The film will be made up of two stories: "Ishi Okoshi" and "Ayashiki Raihousha." In "Ishi Okoshi," Natsume meets a small youkai called Mitsumi in a forest. Mitsumi is entrusted to wake up the divine youkai "Iwatetsu" from its deep slumber. Mitsumi weighs on Natsume's mind, so he sets out to help Mitsumi with his task.
In "Ayashiki Raihousha," a mysterious visitor appears in front of Tanuma. Nearly every day, the visitor visits Tanuma, talks to him a little, and then leaves. Natsume, who knows the visitor is a youkai, worries for Tanuma, but Tanuma enjoys these exchanges with the youkai. The youkai means no harm, but Tanuma's health slowly starts to deteriorate.
Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳 石起こしと怪しき来訪者, Natsume's Book of Friends, Ishi Okoshi, Ayashiki Raihousha
Genres: Shoujo , Drama , Demon , Supernatural , Slice of Life , Fantasy
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Top 5 Anime Like Natsume's Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor (Natsume Yuujinchou: Ishi Okoshi to Ayashiki Raihousha) [2025 List]
5. Natsume Yuujinchou Roku
Precious days with kinds friends. A beautiful yet fleeting story about people and spirits. Natsume Takashi had been able to see yokai ever since he was young and inherited his grandmother Reiko’s Book of Friends. He spends his days with his self-proclaimed bodyguard Nyanko-sensei and freeing the yokai that were bound to the book. Natsume continues to find ways to protect the precious days where he tries to find which path to follow through his connections with spirits and those involved with them and being helped out by friends who share the same feelings.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 has finished airing and it has 11 Episodes. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳 陸, Natsume Yujin-cho 6, Natsume Yuujinchou Season 6, Natsume's Book of Friends Six
4. Natsume Yuujinchou Go
Takashi Natsume is a boy who's been able to see youkai ever since he was a child. Ever since he inherited the "Book of Friends" from his grandmother Reiko, he and his self-proclaimed bodyguard Nyanko-sensei have spent their days returning names to the youkai who are bound by the book. As he meets the different youkai and people, he finds himself with many more things that he cares about. He wonders whether it's right to keep secrets to protect someone as little by little he works up the courage to build even more friendships.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 5 has finished airing and it has 11 Episodes. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳 伍, Natsume Yuujinchou Season 5, Natsume's Book of Friends Five
3. Natsume Yuujinchou San
Natsume Yuujinchou San follows Takashi Natsume, a boy who is able to see youkai. Natsume and his bodyguard Madara, nicknamed Nyanko-sensei, continue on their quest to release youkai from their contracts in the "Book of Friends."
Natsume comes to terms with his ability to see youkai and stops thinking of it as a curse. As he spends more time with his human and youkai friends, he realizes how much he values them both and decides he doesn't have to choose between the spirit and human worlds to be happy.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳 参, Natsume Yuujinchou Three, Natsume Yuujinchou 3, Natsume Yujincho 3
2. Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou
As with its prequel, Zoku Natsume Yuujinchou is about Takashi Natsume, 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, and some that want to kill him, as Natsume learns about himself and his relationship with these mysterious beings along the way.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 続 夏目友人帳, Natsume Yuujinchou Two, Natsume Yuujinchou 2, Natsume Yujincho 2
1. Natsume Yuujinchou Shi
Takashi Natsume, the timid youkai expert and master of the Book of Friends, continues his journey towards self-understanding and acceptance with the help of friends both new and old. His most important ally is still his gluttonous and sake-loving bodyguard, the arrogant but fiercely protective wolf spirit Madara—or Nyanko-sensei, as Madara is called when in his usual disguise of an unassuming, pudgy cat.
Natsume, while briefly separated from Nyanko-sensei, is ambushed and kidnapped by a strange group of masked, monkey-like youkai, who have spirited him away to their forest as they desperately search for the Book of Friends. Realizing that his "servant" has been taken out from right under his nose, Nyanko-sensei enlists the help of Natsume's youkai friends and mounts a rescue operation. However, the forest of the monkey spirits holds many dangerous enemies, including the Matoba Clan, Natsume's old nemesis.
Stretching from the formidable hideout of the Matoba to Natsume's own childhood home, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi is a sweeping but familiar return to a world of danger and friendship, where Natsume will finally confront the demons of his own past.
Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 has finished airing and it has 13 Episodes. It is also Known as: 夏目友人帳 肆, Natsume Yuujinchou Four, Natsume Yuujinchou 4, Natsume Yujincho 4
