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Odex to Screen Natsume's Book of Friends Film in Philippines, Indonesia Later this Year
posted on by Rafael Antonio Pineda
Southeast Asian film distributor Odex announced on Friday that it will screen Gekijōban Natsume Yūjinchō ~Utsusemi ni Musubu~ (Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie: Tied to the Temporal World), the anime film for Yuki Midorikawa's Natsume's Book of Friends (Natsume Yūjin-Chō) manga, in the Philippines and Indonesia in late 2018.
The film will premiere on September 29 in Japan, and will feature an original story written under Midorikawa's supervision.
The returning cast includes:
- Hiroshi Kamiya as Takashi Natsume
- Kazuhiko Inoue as Nyanko-sensei
- Sanae Kobayashi as Reiko Natsume
- Akira Ishida as Shūichi Natori
- Kazuma Horie as Kaname Tanuma
- Ryohei Kimura as Satoru Nishimura
- Hisayoshi Suganuma as Atsushi Kitamoto
- Miyuki Sawashiro as Jun Sasada
- Rina Satou as Tōru Taki
- Miki Itou as Tōko Fujiwara
- Eiji Itō as Shigeru Fujiwara
- Satsuki Yukino as Hiiragi
- Akemi Okamura as Hinoe
- Takaya Kuroda as Misuzu
- Chō as Chobihige
- Takashi Matsuyama as One-Eyed Middle Class Yōkai
- Hiroshi Shimozaki as Ox-Faced Middle Class Yōkai
- Kyouko Chikiri as Kappa
Animation studio Shuka returns from the television anime's fifth and sixth seasons to animate the film. Takahiro Ōmori is again serving as chief director, but Hideki Ito is the new director. Sadayuki Murai is again handling series composition, Tatsuo Yamada is returning for yōkai design, and Makoto Yoshimori is again composing the music. Other returning staff members include:
- Sub Character Design: Hiromitsu Hagiwara
- Art Director: Yukihiro Shibutani
- Color Setting: Hiromi Miyawaki
- Editing: Kazuhiko Seki
- Photography: Hitoshi Tamura and Tetsuya Kawada
The anime seasons and Midorikawa's original manga revolve around Natsume, a boy who has been able to see yōkai since he was little. Unfortunately, humans shun him, and there is not much fondness between him and yōkai either. One day, he inherits a Yūjin-Chō ("Book of Friends") from his grandmother. The book is actually full of contracts that his grandmother made to trap yōkai. As one yōkai after another shows up, Natsume tries to release or help them — even while many of them seek vengeance on him.
Natsume Yūjin-Chō Roku, the sixth anime season, aired for 11 episodes starting in April 2017.
