NaN/100 votesLoading...#1 - The House Where a Promise Remains
Season 7 Episode 10 - Aired 12/10/2024
Natsume, Natori and Matoba work to complete the ritual to welcome a powerful god.
Director: Miyuki Ooshiro
Writer: Takahiro Omori
4.3/1064 votesLoading...#2 - When I was Deceived
Season 4 Episode 8 - Aired 2/21/2012
Nyanko-sensei falls into a well and discovers that there is a barrier inside it, as well as Nanase, Matoba's assistant. She is looking for a certain stone with a youkai she had sealed in it, and tells Nyanko-sensei the story of how she met the youkai to pass the time.
Director: Masayuki Kojima
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
4.3/1057 votesLoading...#3 - What Flows
Season 6 Episode 9 - Aired 6/7/2017
After a flood occurs on Four Mask Hill during Natsume's summer school session, a mask randomly appearing in the school worries Natsume.
Director: Takatoshi Suzuki
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.4/1066 votesLoading...#4 - That Which Is Not Human
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 8/11/2011
Natsume accidentally bumps into a woman with blood covering her body. He follows the bloody footsteps that the woman left and discovers a small house. When he opens the door, he sees badly injured youkai. There is someone killing youkai for blood, and with the help of Natori, Natsume tracks down who he believes to be the murderer: Matoba. However, Matoba captures him.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jukki Hanada
4.4/1067 votesLoading...#5 - Exorcist
Season 3 Episode 7 - Aired 8/16/2011
Natsume finds out who's been stealing the youkai blood: the exorcist Matoba Seiji. He investigates with the help of Natori, but is captured by Matoba's servant youkai. Matoba is willing to sacrifice any number of youkai for his own ambitions. He tells Natsume why he's gathering blood: to release the seal on a powerful youkai. Natsume learns that there are people who treat Youkai in a totally different way than he or even Natori.
Director: Satomi Nakamura
Writer: Jukki Hanada
4.5/1070 votesLoading...#6 - Youkai Exorcism Amid The Steaming Springs
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 1/20/2009
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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: Hisatoshi Shimizu
Writer: N/A
4.5/1073 votesLoading...#7 - A Chick Hatches
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 1/27/2009
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. (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: N/A
Writer: Noboru Takagi
4.5/1067 votesLoading...#8 - The Thing That Lurks In The Storeroom
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 8/2/2011
Natsume and Tanuma take shelter under a roof from the rain. As it turns out, the house belongs to Taki, and they work together to clean her warehouse where her grandfather studied youkai. Natsume accidentally breaks a seal that Taki's grandfather made to trap a dangerous kimono youkai. The three of them race around the house to find its misplaced limbs before the youkai does--its power will be returned upon completing its body. Natsume and Taki try to get the resident youkai to help, but they refuse. When the kimono youkai comes close to hurting Natsume, they come to the rescue. After Taki thanks them, they all reminisce about their fondness for Taki's grandfather and leave elsewhere.
Director: Hideya Takahashi
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.5/1067 votesLoading...#9 - The Fox Child's Watch
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 8/23/2011
Natsume is invited to go to a pottery classroom with Shigeru. It's being held in an inn where he once stayed. When he goes there, he meets an old friend: the young fox child he once saved.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
4.5/1067 votesLoading...#10 - The Broken Mirror
Season 3 Episode 10 - Aired 9/6/2011
An event in the forest causes Tanuma to avoid Natsume the following days, which he becomes concerned about. Mirrors are mysteriously breaking around the school and one day Natsume catches Tanuma acting weirdly. It turns out that Tanuma has been possessed by a youkai looking for her mirror, which had been broken into pieces during a storm a few days before. Using him as a vessel until she reclaims her mirror, Natsume has no choice but to help her. The youkai warns that there may be others seeking the mirror.
Director: Hideya Takahashi
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.5/1066 votesLoading...#11 - The Eastern Forest
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2012
Natsume and Matoba talk, but when the conversation doesn't go the way he wants, Matoba orders Natsume to be put in a cell. Natsume escapes with the help of Nyanko-sensei. Along with his other demon companions, Natsume helps the monkey-masked demons living in the forest.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jukki Hanada
4.5/1064 votesLoading...#12 - The Little Ones
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 1/17/2012
Natsume befriends a small fluffball youkai.
Director: Satomi Nakamura
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.5/1065 votesLoading...#13 - The Moon-Splitting Festival
Season 4 Episode 9 - Aired 2/28/2012
Natori is tasked with the job of finding and breaking the seal of Houzukigami, a god that was to participate in the Moon-Splitting Festival done every 10 years against Fuzukigami, another god. The festival is used by the youkai around the mountains to determine whether the harvest would be bountiful that year or not. Without Houzukigami, the match would end in a default win for Fuzukigami, causing the land to become barren. Natori tries to find the seal but is surprised to find Natsume at the festival disguised as Houzukigami, having been asked by Houzukigami's servants to stand in for their god. The match to be the winner is to catch a beast that was released from a pot. Houzukigami's servants tell Natsume to look for the real Houzukigami while they track down the beast. Joined by Natori, Hiiragi, Nyanko-sensei, and one of the servants, they look in a building by a waterfall. The beast suddenly appears and Natsume and Hiiragi are knocked off the deck of the building. After recuperating from being dragged down the river, they try to run back to the building but are caught in a trap by Fuzukigami's servants which was meant for the beast. While unconscious, one of the servants is able to pick up a human scent from "Houzukigami", making them wonder if it's truly the god or not.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.5/1064 votesLoading...#14 - Following a Narrow Path
Season 5 Episode 9 - Aired 12/7/2016
The episode starts with Natsume being chased by a hairy youkai. He comes across a tiny mushroom youkai who tells him about a noble youkai named Shuon who was on a journey. Natsume helps the little youkai prepare for his meeting with the noble youkai. When they meet, however, the noble youkai warns the mushroom youkai that the path he takes is a narrow one and asks the little youkai to go back home. But then the little youkai realizes he need to become worthy in order to follow him. Another youkai, who appears to be one of the noble youkai followers, appears and gives a book to the mushroom youkai and tells him to complete the training to join Shoun-sama.
