Characters / Call of the Night

Below is a list of characters present in Call of the Night. Beware of spoilers.

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Main duo

Kou Yamori

Kou Yamori

Voiced by: Gen Satō (JP), Gabriel Regojo (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Oscar Douieb (French), Nicolas Rathod (German), Andrea Oldani (Italian)

Kou is a 14-year-old teenager who frequently goes out on nightwalks due to being unable to sleep, meeting Nazuna Nanakusa during one of them where she offers to cuddle with him at her apartment so he can finally sleep. He learns about the existence of vampires when she feeds on him, inspiring a wish to become one of them so that he can live in the night.

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• Ambiguously Bi: Kou doesn't seem particularly put off by the revelation that Hatsuka is a guy, even after finding out in an especially awkward way. He also seems to actively consider Hatsuka's offer of turning Kou based on the idea it's easier for a guy to teach a guy, when the other members of Niko's clique missed the mark almost immediately.
• Ambiguous Situation: Thus far in the manga, his vampirization. On one hand, he is seemingly actually becoming a Vampire under Nazuna, but on the other hand he reverts to normal human once his transformation subsides. He uses unusual capabilities like remotely manipulating his own severed arm, and has sheer superhuman strength that can put even experienced vampires off-guard, but he can't fly. Whether this has to do with Nazuna being a Dhampyr changing the process, or something unique with Kou himself, is still unknown, never mind if it's even a proper vampire as the cast knows it or his own brand of half-vampire. The cast do theorize him to be a Nazuna offspring, but he breaks several of the rules every other offspring follows altogether.
• The Berserker: Yamori goes berserk the first time he deliberately triggers his vampire powers. He even kicks Nazuna across the room. She takes it in stride, however, since that was kind of the point of supervising him in the first place.
• Brilliant, but Lazy: He apparently has no issues with getting good grades. He just finds it dull. This extends his Vampiric abilities, Kou is able to pick them up and master them seemingly by seeing them demonstrated exactly once in person. Something that other, much older vampires are continually caught unawares by, including the series oldest vampire Kiku.
• Brutal Honesty:
  • Displayed when meeting Midori for the first time and he flatly turns down her offer to turn him, suggesting that her 'one extreme or the other' persona isn't appealing for him.
  • This also seems to be key to his personality when his vampire abilities activate; while Kou's normal personality is sad and frustrated by the increasing distance between him and Mahiru, his perspective while in his vampire form have him openly confess he thinks he deserves an apology for how Mahiru treated him.
  • With Micchan and Sacchan once he returns to school, calling them "ugly hoes" to their faces and making it clear that he doesn't like them. Not only it catches them offguard, they admit it makes him more interesting than his "honors student" persona.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: While playing a Dating Sim, Nazuna deduces that Yamori has a thing for girls with large bosoms.
• Chick Magnet: A somewhat downplayed example.
  • The girls in the vampire council (and Hatsuka) collectively admit they would like to make him their offspring if Nazuna hadn't gotten to him first.
  • Yamori's own classmates note how, even though he's been Skipping School for months, it only took him a week to have four girls all over him (two of which used to bully him).
• Covert Pervert: Oh, he will deny it, but Kou is surprisingly lecherous for someone who has no understanding of romance.
  • He becomes shocked upon realizing that Nazuna's kiss aroused him.
  • During one night, Nazuna insists that Akira sleep with the two of them. Yamori ends up sharing Nazuna's futon with both Nazuna and Akira, laying smack dab in the middle; he thinks to himself that something smells nice.
  • When he meets with Nazuna fresh out of the bath, he's not sure if he's experiencing romantic or sexual attraction.
  • When Nazuna gives him a massage and she both sits on his back then gives him a nice view of her legs, Yamori insists that he had no ulterior motives for accepting the massage.
  • He finds the idea of Nazuna dressing more conservatively than her usual to be very erotic.
  • As he accompanies Mahiru to deliver flowers, he ends up meeting a well-endowed woman with a low cut dress that leaves very little to the imagination. Yamori finds himself staring at her chest long enough that the woman has to snap him back to reality.
  • As Nazuna prepares to leave his apartment, Yamori accidentally pins her to his bed. While at first it looks like she's leaning in for a kiss, Yamori becomes visibly disappointed when she doesn't.
• Crazy Jealous Guy: For a guy who doesn't understand love, Yamori can be quite possessive of Nazuna.
  • Not quite "crazy", but Yamori does get uneasy when he sees two guys hitting on Nazuna at the pool. After some hesitation, he runs up to her, grabs her arm and pulls her away.
  • Becomes a more straightforward example whenever Haruka hits on Nazuna.
• Death Glare: Yamori has nothing but bloody murder in his eyes when he realizes that Kiku corrupted Mahiru into cutting himself off from his friends and family. This only intensifies when he comes face to face with her a few minutes later.
• Didn't Think This Through: He didn't quite comprehend what the conditions "Humans are Killed to Uphold the Masquerade" and "Must become a vampire within a year of a feeding, or you never will" mean together, assuming that the vampires permanently let him off the hook just because he wants be turned by Nazuna. It takes Akira spelling it out for him to realize the gravity of the situation that he has one year to become a vampire or he will be Killed to Uphold the Masquerade.
• Discriminate and Switch: He initially refuses Hatsuka's offer to turn him into his offspring. Hatsuka assumes that this is because Yamori isn't into guys, but Yamori makes it clear he's not particular about that specifically.
• Does Not Know His Own Strength: Yamori's fight with Susuki ends with him punching a hole through every floor of Nazuna's apartment building.
• Empowered Badass Normal: Thanks to Kou repeatedly having his blood sucked by Nazuna and coming to some understanding of what love is they're able to work out by trial and error that he is able to briefly wake up full Vampire abilities by inflicting pain and drawing blood from himself. The method he goes with is a hand held piercing gun. It has been pointed out that he is VASTLY stronger and faster to master his abilities than a young vampire like him should be.
• Entertainingly Wrong:
  • When Yamori asks Nazuna about the days when she was still human, she retorts that she can't remember. From this, Yamori dejectedly assumes Nazuna fell in love with a vampire, became their offspring, then forgot all about it. Only to later learn that Nazuna was never human to begin with.
  • Yamori assumes, from the way Kabura talks to and shows concern for Nazuna, that she's the one who turned her into a vampire. Again, Nazuna was never human; her biological mother, however, turned Kabura into a vampire, then asked her to look after Nazuna years later.
    Kabura: You're way off the mark...
• Grew a Spine: As the series progresses, Yamori slowly starts growing bolder to the point that he stands up to Anko, Niko, his former bullies and Kiku.
• Hate at First Sight: With Haruka. While Yamori simply became wary of him upon figuring out pretty quickly that Haruka was a vampire during their first meeting, their second meeting begins with Yamori punching Haruka in the stomach and bringing him to his knees. Only then does Yamori ask him where Sacchan is.
• The Heart: For a guy that is not really good with his emotions, Yamori is probably one of the most well-meaning people of the entire cast, and helps both Nazuna and the other vampires come to grips with their human morality as the story progresses. It says a lot that the entourage of friends and allies he makes are quick to come to his aid even if they distrust each other separately.
• I'll Kill You!:
  • Says as much to Azami after he kidnaps Akira and Anko. While the four of them are hundreds of meters above the ground.
  • While at first he just wanted to talk to Kiku in order to learn what kind of person she was and maybe learn what her goal was, he becomes murderously angry with her when he learns the extent of her depravity and screams that he will kill her when she tries to flee from him.
• Immune to Mind Control: In an odd way, his dislike of social norms and difficulty understanding love lets him shrug off an average vampire's attempt to charm him: he's not into touchy-feely flirtations, and he can bluntly tell off anyone trying to toy with his feelings. Ironically, this makes him a better match with Nazuna, who's normally derided by other vampires for being unsociable and honest — in the exact way that makes Kou feel comfortable.
• The Insomniac: Kou has been unable to sleep at night after starting to skip school, as this makes him not waste energy during the day.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: To an almost neurotic degree. He thinks his daily life is nothing more than a boring lie that exists for the sake of appearances, and hardly considers almost any of his classmates to actually be any of his friends; his social defects effectively make him rude and seemingly uncaring towards other people around him until you manage to get to know his true, night-loving and "free" self that speaks more freely and means well for others. Then someone he knows is in trouble and the next thing you know, he drops everything to make them feel better or save their life, no matter how crazy or nigh-suicidal it may be. Only Nazuna seems to have really gotten a hang for his weirdness.
• Megaton Punch:
  • Delivers one to Azami when he attempts to kidnap Anko and Akira.
  • Attempts to hit Susuki with another. He misses.
• My Fist Forgives You: While they're patching things up, Yamori is put off by Mahiru's insistence that he punch his friend in the face in retaliation for their earlier fight, only for Yamori to later admit that he does want to punch Mahiru after all.
• No Escape but Down: At one point Yamori jumps off a bridge in order to elude the police. In the manga, Hatsuka catches him and flies him to meet the vampire council. In the anime, however, Yamori manages to land on the street unharmed before running off to look for Nazuna.
• Oblivious to Love:
  • When Sakura confessed to him, Yamori turned her down because he did not understand love. Micchan and Sacchan called him out for it and argued that he should've been aware that Sakura had a crush on him, only for Yamori to retort that he had no idea.
  • Casually tells Nazuna that she would never fall in love with him, completely unaware that she already has.
• Protagonist-Centered Morality: When Yamori gets mad at Haruka for tricking Sacchan so he could suck her blood, Haruka calls him out on it since that's a thing practically all vampires do, even the ones Yamori is friends with.
• Punctuated! For! Emphasis!: When he finally finds Kiku, Nazuna realizes that he's off the handle and asks him if he's ok. Yamori's answer is a cold "I. Am. Fine."
• Sanity Slippage: Gets more and more irritable with vampire threats later in the series, and once Kiku targets Mahiru with the intent to kill him for love, Kou doesn't even comprehend how violent he gets, even trying to get a wooden sword duel with Mahiru while looking batshit insane and seeming like he's going to murder his best friend for it. Some part of this might be attributed to his growing half-vampire nature.
• Say My Name: Can only blurt Kiku's name when he faces off against her.
• School Is for Losers: He holds this belief, and is part of the reason why he's stopped going to it, finding it extremely boring. He will even avoid going to school in a video game.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!:
  • When Anko declares that she'll protect him from the vampires by simply killing them all, Yamori declines her offer and declares that he refuses to see them as evil.
  • When Niko tries to tell Yamori that Nazuna doesn't want to see him, he angrily tells her to shut up and that he wants to see her.
• Skipping School: He does this throughout most of the series, returning in the later parts of the series to attend a school trip to Hokkaido that Mahiru will be going to along with Kiku.
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: For some reason his blood is unusually tasty to vampires.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial:
  • Yamori had no dirty thoughts whatsoever when he agreed to let Nazuna give him a massage.
  • He also did not agree to massage Shirakawa in exchange for a kiss from Nazuna; he just wants the money.
• Talk to the Fist:
  • Sucker punches Haruka while he's distracted by Nazuna.
  • He punches Haruka again while he's trying to ask Nazuna on a date.
• Used to Be More Social: So he claims, whenever people bring it up. He put up the act of being social while in school, but is unsure of the criteria for someone to call another person their friend.
• Vampire Vannabe: His entire motivation throughout the series apart from falling in love with Nazuna. He wishes to become a vampire so that he can live and have fun in the night forever and abandon his boring daily life.
• Voluntary Vampire Victim:
  • As part of his agreement with Nazuna, Yamori allows her to feed on him whenever she wants, hoping that eventually it'll stick and he will turn into a vampire himself after falling in love with her. Because Nazuna finds Yamori's blood particularly delicious, she feeds on him often, sometimes in rather inappropriate places.
  • Yamori allows Akiyama to take some of his blood after Anko tries to kill him, allowing him to recover. Nazuna is not amused.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: Not only has he never fallen in love before, he has no innate understanding of it either. As a possible result of this, he's as casual about talking about love as much as Nazuna is averse to it. It seems to extend to platonic love as well. Despite his friendship with Akira, he admits that he can't tell when it's appropriate to call someone a friend.

Nazuna Nanakusa

Nazuna Nanakusa

Voiced by: Sora Amamiya (JP), Natalie Rial (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Lila Lacombe (French), Olivia Büschken (German), Chiara Leoncini (Italian)

The first vampire Ko ever meets, and the series' main female protagonist. She introduces Ko to the life in the night, inviting him to her apartment afterwards to cuddle to sleep and bite him during his rest. Unknowingly to her, Kou was awake when she bit him, which lead to him discovering she was a vampire and asking her to turn him into one.

