 https://myanimelist.net/anime/58390/ Plot Summary Second season of Yofukashi no Uta Other Information Type: TV Episodes: Unknown Status: Currently Airing Aired: Jul 4, 2025 to ? Premiered: Summer 2025 Broadcast: Fridays at 23:30 (JST) Producers: None found, add some Licensors: Sentai Filmworks Studios: LIDENFILMS Source: Manga Genres: Romance, Supernatural Theme: Vampire Demographic: Shounen Duration: Unknown Rating: PG-13 - Teens 13 or older |
| Should have been up 30 minutes ago...HIDIVE took a NOSDIVE when AMC bought it. |
| While this happens pretty frequently with HIDIVE, the show usually shows up a minute afterwards. But not in this case with this episode for some reason. Anyway, it's now up. Episode 1 Creepy Nuts is back doing the theme songs and seeing that they even made a cameo in the first season that of course they would return. The opening takes on a more Latin flavor, while the ending has a different kind of energy to it. Ko and Nazuna head to Tokyo and talk about what a great place it is seeing that as a vampire she can only go out at night. And then she says that message that romance is a gamble seeing that Ko stands to lose quite a lot if he doesn't become a vampire within a year. They go shopping and drop by the entrance to the zoo. Then Nazuna asks a question about how he feels about his hometown, and then Nazuna gets a bite afterwards. Pretty much, this episode goes to show just what Ko would be giving up by becoming a vampire seeing that a place like the zoo is only open during the day, and that he would have to live in Tokyo since there's just about no nightlife in his hometown. A nice way to pick things up as the first season was all about deciding to become a vampire and loving Nazuna, but now he has to actually go through with the gamble he is making. |
| I don't remember much about the themes of the first season, so not sure if love was a huge deal, or just Ko being kind of emotionless and Nazuna a free spirit with no interest in "normal life". Seems this episode was about "love isn't anything magical, and not something that happens all of a sudden, just about 2 people getting together who like spending time with each other." |
| It's certainly not unusual for HiDive to drop the ball when it comes to release schedules and whatnot. Their recently added section still shows stuff that came back to HiDive earlier this year, and the simulcast section still shows stuff from 2-3 seasons ago. That and they get 2-3 shows each season. Only group that's doing worse on that front is Disney, but it's Disney so who cares. For a company whose tagline is "Where anime fans belong" they certainly don't make it easy. HOOfan_1 said: I don't remember much about the themes of the first season, so not sure if love was a huge deal, "Life sucks, can't sleep, found vampire girl, had fun, fell in love." Pretty much. Absolutely hated the music, but I'm obligated to finish it. Most annoying thing is that vampire girl can spout crude vulgarities, but mention anything to do with love and she turns into a teenage tsundere and gets all flustered and does a runner. Despite my love of romcoms, I hated this show. Mostly for the music and how invasive it was. Backgrounds were pretty though, albeit somewhat confusing. |
| Episode 1: The only detective I like The OP almost overshadowed the whole episode. Though this isn't primarily an action show, so it worries me somewhat that that aspect is what's showcased in the OP: Hopefully the second season doesn't drop in complexity and try to make up with it with fighting. The show was smart enough, and highly consistent, in the first season, so I do expect the second season to maintain the quality at least, but we'll see. I might have to switch my profile picture back to Anko. Call of the Night manages to have written a detective I don't hate,though that usually happens when the masturbatory instrumental reason crap is subordinated to something else—here vampire hunting, and the maturity of normal adulthood. Moriarty the Patriot was good because Holmes and Moriarty focused on being fabulous and exacting justice, rather than on silly machinations. I don't mind that this episode was mostly talking; that was a good chunk of the first season. Though it didn't really go anywhere the first season didn't already. It almost seemed like it could've fit before the last two episodes of the first season. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| He's enamored with her, but he's not in love with her. He can be annoying at times and he was a bit this episode, which got in the way a few times of being able to enjoy how great this show is at creating a mood. MenchiK1 said: But now she has to or the other vamps will kill him. I had forgotten about that until they brought up that she has a year to turn him.but she admits she is just a poser about everything and actually being a vampire is super boring so she won't make him one. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 2 And this episode reintroduces Ko's human friends Akira and Mahiru. Mahiru has fallen in love with Kiku, but it turns out she is also a vampire unbeknownst to Mahiru. So now Mahiru is in the loop about vampires, and they talk about the matter in the baths with Hatsuha and Akihito. If you remember, one of the vampires Yo met is actually a guy, which is what Hatsuha is. So Mahiru is going through the same dilemma as Yo realizing that a romantic relationship between a human and a vampire is quite complicated. |
