Call of the Night

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Background

Call of the Night is a manga series written and illustrated by Kotoyama. It began serialization in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine on August 28, 2019, and is currently ongoing.

In 2021, Viz Media began an official English publication of the series, releasing the first English volume on April 13, 2021.

The Call of the Night anime was announced on November 10, 2021. It premiered on July 7, 2022, on Fuji TV's noitaminA programming block. The series is licensed in North America by AMC Networks via Sentai Filmworks and streamed on the HIDIVE video service.

One sleepless night, Kou slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Kou to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Kou’s past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!

Power of the Verse

The verse has standard humans with some humans that are able to use the vampires own strength against them, the vampires themselves possess superhuman strength, durability, and speed. The verse also has some abilities such as, Immortality, Regeneration, Intangibility, Durability Negation, Empathic Manipulation, Blood Manipulation, Transmutation, Corruption, etcetera.

Terms

• Vampires: Vampires are human-like creatures who suck the blood of humans. They are a focal aspect of Call of the Night.

• Servants: Vampires are able to turn other humans into other vampires if two conditions are met: the vampire is able to drink the human's blood, and the human is in love with the vampire who intends to convert them. Vampires who are created this way are referred to as "servants", and often act as subordinates of vampire who converted them due to the fact that they are infatuated with them. A vampire can have multiple servants. This amount has no known limit, but with some exceptions like Kiku Hoshimi, most vampires have around five or less. A vampire's servants can be seen as their equivalent to human sexuality. Vampires like Nico Hirata and Kiku Hoshimi are only interested in male servants, while Hatsuka Suzushiro and Nazuna Nanakusa accept both males and females.

• Transformation: If the requirements to become a vampire are met, the first change is the fixture of physical shortcomings; A vampire who needed glasses in the past is able to see without them, a person who suffers from a chronic illness will get rid of it and the cold of the night suddenly is less worrying. They gain much larger fangs and go through the other physical changes typical for vampires. The personality doesn't necessarily have to change much. Akihito Akiyama was pretty much the same as before, just more confident and instinctively thirsty for blood.

• Half-Vampire: The details behind this process are unknown but transforming into a "half-vampire", an extremely unusual phenomenon no vampire has ever heard about, makes one able to turn into a vampire, the requirement being to see one's own blood or being in emotional pain, and go back to being human after a certain amount of time. The transformation is difficult to control initially and can turn the person into a berserker who can't differentiate between friends and foes, but it can be activated consciously with some training. In general, it takes a toll on the person's sanity and is shown to make them much more bloodthirsty and aggressive even when they are human, though the old personality still remains intact. Depending on one's emotional state, this transformation doesn't just give a person the powers of a vampire but exceeds them by far and gives the half-vampire abilities that are even beyond normal vampires, as noted by Azami. For example, it makes it possible for the half-vampire to control their own blood to retrieve objects or at least severed limbs with it and enables them to destroy a large building with one punch. Kou Yamori is the only known human who went through this process.

• The "unspoken rule": According to a unspoken rule, if a vampire is in love with the human whose blood they suck, that human will die. The rule has existed for centuries but it still remains unconfirmed whether it's truthful or not.

Knowledgeable Members

• GiverOfThePeace

Characters

Humans

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  Kou Yamori

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  Anko Uguisu

Vampires

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  Kou Yamori

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  Nazuna Nanakusa