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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 deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround

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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 8 - When I Was Deceived
    5.6/10(86 votes)

    #1 - When I Was Deceived

    S4:E8

    Natsume is walking home one day when he's accosted by a flying Tengu, who lifts him up into the sky! Meanwhile, Nyanko-sensei is stuck in a well, where Nanase tells him a story about how she learned to never get close to a youkai.

    Director:Masayuki Kojima
    Writer:Sadayuki Murai

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  2. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 3 - False Friend
    5.7/10(91 votes)

    #2 - False Friend

    S3:E3

    Natsume is approached by someone he knew from elementary school. He wants nothing to do with them, but they threaten to reveal his secret: that he can see Youkai, if he doesn't come along with them. He reluctantly goes with them, and is taken to meet a strange girl...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jukki Hanada

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  3. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 6 - That Which Is Not Human
    5.7/10(90 votes)

    #3 - That Which Is Not Human

    S3:E6

    There is something killing Youkai and draining them of their blood. Natsume can't help but investigate and runs into old friends.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jukki Hanada

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  4. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 7 - Exorcist
    5.7/10(90 votes)

    #4 - Exorcist

    S3:E7

    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

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  5. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 8 - The Fox Child's Watch
    5.7/10(90 votes)

    #5 - The Fox Child's Watch

    S3:E8

    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:Unknown
    Writer:Sadayuki Murai

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  6. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 10 - The Broken Mirror
    5.7/10(91 votes)

    #6 - The Broken Mirror

    S3:E10

    After a brief incident in the forest, Tanuma has become distant to Natsume like he is avoiding something. In the meantime, there is something breaking glass around the school.

    Director:Hideya Takahashi
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  7. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 11 - What the Mirror Shows
    5.7/10(90 votes)

    #7 - What the Mirror Shows

    S3:E11

    Tanuma is experiencing how Natsume lives every day. While Natsume and the youkai gain an understanding.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  8. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 3 - The Little Ones
    5.7/10(86 votes)

    #8 - The Little Ones

    S4:E3

    After Natsume returned Amana's name, she accused him of stealing her ring. He has three days to find and return it before she burns down his house. To make matters worse, the ring is trapped in the hair of a migratory youkai, and Nyanko-sensei is unable to use his powers.

    Director:Satomi Nakamura
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  9. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 Episode 9 - What Flows
    5.7/10(80 votes)

    #9 - What Flows

    S6:E9

    Natsume travels to an inn for a study session with the rest of his class. While he's there, a flood washes away a local shrine. The shrine is said to house three masks, but Natsume can see four...

    Director:Takatoshi Suzuki
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  10. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 2 - Ukihara Village
    5.8/10(95 votes)

    #10 - Ukihara Village

    S3:E2

    Natsume is accosted by a spirit who asks for her brother's name back. She says that both of them have come from the village of floating spring, a paradise sealed off from the land of men. Meanwhile, the local Youkai are happy that the local priest is no longer in his temple. Natsume worries for his friend Tanuma, the priest's son, but isn't sure what to say...

    Director:Satomi Nakamura
    Writer:Sadayuki Murai

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  11. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 5 - The Thing That Lurks in the Storeroom
    5.8/10(93 votes)

    #11 - The Thing That Lurks in the Storeroom

    S3:E5

    Natsume helps clean the stoeroom at Taki's house with Tanuma. He realizes that one of the kimonos that her grandfather, who researched youkai, used to ward off demons was missing, but decides not to tell them so they won't be scared. But that kimono was an old doll youkai, who was trying to recover its body which was torn apart when her grandfather sealed it

    Director:Hideya Takahashi
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  12. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 3 Episode 9 - Through the Autumn Wind
    5.8/10(92 votes)

    #12 - Through the Autumn Wind

    S3:E9

    Without Sensei to protect him, Natsume has to remain constantly on guard. But the pressure of keeping secrets from his friends is causing Natsume to break.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Aya Yoshinaga

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  13. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 5 Episode 9 - Following a Narrow Path
    5.8/10(90 votes)

    #13 - Following a Narrow Path

    S5:E9

    While on the run from a fearsome youkai, Natsume accidently sits on a tiny mushroom youkai. The mushroom youkai is incensed, as it has a meeting with a 'noble person' later in that day. It insists on Natsume helping it prepare for its meeting with this 'noble person', and Natsume finds himself drawn into the strange story of its past...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Mariko Kunisawa

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  14. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 2 - The Eastern Forest
    5.9/10(89 votes)

