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よふかしのうた [Yofukashi no Uta] #8
Call of the Night, Vol. 8
A visit to the night school Nazuna attended years ago yields new insights into her forgotten past. Niko, her former vampire instructor, reminds Nazuna about her first friend, Kyoko. To aid in the investigation, Ko must pretend to return the affections of a boy-crazy student. Then, as more clues are discovered, a tale of friendship, betrayal, and murder unfolds…
189 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 16, 2021
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July 13, 2022
I’m still having a lot of fun with this series, it’s really hard not to fly through new volumes,,,I’m loving all the little stories of nazuna’s past
September 19, 2022
With their acquaintance Nico teaching a night school, it’s a chance for Ko and Nazuna to spend time as classmates. Ko’s unexpected popularity winds up with him getting a girlfriend, while an exploration of Nazuna’s past shows that life’s never as simple as it seems.
My unending love for this series remains a bit of a mystery even to me - there’s enough good stuff here, certainly, a lot even, but I always save this for last the week it comes out and I always love it without much reservation.
Now, it makes things harder than usual this time around. That girlfriend that Ko lands is a tall, reserved older student who has nothing but princess fantasies on her mind and is pushy and clingy to the extreme. Mind you, the story is aware of how obnoxious she is, but, ironically, the writing is frequently so good that she is excruciating at points.
Outside of her though, this is a total winner. With the revelation of Nazuna’s past last time, we now have an excuse to explore her backstory even further and it explains a lot of her behaviour both past and present. She’s maturing at a different rate than anybody expected or, in a way, knows how to deal with.
Which explains a lot of her personality, which is a blend of bravado and bluster in equal measure. Sometimes she is believably chill about adult topics - the way she teases Ko about his girlfriend (and the idiotic position she finds them in later) is both a testament to her immaturity and her comfort levels with Ko.
And, even if she and Ko start dating and break up in the span of around four panels (it makes sense, I swear), she still gets incredibly sulky when he turns out to know how to fake his way through school with an incredible amount of aplomb and winds up being super popular.
It’s all in service to the back portion of the book, where we learn about Nazuna’s first human friend from many years ago, who even Nazuna has forgotten. This is a really strong bit of character development for both characters, one who hides at school because home life is intolerable and another who can’t remember anything so has zero concept of how she should behave in school.
Kyoko is a study in depression, loneliness, and being basically invisible and she becomes a good friend to Nazuna; one who might want to be a bit more than that. Kyoko loves mysteries and I think that’s a reflection on the mangaka themselves, as this story is always good at asking interesting questions.
When the girls are playing sleuth, they don’t learn very much, but between the flashbacks and their interactions and one very out-of-nowhere moment when Nazuna is in the air, there are so many things being put out for the reader to be interested in for the future.
And it doesn’t hurt that the friendship between these two is pretty damn heartwarming, the scene at Kyoko’s home is a wonderful example of this, which makes whatever it will end up becoming even more tragic. Part of me wondered if Kyoko wound up as the vampire hunter we’ve seen, but that does feel a little obvious for this series (not that it won’t be good if it heads that way).
As pivots away from the core pair of Ko and Nazuna go, this one is pretty stellar. Kyoko and Nazuna have a similar vibe, but it’s definitely one that’s distinct from the relationship that Ko has with our erstwhile vampire. Both pairs were close, but they weren’t the same.
And as good as Ko is as a character, and I like him a lot, it is often Nazuna who steals these scenes and she’s given a lot to do here. Watching her awkwardly learning how to act and not quite managing it has always been a strong part of the series and as we’ve gone forward we learn that there’s actually a really good reason why that’s been the case.
4.5 stars - minus a little bit for the annoying girl, but, man, the back half of this book is so good that it’s impossible to not just give it my usual. As somebody who frequently dislikes extended flashbacks, I feel that’s the biggest praise I can layer on it.
My unending love for this series remains a bit of a mystery even to me - there’s enough good stuff here, certainly, a lot even, but I always save this for last the week it comes out and I always love it without much reservation.
Now, it makes things harder than usual this time around. That girlfriend that Ko lands is a tall, reserved older student who has nothing but princess fantasies on her mind and is pushy and clingy to the extreme. Mind you, the story is aware of how obnoxious she is, but, ironically, the writing is frequently so good that she is excruciating at points.
