The stories are well written and the pacing, while a bit slow, makes you savor the moments even more. Each episode evokes feelings of happiness, sadness, or suspense and was entrancing to watch beginning to end. His adoptive guardians are loving and extremely caring for people that are very distant relatives to Natsume, and his relationship with them grows into something very powerful and heart-warming where he only wishes happiness and safety for the couple that he could never possibly repay.Įach episode is unique story(aside from the two episode stories) that ends in a message for both Natsume and the watcher to take to heart. Instead of only being able to confide and rely in himself, he has trustworthy and genuine friends that he can turn to for aid. Through his school friends, both those who know about his ability and those who don't, he is greatly encouraged to seek out the positives in his life and to look forward to a bright future instead of his dark past. Natsume's Book of Friends depicts Natsume's life as he struggles with these issues, and how genuinely kind and helpful people come into his life and give him the encouragement and support he needs to overcome the adversaries within himself. Such a gentle person put through that kind of mental strain at such a young age can only be sympathized with. Feelings of being left out, of not being wanted, and being misunderstood: everyone in some point in their life have experienced these emotions, and can relate to Natsume in some way, shape, or form, and even if you can't, sympathy is something you will always feel towards him. People who have trouble talking to others, or have strange habits or appearances are often shunned and isolated as well, and feelings of loneliness and depression become quite commonplace. While Natsume's situation is fictional, the problem is all too real. Natsume's peculiar ability has always alienated him from any potential friends or companions, and as a result feels hated and isolated from the human world.
Humans are social by nature, but when the opportunities to socialize are made impossible, feelings of loneliness and sadness become overwhelming and consuming. While the premise might be supernatural, the underlying themes present are ordinary, yet powerfully represented and explored. Throughout the series, he meets, befriends, and also defeats many different youkai along the way. He then sets out to return those very names while defending himself from those who would use the book for power or personal gain. his late grandmother Reiko, along with inheriting her "Book of Friends", which contains the names of youkai that she had defeated and bound to her by taking their name. The premise of the story is supernatural: our protagonist Natsume Takashi can see "youkai" or spirits, a trait inheritedfrom
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It is rare to find a series that evokes such powerful emotions in each episode without dropping the ball for four seasons, but Natsume's Book of Friends makes it seem effortless with masterful storytelling along with a strong cast of characters. Natsume's Book of Friends is best described using the words beautiful, heart-warming, and emotional. There is a wide variety of adjectives you can use to describe an anime series hilarious, dramatic, romantic, horrific, and the like. *This review encompasses all four "seasons" of Natsume's Book of Friends* Stretching from the formidable hideout of the Matoba to Natsume's own childhood home, Natsume Yuujinchou Shi is a sweeping but familiar return to a world of danger and friendship, where Natsume will finally confront the demons of his own past. However, the forest of the monkey spirits holds many dangerous enemies, including the Matoba Clan, Natsume's old nemesis. Realizing that his "servant" has been taken out from right under his nose, Nyanko-sensei enlists the help of Natsume's youkai friends and mounts a rescue operation. Natsume, while briefly separated from Nyanko-sensei, is ambushed and kidnapped by a strange group of masked, monkey-like youkai, who have spirited him away to their forest as they desperately search for the Book of Friends. His most important ally is still his gluttonous and sake-loving bodyguard, the arrogant but fiercely protective wolf spirit Madara-or Nyanko-sensei, as Madara is called when in his usual disguise of an unassuming, pudgy cat. Takashi Natsume, the timid youkai expert and master of the Book of Friends, continues his journey towards self-understanding and acceptance with the help of friends both new and old.
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