Hey, fan, fam. On this episode, we welcome Roy Akoupe, an award-winning filmmaker, author, speaker, and entrepreneur, whose passion for comics and animation led him to create Ianu, the best animated series on Cartoon Network in years.

Yeah. How has your journey, man.

Oh, it's been, it's been crazy, man.

Crazy good.

You know, I'm just really grateful, honestly. I'm very, very, you know, we work so hard for this.

We worked very, very, very hard for this and for a very, very long time.

So yeah, I think grateful is the right term. And I just, I really hope it does well.

I feel like a lot of, a lot of times in this industry,

people want to see how something does

before they give something else another chance,

especially when it comes to, you know,

authenticity or characters that are not, you know,

the regular things that we see on a day-to-day basis so

i'm really hoping it does well really hoping it does well yeah yeah and honestly i feel like

the reception has been phenomenal like i was on the big press junket where there was a bunch of us

just asking a million questions um just seeing the responses online, like all the, you know,

all the interviews you have been doing. I saw like a coverage on routers. Like, people have

really been gravitating towards I. So I'm just, how do you, how do you feel about just how

it's gone so far?

I know you're like concerned like, you know,

the higher ups got to see how it does, but like how do you feel, right?

Yeah.

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