Natsume's Book of Friends, Vol. 5
Takashi thinks he’s found a balance between yokai and friends when he goes with a group of classmates to a country inn for a marathon cram session before school starts again. But even the prosaic threat of homework can’t keep the "other world" at bay, especially when the inn keeper has been...
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Takashi thinks he’s found a balance between yokai and friends when he goes with a group of classmates to a country inn for a marathon cram session before school starts again. But even the prosaic threat of homework can’t keep the "other world" at bay, especially when the inn keeper has been dabbling in mermaid blood!
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9781421532479 (1421532476)
ASIN: 1421532476
Publish date: 2011-01-04
Publisher: VIZ Media LLC
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
Series: Natsume's Book of Friends (#5)
First story: Natsume goes on a study group trip and meets a mermaid and an old woman who believes she used the mermaid's blood to curse a friend of hers with immortality. Second story: Natsume meets Taki, a girl who draws circles that allow her to see any yokai that step into them, and helps her end...
Taki! Taki Taki Taki! And more Tanuma. It's weird to me how much the secondary characters in this can really increase my investment (don't get me wrong, I like Natsume and Sensei, but I love them more when they're interacting with other people, and that generally means Tanuma, Taki or Natori).I thin...
This series is consistently high in quality. Volume 5 continues to be primarily episodic. There are slight differences in structure this time: a larger multi-chapter story, and a half-length and action-free final story that ends rather anticlimactically.We also get a little more exposure to Natsume'...
We meet Natsume's uncle! Natsume makes friends!