Call of the Night

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Call of the Night
YofukashiNoUta.jpg
Cover of Yofukashi no Uta volume 1 by Kotoyama
よふかしのうた
(Yofukashi no Uta)
Genre
Manga
Written byKotoyama
Published byShogakukan
English publisher
ImprintShōnen Sunday Comics
MagazineWeekly Shōnen Sunday
DemographicShōnen
Original runAugust 28, 2019 – present
Volumes8 (List of volumes)
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Call of the Night (Japanese: よふかしのうた, Hepburn: Yofukashi no Uta) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It has been serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since August 2019. In North America, the manga is licensed for English release by Viz Media.

Plot[]

Unable to sleep or find true satisfaction in his daily life, Ko Yamori stops going to school and begins wandering the streets at night. He encounters a girl named Nazuna Nanakusa who shows Ko the joys of being a night-walker by turning him into a vampire with a bite on the neck.

Characters[]

Humans[]

Ko Yamori (夜守コウ, Yamori Kō)[2]
A 14-year-old, second-year junior high school boy, who slowly finds himself restless because of his boring life. To reinvigorate himself, he slips out at night to walk the streets.
Akira Asai (朝井アキラ, Asai Akira)[2]
Ko's childhood friend, who lives in the same apartment complex as him.

Vampires[]

Nazuna Nanakusa (七草ナズナ, Nanakusa Nazuna)[2]
A "night-walker." She encounters Ko on his night out, then offers to stay with him at an abandoned building to free himself of his worries, where she then sucks his blood as he sleeps.
Seri Kikyō (桔梗セリ, Kikyō Seri)[2]
She approaches Ko when she hears that Nazuna is spending the night with a human. Nazuna and Seri don't get along well, and Nazuna sometimes calls her a "bitch."
Nico Hirata (平田ニコ, Hirata Niko)[2]
Kabura Honda (本田カブラ, Honda Kabura)[2]
Midori Kohakobe (小繁縷ミドリ, Kohakobe Midori)[2]
Hatsuka Suzushiro (蘿蔔ハツカ, Suzushiro Hatsuka)[2]

Manga[]

Call of the Night is written and illustrated by Kotoyama, his second manga series after Dagashi Kashi. It started in issue #39 of Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday, published on August 28, 2019.[3] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on November 18, 2019.[4] As of July 16, 2021, eight volumes have been published.[5]

On July 3, 2020, Viz Media announced an English release of the manga in North America starting on April 13, 2021.[6][7][8]

Volume list[]

No. Original release date Original ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 November 18, 2019[4]978-4-09-129492-0April 13, 2021[8]978-1-97472-051-4
2 February 18, 2020[9]978-4-09-129556-9June 8, 2021[10]978-1-97472-057-6
3 April 16, 2020[11]978-4-09-850064-2August 10, 2021[12]978-1-97472-080-4
4 August 18, 2020[13]978-4-09-850163-2October 12, 2021[14]978-1-97472-304-1
5 October 16, 2020[15]978-4-09-850268-4December 14, 2021[16]978-1-97472-408-6
6 January 18, 2021[17]978-4-09-850384-1
7 April 16, 2021[18]978-4-09-850522-7
8 July 16, 2021[5]978-4-09-850635-4

Reception[]

In 2020, the manga was nominated for the 6th Next Manga Awards and placed 7th out of the 50 nominees with 15,134 votes.[19] The series ranked 8th on the "Nationwide Bookstore Employees' Recommended Comics of 2021" by the Honya Club website.[20][21]

References[]

  1. ^ Jump up to: a b "The Official Website for Call of the Night". Viz Media. Retrieved March 1, 2021.
  2. ^ Jump up to: a b c d e f g h よふかしのうた■コトヤマ. WebSunday (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 22, 2020.
  3. ^ Sherman, Jennifer (July 30, 2019). "Dagashi Kashi's Kotoyama Launches New Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b よふかしのうた 1 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  5. ^ Jump up to: a b よふかしのうた 8 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on July 16, 2021. Retrieved July 1, 2021.
  6. ^ "VIZ on Twitter: "It's love at first bite! Call of the Night will quench your thirst for blood Spring 2021 in print and digital!