| I have no idea who that person at the end was. That's the problem when there's so much time between seasons. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
Ha, they had Nazuna dressed up as Hotaru from Dagashi Kashi in the eye catch in the middle |
| Episode 3 The vampire hunter Anko has come for Akkun, and then has business with Mahiro seeing that he's in love with a vampire, but doesn't pry into that matters. And then Mahiro is informed about the one year limit for becoming a vampire. And then Nazuna reveals that while vampires look younger than their actual age, it isn't as extreme with Nazuna as she's only in her 30's. And then Ko and Nazuna see Kabura, who works as a nurse in the hospital as Ko is searching for clues about Nazuna's past, which Kabura agrees to under one condition. Nazuna is full of mysteries, and one of them was solved when Nazuna turns out to be a middle-aged woman, and not a young-looking geezer as one might expect. |
| Episode 3: There it is I was worried season 2 had lost what made season 1 great, but Anko paralyzing the guy and stabbing him full of holes, and Yamori and Nazuna's banter in the second half, prove it's still as good as it was. Meanwhile I continue to appreciate that the author isn't plying us with speculation fodder about how vampires work, tiers of powers, and whatnot. Having them not know themselves how these things work solidifies this, making it easier for the viewers used to stupid theorizing to accept that sometimes mysteries have to wait to be resolved. |
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| Episode 4 Ko and Nazuna have infiltrated the hospital with Ko pretending to be Nazuna's patient. But as it turns out, Kabura and Nazuna have known each other for a long time as Kabura was close friends with Nazuna's late mother Haru, who looks nearly identical. Kabura was originally a human, but became a vampire because of her weak body that had her staying in the hospital for a long time and being cared for by Haru. After establishing a bond with Haru, Kabura was turned into a vampire. Quite an interesting backstory there as Kabura's perspective in life had greatly changed after becoming a vampire, and she's carrying out Haru's legacy by being a nurse herself. Things were good up until that point, but somewhere things went horribly wrong. |
| So, that's got to be Nazuna's mother. So now we need to find out if Nazuna was born before she became a vampire, and if not, if Nazuna was born a vampire or had to be turned. |
| Episode 5 The rest of Kabura's backstory is told as Haru decided to get married on a whim, and Kabura would end up spitting out beer on the waiter every time that happened. And then comes the big reveal in all this in that Haru is Nazuna's mother and her father was a human, so Nazuna has human blood inside her, but is totally unaware of her human roots. But Nazuna becomes a source of trauma for Kabura seeing that things ended pretty badly shortly after Nazuna was born. Kabura was none too pleased that Haru never returned her affection. Even so, she did carry on Haru's will by raising Nazuna herself. So with that, Nazuna's background story has been explained as she's unlike the other vampires, which means in theory she shouldn't be one of Anko's targets. |
| Episode 6 Kabura reveals how Nazuna's parents died as Haru was severely weakened after giving birth to Nazuna, but refused to consume any more human blood, while the husband died not long after that. As it turns out, a vampire's weakness is their mortal past and it's no wonder why Kabura was being rather secretive about it. After that, it's off to Akihabara to meet the otaku known only by his handler name Love Green. He was recently turned into a vampire by his girlfriend, the cute vampire Midori, who is quite popular with customers at a maid cafe. It was a pretty nice chat there, all while explaining that the vampire hunter and detective Anko is coming for them and will use that weakness against them. Midori and LG-kun sure make a great couple there and seeing how cute Midori is that LG-kun would gladly become a vampire for that. |
GridironOtakuAug 8, 10:51 AM
| Tomokazu Sugita always being cast as the fat Otaku.... So was he fat before he changed or not? He seemed to indicate he didn't get fat until after he changed and was eating ramen despite not needing to eat it, but the flashbacks of him before he changed kept showing him as fat, even after that. |
