Kaoru Liew has been drawing manga stories for her fans for 17 years. Photos: Raymond Ooi
Kaoru is in the gallery of Kadokawa Gempak Starz in Cheras, Kuala Lumpur, standing idly by a giant display of her artwork.
“This character is my creation,” she says, pointing to the life-size drawing of a boy with a floppy-eared bunny on his back, drifting over the moon’s craters. “I don’t think we have that graphic novel here, though.”
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