Natsume’s Book of Friends Film Reveals Staff, Cast, Title
This year’s May issue of Hakusensha’s LaLa magazine announced on Saturday that the anime film for Yuki Midorikawa’s Natsume’s Book of Friends (Natsume Yūjin-Chō) manga will premiere on September 29 in Japan. The film’s title is Gekijōban Natsume Yūjin-Chō ~Utsusemi ni Musubu~ (Natsume’s Book of Friends the Movie: Tied to the Temporal World), and it 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 Chōbihige
- 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
(Fuente: animenewsnetwork.com)