Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2

Synopsis

As with its prequel, Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou is about Takashi Natsume, a boy who has had the ability to see youkai since he was young, and his bodyguard youkai Madara, nicknamed Nyanko-sensei. Natsume attempts to return names written in his "Book of Friends" (which he inherited from his grandmother Reiko) to youkai in his village. Throughout these adventures, he meets some youkai that are friendly, some that want to steal the Book, and some that want to kill him, as Natsume learns about himself and his relationship with these mysterious beings along the way.

Main Cast

Hiroshi Kamiya

Takashi Natsume (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Kazuhiko Inoue

Nyanko-sensei / Madara (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 9%

Eiji Itoh

Shigeru Fujiwara (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 7%

Miki Ito

Touko Fujiwara (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 5%

Takashi Matsuyama

Hitotsume no Chuukyuu Youkai (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 4%

Hisayoshi Suganuma

Atsushi Kitamoto (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 2%

Akira Ishida

Shuuichi Natori (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 15%

Sanae Kobayashi

Reiko Natsume (voice)

Age : N/A | Popularity : 8%

Episodes

Episode 1

06 January 2009 - Stolen Book of Friends

While outside during school Natsume is hit with a ball while reading. He goes to retrieve the ball and ends up breaking a Youkai's seal (much like he had with Nyanko-sensei). Later that night Natsume and Nyanko-sensei discover a look-a-like of Nyanko, only to have him steal the Book Of Friends!

Episode 2

13 January 2009 - Melting into Spring

While fooling around in the snow, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei run in to Gen, a forest guardian who lives inside a statue. Gen tries to take over Natsume's body, but instead takes over a snow rabbit that Natsume had made. Gen pleads Natsume to help him find an evil spirit who destroyed Sui, his guardian partner, and Natsume agrees. But it seems Gen isn't telling everything he should...

Episode 3

20 January 2009 - Youkai Exorcism Amid the Steaming Springs

Natori invites Natsume on a Hot Spring trip. But noises from the closet and a kimono-clad figure dangled from the ceiling make Natsume uneasy. Not wanting to trouble Natori because of his kind gesture to enjoy the Hot Spring with him, Natsume investigates the Hot Spring himself. During the night Natsume meets with the Youkai, where she comments that he is too soft, and attacks!

Episode 4

27 January 2009 - A Chick Hatches

Natsume takes care of an abandoned egg from a nest, not considering it could be a Youkai. After it hatches it turns out it is a rare baby spirit called Tatsumi, who thinks that Natsume is it's parent. Natsume can't help but get attached to the little spirit even as Tatsumi grows tired and sick. But as Natsume takes care of Tatsumi a mysterious spirit comes, and wants to take away Tatsumi for his master... who wants to eat him!

Episode 5

03 February 2009 - Tree of Promise

Natsume encounters a spirit who was enslaved by his grandmother Reiko 50 years ago by writing his name on a torn page from the Book of Friends, and tying it to a tree in a forest. Can Natsume help locate the torn page? What was Reiko's intention of tying it to a tree?

Episode 6

10 February 2009 - The Maiden's Circle

There is a new girl in school Taki Tooru. And with her appearance at school comes these strange circles in the ground. Much like UFO circles. As Natsume tries to figure out the circles and Taki he is visited by another Youkai. Only this time the Youkai isn't looking for his name, but for a snack.

Episode 7

17 February 2009 - That Which You Must Not Call

Natsume is dragged off into the cave of the evil spirit that is after Tooru. He temporarily loses the ability to see youkai after being poisoned by the spirit. Will he be able to stop the youkai from eating Tooru without his sight?

Episode 8

24 February 2009 - Emotions Undying

Natsume, Kitamoto and Nishimura take a trip to an old inn to spend some quality time doing their homework. Surrounding the inn is a lake; that is believed to be home to a mermaid.

Episode 9

03 March 2009 - The Man Amidst the Rows of Cherry Trees

From the day that a picture of a row of cherry trees in a desolate winter was obtained, every time Natsume wakes up, his rooms is covered in petals. Trying to solve the root of this activity, Natsume and Nyako Sensei try and return the picture to Miya, a shadowy figure who accompanies the picture. But why can't they return it to Miya...?

Episode 10

10 March 2009 - Temporary Home

Mysterious footprints and markings are left on the gate of the Fujiwara house. Strange things start going on inside the house and Shigeru verifies with Natsume that the cause of this activity involves the husband and wife who used to live there. And so Shigeru tells story of those two but in a unusually childlike manner...

Episode 11

17 March 2009 - Assembly of Conjurers

After chasing an injured yokai around, Natsume encounters Natori, who then invites him to go to a meeting of sorcerers. There, Natsume meets others with similar powers and similar problems.

Episode 12

24 March 2009 - The Young Boy in the Empty House

At a house rumored to be haunted by ghosts, Natsume hears the voice of a child. Following the voice to its source, Natsume finds a child named Kai, who is trapped in a casket-like box. Kai tells Natsume that he someone is chasing him every day.

Episode 13

31 March 2009 - Humans and Youkai

Why don't you decide already? Which is more important to you? When Natsume finds out what Kai really is, that is what Natori asks him.

Crew

Department	Role	Name
Production	Producer	Masanori Miyake
Sound	Sound Director	Takahiro Omori
	Original Music Composer	Makoto Yoshimori
Camera	Director of Photography	Hitoshi Tamura
Visual Effects	Character Designer	Akira Takata
	Color Designer	Hiromi Miyawaki
	Creature Design	Tatsuo Yamada
Art	Art Direction	Yukihiro Shibutani
Editing	Editor	Kazuhiko Seki
Writing	Comic Book	Yuki Midorikawa
Directing	Series Director	Takahiro Omori
Crew	Creator	Yuki Midorikawa
Department	Role	Name

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