Key Takeaways
- Season 7 of Natsume's Book of Friends premieres on October 7 with new staff and cast members.
- The series follows high school student Takashi Natsume who can see supernatural entities.
- Expect a blend of supernatural and slice-of-life elements with vibrant dialogue in season 7.
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The anime adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends manga is celebrating its 15th anniversary this year, with the seventh season set to drop this Fall. The series' staff released a new promotional trailer of the upcoming series this Friday, which featured the ending theme song performed by Toshiki Kondō titled, "Komari Warai". This season comes almost a decade after the sixth season, which was released in the Spring season of 2017, with an OVA released that summer and three movies released between 2018 and 2021.
Natsume's Book of Friends season 7 premieres on October 7, forming part of the highly anticipated Fall 2024 season, which has a number of high-profile supernatural titles coming out in time for Halloween.
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Background
What Do We Know About Natsume's Book of Friends 7?
The Natsume's Book of Friends anime series adapts Yuki Midorikawa's manga; originally titled Natsume Yūjin-Chō, which ran in Hakusensha's shōjo manga magazine LaLa DX from June 2003 to April 2008 and has been serialized in LaLa since July 2007. It has been collected into 31 volumes as of September this year and licensed for release in North America by VIZ Media. The story of Natsume's Book of Friends follows Takashi Natsume, an orphaned high school student who can see supernatural entities and phenomena, also known as ayakashi or yōkai and one day comes across his late maternal grandmother notebook to which she, a powerful exorcist, would bind various demonic spirits to the pages of the book after defeating them. These spirits could then be called out later from the notebook dubbed "The Book of Friends".
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Takashi makes the decision to free each one from the notebook, but due to the fact that it contains the names of all the hundreds of powerful spirits his grandmother Reiko subdued, allowing for their complete servitude, it is a prized artifact in the yōkai world, making Takashi a target for various evil spirits and malicious entities who want the notebook's power for themselves. In season 7, we can expect more of the series' characteristic merging of the supernatural with slice of life, which is not quite as calm and soothing as something like iyashikei, but definitely packed with the vibrance of dialogue; especially between Natsume and Madara, more adorably known as Nyanko-sensei.
Staff and Cast Information
Who's Working on Natsume's Book of Friends 7
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The seventh season of the anime will be directed by Hideki Ito (director, Silver Spoon) at Shuka (animation production, 91 Days) with Takahiro Ōmori, who served as director or chief director on all the other Natsume's Book of Friends anime projects, serving as chief director and sound designer; Sadayuki Murai on series composition writing the script alongside Aya Yoshinaga; Hiroshi Ohnogi; Mariko Kunisawa and the chief director Ōmori. Assited by Mao Miyake, the series' legacy art director, Yukihiro Shibutani returns, as do character designer Akira Takata (chief animation director, Black Butler: Public School Arc), music composer Makoto Yoshimori and director of photography Hitoshi Tamura. The opening theme for season 7 is "Alca" performed by Kashiwagi Hinata, while the ending is Toshiki Kondō's "Komari Warai".
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The returning cast includes Hiroshi Kamiya (Levi Ackermann, Attack on Titan) as Takashi Natsume; Sanae Kobayashi (Allen Walker, D.Gray Man) as Reiko Natsume; Kazuhiko Inoue (Kars, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure) as Madara; Akira Ishida (Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Bungo Stray Dogs) as Shūichi Natori; Junichi Suwabe (Sukuna, Jujutsu Kaisen) as Seiji Matoba; Miyuki Sawashiro (Suruga Kanbaru, Bakemonogatari) as Jun Sasada; Rina Satō (Mikoto Misaka, A Certain Scientific Railgun) as Tōru Taki; Ryohei Kimura (Chōbei Aza, Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku) as Satoru Nishimura; Hisayoshi Suganuma (Shirō Kikuchihara, World Trigger) as Atsushi Kitamoto, Kazuma Horie (Seiji Yagiri, Durarara!!) as Kaname Tanuma and Eiji Itō as Shigeru Fujiwara.
The upcoming 7th season of Natsume's Book of Friends airs on October 7, with Crunchyroll streaming the series as it airs. Previous seasons of Natsume's Book of Friends are also available on the platform.
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Natsume's Book of Friends
Natsume's Book of Friends follows the story of Takashi Natsume, a boy who can see spirits and inherits a book containing the names of spirits bound by his late grandmother. Assisted by a spirit named Madara, Natsume seeks to release the spirits' names while navigating the challenges of his unique ability. The series explores themes of friendship and the supernatural.
