Natsume's Book of Friends (Anime)

Natsume's Book of Friends (夏目友人帳, Natsume Yuujinchou) is an anime television series adaption of the manga written by Yuki Midorikawa. It was produced by Brain's Base, directed by Takahiro Omori. It was broadcast on the TV Tokyo network in two seasons of thirteen episodes each, the first from July 7 to September 29, 2008 and the second, called Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou (続夏目友人帳, Natsume's Book of Friends Continued), from January 5 to March 30, 2009.

A third season, titled Natsume Yuujinchou San (夏目友人帳参, Natsume's Book of Friends Three) began airing on July 5, 2011.

The fourth season, titled Natsume Yuujinchou Shi (夏目友人帳肆, Natsume's Book of Friends Four) began airing January 2nd, 2012.

The fifth season, titled Natsume Yuujinchou Go (夏目友人帳伍, Natsume's Book of Friends Five) began airing October 4th, 2016.

The sixth season, titled Natsume Yuujinchou Roku (夏目友人帳陸, Natsume's Book of Friends Six) began airing in April 11, 2017.

Separate soundtrack albums for the first two seasons were released in Japan by Sony Music on September 24, 2008 and March 18, 2009, respectively.^[1] The series opening and closing theme songs were also released by Sony Music. As singles, "Issei no Sei" reached a peak rank of 48th on the Oricon singles chart, "Natsu Yuuzora" reached 27th, and "Ano Hi Time Machine" reached 38th. "Aishiteru" was not released as a single, but instead included on an album called "Uta no Hibi" by Kourin (Also known as Callin').

The series is licensed in English by Crunchyroll, which streams it online; episodes of the second season were available online on the day of broadcast.^[2] It is also licensed in Chinese by Muse Communication.

In July 2022, it is announced that Crunchyroll is producing an English dub of the series, which will premiere on their streaming service on July 24, 2022.

A seventh season, titled Natsume Yuuujinchou Shichi (夏目友人帳漆) has been announced in celebration for its fifteenth anniversary.^[3]

List of Episodes

Main article: List of Episodes

Theme Songs

Season Five

Opening - Takarabako
Ending - Akane Sasu

Season Six

Opening - Furōria
Ending - Kimi no Uta

Season Seven

Opening - TBA
Ending - TBA

Staff

Japanese

Director:
Character Design:
Series Composition:
Original creator:
Executive Supervisor:

English

ADR Director: Jad Saxton
Assistant ADR Directors: Morgan Lauré, Sara Ragsdale
Lead ADR Engineer: Ian Emerson, Rickey Watkins
Assistant ADR Engineers: Sawyer Pfiedderer
ADR Script Writer: Jessica Sluys
ADR Script Supervisor: Emily Neves
ADR Prep: Benjamin Tehrani
ADR Mix Engineer: William Dewell

Cast and Voice Actors

Character	Japanese Voice Actor	English Voice Actor
Takashi Natsume	Hiroshi Kamiya Ayumu Fujimura (Young)	Adam Gibbs Paige Guillory (Young)
Madara	Kazuhiko Inoue	Christopher Wehkamp
Reiko Natsume	Sanae Kobayashi	Alexis Tipton
Touko Fujiwara	Miki Itō	Jennifer AuBuchon
Shigeru Fujiwara	Eiji Itō	Seth Magill
Chukyuu (A and B)	Takashi Matsuyama Hiroshi Shimozaki	Brian Mathis Greg Dulcie
Hinoe	Akemi Okamura	Molly Searcy
Atsushi Kitamoto	Hisayoshi Suganuma	Mike Haimoto
Satoru Nishimura	Ryōhei Kimura	Matthew Elkins
Kaname Tanuma	Kazuma Horie	Tyson Rinehart
Tooru Taki	Rina Satō	Megan Shipman
Jun Sasada	Miyuki Sawashiro	Marisa Duran
Misuzu	Takaya Kuroda	Chris Ryan
Shuuichi Natori	Akira Ishida	Aaron Roberts
Hiiragi	Satsuki Yukino	Jill Harris
Chobihige	Chō	Barry Yandell
Kappa	Kyōko Chikiri	Danielle Yoshiko Phillips
Seiji Matoba	Junichi Suwabe	Reagan Murdock