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よふかしのうた [Yofukashi no Uta] #11
Call of the Night, Vol. 11
Now that Ko and Nazuna know the identity of the vampire responsible for the deaths of Kyoko’s parents, they are on high alert. Is it possible to seek justice— or to at least prevent her from wreaking another path of destruction? The answers will test Ko’s human friendships as well as his own humanity…
189 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 17, 2022
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July 24, 2022
The pacing in this series is a little weird but i feel like its picked up a lot in this and the last few volumes!!
March 20, 2023
Ko’s friend Mahiru’s friend Kiku is a vampire so ancient her past is lost to the mists of time. She sure did kill Kyoko’s family by turning her father though. Now Ko and Mahiru are at one another’s throats, literally, with Akira caught in the muddle. Also Ko’s raging out of control, and it’s not just hormones for a change.
Turns out that even having to have a shonen-ass plot isn’t enough to put me off my favourite vampire and her… whatever they are to each other. This probably boils down to the really solid characterization, though the plot is pretty good too.
Kyoko turning to the side of good might be predictable, she was too good to just kill off, but dang if they don’t make an absolute meal of her presence. She is still cool as hell (this manga feels like it glorifies cigarettes in a way that would make Freud blush), but also trying to make amends for her actions.
Even better, we first get a brilliantly done introduction to just how long Kiku’s been at the vampire game, making her a really interesting threat. The flashes of her through the ages really give a lot of backstory very quickly. It even makes Kyoko’s crazy revenge scheme make perfect sense with some retroactive context. Now that’s clever!
This then leads to the first time that Call of the Night has done anything approaching straight horror and it turns out to be amazing at it. Kyoko’s right to be afraid; despite her appearance to Mahiru, Kiku doesn’t appear to have a hint of humanity left to her. That whole sequence is worth the price of admission.
But wait, there’s more! Mahiru sure doesn’t care about things like nuance, being a teenager, and that pits him directly against Ko, for what looks like a straightforward beat-down until Kou winds up going feral and nearly breaking Mahiru’s neck.
It’s a hell of a turn and, even if this is basic shonen hero turns, it really gets across how shaken Ko is when he realizes what he nearly did. And nobody understands just why this is happening.
Which makes this all seem very serious, which it certainly is when it needs to be, but keep in mind that this is a fight between teenager boys, so it’s kind of dumb, as everybody else helpfully points out.
That’s why we see Nazuna, Kyoko, and Niko chilling together at a bar being ridiculous. For all her teacher cred, Niko is absolutely useless, Kyoko is trying to apologize for the whole ‘kill all the vampires’ thing, and Nazuna remains as awkwardly immature as ever (the story always does a great job of making her posing seem like a mask she keeps on to avoid growing up). This chapter is an absolute hoot.
Akari ends up trying to mediate between her friends, which somehow leads to her wearing a maid outfit (even the manga can barely bring itself to justify this) and also landing one of the funniest breast size jokes I’ve read in ages, just because it hangs a big old lantern on it.
All this, plus Nazuna and Ko decide to throw down rather than kiss, or “smooch” as it were, because feelings that leave you vulnerable are a lot more complicated than pure rage. Which is fine, really, because the art is fantastic during these moments.
And then the story ends on a creepy as hell note that starts off as yet more cosplay, but then has one of those moments where the most mundane thing winds up feeling incredibly eerie because of how incongruous the tone is to the conversation.
This is just plain interesting. It’s gone far afield from moody night walks, but the characters have stuck to their basic natures throughout and this just shows how good they were to start with. Everything still fires on all cylinders. Few manga can weather their tone shifting as well as this one has. I never needed it to change, but I’m happy it’s still so good.
5 stars - great set-up and perfect follow-through. I don’t necessarily think Super Kou needed to be a thing, but the mangaka knows how to use that change of status to really get some interesting stuff thrown in the mix and I don’t begrudge it because the story’s still really satisfying.
Turns out that even having to have a shonen-ass plot isn’t enough to put me off my favourite vampire and her… whatever they are to each other. This probably boils down to the really solid characterization, though the plot is pretty good too.
Kyoko turning to the side of good might be predictable, she was too good to just kill off, but dang if they don’t make an absolute meal of her presence. She is still cool as hell (this manga feels like it glorifies cigarettes in a way that would make Freud blush), but also trying to make amends for her actions.
Even better, we first get a brilliantly done introduction to just how long Kiku’s been at the vampire game, making her a really interesting threat. The flashes of her through the ages really give a lot of backstory very quickly. It even makes Kyoko’s crazy revenge scheme make perfect sense with some retroactive context. Now that’s clever!
This then leads to the first time that Call of the Night has done anything approaching straight horror and it turns out to be amazing at it. Kyoko’s right to be afraid; despite her appearance to Mahiru, Kiku doesn’t appear to have a hint of humanity left to her. That whole sequence is worth the price of admission.
