A boy who cannot sleep walks out at midnight and meets a vampire who laughs at everything.
Call of the Night is the only vampire romance we know that is really about insomnia, and we think its city at night is the best-drawn one in recent anime. Here are eight reasons, one on each slide.
Reason 1 - A boy who stopped sleeping
Ko Yamori is fourteen, has quit going to school and lies awake every night. One night he simply puts on a jacket and walks out of the house.
Episode one is mostly that walk: empty streets, a convenience store, the feeling of a city that belongs to nobody.
Reason 2 - The girl under the street light
Out there he meets Nazuna Nanakusa, a girl in a black coat who asks him why he is out so late and seems to know the night better than anyone.
She is the first person who does not tell him to go home.
Reason 3 - A vampire who never takes it seriously
Nazuna is a vampire, and she treats it like a part-time job. She drinks a little blood, teases Ko until he goes red, then laughs at her own jokes.
There is no gothic castle and no curse speech. That lightness is the whole charm.
Reason 4 - The rule that drives the show
Ko wants to become a vampire, and there is a catch: it only works if he falls in love with the vampire who bites him.
So the question of every episode is simple. Is this crush real yet, or is he only in love with the night?
Reason 5 - A city painted in neon
LIDENFILM paints the town in purple, gold and teal, with lit windows and a starry sky that looks like a music video.
Director Tomoyuki Itamura lets scenes breathe, so a quiet walk can last a whole minute and never feel slow.
Reason 6 - A place to finally sleep
On the first night Nazuna takes Ko back to her room, and the boy who could not sleep falls asleep almost at once.
It is a small, odd moment, and it tells you what the show is really about: feeling safe somewhere.
Reason 7 - The song the show is named after
The manga takes its Japanese title, Yofukashi no Uta, from a 2013 song by the hip-hop duo Creepy Nuts, and the anime uses that song as its ending theme.
Their opening, Daten, is just as good. Do not skip either.
Reason 8 - Where to start
The anime started in 2022 with 13 episodes, adapted from the manga by Kotoyama, who also made Dagashi Kashi.
Watch it late at night, with the lights off. That is how it was meant to land.
Where to watch
Call of the Night was listed on HIDIVE, Amazon Prime Video and Hulu in the USA when we last checked, in October 2026. Catalogues change by country and by month, so check the service where you are.
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Source: the Anime Crush Anime Guide.
