Anko Uguisu

Anko Uguisu (アンコ) is a side character in Call of the Night. She is a private detective who specializes in cases involving vampires, and has made it her mission to kill all vampires.

Ten years ago, she went by her real name, Kyouko Mejiro (キョウコ), and was a member of a literature club at the school Nico Hirata taught the night class of. She became Nazuna Nanakusa's first friend until her father was turned into a vampire, causing both parents to die and Kyouko to quit school and disappear.

Appearance
Anko has brown hair which she partially ties to a bun or ponytail and brown, lusterless eyes, over which she wears round glasses that belonged to her father.

Her primary outfit consists of a beige raincoat, under which she wears a dark t-shirt, a black skirt with a zipper and light-brown boots with heels. She wears black gloves that cover half of one hand each. Later she wears her coat less frequently and cuts her hair short.

As a teenager, Anko wore a seifuku that consisted of a baggy blue sailor-uniform and a skirt while going to school. Her regular outfit was the same as the one she's wearing in the present.

Personality
Anko is a very straightforward, observant and sociable woman with a, mostly, casual attitude who likes to mess around with others.

However, she can drop her casual attitude in the blink of an eye and quickly unsettle someone, either by becoming completely serious or by displaying her unstable side which shows that she's got a few screws loose.

Anko has a goofy side that's shown on some occasions, like when she genuinely thought that Kou wanted to be in a relationship with her and felt awkward when she turned out to be wrong. She is serious when it comes to romance and doesn't joke about it, is famished with romantic relationships, and is attracted to both men and women. She has little to no self-control when staring at female body parts. Her attraction also extends to middle schoolers.

One of her most defining traits is her hatred for vampires. She is ruthless and determined to wipe them all out, exhibiting sociopathic behavior. Her actions are sometimes noted to be reckless, with little regard for her own life, like when she attacked 2 vampires head-on. Anko usually shows no empathy when hurting them and is even shown to be highly sadistic and psychotic as she maniacally laughed while repeatedly stabbing Akkun in the gut.

In the end, Anko is a scarred woman who spent her youth on hatred and killing and wants to die while taking all vampires with her. Her grudge was what gave her a purpose in life, a purpose she could only keep by taking her anger against one, particular vampire out on all vampires. Anko thought about killing herself more than once but then used her anger to give herself a reason to live.

Nazuna Nanakusa
When Anko attended to school in night time, Nazuna entered the literature club room and Anko would welcome her in. One of her first interactions with Nazuna was almost kissing her while she was sleeping. Despite spending most of her time alone, Anko was very friendly and welcoming towards Nazuna and they quickly became friends, with Anko even displaying sexual attraction towards Nazuna.

Anko would recommend books to her and was often baffled by Nazuna's personality and lack of common knowledge, playing an important role in shaping Nazuna into the person she became later. Soon, she would entrust very personal information to her, like her father having an affair and they would investigate it together. Nazuna revealed to her that she was a vampire not long after. Anko would break down in tears because of her pent up frustrations regarding her family and begged Nazuna for help. Nazuna tried to make her her first servant, but couldn't because Anko wasn't in love with her. They wanted to meet again, but after Anko's family was destroyed she became resentful of Nazuna and left her after a short exchange.

Kou Yamori
Anko and Kou first met when he was scouting for potential costumers for Nazuna's snooze shop and approached her. Anko teased him by saying that he was hitting on her and expressed interest in Kou. She explained that she doesn't necessarily follow the law and therefore wouldn't report Kou to the authorities, despite the illegal nature of Kou's job. After talking some more, Anko quickly noticed that Kou knew something about Akkun's case, but left the place after initially scaring him. She would appear at Kou's school where she killed a vampire in front of him and knew that Kou was dreaming of becoming a vampire, berating him for it since she believed that all vampires do is cause suffering.

Anko explained that she doesn't want to hurt him, but would be forced to in case he remained loyal to Nazuna, saying that she will protect him and offered him to "use her however he wishes". She repeatedly teased him and is genuinely interested in a relationship with him.

Abilities

 * Detective skills: As a detective, she is very skilled in finding information about specific people and even stalking them. Whether through deduction or investigation, she described Kou's life and personality with frightening accuracy, including small, trivial details.


 * Knowledge of vampires: Having spent 10 years hunting vampires, she has gained a decent amount of knowledge about them, though there are gaps; for example she didn't know that vampire could faze through solid objects until Hatsuka Suzushiro demonstrated said ability. Because of her father's death, she knows of their weakness, which is touching something from their human pasts. Even without killing them, she knows of a few ways to survive an encounter with them.


 * Knowledge of weapons: She knows how to handle a knife and attacked Akkun and Hatsuka with one (Although it was useless against the latter). She also knows how to wield a gun, owning a revolver.


 * Foul tasting blood: Since she got her blood sucked by a vampire 10 years before the story started and didn't turn into one, it's now impossible for her to become a servant which makes her blood repulsive for any vampire who tries to suck it. She is aware of this and uses it to her advantage.

Trivia

 * Anko is currently the only known human who knows how to kill a vampire.
 * Her raincoat and smoking habit are likely inspired by the famous detective character Columbo.
 * According to her, her feet are swollen because of her job.
 * Because of her smoking habit, she has very short stamina, quickly running out of breath.
 * Her revolver can also serve as a lighter.
 * After Kou and Nazuna, Anko is the character who appears on most volume covers, being the main focus on 3 and featured on 2 more.
 * Anko has terrible eyesight and can't recognize a person without her glasses even if they're close to her.

Quotes

 * (To Kou) "And hey, you might as well properly hit on me next time, okay? If you don't mind older women, that is."
 * (To herself) "...Wah. Dad...had some shitty eye-sight..."