Let Dai

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: 15

Chapters: 75

Status: Finished

Published: 1995 to 2005

Genres: Boys Love, Drama

Themes: Delinquents, Psychological, School

Serialization: Wink

Authors: Won, Soo-yeon (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.11¹ (scored by 2,701 users)

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Ranked: #566²

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Popularity: #2278

Members: 9,595

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Ranked #566Popularity #2278Members 9,595

ManhwaWinkWon, Soo-yeon (Story & Art)

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Volumes: /15

Chapters: /75

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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.

(Source: Netcomics)

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Lee, Dai

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Yoo, Jaehee

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Song, Eunhyung

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Hagi, Naru

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Song, Yooneun

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Oct 18, 2021

mizzg

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I absolutely hated the 2 main characters in this story. For their selfishness, for their lack of basic empathy towards other people, for their stubborn insistence in obsession disguised as "some wholesome otherworldly love". But the thing is, I also loved them for the exact same reasons. I just couldn't forget them even a couple days after finishing the whole thing, they're perharps not meant to be loved or admired but they still are? Someway?

- Jaehee for how he loves violence and forgives all evil aspects of Dai but still insists in playing the good boy, good friend while being extremely hypocritical. For how he ... goes to his (traumatized) ex-girlfriend and childhood friend and tell her she needs to put on a fake smile and pretend like nothing happened to her so he can feel good about himself for dating a f* criminal without much guilt.

- Dai for how he represents a lot of guys that exist in real life, who hide behind their rich and influencial families to wipe their asses everytime they do absolutely nothing but make life hard for everyone around them, how he questions the "system" but nothing he truly does stands out of this system, he simply chooses to commit crimes and be violent and unproductive, and call himself revolutionary. He is a real villain, and to see a character being unapologetic like this and having the story be told under the point of view of someone (also unapologeticly) in love with a character like this... Now THAT was a revolutionary thing.

- A mention of honor for Eunhyung, for I cared about this character from chapter 1 till she leaves us. I cried and got nervous for her, I hated Dai and Jaehee with all my might for her and I feel like her tragedy truly makes up for protagonist material. The heartbreak was real for this one.

Let Dai was a very gloomy and hard to read story for me. I didn't see it as romance, for I couldn't root for the main couple to be together or happy at all. I truly wished them hell LMAO. But as hurtful as it was, it was beautiful. Everytime I'd want to tear my hair seeing Jaehees almost pathological attachment to Dai or Dai's complete lack of true caring for Jaehee but ridiculous possessitiviy, I also had a really weird warm feeling of admiration. Their chaos was so, so ugly, it actually had beauty in it...

Now, about the ending, I gotta admit that it feels a little like the author kinda of abandoned the story.

Overall, the manhwa is really worthy reading, the plot and characters will pull you into the hollercoaster of feeling along with them, you will suffer, you will question and admire things and have a heartwrenching feeling all throughout the story.

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Jun 2, 2020

Cindy-Uchiha

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Story:
This is a story about subjectiveness, about the different views of different people.

The toxicity is what makes this story great due to it being realistic. And while romanticized toxicity will make you frown in disgust, realistic toxicity will ironically deliver goosebumps because you can't help but find it beautiful through the eyes of the characters.

This manga is also a great study of humanity and society. How do we behave towards something unknown, something shunned by your surrounding which has been brainwashed? Love, friendship, family, homosexuality, misunderstandings, illness, rape, suicide.
So many sides of society are shown, so many kinds of people are introduced.
How should ...

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Apr 11, 2022

sparkle_sparkle

Not Recommended

I don't understand why this is viewed as a praiseworthy manga. It felt like a shallow story that was trying to be something more. I thoroughly enjoyed the bits of poetry / diary-like entries, but at the same time I feel like it was trying to add depth to these characters and plots that just were too poorly done to be saved. Everyone was so over the top and unrelatable. I hated almost everyone and every plot line that was introduced. By volume ten or so I was just desperate for it to be over and honestly didn't care what happened to who. Perhaps some ...

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