Call of the Night

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.

Call of the Night
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
Volumes6

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)[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]
Kō's childhood friend.

Vampires
Nazuna Nanakusa (七草ナズナ, Nanakusa Nazuna)[2]
A "night-walker." She encounters Kō 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]
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 January 18, 2021 six 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][1]

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[1]978-1-97-472051-4
2 February 18, 2020[8]978-4-09-129556-9——
3 April 16, 2020[9]978-4-09-850064-2——
4 August 18, 2020[10]978-4-09-850163-2——
5 October 16, 2020[11]978-4-09-850268-4——
6 January 18, 2021[5]978-4-09-850384-1——

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.[12]

References
  1. "Call of the Night, Vol. 1". Viz Media. Retrieved January 4, 2021.
  2. 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. よふかしのうた　１ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  5. よふかしのうた　６ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on January 26, 2021. Retrieved January 26, 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! 🦇". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-07-04.
  7. Sherman, Jennifer (July 3, 2020). "Viz Media Licenses Dr. Stone Reboot: Byakuya, Asadora!, Beast Complex, Call of the Night Manga". Anime News Network. Retrieved August 16, 2020.
  8. よふかしのうた　2 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  9. よふかしのうた　3 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved July 4, 2020.
  10. よふかしのうた　4 (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved August 19, 2020.
  11. よふかしのうた　５ (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Archived from the original on October 27, 2020. Retrieved October 16, 2020.
  12. コミックス部門 結果発表 - 次にくるマンガ大賞 2020. Tsugi Manga (in Japanese). Retrieved August 20, 2020.
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