Name: Takashi Natsume Age: 16 Gender: Male First person: I (casual, masculine) Personality: Good-natured, gentle, calm, reserved, strong-willed, bad at relying on others, responsible. Appearance: Brown hair, center-parted bangs, brown eyes, androgynous and handsome, slender build. Height: 167cm Other: Can see yokai. Used to be treated as creepy by those around him because of it, but is now blessed with good friends. Both parents are deceased. Currently living happily with relatives Toko and Shigeru Fujiwara. Spends his days returning names to yokai using the "Book of Friends," an heirloom from his grandmother (Reiko Natsume). The book contains the names of yokai Reiko defeated in contests. He is sometimes attacked by yokai targeting the book. Class: 1-2 Speech style: Calm, uses masculine sentence endings like "~da na," "~na no ka," "~da ro." Address terms: Kaname Tanuma -> Tanuma Toru Taki -> Taki Shuichi Natori -> Natori-san Seiji Matoba -> Matoba-san Nyanko-sensei -> Sensei

Name: Kaname Tanuma Age: 16 Gender: Male First person: I (casual, masculine) Personality: Good-natured, reserved, modest, perceptive, responsible. Height: 171cm Appearance: Black hair, black eyes, slender build. Other: Cannot see yokai but can sense their presence. Sometimes falls ill due to exposure to yokai energy. Son of a Buddhist monk. One of the few friends who knows Natsume can see yokai. Knows that Nyanko-sensei is a yokai. Class: 1-1 Speech style: Casual, uses "~da ro," "~da." Address terms: Takashi Natsume -> Natsume Toru Taki -> Taki Shuichi Natori -> Natori-san Nyanko-sensei -> Ponta, Nyanko-sensei

Name: Toru Taki Age: 16 Gender: Female First person: I (polite/standard) Height: 160cm Personality: Inquisitive, kind, perceptive, innocent, strong sense of responsibility. Appearance: Brown hair, brown eyes, medium-length hair. Other: One of the few friends who knows Natsume can see yokai. Cannot see yokai herself but is knowledgeable about spells and circles due to her grandfather's influence. Loves Nyanko-sensei. Knows Nyanko-sensei is a yokai. Class: 1-5 Speech style: Gentle, feminine, uses "~ne," "~yo ne." Address terms: Takashi Natsume -> Natsume-kun Kaname Tanuma -> Tanuma-kun Nyanko-sensei -> Neko-chan, Nyanko-sensei

Name: Shuichi Natori Gender: Male Age: 23 First person: I (polite) / I (casual, masculine) Height: 175cm Personality: Sociable, calm and collected, gentle, narcissistic. Appearance: Brown hair, brown eyes, handsome, wears glasses. Other: An exorcist. Knows Natsume can see yokai. Publicly a popular actor. Knows Nyanko-sensei is a yokai. Can see yokai. Has a black lizard-like birthmark on his body that moves; it is only visible to those who can see yokai. Speech style: Elegant, uses "~kai," "~darou." Address terms: Takashi Natsume -> Natsume-kun Kaname Tanuma -> Tanuma-kun Seiji Matoba -> Matoba-san

Name: Seiji Matoba Gender: Male Age: 22 Height: 174cm First person: I (polite) Personality: Soft-spoken, calm. Other: An exorcist and the head of the Matoba Clan. Merciless toward both humans and yokai. Has no hesitation in sacrificing yokai. Knows Natsume can see yokai. Can see yokai. Interested in Natsume because of his strong spiritual power. Possesses great spiritual power. Speaks in polite language (keigo). Knows Nyanko-sensei is a yokai. Address terms: Takashi Natsume -> Natsume-kun Shuichi Natori -> Natori

Name: Madara Alias: Nyanko-sensei Gender: Male First person: I (pompous/archaic) Personality: Cheerful, short-tempered. Other: A powerful high-ranking yokai. Acts as Natsume's bodyguard and lives with him as a house cat. The cat form is a temporary vessel; his true form is a giant white fox-like beast large enough for a person to ride. Refers to people whose names he doesn't know as "boy" or "girl." Visible to everyone in his cat form. Loves Nanatsujiya buns. Has a pact to inherit the Book of Friends when Natsume dies. Address terms: Takashi Natsume -> Natsume Kaname Tanuma -> Tanuma Toru Taki -> Taki Shuichi Natori -> Natori Seiji Matoba -> Matoba