Call of the Night, Vol. 1: Volume 1

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Nazuna, noticing Ko's discomfort, assures him that the starved vampire at the school was not a typical case. When Ko’s childhood friend, who is nice but so wrongheaded with him that it’s not even funny, puts a spanner in the works, there is some viciously satisfying back and forth. A manga about teenagers and vampires that touches on love and loneliness but isn't over-romanticised or violent. The woman introduces herself as Anko Uguisu, a private detective, and she tries to get information from him on Akihito, showing Ko a photo of the man who was involved with Seri the other day. Sometime later, they attend a night pool resort, where Yamori angrily pulls Nazuna away from two guys hitting on her.

She approaches Ko when she hears that Nazuna is spending the night with a human where she attempts to suck his blood, until she is stopped by Nazuna. After she tells him she is bored with her recent life, Yamori tries to console her by saying they are the same.This seems to be dependant on emotional or physical distress at first, and later shown to emerge through some semblance of blood loss, whether that is from an injury or just a simple ear piercing. He meets with a beautiful girl named Nazuna, who identifies his night time restlessness as lack of satisfaction with life and decides to help him find it again.

It's not clear, nor is it obvious if Ko's sudden proclamation that he wants to become a vampire is due to him actually wanting to be a vampire or to a need to prove that he CAN fall in love. I don't like when they eat human food and walk in the daylight, because to me that just takes away the whole point of being a vampire. Anko Uguisu ( 鶯餡子, Uguisu Anko) Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro [8] (Japanese); Jessica Calvello (English) A vampire-hunting detective. Love her design, I think she's a nice, down-to-earth influence for Ko, and is just a genuinely good person.

Then Ko’s blood tastes delicious and I was battening down the hatches for more annoying tropes than I could shake a stick at. After she finds him, Yamori eagerly lets her drink his blood, but after he does not transform, Nazuna explains that he is confusing love with lust.

Unable to sleep or find true satisfaction in his daily life, Ko Yamori stops going to school and begins wandering the streets at night. However, I read some books that had me seriously questioning my devotion to manga this week and then this happened and I couldn’t take my eyes off it. The various chapters in this book run a range of tone, from an almost childish-feeling one where Ko gives Nazuna one of a matching set of walkie-talkie watches so they can more easily talk with each other at a distance (this is set up with an episode where she fails at understanding cell phones), to one with much more adult-feeling banter where Ko meets a childhood friend.A flustered Akira discovers of Nazuna and Yamori's kiss, and tries to dissuade him from falling in love with a vampire. Thank you to Viz Media for providing me with an Advanced Reader Copy of this volume in exchange for my honest review.