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The Best Episodes of Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2

Every episode of Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2!

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Natsume Takashi has the ability to see spirits, which he has long kept secret. However, once he inherits a strange book that belonged to his deceased grandmother, Reiko, he discovers the reason why spirits surround

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 1 - Stolen Book of Friends
    7.6/10(140 votes)

    #1 - Stolen Book of Friends

    S2:E1

    While outside during school Natsume is hit with a ball while reading. He goes to retrieve the ball and ends up breaking a Youkai's seal (much like he had with Nyanko-sensei). Later that night Natsume and Nyanko-sensei discover a look-a-like of Nyanko, only to have him steal the Book Of Friends!

    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 2 - Melting into Spring
    5.9/10(99 votes)

    #2 - Melting into Spring

    S2:E2

    While fooling around in the snow, Natsume and Nyanko-sensei run in to Gen, a forest guardian who lives inside a statue. Gen tries to take over Natsume's body, but instead takes over a snow rabbit that Natsume had made. Gen pleads Natsume to help him find an evil spirit who destroyed Sui, his guardian partner, and Natsume agrees. But it seems Gen isn't telling everything he should...

    Writer:Unknown

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  3. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 3 - Youkai Exorcism Amid the Steaming Springs
    5.9/10(99 votes)

    #3 - Youkai Exorcism Amid the Steaming Springs

    S2:E3

    Natori invites Natsume on a Hot Spring trip. But noises from the closet and a kimono-clad figure dangled from the ceiling make Natsume uneasy. Not wanting to trouble Natori because of his kind gesture to enjoy the Hot Spring with him, Natsume investigates the Hot Spring himself. During the night Natsume meets with the Youkai, where she comments that he is too soft, and attacks!

    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 4 - A Chick Hatches
    5.8/10(100 votes)

    #4 - A Chick Hatches

    S2:E4

    Natsume takes care of an abandoned egg from a nest, not considering it could be a Youkai. After it hatches it turns out it is a rare baby spirit called Tatsumi, who thinks that Natsume is it's parent. Natsume can't help but get attached to the little spirit even as Tatsumi grows tired and sick. But as Natsume takes care of Tatsumi a mysterious spirit comes, and wants to take away Tatsumi for his master... who wants to eat him!

    Director:Unknown

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  5. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 5 - Tree of Promise
    6.0/10(102 votes)

    #5 - Tree of Promise

    S2:E5

    Natsume encounters a spirit who was enslaved by his grandmother Reiko 50 years ago by writing his name on a torn page from the Book of Friends, and tying it to a tree in a forest. Can Natsume help locate the torn page? What was Reiko's intention of tying it to a tree?

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  6. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 6 - The Maiden's Circle
    6.0/10(98 votes)

    #6 - The Maiden's Circle

    S2:E6

    There is a new girl in school Taki Tooru. And with her appearance at school comes these strange circles in the ground. Much like UFO circles. As Natsume tries to figure out the circles and Taki he is visited by another Youkai. Only this time the Youkai isn't looking for his name, but for a snack.

    Writer:Unknown

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  8. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 7 - That Which You Must Not Call
    6.0/10(98 votes)

    #7 - That Which You Must Not Call

    S2:E7

    Natsume is dragged off into the cave of the evil spirit that is after Tooru. He temporarily loses the ability to see youkai after being poisoned by the spirit. Will he be able to stop the youkai from eating Tooru without his sight?

    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 8 - Emotions Undying
    5.8/10(97 votes)

    #8 - Emotions Undying

    S2:E8

    Natsume, Kitamoto and Nishimura take a trip to an old inn to spend some quality time doing their homework. Surrounding the inn is a lake; that is believed to be home to a mermaid.

    Director:Yui Umemoto
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 9 - The Man Amidst the Rows of Cherry Trees
    5.8/10(99 votes)

    #9 - The Man Amidst the Rows of Cherry Trees

    S2:E9

    From the day that a picture of a row of cherry trees in a desolate winter was obtained, every time Natsume wakes up, his rooms is covered in petals. Trying to solve the root of this activity, Natsume and Nyako Sensei try and return the picture to Miya, a shadowy figure who accompanies the picture. But why can't they return it to Miya...?

    Director:Unknown

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  11. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 10 - Temporary Home
    6.2/10(104 votes)

    #10 - Temporary Home

    S2:E10

    Mysterious footprints and markings are left on the gate of the Fujiwara house. Strange things start going on inside the house and Shigeru verifies with Natsume that the cause of this activity involves the husband and wife who used to live there. And so Shigeru tells story of those two but in a unusually childlike manner...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 11 - Assembly of Conjurers
    5.9/10(95 votes)

    #11 - Assembly of Conjurers

    S2:E11

    After chasing an injured yokai around, Natsume encounters Natori, who then invites him to go to a meeting of sorcerers. There, Natsume meets others with similar powers and similar problems.

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  13. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 12 - The Young Boy in the Empty House
    5.8/10(95 votes)

    #12 - The Young Boy in the Empty House

    S2:E12

    At a house rumored to be haunted by ghosts, Natsume hears the voice of a child. Following the voice to its source, Natsume finds a child named Kai, who is trapped in a casket-like box. Kai tells Natsume that he someone is chasing him every day.

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  14. Natsume's Book of Friends Season 2 Episode 13 - Humans and Youkai
    5.9/10(97 votes)

    #13 - Humans and Youkai

    S2:E13

    Why don't you decide already? Which is more important to you? When Natsume finds out what Kai really is, that is what Natori asks him.

    Writer:Unknown

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Season 2 Ratings Summary

"Stolen Book of Friends" is the best rated episode of "Natsume's Book of Friends" season 2. It scored 7.6/10 based on 140 votes. Directed by Takahiro Omori and written by Unknown, it aired on 1/6/2009. This episode is rated 1.7 points higher than the second-best, "Melting into Spring".