There’s a lot that can be learned from reading or watching something, that’s why I created a series called Learning About Culture in order to discuss or share that thing I learn. Good Morning Call is a manga (with a drama with the same name). The following list is cultural things that I wanted to … [Read more…]
In the manga Good Morning Call, the heroine of the story accidentally broke a couple expensive bowls when she ran into a ramen shop worker, Issei. A customer ordered them and they were being delivered. Upset, Issei insisted that Nao work in the shop to pay off the broken bowls. One of the other menu … [Read more…]
The manga Good Morning Call was written from 1997 until 2002, so there are a lot of things that stand out for being something of the era. So this will be a memory lane for some and an anthropological look at a past culture for others. So let’s take that blast into the past through … [Read more…]
In the Manga Good Morning Call, the main character, Nao, imagines herself working at a cute cafe selling cute menu items. Iced mint tea and Lemon honey waffles were the what she imagined serving to customers. It sounds delicious. I wanted to try it. And so I did. The Lemon Waffles The ingredients for waffles … [Read more…]
I read the Good Morning Call manga for the first time back in January just so I knew the original story when I wrote about the drama. Recently I decided to read it again. I’ve discovered that sometimes you need to read things at different stages in your life. I know from January to now … [Read more…]