With six seasons of the anime adaptation of Yuki Midorikawa’s manga series Natsume’s Book of Friends out there, that’s a lot of good material to enjoy. The series is one that has a good number of fans but was always limited in some ways as NIS America, which released several seasons of it, never produced an English dub for it.
Recently, Crunchyroll brought out a dub with it kicking off on July 24th, 2022 on their service and it covered the first season as it rolled out. Now, it looks like they’re feeling strong enough about it as the show has added the first episode of the second season, listing it as episode fourteen, which gives us hope of seeing this and more seasons arrive in dubbed form.
. The dub has Jad Saxton directing it with Morgan Laure and Sara Ragsdale assisting with scripts by Jessica Sluys. The English cast includes:
- Adam Gibbs as Takashi Natsume
- Christopher Wehkamp as Madara
- Mike Haimoto as Atsushi
- Matthew Elkins as Satoru
- Paige Guillory as Young Takashi
- Jennifer AuBuchon as Toko
- Alexis Tipton as Reiko Natsume
The cast includes Hiroshi Kamiya as Takashi Natsume, Kazuhiko Inoue as Nyanko-sensei/Madara, Akira Ishida as Shūichi Natori, Eiji Itô as Shigeru Fujiwara, Hisayoshi Suganuma as Atsushi Kitamoto, Junichi Suwabe as Seiji Matoba, Kazuma Horie as Kaname Tanuma, Miki Itou as Tōko Fujiwara, Miyuki Sawashiro as Jun Sasada, Rina Satou as Tōru Taki, Ryohei Kimura as Satoru Nishimura and Sanae Kobayashi as Reiko Natsume.
Viz Media is currently releasing the manga and is caught up to the Japanese releases.
Property concept: Natsume’s Book of Friends follows the story of high school student Takashi Natsume, who possesses a strong ability to see spirits. He inherited this strange ability from his grandmother and has had it as long as he can remember, which has made him introverted and shy. His life changes one day when he receives a mysterious book that belonged to his now deceased grandmother—the Book of Friends. Takashi soon discovers that the book is filled with the names of countless spirits that were sealed away by his grandmother. Not only that—the spirits who have their names written in the book must obey any order given by its owner. As a result, the book becomes a prime target for all roaming spirits trying to gain control of the spirit world.
