{"id":93625,"date":"2024-02-17T16:05:43","date_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:05:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wrongeverytime.com\/?p=39177"},"modified":"2024-02-17T16:05:43","modified_gmt":"2024-02-17T16:05:43","slug":"call-of-the-night-episode-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gamefootballmobileanimeiphone.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/17\/call-of-the-night-episode-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Call of the Night \u2013 Episode 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I\u2019m eager to slink back into the shadows of Call of the Night, after a premiere that embodied the manifold strengths of author Kotoyama and director Tomoyoki Itamura. Anxious yet intensely felt sensuality, charmingly off-kilter protagonists, and a preoccupation with the \u201cdead time\u201d of our lives, the many moments between active concerns that accumulate into the collective tone of our private worlds – all things Kotoyama grappled deftly in Dagashi Kashi, and all represented with as much confidence here. Those concerns feel right at home married to Itamura\u2019s aesthetic sensibilities; his Monogatari-forged methods of conveying character perspective neatly illustrate the difference between these characters\u2019 self-assigned and outward presentation, while his emphasis on otherworldly landscapes suits a story about the allure of exploring the night perfectly. Let\u2019s see what Ko and his strange new companion get up to this time!<\/span><\/p>\n

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Episode 2<\/b><\/p>\n

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We open on another sumptuously colored shot of the city at night, awash in deep purples and the occasional intersection\u2019s orange glow. The scene promises potential, adventure; every light speaks to a private life carrying on beyond a window pane, every illuminated corner offers its own secrets and surprises. At night, light implies intention – it is almost easier to see a city street as lonely during the daytime, when there\u2019s no visual hint of habitation, whereas the glow of these apartment lights emphasize the city\u2019s nature as a living organism. This show\u2019s base appeal lives and dies in its art design, and I\u2019d say this aesthetic is a resounding success<\/span><\/p>\n

As with the dull saturation of daylight, Ko\u2019s apartment is conveyed in totally neutral colors, lacking the inherent glow of the night world<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nazuna crosses her legs as she lounges above him on the local playground, the camera angles emphasizing her delight in having a newbie to look down on<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDrinking blood is like eating and copulating at the same time!\u201d Meanwhile, Ko can\u2019t stop staring at her thighs<\/span><\/p>\n

Nazuna seems to constantly be protesting too much. She feels self-conscious in her emphasis on Ko\u2019s goals, her demand he reiterate his desire and then immediate \u201cI got it\u201d dismissal. I imagine she hasn\u2019t been a vampire that long herself – she seems to be getting too much of a thrill out of being the experienced vampire to actually be <\/span>that<\/span><\/i> experienced of a vampire<\/span><\/p>\n

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Yeah, she\u2019s clearly embarrassed by his declaration of love, even as she invites it<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhy would you show me that!? You perv!\u201d Exceedingly powerful gap moe in the distance between her general queen-of-the-night confidence and her anxiety regarding anything sexual or romantic<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s why I have to fall in love with her.\u201d Ko\u2019s setup is a bit unusual; his professed lack of interest in romance means falling for Nazuna is just a task he must accomplish in order to unite with his <\/span>true<\/span><\/i> love, the night itself<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cDid you know? Your blood tastes super good.\u201d Nazuna\u2019s attempts to reassert control are already feeling less than convincing<\/span><\/p>\n

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The OP seems to imply a sort of harem setup, with a variety of women still to be introduced. Dagashi Kashi\u2019s Saya was actually an even more powerful character than the lead Hotaru, so I\u2019m interested to see how the rest of this cast shapes up<\/span><\/p>\n

At night, the lack of light interference from the sun can allow the artificial lights of any given building to entirely set the scene. Call of the Night effectively exaggerates this effect, conveying each new landscape as saturated in the distinct colors of the adjacent structures<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cSomehow, things look kind of pretty.\u201d I appreciate these almost wordless sequences of Ko wandering the streets, the show simply luxuriating in the peaceful satisfaction of exploring the city, discovering either new regions or familiar ones that still feel strange and novel under these circumstances<\/span><\/p>\n

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Clever design trick in how Nazuna\u2019s oversized hoodie billows like a traditional cape as she touches down<\/span><\/p>\n

An interesting conversation between them, as Ko accuses Nazuna of promiscuity for drinking blood from multiple people, given she already characterized drinking blood as both eating and copulating. Vampires have always served as a thematic stand-in for sexual desire and sexual liberation, a transgressive urge to seize your carnal desires. However, in this case, neither of our leads are the theoretically menacing predator leading the other into a world of adult delights – they\u2019re both actually kinda awkward and anxious about sex, meaning Nazuna frankly addressing her own vampiric tendencies is an immediate source of embarrassment to her, an acknowledgment of the contradictions underlying her own self-image. I\u2019ve never seen a vampire who\u2019s as nervous about sex as their target<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cDo you do LINE?\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cOh. Well, I don\u2019t either.\u201d Yeah, Nazuna is clearly making this up as she goes along<\/span><\/p>\n

