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Kazuhiko Inoue, Hiroshi Kamiya, Takashi Matsuyama, Chô, Akemi Okamura, Misa Watanabe, Hiroshi Shimozaki, Takaya Kuroda, and Kyôko Chikiri in Natsume's Book of Friends (2008)

Takashi Matsuyama and Hiroshi Shimozaki in Natsume's Book of Friends (2008)

When Natsume Takashi inherits a book that belonged to his late grandmother he realizes the book is filled with the names of spirits she defeated and bound to her will. He then decides to return their names so they can be free once again.

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