FINISHED
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2
13 Episodes
24 min each
WINTER 2009
Synopsis
The second season of Natsume Yuujinchou. As with its prequel, Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou is about Natsume Takashi, 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 of Friends, and some that want to kill him. Natsume learns about himself and his relationship with youkai along the way.
Drama
Fantasy
Slice of Life
Supernatural
Format
Unknown
Episodes
13
Per Episode
24 min
Source
Unknown
Episodes
13 / 13 Episodes
1
Episode 1
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!
2
Episode 2
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...
3
Episode 3
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!
4
Episode 4
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 its 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!
5
Episode 5
The Promised Tree
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?
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Episode 6
The Maiden's Circle
There is a new girl in school, Taki Tooru. With her appearance at the school, circles resembling crop circles begin to appear. As Natsume tries to find out more about 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.
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Episode 7
That Which You Must Not Call
Natsume is dragged off into the cave of the evil spirit that is after Taki. He temporarily loses the ability to see youkai after being poisoned by the spirit. Will he be able to stop the youkai from eating Taki without his sight?
8
Episode 8
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.
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Episode 9
He of the Row of Cherry Blossoms
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...?
10
Episode 10
Temporary House
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...
11
Episode 11
Assembly of the Witch Doctors
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.
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Episode 12
The Boy From 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.
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Episode 13
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.
Characters
Voice Actors
Hiroshi Kamiya (japanese)
Takashi Natsume
Main
Voice Actors
Kazuhiko Inoue (japanese)
Madara
Main
Voice Actors
Sanae Kobayashi (japanese)
Reiko Natsume
Supporting
Voice Actors
Akira Ishida (japanese)
Shuuichi Natori
Supporting
Voice Actors
Kazuma Horie (japanese)
Kaname Tanuma
Supporting
Voice Actors
Miyuki Sawashiro (japanese)
Jun Sasada
Supporting
Staff
Yuki Midorikawa
Original Creator
Takahiro Oomori
Director
Kenichi Kanemaki
Series Composition
Akira Takata
Character Design
Yukihiro Shibutani
Art Director
Hiromi Miyawaki
Color Design
Comments
Information
Aired
Jan 05, 2009
to Mar 30, 2009
Season
WINTER 2009
Source
Unknown
Format
Unknown
Studios
Brain's Base
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