A promising manga artist from Shanghai aiming to become one of the first foreigners to make it big in the Japanese market will soon debut in a popular young men's comic book.
If the works of Liu Chong, 25, prove successful, more foreign illustrators may follow in his footsteps and help internationalize Japan's comic book style, which already has many fans, industry observers said.
Liu Chong grew up in the northeastern province of Hebei, reading popular manga from Japan, including Doraemon and the Dragon Ball adventure series. He has been a manga enthusiast since elementary school and began drawing on his own in college.