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False Friend
Natsume's Book of Friends - S3 - E3
Natsume is approached by someone he knew from elementary school. He wants nothing to do with them, but they threaten to reveal his secret: that he can see Youkai, if he doesn't come along with them. He reluctantly goes with them, and is taken to meet a strange girl...
Natsume's Book of Friends: Season 3 - 13 Episode s
3x1 - The Name of a Monster
July 5, 2011
One day, Natsume finds a yokai named Kagejawan running around near his home, which he soon learns means disaster is about to strike.
3x2 - Ukihara Village
July 12, 2011
Natsume is accosted by a spirit who asks for her brother's name back. She says that both of them have come from the village of floating spring, a paradise sealed off from the land of men. Meanwhile, the local Youkai are happy that the local priest is no longer in his temple. Natsume worries for his friend Tanuma, the priest's son, but isn't sure what to say...
3x3 - False Friend
July 19, 2011
Natsume is approached by someone he knew from elementary school. He wants nothing to do with them, but they threaten to reveal his secret: that he can see Youkai, if he doesn't come along with them. He reluctantly goes with them, and is taken to meet a strange girl...
3x4 - Young Days
July 26, 2011
Midterms are over, and Natsume leaves on a trip with Nishimura, Kitamoto, and Sasada. He realizes that the scenery he's viewing from the train is from one of the places he grew up in, when he was passed around from one family to the next. He'd thought he didn't have any good memories of the time, but then he remembers what happened when he lived there...
3x5 - The Thing That Lurks in the Storeroom
August 2, 2011
Natsume helps clean the stoeroom at Taki's house with Tanuma. He realizes that one of the kimonos that her grandfather, who researched youkai, used to ward off demons was missing, but decides not to tell them so they won't be scared. But that kimono was an old doll youkai, who was trying to recover its body which was torn apart when her grandfather sealed it
3x6 - That Which Is Not Human
August 11, 2011
There is something killing Youkai and draining them of their blood. Natsume can't help but investigate and runs into old friends.
3x7 - Exorcist
August 16, 2011
Natsume finds out who's been stealing the youkai blood: the exorcist Matoba Seiji. He investigates with the help of Natori, but is captured by Matoba's servant youkai. Matoba is willing to sacrifice any number of youkai for his own ambitions. He tells Natsume why he's gathering blood: to release the seal on a powerful youkai. Natsume learns that there are people who treat Youkai in a totally different way than he or even Natori.
3x8 - The Fox Child's Watch
August 23, 2011
Natsume is invited to go to a pottery classroom with Shigeru. It's being held in an inn where he once stayed. When he goes there, he meets an old friend: the young fox child he once saved.
3x9 - Through the Autumn Wind
August 30, 2011
Without Sensei to protect him, Natsume has to remain constantly on guard. But the pressure of keeping secrets from his friends is causing Natsume to break.
3x10 - The Broken Mirror
September 6, 2011
After a brief incident in the forest, Tanuma has become distant to Natsume like he is avoiding something. In the meantime, there is something breaking glass around the school.
3x11 - What the Mirror Shows
September 13, 2011
Tanuma is experiencing how Natsume lives every day. While Natsume and the youkai gain an understanding.
3x12 - A place to go home to
September 20, 2011
A youkai from Natsume past has found him and memories of living with relatives before the Fujiwaras are explored.
3x13 - Natsume's Book of Play
September 27, 2011
The youkai hold a party to celebrate Natsume. Things get out of hand when they ask Natsume for a human game, and he suggests Shadow Tag. When Nyanko-sensei becomes "it", he starts stomping youkai left and right. And then Misuzu-sama, the 100 foot tall youkai, shows up...