Natsume’s Book of Friends Season 7 will premiere during the Fall 2024 anime season. A teaser visual and region-locked teaser trailer have been released.
The staff includes Takahiro Oomori (Season 5 and 6) as chief director, Hideki Ito (Natsume’s Book of Friends: The Waking Rock and the Strange Visitor, Natsume’s Book of Friends: Utsusemi ni Musubu) as director, Sadayuki Murai (Season 3 to 6) as series composer, Akira Takada (returning) as character designer, and Tatsuo Yamada (returning) as yokai designer and action animation director. Like Season 5 and 6, Shuka is the animation production company.
Natsume’s Book of Friends, an adaptation of the Hakusensha-published manga by Yuki Midorikawa, began in 2008. Season 6 aired in 2017, and Season 7 was announced in June 2023. Two anime movies were released in 2018 and 2021.
The manga began in 2005 and has 30 tankoubon volumes as of September 2023. It is currently serialized in in LaLa. Viz Media describes the plot as:
When Reiko was Takashi’s age, she bound the names of demons and spirits in her Book of Friends, enslaving them to her capricious whim. Now Takashi is the owner of the book, and the creatures will do anything to get their names back.
The manga was originally a one-shot published in LaLa DX.
Source: @NatsumeYujincho