Director: N/A
Writer: Mariko Kunisawa
4.5/1061 votesLoading...#15 - Nishimura and Kitamoto
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 5/17/2017
This episode shows how Natsume first befriended Nishimura and Kitamoto, along with a better look at their family lives and point of view.
Director: Tsutomu Murakami
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
4.5/1060 votesLoading...#16 - Gomochi's Benefactor
Season 6 Episode 7 - Aired 5/24/2017
Natsume is surprised when a youkai comes to seek Reiko in gratitude. Years ago, the youkai's to-be-bride received freedom from her help, and now is about to be wed. They invite Natsume to the wedding.
Director: Yoko Kanamori
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
4.5/1060 votesLoading...#17 - The Sealed Room
Season 6 Episode 10 - Aired 6/14/2017
A competition is opened to search for a famous researcher's sealed room. The prize are his research books, and many exorcists are gathered. Natori is invited, Natsume wants to help as this might mean finding something that might let him find information about the Book of Friends.
Director: Shizutaka Sugahara
Writer: Takahiro Omori
4.6/1071 votesLoading...#18 - Emotions Undying
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 2/24/2009
Natsume, Kitamoto and Nishimura take a trip to an old inn to spend some time doing their homework. Surrounding the inn there is a lake in which is believed to live a mermaid. (Source: Wikipedia)
Director: Yui Umemoto
Writer: N/A
4.6/1069 votesLoading...#19 - Ukihara village
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 7/12/2011
Tanuma's father leaves on a trip and a strange youkai invades his house, spreading miasma that makes all the nearby youkai suffer. Natsume tracks it down and discovers that the noxious youkai was once a resident in an all-youkai village. A portal had opened for a short time during a human ceremony that he had taken his sister to watch. However, they became trapped in the human world, and his sister died. After returning to the old temple where the ceremonies were held, the portal opens and he returns home.
Director: Satomi Nakamura
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
4.6/1068 votesLoading...#20 - False friend
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 7/19/2011
It's Shigeru's birthday and Touko has asked Natsume to buy some strawberry shortcakes to celebrate. However, Shibata, an old classmate of Natsume's, finds him and asks for his help. He remembered Natsume used to say weird things, so he wanted to know if a girl he's been seeing is real or not. When Natsume meets the girl, Murasaki, she seems normal. He reassures Shibata that she is a human. Natsume later has a vision that reveals her to be a tree youkai with intention to eat Shibata. Natsume tries to warn Shibata, he refuses to listen and accuses Natsume of lying. Natsume tries to talk to Murasaki, but she does not waver. It is then revealed that although she had initially planned to eat Shibata, she fell in love with him as they spent time together, and because her tree has been cut down, she will die soon anyway. Shibata receives a note from Murasaki just in time for the two of them to spend her last moments together.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jukki Hanada
4.6/1068 votesLoading...#21 - Through the Autumn Wind
Season 3 Episode 9 - Aired 8/30/2011
Because of his poisonous arrow wound, Madara spends most of his time sleeping to heal. Without Sensei to protect him, Natsume has to remain constantly on guard. Especially since a strange stone seems to stir strange phenomena everywhere around him. To make things worse, it's the cultural festival and Natsume is appointed to serve the clients at the bazaar set by his class. But the pressure of keeping secrets from his friends is causing Natsume to break.
Director: N/A
Writer: Aya Yoshinaga
4.6/1068 votesLoading...#22 - What The Mirror Shows
Season 3 Episode 11 - Aired 9/13/2011
Because of his possession, Tanuma is able to see the youkai around him and thus better understand how Natsume lives.
Director: N/A
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.6/1065 votesLoading...#23 - To You, From Bygone Days
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 1/31/2012
In the town Natsume used to live in, a girl recalls Natsume. She remembers his strange actions and wanted to understand him. Meanwhile, Natsume encounters a small Youkai which reminds him of the same girl and town.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
4.6/1067 votesLoading...#24 - The God, Enshrined
Season 4 Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/2012
Natsume is pretending to be the god Houzukigami, so the moon splitting festival will end with a victory and the mountain will not be ruined. Winning the contest will not be easy, but with help from Natori he will find the way.
Director: Satomi Nakamura
Writer: Hiroshi Onogi
4.6/1064 votesLoading...#25 - The Letter from the Exorcist
Season 5 Episode 3 - Aired 10/18/2016
Natsume finds a letter addressed to him from Matoba. Walking in the forest, he loses it when an amateur exorcist seals a yokai in a pot. Noticing the weak seal, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei take it to Natori's condo to re-seal it. When Natsume returns home he sees Matoba and learns the letter was a request for Natsume to attend a meeting of strong exorcists to weed out the person who has been targeting exorcists.
Director: N/A
Writer: Sadayuki Murai
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"The House Where a Promise Remains" is the worst rated episode of "Natsume Yujin-cho". It scored N/A/10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Miyuki Ooshiro and written by Takahiro Omori, it aired on 12/10/2024. This episode scored NaN points lower than the second lowest rated, "When I was Deceived".