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• The Alcoholic: Nazuna loves beer almost as much as sucking Yamori's blood. She considers working at a maid café full-time when offered free beer.
• Allergic to Love: Nazuna is casual about sexual innuendos, compares her feeding to sex, and has no problem with actually kissing Kou. Yet the mere saying of the word "love" gets her flustered.
• An Arm and a Leg: Severs her own arm while demonstrating the dangers of poorly-done intangibility to Yamori. Susuki picks that exact moment to attack her.
• Beware the Silly Ones: She’s a cheerful, potty-mouthed alcoholic. But as shown against other vampires, she’s genuinely dangerous.
• Cleavage Window: She wears a crop top with a window hole in the middle.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Certainly seems to have shades of this, if her kissing Kou in front of Akira and the vampire council, threatening to kill Kabura for touching Kou and kneeing Seri in the face when she tries to glomp Kou are anything to go by.
  • Nazuna is not happy to learn that Yamori allowed Akiyama to suck his blood. She remains salty about it when Yamori insists to everyone else that it's fine.
  • She also does not like it when she finds Susuki clinging to Yamori, immediately trying to pull the two apart and threatening to kill Yamori.
• Cooldown Hug:
  • Finds herself on the receiving end when Yamori is feeling too stressed. He asks Nazuna to let him stay like that for a while; she does not argue.
  • How she snaps Yamori out of his trance after he goes berserk.
• Dhampyr: Despite stating that she is a vampire, Nazuna is really a dhampyr since she was born normally from vampire mother and human father.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?:
  • Nazuna absent-mindedly asks Kabura to tie her hair for her while they're in the hospital, only to become puzzled and wonder why she would ask Kabura to do that, having forgotten at this point that Kabura did use to do that for her while acting as her Parental Substitute.
  • When Hatsuka asks Nazuna point-blank if she's fallen in love with Yamori, Nazuna answers with a yes. When Hatsuka expresses disbelief at Nazuna's answer, she becomes puzzled and asks Hatsuka to repeat the question, implying that she wasn't really paying attention. It's only after Hatsuka repeats the question and her answer that Nazuna realizes what she just said, at which point she vehemently denies being in love.
• Didn't Think This Through: She used a futon in her cuddle buddy business because she wanted to go for that "nostalgia" feel, but later admits that it's murder on the back.
• Dirty Kid: “Kid” is subjective. At the very least she just looks young and has the emotional maturity to go with it. Nevertheless, she's very fond of making innuendos.
• Double Entendre: Is fond of making these.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Nazuna assumes, from the picture she found in the hospital's forbidden room, that Kabura is her offspring. Kabura shoots down the idea by reminding Nazuna that she's her senior, before revealing that the nurse in the picture is Nazuna's mother.
  Kabura: Why do you guys always sound so confident as you mess up?
• Femme Fatalons: Her nails are very sharp and painted black.
• Friendly Neighborhood Vampire: Despite being a blood-drinking vampire, she's a very approachable person eager to show Kou the wonders of the night, and gets along with almost everyone she meets.
• Gamer Chick: Very much so. Chapter cover arts and the series itself shows her owning a lot of consoles, and she's seen playing spoofs of games such as Street Fighter III with Kou in some earlier chapters. She also has other games such as Darkstalkers, Minecraft and Super Smash Bros. Ultimate.
• Hemo Erotic:
  • Kou showing off his neck is the equivalent of flashing to her.
  • In contrast, she finds it sexy when he zips up his jersey to cover his neck, comparing it to a girl stripping instead of being naked from the start.
  • She also admits that, strictly speaking, she doesn't have to go for the neck; she just finds it more erotic that way.
• Hidden Depths: She works as a freelance chiropractor ("Professional Cuddle Buddy") to make money, and is quite knowledgeable of it.
• Hospital Hottie: Doesn't actually work in a hospital, but she keeps such a uniform during her services.
• Impossibly Cool Clothes: Nazuna can seemingly turn her coat into a large cloak at will. She usually does this to fly.
• Intangibility: Is able to walk through walls. Becomes a Chekhov's Skill over a hundred chapters after its introduction, when she teaches Yamori how to do it.
• Kryptonite Factor: Being born as a vampire, Nazuna was believed to have no weakness. Kiku still managed to find one in the form of her umbilical cord, which she somehow acquired for that express purpose.
• Like Brother and Sister: After thinking it through, Nazuna decides that she sees Haruka as an older brother, what with him being Haru's offspring since before she was even born. She even affectionately calls him "aniki/big bro".
• Making Love in All the Wrong Places: If by "making love" you mean "sucking Yamori's blood". A pool, a dressing room, a manga café, a bullet train toilet... Nazuna has no qualms over where she sucks Yamori's blood. If anything, she probably finds it more exciting that way (and it makes Yamori's blood tastier).
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: Subverted; she's introduced as an attractive, outgoing vampire girl who shakes Kou out of his boring daily life by showing him the wonders of night life, but it's later revealed that she has insecurities of her own and knows that being a vampire isn't all it's cracked up to be.
• Must Be Invited: Subverted; she pretends that she must be invited before she can enter Yamori's apartment, only to reveal that it's just a legend before waltzing in like she owns the place.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: She has no interest in creating more vampires and has no fondness for her fellow resident kind whatsoever.
• Mysterious Past: Doesn't seem to know much of herself or even how long she's been alive for in full, and the other vampires are also not entirely sure of her age. Kabura knows most of the story but not for how long, given she loved Nazuna's mother Haru and takes care of Nazu because of said mother. Nazuna herself didn't know any of the story at all, and even after it's explained, there's still a large gap between when she was born and when Kabura found her.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: When Kabura offers to let Nazuna live at her place, Nazuna cuts her off with a big, fat "NO" before she can even finish her sentence.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • Throws the vampire council off when she apologizes and resolves to take responsibility for Anko.
  • Kou starts smelling fishy later on when he notices that Nazuna, despite cheerfully hanging out with him and enjoying herself, has stopped sucking his blood some time ago, though he doesn't know the reason behind this is that Nazuna fears accidentally killing him, as a vampire can't suck the blood of whom they fall in love with.
• Parental Abandonment: Both of her biological parents are dead. Nazuna doesn't mind since she never met them.
• Parental Sexuality Squick: Nazuna is not at all pleased when she learns that Kabura is projecting her feelings for Haru onto her. Later, when she needs to find a new apartment and Kabura offers to let Nazuna stay at her place, Nazuna shuts her down before she can finish her sentence due to this trope being in effect.
• Platonic Prostitution: What her job as a "professional cuddler" boils down to. Her services range between simply sleeping next to someone to "motherly pampering" to giving them a massage, with extra options such as a lap pillow, cosplay and playing video games together. The Massage Course in particular appears to be very popular (though Nazuna's skills as a masseuse may not be the only reason for this).
• Safe, Sane, and Consensual: Discusses this trope with Yamori while they're in Tokyo. Nazuna is of the mind that, as long as two people willingly engage in a relationship, no one has any right to meddle and judge them for how they go about it, even if their relationship started as a one-night fling in a love hotel.
• Serious Business: Nazuna tends to take stuff that most people take for granted very seriously, such as idolizing going to Tokyo or netorare as a genre.
• She Cleans Up Nicely: When Yamori sees Nazuna with her hair down after she just took a bath, he suddenly finds himself experiencing some kind of attraction towards her. Akira admits that Nazuna looks cuter with her hair down (as does Anko).
• Shoryuken: Delivers one to Azami while he's distracted. For kicking her in the face earlier, mind you.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Vampires are naturally good at appearing and disappearing at will (Super-Speed, stealth, and Flight being part of the standard superpower package will do that for you), and her limited appetite for social interaction and quirky, mischievous personality mean Nazuna's particularly fond of doing it.
• Stripperiffic: Her outfit beneath her coat does not leave much to the imagination, composed of only a very short top that has a Cleavage Window and denim shorts.
• Strong Family Resemblance: Nazuna is so identical to her own mother that Kabura was utterly flabbergasted upon seeing her for the first time. This coming right after the revelation that her mother had even had a child in the first place only made the reaction worse at first, before Kabura ended up as something of a surrogate mother figure for her.
• The Tease:
  • Yamori is a frequent target of her innuendos.
  • Nazuna somehow convinces Akira to sleep with her and Yamori, then sucks his blood in front of her to "spice things up".
  • When she meets Zawa (Yamori's homeroom teacher), she pretends to be Yamori's mother.
• Troll: And not just For the Lulz. Kou's mix of emotions make his blood more delicious.
• Tsundere: A downplayed case of the Harsh type. Despite her flirty personality, she's very much against falling in love, doesn't want to create more vampires (which can only happen if the person she bites falls in love with her as she bites them), and is upfront to Kou about only wanting a physical relationship ala Friends with Benefits. But she's very flustered when Kou talks about falling in love with her, something he notices every time and also finds rather confusing.
• Vague Age: There's a lot of deliberate ambiguity about how old Nazuna actually is, and whether (and how much) she's just a young and inexperienced vampire playing up her age to seem wise and mysterious. Details like her owning a brick phone and her love of drinking beer (with 20 being the legal drinking age in Japan) only muddle the issue further. Plus there's the whole "child that looks nigh-identical to her mother" part.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Though the "girlfriend" part is downplayed, Nazuna does not take kindly to the vampire council messing with Kou, and repeatedly threatens to kill them for it. When Seri attempts to make a move on Kou, Nazuna rips off her arm in retribution.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Her relationship with Seri gradually becomes this, as they behave more and more like snarky almost-friends than actual enemies the further the series moves on.
• What Is This Feeling?: After Nazuna goes on a date with Haruka, she figures that this is what hanging around with a friend feels like. Then, when she meets with Yamori, she uses that as a reference to realize that their relationship and the feelings she has for him are something other than mere friendship, and reacts to the realization by blushing. When asked directly by Hatsuka, Nazuna flat out admits she's fallen for Yamori.
• Who Wants to Live Forever?: Nazuna admits to Yamori that being a vampire is actually pretty boring, and that her days mostly consist of waiting for time to pass.
• You Didn't Ask: Hatsuka is surprised to learn that Nazuna never told Yamori that he was a guy. She probably didn't care enough to bring it up.

Humans

Akira Asai

Akira Asai

Voiced by: Yumiri Hanamori (JP), Jade Kelly (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Justine Berger (French), Lina Rabea Mohr (German), Federica Simonelli (Italian)

Kou's Childhood Friend that lives in the same apartment complex as him. She attends the same school Kou does, and has an abnormal sleep routine that allows her to meet with him during the night.

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• Accidental Truth: When Mahiru tells her that he met a girl and that they can only meet at night, Akira jokingly wonders if she was a vampire. The girl in question turned out to be Kiku.
• Alliterative Name: Akira Asai.
• Brutal Honesty: While she's a pretty approachable person, she does not hold back how she really feels about stuff, often telling Kou and Mahiru to their faces when they're making her feel awkward or when a situation has her feeling uncomfortable.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She's so well-endowed that Midori can't help but stare at her chest when they first meet, and Nazuna refers to her at one point as a "titty monster".
• Catchphrase: She really likes calling Mahiru and Kou "corny" whenever they're gushing about someone they like.
• Childhood Friends: She's Kou's friend and sister figure who has known him since childhood.
• Deadpan Snarker: Whenever she has to play Straight Man to the boys, she lets out several dry, witty comments pointing out how weird they're behaving or how off their mindsets are, like when Mahiru spoke of a teacher who went missing but is rumored to appear at night in class. Akira's only reaction is "Why?" in the calmest, most confused and sardonic tone possible.
• Fanservice Pack: Early in the manga, Akira wasn't really a stand-out besides being a friend of Kou's. By the time she starts being more active in the plot, she's probably one of the most stacked females of the cast; arguably only Anko and Kabura visibly compare, and they're adults while she is a teenager.
• Hidden Depths: Despite her being very chill, there are heavy implications Akira suffers from clinical depression due to her lack of drive, low energy, unmotivated behavior, and general emptiness. The only reason she doesn't count as a Stepford Smiler is because she doesn't smile much at all.
• The Insomniac: Akira regularly wakes up before midnight and leaves her home as early as 4 a.m. because she simply can't sleep (which is implied to be due to depression). She manages to beat her insomnia for about 4 hours after spending some time playing with Yamori and Nazuna.
• Jump Scare:
  • On the receiving end of it in Episode 11. Mahiru gets her to see if a ghost exists inside the girls' bathroom at night, and as she knocks, she hears a high-pitched voice... except that was just Mahiru trolling her. Akira promptly punches Mahiru for the incident.
  • She gets another one at the end of chapter 105 when she suddenly finds Nazuna in her window right after she woke up. When Nazuna asks for her help, Akira asks that she gets a few minutes to stabilize her heart rate first.
• Like Brother and Sister: With Kou. She cares a lot for him and tries her best to support him on his ambition of becoming a vampire, even when she doesn't get the appeal. She doubles down on this when she learns that Kou only has a year to succeed or else he will be killed, fully aware that she might become a target herself just for getting involved.
• Mellow Fellow: She's quite calm about stuff that would utterly freak anybody else out. Meeting a vampire, Kou wanting to be a vampire, and everything about Kou's relationship with Nazuna, she takes all of that very casually. She certainly has her issues with it, and isn't afraid to voice her misgivings about stuff, but she's mostly supportive of the people around her.
• One of the Boys: Used to hang around mostly with boys when she was a kid. These days, however, Akira suspects it may have alienated her from the rest of the girls.
• Panty Shot: Defied. When she tries to jump a fence, she immediately stops and tells Kou and Mahiru to look away because she's wearing a skirt.
• Spit Take: Spits her coffee when Anko asks her if she had a crush on Yamori. Akira denies this and retorts that she sees him as more of a little brother.
• Straight Man: She's the most normal and grounded character among the humans, contrasting the bizarre hijinks of all the other characters (namely Nazuna, Kou, and Mahiru).
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sakura Asakura, a girl from her school, once went to Akira for advice in order to confess to Kou. Not thinking much of it, she encouraged Sakura to go for it, leading to Ko being called out by two other girls for rejecting Sakura and eventually stop going to school altogether, which in turn started the plot of the entire series. Akira is painfully aware of her role in the incident, and it's implied that this was the root of her depression. By the time she finally apologizes to Kou, he forgives her on the spot.
  Akira: I only did it to make myself feel better, but for Kou, who ended up dumping Sakura-chan... I must be horrible.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Downplayed. She used to be much happier, more sociable, and more talkative when she was a kid. Things changed as she got older, and it's suggested that depression hit her hard. She's still a supportive friend, a good listener, and a very honest critic when needed; the core Nice Girl that she used to be is still there despite everything dragging her mood down the older she gets.
• Voluntary Vampire Victim: A few nights after their encounter with the missing teacher, Akira tells Yamori that, when he turns into a vampire, she will allow him to feed on her blood so that he won't fall victim to Horror Hunger.
• When She Smiles:
  • She very much enjoys reuniting with Kou, and even though she's weirded out by all the vampire stuff, she's just glad that she got to reconnect with an old childhood friend of hers. She finally smiles after spending the night with Kou, grateful to finally have him back in her life.
  • This happens again in Episode 11, when Akira and Ko help Mahiru determine the seven school mysteries, a bunch of classic Japanese high school urban legends. Mahiru investigates the mystery of a Ninomiya statue that supposedly walks on its own. Akira starts laughing as soon as she realizes not just that there is no Ninomiya statue and that's eight mysteries. It's the happiest she's been in the series to date.

Mahiru Seki

Mahiru Seki

Voiced by: Kensho Ono (JP), Daman Mills (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Cédric Lemaire (French), Domenic Redl (German), Alessandro Pili (Italian)

Kou's other Childhood Friend. A very approachable, cheerful and popular person, he's Kou's complete opposite. His family runs a flower shop he frequently does deliveries for.

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• Abusive Parents: Mahiru's mother refused to accept that Mahiru's brother Shougo had died and severely neglected him over the following years.
• Armor-Piercing Question: When he asks Yamori what it is that he wants to do by becoming a vampire, Yamori finds himself unable to answer.
• Covert Pervert: Mahiru is the self-styled master of "staring at the fanservice without getting caught".
• Destructive Romance: With Kiku.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Beats up Yamori for even implying that Kiku was a bad person.
• Hates Their Parent: Openly admits as much to his own mother, before correcting himself by admitting he simply doesn't care about her anymore. All according to Kiku's plan. He even admits to Yamori in a letter that he had considered killing both of his parents after becoming a vampire, but at the end of it his anger had regressed into apathy.
• Hit Me, Dammit!: In an attempt to invoke My Fist Forgives You after he meets with Yamori in Hokkaido, Mahiru tells the latter to hit him. A confused Yamori has to spell it out to Mahiru that that's not the reason he wanted to see him.
• I Just Want to Be Special: One of his motivations for wanting to become a vampire, though in the end he ditches this in favor of just wanting to stay with Kiku.
• Oh, Crap!: When Yamori is about to punch a hole through his face (until Nazuna stops him, that is).
• Stepford Smiler: His cheerfulness is actually a persona he adopted after his brother's death. After meeting and becoming closer to Kiku, he drops it completely and reveals a much sadder personality.
• Theory Tunnel Vision: Reacts violently to any criticism towards Kiku, is quick to twist the facts and ignore what he perceives to be mere speculation if it contradicts what he believes to be the truth and thinks that anyone who's been hurt by Kiku's actions is simply lying.
• Together in Death: His ultimate fate after Kiku turns him into a vampire: the two turn to ash together.
• Used to Be a Sweet Kid: When first introduced, Mahiru is a Nice Guy whom everyone in his class looks up to. Then he met Kiku.
• Vampire Vannabe: Much like Kou, his motivation is to become a vampire in order to live alongside Kiku; however, he later admits he doesn't even care if he stays human as long as he can remain by Kiku's side.
• Voluntary Vampire Victim: A few nights after their encounter with the missing teacher, Mahiru offers to let Yamori feed on his blood after he turns into a vampire so that he won't succumb to Horror Hunger. He makes this offer a few minutes after Akira makes the same offer for the same reason, prompting her to laugh at him.

