“Being alone is painful..”

Takashi gets visited by the Dew God, whose name is also written on Reiko’s Book of Friends. Returning the God’s name isn’t easy, for the page where his name was written on is stuck with another Youkai’s, and one careless tear can destroy the spirit’s body. Takashi travels a bit to look for the other spirit, and along the way he learns about the slowly diminishing size and life of the Dew God.
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This show is by far the first in my favorite list this season. Natsume Yuujinchou is a cross between The Spiderwick Chronicles and Cardcaptor Sakura, where the protagonist, Natsume Takashi, inherits a book of contracts from his grandmother Reiko, who like him, can see spirits with the naked eye. This book, called Yuujinchou (Book of Friends), contain the names of the spirits that Reiko defeated in her early life. With Reiko gone, the spirits are determined to unbind themselves from her, and it is Takashi’s job to release them one by one, by ripping their page off the book, while making sure he himself is unharmed.
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