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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.
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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.
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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.
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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!!!
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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.Was this review helpful to you?
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.
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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
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love theem but hate some parts a little
I love the cliche trope and all that, if you love force cohabitation, an intelligent and hardworking tsundere guy and an innocent girl who is very close to her childhood friend this is for you. The story is alright and i loved all the cast and the problems that appears to them but i hate the fact that the girl became so AWFULLY DUMB chasing after him like????? Okay yea i know we all love cold guys but ughh just cant take how dumb she look when she tries to get his attention, also he dont show any more emotions after being lovey dovey with her every after end scene. I thought he'll change or maybe be a little sweeter and open but nah he's so complicated. BUT I STILL SO LOVE IT THO since im looking for this trope lmaoo but i just hate that part of them. I wont be rewatching it tho. ALSO BTWW I LOVED DAICHI AND ISSEI more lmaoooWas this review helpful to you?
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Still, the screenwriter managed to make this a very pleasant watch by accurately dosing and mixing all the ingredients, adding a lot of funny humor, some brilliant ideas here and there, and some endearing minor characters.
To top it all, the acting is better than average (except for the stone-faced ML whom I found plainly terrible, sorry) and there's some very nice music.
I would've given it an even higher grade, weren't it for the fact that I think 17 episodes were a tad too much, and the last 4 or 5 felt a bit draggy, imho.
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