The heartwarming and unrelenting healing work "Natsume Yujin", a masterpiece by Japanese manga artist Yuki Midorikawa (serialized in the Shirazumisha monthly magazine LaLa), began airing the first season of the TV anime in 2008, the latest of which was the first theatrical version of "The Edge of the Empty Cicada", which aired in September 2018. So far, the anime has a total of 80 episodes (including special episodes, OVA) plus a theatrical version, so if you want to know what the plot of each episode is playing or if you want to find out which yokai appeared in the episode, look down!
The protagonist of "Natsume's Friend's Account" is a teenager named Takashi Natsume, who has been able to see yokai that ordinary people can't see since he was a child, and he inherits the inheritance of his grandmother Natsume Reiko, "Friend's Account", and together with the cat teacher who claims to be a bodyguard, returns his name to the bound yokai. Natsume explores the path she should take through the youkai and the people around her, guarding the important days with his cherished friends.
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< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 1st Season (broadcast in 2008)</h1>
★ : It's about the plot
☆: Personal recommendation
Episode 1 "Cats and Friends Account" ★
Natsume's encounter with the cat teacher, the appearance of the "Friend's Account", and the story about Natsume's past and Reiko's grandmother, after watching this episode, you can roughly understand the setting of Natsume's Friend's Account.
Episode 2 "The Ancestral Hall of the God of Dew"☆
In front of Natsume, a small youkai appears, "Lu Shen", hoping to get his name back.
Episode 3 "The Strange Man of Yahara" ★
With the debut of Mid-Level, Mitsuru, and Tanuma, natsume's mind began to change as his companions increased.
Episode 4 "Rain and the Maiden"
At the test meeting of the old school building, Natsume and the class leader Sasada act together.
Episode 5 "Ticket for the Color of the Heart"
Natsume finds the train ticket in Reiko's grandmother's relic, and when he arrives at the station written on the ticket, he encounters The yokai Santo, who has been waiting for Reiko to appear there...
Episode 6 "Swallows Underwater"☆
The youkai possessed by Natsume only wished to see someone he missed once.
Episode 7 "The Little Fox's Hat"☆
Natsume meets a little fox in the forest, and he cares about helping Natsume.
Episode 8 "Illusory Light"☆
Natsume and the cat teacher who go somewhere to admire the fireflies, where they see a male and a youkai accompanying him....
Episode 9 "The Spooky Exorcist" ★
The man who suddenly appears in front of Natsume's eyes, "Natori Monday", can see things that ordinary people can't see like Natsume, and his identity is an actor and demon exorcist.
Episode 10 "The Harp of The Onion"
The light onion was attached to Natsume's body, just so that he could play the piano again.
Episode 11 "Cat Teacher Hangs Out"
A cat teacher who quarrels with Natsume and runs away from home.
The 12th "Itaichiin" ★
C's debut. The cursed Natsume decided to find a way to escape the Five-Day Seal in order not to let important people get involved in the incident.
Episode 13 "Autumn Night Feast"
A variety of characters gather together to see Natsume's relationship with Tanuma getting closer.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 帐 2nd season (broadcast in 2009)</h1>
Episode 1 "The Taken Friend's Account"☆
The appearance of the black cat teacher and red peak. In order to retrieve the friend's tent that was taken away by the black cat teacher, Natsume breaks into the yokai's banquet.
Episode 2 "Melting in warm spring"
Gen, the patron saint who protects the forest in the original stone statue of Shibano, originally wanted to be attached to Natsume, who could move, but accidentally attached itself to the snow rabbit made by Natsume...
Vol.3 "Youkai Extermination Hot Spring" ★
Natsume and Kitty Sensei and Natori go on a two-day, one-night trip to the hot springs on Monday.
Episode 4 "Hatching of Chicks"
Natsume and the cat teacher take care of the eggs found in the nest of the tree in front of the house, and hatch a small yokai named Tatsumi that resembles a dragon and a bird named Tatsumi.
Episode 5 "The Tree of Engagement"
Kiriba, a child with green hair, whose name was written on paper by Reiko and tied to a branch, promised to return it after 50 years...).
Episode 6 "Girl's Formation" ★ & Episode 7 "Don't Call" ★
The debut of the multi-track, episodes 6 and 7 are joined by the first and second parts. Describe the dangers involving humans and demons, as well as multi-track enlightenment.
Episode 8 "The Wish to Die"
Mermaids and humans who hurt each other because of misunderstandings....
Episode 9 "He in the Cherry Tree Woods"
A monster who keeps traveling without forgetting the people you like....
Episode 10 "Temporary Home" ★
The home that Reiko once guarded, this time it was Natsume's turn to protect.
