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Natsume's Book of Friends S5E5 — It Must Not Be Bound

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Natsume's Book of Friends•Season 5•Episode 5

It Must Not Be Bound

6.4/10 · 101 votesNov 2, 201624 min

Ranked #7 of 11 in Season 5•−0.2 vs season avg

Natsume arrives at the exorcist meeting to help smoke out the youkai that Matoba wants to find. But he quickly discovers that the situation is more complicated than it first seemed. The youkai is capable of replicating itself to possess targets, and no one but

Directed byMiyuki Ooshiro

Written byHiroshi Onogi

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Cast18

Hiroshi Kamiya

Hiroshi Kamiya

Takashi Natsume (voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Kazuhiko Inoue

Nyanko-sensei / Madara (voice)

Eiji Itoh

Eiji Itoh

Shigeru Fujiwara (voice)

Miki Ito

Miki Ito

Touko Fujiwara (voice)

Takashi Matsuyama

Takashi Matsuyama

Hitotsume no Chuukyuu Youkai (voice)

Hisayoshi Suganuma

Hisayoshi Suganuma

Atsushi Kitamoto (voice)

Akira Ishida

Akira Ishida

Shuuichi Natori (voice)

Sanae Kobayashi

Sanae Kobayashi

Reiko Natsume (voice)

Ryohei Kimura

Ryohei Kimura

Satoru Nishimura (voice)

Miyuki Sawashiro

Miyuki Sawashiro

Jun Sasada (voice)

Kazuma Horie

Kazuma Horie

Kaname Tanuma (voice)

Hiroshi Shimozaki

Hiroshi Shimozaki

Ushikao no Chuukyuu Youkai (voice)

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Miyuki Ooshiro

Director

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Ena Nishikawa

Animation Director

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Orie Tanaka

Animation Director

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Miyuki Ooshiro

Storyboard Artist

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Hiroshi Onogi

Writer

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Episode Summary

"It Must Not Be Bound" is episode 5 of Natsume's Book of Friends season 5. It scored 6.4/10 from 101 votes, ranking #7 of 11 episodes this season (season average 6.6). Directed by Miyuki Ooshiro and written by Hiroshi Onogi, it aired on November 2, 2016.

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