Outside of her though, this is a total winner. With the revelation of Nazuna’s past last time, we now have an excuse to explore her backstory even further and it explains a lot of her behaviour both past and present. She’s maturing at a different rate than anybody expected or, in a way, knows how to deal with.
Which explains a lot of her personality, which is a blend of bravado and bluster in equal measure. Sometimes she is believably chill about adult topics - the way she teases Ko about his girlfriend (and the idiotic position she finds them in later) is both a testament to her immaturity and her comfort levels with Ko.
And, even if she and Ko start dating and break up in the span of around four panels (it makes sense, I swear), she still gets incredibly sulky when he turns out to know how to fake his way through school with an incredible amount of aplomb and winds up being super popular.
It’s all in service to the back portion of the book, where we learn about Nazuna’s first human friend from many years ago, who even Nazuna has forgotten. This is a really strong bit of character development for both characters, one who hides at school because home life is intolerable and another who can’t remember anything so has zero concept of how she should behave in school.
Kyoko is a study in depression, loneliness, and being basically invisible and she becomes a good friend to Nazuna; one who might want to be a bit more than that. Kyoko loves mysteries and I think that’s a reflection on the mangaka themselves, as this story is always good at asking interesting questions.
When the girls are playing sleuth, they don’t learn very much, but between the flashbacks and their interactions and one very out-of-nowhere moment when Nazuna is in the air, there are so many things being put out for the reader to be interested in for the future.
And it doesn’t hurt that the friendship between these two is pretty damn heartwarming, the scene at Kyoko’s home is a wonderful example of this, which makes whatever it will end up becoming even more tragic. Part of me wondered if Kyoko wound up as the vampire hunter we’ve seen, but that does feel a little obvious for this series (not that it won’t be good if it heads that way).
As pivots away from the core pair of Ko and Nazuna go, this one is pretty stellar. Kyoko and Nazuna have a similar vibe, but it’s definitely one that’s distinct from the relationship that Ko has with our erstwhile vampire. Both pairs were close, but they weren’t the same.
And as good as Ko is as a character, and I like him a lot, it is often Nazuna who steals these scenes and she’s given a lot to do here. Watching her awkwardly learning how to act and not quite managing it has always been a strong part of the series and as we’ve gone forward we learn that there’s actually a really good reason why that’s been the case.
4.5 stars - minus a little bit for the annoying girl, but, man, the back half of this book is so good that it’s impossible to not just give it my usual. As somebody who frequently dislikes extended flashbacks, I feel that’s the biggest praise I can layer on it.
January 17, 2026
i like where this story is going. the friendship between nazuna and kyoko is sweet and i need to read where it goes!!
January 29, 2025
Good as always got boring but better at the end
June 16, 2024
ÇA MORD?! (8)
Kô et Nazuna sont enrôlés de force dans un cours du soir. Nazuna dit qu'elle aime l'alcool devant plein d'adolescents et failli gaffer en révélant sa nature de vampire. (C'est Kô qui la rattrape!).
Une nouvelle venue vient rencontrer Kô dans une espace exigu. Elle est de très grande taille. Elle dit cash à Kô qu'elle l'aime et qu'elle veut sortir avec Lui. Ça sent mauvais. Je vous le dis par expérience ! Quand une fille que tu connais pas te dit "je t'aime" c'est qu'elle s'est fait plein de films dans sa tête qui correspondent pas forcément avec la vérité"...
C'est la meilleure phrase que j'ai écrite aujourd'hui.
Nazuna troue Kô et Rira dans une position étrange mais fortuite et son cerveau commence à Vriller. "Relation sexuelle illicite" "Imagine qu'elle tombe enceinte" ...
Etrangement, Nazuna semble vriller plus que d'habitude et pousse Kô dans les bras de Rira.
Je trouve le charme de Nazuna davantage efficient. Et sa nouvelle tenue vestimentaire.
Même si on en apprend plus sur le passé de la célèbre vampire, on ne connait pas encore son Origin Story.
En bref____
Après avoir été très déçu par le tome7, je passe finalement au Tome 8 et parviens à l'apprécier. Entre cours du soir, déclaration d'amour et fidélité à Nazuna. Un bon titre. J'aime vraiment bien.
