![]() ![]() This guy has a distinctive style that I recognized right away: he was also responsible for Dagashi Kashi. That praise extends to the characters and to mangaka Kotoyama. I’ve never seen the night lit up like this, all in blue and purple, with the stars shining improbably brightly in an urban environment - but that’s all right, because it looks excellent and fits the fantastic feel of the series despite its realistic modern-day city setting. ![]() Studio Liden Films did a great job animating Call of the Night, with a special emphasis on night scenes like the above. It’s a unique sort of work, and in the good sense (given that, say, Pupa was also pretty “unique.”)Īs usual, when I love a show’s style, I’ll talk about that before getting into the substance of the plot and characters and the rest. The closest I’ve come to this before was probably the Tsukihime visual novel, which also partly features a story about an older hot blonde vampire lady getting involved with a well-meaning but sort of delinquent schoolboy, but it’s not much like Tsukihime either. It’s also nothing much like the few other vampire-related fiction works I’ve taken in like Kizumonogatari. Technically it’s sort of a coming-of-age show, and there’s some slice-of-life in there, but it’s nothing at all like the other series I’ve covered in those categories. It’s not much like any other anime I’ve watched before. Despite all that, Nazuna still can’t turn Kou into her follower: those romantic feelings have yet to emerge, so no matter how many times she bites him, he remains a human.ĭoes Kou really understand what he’s getting himself into? Does Nazuna? And are they prepared for the consequences both might face from this underground vampire society if Kou can’t - or won’t - be turned?Īnd are you prepared for all these thigh-level camera angles?Ĭall of the Night is an interesting series. As he spends more time with Nazuna almost every night, he begins falling into the world of vampires, one that’s seductive but also potentially extremely dangerous. Still, Kou continues not to attend school, somehow seemingly living this delinquent nocturnal life without any issues despite still being a kid. But Kou also has a couple of classmates and childhood friends, still human like him, who show up in his life and act as a tether to the normal human world. Usually the human is begging not to be turned into a vampire, but not this timeĪs the series proceeds, the cast grows quickly, and Kou is soon surrounded by a set of mostly women, some of whom are also vampires who also want to suck his blood even if just to see how it tastes since Nazuna insists on how excellent it is. She soon reveals her true intention: this girl, Nazuna Nanakusa, is a vampire who wants to suck his blood. When she leads him to her apartment and invites him to lie down next to her, that red flag is triggered, though it turns out to be the wrong one. This should be throwing up all kinds of red flags, but Kou goes along with this girl anyway. ![]() After showing him a few of the wonders of the nighttime city like a few drunk office workers throwing up on the sidewalk, she suggests they return to her place so she can “help him sleep.” She tells Kou that he needs to let go and enjoy himself and that the night is the perfect time to do it. Thankfully, she’s not a police officer, but just some girl taking an unusual interest in this kid. ![]() Just as he’s about to give in to the temptation of a vending machine stocked with alcohol, he’s stopped by a mysterious blonde girl who asks him what a kid is doing buying booze. Kou is alone, but he seems happier walking the city streets when they’re nearly empty than he would be attending school. Instead of going to school, Kou goes out late at night, leaving his family’s apartment in the city to wander the streets and hang around in a park near his home. This seems to be more the last straw than the factor that really drove him to quit, but in any case he’s not going to school anymore, and somehow the Japanese equivalent of Child Protective Services isn’t getting involved either. Kou specifically doesn’t seem to get the idea of romantic love - not a huge surprise considering his age, but when he turns down a classmate who confesses to him for just that reason her friends dump on him. Sort of a student, since he’s recently quit attending school out of frustration over its social norms. ( edit: also, general plot/ending spoilers below, etc.) It’s an unusual one this time - if I had to categorize it, maybe “supernatural urban fantasy romance”? And definitely a vampire romance, and not even exactly the first one I’ve covered here if Kizumonogatari counts. Call of the Night / Yofukashi no Uta is a recently finished 13-episode anime, another manga adaptation. Or maybe not, because I was already a little interested in it. Here’s an anime I might have missed out on if it hadn’t been for that dumb anime first episode wheel post series I have going. ![]()
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