Lee began her career in the year 1992 when she submitted a story to Tong Li's monthly manhua magazine Flower Girl. The story became her first work, Paradise City and began Lee's long career working with Tong Li. Her second work, Youth Gone Wild, which started its five year run in 1996, was her longest and most popular work. So far four works have been published in the magazine, one of which is ongoing.
Nicky Lee's personal life is not well documented aside from small notes that she writes in the margins of her published works and a few interviews. She is married, without children and credits her mother as her main influence. She is a fan of 1980s American heavy metal music and cites Fuyumi Souryo (Mars) and Shimizu Reiko as her role models.
I actually finished the series already 😅 I was loving it at the beginning but it lost me at the end, the plot took a turn I didn’t particularly enjoy and it felt like it was dragging on but overall it was pretty fun
Encore un tome de dévoré, qu’est ce que ça fait du bien de pouvoir les enchaîner comme ça. C’est un vrai plaisir de suivre les aventures de Lele, de la voir évoluer comme ça. Je prends énormément de plaisir à avancer dans cette série, retrouver les différents personnages mais aussi voyager! Parce que cette fois ci, c’est direction la Grande Pomme pour continuer de suivre Lele!
Dans ce sixième tome, Lele est signée par le PDG de DGM, Nick, et se rend donc à New York ! Une réception de bienvenue a lieu le soir même, mais la naïve Lele manque de peu d’y perdre sa virginité ! Au moment critique, c’est étonnamment Eros qui vient à son secours !
Et bien quel tome encore une fois! On n’a vraiment pas le temps de s’ennuyer avec notre chère Lele. Fraichement débarquée à New York, la pauvre va mal commencer son aventure américaine.. Son patron organise une fête en son honneur et finit par être complètement bourrée, ce qui aurait pu très mal se terminer pour elle d’ailleurs.. La pauvre a failli y perdre sa virginité en étant complètement saoule.. Mais heureusement Eros était là pour la sauver. C’est dingue comme finalement, il est toujours là au bon moment pour elle. Ça m’a fait plaisir de retrouver la Lele des débuts. Celle qui est maladroite, drôle malgré elle, qui se retrouve toujours dans des situations improbables et j’en passe. J’aime tellement le personnage d’Eros, je le soupçonne de ressentir quelque chose pour Lele au fond de lui, j’ai hâte de découvrir si je me trompe ou non dans les tomes suivants.
J’aime suivre l’évolution de la carrière de Lele, la suivre dans cette aventure dans le monde entier, la voir évoluer au fur et à mesure et surtout la voir grandir! J’ai vraiment hâte de me mettre à jour dans cette série et enchaîner la lecture des autres tomes en ma possession. J’ai trop hâte de voir à quel point elle peut encore évoluer, ce qu’elle va pouvoir avoir comme opportunité aussi et j’en passe. Impatiente de retrouver Eros et Angus aussi, ces deux frères me font tellement rire!
3.5* Le début des mésaventures de Lele à New York… L’autrice enchaîne les gags et incorpore quelques scènes plus profondes, ça donne vraiment un style old school.
Today I’m covering the work that always makes me feel motivated to work toward my goal. It’s actually the second one that I have such urge, another work is Skip beat! Whenever I read those works I am always full of first great emotions and secondly motivation to work harder. I’ll be reviewing Skip Beat very soon; I just need to organize myself as to how I review it. But let me get back to this story. It is my third time reading it, and actually it was Mars, that made me realize that I wanted to reread it. How so? Well, it was because in the similar manga section they had this one so I said: hey, why not reread and write a review too?”
As I have already mentioned I’ve read this story three times, and well, I was engrossed I it all three times. It didn’t matter that I knew what was going to happen, I was just savoring the moment of reading about my favoruite characters again. I loved all of them; some were plain idiots in some parts like Angus with his love for his brother and how he became a koala every time he hugged him. It’s hilarious! Lil is an amazing character; I really loved her from the bottom of my heart. I loved how she was strong one minute and fragile the next. And I just loved the banter between her and Eros (or Silver eyed monster as she called him). They are about 3 years part but Eros looks so much older wen he first appeared. And come on his hoboing style of life was just too fun to read about. The story starts on a good note, but as soon as it progresses, comes in the element of real life, that everything is not as happy as it can be, that there are also sad parts in our life.
As I have already mentioned I really loved Lil as a character. Life threw at her many problems, but she always came out strong. And that is one of the reason I loved her. She showed me that if you wanted something you had to fight for it. Would it be your career of your love. And trust me she fought to be acknowledged and loved. Another thing is with Eros. I knew that he looked at Lil differently from the time he her grandma, ad I was like looking forward for him to acknowledge his feelings. It was really fun watching how he was fussing around her, but wen he breaks he heart and he did that a number of time it makes your heart break into million of pieces. And when you actually look back and see that nearly all of the heart beaks were because of his brother you just can’t not take Lil’s side when she conforms the siblings about the truth. But well everything ends well, or relatively well, because all of the characters are left with scars and some have more visible than the others.
I remember when I first wanted to start this story I was quite reluctant, it’s about models and its quite long 18 volumes (110 chapters). I knew that modeling was not the easy job, or I heart it was so, but after reading this story I started looking at models a but differently, mostly it was because of Lil, because she was feisty and she didn’t want to be one in the very beginning, but when she started she gave her all to her work, ad you just want to admire her. It’s not easy to make the picture look animated, but when I was looking at Lil cat walk I actually could see how she walked. And it was breathtaking.
Well, I guess I’ve been taking quite a lot, but with such an intense story there’s so much t talk about. Are you ready to get lost in the model world? But don’t forget that it won’t be just parties and fame. You’ll see how the models need to work to achieve their dreams, and there will be some secrets that will make your mid go crazy. Enjoy it to its fullest and don’t forget to share your thoughts below! Stay tuned for more reviews as well as promos. Don’t miss your next favoruite book or manga! Happy reading!
i don;t really like Lele's character as much as Kyoko's from Skip Beat, but when Lele's focussed, I might like her a little bit. Her embarrassing moments are really quite funny!