Anko Uguisu (Spoilers)

Anko Uguisu (real name: Kyouko Mejiro)

Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro (JP), Jessica Calvello (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Audrey Sourdive (French), Birte Baumgardt (German), Gea Riva (Italian)

A detective Ko meets during one of his nights with Nazuna. She's actually a Vampire Hunter that knows how to kill a vampire using remnants of their past lives as humans.

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• Always Chaotic Evil: Firmly believes that vampires bring nothing but misfortune and unhappiness to humans, and as such has resolved to kill them all.
• Ambiguously Bi: It's hard to tell whether or not she was genuinely mad that Yamori didn't hit on her like she asked him to, but Anko has occasionally flirted with Nazuna and stared at Susuki's chest.
• Armor-Piercing Question:
  • When Yamori asks whats the point of becoming a vampire if you aren't going to suck any blood, having just met a vampire who starved himself for ten years, Anko retorts with "why would anyone want to become a vampire?"; the vampire in question had been turned against his will.
    • Yamori also questions why Anko had to kill him since she also said he would've died naturally on that day anyway; Anko retorts with "Do you mean he should've lived life as a monster?", and calls him out for disregarding the man's own feelings.
  • She later throws Yamori another one when they meet again: "Can you say for sure? That when you become a vampire, you'll be okay with drinking human blood? Or else never drink blood and live with the pain for ten long years?"
    • Anko then follows with yet another question: "Have you ever considered that you might lack romantic urges altogether?", forcing Yamori to seriously face the possibility that he may never be able to become a vampire no matter how hard he tries (along with the implications).
  • She throws one such question at Kiku once they meet in Hokkaido, though the question surprises Anko even more because she did not consciously expect to make it:
    Why wasn't my father good enough?
• Big Bad Ensemble: As the resident vampire hunter, Anko represents the consequences of vampirism coming home to roost. She refuses to let Kou become a vampire, actively tries to stop him from being with Nazuna, and is in direct opposition to both the Vampire Council in general and Kiku specifically, making her one of the series' first truly major antagonists.
• A Birthday, Not a Break: Lost both of her parents the night she became 18.
• Blind Without 'Em: Without her glasses, Anko can't make out people's faces even if they're standing a few feet away from her.
• Bookworm: Used to be an avid reader in high school. Whether or not she's still one is unknown.
• Break Them by Talking: Repeatedly tries this on Yamori in an attempt to get him to see things her way. While at first it does leave him speechless, eventually Yamori has enough and defiantly refuses to take her side.
• Can't Hold Her Liquor: Anko gets plastered before even finishing half a glass of beer.
• Connected All Along: Used to be one of Niko's students along with Nazuna, back when she still used her real name.
• Death Seeker: Her hatred for vampires kept her going for years. After her plan is ruined, she admits it's no longer enough and that she's too tired to continue. From that point onwards, she stops caring if she lives or dies. Azami calls her out on this, saying he hates that kind of attitude and telling her to be glad that she's alive.
• Didn't See That Coming: Apparently Anko was not aware that vampires could become intangible.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Yes, a vampire was responsible for the death of her parents, but Anko stages a whole vendetta against all vampire kind who were not responsible for her tragedy.
• Does Not Like Men: Because there were strong hints that her father was cheating on her mother, Anko had a low opinion of men in general while growing up. She appears to have dropped it as an adult.
• Driven to Suicide: Once her plan is ruined, Anko loses her drive to continue fighting and moves to an empty room before attempting to shoot herself. Yamori predicts that she would do this, however, and accidentally gets shot while trying to stop her.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Stares at Susuki's breasts for quite a while when they take a bath together, wondering to herself if they're bigger than Akira's.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Had assumed that Akiyama was one of Kiku's offspring. Seri was more than happy to correct her.
• Eviler than Thou: She's far more ruthless than the Vampire Council. Despite all their bluster, they take whatever excuse they can to avoid killing people. Anko makes it her life's work to kill as many vampires as possible, and in her introductory episode, she's directly responsible for causing the first character death in the series, as she killed a male teacher who had become a vampire but refused to drink blood.
• Evil Versus Evil: She's a vampire hunter. By default she is a self-sworn enemy of both the Vampire Council in general and Kiku specifically, as It's Personal between Anko and Kiku.
• Fantastic Racism: She strongly despises vampires and views them all as being Always Chaotic Evil, her main goal being to destroy the night in order to kill all vampires.
• The Gunslinger: Skilled in the usage of guns, using a revolver to execute her plan of making the night disappear.
• Important Haircut: Anko goes to a hair salon and cuts her hair shorter after accidentally shooting Yamori. She then becomes happy when Yamori compliments her new look.
• It's Personal: With Kiku for turning her father into a vampire, which ended up destroying her family.
  Anko: Kiku Hoshimi... is... mine to kill...
• Jerkass Has a Point: Once turned down a boy's love confession when she was in high school because A) she did not feel the same way, and B) she didn't even know his name because they had never spoken before. From this Anko surmised that the boy only liked her for her appearance, or perhaps expected her to like him back simply because he was nice to her and she was always alone. While she was rather cold in her phrasing (and was admittedly biased against men because of her father), liking someone you've never even spoken to is a bit much.
• Knight of Cerebus: Her intro into the series ignites one of the darkest story arcs in the series.
• Laughing Mad: Cackles like a maniac while repeatedly stabbing Akiyama.
• Master of Disguise: Is able to cycle through quite a few disguises in her role as a private detective, including one disguise that's a convincing Tokyo police officer.
• My God, What Have I Done?: She is horrified when she accidentally shoots Yamori when he tried to stop her suicide attempt.
• Nonchalant Dodge: How she fights vampires. Because they are used to being faster and stronger than a normal human, their attacks become too linear and predictable.
• The Plan: Her plan to destroy the night and kill all vampires consisted of being killed by one in such a way that the ensuing investigation into her death, her real identity as Kyouko Mejiro and the death of her parents ten years prior would reveal their existence (or at the very least, the existence of something that looks human but isn't). Once the world had undeniable proof that vampires were real, humans would stay away from the streets at night, leaving vampires to starve to death within a decade.
• Quaking with Fear: After Azami accidentally drops her to her near-death and Nazuna saves her, she takes a good minute to get back on her feet. Her legs are still visibly shaking afterwards, even as she insists to Nazuna that she's fine.
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: After she meets Kiku in Hokkaido, she opens the walls holding back her repressed emotions and goes on an angry tirade about how she's ruined countless lives for seemingly no reason, before finally asking what the hell will it take before she's satisfied.
• Self-Made Orphan: Killed her own father, who had become a vampire, after he killed her mother by sucking too much of her blood. He was trying to suck Anko's blood when she realized the lighter she gave him was his weakness.
• Sherlock Scan: After breaking into the Seki household while no one's home, Anko is able to deduce from context clues that not only has Mahiru's mother not accepted Shougo's death, she still expects him to return home someday.
• Slasher Smile: While stabbing Akiyama.
• Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Calls out Yamori for thinking he knew everything about vampires and tells him that they aren't all as nice as he thinks. A despondent Yamori admits to himself that she's right and that he doesn't know anything about vampires after all.
• Stalker without a Crush: She secretly followed Yamori to Nazuna's apartment building after their first meeting.
• The Stool Pigeon:
  • Threatened to report Nazuna's cuddle buddy business for employing Yamori, a minor, which goes against the Labor Standards Act, only to pass it off as a joke.
  • When it becomes clear that she can't convince Yamori that vampires are evil, she settles for calling the cops on him so that he can't go out at night anymore. Anko later retracts her report after realizing that not only it wouldn't persuade Yamori, it would probably have the opposite effect.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: The vampire who sucked some of Anko's blood was left retching and complaining that her blood tasted foul. Anko reveals much later that this is what happens when a human doesn't turn into a vampire after a year since the first bite, as a warning to other vampires that they can't become their offspring.
• Tragic Keepsake: Her father's lighter, which she used to kill him, and his glasses, which she wears all the time.
• Villainous Underdog: She's clever, relatively fit, and experienced, but she's also a normal human, hunting creatures that are much stronger and faster than her, can regenerate from almost any wound she can inflict, and can only be killed by the use of highly specific objects unique to the individual. The fact that she can threaten vampires at all is considered unprecedented, and the moment they cotton on to what she's doing, her best option becomes to shoot them in the eye and run away while they regenerate. Even her big Thanatos Gambit is pointed out within the narrative to be a poorly-considered plan that had basically no chance of succeeding in the way she hoped it would; the actual peril involved is that Yamori recognizes that it's little more than an elaborate suicide, and doesn't want her to die.
• We Used to Be Friends: She knew Nazuna back when she attended a night school and was her first friend until her father was transformed into a vampire which led to both her parents dying. Nazuna tried making Anko her offspring, but Anko was not in love with her. This would lead to Anko's intense hatred of vampires.
• Wham Line: "I'm sorry, but I have no intention of letting you achieve your idiotic dream."

Kei Yamori

Kei Yamori

Kou's mother. She works as a hostess at night and sleeps during the day.

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• The Ghost: Though Yamori mentioned that he lived with his mother, it took well over 100 chapters before she made her first physical appearance.
• Glamorous Single Mother: Downplayed; even though she divorced her husband for cheating on her and has to work at night to make ends meet, she's more or less able to provide both for herself and her son.
• Good Parents: Zig-zagged; while she admits that, by all accounts she should nag Kou for Skipping School and going out at night, she also admits that she has no right to do so considering that she's a hostess by night, that she has no higher education past middle school and that she sleeps all day while her son does whatever. She even apologizes to Kou for being "a shitty mom". In spite of all her admitted flaws, however, she still comes off as a good parent in that she cares for Kou's physical and emotional wellbeing, and Kou is able to discuss his problems with her without issue.
• Open-Minded Parent: Accepts Kou's reasons for Skipping School and doesn't take much issue with him having made friends while being out at night.
• Platonic Prostitution: She works at a Hostess Club.
• Skipping School: Stopped her education after middle school.
• Teen Pregnancy: Heavily downplayed; she had Kou when she was 20, and got married around the same time.

Sakura Asakura

Sakura Asakura

A classmate of Yamori who confessed to him. Then she got rejected.

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• Early-Bird Cameo: Though she's introduced at the very start of the series, we do not learn her name until chapter 34 (and even then, it's only as part of a flashback). It's not until about 100 chapters later that she begins to take a more active role in the present.
• Love Confession: To Yamori. His rejection of her gets him harassed by Sakura's friends, Micchan and Sacchan. This causes him to start Skipping School, which in turn leads to the events of the series.
• Loving a Shadow: The version of Yamori that Sakura developed a crush on was just a fake persona that he made up in order to pretend to be normal.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Though she didn't do anything to Yamori herself, she feels guilty over Micchan and Sacchan harassing him after he rejected her, and declares her intention to apologize to him should they meet again.
• Nice Girl: Sakura is a kind, polite girl who treats everyone with respect, doesn't hold grudges and sees the best in people. Akira and Anko agree that she's too nice, and that her having a crush on someone like Yamori is a total waste.
• Not Good with Rejection: Subverted; sure, she cried a little, but when she's seen again in the present it becomes clear that she took it relatively well. Especially compared to Micchan and Sacchan, who harassed Yamori over his rejection.
• Repetitive Name: The only way it can get even more repetitive is by removing the "A" in her last name.

Micchan

Michiko/"Micchan"

A friend of Sakura who harassed Yamori for rejecting her.

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• Bully Turned Buddy: After Yamori returns to school and shows that he doesn't find her or Sacchan intimidating, Micchan decides that bullying him isn't really worth the hassle anymore and invites him to join their group for the school trip, where they become closer to actual friends.
• Didn't See That Coming: When she learned that Yamori had returned to school, she promptly decided to kick his ass for rejecting Sakura. To her shock, not only does he not find her or Sacchan scary anymore, he calls them "ugly hoes" to their faces. His complete change in personality not only derails Micchan, she ends up finding his real personality more interesting that way.
• Early-Bird Cameo: While she's shown harassing Yamori at the start of the series and gets a little more exposition in chapter 34, it's not until about 100 chapters later that she begins to take a more active role in the plot.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Yamori guesses that Micchan and Sacchan assumed that he began Skipping School in order to spite Sakura. She confirms his suspicions.
• Given Name Reveal: Both her name and her nickname are revealed in chapter 135, when Yamori returns to school. Yamori, however, couldn't be arsed to remember her name, and became surprised to learn it after so long.
  Yamori: So her actual name is "Michiko"...
• Heartfelt Apology: After the Hokkaido trip, Micchan apologizes to Yamori for bullying him into Skipping School, acknowledging that he's not the jerk she thought he was.
• Hyper-Awareness: Micchan picks up on Yamori getting upset when Mahiru's friends start talking trash about him and becomes visibly unnerved, later commenting on how good he is at hiding his real feelings.
• I Take Offense to That Last One: When Yamori calls her and Sacchan "ugly hoes", Micchan retorts that they're not "ugly"; they're "above average".
• Innocently Insensitive: Accidentally rubs salt on a fresh wound when she asks Yamori if he met with Mahiru in Hokkaido.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Zig-zagged in that Yamori couldn't be bothered to remember her name or her nickname.
• Prone to Vomiting: Micchan becomes nauseous while riding the bullet train to Hokkaido. Yamori gets her water and medicine and escorts her to the bathroom in case she has to vomit.
• Those Two Girls: With Sacchan.
• Unwanted Assistance: Harassed Yamori with Sacchan for rejecting Sakura's Love Confession. Not only did Sakura not ask them to do so, it resulted in Yamori not going to school anymore.

Sacchan

Saki "Sacchan" Fujiwara

Another friend of Sakura who also harassed Yamori for rejecting her.

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• Bully Turned Buddy: Though she's not as quick to get over it as Micchan, she eventually relents and agrees to let Yamori into the school trip group since Sakura doesn't mind either.
• Damsel in Distress: Haruka lures her into a bar and puts her to sleep in order to suck her blood. A very pissed off Yamori puts a stop to that.
• Didn't See That Coming: When she learned that Yamori had returned to school, she promptly decided to kick his ass for rejecting Sakura. To her shock, not only does he not find her or Micchan scary anymore, he calls them "ugly hoes" to their faces.
• Distracted by the Sexy: Instantly agrees to take a picture with Haruka after taking a good look at his face. Her friends comment that boys with pretty faces are her weakness.
• Early-Bird Cameo: While she's shown harassing Yamori at the start of the series and gets a little more exposition in chapter 34, it's not until about 100 chapters later that she begins to take a more active role in the plot.
• Entertainingly Wrong: Yamori guesses that Micchan and Sacchan assumed that he began Skipping School in order to spite Sakura. She confirms his suspicions.
• Flat "What": Her reaction when Haruka charges her for the picture they just took together.
• Given Name Reveal: Both her name and her nickname are revealed in chapter 135, when Yamori returns to school.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Zig-zagged in that Yamori couldn't be bothered to remember her name or her nickname. When he attempts to pretend that he does, Sacchan sees right through him and calls him out for it.
  Yamori: What about you... Sacchan-san...?
  Sacchan: Saki. Saki Fujiwara. You didn't even remember my name, asshole.
  Yamori: I'm sorry.
• Pet the Dog: After she wakes up and finds that Yamori rescued her from Haruka and is carrying her on his back, she asks him if he's not cold from the snow.
• Piggyback Cute: After Yamori rescues her from Haruka, she wakes up while being carried on his back.
• Squee: Her reaction after taking a picture with Haruka.
• Those Two Girls: With Micchan.
• Unwanted Assistance: Harassed Yamori with Micchan for rejecting Sakura's Love Confession. Not only did Sakura not ask them to do so, it resulted in Yamori not going to school anymore.

