Unchanging Form | ||
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Name | ||
Kanji | 変わらぬ姿 | |
Romaji | Kawara nu Sugata | |
Information | ||
Air Date | October 4, 2016 (JP) May 8, 2024 (US) | |
Episode | 53 | |
Adapted From | Chapter 57 Chapter 58 Chapter 59 | |
Opening Song | Takarabako | |
Ending Song | Akane Sasu | |
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Unchanging Form is the first episode of the fifth season and the fifty-third episode overall of the Natsume Yuujinchou anime series. It first aired on October 4, 2016.
Summary[]
Natsume continues to spend his days giving back Youkai their names from the book of friends. One day, as he's heading home, he finds himself chased by a giant, rolling pot. The youkai in the pot insists that his grandmother Reiko stole a doll from her. When she threatens to hurt his family, however, he's forced to go out and find it. But would his kind, smiling grandmother Reiko really steal a doll from someone?
Plot[]
At school, Natsume starts having a recurring dream, in which he turns into his grandmother, which spooks him. The next day, he sees a pot youkai following him, which he tries to escape, but that just leads it to his home. After having a confrontation at the front door, the youkai, mistaking Takashi for Reiko, threatens to take away Natsume's 'treasure' if he does not return what he stole from it.
The next day, Natsume goes looking for that pot youkai and stumbles across a log cabin in the middle of the woods. He finds a kind lady living in the cabin, and asks if she knows the youkai, only to receive a negative response. After leaving the log cabin, Natsume meets two lower youkai who warn him that the youkai in the cabin is scary, much to his confusion. He finds out that the pot youkai, whose name is Kayatsubo, holds a grudge against Reiko because it had a doll stolen by Reiko, who abandoned it in another part of the woods. This story is confirmed, although clarified further, by another youkai.
Natsume finds the doll after looking around in the forest, but Kayatsubo does not recognize it because it is dirty. Hence, after cleaning the doll at home, Nyanko-sensei and Natsume return the doll to Kayatsubo, who leaves happily. The next day, Takashi plans to go to return the acorn-eating yokai's name, but wants to give him a manji bun first. Nyanko-Sensei then asks him to buy lots since he loves them, to which Takashi says that he does, too, just as his grandmother had.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
- Takashi Natsume
- Atsushi Kitamoto
- Satoru Nishimura
- Kaname Tanuma
- Black-Miniature-White-Yukata Youkai (dream)
- Jun Sasada
- Unknown Youkai
- Madara
- Kayatsubo
- Female Relative (flashback)
- Reiko Natsume (flashbacks)
- Takashi Natsume's Mother (mentioned)
- Takashi Natsume's Father (mentioned)
- Acorn-Eating Youkai
- Touko Fujiwara
- Shigeru Fujiwara
- Little-Mustache-Ghost Youkai
- Unknown Youkai
- Horny Youkai
Trivia[]
- Takashi again dons a white robe, as he had in "Five-Day Mark". He had a wooden Bo staff in hand, whose function did not need to be utilized after all, as Kayatsubo had merely left with the decades-old doll in her new kimono.
Anime and Manga Differences[]
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4th Season | Natsume Yuujinchou Go | 6th Season |
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Episode 53 • Episode 54 • Episode 55 • Episode 56 • Episode 57 • Episode 58 • Episode 59 • Episode 60 • Episode 61 • Episode 62 • Episode 63 |