The anime series based on Yuki Midorikawa’s Natsume Yujin-cho/Natsume’s Book of Friends fantasy manga celebrates its 10th anniversary this year.
Following the six seasons of the TV anime from 2008 to 2017, an all-new feature film Gekijyoban Natsume Yujin-cho: Utsusemi ni Musubu (Natsume Yujin-cho The Movie: Promising in the temporal world) is confirmed to be released in Japan on September 29, 2018.
Takahiro Omori, the director of the TV anime’s first four seasons and the general director of the fifth and sixth, is attached with the film as general director, alongside director Hideki Ito, the fifth and sixth’s chief animation director.