Call of the Night, Vol. 6 (2024)

We get some revelations about Nazuna's past in this volume, which seems quite early for a weekly manga, but I'm not displeased with it. I'm curious about why her memories are so deeply either forgotten or repressed.

The feeling of Call of the Night has changed somewhat, at least in part because of Uguisu's gleefully vindictive vendetta against vampires. There's a certain level of violence inherent to vampire stories--they prey on humans for their blood, regardless of the romantic twist put on the legend here (also seen, in variation, in shoujo manga Vampire Knight)--making their destruction a matter of survival of our own species, so maybe it's just a matter of that aspect making it further into the foreground.

The end of this volume left off on a really interesting cliffhanger, but it's time to move on to something else.

I’m really enjoying the storylines in this and I really like all the side characters so far they’re all super interesting

Ko and Nozuma are off for an adventure in Toyko, featuring a guest appearance by reality. Ko’s friend is possibly messing with the wrong vampire, leading to an awkward night of guy talk. And we get one of the most literal interpretations of your past coming back to haunt you.

This series didn’t actually need a driving plot. It was really, truly fine as a travelogue of nightly haunts between two very lost souls who found something in one another. But this isn’t a shojo, so plot there must be.

And the plot is fine - the somewhat slovenly Detective Anko turns out to be even deadlier than she let on, knowing the secret of how to kill vampires and having a rather over the top moment as she goes after another one (which does inadvertently lead to one hilarious jealous freak-out).

The end result of all this is that Nozuma is off on a quest to discover her past, which isn’t a bad plot thread to follow but isn’t really what made this series so great. Still, it’s not like this ruins anything, although the very last section does drag a couple times, though her response to potential ghosts is a visual gag that delightfully persists through almost the whole thing.

The subplot with Ko’s friend who wants the same thing as Ko, but seems to be going about it all wrong, is good too (there’s a really nifty swerve there). It’s an interesting contrast between the two boys. And, while she only makes one appearance this volume, Akari proves that she’s the smartest member of this entire cast.

No, Ko and Nozuma still remain the primary draw and their chemistry can punch through just about anything. The trip to Tokyo is great, as they banter back and forth about love and then sort of realize they’re doing fine as they are (Nozuma’s incurable shyness over romance is still great).

The other elephant in that room is that Ko’s only 14 still, so when he talks about not getting the idea of love it might very well have a biological reason. I doubt this is meant to ruminate on the blossoming of puberty, but it’d be nice if somebody thought it.

Speaking of elephants, the best moment in the book comes when Ko and Nozuma make an impromptu zoo stopover and while having fun and being quite sweet to one another, there’s an accidental yet poignant reminder of just what this life entails. It definitely gave me hints on what a potential end game for the series might be, but we shall see.

Amidst the plots and trips we have lots of the usual hi-jinx as Ko gets abducted for a round of girl talk, Ko and Nozuma frustrate everybody because of their lack of traditional love while getting on like a house on fire (Nozuma has a perfect and quotable declaration on this that I really loved), and many old characters check in.

It’s a good balance and the nature of the beast is such that as we go on there will be more plot added and extra complications to overcome. This is just the rare instance where it didn’t need it and I would’ve really been fine with these two playing video games for a while longer.

4 stars - still one of my current favourite shonen series and that’s hopefully not going to change. Even when the plot comes to the fore, the characters remain as good as they ever were and that gives me a lot of hope for it moving forward.

4.5/5

I like hospital shenanigans. And Kabura. ❤️

This was my favorite book in the series so far. Mahiru realizes that he has fallen in love with a vampire and contemplates becoming one himself. Ko and Nazuna visit Tokyo. The vampire-slaying private investigator goes after Aki. This allows the other vampires to determine how she can kill them. Ko tries to help Nazuna remember her past. #CalloftheNightVol6 #NetGalley

