People who read Playtime with Hakdo

TakerusWaifu

Fluff... too liberated

bea

i love the works from this author smmm!
although i felt it got a little slow at the end im glad they’re happy :,)
also i wish sanghos ex got w that bartender TT

Taki-kun

It's not my cup of tea, the art style isn't for me and i don't vibe with the comment section and reviews on the site i read it, so that ruined it a bit for me too.

Azeraus

wish there was more on the brother but it's a college romance kinda with a guy who has a lot of exes

Your majesty

Reread

she-deville

Divertido, pareja switch, fuera del molde

UnknownGirly

honestly rlly boring

Kisses

This was very interesting

ginger ale

interesting

Nihankeiky

I finally finished this one after being in my reading list for so long. I love the art style. Characters are cute and chibis. I love how unpredictable it is and unable to stop to know what will happen. It is not problematic aside from the sunbae who's I don't have anything good to say. Sangho's brother is the best for being so understanding too bad he's married ༎‿༎ it may not be included in everyone's favorite list but still a good story 8.9/10

aishaloves

wholesome, non-problematic, switch, banger couple

HEARTforBL'S

It's so random HAHA

Nasra

Karı gibi giyiniyo ve artstye is shit

terri

LOVE LOVE SWITC

kyu

probs one of my favorite bls to exist ever!! put off on reading it for sooo longg but finally when i did read it i wished i had read it sooner lol

cirruslawyer

idk I dont get the hype

hatdiggitydog

this was kinda sad to me but also very well written and interesting. i like how the characters are emotionally mature and their dynamic is really nice and not your typical friends with benefits. the smut is also fucking hot probably my fav ever switch story i'm sad it ended so quick

Noisee

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wishOtherwise

That's actually so cute. I really like how they explored liking multiple people at the same time. I thought the mutual exes thing would be more relevant but it ended up being just a background for the story. My only dislike is how they accidentally answered the brother's call.

chlorine

After I was done with this I sat on it for a few hours, unsure of how I felt, and as I wracked my mind around my shifting emotions it all settled—this story was great.

The water-downed version of the plot is that Sangho and Hakdo agree to be sex buddies, trying out kinks with each other that they've been curious about as they both get over previous relationships. While I want to preface this by saying it's not a complaint, I didn't really care too much about it, I did find it kind of funny that the plot was set up to be about kink exploration between the two when really most of their sex scenes were pretty . . . Plain. Not necessarily vanilla but it wasn't ever kinky either. I just wanted to get that straight out of the way.

One thing I liked a lot about this story is that despite the plot setting up multiple characters fighting for the others affection, it never felt like a love triangle or a love square. With Sangho, he had a previous boyfriend show up again after abandoning him, trying to restart what he broke off. With Hakdo, he had an unrequited crush on his (assumedly straight) best friend. With both of them, you knew nothing would happen. Sangho had become too jaded over the way his ex broke up with him to ever date him again, and Hakdo's best friend had a girlfriend. I definitely preferred Hakdo's sideplot with his crush since Sangho's ex was just the most insufferable little cunt. Genuinely couldn't stand him. But Hakdo's plot also had a lot of tenderly done scenes, scenes that felt "real." A lot of gay men, especially during their youth, have the experience he had and I found it incredibly realistic. There was a scene near the end where Hakdo's best friend ended up leaving the country with his girlfriend, and Hakdo is lying in front of the tv and there's this soft glow illuminated on his face from the televisions hue, and it says outside of the panels something akin to "this really is goodbye." And there's just something about that that hit me really hard. This BL was really good with simply creating a mood.

But Hakdo and his best friend is exactly what I had been conflicted on, because at first I wasn't sure how I felt with the ending. To put it bluntly: Hakdo hadn't moved on from him. He's dating Sangho with only half a heart. Sangho says himself he's not sure if Hakdo will ever truly move on. And I can't really explain how I felt. It was bittersweet, and filled me with this certain sense of melancholy. And I didn't know if I liked the realism, or if I wanted the smoother hypothetical ending where Hakdo had moved on and was able to devote his heart fully and undividely to Sangho. As I thought about it more and let my thoughts simmer, I realized how much I loved it. This ending is what really made this story for me.

Your first love isn't something you can usually easily move on from, and for Hakdo it definitely won't be easy. It'd be a challenge, it'd be hard. But he's willing to try. He's willing to embrace the new feelings he has for someone else and let go of what he once had for his friend, and there's just something about that that's so beautiful to me. There's this sense of uncertainty, a question of whether or not Hakdo will be able to move on and really give his all to the relationship or if his heart will forever have that anchor on it, and I love that. It's bittersweet but it just feels so real, for lack of a better word.