10.0/101 votesLoading...#1 - Tell Me Your Name
Season 7 Episode 11 - Aired 12/17/2024
Natsume meets the very first Yokai whose name was written in the Book of Friends.
Director: Hideki Ito
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
7.8/10118 votesLoading...#2 - The Dew God's Small Shrine
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 7/15/2008
Natsume is visited by the village's local god who is currently fading because of the lack of devotees.
Director: Sakai Hashido
Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki
7.5/10111 votesLoading...#3 - Stolen Book Of Friends
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 1/6/2009
Natsume is attacked by a youkai while retrieving a ball at school. In his haste to run away, he ends up breaking a youkai's seal, just like how he met Nyanko-sensei. Later that night, Natsume discovers a black lookalike of Nyanko-sensei, only to have him steal the Book Of Friends! As Natsume and Nyanko-sensei search for the black cat, they stumble across a gathering of youkai. The youkai plan to attack the humans for sealing their lord - the black cat Natsume's looking for. With Nyanko-sensei's help, Natsume gives back the lord's name and catches a glimpse of his fond and bittersweet memories of living among humans. (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: N/A
7.3/10124 votesLoading...#4 - The Cat And The Book Of Friends
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 7/8/2008
Natsume discovers that the heirloom "Book of Friends" that his grandmother, Reiko, gave him possesses the names of the spirits she defeated and bound to her will. Assisted by a cat whom Natsume addresses as Nyanko-Sensei (lit. Master Little Meow), Natsume aims to return all of the names to their rightful owners.
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki
6.9/1021 votesLoading...#5 - Depths of the Page
Season 7 Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2024
Natsume and Kitamoto are victims of a horrid curse.
Director: Hideki Ito, Jun Takada
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
6.8/1022 votesLoading...#6 - The Fragment's Lament
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 10/8/2024
Tanuma gives Natsume some clay, and he tries his hand at sculpting a figure. However, the next day, the figure has disappeared, and other strange things are happening in the house. Is a Yōkai causing mischief in the house? Or is it just a rat?
Director: Hideki Ito
Writer: Takahiro Omori
6.8/1020 votesLoading...#7 - Someday's Garden
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 10/15/2024
Natsume is forced to help rebuild a tiny house that's a residence for a goddess.
Director: Hideki Ito
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
6.7/1020 votesLoading...#8 - Tookanya
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2024
Natsume is caught up in a mysterious game between youkai and man.
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
6.3/1016 votesLoading...#9 - That Which Blocks the Ceremony
Season 7 Episode 9 - Aired 12/3/2024
Natsume finds himself in a house with a strange ritual, and unknown forces moving against those who would perform it.
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro
Writer: Takahiro Omori
6.2/1017 votesLoading...#10 - The Abandoned Station, Two Wheels
Season 7 Episode 6 - Aired 11/12/2024
Natsume meets Matoba in an unusual place. Matoba hunts for a dangerous yokai at an abandoned mansion.
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
6.2/1017 votesLoading...#11 - A Difficult Two
Season 7 Episode 7 - Aired 11/19/2024
Taki's brother suddenly comes home from college, and has something very important on his mind...
Director: Tomomi Kawatsuma
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
6.1/1017 votesLoading...#12 - Chobi's Treasure
Season 7 Episode 5 - Aired 11/5/2024
Chobi is depressed because his favorite comb broke. Meanwhile, Natsume sees a white dragon in the sky...
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: Takahiro Omori
6.0/10103 votesLoading...#13 - The Swallow at the Water Bottom
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 8/12/2008
Natsume is possessed by a swallow spirit, who wishes to meet a human who once helped her. Natsume agrees to help her and the two grow attached. When Swallow finds the human, Natsume feels bad that she can't actually meet him, but when he hears of a kimono that can turn a spirit into a human for a day, he looks for it.
Director: Harume Kosaka
Writer: Mayori Sekijima
5.8/1085 votesLoading...#14 - The Days Eater
Season 6 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2017
A yokai known as "The Days Eater," turns Natsume back to a young child. Nyanko-sensei enlists the aid of Tanuma and Taki.
Director: Kotomi Deai
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
5.6/10103 votesLoading...#15 - The Mysterious Person at the Eight Fields
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 7/22/2008
Natsume is implored to help spirits who are currently being exorcised. He finds a kindred spirit in Tanuma, a boy who also senses spirits although not as powerful as Natsume.