Yoshihiko Zawa

Yoshihiko Zawa

Yamori's homeroom teacher.

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• Apathetic Teacher: Averted when it comes to actual teaching, though he admits that he no longer finds school trips exciting.
• Brutal Honesty: Does not mince words when reproaching one of his students for interrupting his class just to ask him if he has a girlfriend. While Yamori agrees that it was a stupid question, he affirms that Zawa's phrasing could have been a little kinder. Zawa agrees with him.
• Child Hater: Middle school students in particular, especially the kind that only know how to complain and never put themselves in the shoes of their teachers. He gives Yamori a pass since he never gave him any trouble, however.
• Hyper-Awareness:
  • He's the only teacher to have seen through Yamori's "honors student" act.
  • He's also able to notice that Mahiru coming to school late and falling asleep in the middle of class is way out of character for him.
• Jerkass Has a Point: He verbally tears a student a new one for interrupting his class, admonishing her for wasting his time and for clearly not paying attention to his lesson.
• Not So Above It All: After parting ways with Seri, Zawa admits he wants to have a girlfriend.
• Pet the Dog:
  • Zawa expresses relief that Yamori stopped forcing himself to act like a model student.
  • While he admits he's probably not the best person Yamori can go to for advice, he offers to put him up to speed with the schoolwork he's missed if he ever decides to go back to school.
• School Is for Losers: When Yamori tells Zawa that he started Skipping School because it's boring, his response basically amounts to "no shit". He also admits to having hated school since he was a kid.
• Stern Teacher: Has no patience for students interrupting his class without good reason, especially if it's clear they're just wasting his time. Thus, he ends up giving the impression that he's a serious, no-fun-allowed teacher. In spite of this, however, he's perceptive enough to notice when his students act Out of Character, and admits that, even though he hates middle school students and the other teachers, he still has a certain amount of pride in being one.
  • He also tries to advise Seri to live a proper life, assuming that she's a high school student based on her clothes and that she's fooling around at night. He stops when she clarifies that she's not actually in high school.
  • Zawa reacts with concern when he comes under the impression that Yamori knows too many cute girls, and asks him what the hell he's been doing at night.
• Teachers Out of School:
  • At school he's a no-nonsense teacher who doesn't like it when his students interrupt his class for reasons unrelated to his lesson. Outside of school, however, he gets drunk like most working adults and becomes far more approachable. Yamori is shocked to learn that his teacher is, for lack of a better word, human.
  • The rest of Yamori's group is surprised to see him talk casually to Zawa during the school trip. Akira even asks Yamori if they had become friends.
• Vomit Indiscretion Shot: Tries to run after Yamori while piss-ass drunk. One guess how that ended up.

Kiyosumi Shirakawa

Kiyosumi Shirakawa

Voiced by: Yōko Hikasa (JP), Kelly Greenshield (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Alexia Papineschi (French), Gabrielle Pietermann (German), Valentina Pallavicino (Italian)

An Office Lady who goes to Nazuna's apartment for a massage.

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• Broken Tears: She tries to tell Yamori that her job isn't so bad, until she can't keep up with her own lie and starts crying and screaming that she doesn't want to go back.
• Commonality Connection: With Yamori, in that they both enjoy walking on the street at night.
• Delayed Reaction: It takes Shirakawa a while to process the fact that, yes, Yamori is only 14 years old.
• Destination Defenestration: Nazuna throws her off her apartment's window after Yamori asks her to make sure Shirakawa doesn't return to her workplace.
• Dude, Not Funny!: Shirakawa really doesn't like it when her boss makes crass jokes at her expense or her co-workers sexually harass her during their drinking parties. The only reason she doesn't tell them as much is because she's afraid of losing her job.
• The Immodest Orgasm: Practically moaned with pleasure when Nazuna gave her a massage.
• It Can't Be Helped: Her attitude towards being called to the office at 2AM. Which is not portrayed as a positive thing.
• Life-Saving Encouragement: Yamori's offer to turn Shirakawa into a vampire if she ever crosses the Despair Event Horizon gives her the strength to continue working.
• Married to the Job: Her boss calls her back to the office at 2AM right as she was in the middle of an emotional breakdown. Shirakawa responds by swallowing her tears, resigning herself and preparing to leave Nazuna's apartment.
• Soul-Crushing Desk Job: While the job itself can sometimes be fun, Shirakawa loathes her boss, her colleagues and their drinking parties.
• The Villain Knows Where You Live: Defied; Shirakawa gets regularly harassed by her co-workers when she joins them at their drinking parties, so she makes sure they never learn where she lives.
• We Do Not Know Each Other: Shirakawa tells Yamori how, when she runs into her boss outside of work, she pretends not to see him and walks the other way before he can notice.

Arisa

Arisa

Voiced by: Saori Onishi (JP)

A girl who works at the same maid café as Midori.

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• Always Second Best: She became the second most popular waitress after Midori started working at the same maid café as her.
• Attention Whore: After Midori showed up and replaced Arisa as the cafe's #1 maid, Arisa resorted to questionable measures to prove that she was still popular.
• Bubbly Waitress: She's a cute and friendly waitress. Before Midori become her coworker, Arisa was the most popular waitress in the maid café.
• The Bus Came Back: Shows up again over 100 chapters after her last appearance.
• Driven by Envy: She takes rather risqué selfies after everyone else is gone and anonymously uploads them on the internet to make it look like they were taken by a stalker, all just to prove that she was still popular after Midori took her #1 spot.
• Gossipy Hens: Arisa can't help but want to listen in on the gossip between Yamori and LG. It takes Midori whacking her on the head before she gets back to work.
• Just One Little Mistake: One of the things that clued Yamori in on the truth was that Arisa never took any panty shots.
• Nice Girl: Is friendly and polite even when she's not working as a maid. It later turns out she's a lot more cutthroat when it come to her line of work, though to her credit, she never stoops so low as to discredit her competition.
• Otaku: When she's not working at a maid café, she goes to other maid cafés to talk to her favorite maids.
• Please Put Some Clothes On: When Yamori catches her on the act and asks her to explain herself, Arisa asks that she be allowed to put her clothes on first.
• Refuge in Audacity: When she catches Yamori staring at her selfies, she teases him over it to drive away suspicion from herself.
• Resigned in Disgrace: Subverted; Arisa decides to resign after being caught, but Midori cuts her off and tells her that her obsession with social approval is actually pretty tame. It's later implied that she kept her job in the end, and outright confirmed when she shows up still working at the café in her next appearance.
• Selfie Fiend: Arisa's other hobby is taking selfies. Sometimes she will take the same picture for hours until she's satisfied with its quality. This bites her in the ass when her peeping tom selfies came out too good, allowing Yamori to realize that something was off.

Lira Echigo

Lira Echigo

One of Niko's students in the night school she works at. She becomes smitten with Yamori upon meeting him.

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• Berserk Button: Her own last name, which gave her no small amount of grief in her childhood due to being a Punny Name.
• Clingy Jealous Girl: Leans towards this from time to time. Any time she perceives that Yamori is being unfaithful to her or hiding something, she gets a menacing look in her eyes as she looms over him, only for Yamori to somehow throw her off every time.
  • When she questions Yamori's relationship with Nazuna, Yamori first distracts her by asserting that he is Lira's boyfriend, and later tells her that Nazuna is his ex (which is Metaphorically True). Lira is left too confused to question it.
  • Gets upset when she assumes that Yamori wants to go out on Halloween with someone else.
• Height Angst: In middle school people would call her "gorilla" due to a combination of her height and her Punny Name.
• Love at First Sight: Rather strongly believes in it. After only seeing Yamori in her class (not even talking to him), she immediately falls in love with him, after which she pulls him to a private space and asks him out after confessing. When Yamori tells her that he's never fallen in love before, Lira misinterprets this as her being Yamori's first love.
• The Ophelia: She's not really all there, what with falling in love abnormally fast and then dumping her boyfriends within a week. After asking Yamori out, he tries to argue that he doesn't even know her name; Lira gives him her first name and decides that this alone counts as the two of them dating. When Yamori questions how she could fall in love with him after seeing him exactly once, Lira pins him to the wall and aggressively retorts that she doesn't need a reason.
• Punny Name: Lira's full name can be alternatively spelled as "ecchi gorilla". She does not like it one bit.
• Sickeningly Sweethearts: After Yamori agrees to date her, Lira becomes this during Niko's classes; practically the entire classroom, Yamori included, finds it annoying.
  Yamori: Does she have some kinda "I gotta make sure he knows I love him or I'll die" sickness?
• Statuesque Stunner: Lira is taller than most people her age, which gets her a lot of attention.
• Tranquil Fury: Her mood sours considerably when Yamori addresses her by her last name, even though she never told him what it was (Niko did). Lira only calms down when Yamori distracts her by agreeing to go out with her.

Vampire Council

Common Tropes

• Anti-Villain: In a sense. While they can be ruthless, violent, and domineering, the main reason they kill humans is to maintain The Masquerade. Their rather alien set of rules dictates they must reproduce as often as possible, and anything that doesn't go towards their survival as a species is a threat to their species. It's no different from an apex predator hunting herbivores to live in the wild.
• Bait the Dog: A very rare inversion. While they make it clear they will kill Kou (if he doesn't fall in love with Nazuna and thereafter becomes a vampire) to maintain The Masquerade, they increasingly show bursts of humanity in spite of their willingness to kill, none of them actually want to kill Kou, they repeatedly grasp for whatever excuse not to kill Kou, and even Niko, their de facto leader, turns out to be a Reasonable Authority Figure who understands how love is much more complicated than just pushing two people together and saying "you got a year to see if it fails or not."
• Big Bad Wannabe: A complicated, non-combat variant. The vampire council throw a wrench between Kou and Nazuna's plans to just have fun, forcing Nazuna to turn Kou before the year concludes lest they kill him. This puts them squarely on the level of antagonists, but after their first appearance, their Hidden Depths make them far more complicated than just mere villains, and they quickly become eclipsed by Anko and Kiku, both of whom are much more menacing, much more ruthless, and far more dangerous because the council simply isn't that willing to kill despite them proclaiming otherwise.
• Charm Person: A combination of vampirically-charged beauty and years of practice in being The Social Expert makes an average vampire able to manipulate marks into falling in love with them in order to produce more vampires. Nazuna is an outlier for how unsociable she is, in fact.
• Council of Vampires: Well, duh.
  • Subverted in that they don't really have any authority over other vampires; mostly they just gather for drinks and love talk.
  • That being said, they will threaten to take action if they feel that someone is a threat to the masquerade, whether it's a human or a fellow vampire, if they really have to.
• Cuteness Proximity:
  • They collectively gush at the prospect of Yamori becoming the offspring of his first love.
  • Similarly, they explode when Yamori admits he called Nazuna "cute".
• Everyone Has Standards: They are perfectly fine with seducing Yamori (who's 14 years old) into falling for one of them if it means they won't have to kill him, but they are still visibly shocked when Yamori implies that he's not a virgin (he is, but he's annoyed that they made the assumption).
• Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: They view associating with humans in ways that do not involve making offspring as wrong. Because of this mindset, many vampires are incapable of making meaningful relationships and lack empathy when it comes to killing humans.
• Faux Affably Evil: When first meeting Yamori they engage in some girl talk, yet they are also making it crystal clear that they will kill Yamori if they fail to turn him. Their casual treatment of love as a prerequisite to reproduction also makes them less sympathetic, since it means any interaction with a human is inherently manipulative on their end.
• Gossipy Hens: Their meetings tend to quickly devolve into love talk.
• Immortal Immaturity: Despite being old, they take up childish habits when bullying Nazuna.
• He Knows Too Much: They give Kou the choice of either turning before the year ends, or they will kill him to prevent him from disclosing the truth of their existence.
• Narcissist: Niko, Kabura, and Midori are so conceited and stuck up, that they are genuinely shocked that Kou turns each of them down. When they first appear, it is plain to see that they internally compliment themselves and their feelings towards creating more vampires show that they think so lowly of humans that any "relationship" they form with humans is inherently manipulative.
• Pet the Dog: Each of them have moments of humanity, empathy, or genuine compassion and loyalty, alien as they can be at times.
• Serious Business: In Episode 7, when they all first appear, Niko, Kabura, Midori, and Hatsuka all have internal monologues analyzing each other's tactics in how to seduce Kou, and they talk like battle-hardened war veterans coming up with counter-strategies as if they were characters in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War.
• Shipper on Deck: Once Nazuna admits that she actually likes Yamori, the vampire council becomes openly supportive of their relationship.
• What Does She See in Him?: As a whole, they feel this way about both Yamori and Nazuna. The latter because she's never hung out with a human for so long, meaning there must be something special about him; the former because they can't conceive that a human could possibly like Nazuna over the rest of them. Then again, they also have difficulty grasping that Yamori has no concept of what it means to fall in love with someone.

Seri Kikyou

Seri Kikyou

Voiced by: Haruka Tomatsu (JP), Christina Kelly (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Valerie Bescht (French), Sophie Lechtenbrink (German), Martina Tamburello (Italian)

The second vampire introduced in the series, who also finds herself disliking the monotony of life and prefers to goof off at night. She's an approachable and charismatic Gyaru Girl who lures men for the purpose of turning them into vampires — her vampires, one of the so-called rules of vampire culture she intends to uphold. But she's not all that she appears to be, much like Nazuna herself.

