NO.205ANIMEOOTDNazuna Nanakusa
NO.205ANIMEANIME OOTD / CHARACTER ARCHIVE
Nazuna Nanakusa
Call of the Night ↗ / 2019
Vampire who introduces Ko to the night
AI-assisted illustrations · Not official anime stills








Nazuna appears in Kotoyama’s manga Call of the Night, whose first volume, published in Japan in 2019, begins with her encounter with Ko Yamori. Ko is a junior-high student who has stopped attending school and cannot sleep at night. Nazuna invites him to explore after dark, then reveals that she is a vampire, changing how he sees his familiar streets.
Nazuna speaks casually and enjoys irreverent jokes, yet earnest talk about romance quickly embarrasses her. She knows how to enjoy a night out more readily than how to explain her feelings. In the early official cast announcement, Sora Amamiya highlights her awkward kindness: a performer’s perspective that invites attention to the care beneath her teasing.
[Spoilers: manga volume 6] Anko’s pursuit of vampires reaches into Nazuna’s life beyond her outings with Ko. The vampires look back at their pasts to understand vulnerabilities the detective could exploit, but Nazuna has no remembered answer to the question of her own origins. An old appointment card offers a lead. The person guiding Ko through the night now has questions of her own to investigate.
Ko hopes to fall in love with Nazuna and become a vampire, giving their easy companionship an unresolved question. His childhood friend Akira connects him to daytime life. Nazuna also has ties to other vampires, and Anko’s investigations make those relationships harder to ignore. The different hopes surrounding Ko give their shared nights consequences beyond simply having fun.
The original is a manga; Sora Amamiya voices Nazuna in the TV anime. This page follows the early anime night visual released in February 2022: pale mauve-gray looped braids, blue eyes, a black hooded coat closed over her torso and dark thigh-high boots. Page illustrations are unofficial AI-generated fan art based on that anime design.
Original fan reading: Nazuna can teach Ko how to enjoy the night without being able to explain what affection means for either of them. A pause beside a vending machine can reveal a changing relationship as effectively as a declaration. Her coat and braids make her instantly recognizable, while her uncertainty about closeness gives those familiar streets emotional weight.