Our Happy Hours is a convoluted romance drama that like another reviewer said reeks of sappiness usual in Korean soap operas and movies. The unrealistic and trite melodramatic details pile on high; The main character was raped, Yuu's brother commits suicide for him, Yuu admired the protagonist's music as a child and remembers her from back then. etc etc. For all of its long nonsensical ramblings on how precious life is, it sure skirts the issue. Yuu kills the man because he's a evil rich bastard; the mother and baby he pushed onto the tracks was simply an accident. He's really a good guy! The murderer is simply misunderstood and needs some love! Right?

Redemption is too easy and simple in this manga as they excuse away the moral conflict of the story. Imagine it playing out him truly intending on killing the mother and baby; and his counsel wasn't a beautiful young woman he's admired since childhood. Wouldn't that make a more compelling and complex piece? Instead we get a rehashed "tragic love" with preachy lines that are too neat and easy. The art by Sahara Mizu, as always, is excellent though.