Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Ephemeral Bond
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!
- Year: 2018
- Country: Japan
- Genre: Animation, Fantasy, Drama
- Studio: Shuka, Aniplex, NAS, Hakusensha, TV Tokyo, Lawson, Kinoshita Group
- Keyword: friendship, supernatural, human animal relationship, slice of life, demon, folklore, youkai, shoujo, japanese mythology, anime, rural setting, iyashikei
- Director: Takahiro Omori, Hideki Ito
- Cast: Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuma Horie, Ryohei Kimura, Hisayoshi Suganuma, Rina Sato
