Model

Rating:
Summary: Catching but hard to follow
Review: I borrowed this book from my best friend before she even had the chance to open it. After reading it, all I wanted was to get my hands on the second book as quickly as possible. It gave me manga fever!
The artwork is divine, I throughly enjoyed it. However, I think the author sometimes gets ahead of themself. There are... leaps... in the book, holes. Where two characters will be talking together and then all of a sudden on the next page it will be a completely new character in a new situation. A couple of times I had to re-read the same pages about five times to understand what happened. That's why I took a star off, otherwise I would have given it a full five.
Overall, the characters are likeable and the story is believeable. Sometimes, though, I mistake the woman and the man with one another. Hehe. No, c'mon... he's cute...

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Summary: Kyaaaah! MODEL! *dazed by the beuty*
Review: A modern vampire story with a classic, sensual edge! "Model," having the bold lines and eloquent finish characteristic of good Korean manhwa, met elegance as well as drama with the sexiest vampire to grace the pages of a manhwa. This first volume was a little slow in my opinion, not really hinting at the storyline the rest of the volumes would until the very end. Nonetheless, the gorgeous art was more than enough to compensate for the slow developement. Also the INCREDIBLY HOT GUYS didn't hurt much either! *drool*. . . yummy vampire and son. ^__^

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Summary: death and life? the meaning is lost
Review: as an artist she lives to paint, being a vampire he models to live. When your insparation is a vampire life imitates itself after death!

Rating:
Summary: Is her art worth dying for?
Review: Desperately seeking bishounen? You might want to check out this series! Lee So-Young has crafted a gothic-style vampire series that is likely to appeal to many of the shoujo audience who enjoy a blend of horror and fantasy with plenty of sexy anime guys appearing on the pages. While the story is not particularly new or fresh, the art treatment is excellent and the overall presentation is bound to attract fans of manga who also like such shows as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and anime like Night Walker.

Ji Ye is an artist studying Europe when the unexpected happens. She winds up with a drunken vampire in her apartment that drinks her blood. Rather than freaking out at this, Ji's dedication to her pursuit of art makes her decide that the beautiful male vampire is her perfect model for a portrait. The two strike a deal. Ji will allow the vampire to have her blood, if he will allow her to paint him. Of course, Ji's in for a dangerous time of it, the vampire's inscrutable motives for allowing her to live and paint him are puzzling. The complicated characters of the vampire, Michael, and his mysterious servants leave a mystery that is too irresistible for Ji Ye to leave alone. Ji is perhaps the most refreshing character in this story, her obsession and fascination with painting tempered by a stubborn curiosity and a refusal to simply give in to the moody and threatening vampire. I enjoyed the overall story, although at times the plot was a bit too predictable or cliché for my liking.

The artwork shows the true strength of Lee So-Young's craft. She creates rich, textured backgrounds that evoke the mood and themes of this story beautifully. Old castle-like mansions, elegant clothing, and atmospheric touches all pay homage to the traditional vampire stories. The two main male characters featured in this first volume are extreme examples of bishounen art. Both extremely effeminate in appearance-too much for my personal taste-they do convey an air of unworldly beauty and alien motivations; separate from the world of Ji Ye and her peers.

Overall, this series will probably fit best with those readers who like paranormal romances, with overly romanticized vampires. There is little violence or nudity to contend with, but the subject matter and relationships are not necessarily appropriate to younger preteen audiences. A good manga with a decent storyline and creative, stylized art work that melds well with its chosen subject. A definite recommend to the shoujo vampire fan!

Happy reading! ^_^ Shanshad

Rating:
Summary: Is her art worth dying for?
Review: Desperately seeking bishounen? You might want to check out this series! Lee So-Young has crafted a gothic-style vampire series that is likely to appeal to many of the shoujo audience who enjoy a blend of horror and fantasy with plenty of sexy anime guys appearing on the pages. While the story is not particularly new or fresh, the art treatment is excellent and the overall presentation is bound to attract fans of manga who also like such shows as Buffy: The Vampire Slayer and anime like Night Walker.

Ji Ye is an artist studying Europe when the unexpected happens. She winds up with a drunken vampire in her apartment that drinks her blood. Rather than freaking out at this, Ji's dedication to her pursuit of art makes her decide that the beautiful male vampire is her perfect model for a portrait. The two strike a deal. Ji will allow the vampire to have her blood, if he will allow her to paint him. Of course, Ji's in for a dangerous time of it, the vampire's inscrutable motives for allowing her to live and paint him are puzzling. The complicated characters of the vampire, Michael, and his mysterious servants leave a mystery that is too irresistible for Ji Ye to leave alone. Ji is perhaps the most refreshing character in this story, her obsession and fascination with painting tempered by a stubborn curiosity and a refusal to simply give in to the moody and threatening vampire. I enjoyed the overall story, although at times the plot was a bit too predictable or cliché for my liking.

