Natsume's Book of Friends: Ephemeral Bond

Synopsis

The movie of Natsume's Book of Friends series. Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a "Yokai seed" that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras' garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!

Main Cast

Hiroshi Kamiya

Takashi Natsume (voice)

Age : 49 | Popularity : 27%

Kazuhiko Inoue

Nyanko-sensei / Madara (voice)

Age : 70 | Popularity : 23%

Kazuma Horie

Kaname Tanuma (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 3%

Ryohei Kimura

Satoru Nishimura (voice)

Age : 39 | Popularity : 7%

Hisayoshi Suganuma

Atsushi Kitamoto (voice)

Age : 45 | Popularity : 7%

Rina Satou

Tooru Taki (voice)

Age : 42 | Popularity : 20%

Akemi Okamura

Hinoe (voice)

Age : 55 | Popularity : 27%

Akira Ishida

Shuichi Natori (voice)

Age : 56 | Popularity : 10%

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Writing	Screenplay	Sadayuki Murai
	Comic Book	Yuki Midorikawa
Art	Storyboard Artist	Masayuki Kojima Takahiro Omori Hideki Ito Miyuki Ooshiro
	Background Designer	Yuki Nomura Mie Kasai Nobuhiro Otsuka Hiroyuki Hasegawa Mizuka Ueda Minami Usui Eriko Nakamura Fumie Nuibe Sato Takahara Ayumi Takasaki Kimiyo Saito Izumi Ozawa Marie Murata Yayoi Ogashiwa Tomomi Masaki Kaori Masaki Mao Miyake Nanae Soji Hiroshi Kanno Kohei Kobayashi Niki Higaki Masaru Sotoya Kyoko Shibuya Tomoko Yanagishita
	Art Direction	Yukihiro Shibutani
	Prop Designer	Saka Ikeda
Directing	Director	Takahiro Omori Hideki Ito
	Second Unit Director	Hideki Ito Miyuki Ooshiro
	Action Director	Tatsuo Yamada
Sound	Original Music Composer	Makoto Yoshimori
	Sound Effects	Noriko Izumo
	Foley Artist	Masafumi Watanabe
	Theme Song Performance	Uru
	Sound Mixer	Ryouji Kameda
Visual Effects	Character Designer	Akira Takata Hiromitsu Hagiwara
	Compositing Artist	Haruhide Ishiguro Yuichiroh Tozawa Takaya Takahashi Yusuke Sasano Yuuta Nakamura Kohei Tanada Fumito Nanba Kazuma Shinzato Yang Xiaomu Toshihiro Fujita Kaneko Fujimaki Eiko Hirayama Norimasa Teramoto Shoko Harada Ryoko Takashimizu Atsuko Okui Kanae Ouchi Isao Shoji Tetsuji Sakamaki Takeshi Miyagawa Kim Bo-ra Kazuma Hatakeyama Yoshiaki Kayaba Taketo Kimura Shinnosuke Inaba Shinya Kobayashi Tang Siyu Yu Nishino
	Key Animation	Miki Urashima Masahiro Koyama Hideyuki Motohashi Takuo Tominaga Yasuhiro Saiki Masakazu Kawazoe Misao Abe Tomomi Ishii Tomomi Shimazaki Tatsuo Yamada Maho Takagi Mayumi Nakamura Atsushi Aono Toshie Kawamura Kenji Hayama Hiroshi Tomioka Rie Maehara Miyuki Ooshiro Hiroto Yokote Wataru Abe Ryo Tanaka Shintaro Doge Yang Peng Tomoyo Kamoi Jun Maeda Eri Yamazaki Fumiyo Kimura Orie Tanaka Shinsuke Ishikawa Yoriko Goto Naoko Hayashi Masahisa Koyata Madoka Katto Kazune Suzuki Michiko Asada Toshinari Yamashita Kayo Daibou Miyako Kano Mamie Ashikaga Masami Gouda Megumi Miyagawa Emi Ikebuchi Terumi Muto Emi Nakamura Eri Nishikawa Zhang Zhicheng Miyuki Kobayashi
	Layout Supervisor	Takuo Tominaga Masakazu Kawazoe
	Animation Director	Ena Nishikawa Kenji Hayama Miyuki Ooshiro Natsuko Kondou Eri Yamazaki Orie Tanaka
	Creature Design	Tatsuo Yamada
Editing	Editor	Kazuhiko Seki
	Online Editor	Tetsuro Tsukada Yuki Honda
Camera	Director of Photography	Hitoshi Tamura Tetsuya Kawata
Crew	Special Effects	Toshio Hasegawa
Production	Associate Producer	Noriko Iwasaki
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