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This manga is a waste of time. The art is very well done, but that is the only thing it has going for it. Instead of breaking the review down into several full, developed paragraphs, I'm just going to give each section a couple of sentences, because there really is nothing to review in this.

The story is non-existent. It advances a little bit in the first few chapters, then the main characters make absolutely no progress the final 67 or so chapters. Two of the side character's story progress, but I'm not going to give it credit when the main story arc does nothing ... over the majority of the 70 chapters. I shouldn't have to read garbage after garbage chapter to see a couple of pages of side story advancement. The ending of chapter 70 feels incredibly unsatisfying, and nothing ever really happened.

The art is great: the attention to detail, the facial expressions, just everything. If you want to see expertly drawn characters, just flip through the manga and ignore everything.

The main characters are terrible. The male MC is whiny, and borderline creepy. In real life he wouldn't be friendless because he's an otaku, it would be because he's an idiot who makes people feel uncomfortable. He talks about becoming a better person several times, but up until the most recent (and final?) chapter he is still literally the same whiny creep, with no development. The female lead is also stale. She develops a lot in a few chapters, then never again. While the male MC is creeping on her hardcore, she never really learns what it means to be in love, and she never learns to accept herself for what she is. The entire time she is afraid of being disliked for being an otaku, and losing her friends (though I'd like to reference another reviewer here who cleverly points out she's never shown having more friends than the male MC and her best friend). By the end, I was thinking as creepy as the male MC is, he deserves better than someone who would rather be cold to him in public than revel her otaku status. The side characters actually aren't that bad, especially the side female. The really show development, and are likable, but likewise with the story they don't redeem the manga as you have to read through page after page of garbage to get to anything with them.

The enjoyment is there a couple of times, but because the manga repeats the same few things over and over, anything enjoyable or funny gets old fast. Also, there's several scenes where the male MC is being so weird or creepy, you kinda feel awkward in real life. It's hard to enjoy something when you feel like the guy talking should just shut up, leave everyone alone, or grow up.

Overall, the manga isn't worth reading. It's 70 chapters of mostly nothing with terrible characters. No amount of good art can redeem that.

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.