Call of the Night, aka Yofukashi no Uta (Twilight but inverted genre and more romcom)

 PR: Some 14-year-old dude is wandering the streets at high night, walking around and laughing out loud while playing on the swing. Creepy bastard, if you ask me; I wouldn't let my daughter near him.

Not that he'd do anything, since apparently he's either gay or, as he puts it, has "a problem creating emotional attachment to others," especially the romantic kind. Earlier at school, he rebuffed some hot chick flat without even reading the love letter. You dropped this, my king (kidding).

Anyway, after a long day of doing nothing, my dude, whose name I'll never forget, felt like cracking open a cold one. Just when he finished having this overly long moral questioning about whether he should drink alcohol as a minor or not, some pink-haired chick creeps up on him and whispers, "Hey, you drinking beer?" And that's how it begins.

Nice Rollex, queen.

As it turns out, vampires are pretty chill in this world, so instead of doing the usual jump, kill, vanish moves, Nazuna starts talking to the guy, and they become friends with blood benefits. She even takes him to her house, a basic flat with bare bones, so much for rich vampire, I guess.

 
 When the dude says, "Yo, Nana, I want to become a vampire like yourself," allegedly to "enjoy the night," which in my dictionary means he digs the whole flying around, superhuman strength, and immortality, and Nana tells him back, "For a human to become a vampire, they both need to fall in love," while blushing and making weird faces; I was 99% sure she was fucking with him (metaphorically; the guy's a eunuch). And the guy actually believed it, like no questions or anything. Not even a sarcastic, "Oh, so every single piece on vampires is wrong; do you also happen to sparkle under sunlight?"

 As the plot progresses, which is basically one very, very immature 40-year-old vampire and some sexless, clueless teen getting to know each other and their feelings, the picture of Nana laughing at the stupid mortal who actually swallowed the "fell in love" crap started to fade, and when the Volturi show up and pretty much demand the guy turn into a vampire in less than a year or else, it became apparent that it was no joke.

"See, man. We can't just have unaligned people knowing about us vamps (though it's literally an open secret). Chill though, you got like a year to make your mind."

 Though it seems a bit blurry, the line between "falling in love" and simple plain lust, especially since the "cultural loving techniques" look a lot like pickup lines, and all the vampires are skimpily dressed for some reason.

 This makes the whole deal with the vampire hunter/private investigator pedo chick even more confusing, since vampires aren't really a plague to man but more like glorified hookers who work for blood, not even a lethal dose. (Edit 11/24: Why are you booing me? I'm right!)

 Which also makes the whole deal with the "cursed soul" teacher-vamp, who didn't want to drink blood even more confusing, like, yeah, it's a bit disgusting, but dude, you don't have to kill them, you know?

 Anyway, the plot has a bit of a deviation every now and then to show us that the other vampires have the sex worker syndrome and can't really tell the difference between love and physical relationships. At some point, the dude, whose name I'll never forget, points out that the other guy who's been text spamming Seri (Vamp 2) every few minutes, followed both of them for God knows how long, and even went as far as to bang on the door of the karaoke room like a mindless zombie while mumbling, "Seri-chan, Seri-chan," isn't creepy. No, he's the normal one. The creep is Seri, who wanted to have a male friend but can't due to being so sexually alluring. Yeah. Well, at some point, the plot doesn't really progress much anymore, and the faults of a family-friendly rom series start to show.

I'll be honest and say that roms aren't really my thing, but being as objective as I can, I'd say that the series has ways to go. The visuals (mostly the backgrounds, since characters are mold-based) are their strong suit. In particular, I'd like to address the problem of vampires being a completely underwhelming force. Even if, for some reason, they're pacifists and don't like violence, they could leverage their hypnosis-like charm to build their place in the world instead of working as part-timers like a bunch of college students. Obviously, there's also the problem that moe-type formatted personalities are basically crippling characters. I won't be able to take seriously your little sister or school dropout type character as much as you want to convince me that there are other facets. Also, the intro song is like a drill to my ears, awful, and the rest is meh-ish. So, to conclude, I'd say passable anime, mostly thanks to the animation, but mediocre story and terrible characters that could be better if they eased up on the so-called comedy. 5/10.