Episode 11 "The Gathering of Spellcasters"
In a group of people who have the same abilities and experience the same pain, maybe they can do something...? (including season 3 episodes 6 and 7)
Episode 12 "The Boy in the Abandoned House" ☆ & Episode 13 "Man and Demon" ☆
The first part and the second part. Natsume finds a teenager in a coffin in an abandoned bungalow.... Asked, "Who would you choose between humans and monsters?" Natsume, his answer?
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 帐 3rd season (broadcast in 2011)</h1>
Episode 1 "The Name of the Monster"
Natsume does not allow his daily life to be destroyed and decides not to be involved with the yokai anymore, but he accidentally helps the yokai who transforms into an old woman.
Episode 2 "The Land of Floating Spring"
In front of Natsume, a female youkai appears, who is a resident of the land of Fuharu who is looking for her brother.
Episode 3 "Hypocritical Friends" ☆
Natsume's elementary school classmate Shibata takes Natsume to the park in the town next door to meet a girl named Murasaki. (Shibata will reappear in season 6)
Episode 4 "Childhood Time"☆
Natsume recalls what she experienced as a child....
Episode 5 "Things Hidden in the Warehouse" ★
Natsume and Tanuma went to The Tracks' house together to help clean the warehouses, and Many Tracks' grandfather had done a lot of research on yokai.
Episode 6 "Inhuman Things" ★ & Episode 7 "Demon Removal" ★
The debut of Shizuji Field. When Natsume heard about the use of youkai's blood to cast spells among humans, he found that everyone had their own different positions.
Episode 8 "The Little Fox's Watch"
The little fox is back. In order to heal the cat teacher who was shot by the field's arrow, Natsumi is looking for herbs, which happen to be the place where the little fox lives.
Episode 9 "Facing the Autumn Wind"☆
Natsume, who enjoys a cultural festival with her friends, gets a strange stone from a schoolgirl controlled by a yokai...?
Episode 10 "Broken Mirror" & Episode 11 "The Reflected Thing"
Tanuma is possessed by a yokai, and Natsume assists yokai in fulfilling his wish to see a small adventure of Natsume, Tanuma, and Tokusatsu.
Episode 12 "The Place of Return" ★
Natsume's story before she came to the Fujiwara couple's house.
Episode 13 "Natsume Game Account"
When Natsume chatted with her friends, she remembered that when she was a child, she had not played the game of stepping on the shadow with her friends, and the next day she was forcibly taken to the party of the yokai, so she played the shadow with the yokai!?
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 帐 4th season (broadcast in 2012)</h1>
Episode 1 "Imprisoned Natsume" & Episode 2 "Forest of the East"
Natsume, who is attacked by the Ape-Faced Youkai one day, is taken to their forest and is about to escape from the forest when he is captured by Shizuji Natsuki and tries to escape from the predicament with The Cat Sensei.
Episode 3 "Little Things"
On the way to take the cat teacher, Natsume, who takes the injured furry youkai home to heal, takes the yokai back to the forest the next day and is threatened by a yokai named Kansai....
Episode 4 "Answer"
A yokai that imitated the sound of the tower entered the house, hoping that Natsume would call out a yokai named Borrow Paper from his friend's account.
Episode 5 "To the Past You"
Yuriko, Natsume's classmate in Junior High School, recalls Natsume from her perspective.
Episode 6 "The Other Side of Glass" ★ & Episode 7 "Between Man and Demon" ★
The first part and the second part. Natsume, trapped in a small bottle by a youkai, in order not to worry the others, the cat teacher transforms into Natsume and goes to school....
Episode 8 "When You're Confused"
The story of the field of the demon exterminator of the field of the field of nanase.
The 9th collection "Monthly Festival" ☆ & the 10th collection "Ritual Shinmei" ☆
The god of harvest and the god of the earth withered in the land of the three corners compete in the "Moon Festival" every ten years, and the winner controls the abundance of the three corners. But before the moon festival came, the god of harvest was sealed by the demon exterminator.
Episode 11 "A Picture" ★ & Episode 12 "The Door of Memory" ★ & Episode 13 "The Long Way Home" ★
It is divided into front, middle and back parts. From relatives who used to take care of Natsume, I learned that the home where I lived with my father when I was a child has decided on a buyer.... Natsume will face the memories of her family again.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 帐 5th season (broadcast in 2016)</h1>
Episode 1 "As Always"
When Natsume goes out to help Tako run errands, she encounters a youkai who has misled herself with Reiko...
Episode 2 "Mischievous Rain"☆
Natsume, who had picked up an old handkerchief in the heavy rain, appeared in front of him and said that she was the owner of the handkerchief.
