The WORST episodes of Natsume's Book of Friends
Every episode of Natsume's Book of Friends ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst episodes of Natsume's Book of Friends!
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.
#1 - From the Path of Dreams
Season 7 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/24/2024
Natsume takes in a strange origami doll that shows wonderful dreams.
#2 - 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?
#3 - 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.
#4 - Tookanya
Season 7 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/22/2024
Natsume is caught up in a mysterious game between youkai and man.
#5 - Depths of the Page
Season 7 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/29/2024
Natsume and Kitamoto are victims of a horrid curse.
#6 - 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...
#7 - 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.
#9 - 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...
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Eastern Forest
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 1/10/2012
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.
#14 - Distant Festival Lights
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 11/23/2016
Natsume and his friends go to a distant hot springs to help with the renovations. When he arrives, he meets an old friend of Tanumas, but he quickly gets caught up in local youkai trouble. Tanuma's old friend is actually a youkai, and she threatens terrible things if Natsume reveals her secret.
#15 - The Gap Between Humans and Youkai
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 2/14/2012
Natsume’s greatest fear has come true. Someone not involved in the world of youkai is hurt because of him. Natori needs Natsume to regain his composure or they will be eaten by Omibashira!
#16 - Soundless Valley
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/9/2016
While out on an errand for Touko-san, Natsume is caught by two hairy-ball youkai, who influence him with dark energy and make him unable to speak. He is rescued by a bird-like youkai name Hidaka, who takes him to her "nest" in an abandoned valley.
#17 - It Must Not Be Bound
Season 5 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/2/2016
Natsume's friend Taki lives in a house filled with traps and mazes for youkai. She can't see the youkai herself without the aid of a special circle, but she can hear them when they're trapped in her house. She saves one of them, but it refuses to leave her home. Natsume suspects that there may be danger involved, and visits her to make sure that everything is okay.
#18 - Shadow of Linked Chains
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/26/2016
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 Natsume is able to see who is possessed. Natsume and Nyanko-sensei search the halls, still unsure if they even want to be there.
#19 - The Letter From the Exorcist
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/19/2016
Natsume receives a letter from Matoba, an exorcist whom he's had unpleasant dealings with in the past. The world of exorcists is a dangerous place lately, and Matoba wants Natsume's help. Natsume wants to refuse, but Matoba threatens to reveal Natsume's powers to his adopted family, which would spell the end of his peaceful life.
#20 - Mischievous Rain
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/12/2016
On a rainy day, Natsume meets a young girl youkai. Her name isn't in the book of friends, but she wants his help anyway: she wants him to find a man she met once. The man couldn't see Youkai normally, but a mischievous trick of the weather let him see her for just one day. For the next fifty years she visited him, hoping he'd see her one more time, but he never did. Now he's vanished. Can Natsume find him for her?
#21 - Unchanging Form
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/5/2016
Natsume continues to spend his days giving back Youkai their names from the book of friends. One day, as he's heading home, he finds himself chased by a giant, rolling pot. The youkai in the pot insists that his grandmother Reiko stole a doll from her. When she threatens to hurt his family, however, he's forced to go out and find it. But would his kind, smiling grandmother Reiko really steal a doll from someone?
#22 - Long Way Home
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 3/27/2012
Natsume is possessed by a spirit. Obsessed with returning home, he remembers the events that occured just after his father's death.
#23 - The Door of Memories
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 3/20/2012
Natsume is going home for the last time, but first he must stop by his relative’s house to get the key. But he is cautious, as inside is a youkai that tormented Natsume, and a girl that has always resented him.
#24 - A Single Photo
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/13/2012
Natsume gets a call from a relative: his parents home is being sold. He tells himself that it doesn't matter, and that he's forgotten his past. But he's not nearly as over it as he thinks...
#25 - The God, Enshrined
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/6/2012
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.