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夜ノ井月彦の幸せな地獄 [Yonoi Tsukihiko no Shiawase na Jigoku] #2
Yonoi Tsukihiko's Happy Hell 2
In this josei romantic comedy manga, marriage comes before love for a pair of total opposites!
For the sake of her family’s farm, Hanabata Mikan has been arranged to marry the heir of a food and holdings company, Yonoi Tsukihiko. Mikan refuses, saying she already has a man she loves, only for Tsukihiko to laugh in her face! He finds romance and love unnecessary and has no intentions of changing his views. But Mikan can’t get married to a man who doesn’t believe in love…right? Is this pair doomed to rot, or can a love ripen between two total opposites?
For the sake of her family’s farm, Hanabata Mikan has been arranged to marry the heir of a food and holdings company, Yonoi Tsukihiko. Mikan refuses, saying she already has a man she loves, only for Tsukihiko to laugh in her face! He finds romance and love unnecessary and has no intentions of changing his views. But Mikan can’t get married to a man who doesn’t believe in love…right? Is this pair doomed to rot, or can a love ripen between two total opposites?
167 pages, Paperback
Published April 1, 2025
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August 29, 2025
This review stands for both volumes 1 and 2, which I read back-to-back this afternoon. This is a fun, frothy, lightly horny story about two scions--one of a wealthy farm, one of a food manufacturer--who are de facto, if not in actual form, arranged to be married by their respective grandfathers.
Mikan is emotionally straightforward and rather naïve about love. Tsukihiko plays at being a hard-hearted man of the world, but it takes about forty seconds for him to be blushing in Mikan's presence while insisting he isn't in love. Various misunderstandings ensue, mainly when Mikan is tipsy or (sigh) drugged by Tsukihiko's cousin, who has a history of trying to steal what's (or who is) his.
It's evident that the main couple have more in common than their personalities might indicate. Mikan has a discerning palate, as we see in a couple of scenes. I suspect that her natural talent will make her useful to Tsukihiko's business division, and he'll also see she isn't just an earnest bubblehead. My foodie-manga antennae twitched in those scenes, and I'm hoping a mutual love for good food ends up being part of what seals the deal, over and above their chemistry.
The storytelling, story, and art are pretty good here. Mikan is very cute and I feel for her whenever her puppy-dog's heart gets hurt by Tsukihiko's blunders that come of him never having actually been in love (of course).
It's evident that the only thing that's standing between our couple is their both being sober enough, at the same time, to fall into bed with each other and actually remember it. At no point are either of them deliberately drinking to avoid their feelings, as far as I can tell, but it's a little troubling how consistently the bottle is a factor in individual episodes.
This is quick reading, along the lines of a middle-grade manga: few words, lots of empty space on the pages. In some titles, this can add to atmosphere and emotion--as in, i.e. I See Your Face, Turned Away--but I don't sense that effect happening here. The whole thing could stand to be more heavy-hitting or complex on some level, whether the politicking, the main relationship, or something else. Drinking, sex and the working world don't make for a convincing adult story all by themselves.
Mikan is emotionally straightforward and rather naïve about love. Tsukihiko plays at being a hard-hearted man of the world, but it takes about forty seconds for him to be blushing in Mikan's presence while insisting he isn't in love. Various misunderstandings ensue, mainly when Mikan is tipsy or (sigh) drugged by Tsukihiko's cousin, who has a history of trying to steal what's (or who is) his.
It's evident that the main couple have more in common than their personalities might indicate. Mikan has a discerning palate, as we see in a couple of scenes. I suspect that her natural talent will make her useful to Tsukihiko's business division, and he'll also see she isn't just an earnest bubblehead. My foodie-manga antennae twitched in those scenes, and I'm hoping a mutual love for good food ends up being part of what seals the deal, over and above their chemistry.
The storytelling, story, and art are pretty good here. Mikan is very cute and I feel for her whenever her puppy-dog's heart gets hurt by Tsukihiko's blunders that come of him never having actually been in love (of course).
It's evident that the only thing that's standing between our couple is their both being sober enough, at the same time, to fall into bed with each other and actually remember it. At no point are either of them deliberately drinking to avoid their feelings, as far as I can tell, but it's a little troubling how consistently the bottle is a factor in individual episodes.
This is quick reading, along the lines of a middle-grade manga: few words, lots of empty space on the pages. In some titles, this can add to atmosphere and emotion--as in, i.e. I See Your Face, Turned Away--but I don't sense that effect happening here. The whole thing could stand to be more heavy-hitting or complex on some level, whether the politicking, the main relationship, or something else. Drinking, sex and the working world don't make for a convincing adult story all by themselves.
June 20, 2025
That volume was sooo rushed.
June 26, 2025
I love this series.
Yonoi is so infuriating and at the same time the most handsome. I completely understand Mikan.
After this volume their relationship is more heart warming than ever. I really want to see Tsukihiko crazy in love with Mikan.
Yonoi is so infuriating and at the same time the most handsome. I completely understand Mikan.
After this volume their relationship is more heart warming than ever. I really want to see Tsukihiko crazy in love with Mikan.
April 30, 2025
mikan is sooooooooooo pretty and cute and sweet and silly I LOVE HER
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