徹夜之歌 13

よふかしのうた [Yofukashi no Uta] #13

by Kotoyama, 琴山, 吳勵誠 (Translator)

異色的吸血鬼，星見菊。魔性之夜，正式開幕。更與武力超越薺與薊的神秘女吸血鬼的一戰，勝負底定…！這一夜的結果將是──「真晝，我啊，想去一個地方。」另一方面，真晝拗不過菊的要求，來到某個地方。等著他的將是……？菊所帶來的衝擊之夜，即將開始。

Genres: Manga, Romance, Fantasy, Supernatural, Vampires, Graphic Novels, Collections

184 pages, ebook

First published September 15, 2022

Reviews

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

Kou picks up a groupie, and then a posse, while Nazuna loses her home. Elsewhere, Kiku’s plans for Kou’s friend, Mahiru, start to take shape, while I’m pretty positive I’m rather negative about the latest vampire lore introduced.

Sigh. More like Fall of the Night, am I right? Watching this slide even further down the path of shonen nonsense fighting has been a hard, painful road given how brilliantly quiet and moody the first volumes were. They really did pave paradise and put up a parking lot. And then somebody got punched through it.

What really stings is the brief moments when the story this was originally embracing start to peek through from the boob windows and the smackdowns and yelling and ‘here’s a new power we never bothered to explain but it was here the whole time, promise’ that isn’t my thing at all.

There are some very silly interactions between the full crew that Kou has accumulated, especially when he’s trying to reactivate his vampire side (the reveal on that one is literally a laugh out loud, I freely admit). And Nazuna being so awkward about love stuff continues to be fun. The quiet stuff is still enjoyable.

Everything with Kiku feels way too out of nowhere, turning the wonderfully creepy bits from earlier into a big bunch of boring. Mahiru turns out to be literally a victim of Kiku’s manipulations, a trope that really cuts the legs out from under the drama, frankly.

The meeting between Mahiru’s mother and Kiku feels like somebody trying to write clever way above their capacity and it doesn’t help that Kiku’s reasons for this are because of some lore that just gets dropped this volume, which is one of those things that just drives me nuts in stories because it often feels very inelegant.

Then there’s the fighting, where Kiku turns out to have the thing that can destroy Nazuna and uses it to basically damsel her, super fun seeing the cool-ish character brought low, and the whole thing about vampires switching their polarities when in combat. It’s just such a big nothing.

And the female vampire Kou beats up deciding to start clinging to him because he bested her? Ugh, it’s all so trite and when I think back to the slow, but fascinating, parts of this series it’s practically painful. If you didn’t care about the change or embraced it, you will be fine. I will apparently not be.

3 stars - this series is, indeed, completely coasting on my goodwill and appreciation for its previous volumes. This isn’t bad, I guess, but calling it particularly good is a pretty big stretch for my money.

[Emily Grace · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kiku is brutal. She's kinda grooming Mahiru...and Mahiru looks so depressed when his hair is down like that.

I wanna know more about his brother who died. And what is Kiku's obsession with proving her love to someone??

[Remek · Rating 4 out of 5]

mógłbym czytać o Mahiru i Kiku cały czas

[Toshi]

よふかしのうた 14 Yofukashi no Uta 14 よふかしのうた 15 Yofukashi no Uta 15

These few volumes had initially got me confused. A lot had happened and it was a little hard to process. However, near the end of volume of 15, it all began to make sense. These volumes have had a specific emphasis on friendship and reading it really reminded me how blessed I was to have so many good friends. The setting also changed to Hokkaido, which made me really happy because I was born here and I currently reside here. The places of Hokkaido were beautifully depicted in the manga and I just loved reading it. I would recommend this series a lot.

[Gretchen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Ko defeats the mystery vampire in the sweater, who immediately breaks down and cries upon her defeat. She is hunting Kiko too. The group finally catches up with Kiko and tries to determine her motives. #Edelweiss+

[Aldara★ · Rating 5 out of 5]

I can’t believe what I read, that horrible vampire is really getting on my nerves. Plus, the half vampire thing being controlled and the phasing being annulled wow. I need more of this but fear of what will happen

[Craig Schorling · Rating 4 out of 5]

I really enjoyed the parts with Kiku and Mahiru's mother. Ko is becoming such a bad ass but will he be able to defeat the ultimate boss, his mom? This series is intensifying and is shaping up to have a blistering conclusion.

[AB · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5
This was such a fun volume!

[Victoria ✮⋆˙ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Genuinely one of my favourite series, Nazuna is (♡ヮ♡)

[Marisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This manga has too many women falling for middle school boys.

[Victoria Kitty · Rating 5 out of 5]

It's mysterious and exciting.

[Amanda Landry · Rating 4 out of 5]

These are still insanely fun and funny. I do miss some of the more solemn moments from the first few, but I'm not surprised as we delve more into vampirism as a whole in the series.

[Anna | the.perks.of.being.anna · Rating 3 out of 5]

Nu börjar det ändå bli lätt löjligt med att Kou är typ en naturbegåvning på att fightas, och det känns konstigt med att Nazuna plötsligt har en svaghet. Och så dyker "tvisten/faktan" upp att vampyrer dödar den de älskar, vilket känns som värsta plotdevice. Men hela Mahiru-delen är intressant och jag hoppas på att han och Kou kan bli vänner igen.

[Diogo Muller · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great volume. So much happening, and ends in a fantastic cliffhanger.

[Alex Ordaz (MrBrownieUwU) · Rating 5 out of 5]

Koucito :3

[Caroline · Rating 3 out of 5]

*3.5

[Tyra · Rating 5 out of 5]

One of my fav series! Super easy and nice read

[Sheepy · Rating 5 out of 5]

That was an anticlimax right at the end

[Alanna · Rating 5 out of 5]

My favourite volume so far 🤗

[Viviane · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kotoyama, I bow to you.

[fxtiko · Rating 5 out of 5]

why dont she just give up and d1e