Oh my god, she\u2019s got an old \u201890s-style brick phone. Ko doesn\u2019t even recognize it as a phone<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI bought it a while ago, but in no time at all they came out with smaller ones, and I couldn\u2019t be bothered anymore.\u201d Yeah, I get you Nazuna. Even as a mortal I feel annoyed with the absurd pace of phone obsolescence, I can\u2019t imagine how this bullshit feels to an immortal being<\/span><\/p>\n

Ko is still understandably awkward about sharing Nazuna\u2019s bed<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cIsn\u2019t it normal I don\u2019t want her doing this with other people?\u201d Buddy, you picked a first romance with a vampire, you\u2019re gonna have to grapple with more than your fair share of awkward exclusivity negotiations<\/span><\/p>\n

And so he pettily denies her request to drink his blood, even as he asks himself why he\u2019s saying such stupid things<\/span><\/p>\n

Fortunately for him, this forces a confession from Nazuna: she actually was searching for him, she was just too embarrassed to say so. A weirdly charming confession for both of them<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI realized I felt relieved. Not because my blood was tasty, but because we both felt the same way.\u201d Rather than transgressive longing, this story is as chaste and earnest of a first love as you could ask for. It\u2019s like \u201cMy Love Story\u201d with vampires<\/span><\/p>\n

The city remains a central character on Ko\u2019s next night out, this time presenting itself as a maze concealing Nazuna in its endless alleys and alcoves<\/span><\/p>\n

Nazuna is extremely excited about Ko\u2019s new wristwatch transceiver. It seems like she became a vampire at roughly the same human age that Ko did, and has since then mostly just floated around bored and looking for a friend<\/span><\/p>\n

More excellent faces from Nazuna as she demands to play with the transceivers<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cI\u2019m not some idiot who can\u2019t find ways to play just because I don\u2019t have friends!\u201d Don\u2019t say that with such pride, Ko<\/span><\/p>\n

Ko relates a tragic tale of attempting to make up a one-sided game with his childhood transceivers, by hiding one and then communicating with whoever found it. Feels like this echoes a lot of the incidental games the cast made up in Dagashi Kashi; Kotoyama is basically a scholar of listless youth, an expert on the incidental ways children will grapple with the frequent downtime of childhood<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf this is a test run, I bet the real thing will be really stimulating.\u201d Nazuna always delights in embarrassing the one person who\u2019s more easily embarrassed than she is<\/span><\/p>\n

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While I\u2019m a big fan of the backgrounds, this show\u2019s composite could use some work. The characters frequently feel like they\u2019re on a separate plane, not really integrated into their environment – which to some extent makes sense, given the photography and color correction of the backgrounds is so different from Kotoyama\u2019s style of character designs. I can see Itamura having some difficulty transitioning from Monogatari, wherein the character and background art possessed a more unified aesthetic<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI never thought being alone was sad. Sometimes it can be even lonelier among other people.\u201d Yep – disconnection within a crowd feels like active isolation, while being alone at night feels natural, even exciting<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve never pressed the call button on one of these things.\u201d A key threshold, actively seeking connection<\/span><\/p>\n

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Nazuna immediately adopts the \u201cstatement followed by \u2018over\u2019\u201d parlance of radio communication, revealing her clear investment in this game<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s like we\u2019re a couple that just started going out.\u201d \u201cDon\u2019t say embarrassing things like that!\u201d Nazuna is as easily flustered as Ko, of course<\/span><\/p>\n

The pair float off to the school rooftop, another classic transgressive thrill<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEven the school you hate doesn\u2019t seem so bad at night.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cAt school, too! What indecent behavior!\u201d Nazuna delights in the smallest possible rebellions against propriety<\/span><\/p>\n

And having spent this much time with her, Ko\u2019s realizing the same thing – she\u2019s just as nervous as she is, and has likely never had a physical, romantic relationship either. With this gap closed between them, he feels comfortable enough to refer to her as Nazuna-chan<\/span><\/p>\n

Suddenly, a call on his other transceiver! It\u2019s his classmate!<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

And Done<\/b><\/p>\n

Well, that was a perfectly delightful time. Call of the Night is proving itself as charmingly low-stakes as Dagashi Kashi, even with its focus on blood-sucking vampires. The vampirism is barely even a metaphor here; this is mostly just a story of two lonely, awkward young people finding some understanding and community in each other, paired with the transgressive thrill of bending society\u2019s rules by embracing the night. Ko and Nazuna have already developed a strong personal chemistry – though Nazuna plays tough, both of them are insecure and inexperienced when it comes to romance, and often find themselves collectively delighting in some new expression of shared intimacy. It\u2019s simply an unassuming and altogether likable romance, and I\u2019m eager to see how these two muddle through together.<\/span><\/p>\n

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