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Natsume Yūjin-Chō (TV)

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[ adapted from Natsume's Book of Friends (manga) ]

Related anime:
    Zoku Natsume Yūjin-Chō (TV) (sequel)

Alternative title:
Natsume Yūjinchō (Japanese)
Natsume Yuujinchou (Japanese)
Natsume's Book of Friends
Тетрадь дружбы Нацумэ (Russian)
夏目友人帳 (Japanese)
Plot Summary: 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 him. Containing the names of these spirits, a binding contract was formed between the spirits and the owner of the book. Now, Natsume is determined to free the spirits and dissolve the contracts. With the help of a spirit cat, his days are filled trying to return the names to these spirits.
Video:
User Ratings: 611 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 134 votes (sub:125, dub:4, Spa.sub:2, Por.sub:1, raw:1, ?:1)
 Excellent: 221 votes (sub:210, dub:4, Spa.sub:3, Por.sub:2, Rus.dub:1, Rus.sub:1)
 Very good: 140 votes (sub:130, raw:3, dub:3, Spa.sub:2, Pol.sub:1, Ita.sub:1)
 Good: 80 votes (sub:74, raw:2, dub:2, Ita.sub:1, Por.sub:1)
 Decent: 24 votes (sub:20, dub:2, Spa.sub:1, raw:1)
 So-so: 8 votes (sub:7, dub:1)
 Not really good: 3 votes (sub:3)
 Weak: -
 Bad: -
 Awful: -
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 992 users, rank: #617
Median rating: Excellent
Arithmetic mean: 8.519 (Excellent-.48), std. dev.: 1.2486, rank: #125
Weighted mean: 8.392 (Very good+.39), rank: #145 (seen all: 8.43 / seen some: 8.40 / won't finish: 6.05)
Bayesian estimate: 8.378 (Very good+.37), rank: #82
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 13
Episode titles: We have 13
Vintage: 2008-07-07
Opening Theme:
"Issei no Sei (一斉の声)" by Shūhei Kita
Ending Theme:
"Natsu Yūzora (夏夕空)" by Kōsuke Atari
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Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Director: Takahiro Omori

Series Composition: Kenichi Kanemaki

Storyboard:
Hidehito Ueda (eps 2, 7)
Keiji Gotoh (ep 8)
Kiyotaka Ohata (ep 3)
Takahiro Omori (OP; ep 1)

Episode Director:
Harume Kosaka (ep 6)
Hidehito Ueda (ep 7)
Koichiro Kuroda (ep 4)
Masayuki Matsumoto (ep 3)
Takahiro Omori (OP; ep 1)
Tomoyuki Kawamura (ep 5)

Music: Makoto Yoshimori

Original creator: Yuki Midorikawa

Character Design: Akira Takata

Art director: Yukihiro Shibutani

Chief Animation Director:
Akira Takata
Tatsuo Yamada

Animation director:
Akira Takata (OP; ep 1)
Haruo Okuno (ep 5)
Hideyuki Motohashi (eps 3, 6)
Kouji Aono (ep 2)
Kyoko Kametani (ep 7)
Miho Nakada (ep 4)
Noriyuki Fukuda (ep 4)
Tatsuo Yamada (OP; ep 1)

Sound director: Takahiro Omori

Director of Photography: Hitoshi Tamura

Producer: Shosuke Miyake (TV Tokyo)

2nd Key Animation:
Akihira Yamashita (ep 11)
Kazuhide Kondo (ep 11)
Kosuke Fujii (ep 5)
Senichi Muraoka (ep 11)

Animation producer: Yumi Satou

Background Art:
Aya Iimura
Fumika Tamura
Haruna Sakamoto
Hiroshi Sugano
Hiroyuki Hasegawa
Kaori Fujii
Kazuyo Kawabata
Kumi Ito
Makoto Shiraishi
Mihoko Nakamura
Natsumi Sakamoto
Taiichi Shishido
Takayoshi Fukushima
Yuki Koyamada
Yutaro Sato

Clean-Up Animation:
Mariko Kawaai (eps 3, 6)
Miho Koike (ep 4)
Yufuko Fukuda (eps 3, 6)
Yuko Endo (ep 4)

Color Inspection:
Ayako Saito
Yufuko Fukuda

Color setting:
Ayako Saito
Yufuko Fukuda
Yumi Miyawaki

Editing: Kazuhiko Seki

Editing Assistant: Yasutaka Ikeda

In-Between Animation:
Hideki Sakai (eps 3, 6)
Kazune Suzuki (ep 6)
Kouta Suzuki (eps 3, 6)
Mariko Horie (eps 3, 6)
Shuko Okutani (ep 3)
Yuriko Kaneko (ep 4)
Yuya Kumatani (ep 4)

