Call of the Night: Season 1

Season overview

Call of the Night is an animated television series that premiered in 2022. The story follows Kou Yamori, a middle school student who struggles to understand the concept of love. Due to his idleness, Kou suffers from insomnia and begins wandering the streets alone at night. During one of his nightly excursions, he meets a girl named Nazuna Nanakusa. Nazuna suggests that people remain awake at night because they are dissatisfied with how they spent their day and cannot rest until they release their inhibitions.

Nazuna offers to assist Kou with his sleep issues and invites him to her home, where she encourages him to share a futon. When Kou pretends to sleep, Nazuna bites his neck and reveals that she is a vampire. Kou learns that the process of becoming a vampire is not straightforward; he must be bitten by someone he truly loves to undergo the transformation. Motivated by a desire to leave his mortal life behind, Kou sets a goal to fall in love with Nazuna so that he can become a vampire himself. The series is categorized under the genres of animation, comedy, and sci-fi and fantasy.