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Fleeing a yokai who mistakes him for his grandmother, Reiko, Natsume meets a spirit in cat's form. Nyanko Sensei tells him about the Book of Friends.

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Natsume meets a yokai who lives in a small shrine. Residents have long-mistaken him for a god, and his last remaining worshipper, Hana-san, is aging.

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Two yokai ask for Natsume's help: a human has started exorcising the local spirits. Natsume wonders if this means someone else shares his ability.

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Class president Sasada wants Natsume to contact a spirit at the school who helped her in the past. The spirit is angry the building is being demolished.

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Natsume finds an old train ticket in Reiko's things. At the station, he meets a yokai named Santo, who's been waiting to make up with a friend.

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A nearby dam dries up in the heat, and yokai from the formerly drowned town visit Natsume, including the spirit of a swallow with a long-held wish.

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On a school trip, Natsume stands up for an orphan fox spirit who's being bullied by other yokai. The fox has a request when he learns about the Book.

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Natsume meets a nameless yokai whose human friend lost the ability to see her. She wants Natsume's help so she can meet him on his wedding day.

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Natori, a popular TV actor who can see spirits, comes to town. Natsume realizes that the actor's attitude towards yokai differs greatly with his.

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After an encounter with the spirit of an umbrella-carrier, Natsume is possessed by a koto-player who wishes to play the koto one last time.

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After arguing with Natsume, Nyanko Sensei storms off, only to hear a group of yokai grumbling about him. Upset, he turns to the human world.

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Freeing a frog, Natsume incurs a curse that leaves him only five days left to live. While reversing the curse, he'll have to leave his adopted family.

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Tanuma learns Nyanko Sensei's true identity. As humans and yokai gather to enjoy the fall festival, Natsume opens up about his experiences.

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A black cat who resembles Nyanko steals the Book of Friends! To get it back, Natsume and Nyanko attend a local yokai gathering in disguise.

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Natsume and Nyanko meet guardian spirit Gen, who asks for their help finding an escaped evil spirit. Gen still mourns the loss of his partner, Sui.

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Natori invites Natsume on a relaxing trip to a hot spring. Natsume tries to enjoy himself, but Natori seems to be up to something.

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Natsume takes care of an abandoned egg. Nanko tells him it’s a yokai called a tatsumi. Natsume grows attached, but another yokai wants to eat it.

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A spirit comes to visit, but Natsume can't find his name in the Book of Friends. They'll have to find where Reiko tied his name to a tree 50 years ago.

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Taki, a new girl in Natsume’s school, can see yokai by drawing circles on the ground. She needs help breaking a curse on both herself and Natsume.

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After meeting the yokai who's cursed him, Natsume loses his ability to see yokai. When the curse falls on Nyanko, he vows to help end the evil spirit.

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Along with his friends, Natsume takes a study trip to a lakeside inn. There he meets a mermaid who has a painful connection to the inn's owner.

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Natsume hangs a painting of trees on his wall, only to learn that it was stolen from a yokai named Miya. She insists there's a spirit living inside.

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Strange markings and footprints appear at the Fujiwara house. When Natsume asks, Shigeru tells him a story about a girl he knew when he was young.

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After an encounter with Natori, Natsume joins a meeting of conjurers. He wants to commiserate with people like him, but finds an unexpected danger.

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At a haunted house with his friends, Natsume frees a trapped child named Kai. The boy says he's being chased, but he doesn't trust Natsume.

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Shaken by Natori's news about Kai, Natsume tries to decide what to do. Does his loyalty lie with humans or with yokai? And what is Kai's goal?

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Natsume finds a bowl-shaped yokai by the house, but Nyanko tells him not to worry about it. An old woman yokai asks for help returning a mirror.

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While his father's away, Tanuma sees strange shadows in the shrine. Natsume meets a yokai who claims her brother's name is in the Book of Friends.

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A boy who used to call Natsume a liar in elementary school reappears and asks Natsume to help verify that a girl he’s met is human.

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Midterms are over and it's time for a break from school. Natsume visits a place he lived in childhood, where someone still remembers him.

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Tanuma and Natsume help Taki clean out her family storeroom. Natsume inadvertently releases the pieces of a malign spirit her grandfather sealed away.

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Natsume learns that someone is attacking yokai and stealing their blood. When the trail leads to the head of the Matoba clan, Natori agrees to help.

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After learning what the yokai blood is being harvested for, Natsume escapes from Matoba and his servants only to walk into even greater danger.

