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Call of the Night Season 2 Anime's Trailer, Visual Previews Halloween Night Arc

The official X/Twitter account for the television anime of Kotoyama's Call of the Night (Yofukashi no Uta) manga unveiled on Saturday a promotional video and visual for the Halloween Night arc, which begins in the second season's ninth episode on August 29.

The new season premiered on July 4 in the Noitamina programming block on Fuji TV and its affiliated channels throughout Japan, and it runs on Fridays at 11:30 p.m. JST (10:30 a.m. EDT). HIDIVE streams the anime as it airs.

Rina Satō joins the cast as Kiku Hoshimi, a seductive woman with whom Kō's friend Mahiru falls in love. Maaya Uchida also joins as Haru Nanakusa, a nurse who looks like Nazuna Nanakusa. Tomokazu Sugita plays LG, a follower of Midori Kohakobe.

The anime's first season premiered in July 2022. HIDIVE streamed the anime with English subtitles as it aired in Japan. HIDIVE also debuted an English dub in September 2022.

Tomoyuki Itamura (Monogatari series) directed the first season at LIDEN FILMS with Tetsuya Miyanishi (Josee, The Tiger and the Fish) as the chief director. Michiko Yokote (Bleach, Shirobako, Prison School, Cowboy Bebop) wrote the scripts. Haruka Sagawa (Happy-Go-Lucky Days) designed the characters.

The site also announced that Creepy Nuts will also perform the ending theme song "Nemure" (Sleep) for the second season. Creepy Nuts is also performing the opening theme song "Mirage." As in the first season, the duo perform both the opening and ending songs. The manga itself is named after the duo's "Yofukashi no Uta" song, which also served as the opening theme song of the first season.

Viz Media licensed the Call of the Night manga, and describes the story:

Nanakusa is a vampire. That's okay with human Ko. He wants to be one too. But transformation doesn't come that easily...

When Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he's stoked! But then he awakens to kisses on his neck with a little too much bite to them... Is it just the delicious taste of his blood that makes her meet him night after night for late-night adventures, conversation and...naps? Or something else? Then, when a cute girl from Yamori's past shows up and competes for his attention, his budding relationship with the undead is put to the test!

Kotoyama (Dagashi Kashi) launched the Call of the Night manga in Shogakukan's Weekly Shonen Sunday magazine in August 2019. The manga ended in January 2024. Shogakukan published the manga's 20th and final compiled book volume in March 2024.

Sources: Call of the Night anime's X/Twitter account, Comic Natalie