In-Between Check:
Mariko Horie (ep 6)
Yuki Fujikawa (ep 4)

Key Animation:
Akira Kikuchi (ep 7)
Akira Takata (OP; ep 1)
Ayami Watanabe (ep 7)
Ayumi Ito (ep 4)
Eiko Matsuno (OP; eps 1-2, 7, 11)
Fumiko Fujii (ep 2)
Fumino Fujii (ep 7)
Haruo Okuno (OP; eps 1, 11)
Hideaki Matsuoka (eps 7, 11)
Hidetoshi Sano (ep 1)
Hiroki Itoh (ep 3)
Hiromi Yoshida (ep 4)
Hiroshi Tomioka (ep 2)
Hiroto Yokote (ep 2)
Kaoru Maehara (ep 4)
Kaoru Sekitani (ep 5)
Kazuhiro Muto (ep 5)
Kenji Hayama (OP)
Kentarou Matsumoto (ep 1)
Kimiko Matsushita (ep 11)
Kyoko Kameya (OP)
Kyouhei Tezuka (ep 3)
Makoto Oda (eps 3, 6)
Mamie Takata (OP; eps 1, 5, 11)
Masahiro Koyama (ep 1)
Masahito Yamashita (ep 5)
Masakazu Kawazoe (OP; eps 1, 5, 11)
Masanori Watanabe (eps 3, 6)
Masayuki Yoshiki (ep 5)
Mayuko Kato (ep 11)
Midori Uchiyama (ep 11)
Minami Tokunaga (eps 2, 5)
Miyuki Kobayashi (OP; eps 1-2, 5, 11)
Miyuki Shimizu (eps 3, 6)
Nobuhiko Kawagami (eps 2, 11)
Nobuyuki Furukawa (eps 3, 6)
Noriko Kitazawa (ep 3)
Orie Tanaka (OP; eps 1, 5)
Osamu Hirayama (ep 2)
Rie Maehara (eps 1, 7)
Rumi Abe (eps 5, 7)
Ryo Tanaka (OP)
Ryousuke Tanigawa (ep 11)
Satoru Ito (ep 5)
Satoshi Arajima (ep 4)
Shinichi Iimura (ep 6)
Shinryou Ishikawa (ep 1)
Shinsuke Yanagi (ep 3)
Shuko Okutani (eps 3, 6)
Tadashi Fuji (eps 2, 5)
Takahiro Hosoki (ep 3)
Takahiro Sasaki (ep 4)
Takao Suzuki (ep 4)
Tatsuo Yamada (OP; eps 1-2, 5, 11)
Tatsuya Ikeda (ep 7)
Tomokazu Sugimura (ep 1)
Tsuyoshi Sakai (ep 3)
Yoko Iizuka (ep 7)
Yoshihiro Matsumoto (ep 4)
Yoshiki Mizuno (ep 7)
Yosuke Sotoyama (ep 7)
Yufuki Morimoto (ep 11)
Yuki Fujikawa (ep 4)
Yumi Shimizu (ep 7)
Yuriko Nagaya (eps 3, 6)
Yusuke Adachi (ep 4)
Yuta Odajima (ep 4)

Monster Design: Tatsuo Yamada

Online Editor:
Tetsuro Tsukada
Yuki Honda

Photography:
Ryota Fujii
Yuichiro Tozawa

Planning:
Haruto Uchiyama
Makoto Shiraishi (TV Tokyo)

Planning Collaboration: Kazuya Sato

Publicity:
Isamu Akita
Naomi Enda
Shinsuke Nomura
Yosuke Aoki (TV Tokyo)

Recording Assistant: Yumi Yoshihara

Sound Adjustment: Osamu Takizawa

Sound Effects: Sho Urahata

Sound Production: Junichi Inaba

Special Effects: Toshio Hasegawa

Theme Song Arrangement: Takuya (OP)

Theme Song Composition:
Takuya (OP)
Toshiko Ezaki (ED)

Theme Song Lyrics:
Keiji Shiina (OP)
Toshiko Ezaki (ED)

Theme Song Performance:
Kousuke Atari (ED)
Shuhei Kita (OP)

 

Hiroshi Kamiya as Takashi Natsume

Kazuhiko Inoue as Nyanko-san

Akira Ishida as Shūichi Natori

Hisayoshi Suganuma as Atsushi Kitamoto

Kazuma Horie as Kaname Tanuma

Miki Itou as Tōko Fujiwara

Miyuki Sawashiro as Jun Sasada

Ryohei Kimura as Satoru Nishimura

Sanae Kobayashi as Reiko Natsume

Akari Higuchi as Urihime (ep 9)

