Thursday, August 5, 2021

Ikigai = the Japanese Formula For Happiness

 Ikigai 

This is formula some people can use to get to happiness.

I feel like this is something Daiki's grandfather would have taught him growing up. Daiki is the mangaka in Not Another Boy Band. Daiki's career as a manga artist gives him ikigai however he's life feels incomplete. (more on that later)

1) Something that you love

2) Something that the world needs

3) Something that you can be paid well for... (or be in a position where that money isn't an issue)

4) Something that you can become good at


Sometimes someone's career becomes all encompassing and while that's amazing it can cause deficits in other areas of your life. Daiki is a successful mangaka with past and present series that thrill his audience but the time and energy devoted to his art means he's lonely... until Sage Nakamura walks into the conference room. And thing changes... 


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