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Natsume's Book of Friends (TV)

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Alternative title:
Natsume Yūjin-Chō (Japanese)
Natsume Yūjinchō (Japanese)
O Livro de Amigos de Natsume (Portuguese)
Тетрадь дружбы Нацумэ (Russian)
کتاب دوستان ناتسومه - Persian (Japanese)
夏目友人帳 (Japanese)
나츠메 우인장 (Korean)
Objectionable content: Mild
Plot Summary: Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.
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User Ratings: 1613 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 321 votes (sub:294, dub:10, raw:6, ?:2, others:9
5 Spanish subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Mandarin subtitled
)
 Excellent: 565 votes (sub:527, dub:16, raw:3, edit.dub:1, others:18
8 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
3 Russian subtitled
1 Chinese mandarin subtitled
1 Korean subtitled
1 Polish subtitled
1 Vietnamese subtitled subtitled
)
 Very good: 397 votes (sub:352, dub:20, raw:5, ?:3, others:17
7 Spanish subtitled
3 Portuguese subtitled
2 Italian subtitled
2 Polish subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 207 votes (sub:185, dub:7, raw:5, others:10
3 Spanish subtitled
3 French subtitled
2 Portuguese subtitled
1 Italian subtitled
1 Arabic subtitled
)
 Decent: 68 votes (sub:59, dub:3, raw:2, ?:1, others:3
1 Portuguese subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Russian dubbed
)
 So-so: 37 votes (sub:31, dub:3, others:3
1 Spanish subtitled
1 German subtitled
1 Russian subtitled
)
 Not really good: 9 votes (sub:9)
 Weak: 4 votes (sub:4)
 Bad: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Awful: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Worst ever: 3 votes (sub:3)
Seen in part or in whole by 2749 users, rank: #398 (of 9758)
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.409 (Very good+), std. dev.: 1.3436, rank: #232 (of 9902)
Weighted mean: 8.312 (Very good+), rank: #262 (of 9902) (seen all: 8.40 / seen some: 7.59 / won't finish: 5.25)
Bayesian estimate: 8.306 (Very good+), rank: #149 (of 7492)
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-07-07 to 2008-09-29
Opening Theme:
"Issei no Sei" (一斉の声) by Shūhei Kita
Ending Theme:
"Natsu Yūzora" (夏夕空) by Kōsuke Atari
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DVD (Region 1)
    Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 1 & 2 [Premium Edition] (Sub.DVD) 2012-10-09 (from $1200.00)
    Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 1 & 2 (Sub.DVD) 2014-02-04

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Takahiro Ōmori
Series Composition: Kenichi Kanemaki
Script:
Kenichi Araki (eps 3, 9, 11)
Kenichi Kanemaki (eps 1-2, 5, 13)
Mayori Sekijima (eps 6-7, 12)
Mie Kaga (ep 10)
Noboru Takagi (eps 4, 8)
Storyboard:
Hidehito Ueda (eps 2, 7, 11)
Hidetoshi Namura (eps 9, 13)
Keiji Gotō (ep 8)
Kiyotaka Ohata (eps 3, 10)
Koichiro Kuroda (ep 12)
Masakazu Hishida (ep 5)
Masayoshi Nishida (ep 4)
Takahiro Ōmori (OP; ep 1)
Toshiya Shinohara (ep 6)
Original creator: Yuki Midorikawa
Character Design: Akira Takata
Art Director: Yukihiro Shibutani
Chief Animation Director:
Akira Takata
Tatsuo Yamada
Animation Director:
Akira Takata (OP; ep 1)
Atsushi Aono (eps 2, 9, 13)
Haruo Okuno (ep 5)
Hideyuki Motohashi (eps 3, 6)
Kazuya Saitō (ep 8)
Kyoko Kametani (ep 7)
Miho Nakata (ep 4)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 4)
Tatsuo Yamada (OP; ep 1)
Sound Director: Takahiro Ōmori
Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura
Producer: Shosuke Miyake (TV Tokyo)

