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Natsume's Book of Friends: Ephemeral Bond (2018) [N/A]

Release Date:
September 29, 2018

Original Title:
劇場版 夏目友人帳 ～うつせみに結ぶ～

Alternate Titles:
Gekijo-ban Natsume yûjinchô
Gekijouban Natsume Yuujinchou
Gekijouban Natsume Yuujinchou: Utsusemi ni Musubu
Natsume Yujin-cho the Movie: Ephemeral Bond
Natsume Yuujinchou Movie: Utsusemi ni Musubu
Natsume Yuujinchou: Utsusemi ni Musubu
Natsume's Book of Friends Movie: Ephemeral Bond
Natsume's Book of Friends The Movie: Ephemeral Bond
Natsume's Book of Friends the Movie
劇場版 夏目友人帳
夏目友人帐 缘结空蝉

Genres:
Animation | Drama | Fantasy

Production Companies:
Aniplex
Hakusensha
Kinoshita Group
Lawson
NAS
Shuka
TV Tokyo

Production Countries:
Japan

Ratings / Certifications:
JP: G 

Runtime: 104

Overview from TheMovieDB

The movie of Natsume's Book of Friends series. Natsume has been busy, navigating between humans and Yokai when he coincidentally reunites with an old classmate, Yuki. It brings back painful memories of a certain Yokai. Meanwhile, Natsume also became acquainted with Yorie Tsumura, a woman in the memories of a Yokai whose name he had returned. Yorie knew much about Reiko, but now lived a peaceful life with her only son, Mukuo. Being with this family was comforting for Natsume, but apparently a mysterious Yokai has been lurking in their town. On the way back from investigating, a "Yokai seed" that had latched itself to Nyanko Sensei drops into the Fujiwaras' garden and grows overnight into a fruit tree. When Nyanko Sensei eats a fruit that is somehow shaped like himself, he suddenly splits into three!

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Action Director:
Tatsuo Yamada

Animation Director:
Miyuki Ooshiro
Ena Nishikawa
Orie Tanaka
Natsuko Kondou
Kenji Hayama
Eri Yamazaki

Art Direction:
Yukihiro Shibutani

Associate Producer:
Noriko Iwasaki

Background Designer:
Hiroyuki Hasegawa
Niki Higaki
Mao Miyake
Nanae Soji
Kaori Masaki
Masaru Sotoya
Nobuhiro Otsuka
Hiroshi Kanno
Mie Kasai
Fumie Nuibe
Kyoko Shibuya
Yayoi Ogashiwa
Izumi Ozawa
Marie Murata
Kimiyo Saito
Mizuka Ueda
Minami Usui
Eriko Nakamura
Tomomi Masaki
Kohei Kobayashi
Tomoko Yanagishita
Ayumi Takasaki
Yuki Nomura
Sato Takahara

Character Designer:
Akira Takata
Hiromitsu Hagiwara

Comic Book:
Yuki Midorikawa

Compositing Artist:
Haruhide Ishiguro
Isao Shoji
Yusuke Sasano
Kim Bo-ra
Kazuma Shinzato
Kazuma Hatakeyama
Takeshi Miyagawa
Tang Siyu
Shoko Harada
Tetsuji Sakamaki
Kohei Tanada
Yang Xiaomu
Kento Kimura
Takaya Takahashi
Yuichiroh Tozawa
Toshihiro Fujita
Eiko Hirayama
Ryoko Takashimizu
Kanae Ouchi
Atsuko Okui
Yoshiaki Kayaba
Kaneko Fujimaki
Yuuta Nakamura
Fumito Nanba
Shinya Kobayashi
Shinnosuke Inaba
Norimasa Teramoto
Yu Nishino

Creature Design:
Tatsuo Yamada

Director:
Hideki Ito
Takahiro Omori

Director of Photography:
Tetsuya Kawata
Hitoshi Tamura

Editor:
Kazuhiko Seki

Foley Artist:
Masafumi Watanabe

Key Animation:
Orie Tanaka
Hideyuki Motohashi
Tomomi Shimazaki
Madoka Katto
Miyuki Ooshiro
Miyako Kano
Toshinari Yamashita
Yang Peng
Hiroto Yokote
Eri Yamazaki
Terumi Muto
Megumi Miyagawa
Rie Maehara
Jun Maeda
Kenji Hayama
Naoko Hayashi
Eri Nishikawa
Emi Nakamura
Mayumi Nakamura
Hiroshi Tomioka
Shintaro Doge
Ryo Tanaka
Maho Takagi
Kayo Daibou
Kazune Suzuki
Yasuhiro Saiki
Masahiro Koyama
Masahisa Koyata
Yoriko Goto
Masami Gouda
Fumiyo Kimura
Toshie Kawamura
Tomoyo Kamoi
Miki Urashima
Emi Ikebuchi
Shinsuke Ishikawa
Tomomi Ishii
Wataru Abe
Misao Abe
Mamie Ashikaga
Michiko Asada
Atsushi Aono
Zhang Zhicheng
Masakazu Kawazoe
Takuo Tominaga
Tatsuo Yamada
Miyuki Kobayashi

Layout Supervisor:
Masakazu Kawazoe
Takuo Tominaga

Online Editor:
Yuki Honda
Tetsuro Tsukada

Original Music Composer:
Makoto Yoshimori

Prop Designer:
Saka Ikeda

Screenplay:
Sadayuki Murai

Second Unit Director:
Miyuki Ooshiro
Hideki Ito

Sound Effects:
Noriko Izumo

Sound Mixer:
Ryouji Kameda

Special Effects:
Toshio Hasegawa

Storyboard Artist:
Miyuki Ooshiro
Hideki Ito
Masayuki Kojima
Takahiro Omori

Theme Song Performance:
Uru

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