Call of the Night

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Call of the Night
File:YofukashiNoUta.jpg
Cover of Yofukashi no Uta volume 1 by Kotoyama
よふかしのうた
(Yofukashi no Uta)
Manga
Written by Kotoyama
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Demographic Shōnen
Imprint Shōnen Sunday Comics
Magazine Weekly Shōnen Sunday
Original run August 28, 2019 – present
Volumes 4 (List of volumes)
Anime and Manga portal

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 is serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday since August 2019.

Plot

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

Characters

Humans

Kō Yamori (夜守コウ Yamori Kō?)[1]
Akira Asai (朝井アキラ Asai Akira?)[1]

Vampires

Nazuna Nanakusa (七草ナズナ Nanakusa Nazuna?)[1]
Seri Kikyō (桔梗セリ Kikyō Seri?)[1]
Nico Hirata (平田ニコ Hirata Niko?)[1]
Kabura Honda (本田カブラ Honda Kabura?)[1]
Midori Kohakobe (小繁縷ミドリ Kohakobe Midori?)[1]
Hatsuka Suzushiro (蘿蔔ハツカ Suzushiro Hatsuka?)[1]

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.[2] Shogakukan has collected its chapters into individual tankōbon volumes. The first volume was published on November 18, 2019.[3] As of August 18, 2020, four volumes have been published.[4]

On July 3, 2020, Viz Media announced an English version starting in Spring of 2021.[5][6]

Volume list

No. Japanese release date Japanese ISBN English release date English ISBN
1 November 18, 2019[3] ISBN 978-4-09-129492-0 April 13, 2021[7] ISBN 978-1-97-472051-4
2 February 18, 2020[8] ISBN 978-4-09-129556-9
3 April 16, 2020[9] ISBN 978-4-09-850064-2
4 August 18, 2020[4] ISBN 978-4-09-850163-2

Reception

In 2020, the manga was nominated for the 6th Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishō Awards and placed 7th out of the 50 nominees with 15,134 votes.[10]

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