2nd Key Animation:
Akihira Yamashita (ep 11)
Kazuhide Kondo (ep 11)
Kosuke Fujii (ep 5)
Senichi Muraoka (ep 11)
Animation: Takahiro Kishida (all for ED)
Animation producer: Yumi Satō
Clean-Up Animation:
Asami Maruyama (A-Line; ep 8)
Mariko Kawaai (eps 3, 6)
Miho Koike (ep 4)
Yufuko Fukuda (eps 3, 6)
Yuko Endo (ep 4)
Color Inspection:
Ayako Saitō
Yufuko Fukuda
Editing: Kazuhiko Seki
Editing Assistant: Yasutaka Ikeda
In-Between Animation:
Hideki Sakai (eps 3, 6)
Kazune Suzuki (ep 6)
Kōta Suzuki (eps 3, 6)
Mariko Horie (eps 3, 6)
Shuko Okutani (ep 3)
Yuriko Kaneko (ep 4)
Yūya Kumagai (ep 4)
In-Between Check:
Mariko Horie (ep 6)
Yuki Fujikawa (ep 4)
Key Animation:
Akira Kikuchi (ep 7)
Akira Takata (OP; ep 1)
Ayami Watanabe (ep 7)
Ayumi Itō (ep 4)
Eiko Matsuno (OP; eps 1-2, 7, 11)
Fumiko Fujii (ep 2)
Fumino Fujii (ep 7)
Haruo Okuno (OP; eps 1, 11)
Hideaki Matsuoka (eps 7, 11)
Hidetoshi Sano (ep 1)
Hiroki Itō (ep 3)
Hiromi Yoshida (ep 4)
Hiroshi Tomioka (ep 2)
Hiroto Yokote (ep 2)
Kaoru Maehara (ep 4)
Kaoru Sekitani (ep 5)
Kazuhiro Muto (ep 5)
Kenji Hayama (OP)
Kentarō Matsumoto (ep 1)
Kimiko Matsushita (ep 11)
Kyoko Kametani (OP)
Kyouhei Tezuka (ep 3)
Makoto Oda (eps 3, 6)
Mamie Takata (OP; eps 1, 5, 11)
Masahiro Koyama (ep 1)
Masahito Yamashita (eps 2, 5, 9)
Masakazu Kawazoe (OP; eps 1, 5, 11)
Masanori Watanabe (eps 3, 6)
Masayuki Yoshiki (ep 5)
Mayuko Kato (ep 11)
Midori Uchiyama (ep 11)
Minami Tokunaga (eps 2, 5)
Miyuki Kobayashi (OP; eps 1-2, 5, 11)
Miyuki Shimizu (eps 3, 6)
Nobuhiko Kawagami (eps 2, 11)
Nobuyuki Furukawa (eps 3, 6)
Noriko Kitazawa (ep 3)
Orie Tanaka (OP; eps 1, 5)
Osamu Hirayama (ep 2)
Rie Maehara (eps 1, 7)
Rumi Abe (eps 5, 7)
Ryō Tanaka (OP)
Ryōsuke Tanigawa (ep 11)
Satoru Ito (ep 5)
Satoshi Arajima (ep 4)
Shinichi Iimura (ep 6)
Shinsuke Ishikawa (ep 1)
Shinsuke Yanagi (ep 3)
Shuko Okutani (eps 3, 6)
Tadashi Fuji (eps 2, 5)
Takahiro Hosoki (ep 3)
Takahiro Sasaki (ep 4)
Takao Suzuki (ep 4)
Tatsuo Yamada (OP; eps 1-2, 5, 11)
Tatsuya Ikeda (ep 7)
Tomokazu Sugimura (ep 1)
Tsuyoshi Sakai (ep 3)
Yōko Iizuka (ep 7)
Yoshihiro Matsumoto (ep 4)
Yoshiki Mizuno (ep 7)
Yousuke Toyama (ep 7)
Yufuki Morimoto (ep 11)
Yuki Fujikawa (ep 4)
Yumi Shimizu (ep 7)
Yuriko Nagaya (eps 3, 6)
Yusuke Adachi (ep 4)
Yuta Odajima (ep 4)
Monster Design: Tatsuo Yamada
Music Performance:
Ayano Kasahara (Cello)
Tomomi Tokunaga (Violin)
Planning:
Haruto Uchiyama
Makoto Shiraishi (TV Tokyo)
Planning Collaboration: Kazuya Sato
Recording Assistant: Yumi Yoshihara
Sound Adjustment: Osamu Takizawa
Sound Effects: Masaru Urahata
Sound Production: Junichi Inaba
Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa
Theme Song Arrangement: TAKUYA (OP)
Theme Song Composition:
TAKUYA (OP)
Toshiko Ezaki (ED)
Theme Song Lyrics:
Keiji Shiina (OP)
Toshiko Ezaki (ED)
Theme Song Performance:
Kousuke Atari (ED)
Shuhei Kita (OP)
Hiroshi Kamiya as Takashi Natsume
Kazuhiko Inoue as Nyanko-san

