Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround him.
The peaks and the valleys. Find the essential episodes — and the ones to skip.
Natsume meets a yokai couple whom his grandmother had met and who specialize in making sake cups, particularly sake cups that add glorious tastes to whatever is drunk from them but then turn to dust after one night.
Takashi encounters an old man who asks for help with getting home. The old man turns out to be a yokai who will soon disappear and he asks Takashi to help him to fulfill a promise that he had made.
Natsume meets the very first Yokai whose name was written in the Book of Friends.
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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