Let Dai, Volume 05

Let Dai #5

by Sooyeon Won

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 passwion and unfathomable pain. From his brutal gang initiation to an unspeakable act commited 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.

Genres: Manga, Manhwa, Yaoi, Comics, LGBT, Tragedy, Graphic Novels

183 pages, Paperback

First published February 10, 2007

About the author

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.

Her zodiac sign is Aquarius and her blood type is A.

Reviews

[Lottie Eve · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 Stars...

I am seriously just fuming with anger toward Jaehee, and hatred toward Dai.
Jaehee, please consider the fact that Dai practically just stood there awhile he was the only one who could stop your ex-girlfriend from being raped. Stop being weak-willed and obsessive.
Dai, I will give you to 5 words that I rarely ever say: Please go burn in Hell.

And Eunhyung, well, her character makes me cry.

[Jain]

Dai's rich boy friends crash a really boring dinner he's having with Jaehee. Eunhyung's friends show signs of complexity and empathy.

[Daniel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Re-read. Not a lot of climax, but a lot going on in this volume. Important volume for Eunhyung, who's more sympathetic here than she often is.