Positif____
Les vampires stylés.
L'humour.
Les personnages.
Le style mature malgré les 14 ans de Kô!
Négatif____
Je ne sais pas!
____
Phoenix
++
Kô et Nazuna sont enrôlés de force dans un cours du soir. Nazuna dit qu'elle aime l'alcool devant plein d'adolescents et failli gaffer en révélant sa nature de vampire. (C'est Kô qui la rattrape!).
Une nouvelle venue vient rencontrer Kô dans une espace exigu. Elle est de très grande taille. Elle dit cash à Kô qu'elle l'aime et qu'elle veut sortir avec Lui. Ça sent mauvais. Je vous le dis par expérience ! Quand une fille que tu connais pas te dit "je t'aime" c'est qu'elle s'est fait plein de films dans sa tête qui correspondent pas forcément avec la vérité"...
C'est la meilleure phrase que j'ai écrite aujourd'hui.
Nazuna troue Kô et Rira dans une position étrange mais fortuite et son cerveau commence à Vriller. "Relation sexuelle illicite" "Imagine qu'elle tombe enceinte" ...
Etrangement, Nazuna semble vriller plus que d'habitude et pousse Kô dans les bras de Rira.
Je trouve le charme de Nazuna davantage efficient. Et sa nouvelle tenue vestimentaire.
Même si on en apprend plus sur le passé de la célèbre vampire, on ne connait pas encore son Origin Story.
En bref____
Après avoir été très déçu par le tome7, je passe finalement au Tome 8 et parviens à l'apprécier. Entre cours du soir, déclaration d'amour et fidélité à Nazuna. Un bon titre. J'aime vraiment bien.
Positif____
Les vampires stylés.
L'humour.
Les personnages.
Le style mature malgré les 14 ans de Kô!
Négatif____
Je ne sais pas!
____
Phoenix
++
May 16, 2025
This is the most nuanced of the shonen manga I've been reading. Admittedly, this is a very limited pool that has maybe six titles in it.
I really enjoy the interactions between Nazuna and Kyoko in the flashback sequence that takes up the majority of this volume. They're both oblique to "ordinary humanity," each in their own way, and they get along well.
That doesn't mean they'll inevitably fall in love. I appreciate the thought expressed here that romance isn't a given if two otherwise compatible people are in close quarters for long enough, and also appreciate that queerness isn't treated as a huge deal.
The relationship betwen Ko and Rila is rather odd, too. I'm not sure what a 17-year-old would see in a junior high student, but in the end they're both using each other. Rila's using Ko because she's clingy and boy-crazy, and Ko is using Rila to get more information about Kyoko to help Nazuna fill in some of the blanks of her past.
Supposedly we've met Niko before, but much like the other characters in the coterie of women vamps we met a few volumes ago, I had no real memory of her as an individual. I imagine we'll be filling in the blanks as we go along, and while I don't mind that at all, I'm much more interested in Nazuna.
I really enjoy the interactions between Nazuna and Kyoko in the flashback sequence that takes up the majority of this volume. They're both oblique to "ordinary humanity," each in their own way, and they get along well.
That doesn't mean they'll inevitably fall in love. I appreciate the thought expressed here that romance isn't a given if two otherwise compatible people are in close quarters for long enough, and also appreciate that queerness isn't treated as a huge deal.
The relationship betwen Ko and Rila is rather odd, too. I'm not sure what a 17-year-old would see in a junior high student, but in the end they're both using each other. Rila's using Ko because she's clingy and boy-crazy, and Ko is using Rila to get more information about Kyoko to help Nazuna fill in some of the blanks of her past.
Supposedly we've met Niko before, but much like the other characters in the coterie of women vamps we met a few volumes ago, I had no real memory of her as an individual. I imagine we'll be filling in the blanks as we go along, and while I don't mind that at all, I'm much more interested in Nazuna.
