Natsume is cursed by an evil spirit which is sealed to a tree. Not wanting to trouble his adoptive family, he decided to run away from home.

Tanuma finds out that Nyanko-Sensei is a spirit. Tanuma and Natsume enjoy the autumn festival and previous acquaintances are seen again.

When Natsume finally has enough of Nyanko’s behavior, Nyanko leaves, wandering about by himself and causing trouble.

Natsume is possessed by a sick koto player, whose friend wants her to be able to play one last time.

Natsume meets a popular actor named Natori Shuuichi who can also see spirits, and has a side job as an exorcist.

Natsume meets a spirit who used to be friends with a man who could also see spirits, but one day lost this ability.

Natsume goes to a hot spring for a school trip, with an errand from Shigeru to pick up teacups from a near by pottery. While there he meets and helps…

Natsume is possessed by a swallow spirit, who wishes to meet a human who once helped her. Natsume agrees to help her and the two grow attached. When Swallow finds…

Natsume comes across an old ticket in Reiko’s belongings and decides to go to the abandoned train station to see why she kept it. There, he meets a slow witted…

Natsume’s secret is found out by Sasada, the class president, during the “Trial of Courage.” She asks for his help to find the spirit that lives in the abandoned school….

Natsume is implored to help spirits who are currently being exorcised. He finds a kindred spirit in Tanuma, a boy who also senses spirits although not as powerful as Natsume.

Natsume is visited by the village’s local god who is currently fading because of the lack of devotees.

Natsume discovers that the heirloom “Book of Friends” that his grandmother, Reiko, gave him possesses the names of the spirits she defeated and bound to her will. Assisted by a…

Natsume decides to tell Natori about his secret, when the search for the seal room is over…

After a flood occurs on Four Mask Hill during Natsume’s summer school session, a mask randomly appearing in the school worries Natsume.

A competition is opened to search for a famous researcher’s sealed room. The prize are his research books, and many exorcists are gathered. Natori is invited, Natsume wants to help…

Natsume talks to a teenage boy at the station, who turns out to be a youkai that left a human because of their feelings for one another. The boy wants…

Natsume is surprised when a youkai comes to seek Reiko in gratitude. Years ago, the youkai’s to-be-bride received freedom from her help, and now is about to be wed. They…

This episode shows how Natsume first befriended Nishimura and Kitamoto, along with a better look at their family lives and point of view.

Natsume and Natori discover that the youkai shiki (demon servants and friends) of Takuma Yusuke have been trying to bring misfortune into the house.

Natsume’s old classmate Shibata (from “False Friend” / “Itsuwari no Yūjin” (偽りの友人)) calls. Natsume visit Shibata together with Tanuma, where Shibata tells them about the “Doll Mansion of Sotogi”. A…

Natsume meets Tsukiko, a daughter of an exorcist named Takuma Yousuke who has recently lost his ability to see or hear youkai. Because she lacks the ability to see youkai,…

Natsume helps a rock washer look for his apprentice who has stopped writing him.

A yokai known as “The Days Eater,” turns Natsume back to a young child. Nyanko-sensei enlists the aid of Tanuma and Taki.

The story of why Touko and Shigeru adopted Natsume.

The mid-ranks show Natsume flowers at the top of a hill. Natsume later catches a cold and the mid-ranks go and get medicine for him, doing difficult chores for the…

The episode starts with Natsume being chased by a hairy youkai. He comes across a tiny mushroom youkai who tells him about a noble youkai named Shuon who was on…

An episode depicting the story of Natori Shuuichi and Matoba Seiji when they were young. This episode shows Natori’s family and his childhood of being able to see youkai, getting…

Tanuma invites his friends to an inn run by his relatives. While sweeping outside, Tanuma is greeted by an old woman named Ito-san. Natsume learns that Ito-san is a yokai…

Natsume is chased by two yokai who cast a voice-sealing spell on him. A large bird yokai saves him and brings him to a valley before Nyanko-sensei finds him. Natsume…

Natsume sees strange writing on the chalk board in the Earth Science classroom. Taki tells Natsume of the hairy yokai she helped leave her home. Natsume comes to Taki’s home…

Matoba brings Natsume to one of the Matoba clan villas to attend the exorcist meeting. Natsume learns that a mask yokai called “Magatsumen” is controlling people and disguises himself as…

Natsume finds a letter addressed to him from Matoba. Walking in the forest, he loses it when an amateur exorcist seals a yokai in a pot. Noticing the weak seal,…

On a rainy day, Natsume meets a young girl youkai. Her name isn’t in the Book of Friends, but she wants his help anyway: she wants him to find a…

Natsume continues to spend his days giving youkai back their names from the Book of Friends. One day, as he’s heading home, he finds himself chased by a giant, rolling…

Natsume, possessed by the youkai, thinks of an painful incident from his childhood involving the family he was living with at the time. The youkai offers to eat all his…

Natsume, accompanied by Nyanko-sensei, set out to visit his old home. He visits a relative to pick up the key to the house, but is being followed by a youkai…

Natsume looks back at a photo of his parents, and old wounds are reopened. Natsume is having a fun day with his friends, but all of a sudden he gets…

Natori is tasked with the job of finding and breaking the seal of Houzukigami, a god that was to participate in the Moon-Splitting Festival done every 10 years against Fuzukigami,…

Natsume is pretending to be the god Houzukigami, so the moon splitting festival will end with a victory and the mountain will not be ruined. Winning the contest will not…