Natsume's Book of Friends

2008
4.9
13 reviews
TV-14
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Season 4 episodes (13)

1 Natsume Taken Captive
1/2/12
Natsume has a dangerous run-in with a group of yokai clad in monkey masks. They lure him into their forest lair, where the border between the human and yokai world is blurred. It's here that Natsume once again encounters the Matoba clan of exorcists...
2 The Eastern Forest
1/9/12
Hinoe and Misuzu head out in search of the monkey yokai leader to try and reclaim Natsume. Natsume has been imprisoned by Matoba, who wants him to join them. Natsume can't contain his anger, and makes a daring escape with Nyanko-sensei.
3 The Small Things
1/16/12
As Natsume treats an injured yokai, it accidentally poisons him. The yokai is part of a larger flock which is coming dangerously close to town. Natsume must also find the ring that a yokai has accused him of stealing, or suffer the consequences...
4 The Reply
1/23/12
A yokai comes to Natsume seeking to use him as bait to lure out another powerful yokai. Before he'll help, Natsume demands to know what for, and the yokai recounts the story of when he met a human woman, long ago...
5 To You, From Days Past
1/30/12
A former classmate of Natsume's, Yuriko, thinks back to when he first transferred to her middle school. Meanwhile, Natsume is reunited with a yokai he saved years ago, causing him to recall the same memories as Yuriko.
6 On the Other Side of the Glass
2/6/12
Natsume finds himself trapped inside a glass bottle that was placed in his room by a yokai. Nyanko-sensei decides that only the owner of the bottle can open it. He decides to transform into Natsume and pretend to be him to avoid suspicion, but...
7 The Gap Between Humans and Yokai
2/13/12
The imprisoned Natsume is offered as a gift to a powerful yokai, Omibashira, but Tanuma and Natori come to his aid. As Omibashira begins devouring other yokai to gain strength, Natsume and the others attempt to flee.
8 The Time I Hesitated
2/20/12
Through a series of events, Natsume runs into Nanase of the Matoba clan. She's in search of a yokai she sealed away years before, and reflects on the days when she was still new to the act of exorcism.
9 The Moon-Splitting Festival
2/27/12
At a festival that takes place once every ten years, the gods Hozuki and Fuzuki compete for dominance. But this year, Hozuki is nowhere to be found. Natori is ordered to find him, while Natsume is enlisted to imitate the missing god.
10 Revered Gods
3/5/12
Natsume and Natori continue to search for Hozuki, when Natsume senses his dim presence. The god is imprisoned in a stone, and the team must find a way to unseal him before it's too late...
11 Yumenosuke Tokuda
3/12/12
Natsume gets a call from a relative named Tachibana, who tells him a buyer for his parents' old house has finally been found. Natsume seems unaffected by the news, but when he loses an old photo of his parents the next day...
12 A Single Photo
3/19/12
Natsume decides to visit his old house one last time, and goes to get the key from a relative. Natsume used to live with the relative's family, and when he arrives, his memories come flooding back, along with a yokai he never thought he'd see again...
13 Door of Memories
3/26/12
As Natsume's heart succumbs to the yokai from his past, he begins to recall distant childhood memories. Natsume is unsure where to call home, but while seeing the picture of his parents still brings pain, he reassures himself that he's no longer lonely.

About this show

Natsume has always been an outcast because he inherited his grandmother Reiko’s ability to see yokai (strange beings that are invisible to most people). After moving to his grandmother’s hometown and accidentally releasing a yokai who was imprisoned in a Lucky Cat statue, he learns about one of his grandmother's keepsakes, her “Book of Friends,” which contains the names of the yokai she defeated, and allows its wielder to command the yokai named within. Since then, his life has gotten much more hectic, and yokai now visit him on a daily basis, seeking to either get their names back or take possession of the Book of Friends.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
13 reviews
A Google user
July 21, 2018
It's warm, happy, funny, sweet, and, lonely; so many emotions and very human. While it has it's sad and lonely aspects, it is ultimately beautiful and about finding the good in others and the situations around. Very few films can make me cry, but this one did, because I could really feel the warm and the sad moments, and somehow believed I could identify with the feelings presented
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Hanna B
January 30, 2020
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Fizzy
December 26, 2016
season 1 tho? ;-;
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