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• An Arm and a Leg: Before she can bite Kou, Nazuna arrives and rips Seri's arm off, provoking a fight between the two vampires. Beyond the initial shock, she takes it in stride and easily reattaches her arm.
• Armor-Piercing Question: She's on the receiving end of this from Nazuna, who asks her "why did you decide you're gonna kill for once?" She doesn't have an answer.
  • It happens again in the same episode, as Kou says "What exactly do you want?" She has a weak answer and continues putting up a front, but Kou sees through it and points out her lack of logic, which forces her to act maturely for once.
• Attention Whore: Subverted. She brags about being popular with guys, but Kou doesn't believe her, and Seri herself even admits she actually doesn't enjoy being the center of attention like that at all.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Subverted. She seems like a chill, flirty, approachable Gyaru Girl, then reveals herself to be a vampire aligned with the council and allows them to kidnap Kou, but her Gyaru Girl persona is real, not a facade, and she even expresses concern for Kou by criticizing Nazuna's recklessness around him. Throughout Episode 9, when she hangs out with Kou again but gets followed by Akiyama, Seri turns quite violent and aggressive, having finally lost her patience with Akiyama, finding him to be too needy and possessive. Kou isn't willing to let her kill Akiyama, but Seri not only repeatedly suggests killing him, she actively lunges at him and even warns Kou that she'll kill him if he keeps getting in the way. But then Nazuna stops her, and forces Seri to admit she never intended to kill Akiyama or Kou. Seri even admits she never intended to turn Akiyama into a vampire; she just wanted something genuine, whether it's as a friend or a relationship, and her lashing out was more about her being unhappy with herself and projecting that onto her friend. She apologizes for her behavior by the end of the episode.
• Blatant Lies: Seri claims she lied about not enjoying her life as a vampire, but Kou very easily sees through her. This happens several times, like when she claims to enjoy the attention guys give her (she doesn't), when she suggests she's not bothered by possessive guys (she is), and in the end, her saying she wants to kill Akiyama (she really doesn't).
• Curb-Stomp Battle: She really had no chance against Nazuna in Episode 7 or Episode 9.
• Cuteness Proximity: Hearing Kou talk about not knowing how to fall in love and realize he has to change himself first, that sincerity and innocence made Seri completely lose her shit the same way a person would when meeting a cute animal.
• Fatal Flaw: Pride. She is so insistent that she can't be friends with humans that she puts up walls which push people away from her, even though it hurts her to do so. It's self-destructive, and she has no idea how to be honest with herself until Kou and Nazuna basically force her to be.
• Foil: Nazuna avoids love out of embarrassment and doesn't want to make more vampires; Seri uses love as a tool to turn people into vampires. Nazuna sticks to one guy; Seri goes for multiple. Nazuna is embarrassed by love; Seri is excited by it. Nazuna's primary relationship is with a younger guy; Seri's primary relationships are with older men. Nazuna drinks blood as a snack, leaving them alive and available for more; Seri drinks blood as a meal, draining them until they become a vampire or die. Nazuna doesn't care about upholding the rules of vampire culture; Seri is an enforcer of that same culture. Nazuna doesn't mind letting humans know she's a vampire; Seri does not want humans to know vampires roam the world unless they too become vampires.
• Foreshadowing: Early in episode 9, she hears an old sappy love song that Kou picked out at a karaoke bar. She mentions that "I'd only heard the chorus before. I never knew what the lyrics were like." It's revealed by the end of the episode that she doesn't know how to not be The Vamp, and desperately wants something genuine with somebody, and she sees Kou and Nazuna as the kind of thing she desires for herself, as much as she didn't want to admit it.
• Friendly Enemy: Nazuna hates her because Seri represents everything Nazuna dislikes about vampire culture, but Seri treats her like an angry, disobedient, and rowdy sister; there's no malice in her words or behavior at all compared to how Nazuna treats her. At the end of their fight, Seri even takes the time to talk things out with Nazuna, and she surprisingly succeeds.
• Genki Girl: When she's actually interested in something, she's brimming with tomboyish energy and passion, as seen when she proclaims herself Love Master to help Kou figure out how to fall in love with Nazuna.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: She reattaches her severed arm like nothing, making her the first vampire to demonstrate regeneration. She is also the only vampire who lost her arm so far.
• Gyaru Girl: Her whole style and presence evokes that of a friendly, spunky, laid-back "Cool Girl" image, and she definitely has the charisma to back it up.
• Hidden Depths:
  • In her first conversation with Kou, she heavily implies she actually doesn't enjoy her job as The Vamp. She's often bored, says nothing she wants to do never works out, and feels nothing seems fun for her anymore, but she does it cause it's what she's supposed to do; a vampire parallel to Akira and Kiyosumi, ironically. She also doesn't actually like being popular with people, because that extra attention is way more trouble than it's worth. She also tells Kou she often goes on dates with guys to kill time and have fun at night, and she regularly turns guys down if they're not her type. All this suggests she only bites guys she actually finds interesting, not just any guy who happens to hit on her. Episode 9 even reveals that despite herself, Seri actually is a romantic at heart, it's just that she has high standards which barely anybody can meet.
  • Episode 9 delves even further into her psyche. After living most of her life as a reluctant seductress, where romantic deceit in pursuit of blood is the norm, she just wants something real in her life for once, whether it be a friend or partner, and seeing Kou and Nazuna behave that way makes her jealous as it's something she desires for herself but thinks she can't have. She's afraid to be honest about her feelings because she doesn't want to be vulnerable, and her people's culture forbids friendships with humans, so she has no idea how to communicate like a friend, doesn't know how to behave like a normal person, and feels like what she really wants is so taboo, she'd rather lash out violently than admit it to anyone. These deep-seated insecurities aren't what Kou expected from The Vamp, and he makes sure to help Seri through it in the end.
• Hidden Heart of Gold: She talks a big game about being willing to kill, and repeatedly tries justifying it to Kou, but Episode 9 that Seri actually hasn't killed anyone, doesn't want to kill anyone, hasn't turned anyone into vampires, doesn't want to turn people into vampires, and just wants to be friends with the people around her.
• Humanizing Tears: After apologizing for her behavior, she explains to Akiyama that human-vampire friendships don't work out, and that after they have their last talk, it's goodbye. She immediately starts tearing up, clearly not wanting her to lose a friend but feeling like she has to cut him out of her life. Akiyama disagrees, and manages to work things out with Seri after all.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She hates how every single one of her interactions has to be laced with trying to court someone into falling for her. She wants something genuine, even if it's just a friend, and her lashing out at Akiyama (for falling in love with her) in Episode 9 was her being unable to process her own complicated feelings about herself. She doesn't want her life to revolve around courting guys and she doesn't want guys to use her in turn, but she's unable to behave like a normal person or a normal friend because of the culture she feels unable to detach herself from. Seri even says she doesn't know how to communicate like an ordinary friend, and subtly implies that she feels she was unwittingly leading Akiyama on, so her solution isn't to kill Akiyama, but to sever ties with him and never see each other again. Akiyama disagrees, and convinces her to turn him into a vampire instead for her sake.
• Irony: Her job as a vampire is to turn other humans into vampires by having them fall in love with her. But when Akiyama actually does fall for her, he behaves in a way she finds off-putting, and rather than turn him into a vampire, she tries to kill him instead, thereby violating the vampire council's rules she claims to follow. He apologizes for falling in love with her and jeopardizing their friendship because of that, after realizing that she only wanted him as a friend and that his pining for her made her uncomfortable.
• Knight of Cerebus: Her intro in the series changes the tone of story drastically. Her willingness to use violence breaks up the peaceful tone the story had at first, her loss of an arm leads to the first major action scene with all the supernatural intensity that brings, and her introducing Kou to the other vampires results in Kou having a one year time limit on becoming a vampire, so if he doesn't become one by then, they will have to kill him to maintain The Masquerade. But unlike most examples, she's not a villain, nor is she even particularly antagonistic, and she even helps Kou out in his quest to become a vampire, in her own quirky way.
• Leg Focus: Her legs are given many a Male Gaze shot in the anime.
• Likes Older Men: Or rather, maybe it would be more accurate to say she doesn't dislike them. When she meets Zawa, Yamori's homeroom teacher, she asks for his contact info and offers to hang out with him, much to Akiyama's chagrin.
• Lovable Sex Maniac: You wouldn't think she's the type, but as soon as she hears from Nazuna that Kou's blood is tasty, she immediately tracks him down and gradually starts behaving like a starved drug addict, breathing heavily and having wild internal fantasies while blushing like a madwoman, and it only continues the more she interacts with him.
• Ms. Fanservice: She has an even nicer body than Nazuna's and a lot of attention is given to her body as a result.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: She's very willing, and at times seems eager to kill humans if they annoy her beyond her breaking point. In Episode 9, she's so aggravated by Akiyama's crush on her that she tries killing him multiple times, and even tries to kill Kou when he steps in the way. But Kou anticipated such a response from Seri and used his watch to summon Nazuna, who stops her just in time, revealing she was watching nearby the entire time. Then it's revealed, according to Nazuna and Seri herself, that Seri actually isn't like this at all, and her being so violent and homicidal is an Out-of-Character Moment for Seri.
• Out-of-Character Moment: A rare example in that the audience is unaware of what she's done that's so out of character until another character with deeper history with her reveals it. Nazuna says Seri actually doesn't kill people, expressing surprise when Seri actually decided to kill someone "for once." It's heavily implied part of the reason for Seri's behavior was because she was jealous of Kou and Nazuna's friendship, something genuine which she thought she would never get herself.
• Pet the Dog: At the end of their fight, Seri points out that Nazuna's carelessness is putting Kou in danger, and Seri reveals the only reason she even intervened was mainly to protect him, hence why their first offer was to turn him into a vampire and only kill him as a last resort. Even when she assumes Kou was just a distraction and that Nazuna had her eye on a different guy, Seri still intends to keep her promise to try to turn him into a vampire, and only kill him if that doesn't work.
• Punch-Clock Villain: While it may be a stretch to call her a "villain," Seri does follow the rules set by the vampire council, and she's made it clear she only does what she's "supposed" to do as a vampire because that's what's expected of her. It's her responsibility, her job in a sense, and all she gets from that is boredom, emptiness, and shallowness, with unwanted attention from possessive guys who think she's their girlfriend already. It's heavily implied because of that inability to find something genuine for herself, Seri seeing Kou and Nazuna's genuine relationship, whether feelings are involved or not, even makes her jealous because Seri couldn't imagine ever getting something like that in her life.
• Shadow Archetype:
  • She has parallels to three different human characters in the series. She told Kou she hates acting in the day when she'd rather enjoy the night, even if it means going on "dates" with older men, much like Kou who himself spends time with the older Nazuna. Despite being quite friendly, outgoing, and approachable, with the capacity for mutual understanding, she's rather unmotivated, doesn't enjoy much about her life, and feels rather aimless beyond what she has to do, just like Akira. Finally, she has a job that she doesn't enjoy (turning humans into vampires), yet she has a responsibility to continue doing so, and doesn't like being agreeable to people who she thinks aren't worth her time, just like Kiyosumi. She ironically represents how monotonous vampire life could be even for a freewheeling spirit like her.
  • She even has parallels to Nazuna, but in a different light. Much like Nazuna, Seri is a night-time lone wolf who interacts with people of a different age range than her, rather bloodthirsty (in both the literal and psycho-sexual sense), a romantic at heart despite everything appearing otherwise at first, loves messing with Kou for the lulz, enjoys being The Tease to guys she actually likes, and is also rather disconnected from the rest of the vampire council beyond otherwise following their rules.
• So Proud of You: She's genuinely happy to know that Nazuna actually does want to turn someone into a vampire, something Seri never thought she'd hear in her life. She doesn't get that Nazuna's talking about Kou.
• The Tease: Even when she's not acting on vampiric instincts, she's not afraid to flaunt her body to guys she wants to bite, like Kou.
• Troll: She steals Kou's soda and drinks it all right in front of him, just 'cause.
• The Vamp:
  • Compared to Nazuna, who has no interest in creating underlings by making them vampires, Seri is more comparable to a succubus, and she is very skilled at seduction and intimacy in her pursuit of that end goal.
  • This becomes deconstructed by Episode 9. She's tired of essentially using guys for something she doesn't really want to do, and she ends up feeling used by guys in turn because of that. She just doesn't know how to behave outside the culture she lives in.
• Violently Protective Girlfriend: Seri does not take kindly to Anko's attempted murder of Akiyama, though Anko manages to dodge her attack.
• Vitriolic Best Buds: Her and Nazuna become this by the end of episode 9 once all animosity washes away.
• What the Hell, Hero?:
  • Seri calls out Nazuna for not turning Kou into a vampire sooner because it endangers Kou more than anything else. Nazuna can't bring herself to disagree.
  • Seri herself is on the receiving end of it from Kou. He points out how "You enjoy having a friend, and you don't want to ruin that relationship so you're gonna kill him?!" She doesn't have a good answer, he keeps pushing past her front (which can only be described as her pride getting in the way of what she really wants), and it forces her to talk things out with Akiyama and handle it maturely for once.

Kabura Honda

Kabura Honda

Voiced by: Shizuka Itō (JP), Patricia Duran (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Ninon Moreau (French), Maria Hönig (German), Beatrice Caggiula (Italian)

The third vampire introduced, who appears right behind Kou and takes him away to meet with the other members of Niko Hirata's vampire clique. She works night shifts as a nurse at a hospital. She is also Haru Nanakusa's offpsring.

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• Closet Key: Haru served as this for Kabura, who until meeting her couldn't see the point of dating men.
• Commonality Connection: With Haruka, due to both being Haru's offspring. While Kabura starts cold and hostile, the duo quickly bond over Haru's quirks being annoying but cute.
• Delicate and Sickly: Kabura had quite the frail constitution before becoming a vampire, spending a lot of time in the hospital and getting exhausted easily. Her friends being Innocently Insensitive to her condition eventually drove a wedge between them.
• Dark and Troubled Past: While Call of the Night has plenty of characters whose lives are sad or depressing, Kabura takes the cake in that regard. Forced to live with a chronic illness, surrounded by people who neglected her. Got cured and started a new life, where she felt happy, only to have it taken away: the woman she was in love with never felt the same for her. That woman later got pregnant and died. To rub salt in the wound, her crush's daughter looked the exact same as her mother and served as a constant reminder of Kabura's loss.
• Despair Event Horizon: Kabura hit this after realizing that she hated everything in her life: not being able to do the things normal people could, her Innocently Insensitive friends, and her family making her feel guilty for being so sickly. She also realized that, when asked what she wanted to do or where she wanted to go, she wasn't able to provide an answer. Haru turning her into a vampire gave Kabura the means to put all of those things behind her.
• Empty Eyes: Given her life, this one isn't too suprising.
• Fair-Weather Friend: Her human friends had shades of this; because Kabura used to be so sickly at the time, they ended up feeling like they were her nurses rather than her friends. Kabura did not take this well (especially because they said these things to their boyfriends while they thought she wasn't listening), and eventually admitted that she hated them.
• Florence Nightingale Effect: Kabura ended up falling in love with the nurse that was always taking care of her at the hospital. Said nurse would turn out to be Nazuna's mother and a vampire, who would later turn Kabura into her offspring.
• Helicopter Parents: Becomes upset when she learns that Nazuna had a friend and never told her.
  Kabura: You're supposed to tell me about these things!
  Nazuna: Oh my god, stop being annoying...
• Hospital Hottie: Works as a nurse, and looks quite attractive while dressed as one, too.
• Ignored Enamored Underling: Downplayed example; while Kabura fell in love with Haru and was turned into a vampire because of it, Haru did not quite return the sentiment. While she did enjoy Kabura's company and would regularly hang out with her, Kabura was painfully aware that she would only ever be her offspring and not her lover.
• The Joy of First Flight: The first thing Kabura did after becoming a vampire was to go for a flight while in her hospital gown, laughing with child-like glee all the while.
• Jump Scare: Practically gives a heart attack to Yamori and Nazuna when they break into her hospital at night.
• Kryptonite Factor: Kabura decides to destroy her belongings in the hospital's forbidden room (including a picture of herself with Haru) when it becomes clear that Anko could use them to kill her. Not long after she does, Anko breaks into said room and becomes disappointed to learn she was too late.
• Lesbian Vampire: Although these days she's seemingly fine with taking men, originally Kabura became a vampire after falling in love with Haru Nanakusa, Nazuna's mother.
• Nepotism: A downplayed example: after Kabura became a vampire, Haru used her own connections to help her become a nurse at the hospital she was hospitalized in, which was helped by the fact that apparently the hospital's director is also a vampire himself.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: Kabura often felt guilty for her frail constitution due to her human friends constantly moving on with their lives without waiting for her to catch up and her mother telling her not to cause trouble for her father by getting herself hospitalized again. She also felt left out when her friends invited her to partake in activities she couldn't actually enjoy, such as going to a bar, snowboarding or going to a hot spring. Eventually she got sick of it and became a vampire to leave them all behind.
• Parental Substitute: To Nazuna, per Haru's request. Kabura often wonders if she's done a good job of it.
• Promotion to Parent: Became Nazuna's Parental Substitute after Haru abandoned her. While at first she intended to kill Nazuna, Kabura ultimately couldn't bring herself to do it after seeing the Strong Family Resemblance.
• Really Gets Around: According to Hatsuka, Kabura has seven offspring.
• Replacement Goldfish: Kabura clearly projects her feelings for Haru on her daughter Nazuna, given her penchant for dressing Nazuna in a nurse outfit everytime she comes to visit her at the hospital. Nazuna, for her part, had always thought that the way Kabura stared at her was off-putting; when she realizes the reason, she gets a little freaked out.
• Serial Homewrecker: If her fellow vampires' commentary is any indication, Kabura has a bad habit of targeting people already in a relationship. This after Kabura shamelessly tries to make a pass at Yamori right in front of Nazuna, who threatens to kill her in response. Her habit extends to the offspring candidates of other vampires, as well, and has gained a level of infamy because of it.
• Skewed Priorities: When Nazuna reveals she's closing her cuddle buddy business after losing her apartment, Kabura is shocked... because she's missed the opportunity to hire Nazuna's services. Likewise, she becomes happy upon learning that Nazuna's been working at Midori's maid café in the meantime... and makes plans to stop by one day.
• Spit Take: Spit the beer she was drinking all over a hapless waiter when Haru revealed that she wanted to get married. She did it a second time when Haru revealed that her partner was a human and a third time when Haru revealed she was already pregnant. The waiter took it in stride, however, after becoming charmed with Kabura.
• Statuesque Stunner: The second tallest character in the series, and as is traditional with vampires, quite attractive even to Kou.
• Yamato Nadeshiko: She follows a more traditional standard of Japanese beauty and femininity, being polite, elegant, and graceful.

