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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Oi Oi
Lysian
06/24/08 22:59
Oi, still no new chapter >.> I feel cheated now, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
THIS BOOK SERIES IS THE BEST I HAVE EVER READ I WILL BE HARD PRESSED TO FIND A BETTER STORY LINE AS WELL AS ART.I JUST LOVE THE REALNESS IN THE TELLING OF THE STORY.I AM SADDLY AWAITINTG THE LAST CHAPTER(ALTHOUGH EAGERLY WAITING TO READ THE ENDING.I AM NOT WANTING IT TO END.)AT LEAST I CAN READ IT OVER AND OVER AGAIN WHEN I WANT TO.
I think this time Dai doesn't care anymore what his father thinks. When Jaehee messaged him, he was really going to rush to see him. And we know if he plans to do that, no one can stop him. I just hope that when Jaehee's phone dropping like that is not a premonition again of something bad. There's an asian saying about premonition, like something breaking, like a picture, a glass or something. Its a warning, a sign of something bad to come. Like why people put a cover on mirrors when someone in the household dies. Why dogs howl at night. I just hope this isn't one of them. They already been through a lot. And its priceless to see the great Dai cry.
I hope when Dai said he wasn't ever coming back he just meant to his father. Or if he does leave he will take Jaehee with him! If that is the message he left I hope Jaehee's mom still tries to be supportive and doesn't delete it. But who knows it kinda takes away a parents faith in someone when their kid almost dies in their care. Maybe she will remember how he was last time Dai and Jaehee were seperated and just let him be with Dai.
Loved this chapter it mainley focused on the 2 main characters (which I loved), but the next chapter will be the last. Although it is a good thing it's also sad because this story has grown on me so much, but still I look forward to it.
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