NB: I haven't read the manga or watched the anime so this review is solely based on the drama.

Just like the drama's title says Rokuhodo is a colourful place where you spend colourful time surrounded by colourful people eating colourful food. Everyone is nice and the problems are not really problems but sligh, very very slight miscommunications blown out of proportions solved over a tasty colourful meal.

Rokuhodo Colorful Days is a story of a café restaurant ran by a group of four men. Each has its distinctive character and a difficult backstory and are brought together by Sui, the owner, who is so saintly good and kind. Actually, everyone in this drama is so good and kind! And that's why I had a huge problem with this drama. I am a cynic and have trouble believing that good intentions are just that and that there is nothing but kindness and willingness to help behind them. So as I was watching Sui on his quest, I was waiting for the moment the shoe will drop and we'd get to see the real reasons behind everyone's action. To my great surprise, that moment never came! But there were a few stories my cynical head had a lot of trouble wrapping itself around.
There are four men living and working together, they appreciate each other very very very very much and they are friends. Only friends?!? They have great chemistry together! Then, there is the second pastry chef, so fake laughing out loud and jumping around all the time, never serious but that is just a mask he hides behind which is obvious. He was weird to begin with especially when we found out he was friends (another friendship?!?!? Allow me to doubt!) with the café owners twin brother and manipulating the two of them! And then there was the fake italian barista covered in muscle, who picks up stray teens in park and takes them off the wrong path. It is so weird to see that in today's society which is full of suspicion and scary people roaming around.

This drama mainly teaches us that it is important to communicate and tell people where the problems lay! Oh how I wish real life was like that!

The actors were perfectly cast: everyone of them looks exactly like their character. Kudos to the casting director for finding two actors so alike to play the twins! Impressive! Music was just your usual fare, nothing remarkable and the cinematography was all in muted tones, very agreeable to watch! And of course, the cooking was just mouthwatering. And speaking of which, why do they take such huge spoonfuls of food?

Everything is nice and lovely, people are good and there is never a real problem that a tiny chat cannot resolve. The drama is light and fluffy(and I am a sucker for the fluff well made!) and still I has so much trouble watching it! Franky, I think I was ill at ease with so much saintly goodness which made it unbelievable and since it is a slice of life drama, all of it just felt unreal and wrong.

Watch it for the lightnes, optimism and fluff. I'd say it is a make believe slice of life.