Akira Ishida as Shūichi Natori
Hisayoshi Suganuma as Atsushi Kitamoto
Kazuma Horie as Kaname Tanuma
Miki Itō as Tōko Fujiwara
Miyuki Sawashiro as Jun Sasada
Ryōhei Kimura as Satoru Nishimura
Sanae Kobayashi as Reiko Natsume

Akari Higuchi as Urihime (ep 9)
Akemi Okamura as Hinoe (eps 12-13)
Aki Kanada as
Female High School Student (ep 10)
Female relative (ep 1)
Housewife (ep 3)
Tamiko's mother (ep 13)
Akiko Yajima as Child fox (ep 7)
Akimitsu Takase as Tarusaru (ep 6)
Akira Ishida as Male relative (ep 1)
Atsushi Imaruoka as Akagane (ep 10)
Ayumi Fujimura as
Female High School Student (ep 9)
Fiancée (ep 8)
Student (ep 4)
Takashi Natsume (young)
Chieko Honda as Sasago (ep 9)
Eiji Itō as
Big-Faced Yōkai (ep 9)
Male relative (ep 1)
Shigeru Fujiwara (4 episodes
eps 2, 7, 11, 13
)
Fuyuka Oura as Shūichi Natori (young)
Hiroki Yasumoto as Susugi (ep 2)
Hiroshi Shimozaki as
Big-Mouthed Water Spirit (ep 8)
Blue Ox-Faced Yōkai (eps 7, 13)
Ox-Faced Yōkai (eps 3, 11)
Hiroshi Tsuchida as Shigure (ep 4)
Hisayoshi Suganuma as Man (ep 9)
Houko Kuwashima as Kiyo/Hotaru (ep 8)
Junko Minagawa as Young woman (ep 3)
Kenji Hamada as Akifumi Sugino (adult; ep 08)
Kimiko Saitō as Hishigaki (ep 1)
Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Director (ep 9)
Long-Eared Yōkai (ep 1)
Student (ep 4)
Teacher (ep 7)
Kyouko Chikiri as
Female relative (ep 1)
Kappa (ep 4)
Oba-chan (ep 13)
Mamiko Noto as Asagi (ep 10)
Michie Kita as Hana (ep 2)
Miyuki Sawashiro as
Female High School Student (ep 10)
Female relative (ep 1)
Nobuyuki Kobushi as One-Eyed Yōkai (ep 2)
Ryōka Yuzuki as Tsubame (ep 6)
Sanae Kobayashi as Nyanko-sensei (High school girl)
Satoshi Tsuruoka as
Enkou (ep 11)
Taniozaki (ep 6)
Satsuki Yukino as Hiiragi (ep 9)
Sawa Ishige as Tamiko (eps 11, 13)
Tadashi Miyazawa as Ayakashi (ep 12)
Takashi Matsuyama as
Hitotsume no youkai (ep 3)
One-Eyed Yōkai (ep 11)
Red One-Eyed Yōkai (eps 7, 13)
Takaya Kuroda as
Misuzu
Sanjo (ep 3)
Takeshi Aono as Tsuyu-kami (Dew God) (ep 2)
Tetsuharu Ohta as Round-Faced Yōkai (ep 10)
Tetsuya Yanagihara as Mikuri (ep 5)
Yasunori Matsumoto as Tanuma's father (eps 3, 11)
Yoshiyuki Hirai as Santo (ep 5)
Japanese companies
2nd Key Animation:
P.A. Works
Studio Live
Animation Production: Brain's Base
Background Art: Y.A.P
Broadcaster:
Aichi Television Broadcasting (2008-07-08)
AT-X (2008-09-05)
TV Hokkaido (2008-07-08)
TV Osaka (2008-07-12)
TV Setouchi (2008-07-12)
TV Tokyo (2008-07-07)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2008-07-10)
CG: Trilogy
Key Animation: XEBEC M2
Online Editing: Q-Tec
Photography: Decoloco
Production: NAS
Recording Studio: Studio T&T
Sound Production: Dax Production
special effects: Ray Art
English cast
English staff
ADR Director: Jad Saxton
Translation: Adam Lensenmayer
ADR Script:
Jessica Sluys
Natalie Van Sistine (eps 6-7)