    #14 - The Eastern Forest

    S4:E2

    Natsume, now trapped in the mansion, is trying to keep the Monkey Mask youkai from revealing the Book of Friends to Matoba. While Hinoe and Misuzu attempt to find the strange youkai's master.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Jukki Hanada

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  15. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 5 - To You, From Bygone Days
    5.9/10(88 votes)

    #15 - To You, From Bygone Days

    S4:E5

    An old classmate Yuriko, remembers her time watching Natsume and how he was a little weird. A clingbug from Natsume's past reminds him of the time he spent running from a youkai with a grudge.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Sadayuki Murai

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  16. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 9 - The Moon-Splitting Festival
    5.9/10(88 votes)

    #16 - The Moon-Splitting Festival

    S4:E9

    Every 10 years the followers of Houdzuigami and Fudzukigami have a battle to determine the fate of the land. Natsume is approached by the followers of Houdzukigami to act as their missing god. Natori has been given the job of finding the missing god or seal Fuduzkigami before he wins.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  17. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 4 Episode 10 - The God, Enshrined
    5.9/10(90 votes)

    #17 - The God, Enshrined

    S4:E10

    While being swept down the river, Natsume managed to feel the presences of Hudzuki-gami. Natori must make the choice to follow Natsume instincts or seal Fudzuki-gami.

    Director:Satomi Nakamura
    Writer:Hiroshi Onogi

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  18. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 Episode 2 - It Blooms Tomorrow
    5.9/10(96 votes)

    #18 - It Blooms Tomorrow

    S6:E2

    Natsume's town is visited by a stonewasher: a powerful magical being capable of purifying tainted rocks. The stonewasher is looking for its lost student, and turns to Natsume for help.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Aya Yoshinaga

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  19. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 Episode 6 - Nishimura and Kitamoto
    5.9/10(86 votes)

    #19 - Nishimura and Kitamoto

    S6:E6

    Natsume's friends reflect on how they met him, and the difference he made in their lives. He's found a home, and he means a lot to the people who live there.

    Director:Tsutomu Murakami
    Writer:Sadayuki Murai

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  20. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 Episode 7 - Gomochi's Benefactor
    5.9/10(85 votes)

    #20 - Gomochi's Benefactor

    S6:E7

    Natsume meets a youkai named Gomochi, who has come in search of Reiko. The youkai has a message for Reiko, and wants to thank her for a favor she did him long ago. In hearing his story, Natsume comes to learn more about his mysterious grandmother.

    Director:Yoko Kanamori
    Writer:Aya Yoshinaga

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  21. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 6 Episode 10 - The Sealed Room
    5.9/10(85 votes)

    #21 - The Sealed Room

    S6:E10

    Natori is trying to find information on Natsume and his book of friends. Meanwhile, Natsume visits his house to deliver some of Touko's homemade jam. But this is the start of an adventure...

    Director:Shizutaka Sugahara
    Writer:Takahiro Omori

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  22. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 2 - Melting into Spring
    6.0/10(102 votes)

    #22 - Melting into Spring

    S2:E2

    While fooling around in the snow, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei run in to Gen, a forest guardian who lives inside a statue. Gen tries to take over Natsume's body, but instead takes over a snow rabbit that Natsume had made. Gen pleads Natsume to help him find an evil spirit who destroyed Sui, his guardian partner, and Natsume agrees. But it seems Gen isn't telling everything he should...

    Director:Satomi Nakamura
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 3 - Youkai Exorcism Amid the Steaming Springs
    6.0/10(102 votes)

    #23 - Youkai Exorcism Amid the Steaming Springs

    S2:E3

    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!

    Director:Hisatoshi Shimizu
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 4 - A Chick Hatches
    6.0/10(106 votes)

    #24 - A Chick Hatches

    S2:E4

    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 it's 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!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Noboru Takagi

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  25. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 5 - Tree of Promise
    6.0/10(105 votes)

    #25 - Tree of Promise

    S2:E5

    Natsume encounters a spirit who was enslaved by his grandmother Reiko 50 years ago by writing his name on a torn page from the Book of Friends, and tying it to a tree in a forest. Can Natsume help locate the torn page? What was Reiko's intention of tying it to a tree?

    Director:Masayuki Matsumoto
    Writer:Unknown

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Worst Episodes Summary

"When I Was Deceived" is the worst rated episode of "Natsume's Book of Friends". It scored 5.6/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Masayuki Kojima and written by Sadayuki Murai, it aired on 2/21/2012. This episode scored 0.1 points lower than the second lowest rated, "False Friend".