Natsume's Book of Friends

When Reiko was Takashi's age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of...

Much to his surprise, Takashi is settling into his new home. He's even making friends at school. So when some of the other kids invite him to a test of...

Takashi is busy returning the names his grandmother trapped in her book and helping the local yokai with their problems. But he has to put his good deeds on hold...

Takashi's quiet afternoon in the forest is disrupted when an angry spirit tries to possess him. He manages to dodge the spiritual attack, but he can't as easily avoid the...

Takashi thinks he's found a balance between yokai and friends when he goes with a group of classmates to a country inn for a marathon cram session before school starts...

Takashi rescues a young boy named Kai from an abandoned house, where he had been locked in a box. But this isn't just a case of bullying gone too far....

Someone is attacking yokai and stealing their blood, and Takashi is dismayed to discover that the assailant is human! The more he investigates the attacks, the more danger he finds...

Nyanko Sensei is recovering after being wounded in the last yokai incident, so Takashi is on his own when he accidentally releases a yokai right before the school festival. With...

Natsume learns that no good deed goes unpunished when an irate yokai accuses him of stealing her ring when she came to the Fujiwara house to get her name returned....

One of Natsume’s elementary school classmates is in town, but the unexpected reunion is for a dark purpose. Shibata knows Natsume’s secret, and threatens to expose it if Natsume doesn’t...

Natsume and Tanuma are spending a rainy day helping Taki clean up a storehouse full of her grandfather’s stuff. But old clothes and books aren’t the only things sealed away....

Natsume meets a kindhearted yokai who has found a ruined letter he desperately needs to read. There is another yokai who has power over paper who might be able to...

Intrigues abound in the world of professional exorcism, and Natsume wants nothing to do with it. But he has no choice when Matoba, head of a prominent exorcist clan, blackmails...

Many of Natsume’s problems with the local yokai stem from his grandmother, Reiko. When she was his age, she went around challenging yokai, and when she won she sealed their...

Natori summons Natsume to help him with an odd exorcism case. A retired exorcist can no longer see yokai, even the ones who are his servants, and strange things have...

Natsume's human friend Taki can only see yokai if they walk through one of her spell circles. Although many yokai see her spells as aggressive traps, putting her at risk...

Can yokai and humans ever really be friends? Natsume meets a yokai who is trying to let go of his feelings for a human for both their sakes. But Natsume...

A local exorcist has passed away, leaving behind a study packed with a lifetime of important yokai research. But his family are normal and don’t know where he’s hidden his...

Natsume isn’t looking forward to meeting with one of his old classmates, even though his new friend Tanuma is coming along for moral support. But brash Shibata has more on...

Even though Natsume is getting better at dealing with yokai, he still tries to stay uninvolved. But when he runs into a yokai with his head stuck in a jar,...

Nyanko Sensei hasn’t been home in days, and Natsume is starting to get worried. He knows Sensei left in a party mood, but he has no idea where his friend...

Natsume and his friends are visiting an old inn to see a yokai exhibition, but a sudden storm extends their visit into an overnight stay. All should be well, since...

Natsume and his friends stumble into a ghostly treasure hunt when they hear about a haunted painting. His friends are eager to investigate, but Natsume suspects it might involve a...

Tôru Taki can sense but not see yokai. Her gift is a mixed blessing that once got her cursed. Natsume was able to lift the curse, but Taki is still...

Nyanko Sensei is missing, and the only clue to his whereabouts is a shard of pottery painted with calico markings! Following the urgings of a dream sent by the shard,...

The mystery of the missing Nyanko Sensei intensifies as Natsume and the prominent exorcists Natori and Matoba encounter a powerful, malevolent ceramic puppet with an appetite for clay kitties. Natsume...

A beautiful white dragon has been shedding luminous scales in the skies over the neighborhood, but Natsume has never seen them land. When the mustachioed yokai Chobi breaks his beloved mother-of-pearl...

Since finding his grandmother’s book, Natsume has been hunted, haunted, and almost made into an hors d’oeuvre! He’s also met some really wonderful friends, both yokai and human. And now...

When Natsume and his friend Tanuma help a young woman find her way through the woods, they end up having to take cover from a storm in a mysterious mansion!...

Natsume receives a secondhand invitation to a gathering of antique dealers and afficionados. The event, however, is much more than just a mundane auction, and the guest list is filled...