ADR Mix Engineer: William Dewell
ADR Prep: Benjamin Tehrani
ADR Script Supervisor: Emily Neves
Assistant ADR Engineer:
Katie Saltkill (ep 31)
Sawyer Pfledderer
Lead ADR Engineer:
Ian Emerson
Rickey Watkins
Subtitle Editing: Renee Poiron
Subtitle Styling: Renee Poiron
Subtitle Timing: Bryan Ingram
Adam Gibbs as Takashi Natsume
Christopher Wehkamp as Nyanko-san

Aaron Roberts as Shuichi Natori
Alexis Tipton as Reiko Natsume
Jennifer AuBuchon as Toko Fujiwara
Marisa Duran as Jun Sasada
Matthew Elkins as Satoru Nishimura
Mike Haimoto as Atsushi Kitamoto
Tyson Rinehart as Kaname Tanuma

Chris Ryan as Misuzu
Comona Lewin as Runner Yokai (ep 6)
Danielle Yoshiko Phillips as Kappa (ep 4)
David Matranga as Mark-Ironer Yokai (ep 12)
Doug Jackson as Tsuyukami (ep 2)
Greg Dulcie as Ox-Faced Chukyuu Yokai
Gregory Lush as Long-Eared Yokai (ep 1)
Ian Moore as Bully Ox-Faced Chukyuu Yokai (eps 7, 13)
Jack Reeder as Akagane (ep 10)
Jerry Habibi as Tarusaru (ep 6)
Kamen Casey as Yokai 10b (ep10)
Kara Edwards as Human Nyanko
Kasi Hollowell as Hishigaki (ep 1)
Kelsey Maher as Akifumi's Fiancée (ep 8)
Kim Morton as Red One-Eyed Yokai (eps 7, 13)
Kristen McGuire as Little Fox (ep 7)
Mac McGee as Dog-Faced Yokai (ep 7)
Mike McFarland as Akifumi Sugino (ep 8)
Molly Searcy as Hinoe (eps 12-13)
Natalie Rose as Asagi (ep 10)
Nazeeh Tarsha as Big-Faced Yokai (ep 10)
Nazia Chaudhry as Hana (ep 2)
Paige Guillory as Young Takashi
Philip Weber as Tanuma's Father (eps 3, 11)
Rachel Glass as Tsubame (ep 6)
Rowan Gilvie as Female Human Yokai (ep 3)
Seth Magill as Shigeru Fujiwara (4 episodes
eps 2, 7, 11, 13
)
Stephen Witkowicz as One-Eyed Yokai (ep 2)
Van Barr Jr. as Swamp Yokai

English companies
Internet Streaming:
Crunchyroll (subtitled version; simulcast)
FUNimation Entertainment (via NIS America)
Licensed by: NIS America
Subtitles: MX Media LLC
Translation: MX Media LLC
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
(none)
Aldo Guzman as Takashi Natsume
Noe Velázquez as Nyanko

Ale Pilar as Jun Sasada
Alfredo Gabriel Basurto as Shuichi Natori
Angel Contreras as Atsushi Kitamoto
Doris Vargas as Touko Fujiwara
Emmanuel Bernal as Kaname Tanuma
Harumi Nishizawa as Reiko Natsume
Óscar de la Rosa as Satoru Nishimura

Alejandro Villeli as Tsuyukami (ep 2)
Ana Lobo as Hiiragi
Dan Frausto as Shigure (ep 4)
Ditter Ruiz as Enkou (ep 11)
Ellie Rojo as Hinoe
Ferso Velázquez as Tarusaru (ep 6)
Iarel Verduzco as Hotaru (ep 8)
Ilitch Pichardo as Mikuri (ep 5)
Isaid Pelayo as Akifumi Sugino (ep 8)
Jennifer Medel as Urihime (ep 9)
Karina Altamirano as Asagi (ep 10)
Marysol Lobo as Sasago (ep 9)
Nycolle González as Tamiko (eps 11, 13)
Pablo Mejía as Akagane (ep 10)
Rosa María Martínez as Tsubame (ep 6)
Victor Delgado as Shigeru Fujiwara
Spanish companies
Internet Streaming: AnimeOnegai (Latin America)
Italian staff
Italian companies
(none)
Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll
Italian cast
(none)
Portuguese staff
Portuguese companies
(none)
Broadcaster: PlayTV
Internet Streaming:
AnimeOnegai
Crunchyroll
Portuguese cast
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) staff
Chinese (Taiwan) companies
(none)
Chinese (Taiwan) cast
(none)

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