Akemi Okamura as Hinoe (eps 12-13)

Aki Kanada as
Female High School Student (ep 10)
Female relative (ep 1)
Housewife (ep 3)
Tamiko's mother (ep 13)

Akiko Yajima as Kitsune (ep 7) 

Akimitsu Takase as Tarusaru (ep 6)

Akira Ishida as Male relative (ep 1)

Atsushi Imaruoka as Akagane (ep 10)

Ayumi Fujimura as
Female High School Student (ep 9)
Fiancée (ep 8)
Student (ep 4)
Takashi Natsume (young)

Chieko Honda as Sasago (ep 9)

Eiji Itô as
Big-Faced Yōkai (ep 9)
Male relative (ep 1)
Shigeru Fujiwara (4 episodes

eps 2, 7, 11, 13
)

Fuyuka Oura as Shūichi Natori (young)

Hiroki Yasumoto as Susugi (ep 2)

Hiroshi Shimozaki as
Big-Mouthed Water Spirit (ep 8)
Blue Ox-Faced Yōkai (eps 7, 13)
Ox-Faced Yōkai (eps 3, 11)

Hiroshi Tsuchida as Shigure (ep 4)

Hisayoshi Suganuma as Man (ep 9)

Houko Kuwashima as Kiyo/Hotaru (ep 8) 

Junko Minagawa as Shojo (ep 3) 

Kenji Hamada as Akifumi Sugino (adult; ep 08)  (ep 8)

Kimiko Saito as Hishigaki (ep 1)

Kunihiro Kawamoto as
Director (ep 9)
Long-Eared Yōkai (ep 1)
Student (ep 4)
Teacher (ep 7)

Kyouko Chikiri as
Female relative (ep 1)
Kappa (ep 4)
Oba-chan (ep 13)

Mamiko Noto as Asagi (ep 10)

Michie Kita as Hana (ep 2)

Miyuki Sawashiro as
Female High School Student (ep 10)
Female relative (ep 1)

Nobuyuki Kobushi as One-Eyed Yōkai (ep 2)

Ryoka Yuzuki as Tsubame (ep 6)

Sanae Kobayashi as Nyanko-sensei (High school girl)

Satoshi Tsuruoka as
Enkou (ep 11)
Taniozaki (ep 6)

Satsuki Yukino as Hiiragi (ep 9)

Sawa Ishige as Tamiko (eps 11, 13)

Tadashi Miyazawa as Ayakashi (ep 12)

Takashi Matsuyama as
Hitotsume no youkai (ep 3)
One-Eyed Yōkai (ep 11)
Red One-Eyed Yōkai (eps 7, 13)

Takaya Kuroda as Sanjo (ep 3)

Takeshi Aono as Tsuyu-kami (Dew God) (ep 2)

Tetsuharu Ohta as Round-Faced Yōkai (ep 10)

Tetsuya Yanagihara as Mikuri (ep 5)

Yasunori Matsumoto as Tanuma's father (eps 3, 11)

Yoshiyuki Hirai as Santo (ep 5)

Japanese companies 

Animation Production: Brains Base

Background Art: Y.A.P

Broadcaster:
AT-X (2008-09-05)
TV Aichi (2008-07-08)
TV Hokkaido (2008-07-08)
TV Osaka (2008-07-12)
TV Setouchi (2008-07-12)
TV Tokyo (2008-07-07)
TVQ Kyushu Broadcasting Co., Ltd. (2008-07-10)

CG: Trilogy

Clean-Up Animation:
D-COLORS
Hanjin Animation
iseriA
office fuu
Orange
R.I.C
Sunshine Digital
Tamazawa Dogasha
VENET

In-Between Animation:
Hanjin Animation
Orange
R.I.C
Synergy SP
Tadashi Pro
Tamazawa Dogasha
Triple A
VENET
XEBEC M2

Internet Streaming: Crunchyroll (subtitled version)

Key Animation: XEBEC M2

Music Production:
Aniplex
Sony Music Entertainment
TV Tokyo Music

Offline Editing:
Brains Base Editing
Seki Editing Studio

Online Editing: Q Tech

Photography: Decoloco

Production: NAS

Recording Studio: Studio T&T

Sound Production: Darks Production

special effects: Ray Art

English cast 
English staff 

Translation: Adam Lensenmayer

Subtitle Editing: Renee Poiron

Subtitle Timing: Bryan Ingram

(none)
English companies 

Subtitles: MX Media LLC

Translation: MX Media LLC

Chinese (Taiwan) staff 
Chinese (Taiwan) companies 
(none)
 

Licensed by: Muse Communication Co., Ltd.

Chinese (Taiwan) cast 
(none)
 
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