The seventh season of Natsume’s Book of Friends is set to start on October 7, 2024. A new short promotional video has been released, showcasing the upcoming season.
The trailer features the main ending theme, Komari Warai, by Toshiki Kondo, which is also available on YouTube.
The opening theme, Alca, will be performed by Hinata Kashiwagi. Crunchyroll will stream this new season, continuing its coverage of the series, as it has done for the previous six seasons.
The series sees the return of familiar faces behind the scenes. Takahiro Omori, who directed the first four seasons, will come back as chief director.
Hideki Ito, who directed the anime movies from 2018, will direct the seventh season. Sadayuki Murai, who worked on the third season, will return as the series screenwriter and scriptwriter.
Akira Takata, the character designer from the first season, will also return. The music for the new season will be composed by Makoto Yoshimori, known for his work on Baccano! and Durarara!.
The animation production will be handled by Shuka, taking over from Brain’s Base. Natsume’s Book of Friends has been a long-running supernatural mystery series, with the last season airing in 2017.
Since then, the series has had two anime movies, released in 2018 and 2021, and a few OVA episodes. The anime is based on a manga by Yuki Midorikawa, which began as a one-shot in 2003 and moved to monthly serialization in 2007.
As of September 2024, the manga has 31 volumes published. The story centers on Takashi Natsume, who inherited a book from his grandmother, Reiko.
This book contains the names of various demons and spirits that Reiko had bound to her will. Now, the spirits seek to reclaim their names and freedom, creating ongoing challenges for Takashi as he handles his supernatural world.
