BoBoiBoy creator Nizam Razak and his Malaysian superhero

BoBoiBoy creator Nizam Razak says that there is demand for stories set in a Malaysian context. Photos: The Star/Mohd Sahar Misni

No matter what age you are at now, there would definitely have been a time when you imagined you were a superhero – Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman.

“When children watch Spider-Man, they end up wanting to be like Spider-Man,” animation ­creator Nizam Razak shared. “That’s what came to my mind when I created BoBoiBoy – I wanted a Malaysian superhero character so that children here would say ‘I want to be like BoBoiBoy’.”