Ecrit par Kotoyama - Call of the night (tome 6 sur 6)| Xavière Daumarie (Traducteur) |192 pages| Kurokawa -2023 (En Anglais)
Bonjour les Phoenix aux Chocolats !! Merci d’avoir été si nombreux à Liker les critiques des tomes précédents, ça me fait bien plaisir.
Ce tome 6 marque malheureusem*nt la fin de l’aventure papier pour l’instant… Les Scans des tomes suivants sont déjà disponibles cependant.
Son souhait de devenir Vampire tendant à se réaliser de plus en plus, Kô voit ses amis les uns après les autres qui ont une parole sympathique pour Lui.
Mahiru (Le camarade de Kô) semble s’être trouvé sa petite copine vampire à Lui aussi.
A croire que toutes les vampires top models sont à la recherche des teenagers fluets (Je charrie, mais en fait j’aime beaucoup !!).
On peut souligner que les vampires sont presque exclusivement des femmes super canons, à l’exception de deux d’entre eux. Un vieux croulant tout décrépit qui ne mange pas, et un gars qui ressemble comme deux goûtes d’eau à une Fille. Pourquoi se priver d'une bonne plastique?
Drôle ! Nazuna devient une furie quand on insulte Tokyo. Pauvre Kô, il n'était pas au courant !
Et on réalise que Nazuna et Kô pourraient très bien être à Kyoto, Tokyo, Berlin, Londres ou Madrid, tant qu’il sont si bien ensembles !! Certes ils se l’avouent pas encore vraiment mais on voit très bien où l’histoire veut en venir… Ce qui fait qu’on nous prend pas pour des demeurés en nous faisant croire qu’une intrigue simple est compliquée.
Nazuna s’achète des fringues à Tokyo (Interdit de regarder dans la cabine d’essayage… Ou pas?) Ce qui nous permet d’admirer une autre de ses tenues. Nos deux héros font vraiment ce qu’ils veulent débarrassés de la plupart des contraintes concernant les mortels. Ils peuvent visiter le Zoo la nuit (Les Vampires volent par dessus les grilles).
L’humour décapant revient très souvent pour notre plus grand plaisir x-)…
Je trouve que la scène de la discussion dans le bain et les passages autour apportent trop d’informations mais c’est à la fois un mal et un bien.
Eh nooon c’est déjà fini !! :’( … Je veux la suite. XD
Certainement vais-je aller découvrir d’autre œuvres de Kotoyama. Vous en connaissez ?
(Je viens de voir que « Call of the night » aussi appelé « Song of the night » avait paru son tome 6 il y a moins de 3 semaines ! Je reste donc aux aguets.)

The vampire hunter attacks, and Ko & Nazuna need to find clues to her past.

After a violent encounter with a vampire hunter, the group decides Ko and Nazuna have to find connections to her human past. They end up at a hospital, but run into the Ice Queen. She threatens to boot them out, as she works there. However, she relents, and as they search, Ko and Nazuna get separated, so the Ice Queen spirits him away, and they have a chat. Ko starts figuring things out, and asks the Ice Queen a very important question. At the same time, Nazuna, freaking out because she can't find Ko, falls through the door of the "forbidden room", and looking around, she finds a framed photo of two VERY familiar people, one a nurse, the other a patient...

Call of the Night es un rinconcito feliz. Las partes costumbristas son mis favoritas porque no deja de ser una historia coming of age con vampiros, pero aquí ha habido un par de escenas donde ha subido la intensidad y OH MAMA.

La detective sigue siendo de mis personajes favoritos, y a lo tonto Kotoyama está construyendo un ecosistema vivo, con cada vez más personajes y subtramas cruzándose, y ha terminado este tomo con un cliffhanger de aúpa. Con cada tomo me gusta más esta serie.

Ooh, finally some more backstory information...Now I'm more curious to learn about Nazuna's past.

Also I'm glad Kiku is giving Mahiru a choice. He feels torn about turning into a vampire and now I'm left wondering if it's true that Kiku hates creating offspring, yet she does it anyway if the person falls in love with her. But if that's true, then why does she go through with it? And supposedly she doesn't interact with her offspring again after turning them, so what's up with that?

Plot pace was a bit slow, but at least this volume didn't fail to be a worthwhile read, especially when it delivered an attention-catching plot point; the start of the quest for the female protagonist's memories of her pre-vampiress years. Plus, one of the supporting characters now wants to follow the same goal as the manga's male protagonist. I stay strapped on board for the next volume of Call of the Night.

This series gets better with each volume. I really liked that the vampires mortality is linked to their ability to remember their human life prior to turning. That was a neat touch. We continue to learn more about all the side characters and that ending really hit good.

Great

This series is great. I don't feel like writing anything else. This series is great. I don't feel like writing anything else. This series is great. I don't feel like writing anything else.

I was scared that I’d continue to not like this series. But now I can say that this is now my favorite volume of the series so far and I’m beginning to actually feel a connection with the characters and the story. Excited to read the next volumes !

Another amazing volume that deals with different types of love and relationships between people. We also get more info on the whole vampire lore, and even on some of Nazuna's past.

Still a very consistent manga.

This series continues to be precious and now there's a good bit of action, we're also going to be learning the vampires pasts. I love this series so much.

UM!!?!?!?

While I wish the art was better able to capture the feeling of 夜ふかし I still think this series has continued to stay strong after a rocky first couple of volumes.

This series is so gripping, there is great build up into the big moments!
The little shocking moments really add so much to this one. That ending in particular. Next volume please!!

Wow, what a twist. Interesting 🤔 love it though!!!

3.5 maybe

Hatsuka <3
I don't get why they didn't kill the annoying detective bitch right away, but I guess they have to keep her around for plot reasons.

Nazuna’s past?!

Estuvo gracioso en algunas partes, y la historia por fin está tomando algo de ritmo. Aun así, no tengo el mismo interés que tenía al principio.

Kind of like that one movie Blade (1998)

Who turned who, and what is their secret. It continues to get better with each volume.

This volume is so good because I think the author finally figured out where they want the story to, looking forward to where the story's going to take me!