June 1, 2024
Story development was a bit slow in this tankoubon as not much went on in terms of stakes, comedic antics, and the male protagonist's journey to winning the female protagonist's heart, but parts of the female protagonist's past do kick in, and a potential new rival for the male protagonist's romantic affections got introduced. Despite some flaws, this tankoubon wasn't a waste of my reading time, and I will tune in to tankubon 9 of Call of the Night to see where things go next when it comes to both the search for details of a character's forgotten past and the male protagonist's coping with a girl who maybe a threat to his lover journey.
August 31, 2023
Nazuna and Kou's trip down memory lane to find out more about the former's past continues when they become students of a night class where Nico, a vampire like Nazuna, teaches.
I'm really loving how much plot we've been getting since the previous volume, it's nice to know more about Nazuna and her past.
I'm really loving how much plot we've been getting since the previous volume, it's nice to know more about Nazuna and her past.
August 17, 2025
I didn’t like how obsessive Rila was (even if that’s part of her character) but lowkey it could be because she reminded me of my ex.
Other than that, I actually loved Nazuna and Kyoko’s friendship, absolutely adorable. I like how Kyoko didn’t judge Nazuna’s lack of information on how the world works, and instead helped her learn how to navigate it.
Other than that, I actually loved Nazuna and Kyoko’s friendship, absolutely adorable. I like how Kyoko didn’t judge Nazuna’s lack of information on how the world works, and instead helped her learn how to navigate it.
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June 21, 2022
This series continues to be more enjoyable that I thought it would. There is the unneccesary "girlfriend" thing at the start of the volume but then we get some really good flashbacks to Nazuna and her first friend.
June 10, 2023
I love this series so much. I remember when I was first reading Vol 1, I was a little...I don't want to say bored, but I remember thinking, "where is this going?", And I have to say I've been pleasantly surprised. Each volume just gets better and better. I can't wait to read the others.
August 2, 2023
Hmm okay. Now I'm more curious to learn more about Nazuna's first ever friend. That poor girl...I wonder what her dad's deal really is. I doubt it's cheating, but it could be...
Hopefully I'll learn more about it in the next volume...
Hopefully I'll learn more about it in the next volume...
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
May 10, 2024
Den här serien har verkligen blivit bättre.
December 28, 2025
This is such good character-first storytelling. I had never suspected Nazuna and Anko to have a relationship, but now that it's been established it totally makes sense while also adding another layer of depth to Anko's "kill all vampires" mentality
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June 19, 2022Love it
It has amazing art, the story is interest, and fun. Why so short volumes. We need more longer volumes and nazuna!
It has amazing art, the story is interest, and fun. Why so short volumes. We need more longer volumes and nazuna!
July 8, 2022
I absolutely love this series!
The characters are fresh and interesting. The situations are at different times scary, funny, serious, and slapstick. You really need to read this!
The characters are fresh and interesting. The situations are at different times scary, funny, serious, and slapstick. You really need to read this!
July 27, 2022
Wow, I hope what I'm thinking isn't gonna happen. I can't wait for the next volume to come out. This is sooooo good!!!
July 29, 2022
Loved this volume ! It’s nice to see how much the story and the writing improves over the course of each volume ! Can’t wait to read the next!
August 18, 2022
The character designs are so good! And not only that, there backstories just make me think about how messed up the world truly is.
November 11, 2022
AND I GOT THE FAKE NAMEs
December 13, 2022
Holy shit this manga is so damn good, no spoilers from me, just read this!
April 9, 2023
This series is amazing, it's mysterious and the story is interesting. The world of vampires is unique and the characters are lovable. Would highly suggest.
May 26, 2023
Nazuna remembers her first human friend.
December 29, 2023
This volume once again focuses on Nazuna's past, with some pretty interesting reveals, but also deals a bit more on human feelings and relationships.
Another great volume.
Another great volume.
July 21, 2024
Octavo tomo en edición argentina de los 20 que van a ser en total.
August 26, 2024
Ah ha ha! “No way would I do something that dumb!” What an unexpected way to end a volume. There are so many funny moments in this series even when things get heavy.
July 24, 2025
story is much better without ko
November 10, 2025
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July 15, 2022
First ever review. Decided to finally leave one just to express how great this volume and series as a whole is. As far as manga goes, the character growth has been fantastic, with the budding relationship between Ko and Nazuna being a particular highlight. Really excited to see how the things being foreshadowed are gonna play out. Highly recommend
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