Ranked #3388

Good Morning Call (Manga)

Cute and funny, Good Morning Call is a manga I'd recommend to any shoujo fan that is looking for a upbeat and lighthearted story to enjoy some time and laugh a little.

GMC is the story of Nao Yoshikawa, a 15 year old girl who stays behind in the city when her parents move to the countryside. Excited at the prospect of living alone for the first time, she soon encounters a problem: the apartment where she's going to live has also been rented to a boy, Hisashi Uehara who (of course) is one of the most popular guys at her school.

Unable to decide who should keep the apartment (and also faced with a raise in the rental fee), these two decide to become roomates, even though they have nothing in common and didn't even know each other until then. You can probably guess what happens next.

I really like the way this mangaka draws her characters, especially when they make silly expressions. The heroine in this is quite silly, but likeable, and her relationship with Uehara provides some really funny situations, most of them thanks to the fact that he is probably one of the least romantic and cheesy shoujo heroes ever.

The low point is probably the extension. Most readers might be put off by the lack of real plot in the second half of the series. Some volumes are actually full of fillers that, while funny, don't really bring that much to the story. read more

Wow... I'm not sure I've ever read such a mediocre manga before. =( I kept reading, thinking "OK any moment now, the girl is going to mature and stop being so dumb" or... "OK any moment now, the guy is going to transform and become warmer to her" but then before I knew it, I had hit volume 11 and that was it. There was NO CHARACTER DEVELOPMENT at all. AT ALL. Except for the fact that they liked each other, which seemed to be completely based off of teenage hormones and the fact that they lived together. There was never a moment of "Oh, she's actually not so bad because ______" or anything for Uehara.

Even the adults in this manga are total kids, like Yuri? "I wanna have an affair"??? Are you 10?

If you're looking for romance, don't bother with this one, it's more about school and slice of life than romance, I felt. There was hardly any development between the characters... I think that side couple, Mi(t)-chan and Marina was better off than the main couple.

So bottom line was: wow, I can't believe that was 11 volumes and I felt hardly anything happened. And Uehara should wipe that frown off his face, he's handsome except that frown just got really annoying.

They also never really had major problems, her parents never visited or anything, there was a lot more they could have done with this but they didn't. And the problems resolved themselves by the culprit COMING to them and confessing, I mean, wow, way to be undramatic there...

There was never any kira-kira, beautiful moments were it was like WOW, he really put himself out there for him, the whole manga was very mediocre and anti-climatic. The ending was very cliche as well, but whatever, happy happy joy joy.

I think the target audience for this manga is like... young teens probably, under age 15. I guess I'm a bit jaded and beyond that age, so I did not enjoy it at all. It was humorous at least, I'll give you that... and thus, I end on a positive note. ^^ read more