The artwork shows the true strength of Lee So-Young's craft. She creates rich, textured backgrounds that evoke the mood and themes of this story beautifully. Old castle-like mansions, elegant clothing, and atmospheric touches all pay homage to the traditional vampire stories. The two main male characters featured in this first volume are extreme examples of bishounen art. Both extremely effeminate in appearance-too much for my personal taste-they do convey an air of unworldly beauty and alien motivations; separate from the world of Ji Ye and her peers.

Overall, this series will probably fit best with those readers who like paranormal romances, with overly romanticized vampires. There is little violence or nudity to contend with, but the subject matter and relationships are not necessarily appropriate to younger preteen audiences. A good manga with a decent storyline and creative, stylized art work that melds well with its chosen subject. A definite recommend to the shoujo vampire fan!

Happy reading! ^_^ Shanshad

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Summary: Addiction happens so easily...
Review: I highly, highly, highly recommend this manhwa to anyone that likes gothic/dark stories, romance, vampires, or all three. I read the first one, and rushed out the next day to get the second one. I got the third one today, and finished it in under an hour--I'm itching to get the fourth, fifth, sixth, whatever...Lee So-Young is such an amazing author/artist/creator....the story is amazing, the characters are believable, so much so, that I wish they were real. Go out and buy this series, it is amazing...the only bad thing about it is that the books are not being written fast enough for my liking, but that's ok--it gives us all something to look forward to! :)

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Summary: A vampire model???
Review: Jae went to Europe to study. She is your typical struggling art student, trying to find that special SOMETHING to make her great.
One night her friend drops off a drunk stranger into the apartment and everything changes. This stranger is breathtakingly beautiful and is also a vampire. The vampire offers her a deal, her blood for his beauty - he will model for her. Will it help get her career on track or is it just a deal with the Devil? Will she be able to handle him or it is all just a trap?
Great art and wonderful use of silence during much of the manga. The reader is allowed to absorb the story, not having it forced down his or her throat.


Rating:
Summary: A great vampire manga.
Review: Jea has graduated and moved to Europe to pursue her dream to become an artist. She's been living there for four years and one day her boy-magnet girlfriend Melissa comes knocking at her door with the most beautiful, drunken young man you could ever see begging her to let him stay the night at her house as he has passed out. She gets totally pissed off at her for leaving him there to go see her boyfriend, especially considering she was flirting with him all night beforehand.

She's unable to sleep that night on behalf of there being a complete stranger in her house and then has a dream of him pinning her to the bed and biting into her neck. She wakes to believe it was all a dream and when she steps out of bed to go get a glass of water, already feeling paranoid enough as it is, steps on his arm outstratched from underneath her bed to realize he actually had bitten her, and after stepping on his arm he gets up on her bed and bites her neck again still drunken all this time.

After waking up from having passed out she finds herself inspired and begining to sketch him...until he wakes up and detests it! He blows his top about her having undressed his upper have for the purpose of the sketch. He's mad that a mear mortal dared to touch his body.(*cough Narcissist.*cough, damn those allergies!)

She goes on to tell him that she considered them even for him haven drank her blood, and not having realized he had drank her blood from being intoxicated, he throws up. Although realizing her blood isn't "Tainted", he admits to liking her "Type" of blood and they strike a deal. "Quid Pro Quo", he poses as her model in return for her blood and the story begins.

I'm still reading through this first book of it that I got earlier today, but I find it to have quite beautiful artwork and a very interesting story so far. If you like vampires (*cough He's hot too.*cough) as much as I do, you should definitly buy this first book. If you do I hope you enjoy it as much as I do!

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Summary: Models
Review: Oh my god, being a comic freak, I was trying to find something that would curb my enthusiasm until the next X-men came out. i found Model one and two in our local book store and started reading, fell in love and cannot wait for the next one to show... Jae is absolutely beautiful, though timeline is a little slow, and you want her and Michael to get together sooner, but ah well.

Rating:
Summary: Beautiful!
Review: Oh, I really wanted to review this manhwa first....Anyhoo.... Yeah, I went to go snag this baby the first day it came out at BORDERS! (Ask the people in Oakbrook, they know me there TOO well, ha ha ^^) Okay, I'm a freak for manga/manhwa...So what are you gonna do? This book features very wonderfully drawn artwork. Lee So Young is a very talented manga ka, and every page of this book will get you drooling. Are you people all clear with the concept that this is a manHWA and therefore indicates it is NOT Japanese?! (Excuse me, but I am Korean and we are so sick of people giving the Japanese too much credit for what's ours.) No, I'm NOT racist!! Just....mad!!! ERAAAARGGH!!! *Eclipse is holding Lady Sephiroth down as she prepares to launch Dark Arrow* If you folks haven't read this, you don't know what you're missing!!! *Eclipse lets her go* And check out Demon Diary! It's a scream!! Eclipse is so hot!!! (MINE!!!) Mwahahaha!
READ "MODEL", VERMIN!!!!