| That was great. The interactions between the four of them are the kind of thing that make this show so good. I may be overthinking it, but I have a theory about Nazuna's origins... Anyway, I'm probably not the only person to think something along those lines. HOOfan_1 said: I think he was skinny before and he just looked heavy in the flashbacks because that's how they would picture him.So was he fat before he changed or not? |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 7 Nazuna returns to the school she attended ten years ago as being a vampire means only attending school at night. Niko was her teacher back in the day, and it turns out that Ko wasn't her first friend. That would be Kyoko, a girl who was the president of the Literature Club and was into detective novels. Her parents were killed by vampires and wanted to get to the bottom of things as she went into her father's study to try and dig up some dirt about him. Seeing that Kyoko is voiced by Miyuki Sawashiro that there's an obvious connection between that and her love for mystery novels indicative of a certain somebody. |
| I wasn't impressed with the first couple of episodes, but the backstory of Nazuna is really good. Niko was my favorite among the vampires, kind of surprising she is such a dedicated teacher but was ready to kill Kou...or maybe that was a bluff and she just really wanted to turn him herself. Will be interesting to find out why Anko changed her name for Meijero. I wonder if she was blamed for her parents' deaths, although, it's not like she is really disguising herself that well. The pink haired girl in the class also seems to be important |
| Episode 8 Nazuna's background story about her relationship with the would-be vampire hunter continues. It was during a failed chase that Nazuna revealed to Kyoko that she's a vampire, and she explains how humans can become vampires, something that Kyoko doesn't seem capable of doing, all while Nazuna had no interest in producing offsprings of her own. But she decided she needed to do a favor for Kyoko. And then the bottom fell out when her father turned into a vampire and sucked her mother dry when his vampiric instincts took over. Kyoko ended up having to kill him using the cigarette lighter he dropped that she still uses today. And sometime after that, she would become Anko the vampire hunter. She sure had it tough there, being born to a father who had the nerve to cheat on her mother. And not only that, but to fall in love with a vampire to become one himself that gave vampires a bad name in her eyes. |
| I may have said this in the discussion thread for the first show, unfortunately it was the season before they shut down the Crunchyroll forums, so that is lost now....but some of the BGM in this reminds me of the game Oxenfree. Interesting how there are so many humans wanting to leave their problems behind by becoming vampires, and then there are vampires like Nazuna's mom who want to be more human. I am guessing that Kyoko's dad was in love with a vampire, and in the midst of being changed, but when he decided to go back to his family, it made him lose control...either that or the fact that he spurned the vampire made her do something to make him lose control. |
| I figured the dad wasn't using the lighter because he didn't want to mess it up. I guess it ended up being the object that weakened him and allowed her to kill him. Maybe that's what set him off. He did start acting weird when he dropped it and he lashed out at Kyoko when she tried to give it back to him. Wasn't there... That just popped into my head when I sat down to write this. I don't remember a lot of details from the first season so I could be getting characters from another show mixed up with this one. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| Episode 9 To start things off, a disclaimer to alert everybody that somebody is going to have mental health problems, and that this needs to be taken in its proper context. So with Halloween coming up, that means vampires are coming out and it's an opportunity for Anko to go through with slaying vampires. And after watching Anko's backstory about how Kyoko became the detective vampire slayer, she's out to make sure that they perish from this place, but Anko just takes things way too far seeing that using a gun in a place like this just goes far. It was especially disturbing when she pulled out the gun against that guy who cheated on his wife by taking his cigarettes and threatened him with what was just a torch lighter and not a firearm. And then Kyoko goes around shooting Niko, and then Seri knowing that they can't kill vampires. Pretty much, this goes to show just how mentally unstable Anko is and that she's hellbent on killing the vampires even at the cost of her life. Things have gotten quite intense here as Anko isn't backing down. |
