Is this desire for freedom the very thing that entrapped us.
Let Dai is a tragic tale of forbidden love and unforgivable betrayal. Set in a soulless neo-Seoul ruled by young punks and pleasure seekers, an amoral teenager named Dai is the living embodiment of the city's beauty and cruelty. As the leader of the vicious Furies gang, Dai seduces everyone who lays eyes on him, only to blind them to his own barbaric nature. When an honest schoolboy named Jaehee rescues a beautiful girl from being mugged by the Furies, he can't possibly realize how this brief encounter will plunge him into a downward spiral of unbridled passion and unfathomable pain.
From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act committed against his girlfriend, Jaehee wavers uncomfortably between revulsion and fascination. And in Dai he finds a tender, caring friend one moment and a heartless sociopath the next, awakening strange and unhealthy desires in Jaehee that he could never before have imagined.
DAI
Dai's very existence proves that evil
is real. With his unpredictable and unreasonable violent behavior
and madness, Dai shows the Devil himself. He shows his dry and
empty inside through his encounter with Jaehee.
JAEHEE
Jaehee is just a normal high school
kid who buys a rose for his girlfriend on Valentine's Day until
he meets Dai. In the midst of pain and suffering Dai inflicts
on him, Jaehee is drawn to Dai through doubts and love.
YOONEUN
Yooneun is Eunhyung's older sister
who gets involved with Dai when she gets in trouble with the
Furies and saved by Jaehee. Having fallen in love with Jaehee,
Yooneun tries to bring Jaehee, who is drawn to Dai, back to
his innocent days.
EUNHYUNG
Eunhyung is Jaehee's girlfriend and
Yooneun's younger sister. She has a bright and cute personality,
but an assault by the Furies changes her life forever.
Sooyeon Won
D.O.B.: January 12 Constellation: Aquarius
Blood type: A Sooyeon Won is commonly acknowledged as the greatest shoujo (romance) artist in Korea. Since her debut in 1987, she has been creating comic books of extensive scope ranging from effervescent romance titles to dramas that speculate on human nature in its profundity. She's currently serially publishing Full House 2: Ally & Ryder's Second Story.
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2005 Full House Part II
2005 Let Dai: vol. 15: Final
2004 AZUR: Illustrations
2003 Elio & Yvette: Collector's Edition,
Want You vol. 1
2002~2003 Banana vol. 1~4
1995 Let Dai vol. 1,
Full House Vol. 1
1992 Humanoid E.O.
1990 A Beautiful Hunt
1988~1992 Have You Ever Seen The Rain,
Hammer Picnic,
A Man Too Good For You
1988 Dances of Time
1987 Against The Shadow One Afternoon
- Boys Next Door: Five-starred review
For all of my love of smut, Let Dai is the series that I most look forward to getting the next volume of. There's something about the characterization and the art that sucks you in and does not let you go.
The relationship between Dai and Jaehee starts to grow as Dai rents out a room in an exclusive hotel so he and Jaehee can have a private birthday dinner. There's something quite sad about Dai and his lonely birthday. Even Jaehee didn't know what was going on until Dai clued him in.
There's a slow simmer as the boys reveal the depth of their feelings for each other. Things are going well until an interloper crashes the party, shattering the perfect moment that the boys have found.
We've also got Eunhyung finally finding acceptance and the courage to face Dai, but her strength of will is shaken when Dai doesn't remember her, or what happened to her. There's also Dai's father working behind the scenes to find out more about Jaehee and making sure that none of this is going to effect his upcoming election.
I don't have enough words to describe the love I have for this series. If you haven't already fallen under its spell, it should definitely be on your must-buy list.
DAI is the leader of a gang called The Furies in neo-Seoul. A
schoolboy, Jaehee, happens on them taunting a girl and he steps
in to stop them. What happen next changes not only his life but
that of the girl and her sister as well as the devilishly
beautiful Dai. Naturally the gang turns on Jaehee for his
interference and he manages to escape their wrath, but only for
that day. Soon they catch him alone and proceed to beat and
torture him. And then a strange thing happens. The leader, Dai,
stops their activity and proceeds to surprise them by cutting
himself in the chest and forcing Jaehee to lick it. He then
kisses Jaehee and declares, "You are mine." Sort of vampiric,
don't you think?
