Call of the Night Season 2
よふかしのうた Season2 (Yofukashi no Uta Season 2)
- Romance
- Supernatural
- Vampire
- Episodes
- 12
- Duration
- 22 min per ep
- Aired
- Jul 4, 2025 to Sep 19, 2025
- Status
- Finished Airing
Synopsis
A human can only turn into a vampire by falling in love with one, and 14-year-old Kou Yamori is determined to make that happen. With Nazuna Nanakusa as the object of his feelings, Kou continues spending his nights with her—knowing he has just ten months of late-night meetings left to reach his goal.
As Mahiru Seki and Akira Asai gradually accept that vampires are real and that Kou wants to become one, Kou discovers that someone close to Mahiru is a vampire himself, leaving him conflicted about whether to encourage the relationship. At the same time, vampire hunter Anko Uguisu draws nearer to Nazuna and her group, and after a confrontation leaves one of them gravely wounded, they uncover a dangerous truth: the vampires’ forgotten human lives conceal a fatal weakness. To keep Nazuna safe, Kou must start digging into the past she’s tried to leave behind.
Otaku Consensus
Call of the Night Season 2 lands as the rare sequel that sharpens the original’s identity instead of merely extending it, with Tomoyuki Itamura’s direction, LIDENFILMS’ neon-night presentation, and the Anko-centered detective/hunter material giving the romance a more dangerous pulse. Critics and fans singled out the pacing, dialogue, and darker turn as major upgrades, while the main complaint is that the season sacrifices some of Season 1’s loose, nocturnal hangout comfort for heavier mythology and tension.
Why You Should Watch
Watch this if you want vampire romance that treats attraction as a problem to investigate, not a finish line to celebrate. Season 2 is for viewers who like late-night mood pieces with teeth: intimate conversations, awkward emotional honesty, urban fantasy rules that actually matter, and a growing detective angle that keeps the story from becoming a simple will-they-won’t-they loop. It scratches a similar itch to Monogatari in its charged nighttime dialogue and psychological framing, while offering the sleepless city atmosphere of Insomniacs After School with sharper supernatural consequences. If you want a shounen romance that can be funny, sensual, uncomfortable, and melancholic in the same episode without collapsing into melodrama, this is the sequel that makes the concept feel fully weaponized.
Key Characters
- KKou Yamori(VA: Gen Sato)
Kou remains compelling because the series frames his desire for transformation less as power fantasy and more as a messy experiment in identity, intimacy, and adolescent escape.
- NNazuna Nanakusa(VA: Sora Amamiya)
Nazuna’s appeal comes from the contradiction between her teasing, nightlife charisma and the emotional blank spots the season keeps pressing on without turning her into a tidy mystery box.
- AAnko Uguisu(VA: Miyuki Sawashiro)
Anko became the season’s pressure point for many viewers, with Miyuki Sawashiro’s performance praised for making her sound unhinged, unsettling, and magnetic at once.
- MMahiru Seki(VA: Kensho Ono)
Mahiru adds a parallel lens on romance and self-destruction, giving the season a second emotional track that complicates Kou’s own assumptions.
What Makes It Stand Out
- 1
LIDENFILMS keeps the franchise’s signature urban-night identity while Season 2 pushes the palette into harsher supernatural suspense; the credited color team includes Asami Kitsukawa on color design with Akira Hashigami assisting.
- 2
Tomoyuki Itamura’s direction gives the 12-episode season a tighter escalation than the first, with reviews specifically praising the storytelling, pacing, and dialogue rather than only the atmosphere.
- 3
The season leans into its Detective tag through Anko’s presence, shifting the show from nocturnal romantic drifting into a mystery structure built around memory, vulnerability, and vampire rules.
- 4
AniList’s tag profile is unusually specific for a shounen supernatural romance: Vampire at 97%, Urban Fantasy at 93%, Aromantic at 72%, Age Gap at 70%, Detective at 66%, and Psychosexual at 40%, which captures how hard the series resists a standard confession-romance template.
- 5
Fan discussion singled out the new Creepy Nuts material alongside the neon visuals, continuing the franchise’s strong association with music-driven nightlife energy.
Fun Facts & Trivia
- Fun fact 1
- Season 2 aired as a compact 12-episode summer 2025 run, from July 4 to September 19, 2025, and finished with a strong MAL score of 8.34 from 99,388 votes.
- Fun fact 2
- The production credits name Tomoyuki Itamura as director, with Izumi Takizawa and Nao Miyoshi as assistant directors, indicating a clearly layered direction team rather than a single credited creative lead.
- Fun fact 3
- Haruka Sagawa handled character design, while Ken Naitou served as art director and Yuuki Tsuchimoto as director of photography, key roles for a series whose identity depends heavily on faces, city space, and night lighting.
- Fun fact 4
- On AniList, the season holds an 84/100 score and 2,985 favorites, closely matching its high MAL reception rather than showing a major split between database audiences.
- Fun fact 5
- A July 2025 episode-review discussion specifically highlighted Miyuki Sawashiro’s Anko performance, calling attention to how her delivery balances menace and allure.
Studios
- LIDENFILMS
