Good Morning Call (2016)

Good Morning Call is like a more laid-back, sweet, and realistic version of Mischievous Kiss: Love in Tokyo. The two are similar in story, as both feature leads who, by some odd circumstances, have to live in the same house.

In the case of Good Morning Call, Uehara and Yoshikawa were victims of a contract scam and are forced to live in the same apartment--alone. Of course, they don't get along at all at first, but they gradually start to get used to each other, and their companionship turns into something more.

Uehara and Yoshikawa are your typical cool-guy-and-clumsy-girl pair, but I love how their characters aren't overdone. Uehara can be cold at times, but he becomes more open and shows his vulnerability at some points. Yoshikawa is a klutz, but she's a great cook and she has a lot of heart. I loved their dynamics so much, and I shipped them from episode 1. The actors had so much chemistry, and I believed in their relationship.

Aside from ship-py feels, Good Morning Call is an excellent show to get some laughs from. The humor wasn't forced at all, and I found myself laughing out loud really often. The side characters were also fabulous, and each had their own entertaining personalities. Everyone brought something to the story.

Overall, if you're looking for a show that will make you swoon and laugh, please do give Good Morning Call a try.

Leia Mais

Story: 8.5
I enjoyed the story completely. Based on a manga, this talks about two people are forced to room together, and slowly fall in love. Though it's cliche as it is, I think it handles itself very well. Do I think the last couple of episodes were necessary? Not completely, but I did enjoy them noneless. It's’ not a long drama, with only 17 episodes, but sometimes you wish to see more.

Acting/Casting: 10.0
As far as casting goes, this one is very well casted in the female lead as well as the male lead. Both could portray the emotions needed in the circumstances. I think this drama especially showed Fukuhara Haruka to play the complicated emotions of masking someone’s sadness in the eyes of others until alone. She did a wonderful job, and I don’t think I could find someone else to play her as well as she did.

Music: 9.0
The music matched well with the drama or rather the lack of music at points. It set the mood for the future parts of the episodes, and made some scenes funner, at least for me. Though some of the tones where just a little high pitched for me, but that is completely objective.

Rewatch Value: 8.5
I think like every teen drama this is completely one of those one that most people decided if they like or not in order to rewatch. Unlike some that you may love on the first time, but hate the second, this one can withstand years of viewing. So for this the rewatch value I think would be high as compared to other teen dramas.

Leia Mais

this was the first show that i watched that was Japanese. like not animated though. but after realizing how this drama went i feel like there was no actual plot line to it. like Nao just chased after Uhehara. this show does make me feel like wanting to move out and have a house of my own. there is barely any action in this drama. there is some romance but this romance is really cringey. Nao is the one that makes it really cringe worthy. like she says the most stupidest things and makes the most weirdest faces when she is talking to Uhehara. i don't like how she jut drifts off into her own land. it really just sucks. i really recommend NOT watching this drama. it will make you bored especially in the middle.

Leia Mais

campy highschool love

What's lovable about this series is the female lead. Overall, an endearing story.

Young, innocent, clean, high-school-love, type rom-com. A more simple or mellow series.

I didn't love the attitude of the male lead's character at times. It was hard to want to like him and root for him a lot of the time because he's just plain selfish and emotionally constipated -- and he doesn't really arc that much. Honestly, the guy was boring. I don't remember his character being that way in the comics though. I also felt they over-exaggerated the female lead at times; it got downright silly and was not fair to her character overall.

They really love to make the female leads act stupid in shows like this -- and it's bothersome. The same for the male lead, the over-exaggeration of his "coolness" (insert snort of laughter) just made him seem like an obnoxious snot. Again, campy. It had its moments though. Very tween. Highly rated because it was clean.

Leia Mais

Adapted from a shojou manga with the same name, Good Morning Call is a story about cohabitation between two students due to the fact that the female lead was cheated on by a housing company when she found out that the apartment she rented was actually already rented by the male lead. This plot for this drama isn't entirely new and there are numerous adaptations with regards to this plotline but I was entertained. The leads had chemistry no doubt and a JDorama being a JDorama, the characters were rowdy and manga-like. This was my first JDorama in a long time and I'm glad I discovered this.

Leia Mais

A Great Drama, Especially If You're Starting Out!

It's been over two years since I first watched this show, and it remains one of my favorite shows I've ever watched. It was the first drama I tried and I fell in love straight away. I thought the initial set-up— Uehara and Nao being tricked into renting the same apartment and thus being forced to live together— was campy and funny, and it set up for some great humor as the show went on. The situation was just absurd enough to be funny, but handled very well throughout the story.

I liked Nao a lot as a main character, though sometimes her passiveness and her lack of communication frustrated me. Still, as a teenage girl entering into her first relationship, it was realistic and I was always on her side. And even though Uehara wasn't my favorite of her potential love interests, he was a really good character to follow. I enjoyed him more and more as we got to know him and his own life situation over the course of the series.

I liked Nao's friends a lot, as well! Marina was funny as hell, and Mitchan was sweet and funny. Their relationship was a cute side plot.

I did end up liking both of the secondary love interests more than the main love interest. I especially loved Daichi— that scene where he hugged Nao in the rain grabbed me by the heart and made me almost cry! I wanted her to just be with him so badly. Issei was also a really great love interest, and I appreciated how different he was from both Uehara and Daichi. It would have been really easy to make him a Daichi 2.0, but he stood on his own and would have been well-suited for Nao, I think.

I have such fond memories from watching this show. Specifically, coming home late at night from work and thinking, "At least I have time to watch Good Morning Call before bed!!" It was truly a bright spot in my daily life as I watched, and I will definitely be watching again.

