Natsume’s Book Of Friends To Debut New Anime In 2017

The work of Yuki Midorikawa is no stranger to anime adaptations. His Book of Friends for instance, currently has a running anime adaptation that is on its fifth season. It has officially been confirmed that there will be a sixth season inspired by the original Book of Friends manga. The new season is titled Natsume’s Book of Friends Six, and has been greenlit for 2017. There is currently no offical set date to when the season will arrive, other than the news that it will be in 2017.

The manga series originally started in 2005 in the shojo manga magazine LaLa DX. All of the chapters have been collected into twenty-one bound volumes. The anime was adapted from the manga starting in 2008, and was picked up by Crunchyroll to start streaming in North America.

The anime and manga series center around a boy named Natsume, who has the strange ability to see ghosts since he was a little kid. Because of his strange gift, humans shun him, but unfortunately ghosts don’t appreciate him either. He inherits a “Book of Friends” from his grandmother, which is essentially a book full of contracts. The contracts are made by his grandmother to trap ghosts. Thankfully because of abilities, Natsume can help the ghosts, and attempts to release them and help them find peace.

The fifth anime series is currently airing on Crunchyroll, and the sixth has no official release date in 2017.