The BEST episodes written by Sadayuki Murai
#1 - Onion On On - A Fair of Culture?
Fantasista Doll - Season 1 - Episode 8
It is time for the culture festival, with many members of the MDAG looking to target Uzume for her cards. Among these are Rin, a ditzy fashion model who keeps placing second behind Komachi, and Jun, a director who is scorned when his experimental film isn't received well. During the festival, Kagami, who had been looking after Miko after she got separated from Katia, becomes worried when she loses sight of her. Hearing a PA announcement from Rin calling Uzume to meet her, Kagami goes herself and quickly beats all of Rin's dolls.
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#2 - Akari Kari kari - Restrictions and Devotion?
Fantasista Doll - Season 1 - Episode 6
As Uzume takes everyone out after inadvertently waking up early on a Sunday, Akari worries about getting too close to her in the event that they be abandoned again. They soon meet a girl named Miina Rurukawa who acts like a doll, with her actual dolls acting as her masters. Later that night, Miko ends up discovering Uzume's dolls, but is too happy to see Katia to bother blabbing about it. The next day, Uzume meets Miina again, who explains why she chose to become a doll.
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#3 - Touko and Shigeru
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 10
Touko and Shigeru are the kind elderly couple who took in Natsume when no one else would. But what were they like before they let Natsume move in?
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#4 - Young Days
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 4
Midterms are over, and Natsume leaves on a trip with Nishimura, Kitamoto, and Sasada. He realizes that the scenery he's viewing from the train is from one of the places he grew up in, when he was passed around from one family to the next. He'd thought he didn't have any good memories of the time, but then he remembers what happened when he lived there...
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#5 - A Place to Go Home To
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 12
A youkai from Natsume past has found him and memories of living with relatives before the Fujiwaras are explored.
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#6 - The Days Eater
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 1
Natsume helps a youkai out of a pot, and as a "reward", is made young again. But Natsume is already young, and making him younger just confuses him and addles his memories. When he doesn't know who to trust, will he have the strength to know who his real friends are?
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#7 - It Must Not Be Bound
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 5
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.
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#8 - Natsume's Book of Play
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 13
The youkai hold a party to celebrate Natsume. Things get out of hand when they ask Natsume for a human game, and he suggests Shadow Tag. When Nyanko-sensei becomes "it", he starts stomping youkai left and right. And then Misuzu-sama, the 100 foot tall youkai, shows up...
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#9 - Long Way Home
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 13
Natsume is possessed by a spirit. Obsessed with returning home, he remembers the events that occured just after his father's death.
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#10 - Other Side of the Glass
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 6
Natsume overhears whispers that a powerful youkai is reviving, later that evening he is trapped in a bottle as an offering. Humans can’t see or hear him, so Nyanko-sensei decides to help the “best” way he can…
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#11 - Mischievous Rain
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 2
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?
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#12 - The Fox Child's Watch
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 8
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.
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#13 - To You, From Bygone Days
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 5
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.
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#14 - Stand-In
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 4
Natsume is at home early one evening when he hears a knock on the door. He sees Tohko outside, asking to be let in. But when he opens the door, there's nobody there, and a gust of wind rushes past. Another Youkai is after the book of friends!
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#15 - That Which Is Not Human
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 6
There is something killing Youkai and draining them of their blood. Natsume can’t help but investigate and runs into old friends.
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#16 - The Door of Memories
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 12
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.
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#17 - A Day That Will Someday Come
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 8
Natsume is on his way home when he finds a letter on the ground. The letter seems to belong to a nearby man, who asks Natsume to take him to his school. The man is actually a youkai, who was once deeply involved with a human girl. He cut the relationship off, but the girl isn't ready to give up...
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#18 - Through the Autumn Wind
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 9
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.
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#19 - Unchanging Form
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 1
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?
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#20 - The God, Enshrined
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 10
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.
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#21 - A Single Photo
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 11
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...
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#22 - The Bound Ones
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 5
Natsume finds that Tsukiko's home is haunted by not one, but three separate youkai, each with its own motivations. One wants to protect Tsukiko's father, and the other two... Natori wants to exorcise them and protect Tsukiko, but Natsume wants to find some way to protect them. Is there a peaceful solution?
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#23 - The Sealed Room
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 10
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...
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#24 - The Eastern Forest
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 2
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.
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#25 - Ukihara Village
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 2
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...
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#26 - The Thing Lurking in the Storeroom
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 5
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
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#27 - What Matters
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 11
Natori's group searches the Hakozaki mansion for the study. But other forces want the powerful magics contained within, and Natsume doesn't want them to have it...
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#28 - The Gap Between Humans and Youkai
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 7
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!
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#29 - To The Ephemeral Ones
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 11
Natsume has come down with a cold after adventuring in the hills. All of his friends, both human and youkai, do their best to make him feel better. As he lies in bed, he begins to realize how much the people around him care for him, and how valuable the bonds he's established are.
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#30 - The Name of a Monster
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 1
One day, Natsume finds a yokai named Kagejawan running around near his home, which he soon learns means disaster is about to strike.
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#31 - The Little Ones
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 3
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.
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#32 - False Friend
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 3
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...
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#33 - The Moon-Splitting Festival
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 9
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.
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#34 - Following a Narrow Path
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 9
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...
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#35 - It Blooms Tomorrow
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 2
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.
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#36 - Shadow of Linked Chains
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 4
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.
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#37 - Exorcist
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 7
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.
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#38 - The Letter From the Exorcist
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 3
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.
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#39 - What the Mirror Shows
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 11
Tanuma is experiencing how Natsume lives every day. While Natsume and the youkai gain an understanding.
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#40 - Nishimura and Kitamoto
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 6
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.
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#41 - Gomochi's Benefactor
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 7
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.
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#42 - A World Unbent
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 8
Natori's family has always been exorcists... until they lost the abililty to see youkai. After generations of fearing the youkai's revenge, Natori is suddenly born with the ability to see them. His family doesnt want anything to do with his powers, though, and he's left to figure out how to live on his own. His life changes when he meets a young Matoba at an exorcist gathering, and the two of them end up hunting a powerful youkai together...
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#43 - Natsume Captured
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 1
Natsume is jumped by a group of Youkai trying to steal the Book of Friends for their master. Once captured, Natsume discovers that an old problem is back in a big way.
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#44 - Soundless Valley
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 6
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.
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#45 - The Broken Mirror
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 3 - Episode 10
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.
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#46 - Nitai-sama
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 3
Natsume gets a call from his old "friend" Shibata, who he once helped with a youkai problem. Shibata wants him to come visit, and Natsume reluctantly agrees. He and Tanuma pay Shibata a visit, and have a pleasant chat at a park. But when Shibata mentions a local haunted house, Natsume finds his visit has turned into more than he expected...
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#47 - What Flows
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 9
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...
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#48 - When I Was Deceived
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 4 - Episode 8
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.
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#49 - Distant Festival Lights
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 5 - Episode 7
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.
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#50 - Lying Eyes
Natsume's Book of Friends - Season 6 - Episode 4
Natsume watches a movie starring Natori, and when he's done he finds one of Natori's paper dolls. The doll is soaked and the text on it is impossible to read, and Natsume becomes concerned for Natori's safety. He travels to the location that's just barely legible on the doll, and finds a young woman whose home is haunted by not one, but three youkai.
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