Leia Mais

Good Morning Call is a very quirky drama with bad storyline. The story about boy and girl starting to live together and hiding it to the people from school is very lame and old. There aren’t many plot twists or at least surprising ones in the story. The characters are also very boring and badly written.

But then why do I like this drama and why am I still watching it after 4 years of release? What's my reason to give this drama a good rating? Well, my answer is very simple... it's funny.

The reason I love this drama is that it always make my laugh even though I have watched it at least 10 times. The story and the characters are so bad that they make me laugh. This drama always makes me feel very cringey and ashamed, but would it be a good drama if it didn't evoke any emotion in me. NO. This drama might not be the best and it actually is unbelievable awful, but somehow it's still enjoyable. This is the drama I watch when I don't really have time to watch any other dramas because I'm doing something else at the same time so it spins in the background and I can laugh at its stupid scenes while cleaning or cooking.

There's also one thing that attracts me, Sakurada's character Daichi. I'm so obsessed with this character who is too friendly and thoughtful to others. He is the childhood friend who has fallen in love with the protagonist since he was a child, but has only received friendship. I feel so bad for him in every episode and that's why I just wanna protect him at all costs. He just deserves so much better!

Also I have to mention that the acting is good. Having both Sakurada Dori and Fukuhara Haruka in this drama is a really good bet because they make this drama twice as good as it really is. Their acting together is delightful to watch.

Leia Mais

ML is very cold it was hard to get past that

8/10 is my rating. This is a 2016/2017 Japanese television drama spanning 2 seasons and 27 episodes (17 in the 1st season and 10 in the second season).
Each episode is about 48 minutes long.
Nao Yoshikawa (Haruka Fukuhara) is a teenage girl who is allowed to rent and stay in her own apartment so she can finish up school in the city. She rents a, too good to be true, apartment only to find out that she has been scammed. Another teenager, Hisashi Uehara (Shunya Shiraisha) has been rented the same apartment and both think the apartment is theirs. They quickly realize what has happened and that neither can afford the apartment on their own so they agree to share. Hisashi is the school heartthrob and has all kinds of conditions – pretty much pretend you don't know me at school. They also have to hide their living arrangements from basically everyone. Over time they develop feelings for each other.

Spoiler ? I liked this but was really disappointed that the male lead's character never really showed an evolution or a reveal that this gruff, arrogant exterior was only a front. It still felt like, even at the end, an unbalanced love. Despite that I did still really like it. It's just it felt like there were so many other better choices in life journey partner she could have made. I know those kind of relationships can work in reality (in a sense) but the one who loves more always winds up, through time, carrying just a tiny bit of heartbreak. So that was a bit disappointing. I wanted to see him madly in love with her and just never really got that.

Leia Mais

Very Immature/characters overact on a big scale

This review is being written after 2 attempts at watching this series. In truth I forgot about it. It popped up again so I was like ‘hmm, let’s give a shot.” After 5 minutes I realized why I didn’t finish it the first time. From a mature persons perspective it’s terrible. From a teen perspective it may be cute. But alas, I’m not a teen and found it to be a train wreck. It was like one of those Disney teen shows, where teens are unsupervised in a home, the characters overreact and assume things out of thin air and also do ridiculous things that have you (the mature person) questioning the persons mental competency (like should she be left alone without supervision.)

While the overall concept/plot of the series was great the presentation of it left something to be desired. I made it through about 4 episodes before skipping to the end (TWICE).

Big fail for me!!!

Leia Mais

You've seen it before. Solid B, maybe B-

It's not a new concept but they do it pretty well. Do not act like the leads. In real life no one enjoys people who act like this. There is cool sexy aloof and there is the 'i ate paint as a child' aloof and i never figured out which the ML was. I learned to love the FL. She grew on me and i was happy to see her develop into something that was not a parody. But good god the beginning...so annoying. Maybe i was depressed and had to much free time or something. By the time season two came out i was done. I have to say though in the few episodes i did watch Nao seemed to have grown up a lot.

Leia Mais

Pretty dry...

I watched this quite a few years ago, so take this with a grain of salt.

I really had to push myself to finish this show. It's your classic boy and girl live together and date but doesn't tell anyone. It's not very special. Personally, I watched for the character interactions since the plot was pretty empty, but even then it got boring. I think the only thing I really enjoyed was Uehara's family subplot.

Looking back, I think the love was pretty toxic. Uehara is a douche to Nao, but Nao always remained positive. When I watched this, I was very impressionable and this romance has definitely impacted how I act. I absorbed Nao's personality because I thought it was cute how she always gave to people and made them happy, but I realise it's not cute as Nao caused many problems in the show.

Overall, watch this if you have nothing else to watch.

Leia Mais

Bleh

Good Morning Call is average/mediocre.

It started off and all I could think of was Itazura na Kiss. First it was Uehara not accepting an invitation, then it was them living in the same apartment. Even his demeanour and the fact that he was so cold just reminded me of Ire-kun.

The production quality was very low, but because the story was a bit lame it didn't really matter. The lighting was poor and made the show feel more dismal than it would be otherwise. It was filmed in 2016, yet it looked like it was filmed in 2006.

I really don't have many thoughts for this show. It was easy enough to watch and did just follow the everyday life of a high school couple who lived together.

Towards the end it was predictable when Uehara went to get Nao's key. The very ending was not exciting as they ended up just living next door to each other. Really, how is this going to be any different to what their situation was before?

I wouldn't watch this again.

-E

Leia Mais