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Region：Japan
Type：TV
English name：Natsume Yuujinchou Go / Natsume's Book of Friends Season 5
Official name：夏目友人帳伍
Chinese name：夏目友人帐伍
Other names：夏目友人帐五 / Natsume Yujin-cho Go
Premiered：October 4, 2016
Status：Finished Airing
Tags：Fantasy / Healing / Daily / Source manga
Original author：緑川ゆき / 月刊LaLa
Director：出合小都美 / 大森貴弘
Scenario：吉永亜矢 / 國澤真理子 / 村井さだゆき / 大野木寛
Storyboard：大城美幸 / 平向智子 / 中野英明 / 伊藤秀樹 / 小島正幸
Co-director：平向智子 / 大城美幸 / 青柳宏宜 / 矢部哲平 / 出合小都美
Studios：朱夏
Production cooperation：寿門堂
Producers：NAS
Copyright：©緑川ゆき・白泉社 / 「夏目友人帳」製作委員会
Family：Natsume's Book of Friends
Rating：12+

Natsume Yuujinchou Go

Note: The first episode received an early screening at a special event on 01.10.2016.

The regular TV broadcast started on October 5, 2016.

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Oct 4, 2016

EP1 - Unchanging Form

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 pot. The youkai in the pot insists that his grandmother Reiko stole a doll from her. When she threatens to hurt his family, however, he's forced to go out and find it. But would his kind, smiling grandmother Reiko really steal a doll from someone?
Oct 11, 2016

EP2 - Mischievous Rain

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 man she met once. The man couldn't see youkai normally, but a mischievous trick of the weather let him see her for just one day. For the next fifty years she visited him, hoping he'd see her one more time, but he never did. Now he's vanished. Can Natsume find him for her?
Oct 18, 2016

EP3 - The Letter from the Exorcist

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, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei take it to Natori's condo to re-seal it. When Natsume returns home he sees Matoba and learns the letter was a request for Natsume to attend a meeting of strong exorcists to weed out the person who has been targeting exorcists.
Oct 25, 2016

EP4 - Shadow of Linked Chains

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 a shiki in order to test attendees if they have been possessed. By following a strange spring sound, Natsume finds the culprit behind the mask possessions and drives the yokai out. Matoba shoots the yokai with an arrow to exorcise it.
Nov 1, 2016

EP5 - It Must Not Be Bound

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 and learns that three yokai had been trapped there -- two rabbit yokai and a hairy white one. The hairy yokai is enchanted by Taki and helps find the rabbit yokai in Taki's home. Natsume learns the hairy yokai was the one who wrote on the school chalkboard and goes back to read the yokai's feelings on it.
Nov 8, 2016

EP6 - Soundless Valley

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 regains his voice after the group of yokai attack him in his room, and then returns the bird yokai's name.
Nov 22, 2016

EP7 - Distant Festival Lights

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 that serves the Mizunagi shrine by protecting the mountain festival. Ito-san has come into the inn because another yokai has stolen the festival's white mask and has disguised itself as an inn guest. Natsume finds the yokai who stole the mask for the festival's power, and Ito-san exorcises her. Ito-san warns Natsume to keep her identity a secret until after the festival is over so she can complete the festival. Natsume says he will tell no one she is a yokai so she can stay in this town as long as possible.
Nov 29, 2016

EP8 - A World Unbent

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 hated by his family and becoming an exorcist.
Dec 6, 2016

EP9 - Following a Narrow Path

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 a journey. Natsume helps the little youkai prepare for his meeting with the noble youkai. When they meet, however, the noble youkai warns the mushroom youkai that the path he takes is a narrow one and asks the little youkai to go back home. But then the little youkai realizes he need to become worthy in order to follow him. Another youkai, who appears to be one of the noble youkai followers, appears and gives a book to the mushroom youkai and tells him to complete the training to join Shoun-sama.
Dec 13, 2016

EP10 - Touko and Shigeru

The story of why Touko and Shigeru adopted Natsume.
Dec 20, 2016

EP11 - To the Ephemeral Ones

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 yokai with the medicine. Amid Natsume's fever dreams are the memory of when he got sick as a child and he briefly talks to Reiko. With the medicine in hand, the mid-ranks give it to him and his fever goes down. They later learn the medicine doesn't work on humans and are disheartened as they wasted their time, but smile when Natsume thanks them for their efforts.

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Mar 22, 2017

SP1 一夜盃（ひとよさかずき）

妖力を強くする湧き水をめぐり、一本角の妖怪に襲われていた夫婦妖怪ヒヅチとハツナを救った夏目。レイコを知るこの夫婦妖怪は旅をしながら盃を作っているという。夫婦が作る盃は、注いだ飲み物が極上になることで評判だったが、一晩で消えてしまうことから『一夜盃』と呼ばれていた。次の日、一夜盃で酒を飲みたいニャンコ先生と共に、夏目は夫婦のもとを訪れる。
Apr 26, 2017

SP2 遊戯の宴

変わった趣向の宴会に上機嫌で出かけていったニャンコ先生。宴会の様子が気になって後を追った夏目は、たどりついた廃れた屋敷で傷だらけの妖怪「遊蔓」を見つけ、声をかける。すると、遊蔓は「次は私が鬼だ」と言い、屋敷中に妖怪たちのはしゃぐ声が響く。聞けば、あの屋敷「回遊亭」では、谷の覇権をかけて何日も続くゲームをしているという。