Episode list

Natsume meets the very first Yokai whose name was written in the Book of Friends.

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 takes in a strange origami doll that shows wonderful dreams.

Natsume, Natori and Matoba work to complete the ritual to welcome a powerful god.

Published as an OVA. Takashi gets involved with a yokai that is the host of an old house, in which other yokai play hide-and-seek. Unable to escape, he needs to find the host so the host will let him leave the game.

A middle school girl ventures into the woods to return a ring to a white owl she helped, following the instructions he gave her in a dream. There she meets a strange boy (Takashi) and his talking lucky cat (Nyanko-sensei) who help her to find the white owl. Takashi returns his name, Hidaki, to him, and the yokai who took on the form of said owl wipes the girl's memory of their encounter. She awakens to find herself on a bench, but cannot remember how she had ended up there. She wonders where the pretty blue stone came from, which is a fragment of the ring per Hidaki's gratitude for her kindness.

Natsume finds a town that had been submerged in water; Natsume gets possessed by a yokai and falls unconscious. Tarusaru informs Natsume about a festival and a Yukata that can turn a spirit into a human for a day.

Natsume inherited "The Book of Friends" from Reiko, his grandmother, and decides to return the name to the spirits. A spirit Tsuyugami come to see him soon, to return his name. But the page with his name had stuck to the next page.

Natsume finds a black cat looks very much alike of Nyanko-sensei except fur color. He confuses the cat with Nyanko-sensei, and brings it back.