Natsume's Book of Friends: Ephemeral Bond
The movie of Natsume's Book of Friends series. 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!
- 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
- Cast: Hiroshi Kamiya, Kazuhiko Inoue, Kazuma Horie, Ryohei Kimura, Hisayoshi Suganuma, Rina Sato
