Honeymoon Salad is a Seinen romantic drama about three broken people finding friendship and love in each other, and using those relationships to prop themselves up. It's pretty unique, avoiding both the prolonged melodrama of some seinen romances (e.g. Suzuka), but also not indulging in the comic relief or "light-hearted moments" that punctuate many others (e.g. Ai Yori Aoshi or Toshiue no Hito).
The result is serious, sometimes heavy-handed, and mostly realistic portrayal of these three characters (realistic except for the general lack of jealousy that one would usually expect, and also for the ending... for reasons that I won't go into here):
Minori, a young
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 Alternative TitlesJapanese: ハネムーンサラダ InformationType: Manga
Volumes: 5
Chapters: 41
Status: Finished
Published: Oct 8, 1999 to Dec 28, 2001
Demographic:
Seinen
Serialization:
Young Animal Authors:
Ninomiya, Hikaru (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #76302 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #4023
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Aug 29, 2012
Is it harder to be the one getting dumped? Or is it harder to be the one whos dumping the other person.
These are the words our male protagonist Minori thinks about, but wishes to get out his head. After ending a relationship 10 years ago with the girl whom he sincerely loved he is working an average job, randomly one day he meets a girl accidentally and the girl rips his suit. She apologizes and soon enough they end up having sex, and he learns a bit about her past and how she got dumped as well, Minori soon comes to love this girl ... 
May 22, 2023
Honeymoon Salad is a solid read - a tonally distinct poly-romance that assumes a melancholic, down-beat mood that is occasionally penetrated by brief rays of sunshine that reveals itself as our three leads find solace in each other's prescence. The mangaka concludes with a brief note, essentially commenting on what the text means to her - and she summarises it by stating that it's about being comfortable in one's own skin, simply being yourself as opposed to hiding behind a facade to impress others or compromising on what one wants in order to avoid being a burden to someone you love, as those loved ones
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Jan 26, 2021
While the story does support a poly relationship set up and it does seem like a threesome between the three main characters would happen, it doesn't. There are no threesomes.
That said, this story is more interested in talking about the introspective guilt and regret that we feel when in relationships. One girl regrets her past and how her relationship with Minori ended, while the other girl feels guilt about finding happiness in life. I think their characters are very interesting but are not allowed the time for them to fully blossom. However, that doesn't really matter because Minori is the fucking worst. Minori is such ... 
May 27, 2019
tl;dr: A manga about relationships that despite being serious doesn't really have much development, but is still casually enjoyable.
This manga has an interesting concept for a love triangle in theory, but the characters and their stories didn't mesh as well as they needed to for it to work well in execution. The chemistry felt off and the arc of each individual character felt somewhat shallow. It starts off moving at reasonable pace, though feeling quite dreary while doing so, but then transitions to a much slower pace where it feels more relaxed in a melancholy sort of way. That's not a bad thing though, because it does ... |
