Good Morning Call

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I wouldn't say this story is the best, but it is a light story that shows a couple living together. People forget that stories aren't only created to see characters improve but some can show the stability in someone's life and development is not always necessary for every story. I personally liked the female and male leads. The guy was portrayed as a typical asshole, a popular guy that doesn't care about anything (but food lol) but unlike other mangas I have read, Hisashi's love for Nao is still evident through his coldness. I feel like other mangas tend to depict a cold love interest ... in a bad way and they end up being a toxic character that has heavy mood swings but Hisashi has good priorities and is pretty honest about how he feels. The FMC is a typical happy-go-lucky type but I would rather call her ignorant and simple-minded rather than stupid. Throughout the manga, I saw many comments about her being stupid but I think her feelings and actions were normal and although her bf was super popular she wouldn't get too jealous about surrounding girls. They both didn't let others interfere with their relationship. Overall, I enjoyed reading this manga to let time pass.

Skip the manga watch the drama.
spoilers for fans of the Drama.

I read this manga because of how much I loved the 2016 drama. I needed more of my Diachi. He's not even character was not even in the books. If You watched the show and just want some nice relaxing fluff manga then read this. If not, don't bother you are not missing much, its almost all in the show anyway, and better in the show.

The art in the first couple of books that were done in the nineties was refreshing to look at after reading new manga from the last several years. ... The whole store takes place in about 6 months, so while other reviews say there is no character development, I think there was a good amount given the age of the characters.

Good morning call is a mediocre manga, one you'll feel like you've read before. I doesn't do anything new, and it will be very forgettable. The story isn't just slow to develop, it never really does. There isn't really a central story being told outside of the "love story" between the two mains. Despite the series being 11 volumes, nothing really happens. Once you start getting towards the end, you'll start having deja vu over and over again, as the author begins to recycle the few things going on outside of the lead characters' apartment. The ending is also very unsatisfying, it's left completely open ... ended. While it does kinda have a "feel good" ending, it was disappoint to see the author not take advantage of the one piece of plot she was being to write in the last few pages. If you want a manga that had anything near a conclusive ending, this isn't for you.
The art is one of the higher points in the manga. It switches between a more realistic art style and a more comical one. I personally did not like the comical one as much, and I wish the author would have used the realistic one more, but I do have to say that it was well done from a technical standpoint.
The characters develop exactly the same as the plot, in that they don't. How characters are in the beginning is more or less the same as they are on the last page. They seem to have a few epiphanies here and there, but it never actually goes anywhere. They keep doing the same mistakes, and continue to live their quite static lives. The author also introduced two new comic relief characters towards the end. It's rather strange, as they don't start off as comic relief, it just sort of happens in the following volumes. Eventually, they get an entire chapter devoted to them. It felt very out of place to give such importance to these characters towards the end of the manga, when I felt it should have been climaxing. Once they served their purpose to the plot, they should have been phased out instead of turned into relief characters. The one relief character from near the beginning is also one of the worst in the entire series. The same joke is made about the fact that he can't get a girlfriend is made in what seemed like a majority of chapters, sometimes in the same chapter multiple times. Towards them end I started skipping over sections which contained him, as I literally could not bear to hear the same joke anymore.
The manga can be funny at times, especially in the beginning when the jokes are still fresh. Even as I was starting to lose interest in the manga, the author did find a way to keep me going with a few well placed humorous sections. There was also a few moments where I believed a plot was going to form and advance that I really did find myself enjoying the manga. Despite the fact that I was forcing myself to finish the last two volumes, the author did add just enough enjoyment to the rest of the manga to keep me going, hoping that it would get better.
Overall, the manga is not bad, but it's not good. If you've got nothing better to do with your time and you really, really like the slice of life genre, then you could find worse. If you are looking for a manga where the romance is more center stage, one with something that could be considered a real plot, or one with deep, developed characters then this one is not for you.