Interviewer: Your first serialized work is a tremendous success all of a sudden. Tell us the whole story of how a newcomer came to have her works ser… - Hiromu Arakawa

Arakawa: Yes, and because I think I look a little like a cartoon cow, so it fits.

Arakawa: After I gave birth, I felt even more of a connection to cows, because my breasts started making milk. My breasts got bigger and my nipples swelled up, and every time my daughter went to suckle them, it reminded me of how I used to squeeze the cows' udders on the farm to get the milk out. [chuckle] It was like my own daughter was milking me.

Interviewer: In other words you were born with your destiny tied to cows. So, of course you must love cows?