Director: Masayuki Matsumoto
Writer: Kenichi Araki
5.6/1084 votesLoading...#16 - Young days
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 7/26/2011
Summer has arrived for Natsume and his friends in the school. After exams, Natsume, Sasada, Nishimura and Kitamoto go on a trip to an art museum. Upon his return, Touko reminisces about an old friend that she felt she'd wronged, this makes Natsume think back to his own turbulent childhood. In the present day, a youkai living in the branches of a tree thinks back to Natsume. She had been bored because no one could see her, and when she found out that Natsume could see youkai, she often scared him to be noticed. Both of them parted ways on bad terms. The story returns to Natsume in the present day, who makes a stop at his old neighborhood to visit the youkai. The youkai, who had isolated herself from humans, is relieved to see that Natsume is okay and has found a reason to smile. The episode ends with Natsume's thoughts, "If there is somebody that you wish to meet, then you are not alone anymore."
Director: N/A
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
5.6/1014 votesLoading...#17 - Natsume on the Moonlit Night
Season 7 Episode 8 - Aired 11/26/2024
Nishimura finds Natsume coming to visit him each night at his house, but something seems strange...
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
5.5/1090 votesLoading...#18 - Fleeting Light
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 8/26/2008
Natsume meets a spirit who used to be friends with a man who could also see spirits, but one day lost this ability.
Director: Shigeki Hatakeyama
Writer: Noboru Takagi
5.5/1089 votesLoading...#19 - Autumn Banquet
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 9/30/2008
Tanuma finds out that Nyanko-Sensei is a spirit. Tanuma and Natsume enjoy the autumn festival and previous acquaintances are seen again.
Director: Hisatoshi Shimizu
Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki
5.5/1073 votesLoading...#20 - Touko and Shigeru
Season 5 Episode 10 - Aired 12/14/2016
The story of why Touko and Shigeru adopted Natsume.
Director: Takatoshi Suzuki
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
5.4/1097 votesLoading...#21 - Shigure and the Girl
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 7/29/2008
Natsume's secret is found out by Sasada, the class president, during the "Trial of Courage." She asks for his help to find the spirit that lives in the abandoned school. Natsume denies the fact that he can see anything, but she won't take no for an answer. Meanwhile, the spirit, Shigure, captures the rest of their school mates, in fury of the school being torn down...
Director: Koichiro Kuroda
Writer: Noboru Takagi
5.4/1091 votesLoading...#22 - The Little Fox's Hat
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 8/19/2008
Natsume goes to a hot spring for a school trip, with an errand from Shigeru to pick up teacups from a near by pottery. While there he meets and helps a little fox spirit, who quickly grows attached to him.
Director: Hidehito Ueda
Writer: Mayori Sekijima
5.3/1086 votesLoading...#23 - Five Day Mark
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 9/23/2008
Natsume is cursed by an evil spirit which is sealed to a tree. Not wanting to trouble his adoptive family, he decided to run away from home.
Director: Koichiro Kuroda
Writer: Mayori Sekijima
5.3/1073 votesLoading...#24 - Long Way Home
Season 4 Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/2012
Natsume, possessed by the youkai, thinks of an painful incident from his childhood involving the family he was living with at the time. The youkai offers to eat all his memories, so that he will no longer have to relive his pain.
Director: Takahiro Omori
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
5.2/1092 votesLoading...#25 - Heart-Colored Ticket
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 8/5/2008
Natsume comes across an old ticket in Reiko's belongings and decides to go to the abandoned train station to see why she kept it. There, he meets a slow witted spirit named Santo, who was waiting for Reiko the entire time to go Kiriganuma, to see and make up with his friend, Mikuri, but the trip isn't as easy as it first seems...
Director: Tomoyuki Kawamura
Writer: Kenichi Kanemaki
The Best Episodes of Natsume Yujin-cho
Every episode of Natsume Yujin-cho ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Natsume Yujin-cho!
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...
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Best Episodes Summary
"Tell Me Your Name" is the best rated episode of "Natsume Yujin-cho". It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Hideki Ito and written by Sadayuki Murai, it aired on 12/17/2024. This episode scored 2.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Dew God's Small Shrine".