30th Jun 2008
Let Dai 13
Rating: ♦♦♦♦♦
Oh, hell. I should know better than to read a volume of this series at work. There’s always something that hits me and hits me hard. This time, it was Naru being the one to hold his father’s hand in the hospital bed as he was dying. Then later, going out to get a tattoo to commemorate his loss.
This is most likely more than you all needed to know about me, but I was holding my father’s hand when he died in his hospital bed and I have a set of dancing skeletons inked on my leg in his memory. Reading that scene brought it all back to me. The smell of the hospital, my family crying all around me and the nurse, helpless to do anything but let him go. My brother was fifteen at the time, so I kept picturing his face over Naru’s. Okay. Sorry for the trip into too-much-information theater. We will now return to your regulary scheduled review.
Jaehee and Dai keep breaking my heart. Dai is pushing Jaehee away until Jaehee runs afoul of a new gang that has been terrorizing the school. After Dai comes in to find Jaehee being beaten bloody by this new gang, his concern for him is enough to make him ignore his father’s warnings and come to Jaehee’s rescue.
I turn into a twittering fangirl when it comes to Jaehee and Dai’s relationship. There is so much angst, and pure affection to temper the angst, that I seriously melt into a puddle of fangirl goo when I read about them.
A friend of mine went out and bought a subscription to NetComics so that she could read the last two volumes online. While I’m tempted to do that, I’m sort of enjoying torturing myself with the wait. What can I say? I guess I’m just a masochist at heart. I just love it so much when I get home from work to find a package with the next volume of Let Dai waiting for me. I hoard the book until Sunday when I have some time to fully sit and enjoy it.
This series is going to break my heart. I’ve come to accept this fact. But, after this many volumes, I think I’m almost looking forward to it.
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