Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond

Sep 29, 2018

1h 44m

★ 7.4

Overview

Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a “Yokai seed” that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras’ garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!

Genres

Animation

Fantasy

Drama

Production Companies

Shuka

Aniplex

NAS

Hakusensha

TV Tokyo

Lawson

Kinoshita Group

Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond Trailers

Cast

Takashi Natsume (voice)

Hiroshi Kamiya

Nyanko-sensei / Madara (voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Kaname Tanuma (voice)

Kazuma Horie

Satoru Nishimura (voice)

Ryohei Kimura

Atsushi Kitamoto (voice)

Hisayoshi Suganuma

Tooru Taki (voice)

Rina Sato

Hinoe (voice)

Akemi Okamura

Shuichi Natori (voice)

Akira Ishida

Reiko Natsume (voice)

Sanae Kobayashi

Touko Fujiwara (voice)

Miki Ito

Shigeru Fujiwara (voice)

Eiji Itoh

Jun Sasada (voice)

Miyuki Sawashiro

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