Le Gardenie

Le Gardenie is a Malaysian high school drama/romance manga created by Gempakstarz's artist Benny Wong in 2006 and finished in 2008 in Utopia magazine's 139 issue. On June 22, 2006, Le Gardenie received third place in Japan's first International Manga Award. The series is a coming-of-age tale about a group of teenagers in a secondary school which is located in a Venice-like town set in another world, who have fruit-based names such as Lemon, Orange and Kiwi.

Benny Wong was replaced by artist Juice (Normah Noh) under the alias GempakStarz, as Ben is now working under a new company as a creative director. The company he works for released a new series of comic/entertainment magazines titled Powder.

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