We all got to see Shinkai's newest film in theatres and oh boy do we have a lot to say! We will be talking about the film with a non-spoiler and spoiler section. We absolutely was mindblown by the quality of this film and if you're looking for a movie to watch we hope that this will encourage you to watch Suzume!

As the Scuffed Awards has just passed, we will be looking at an actual award show with a production behind it. We talk about certain categories and what we believe to be a show that deserves to win anime of the year! 

As the start of the fall season begins, we have finished and started a lot of new anime. We wanted to talk about what we are looking forward to this season and what you guys should be watching! Of course, you can't have an Ikigai Podcast without some heavy topic included too!

With October being the second year anniversary of the podcast we decided to celebrate it by... Never mind, we have to deal with midterms! Though it is an unfortunate way to celebrate, we do discuss our future plans and the momentum of our situation. 

Another podcast down in the books and our last episode before our two-year anniversary! We enjoyed our previous in-person podcast and decided to do another one with a somewhat better set! With college coming back into session we talk about our experience so far and what've been doing!

Off of a whim, we decided to do a podcast in-person with a scuffed setup. It may reward those who wanted to see a podcast last month. Due to a rough schedule, we couldn't do one in July. However, we have a lot to talk about and exciting new topics to dive into. Hope you enjoy it!

With graduation passing and summertime growing near, the boys finally return with a podcast episode. Graduation was a blast and now we hit the sun! However, since we don't go out much, we can only talk about what we know best. Anime! 

Graduation and the end of the school year are just around the corner. Finals and other obligations have taken priority and made this episode very last minute. Not having a concrete topic in mind, we bounce around ideas revolving around graduation and how we act. Anime is one of the major factors in our lives that has both changed and ruined our social lives. We read too much romance manga and watch too much romance anime.

Looks like another anime-based episode for once! Today we discuss Jujutsu Kaisen and how we feel about the show. This isn't a rating for the show, just a discussion about it. On top of that, we share our feelings about Shaft's newest project: RWBY: Ice Queendom. The episode was intended for JJK, but ultimately it also became about RWBY. 

After 18 months of having a podcast, we have finally all watched a single anime. Odd Taxi was an interesting show that we enjoyed. We wanted to take the time to talk about Odd Taxi and how we felt about the anime. Being an "anime" podcast and having watched it recently, this was the topic that we decided on. Maybe in the future, we will watch a show together and have an occasional podcast like this. Anyways if you haven't already go and watch some Odd Taxi.

Last year, we had a podcast with Ryan. This year we decided to bring Ryan back for another February discussion! As the title suggests, the king is back! However, instead of talking about romance, we wanted to talk about Lunar New Year! Like always, we do pivot the podcast to anime, but hopefully, our party stories were enough to make you guys awake. 

With 2021 gone and dusted, the New Year begins. The success of Brian's GUP analysis has made 2022 a great success so far. Even though the year has just started hype about the future is in the air. We discuss about GUP and our next steps. 

As December rolls around and the holidays start to come in, the Ikigai boys are not feeling too hot. With finals around the corner and the anticipations with up-and-coming projects, the boys are feeling the pressure. That's how life be sometimes, but we keep moving forward.

Even though it is November, Let's give some love to Halloween this year-round. Today we brought in Ryan! This is different from the one in February and to be honest, maybe the pure opposite of each other! Let's see what this Ocean man has for us.

After discovering that one of Kevin's classmates read a Murakami. The boys decided to talk about the little details in eastern media and their take on why they enjoy it. In turn, they discuss what makes people like different things.

We claim to be a podcast about anime and films, yet we haven't discussed that in a while. We thought it was about time we went back and talked about anime and how we feel about the medium in general. Instead of going on about the future, why not talk about the now!

The anniversary month of Ikigai Studio is here! We discussed about our plans for the future and the projects that we want to create. Along with that, we talk about our feelings towards the anniversary by talking about our how we find passion in this animation and the production behind it.

As our summer away from school begins, we start our journey off in Florida. This is the first in-person podcast episode where we share our weird accounts and experiences on vacation. We also discuss our home and what it feels to be Vietnamese. 

An Tran is finally graduating from high school! As such, our Ikigai co-founder and friend will not be joining us for today's podcast, as he is taking the time to enjoy the end of his high school days! Thus, what will the chuckle brothers talk about in today's podcast without their boy? 

It's bad guys. This was so bad. I know we bounce a lot when talking in these podcasts, but this was something else. Not only that, but we all said some weird stuff that I don't even know if it is okay. This is the worst podcast out there. Someone, please save us!

Without a topic in our heads and an unexpected day to record this podcast, we are left speechless. We usually wing our podcast, but this was more of a challenge than previous episodes. With that in mind, we jumped to many topics which led us to go from...

Back to just the three Asian boys! This time on our wacky podcast, we discuss some childhood memories. What brought this up is the announcement of the new Pokemon remake! It made up a lot of our childhoods and we can't wait to see it be released!

This month has the air filled with love, but your boys don't have any. We thought, why not bring a guest over who does have love though! So, we brought in our friend Ryan to share his thoughts and feelings!

2020 is over and we are now in 2021! What are our resolutions for this year and our path to the future? Who knows what this year will bring, but we do have our future in sight. We are making strides to grow our community and hopefully make 2021 our year!