Demiya
Cyprus
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Intensity lacking, Artificial Romance, No chemistry & Wasted characters
Good Morning Call is certainly that kind of a romantic-comedy drama focusing between two opposing characters, Nao and Uehara, that have hardly any good chemistry together.
The story was promising but the side characters could be used more wisely. Rather than using the side characters to lead the story in favor of the cold, anti-social Uehara and the dense Nao, they could use Daichi or Issei as the main second lead-rivals of Uehara's & Nao's relationship. Instead of posing a threat, these 2nd lead characters were just taking shots from Uehara who was simply doing nothing, and Nao who kept falling for him out of nowhere, calling him kind(?) and nice(?).
This leads to the creation of the most dull + artificial romance between two characters that I've ever seen. At the end of the day, despite the constant obstacles that their relationship was attracting, they were able to survive them unscratched, as if nothing actually happened.
No matter how many characters were being introduced, they all existed for one main reason; To make Uehara and Nao get closer together, failing each time. This in reality would have actually resulted in many break ups already.
It's such a shame that characters that had potential to turn this romance upside down, and create a lot of conflict were simply used as puppets for the main leads' romance, which again, is artificial at best.
Other than that, the acting was not impressive at all. At times, the characters were either over-exaggerating or just simply had a poker face 24/7 (I'm looking at you Uehara).
The music was decent for the show, and some OSTs were actually really good and fit the atmosphere in certain moments.
Cinematography-wise, nothing impressive either, but the camera quality for many Japanese shows is kind of old and not very clear. The sunlight it too much on certain scenes too.
All in all, if you are the type of person who has time to spare, then this romantic-comedy drama will be a good start for you to get into the Japanese romance scene, despite how dull & artificial the romance is in this show.
If you are more like a veteran like me, who has seen good romance-drama series from South Korea too, then this show ain't for you.
The story was promising but the side characters could be used more wisely. Rather than using the side characters to lead the story in favor of the cold, anti-social Uehara and the dense Nao, they could use Daichi or Issei as the main second lead-rivals of Uehara's & Nao's relationship. Instead of posing a threat, these 2nd lead characters were just taking shots from Uehara who was simply doing nothing, and Nao who kept falling for him out of nowhere, calling him kind(?) and nice(?).
This leads to the creation of the most dull + artificial romance between two characters that I've ever seen. At the end of the day, despite the constant obstacles that their relationship was attracting, they were able to survive them unscratched, as if nothing actually happened.
No matter how many characters were being introduced, they all existed for one main reason; To make Uehara and Nao get closer together, failing each time. This in reality would have actually resulted in many break ups already.
It's such a shame that characters that had potential to turn this romance upside down, and create a lot of conflict were simply used as puppets for the main leads' romance, which again, is artificial at best.
Other than that, the acting was not impressive at all. At times, the characters were either over-exaggerating or just simply had a poker face 24/7 (I'm looking at you Uehara).
The music was decent for the show, and some OSTs were actually really good and fit the atmosphere in certain moments.
Cinematography-wise, nothing impressive either, but the camera quality for many Japanese shows is kind of old and not very clear. The sunlight it too much on certain scenes too.
All in all, if you are the type of person who has time to spare, then this romantic-comedy drama will be a good start for you to get into the Japanese romance scene, despite how dull & artificial the romance is in this show.
If you are more like a veteran like me, who has seen good romance-drama series from South Korea too, then this show ain't for you.
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