Niko Hirata

Niko Hirata

Voiced by: Eri Kitamura (JP), Monica Rial (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Ingrid Donnadieu (French), Maria Koschny (German), Patrizia Mottola (Italian)

The leader of a group of vampires, the tallest character in the series, and the fourth vampire introduced. She's the one who first proposes turning Kou into a fellow vampire, or if that fails, killing him so that the vampires' existence doesn't become known to humans. She works as a teacher at a night school.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: She finally gets fed up with Nazuna's attitude and tells her outright to decide what Kou means to her, forcing the latter to confront her feelings for him.
• Exact Words: Repeatedly insists that she'd like to "enjoy some love talk and leave it at that" when discussing Nazuna's relationship with Yamori. While it is implied that she means that Yamori will die if she can't be convinced that Nazuna will turn him into a vampire, in truth she's being literal: the moment Nazuna actually admits that she cares for Yamori on a personal level, Niko leaves it at that and declares that she will support them.
• For Halloween, I Am Going as Myself: She dresses as a Hot Teacher who seduces her students for Halloween. Yamori remarks to himself that this is no different from her usual.
• Gossipy Hens: Even more so than the rest of the vampire council combined, especially when love talk is concerned. She can be a little forceful about it, much to Nazuna's chagrin.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: While Niko presents herself as composed, she can flip out. In episode 13, Niko savagely lashes out and smashes the table in half in a fit of rage.
• Hot Teacher: Works as a teacher and has attracted the attention of at least one of her ex-students. She invokes this trope during the Halloween parade, dressing up as one with a more revealing outfit.
• The Jailbait Wait: Niko really loves it when children she turns down come back to her years later as grown men.
• Lesbian Vampire: Averted. When Nazuna asks her if she would turn women into her offspring, Niko retorts with a "no".
• "Not So Different" Remark: Kou mentions Niko is the closest to Nazuna, which actually offends Niko, who calls Nazuna an "unpopular letdown." Such an outburst only serves to prove his point more.
• Really Gets Around: According to Hatsuka, Niko has around five offspring.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: While she is played up as being the most conservative and confrontational of the vampires, she's ultimately quite understanding, if not possessed of a certain mean streak. She eventually decides to let Kou and Nazuna take their time falling in love, since forcing the issue doesn't help, and she sees that the two are becoming sincere in their relationship.
• Statuesque Stunner: Easily the tallest person out of Kou's acquaintances, and she is also, as most vampires are in the series, very beautiful.
• Stern Teacher: For all her other flaws, Niko takes her duties as a teacher seriously, and is shown to care for her students, encouraging them to make the best out of their circumstances.
• Sultry Bangs: Her hair covers her left eye, emphasizing her sexiness.

Midori Kohakobe

Midori Kohakobe

Voiced by: Naomi Ozora (JP), Emily Neves (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Charlotte Hervieux (French), Helen Blaschke (German), Giulia Maniglio (Italian)

The fifth vampire introduced, and a member of Niko Hirata's clique, one of the shortest characters in the series.

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• Bubbly Waitress: She works as a waitress at a maid café, where she's the most popular girl because of her cuteness and bubbly disposition.
• Cute Oversized Sleeves: She usually wears sweaters with oversized sleeves that cover her hands to add to her invoked Moe appeal.
• Did I Just Say That Out Loud?: When Nazuna doesn't even try to act like a maid, Midori becomes enraged and loudly breaks character by threatening to kill her. As soon as she realizes what she just did, she covers her mouth.
• Eating the Eye Candy: She can't help but stare at Akira's chest and comment on her size when they first meet.
• Flat "What": Her reaction to Kou's blunt rejection of her advances is a deadpanned and vaguely offended "What."
• Has a Type: By her own admission, Midori prefers to target virgins.
• In Vino Veritas: Midori has trouble stopping her real thoughts from slipping out when she's drunk.
• Not Good with Rejection: Downplayed, but she's clearly sore about Kou rejecting her.
• Really Gets Around: Subverted; Midori only has a single offspring in the form of LoveGreen.
• Sentimental Drunk: Midori becomes a little obnoxious when she gets drunk.
• Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: She's so used to being the most popular girl that she obsesses over Yamori not liking her. She's similarly peeved that, when someone took racy pictures of the maids at her workplace, there weren't any of her specifically.

Hatsuka Suzushiro

Hatsuka Suzushiro

Voiced by: Azumi Waki (JP), Annie Wild (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Estelle Darazi (French), Melinda Rachfahl (German), Elisa Giorgio (Italian)

The sixth vampire introduced, Hatsuka is the only male member in Niko Hirata's vampire clique.

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• Attractive Bent-Gender: By Hatsuka's own admission, crossdressing only makes him even more attractive.
• Benevolent Boss: Appears to have this relationship to an almost comical degree with his three offspring, who Squee with delight when he occasionally praises them.
• Beware the Nice Ones: His offspring know better than to incur Hatsuka's wrath. When they displease him by badmouthing Yamori, Hatsuka's reaction is enough to make them stop and obediently take their leave.
• Big Damn Heroes: In the manga, when Yamori jumps off a bridge while fleeing from the police, Hatsuka catches him before he can hit the pavement and flies away with him before the police officers notice he's gone.
• Charm Person: While most vampires work by manipulating their targets into falling in love with them, Hatsuka says he just brainwashes his targets to skip the effort. There is some ambiguity to his claim, however, since he never uses such a power, not even when Kou refuses his offer.
• Close to Home: When Yamori makes an offhand comment about people doing things because they either want to or because someone is forcing them to, Hatsuka has a brief flashback of himself wearing a girl's school uniform while clutching his chest.
• Cuteness Proximity: The sight of Nazuna pondering how to make Yamori fall for her "makes the boy in Hatsuka tremble".
  Hatsuka: You're so cute that I could french kiss you, Nanakusa-san...
• Devoted to You: Seems to have this effect on his offspring, though it's hard to tell whether or not it's deliberate on Hatsuka's part.
• Dominance Through Furniture: Inverted; while Hatsuka uses one of his offspring as a chair when Nazuna comes to visit, said offspring declares that he offered himself willingly so that Nazuna could sit on the couch. He's clearly enjoying himself, too.
• Effeminate Voice: He's a girly-looking vampire boy and is voiced by a woman in the anime, making it impossible for the audience to guess he's a boy unless they're told.
• Even the Guys Want Him: According to Hatsuka, his crossdressing makes both women and men like him more.
• Gender-Blender Name: "Hatsuka" is a feminine Japanese name. Makes the fact he's actually a guy all the more unexpected.
• Hyper-Awareness: Notices that Nazuna is being uncharacteristically submissive to Yamori when he strong-arms her into finding a proper place to live in. Then he also notices that she's blushing and realizes that Nazuna is falling for Yamori for real.
• Immortality Bisexuality: Considering Hatsuka has both male and female offspring, this is more or less a given.
• More than Mind Control: Hatsuka brainwashes his potential offspring into thinking that they've fallen in love with him by creating a state of mind where they can't even think of living without him. He apparently does this by punishing those who disobey him and rewarding those who comply.
• The One Guy: He's the only male vampire in Niko's group.
• Romantic Wingman: When Nazuna comes to him for romantic advice, Hatsuka suggests that she wears less stimulating clothes than her usual so that the contrast will get Yamori's attention (which it already did when they went to the pool together). Then, when they go drinking and Yamori arrives to pick up Nazuna after she gets plastered, Hatsuka suggests that he calls her cute when she wakes up.
• Spit Take: Hatsuka is caught offguard when Kou matter-of-factly admits he has a cute face.
• Stronger Than They Look: Yamori is quickly reminded that vampires have Super-Strength when Hatsuka casually shoves him back into the couch he was sitting on with a mere tap.
• Unsettling Gender-Reveal:
  • Reveals that he's a guy by casually walking out of the shower naked, allowing Yamori to notice his "equipment".
    Hatsuka: Hey, sorry about that. I thought you knew already. Did I give you a shock?
  • Mahiru and Akiyama are similarly shocked when Hatsuka joins them in the men's bath.
• Wholesome Crossdresser: He admits he prefers to be girly, and says feminine clothing suits him way more.

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Other Vampires

Kiku Hoshimi (Spoilers)

Kiku Hoshimi

The seventh vampire introduced, she is not part of Niko Hirata's vampire clique.

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• Been There, Shaped History: Her age and constant desire to find her true love she has apparently been the inspiration of or been inspired by multiple myths, fairy tales, childrens stories, and movies. The ones we're explicitly shown in her titular chapter were Snow White and The Graduate.
• Big Bad Ensemble: Easily the darkest and most horrifying vampire in the series, being a mix of a Serial Killer and a sexual predator, which puts her at odds with Anko the vampire hunter and even the Vampire Council who find her disgusting.
• The Chessmaster: Potentially comes with being the oldest vampire in the setting, but she appears to have plans layered within plans for dealing with all of the main characters. She was able to find a weakness object for Nazuna which they believed was impossible due to her status as a Dhampyr, and knowing that Kou would come to Nazuna's rescue she memorized his mother's work schedule and route home so that she could bait him directly in front of her potentially breaking the masquerade and endangering his mothers life if he continued to give chase.
• Clingy Jealous Girl:
  • Kiku is of the mind that to love someone is to throw away everything for that person, and she won't compromise on that point; when she learns that Mahiru kept his cellphone and that he hasn't completely discarded his friends, she has a major Freak Out as she takes this as a sign that Mahiru doesn't love her. When discussing this with Yamori, she states that it's only natural for a person to choose their lover over their friends, something Yamori vehemently disagrees with.
  • She later tries to drown Yamori so that he can't get between her and Mahiru, giving the simple justification that Mahiru has been checking his phone without her consent. If he won't throw away his friends, she will.
• Connected All Along:
  • The vampire that attacked Akira when she was investigating The Seven Mysteries with Yamori and Mahiru? He was Kiku's offspring. As was Anko's father, so it turns out.
  • Haru was also a close friend of Kiku's, to the point of both of them attempting to find a non-lethal end to their immortality. Nazuna effectively owes her existence to this shared goal, which is also presumably why Kiku holds Nazuna's umbilical cord.
• The Corrupter: Practically her speciality among the vampires that we've seen. We know that she corrupted Anko's father, and has been corrupting/grooming Mahiru since the two of them met. Mahiru might have already been damaged somewhat before she met him, but she has increased that damage exponentially, including having him cut himself off from all of his friends and family. In a truly vicious way when it came to his mother.
• Cute and Psycho: Takes a little bit, but once the mask slips this is most definitely the case for Kiku. So much so that she is the only vampire she's ever encountered to scare vampire hunter Anko.
• Eviler than Thou: She embodies the worst of vampirism by a mountaintop. While the Vampire Council are manipulative and violent, and Anko is ruthless in her pursuit of revenge against an entire species, Kiku is easily the cruelest and most horrifying character in the series, embodying the very real and very scary reality of a sex predator and child groomer in vampire form.
• Exact Words: Kiku herself laments whenever she makes a new offspring, even though "she wasn't planning to". She also only sucks the blood of those who love her. Yamori finds this contradiction confusing at first, until much later it is speculated that if a vampire sucks the blood of a human they've fallen in love with, that human will die. Yamori and his friends then realize Kiku's goal: she sucks blood in the hopes that one of her would-be offspring dies in order to prove that her feelings for them are real.
• Faux Affably Evil: Her friendliness is just a facade and it serves to make her scarier that way,
• I Just Want to Be Normal: Her main motivation, the crux of everything she's done in the present day storyline, is to do the same thing that Haru had sought: becoming a human once again and escaping the immortal reach of their vampiric curse. The problems lie in that both of them attempted to do it in different ways, with Haru trying to see if having a Dhampyr child would accomplish this, while Kiku decided that the mere concept of herself trying to fall In Love with the Mark would perhaps cure her. Her excess of offspring were the reckless results with this, and Mahiru is her latest target.
• Knight of Cerebus: She's like a horror movie villain thrown into a slice of life anime. Nothing about her is played for comedy, everything about her is played deadly straight, and she easily outclasses every other character in sheer abject cruelty.
• Laughing Mad: During her encounter with Anko she begins laughing so hard that it literally starts falling off the page of the manga.
• Manic Pixie Dream Girl: She plays a dark and entirely intentional take on this for Mahiru after meeting and getting to know him.
• Mask of Sanity: Maintains one when in public and while with her prospective love interests, but the second she no longer cares about them she doesn't care to maintain it. The first time we see it fully slip was in ch101 during a flash back and the result terrified Anko.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • For someone that is a Stepford Smiler of always having cynical or dark considerations beneath that vacant smile, when she gets angry or irritated it's time to run, because she will go off the rails and potentially attempt to murder you in a fit of insanity. But in a lighter case, after so many years of not caring about all of the people she turned into offspring, her genuine, honest concern and love for Mahiru overcomes her distant approach into not only being a Yandere, but nearly killing herself in the sunlight just to feverishly look for him out of terror for his well-being. Mahiru, as it turns out, is what she firmly believes to be her One True Love so much that it fundamentally overrode her senses to care for him.
  • When Anko asks her if the name "Mejiro" rings any bells, a stunned Kiku can only ask how she knows that name, which clues Anko to the fact that her father left an impression in Kiku, unlike most of her other offspring.
• Pet the Dog: When Azami's former boss made a joke at his expense, she convinced him to apologize even though she literally had nothing to gain from it.
• Precision F-Strike: How do you figure out Kiku isn't entirely mentally well? When Anko says she'll kill Kiku personally, Kiku's response is to go Laughing Mad and then burst out with a rather profane rant, the only time in the story so far that she's shown to break her usually demure exterior.
  Kiku: Fufu.. You said it yourself... The more you investigate... The less.. th-the less you know.. [...] I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH MYSELF!! HOW IN THE GODDAMN HELL WOULD ANYONE ELSE FUCKING KNOW!!
• Really Gets Around: Out of all of the vampires we're aware of she has the most offspring by far, with Anko losing count after 100, and considering that in order for someone to become the offspring of a Vampire in this universe is to fall in love that's a lot of men that have fallen in love with her.
• Time Abyss: What we know through Anko's research is that she's at least 400 years old, but the truth is that no one knows just how old she is, no matter how far back Anko looked for her weakness she was only ever able to find Kiku as a vampire, never as a human.
• Walking Spoiler: Her involvement in the lives of several key figures throws the manga on its side.
• What Is This Thing You Call "Love"?: She is able to get constant men falling for her and is implied to have done it at least a hundred times, but she fundamentally doesn't actually seem to understand love from her perspective, simply being a vampire because it was her nature. A warped sentimentality that can't comprehend the human perception of love, and yet at the same time she desires to understand it so that she can truly fall in love and free herself from vampirism.