The plot thickens as the lives are intertwined. The girl, Yooneun,
is enamored with Jaehee and her sister, she finds out later,
considers herself his boyfriend. Meanwhile, the bizarre ritual
and others that follow are slowly dragging Jaehee into Dai's
orbit. He is beginning to feel love for another boy and is
confused and intrigued. Nothing is black and white in this story.
Dai is not just a good looking bad boy. We learn about some of
the things that have harden him and why he demands much of
Jaehee.
This is a study in relations and perhaps will lead some to a
better understanding why one might turn to a homosexual
relationship, whether or not they even had considered it before.
We have yet to learn how deep the relationship will go but it has
hurt some and by the end of this chapter leads to betrayal.
The art is special in that it conveys the emotions very clearly.
The characters are distinct and special care is made to show Dai
as the enchanting person apart from the others. It is a very
serious story with some touch of humor to break the mood but
never distracts too much. It is a story you can immerse yourself
into very easily.
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(9.8)
Ahhhh
kathy123
07/06/08 11:28
How come we can never have a happy ending without all the stuff in between? %&#$ !
Something to let us know that they found each other would have been great...
I am really getting sick of these endings........
First- Click
Now this....I am really doubting I will read another
I loved this series, even through all of it's intense drama. (E's suicide really threw me off, I didn't feel right for days!) I have to admit that I hated the ending. I really wanted to see Jaehee reunited with Dai. This ending just seemed like an easy way to wrap up the story. I just felt very unfulfilled. I think it could have gone alot better. Even the chance of maybe seeing one of the photos Jaehee sent to Crangela, with Jaehee and Dai together in it, just to know that they found eachother? Overall the series was very deep and sad, and just plain great!
I loved the series as a whole, although there were a lot of parts that I skipped, especially the side characters' stories.
I would have preferred to see them finally be together at the end. I want to see their reunion so badly. I also want to see Jaehee's mom and Dai's interaction. I feel like there should be one more volume to this.
I love this story and am really sad to see it end. I thought that the cabin scene was really on time and thought that even though he said he wasn't the guy in the mask really was Dai. Why would a stranger that said he was jealous of you want to hug you,can't be any other reason. And that the letter Dai wrote to Jaehee was absolutely lovely. I don't think it was necessary to show them together because you know they are, but it would have been nice to see the pictures that the teacher has of Jaehee and his happy life in America, perhaps Dai would have been in one of them. The fact that Dai's brother is still with Yooeun kind of sucks because I felt her wishy washy trying to get you to turn your back on your brother whiny self didn't deserve him. I would have liked to know what had happened to Dai's parents beyond him running for another office. Perhaps when the novel comes to book form there might be some extra bonus story., that would so slick. Here's to December.
I just finished the last two chapters. I thought that whole bit with Crangela was a precious waste of time. I was irritated that Crangela was made out to be such a Mother Theresa type. True, she was never an evil woman; just nosy, self-righteous and over-opinionated. But, I can't recall seeing her do anything for the other students because she always seemed to be chasing after Dai. Truth be told, she was jocking his strap so bad I was sure that if Dai didn't hate her (and all women in general except his grandma), instead of being wrapped in that sleeping bag and beaten half to death, she would have been kneeling on it servicing his manhood. I suppose she was meant to be a really selfless character but she didn't come across that way to me. I kept waiting for her true intentions to be revealed. She just seemed too nice and too caring even when Dai hurled abusive language at her over and over again. I found it hard to believe that she would tolerate that if she wasn't trying to recreate a "Dawson's Creek moment". When Dai sent her the birthday card, I half wished he had included a nice, American cow pie in the envelope as well - it would have been fitting.
But, overall, I loved the way this series ended in chapter five. For once, Jaehee's monologue was appropriate and interesting (although it did remind me a lot of an episode of The Wonder Years). It would have been nice to end with him reading the letter rather than the quick look at everyone else (since I never cared about those characters in the earlier volumes; why would I care now?).
I'm glad it's over and, for the most part, I thought it was a lovely and fitting end.
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