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Natsume returns to the hot springs inn with Shigeru for a pottery class. The fox child notices Natsume's arrival and is eager to see him again.

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With Nyanko-sensei wounded, Natsume has to be extra vigilant. Even at the school festival, there may be yokai with ill intentions around.

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Tanuma seems to be avoiding Natsume after an awkward incident in the forest. Meanwhile, someone or something is smashing mirrors at school.

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The spirit possessing Tanuma demands that he and Natsume recover the shards of its yokai mirror. But another yokai wants the mirror for its own.

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Ill from an encounter with a yokai from his past, Natsume recalls the first time he met the yokai, which was also with when he first met Toko.

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After midterms, it's time for a break. The yokai throw a party for Natsume, and the festivities get a little wild when he suggests shadow tag.

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Natsume encounters a group of yokai who want to steal the Book of Friends. He tries to evade them, but they're relentless.

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After Matoba finds Natsume, he makes him a surprising offer. Nanase hunts the forest's master, but Hinoe and Misuzu want to find him first.

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Yokai Amana threatens to burn Natsume's house down if he doesn't return her ring, forcing him to track down the migratory puffball yokai who has it.

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A voice-mimicking yokai who has an old letter from a human he wants to read comes to Natsume seeking Karikami, a yokai who can restore old paper.

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A girl from Natsume's old school recalls the odd incidents that occurred during his time there, and Natsume recalls the yokai that bore him a grudge.

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After hearing whispers about a yokai named Omibashira, Natsume gets trapped inside a jar. Nyanko impersonates Natsume to find a way to release him.

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To save Natsume, Tanuma crosses into the world of yokai and infiltrates a banquet held for a sinister purpose. There he meets an unexpected ally.

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Nyanko finds himself trapped at the bottom of a well with Nanase, who tells him a story about her childhood. Natsume helps a yokai unseal a friend.

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Natori takes a rush job: find a missing god so it can fight in a once-a-decade contest. Meanwhile, Natsume takes the god's place at the festival.

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Though Natsume thinks he’s sensed the presence of Hozuki-gami, the beast must still be captured and Fuzuki-gami defeated.

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After learning that his parents' house is about to be sold, Natsume insists he doesn't want to go back. But he can't help but remember the past.

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To enter his parents' house, Natsume has to get the key from his relatives. Their daughter still resents him and the house yokai is still a bother.

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Possessed by the yokai, Natsume recalls his unhappy childhood days with Miyoko after his father's death.

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One snowy winter day, Natsume encounters a snowman-like yokai with an icy touch who is searching for something she can’t quite call to mind.

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After breaking free during a walk with his ward Natsume, Nyanko meets two young, lost siblings and accompanies them on an important journey.

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Having mistaken Natsume for a different person, a menacing, jar-shaped yokai demands the return of her beloved stolen treasure — or else.

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After getting caught in a sudden downpour, Natsume finds himself helping a concerned yokai desperately searching for the owner of a special towel.

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When Natsume abruptly ducks out of view from a young exorcist sealing away a yokai, he loses track of an unexpected but important letter from Matoba.

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Unable to decline Matoba’s invitation, Natsume attends a peculiar meeting aimed at revealing the culprit behind the recent attacks on exorcists.

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Natsume suspects that a mysterious message at school is a plea for help. When Taki hears about it, she tells him how she once freed a trapped yokai.

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Under attack from some vengeful yokai, Natsume loses his voice before being rescued by a lonely, bird-like yokai who mistakes him for Reiko.

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When Natsume and his friends help out at Tanuma’s aunt’s inn, Natsume and Nyanko are startled awake by strange laughter in the middle of the night.

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Shuichi Natori, a boy from a family of former exorcists, accepts an invitation to a curious gathering where he first encounters Matoba and Takuma.

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A small mushroom-like yokai who Natsume encounters while fleeing from a dangerous attack asks for his help reuniting with someone special.

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When Toko hears about Natsume’s encounter with a crow, she reminisces about the quiet days when she and Shigeru had the house to themselves.

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Just before the winter holidays begin, two insistent yokai pester Natsume into accompanying them on a mountain climb in pursuit of a spectacular view.

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After helping a yokai couple in danger, Natsume discovers that they knew his grandmother and learns about the magical sake cups that they make.

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When Natsume attempts to follow an exuberant Nyanko to an unusual party, he stumbles across a dilapidated house and into a never-ending game.

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