Akihito Akiyama

Akihito "Akkun" Akiyama

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino (JP), James Marler (EN) ^{Foreign VAs} Alexis Tomassian (French), Jonas Lauenstein (German), Jacopo Calatroni (Italian)

Originally a human with a crush on Seri. He becomes her offspring after they talk things out.

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• Crazy Jealous Guy: Seems to be this when first introduced. Becomes a more downplayed example after becoming a vampire.
• Foreshadowing: When Akiyama reveals that he's wearing fake glasses, Yamori follows up by stating that the ones he wore before were different. For some reason, Akiyama takes a moment before answering. Then, only a few minutes later, Anko uses his old glasses to make him vulnerable, since they are his weakness.
• The Glasses Gotta Go: After becoming a vampire, his eyesight improves to the point that he no longer needs glasses.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Anko stabs him repeatedly while he's stunned from his Kryptonite Factor. He later heals when Yamori allows him to suck some of his blood.
• Horror Hunger: Advises Yamori to cover his neck, partly to hide Nazuna's bite mark and partly because Akiyama feels the urge to lunge at him just from looking at his exposed neck. Yamori makes sure to zip up his jacket whenever he meets Akiyama after this.
• I Don't Want to Ruin Our Friendship: When Akiyama sees that Seri is torn between just wanting to have friends and trying to part ways with him so she won't have to kill him, he decides to become her offspring so that she can have it both ways.
• I Need a Freaking Drink: His reaction to being dumped by his girlfriend.
• Inconvenient Attraction: While Seri and Akiyama started out as friends, he ended up falling in love with her even though Seri wasn't after romance. When she tries to sever ties with him because of this, things escalate to the point that Seri tries to kill Akiyama just to push him away. It takes Yamori and Nazuna forcing them to talk things out before they settle for Seri turning Akiyama into her offspring and attempting to stay as friends afterwards.
• Kryptonite Factor: The glasses he was wearing the day he first met Seri. Anko uses them to attack him after somehow acquiring them. Akiyama later destroys them so that it can't happen again.
• Offscreen Breakup: His high school girlfriend broke up with him shortly before he met Seri.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: Most of Akiyama's friends call him "Akkun". Yamori, on the other hand, calls him "Menhera-san/Mr. Draggo" after the face he makes when he's stressed, which makes him look like an obsessive stalker (also he completely forgot his real name).
  Akiyama: So, what's wrong with calling me Akkun?
  Yamori: Well, our first meeting left a really strong impression...
• The Philosopher:
  • When he met Seri, he compared love to blindness by reducing it to the effects of dopamine on the brain, which he then compared to the effects of taking drugs. Ironically enough, he ended up falling in love with Seri.
    Akiyama: The brain of a human in love works just like a drug abuser's brain would.
  • Gives Yamori a short lecture on the non-duality of friendship and romance, and of humanity's desires for food, sleep and sex.
• Purely Aesthetic Glasses: Having worn prescription glasses for years, Akiyama starts wearing fake glasses after becoming a vampire because it would feel weird not to.
• Vampires Are Sex Gods: Akiyama's looks and personality go on a complete 180 after he becomes a vampire: he becomes more confident, he ditches the glasses and starts wearing trendier clothes.
• Would Hit a Girl: He attempts to attack Anko as revenge for her shooting Seri. He fails to land a single hit.

Michihisa Kanou

Michihisa Kanou

Voiced by: Kazuhiro Yamaji (JP)

One of Kiku's offspring. Formerly a teacher at Yamori's school, he went missing ten years ago, and is now rumored to stalk the school at night. Turns out, the rumors dont tell the whole story...

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• Be Careful What You Wish For: Yamori, Mahiru and Akira enter their school at night to verify The Seven Mysteries, with Mahiru pointing out how there's a ninth mystery about a teacher who went missing ten years ago and can only be found in one of the classrooms at night. Expecting no trouble, the trio promptly goes looking for him... and find far more than they bargained for.
• Chairman of the Brawl: Yamori gets him off Akira by smashing a chair on his face.
• Deadly Lunge: Against both Akira and Anko, in order to suck their blood. Yamori and Mahiru stop him from doing so when Michihisa attacks Akira, but Anko willingly baits him into attacking her.
• Determinator: Held on to his sanity for ten long years while starving himself and cutting himself off from people, utterly unwilling to prey on other humans for their blood. By the time Yamori and his friends meet him, he's one day away from death by starvation.
• Diabolus ex Machina: His introduction truly comes out of nowhere, and makes Yamori understand why most people would fear vampires.
• Does This Remind You of Anything?: The way he pins Akira to the ground and salivates on her face as he tries to suck her blood is disturbingly reminiscent of Attempted Rape.
• Dying as Yourself: Anko's intervention allows Michihisa to die as the human he used to be ten years ago, which finally grants him peace.
• Given Name Reveal: His full name isn't revealed until over 100 chapters after his death.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Fasting himself for ten years and spending his waking hours alone for just as long has done no favors to his sanity. The second he lays eyes on Yamori and his friends, he completely loses control of his actions.
• Horror Hunger: By the time Yamori and his friends meet him, he's been starving for ten years. The sight of humans is enough to make him lose all restraint and attack them on the spot.
• Kryptonite Factor: Anko produces a seemingly harmless ring and places it on Michihisa's hand, which seems to hurt him for some reason. Once it is revealed that vampires have a weakness in the form of objects they had strong attachments to when they were still human, it becomes clear that this is no ordinary ring: it's a wedding ring.
• Mercy Kill: His ultimate fate. Unwilling to feed on human blood and unable to stop himself from going on a rampage, Anko gently puts him out of his misery by exposing him to sunlight while using his weakness against him.
• Peaceful in Death: When Michihisa finally dies, he has a serene smile on his face as his torment comes to an end at long last.
• Reduced to Dust: As he's exposed to sunlight while in contact with his weakness, Michihisa's body crumbles to ashes.
• Resist the Beast: After Yamori knocks some sense into him, he regains his lucidity and tells the children to run away while they can, aware that he won't be able to restrain himself forever. He resists long enough for Anko to intervene.
• Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: When he lunges at Anko and sucks her blood, the taste leaves him retching moments later. While his comments imply that this is the first time he's sucked anyone's blood, it's revealed much later that Anko's blood tastes particularly foul because she can no longer become a vampire.
• Tragic Villain: Poor Michihisa was turned into a vampire against his will, and has been holding back his thirst for blood for ten years. It's a miracle that he still has moments of lucidity at this point.
• Would Hit a Girl / Would Hurt a Child: Zigzagged; while at first he mutters that he "wants the girl" and lunges at Akira, once he regains a semblance of lucidity he tells the children to run away. When Anko flashes her neck at him, however, he loses it again and lunges at her instead. It's clear that he wouldn't normally attack anyone at all; he's just starving for blood.

Kurihara

Kurihara

One of Hatsuka's offspring. Works as a real estate agent.

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• Given Name Reveal: His last name is only revealed over 100 chapters after his first appearance.
• Happiness in Slavery: Is perfectly happy with letting Hatsuka use him as a chair.
  Kurihara: I did it of my own volition!!
  Hatsuka: Hey, who said you can talk?
  Kurihara: My apologies, Hatsuka-sama!!
• Hidden Depths: Works as a real estate agent, specialized in the vampire market. When Nazuna finds herself looking for a new home after Yamori demolished the old one, Hatsuka introduces them to Kurihara so that he can sort her out.
• Human Doorstop: Well, Vampire Doorstop, anyway. Happily offers to let Hatsuka use him as a chair when Nazuna comes to visit, allowing her to use the couch.
• The One Guy: The sole male amongst Hatsuka's three offspring.
• Overzealous Underling: Played for Laughs. While Kurihara and his fellow offspring are fanatically devoted to Hatsuka and would never question or disobey him, they do not like it when he brushes them off to hang out with his guests. Their reactions range from comical rage to moody depression.
• Straight Gay: Considering Hatsuka is a guy, Kurihara has got to be this on some level.

Haru (Spoilers)

Haru Nanakusa

Nazuna's biological mother. Disappeared after her birth.

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• Be Yourself: Encouraged Kabura to ask herself what it was that she wanted to do or be, then told her that the answer could be anything she wanted, even if it was something completely mundane.
• Closet Key: Served as this for Kabura, who until then couldn't really see the point of dating men.
• Cuteness Proximity: Made dorky faces whenever she thought Kabura was being cute.
• Disproportionate Retribution: Proposed killing Kabura's friends with a completely straight face after learning that they talked smack about her behind her back.
• Everyone Has Standards: Became furious upon learning that Kabura's friends talked about her behind her back.
• First-Name Basis: Was friendly enough with Kabura that the two started calling each other by their first names.
• Hospital Hottie: Originally worked as a nurse tending to Kabura during her bouts of illness.
• Missing Mom: Kabura reveals in the present that Haru died shortly after giving birth to Nazuna due to a combination of not having enough nutrients and having stopped drinking blood after marrying a human.
• Odd Friendship: With Kiku. Both vampires were trying to find a way to restore their humanity, and often got together to discuss their ideas.
• Really Gets Around: Had at least two offspring before getting married to, and impregnated by, a human.
• Stealth Hi/Bye: Pulled this on Kabura once while she was thinking of Haru out loud. Naturally, this scared the crap out of Kabura.
  Kabura: A-at-at least say if you're there!
  Haru: Huh? I said "I'm coming in," you didn't hear me?
• Strong Family Resemblance: For whatever reason, Nazuna looks practically identical to Haru, enough that Kabura was shocked upon first meeting her.

LoveGreen

LoveGreen

Midori's offspring. A hardcore otaku.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Midori calls him "Love-kun".
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Fell in love with Midori because she did not find him disgusting.
• Big Fun: LoveGreen might be a little overweight, but he's pleasant enough to hang around with and invites Midori and her friends to play games with him.
• Cannot Tell a Lie: Though he's usually quite honest with people (not afraid to admit that he possesses some of Midori's underwear, for instance), he will absolutely refuse to answer if he finds it embarrassing. Ironically, this makes it very easy to figure out what he's trying to hide.
• Chivalrous Pervert: Knows Midori's three sizes, becomes aroused when she tries to strangle him, freely admits that he has some of her underwear and even made a hentai doujinshi of her once when he was still a human. And yet he is unfailingly polite and respectful both to Midori and to her friends, immediately agreeing to help them destroy Midori's weakness.
• Dogged Nice Guy: While discussing romance, Yamori is saddened by the fact that a vampire cannot fall in love with a human, and how said human's love for them can only ever be unrequited. LoveGreen then points out how becoming a vampire's offspring only really means that said offspring now has all of eternity to court for their affection, adding how he himself has not given up on Midori.
• Hikikomori: If Midori's praise for doing so is any indication, LoveGreen rarely, if ever, leaves his room.
• I Was Quite a Looker: Used to be much slimmer in the past.
• Meaningful Name: "Midori" is "green" in Japanese. "LoveGreen", therefore, means "I love Midori".
• Mistaken Identity: Anko once tried to hunt him in an omake, but begged for this trope to be the case when they met face to face.
• Nice Guy: LoveGreen is smart, gentle and humble. Midori thinks he's too nice, however, and is afraid that someone might try to steal him from her.
• Old Shame: He considers the hentai doujinshi he made of Midori a ripoff of his favorite authors. Nazuna, at least, was able to feel the "lewd" in it, and encourages him to try again someday, much to Midori's chagrin.
• Older Than They Look: Was a college student by the time he met Midori, and has been her offspring for 20 years, making him around 40 years old.
• Only Known by Their Nickname: LoveGreen is just his pseudonym. Everyone either calls him that ot "LG" for short.
• Sesquipedalian Loquaciousness: His speech pattern tends to be flowery, to say the least. Midori finds this to be one of his charm points, however.
• Skipping School: Used to do this in high school.
• Stalking is Love: Inverted; he investigated every detail about Midori's past, even things she didn't know herself, after he became her offspring. Not only does Midori not mind (since she has no interest in her own past), she seems to find it convenient; especially when she needs his help to destroy her weakness before Anko can find it.
• The Tell: Turns his gaze when asked a question he doesn't want to answer.
• Three-Point Landing: Lands in this fashion when he goes to meet the vampire council with Akiyama, Azami and Susuki. He then stays in this pose for a while after Midori compliments him for getting out of his room for once.
• Too Kinky to Torture: Is too distracted by Midori's boobs touching his neck to care that she's put him in a chokehold.
• Undying Loyalty: To Midori.
  LoveGreen: I couldn't fit into the system. Unable to participate in the collective, I had to live on the edge. Ms. Midori... Despite hearing that, she didn't rebuke me. Human or vampire, it doesn't matter to me. As long as I can live with her, this one could be anything!
• Vampire Vannabe: He asked Midori to turn him into her offspring the second she revealed that she was a vampire, much to her amusement.
  Midori: Would you believe me if I told you I'm a vampire?
  LoveGreen: PLEASE MAKE ME YOUR UNDERLING RIGHT NOW!
  Midori: Huh...
• Weaksauce Weakness: LoveGreen's Kryptonite Factor is the 500 copies of the hentai doujinshi he made of Midori before he became a vampire. He burns them all so that they can't be used against him (though Nazuna managed to read one before he finished).
• What Does She See in Him?: In spite of his looks (or perhaps because of them), Midori is quite fond of him.

Kyouichi Mejiro

Kyouichi Mejiro

One of Kiku's offspring, and Anko's father.

