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Natsume's Book of Friends TV Anime Gets Season 5 This Fall
posted on by Jennifer Sherman
The May issue of Natsume Yūjin-Chō) manga is inspiring a fifth television anime season, Natsume Yūjin-Chō Go, this fall. The issue also features a 46-page chapter of the manga with a color opening page.
All of the anime's main staff are returning from previous anime titles in the franchise. Tatsuo Yamada (Samurai Flamenco, Durarara!!) will design the monsters.
Yu-Gi-Oh!) will again be in charge of production.
The anime seasons and Midorikawa's original manga revolve around Natsume, a boy who has been able to see ghosts since he was little. Unfortunately, humans shun him, and there is not much fondness between him and ghosts either. One day, he inherits a Yūjin-Chō ("Book of Friends") from his grandmother. The book is actually full of contracts that his grandmother made to trap ghosts. As One Ghost after another shows up, Natsume tries to release or help them — even while many of them seek vengeance on him.
The television anime series' fourth season (pictured above right) premiered in 2012. NIS America released all four seasons on Blu-ray Disc or DVD in North America.
Hakusensha will release the manga's 20th volume (pictured at left) in Japan on April 5. published the 19th volume of the manga in North America in January.
