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 youngadult male who has been perpetually depressed since his first girlfriend broke up with him--for reasons that she never explained.

Youko, the girl who broke his heart all those years ago, but now finds herself homeless and regretful.

Ichika, a beautiful woman that Minori just met, but who has had terrible taste in men and is coming off an abusive relationship.

Over the course of the story those three meet, they live together, they fight, they drift apart, they drift back together, they become friends, and they become lovers.

There are hardly any side characters of note in the manga, at least none with a lot of screen time, so your opinion of Honeymoon Salad will entirely depend on your view of those three characters.

If you generally like all three of them, and want to root for them despite their flaws, then you'll probably think that Honeymoon Salad is a refreshingly different take on love and romance.

If, like me, you wanted to like all three characters, but found them all annoying at times... then you'll probably end up appreciating what the manga does, but wishing that it were just a bit better.

If those three characters sound like depressing jerks that you want nothing to do with, then go find a different manga.

As for other issues: the pacing of the story is pretty good; the artwork is fine, though I didn't find any of the characters especially attractive looking; the ending is a bit surprising, and a bit abrupt, but works well enough. And as for enjoyment... it's not a series that will make you laugh, and it will make you feel a bit uncomfortable at times. At it's best, it's a series that will make you think and feel--though how much will depend on your ability to relate to the three main characters.