A review by yuusasih
はぴまり~Happy Marriage!?~ (1) by Maki Enjōji

3.0

This rating and review are for the completed volumes.

The plot is pretty much your ordinary "forced/arranged marriage with hate to love couple" trope. The characters are not significant and pretty much stay true to the trope--and drama. Several earlier volumes are boring, but once they finally admitted that they love each other, the plot is getting more interesting, because instead of "misunderstanding drama", the plot moved forward to "how we solve this and that problem as a married couple", which for me is quite nice and realistic.

My favorite character is Hokuto, because despite his indifferent (earlier) attitude towards Chiwa and despite him going along with the arranged marriage for gaining position on top of Mamiya Group, he's wholeheartedly loyal to Chiwa, even tried his best to "act" like how husband supposed to be. He could be a jerk character who had many affairs with other women or simply ignoring Chiwa, since he didn't love her in the beginning, anyway, but no, he's so attentive to her and really tried to make her happy. Kudos for that!