| Episode 10 Kyoko continues her rampage with her mental health in a very perilous state, and Ko is asking Niko to help out. The only thing in Kyoko's way is Nazuna. The former friends get into a heated battle with Nazuna getting a bloodied eye before Ko comes in to the rescue. Ko is held at gunpoint, but figures out that Kyoko's true objective is not to exterminate the vampires, but to publicize their existence and getting killed by one so that the nights will become quiet because people will stop going out at night. After Ko figure out that scheme and convinces Kyoko to live on, she gives up on this publicity stunt. However, she still intends to die, just by her own hands and not by a vampire. Ko stops her just in the nick of time before she kills herself, but she still fired that shot and Ko was hit by the bullet. This goes to show just how messed up Kyoko's mind is, and it's easy to see why, but there's still plenty of good she can do and needs to be alive to see to it that it happens. |
| Well, I am guessing Nazuna is going to have to turn Kou now to save his life |
| I figured she was either trying to expose the vampire's existence or get herself killed. I didn't, however, think she was trying to do the latter to achieve the former. |
| Cursive is the future. - Nate Bargatze |
| That was the best episode of new anime I've seen in a while. Call of the Night just nonchalantly disemboweled Takopi and ate its poorly-digested lunch. Not to mention that it's doing a good job with the detective aspect, having detective-chan (who I remember as Anko because I didn't pick up on her real name) use the detective fantasy as mystique both to intimidate and to hide the actual, mundane work she does. Plus she's a righteous vampire slayer, which is always a positive in my book. I think I shall change my profile picture to her again soon. |
auroralooseSep 6, 2:21 PM
| I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour and who then asks: Am I then a cheat? – for he wants to perish. |
| Episode 11 Ko was saved and is still a human, but it's possible that he's starting to turn into a vampire seeing that it just isn't possible for a human to recover that quickly from a gunshot wound that bad. It turns out that Kyoko wanted to fall in love with Nazuna, but gave up on that a long time ago because of what happened to her father ten years ago that led her on her mission to eradicate the vampires. After being discharged from the hospital, the three have a chat at a restaurant with Kyoko getting drunk as they talk about the situation and Kyoko explains what she knows about vampires, and in particular that they have no pulse, while Ko has one. So from the look of things Ko has began his transformation into a vampire, but it's something that will take time to happen. |
| Episode 12 (Finale) Kyoko takes Ko into her apartment where Ko explains his story to her. She admits that while vampires were the cause of her life spiraling to hell, her father bears responsibility as well. After that, Nazuna works at a maid cafe, and while she has the look, her acting needs a lot of work. And then Ko goes to a social event with the other vampires as they enjoy themselves, all while Kyoko is having a hangover of sorts. And while Ko and Nazuna could party all night, she decides to bounce and give Ko a bird's eye view of the city, before biting him. Pretty much, this episode ties up all the loose ends that were brought about by Kyoko's mental instability. To end things, it's the ending of the first season as that song that put Creepy Nuts on the map before there was Bling Bang Bang Born that made them a worldwide sensation. Final Thoughts Much like the first season, it's all about storytelling, character development, and the consequences of life's choices, the last one especially being the backbone of the show as becoming a vampire is not a decision to be taken lightly. The production values continue to be incredible as Liden Films put a lot of effort into this show unlike with a good number of their other shows. While the first season was great, it did have some issues with choppy progression and underutilized supporting cast, but this season improves on much of it as it does a nice job with developing Kabura and Kyoko as characters, while explaining Nazuna's background well. To sum things up, it does everything the first season did well, while doing a better job on some of the things that could have been improved. Grade: A (9/10) |
| This was better than season 1, which I rated an 8...but I am not sure it ascended to a 9 for me, so I am going 8.5/10 but not sure I can round up. They gave us a lot of backstory for the vampires and detective, but we need some more backstory to Kou and his friends I think. |
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