Four years after the last season, and eight years after the first, Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume Yujin-cho or Natsume's Book of Friends is returning for a fifth run of anime. The series debuts October 4th on TV Tokyo with Takahiro Omori back as chief director. Kotomi Deai, who previously helmed the OVA, serves as director. Leading into the return, now only a week and a half away, a new commercial offers the latest look.

Sasanomaly will perform opening "Takarabako" while Aimer (Fate/stay night, Gundam UC) is on ending "Akane Sasu."

Staff

Original: Yuki Midorikawa / Monthly LaLa (Hakusensha) series

Chief Director: Takahiro Omori

Director: Kotomi Deai

Series configuration: Sadayuki Murai

Character Design: Akira Takada

Yokai Design design: Tatsuo Yamada

Music: Makoto Yoshimori

Animation Production: Shunatsu

Production: NAS

Production: "Natsume's Book of Friends" Production Committee

Cast

Takashi Natsume: Hiroshi Kamiya

Nyank-san: Kazuhiko Inoue

Reiko Natsume : Kobayashi Sanae

Shuichi Natori: Akira Ishida

Kaname Tanuma: Kazuma Horie

Satoru Nishimura: Ryohei Kimura

Atsushi Kitamoto: Hisayoshi Suganuma

Jun Sasada: Miyuki Sawashiro

Tohru Taki Rina Sato

Touko Fujiwara: Miki Ito

Shigeru Fujiwara: Eiji Ito

Seiji Matoba: Junichi Suwabe



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Scott Green is editor and reporter for anime and manga at geek entertainment site Ain't It Cool News. Follow him on Twitter at @aicnanime.