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• Bizarre Dream Rationalization: After touching his lighter drove him into a frenzy, Kyouichi ended up sucking the blood from his wife and killing her. He concluded that he had to be dreaming and proceeded to move on to his daughter.
  Kyouichi: But since this is a dream, it's fine if people die, right?
• Dead Sparks: It's clear that his marriage is no longer what it once was, and rumors abound that he's cheating on his wife. Eventually he decides to change for the better after reminding himself how much his family means to him, and makes an effort to rekindle his marriage and mend his relationship with his daughter.
• Despair Event Horizon: From drinking a drop of his blood, Yamori learns what went through Kyouichi's mind during his final days. Chiefly, he fell into this trope after a visit to a doctor, the implication being that he learned he was dying. Kiku turning him into a vampire shortly afterwards and giving him a new lease on life helped Kyouichi see things more clearly, leading to his decision to reconnect with his family.
• Doting Parent: The password to his computer was his daughter's birthday. She found it frustratingly embarrassing after thinking that he was a good for nothing. His computer also contains pictures of Kyouko from the day she entered elementary school. After he became a vampire, Kyouichi remembered how much his daughter meant to him, and became driven to reconnect with her while being grateful that she was born.
• Given Name Reveal: His first name is revealed 80 chapters after his introduction.
• The Klutz: The reason he never used the lighter Kyouko gave him is because he was afraid he would lose it as he usually did with the rest of his stuff.
• Kryptonite Factor: The lighter his daughter Kyouko gave him for his birthday. Touching it after he became a vampire sent him into a frenzy, which ended up leaving Kyouko an orphan after she used it to kill him.
• Posthumous Character: Has been dead for ten years by the time the story starts.
• Reduced to Dust: His ultimate fate after his own daughter killed him in self-defense.
• Til Murder Do Us Part: Murdered his wife by completely draining her blood while in a vampiric frenzy, and would've done the same to his daughter if she hadn't killed him first.
• Tragic Monster: "Monster" is putting it harshly, but Kyouichi was most definitely not in control of himself when he killed his own wife. It's especially bad in that he genuinely wanted to atone for his mistakes and fix his relationship with his family.

Azami

Azami

One of Kiku's offspring. An ex-yakuza from Kagoshima who cleans up after the messes of her rampant offspring in order to keep the existence of vampires under wraps.

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• Bodyguard Crush: Kiku accidentally turned Azami into her offspring when she tried to suck his blood after he had seemingly died protecting her from a yakuza that shot the rest of their family. Not only was Azami still dying from his wounds, he had unknowingly developed a crush on Kiku, which fulfilled the condition for vampirization. Both Kiku and Azami were surprised by this development.
• Breaking the Bonds: Once he's sufficiently recovered, he easily breaks the cuffs that Anko placed on him.
• Car Fu: Uses a motorcycle to attack Kiku while she's trying to drown Yamori.
• Ceiling Cling: Clings to the ceiling when Yamori tests his ear piercer, which allows him to trigger his vampire powers (and occasionally makes him go berserk). Nazuna can't help but laugh at him for this.
• Children Are a Waste: Has no intention whatsoever to create offspring.
• Cleanup Crew:
  • He usually cleans up after the messes left behind by the rest of Kiku's offspring when they can't accept what they've become.
  • He retrieved all of Nazuna's belongings after Yamori accidentally destroyed her apartment building in order to remove any evidence that someone was living there, then convinced the witnesses that the building collapsed due to age degradation. Nazuna promptly apologizes for hitting him earlier and reluctantly allows him to suck Yamori's blood in gratitude (not that Azami wants it).
• Cluster F-Bomb: Drops one as he races to save Yamori from leaving a stain on the street.
• Covert Pervert: Before they formally get to know each other, he can only recall Akira as "the girl with the big tits".
• Curb Stomp Cushion: While Azami is a remarkable fighter, being able to break Susuki's arm after she lunges at him, Susuki still manages to out-think him.
• Declaration of Protection: To Akira during the school trip.
• Didn't See That Coming: Azami had assumed that Yamori was a normal human. As such, he really did not expect Yamori to fly after him when he fled the scene with Anko and Akira.
• Establishing Character Moment: In his introductory chapter, Azami kicks Nazuna's ass and kidnaps Anko and Akira. Then, in the next chapter, he races to save Yamori, who is falling to his death, when it becomes apparent that he's not a vampire.
• Evil Debt Collector: Subverted; when a debtor is unable to fork the cash owed to Azami's client, Azami pulls up a case with syringes, gags the debtor and... extracts a few tubes worth of blood as a form of down payment, hoping to sell those tubes to other vampires who, like him, don't feed on people directly. After learning how Azami gets blood, Nazuna considers buying some from him.
• Eye Take: His reaction when he realizes Anko is not actually dead. Nazuna takes the chance to sucker punch him. For kicking her in the face.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Susuki breaks Azami's spine to wrap up their fight, well aware that he will walk it off after some rest. She then snaps his neck in order to keep him out of her way for even longer.
• Graceful Loser: Azami doesn't seem particularly hung up on Susuki breaking his spine during their fight, and later asks her to train him.
• Mistaken for Gay: Both Kiku and Azami's former boss seemed to think that Azami was not into women. He was just awkward.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Becomes somewhat depressed when he believes that he dropped Akira and Anko to their deaths when Yamori punched him. Luckily for him, Nazuna has already saved them.
• Not So Above It All:
  • Helps Anko search Yamori's room for his Porn Stash, then asks him how the hell he's been living when he can't find it.
  • After parting ways with Kiku in Hokkaido, Azami secretly wishes he could've had sex with her at least once.
• Not So Stoic: He quickly loses his composure when he notices Yamori is right behind him. While he's flying.
• Oh, Crap!: Azami reacts with horror when he realizes Yamori can't actually fly.
• Sharp-Dressed Man: Azami is always seen wearing a black suit. And he looks badass to boot.
• The Stoic: It takes a lot to get a rise out of Azami (or at least something incredibly ludicrous).
• Teach Me How To Fight: Asks Susuki to help him become stronger. She accepts.
• Thou Shalt Not Kill:
  • Azami is determined not to kill humans or suck their blood, usually acquiring it through other means. He is so against killing humans that he dives after Yamori, whom he just dropped off a building, when it becomes apparent that Yamori isn't actually a vampire as he had assumed.
  • It seems that his vow extends to death by inaction; he stops Susuki from attacking Anko, and later kicks a piece of rubble before it can flatten Yamori, before picking him and Susuki up and getting them out of the crumbling building.
  • He is, however, prepared to make an exception for Kiku after seeing how far she's fallen. And yes, he's prepared to do it himself.
    Azami: The only one who can kill a mother is her child.
• Undying Loyalty: To Kiku, although her latest antics have made his loyalty waver.
• Vegetarian Vampire: Downplayed. He still drinks blood; he just doesn't suck it out of humans directly.
• What the Hell Are You?: Has this reaction towards Yamori when he becomes uncertain whether or not he's a vampire or a human. The feeling intensifies after Yamori punches a hole through several floors while fighting Susuki.
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem picking a fight with Nazuna or Susuki. Then again, they're vampires, so holding back on them is probably not wise.
• Would Hurt a Child: Drops Yamori off a building to test whether or not he's a vampire. Then hauls ass to save him when it becomes apparent that he's not.
• Yakuza: Used to be a Yakuza decades ago. At the time, Kiku was the mistress of his boss.
• You Shall Not Pass!: Stays behind to fight Susuki when she threatens to kill Anko.

Susuki

Susuki

A vampire who wishes to kill Kiku for threatening the Masquerade.

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• Affectionate Nickname:
  • For some reason she addresses Yamori as "Yamori-pippi" or just "pippi" for short. Yamori finds it ridiculous.
  • Susuki also addresses Akira as "Akira-chaso". She just finds it confusing.
• All Amazons Want Hercules: Falls in love with Yamori after he defeats her; the first person to ever do so.
• An Arm and a Leg: Cuts off Yamori's arm by allowing his arm to phase through her before de-phasing.
• Barefisted Monk: To an even greater extent than Azami or Nazuna.
• Best Her to Bed Her: Zig-zagged; while she does end up falling in love with Yamori after he defeats her, she refuses to turn him into her offspring because attempting to do so might kill him.
• Bloodlust: How Susuki gets her blood for feeding: she's hired to fight people, then she licks the blood off of her own face when she beats them to a pulp.
• Buxom Beauty Standard: She has a busty figure that Anko finds herself ogling at one point.
• Children Are a Waste: Refuses to create offspring because she thinks vampires are already too numerous. Azami agrees with her.
• Cleavage Window: Is left with one after she de-phases while Yamori's arm is still phasing through her chest.
• Combat Compliment: When Yamori sucker punches Haruka while he's distracted, everyone else calls him out for fighting dirty. Everyone except Susuki, that is, who says it was a good punch. She later tells Haruka it's his fault for giving Yamori an opening in the first place.
• Combat Pragmatist:
  • Knocks Nazuna through a wall while she's still trying to reattach her severed arm. Nazuna calls her out on this.
  • Rather than fight Nazuna in a prolonged battle, Susuki decides to just send her flying far enough that by the time she comes back, Susuki will have already dealt with everyone else.
• Cute Oversized Sleeves: Her sweater is at least two sizes too big. She doesn't seem to find it inconvenient.
• Declaration of Protection: To Akira after learning she is Yamori's friend.
• Defeat Means Friendship: Becomes quite attached to Yamori after he defeats her, even clinging to his arm until Nazuna forces them apart.
• Didn't See That Coming: Yamori caught her by surprise when he somehow remotely controlled his severed arm.
• Eyes Out of Sight: Susuki's eyes are always covered by her bangs.
• Good Thing You Can Heal: Exploits this mercilessly when fighting Azami (by breaking his spine) and Nazuna (by throwing her so hard she lands on a mountain and takes the better part of an hour to make her way back). Justified, since brutalizing vampires is about the only way to put them down for a meaningful amount of time.
• Human Hammer-Throw: Does this to Nazuna, sending her flying against a mountain far enough that it takes her quite a while to make her way home.
• Intangibility: Susuki is quite skilled at phasing. She weaponizes it while fighting Azami and Yamori.
• Killed to Uphold the Masquerade: Shows up prepared to kill Yamori, Akira and Anko in order to keep the existence of vampires a secret. Azami takes issue with this.
• Leg Focus: Her legs tend to draw a lot of attention when she's kicking someone.
• Major Injury Underreaction: When Azami breaks her arm, Susuki only lets out a short grunt.
• Might Makes Right: She refuses to take orders from Azami or anyone who has lost to her. Yamori is fine since he actually beat her.
• Murderous Thighs: Susuki's fists and feet aren't the only parts of her body capable of crushing her enemies; she's perfectly capable of snapping Haruka's neck with her thighs.
• Neck Snap:
  • Snaps Azami's neck to keep him out of her way.
  • Does it again later to Haruka to break up his fight with Yamori. She uses her legs this time.
• Painted-On Pants: Wears black leggings that only accentuate her legs.
• Smells Sexy: The first thing Susuki does upon visiting Yamori's apartment is smell his bedsheets.
• Sore Loser: Breaks into Inelegant Blubbering when Yamori defeats her, having never lost a fight before. She's still sobbing even after Azami picks her off the rubble.
• The Stoic: To an even greater degree than Azami. Most of the time.
• Time to Unlock More True Potential: Insists on traning Yamori after he defeats her. She even agrees to train Azami when he asks to join in.
• Training from Hell: Trained for an indeterminate amount of time to master her vampire abilities, having wished to give her new strength a purpose after becoming a vampire.
• Undying Loyalty: To Yamori after he defeats her.
• Vigilante Woman:
  • Cracks down on vampires who attract too much attention or threaten the masquerade. Kiku has become her latest target.
  • Humans are just as likely to become her targets if she feels that they are a threat; once Anko helped her find Kiku, Susuki intended to kill her for the Halloween incident and for knowing too much about vampires in general, along with Yamori and Akira.
• With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility: After becoming a vampire, Susuki decided to use her powers meaningfully.
• The Worf Effect: Shows how powerful she is by incapacitating Azami, who had recently been established as a credible threat, then sends Nazuna flying.
• Worthy Opponent: Acknowledges that Azami has good reflexes and agrees to train him.

Haruka

Haruka Nanakusa

A vampire from Hokkaido and one of Haru's offspring.

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• Abhorrent Admirer: Played for Laughs; having a hard time accepting Nazuna rejecting him after Hokkaido, Haruka goes to see her performance at the maid café. Nazuna is less than amused, and flips the bird at the camera when they take a picture while writing "never come back" on the photo.
• The Casanova:
  • Haruka has several sugar mommies that are constantly calling him on the phone. They are completely unaware of each other's existence.
  • The photos he takes have the address of his bar written on the back, along with a convenient map of the streets. He uses this to lure potential feeding targets.
• Charm Person: Uses this to put Sacchan to sleep so he can suck her blood. Apparently this is how he usually acquires blood for feeding.
• Commonality Connection: With Kabura, due to both being Haru's offspring. While Kabura starts cold and hostile, the duo quickly bond over Haru's quirks being annoying but cute.
• Death Seeker: When he was still human, Haruka had no reason to stay alive. When he fell in love with Haru, however, the happiness he felt gave him the courage to hang himself. Haru put a stop to that by turning him into her offspring, having felt that he shouldn't die just yet.
• Dogged Nice Guy: Following the events of the Hokkaido trip, Haruka tries to take Nazuna out for their promised date, only to be told that she's not in the mood and wants to be alone for a bit. When Haruka blocks her path and tries to play the "I couldn't leave such a lonely-looking girl alone" angle, Nazuna retorts by punching him in the face to get her point across. Haruka relents, but promises to try again the next day.
• Entertainingly Wrong: When Yamori attacks him for luring Sacchan, he assumes that Yamori is a vampire and that his reaction is due to Haruka stealing his prey. Yamori quickly corrects him that he's only half vampire, upon which Haruka decides he can't let Yamori leave the building and that he'll be "taking his dinner back".
• Establishing Character Moment: When he first meets Yamori's group during the school trip, he makes a pass at Sacchan and offers to take a picture with her. Then he charges her for the photo.
• Eye Take: He's briefly distracted by Nazuna due to her uncanny resemblance to Haru, who turned Haruka into a vampire decades ago. Yamori takes advantage of this to sucker punch him.
• Humanizing Tears: Starts tearing up when he admits that he wanted to see Haru again after 40 years.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Rightfully calls out Yamori for being mad at him over tricking Sacchan to suck her blood, telling him not to make exceptions for the vampires he's friendly with.
• KidAnova: Subverted; he's at least 50 years old.
• Like Brother and Sister: After thinking it through, Nazuna decides that she sees Haruka as an older brother, what with him being Haru's offspring since before she was even born. Haruka ultimately accepts Nazuna's reasoning, though he describes it as getting tactfully dumped.
• Name Amnesia: Haruka can't remember his own last name, so he took Haru's.
• Pretty Boy: Haruka uses his looks to find potential targets to suck their blood.
• Replacement Goldfish: Much like Kabura, Haruka seems to be projecting his feelings for Haru on her daughter Nazuna.
• Sexual Extortion: Downplayed; Haruka offers to share everything he knows about Kiku with Yamori's group in exchange for a date with Nazuna. While Yamori is not amused in the slightest, Nazuna agrees to his terms, since it's about the only way Yamori will be able to find Mahiru. Unfortunately, Haruka picks a poor moment to collect, as he asks Nazuna out on their date right after the Hokkaido trip, which ended with Mahiru's death and has left Yamori (and by extension Nazuna) depressed.
• Starting a New Life: After Haru dissapeared, Haruka moved from Kanto to Hokkaido, where no one knew him. He ended up liking the people he met there, so he made it a point to only suck the blood of tourists.