Episode 3 "Letter from the Demon Exterminator" ★ & Episode 4 "Behind the Chain" ★
Shizuji field sent Natsume a letter, but accidentally lost it...? Invited to a party, natsume disguises herself as a god to find the monster lurking in the house, and Natsume disguises herself as a god to find the prisoner.
Episode 5 "No Marriage"☆
Hearing that Toru had recently used a formation to help a youkai who had accidentally broken into the house, Natsume wanted to tell her that the formation was a forbidden art among demon exterminators.
Episode 6 "Silent Valley"
Natsume, who was attacked on the way to run errands, could not make a sound and was mistaken by other yokai as Reiko!?
Episode 7 "Distant Sacrifice fire"☆
Natsume and his friends go to a homestay run by Tanuma's relatives to help out, where they encounter a yokai who is looking for a prisoner who has stolen an important mask for the festival.
Episode 8 "A World Without Distortions"
The past of the field of natori and kazumi. What is the most important thing about being a demon exterminator?
Episode 9 "Facing the Odds"
Escaping from danger, Natsume accidentally injures the little yokai's bucket, and the little yokai who looks like a mushroom uses Natsume as his own subordinate.
Episode 10 "Tower and Zi" ★
Tatsuko recalls the story of Natsume before he came to their house.
Episode 11 "To the Perishable Ones"☆
Natsume was taken home from school by an intermediate youkai to see the flowers, but the next day she fell ill with a cold and fever.
Special episode "One Night Cup"☆
Natsume meets a yokai couple who make wine glasses while traveling, and they have seen Reiko and mistaken natsume for Reiko....
Special Episode "Feast of Games"
The Mid-Level Yokai Inuyasha is very active! The cat teacher happily goes out to a strange banquet, and Natsume later discovers that the house where the banquet is held is a game of gambling on the supremacy of the valley.
< h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Natsume Friend 帐 6th season (broadcast in 2017)</h1>
The first collection "Lunar sun eclipse" ☆
Affected by the power of the youkai, Natsume, who has returned to a child, seems to have even returned her memories to her childhood?
Episode 2 "Tomorrow Blooms"
On their way home from Natsume and Tatsuko, they see a pattern of flowers on the rock, but Tatsuko can't see it, and later in front of Natsume, a youkai looking for a missing disciple appears.
Vol.3 "Dual Adults"
Natsume's elementary school classmate Shibata reappears, and Tanuma, Cat Sensei, natsume, and Shibata go to an empty house where strange noises can be heard in the middle of the night.
Episode 4 "Pupil of Mutation" ★ & Episode 5 "The Bound Thing" ★
Natsume, who is worried about Natori, travels to his destination with a paper man he doesn't know who to write to, and he meets a woman named Tsukiko.
Episode 6 "Nishimura and Kitamoto"☆
Nishimura and Kitamoto recalled what happened when Natsume had just transferred to another school.
Episode 7 "The Benefactor of the Imperial Guard"
A youkai named Michi appears in front of Natsume, hoping to repay Reiko.
Episode 8 "The Day That Will Come"☆
Natsume picks up a letter on her way home from school, and Aoi, who lost it, is looking for "Kao" who wrote the letter, only to discover that Aoi is a yokai and that Kaoru is a girl who could once see yokai.
Episode 9 "The Drifting Thing"
There is a temple near the location of The House, where 4 masks are enshrined, but people other than Natsume can only see 3 faces....
Episode 10 "The Closed Room" ★ & Episode 11 "The Important Thing" ★
Together with Natori and Sakura, they search for relics in the mansion in Hazaki, but on the way to the search, Natori asks about his friends' accounts, and he decides to confess everything when everything is over.
Special article "Remnants of ringing bells"☆
The agreement and parting between the yokai and the humans, after the Suzumi tree was broken by thunder, the tree demon grandfather still remembered the agreement with humans.
Special Episode "Fragments of Dreams"
Looking at Natsume from the perspective of an ordinary girl, she thinks he is a wonderful and gentle person.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right">OVA</h1>
OVA1 "First Errand Run with a Cat Teacher"
Natsume and Cat Sensei accidentally break up on the way to a walk, when Cat Sensei encounters a pair of lost human siblings.
OVA2 "Once Upon a Time It Snowed"
Help youkai who want to find something warm, feel the temperature contrast between ice and snow and people's hearts.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > theatrical version</h1>
"The Empty Cicada" (2018) Natsume met Tsumura Ryo, who knew Reiko, and she and her son Starling lived together, but the town where the mother and son lived hid monsters? Cat Teacher also split into 3 Kitty Teachers!?
It has been more than 10 years since the first season of the anime was broadcast, whether it is the plot, character settings, theme song or soundtrack, the overall atmosphere presented is unforgettable, and many times can be healed from Natsume's friends, hoping to let more people see this work!