But wait, there’s more! Mahiru sure doesn’t care about things like nuance, being a teenager, and that pits him directly against Ko, for what looks like a straightforward beat-down until Kou winds up going feral and nearly breaking Mahiru’s neck.
It’s a hell of a turn and, even if this is basic shonen hero turns, it really gets across how shaken Ko is when he realizes what he nearly did. And nobody understands just why this is happening.
Which makes this all seem very serious, which it certainly is when it needs to be, but keep in mind that this is a fight between teenager boys, so it’s kind of dumb, as everybody else helpfully points out.
That’s why we see Nazuna, Kyoko, and Niko chilling together at a bar being ridiculous. For all her teacher cred, Niko is absolutely useless, Kyoko is trying to apologize for the whole ‘kill all the vampires’ thing, and Nazuna remains as awkwardly immature as ever (the story always does a great job of making her posing seem like a mask she keeps on to avoid growing up). This chapter is an absolute hoot.
Akari ends up trying to mediate between her friends, which somehow leads to her wearing a maid outfit (even the manga can barely bring itself to justify this) and also landing one of the funniest breast size jokes I’ve read in ages, just because it hangs a big old lantern on it.
All this, plus Nazuna and Ko decide to throw down rather than kiss, or “smooch” as it were, because feelings that leave you vulnerable are a lot more complicated than pure rage. Which is fine, really, because the art is fantastic during these moments.
And then the story ends on a creepy as hell note that starts off as yet more cosplay, but then has one of those moments where the most mundane thing winds up feeling incredibly eerie because of how incongruous the tone is to the conversation.
This is just plain interesting. It’s gone far afield from moody night walks, but the characters have stuck to their basic natures throughout and this just shows how good they were to start with. Everything still fires on all cylinders. Few manga can weather their tone shifting as well as this one has. I never needed it to change, but I’m happy it’s still so good.
5 stars - great set-up and perfect follow-through. I don’t necessarily think Super Kou needed to be a thing, but the mangaka knows how to use that change of status to really get some interesting stuff thrown in the mix and I don’t begrudge it because the story’s still really satisfying.
May 26, 2023
Me gusta mucho la acción, pero me frustra que la historia parece avanzar demasiado lento...
November 19, 2024
Commençons par vous parler de mon « expectation » j’ai deux poster « Call of the night » sur le mur en face de moi.
Je guette chaque sortie d’un nouveau tome et le prend aussitôt.
Pour moi il est de l’acabit de Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, SNK, TPN (The Promised Neverland) (même si ce dernier n’es pas encore très retenu par les mémoires, y’a du potentiel!).
Pour l’anecdote j’ai commandé une figurine de Nazuna mais elle s’est cassée dans le transport (les deux bras et la tête).
On démarre avec une revisite onctueuse de « Blanche Neige » …
C’est le personnage de Kiku Hoshimi qui à travers les décennies a bu le sang de nombreux hommes qu’elle a séduit pour se nourrir (oui, c’est une vampire!).
« Je… J’ignore qui je suis moi même ! Comment quelqu’un d’autre pourrait-il le savoir? »
Et c’est une philosophie pertinente de sorte que l’on est de ce que l’on sait faire uniquement, par exemple c’est parce que je sais que je suis auteur que je peux l’exprimer à d’autres personnes et qu’elles peuvent m’entendre. Si je gribouillais dans mon coin en mode « euh je sais pas je crois que j’écris quelque chose » je ne saurais pas qui je suis et personne ne pourrait donc le savoir, pas même ma mère!
Ce manga est excellent, il avait eu une baisse de régime à un moment mais ce moment est bien révolu, chaque page est exquise. C’est le coup de coeur!
Mahiru le collègue de Kô est tombé dans les bras de Kiku.
Or on sait qu’elle a tendance à se barrer une fois qu’elle a eu ce qu’elle veut.
Le personnage de Asai est bien aussi, très bien déssiné ! Comme Nazuna ! Et Kô ! Et miss Détective. Je sais que l’anime est waow! Mais rien que le manga est waow!
Je vous spoil pas les deux derniers chapitres mais encore une fois! Waow! Boum! Boum! (Le cœur). Ce n’est pas une série pour ados bien que Kô n’ai que 14 ans mais une série très deep, profonde, j’aime!
Il n’y a aucun passage de « Q » (ça me change de ma semaine « romance » !) mais beaucoup de passages « eye candy » comme disent les Anglais…
(Littéralement « bonbon pour les yeux »).
Du ja-mais vu il va rentrer dans mon top 6 !!
Quand au tome suivant…
Disponible à partir du 13 février 2025…
Ça va être vraiment long…
Phoenix
++
Je guette chaque sortie d’un nouveau tome et le prend aussitôt.
Pour moi il est de l’acabit de Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, SNK, TPN (The Promised Neverland) (même si ce dernier n’es pas encore très retenu par les mémoires, y’a du potentiel!).
