Natsume's Book of Friends

Season 1 · Episode 1

IMDb8.2

Released: 7/8/2008
Duration: 0h 25m
Genre: Animation, Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Country: Japan
Cast: Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Eiji Itoh

Overview

Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.

Episodes

EP 1AvailableNow playing

The Cat and the Book of Friends

23m·7/8/2008·8.0

Natsume discovers that the heirloom "Book of Friends" that his grandmother, Reiko, gave him possesses the names of the spirits she defeated and bound to her will.

EP 2Available

The Dew God's Small Shrine

23m·7/15/2008·8.5

Natsume is visited by the village's local god who is currently fading because of the lack of devotees.

EP 3Available

The Mysterious Person at the Eight Fields

23m·7/22/2008·7.5

Natsume is implored to help spirits who are currently being exorcised. He finds a kindred spirit in Tanuma, a boy who also senses spirits although not as powerful as Natsume.

EP 4Available

Shigure and the Girl

23m·7/29/2008·8.0

Natsume's secret is found out by Sasada, the class president, during the "Trial of Courage." She asks for his help to find the spirit that lives in the abandoned school. Natsume denies the fact that he can see anything, but she won't take no for an answer. Meanwhile, the spirit, Shigure, captures the rest of their school mates, in fury of the school being torn down...

EP 5Available

Heart-Colored Ticket

23m·8/5/2008·8.0

Natsume comes across an old ticket in Reiko's belongings and decides to go to the abandoned train station to see why she kept it. There, he meets a slow witted spirit named Santo, who was waiting for Reiko the entire time to go Kiriganuma, to see and make up with his friend, Mikuri, but the trip isn't as easy as it first seems...

EP 6Available

Swallow at the Lake Bottom

23m·8/12/2008·8.5

Natsume goes to a dam and finds a town that had been submerged in water. Just then, Natsume gets possessed by a yokai and falls unconscious.

EP 7Available

The Little Fox's Hat

23m·8/19/2008·8.0

Natsume goes to a hot spring for a school trip, with an errand from Shigeru to pick up teacups from a near by pottery. While there he meets and helps a little fox spirit, who quickly grows attached to him.