 02:20:03 | |
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? Play Ana Valens' excellent Goddess Tryst: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E17.5 Better Than Punk | 15 Dec 2024 | 02:44:33 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E4 I Do Not Wish To Share An Image With Anyone But My Wife | 01 Dec 2024 | 03:31:08 | |
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": Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| BONUS 4 Yi Sang's The Wings Soporific Reading To Sleep/Chill To | 24 Nov 2024 | 00:58:07 | |
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 his tragic death at 26. Featuring an original soundtrack by Pandora Grace, we ask you to join us for this timeless piece of writing, about a man so self obsessed that he loses all perspective on the world around him, only to be overwhelmed once beginning to gain it back. We hope you enjoy, and we hope you are inspired to seek out more works by this great artist. Listen to more of Bunnygirl Brainwave's music: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E17 An Engagement With Estrogen | 17 Nov 2024 | 02:15:07 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S2E8B Hey Guys, It's Confucius | 22 Dec 2025 | 02:51:27 | |
In 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: Follow along: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E16 Fellas Stay With Me/Fellas We're Back | 03 Nov 2024 | 02:18:07 | |
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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| News! We're Streaming For Extra Life 2024 On November 2nd! | 26 Oct 2024 | 00:02:24 | |
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: Follow ash on Twitch: Follow the show on YouTube: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E15 She's Got Those Hands Like A Mii | 20 Oct 2024 | 03:02:09 | |
In 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: Support the show: Follow the show on Tumblr: Follow the show on YouTube: Listen to Together We'll Shine: An Utena Rewatch Podcast: Art by Ryegarden: Music by Sueños Electrónicos: Follow and support ash: | |||
| S1E14 Put Your Thumb Over This Old Man | 06 Oct 2024 | 02:38:36 | |
In 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: | |||