Pour l’anecdote j’ai commandé une figurine de Nazuna mais elle s’est cassée dans le transport (les deux bras et la tête).
On démarre avec une revisite onctueuse de « Blanche Neige » …
C’est le personnage de Kiku Hoshimi qui à travers les décennies a bu le sang de nombreux hommes qu’elle a séduit pour se nourrir (oui, c’est une vampire!).
« Je… J’ignore qui je suis moi même ! Comment quelqu’un d’autre pourrait-il le savoir? »
Et c’est une philosophie pertinente de sorte que l’on est de ce que l’on sait faire uniquement, par exemple c’est parce que je sais que je suis auteur que je peux l’exprimer à d’autres personnes et qu’elles peuvent m’entendre. Si je gribouillais dans mon coin en mode « euh je sais pas je crois que j’écris quelque chose » je ne saurais pas qui je suis et personne ne pourrait donc le savoir, pas même ma mère!
Ce manga est excellent, il avait eu une baisse de régime à un moment mais ce moment est bien révolu, chaque page est exquise. C’est le coup de coeur!
Mahiru le collègue de Kô est tombé dans les bras de Kiku.
Or on sait qu’elle a tendance à se barrer une fois qu’elle a eu ce qu’elle veut.
Le personnage de Asai est bien aussi, très bien déssiné ! Comme Nazuna ! Et Kô ! Et miss Détective. Je sais que l’anime est waow! Mais rien que le manga est waow!
Je vous spoil pas les deux derniers chapitres mais encore une fois! Waow! Boum! Boum! (Le cœur). Ce n’est pas une série pour ados bien que Kô n’ai que 14 ans mais une série très deep, profonde, j’aime!
Il n’y a aucun passage de « Q » (ça me change de ma semaine « romance » !) mais beaucoup de passages « eye candy » comme disent les Anglais…
(Littéralement « bonbon pour les yeux »).
Du ja-mais vu il va rentrer dans mon top 6 !!
Quand au tome suivant…
Disponible à partir du 13 février 2025…
Ça va être vraiment long…
Phoenix
++
March 15, 2023
This volume was exceptional. It’s very hard to talk about what happens in it though without spoilers, so I’m going to keep this review pretty short. However, I will say that there was a point in this book that I literally jumped out of my chair from a combination of shock and hype. The way that Kotoyama does the paneling in this is a thing of beauty. It’s weird to praise a cover, but I’m gonna do that too. That ALL WHITE cover is just so clean. This series remains pretty firmly in my top 10 ongoing manga at the moment (position fluctuates by mood) despite the fact that the tone of the series has changed dramatically from the first few volumes. What started out as a more laid-back romcom has evolved into a much more serious series with very dramatic twists and a good deal of action. I’m not sure it’s an improvement, since I liked the laid-back vampire romcom, but this is also good.
August 3, 2023
I knew there was more to Mahiru than him being a carefree and "happy" guy. Everyone grieves differently and I find it interesting how Mahiru acted "happier" in front of other people after his brother died. Usually it's the opposite where people act closed off or aloof whenever a loved one dies.
As for Ko, I hope he can gain some control over his "half-vampire state," and I really do hope him and Mahiru can make up. Clearly Mahiru is going through a lot, and he feels like Kiku is the only one there for him. His own mother seemed...off.
As for Ko, I hope he can gain some control over his "half-vampire state," and I really do hope him and Mahiru can make up. Clearly Mahiru is going through a lot, and he feels like Kiku is the only one there for him. His own mother seemed...off.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
January 25, 2024
I’ve been using a Friends bookmark for this book. That feels appropriate because, like later seasons of Friends, I feel like I’ve reached the point in this series where, while I still love the characters, I’m annoyed by some of the situations in which they find themselves.
August 17, 2025
The last couple chapters really threw a curveball and I am interested to see where it goes from here. Ko is having some drama with his friend and his powers are beginning to manifest. The final chapter had a nice cliffhanger to sit on.
November 27, 2022
I kinda want more action stuff in this manga.
April 30, 2023
We are getting closer to a big moment I can feel it!
May 9, 2023
This series just keeps getting better. The mysteries contine, I can't wait to read more.
May 26, 2023
Ko has a fight with Mahiru and almost kills him. Ko must learn to control his new half-vampire powers.
May 13, 2024
Another good - if a bit confusing near the end - volume that progresses the plot. Friendship and relationships are the main focus here again, and it really works well.
July 2, 2025
Peak muss mir die anderen Bände fr unbedingt noch holen 😝
November 17, 2025
Ending was just okay, overall this series was sososo good. I appreciate that Yamori and Nazuna were a "medium" burning love, not slow but not fast. Many wholesome bits :3
May 26, 2025
Arranca la segunda mitad de la serie con teste tomo 11 de 20.
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