Review of Natsume's Book of Friends

A friend strongly recommended this series to me and insisted that I need to watch the whole season before drawing conclusion. While i think the season as a whole is bad. The last episode is pretty good, which gives me hope that the next season can be pretty good. So I will give season 2 a shot. Art 5/10: it does the job of telling the story but offer nothing more. Mediocre. Sound 5/10: Solid voice acting except that i don't like voice acting of Nyanko, purely personal preference here. I do love the ending song though. Overall, just mediocre. Character 5/10: Again mediocre. There is lack ofdevelopment in general. Natsume is portrayed as a nice, lonely guy and nothing else. The other characters are even flatter. There are some returning characters at the end of the season (i.e. the fox kid) that gives me hope that next season will be better.

Story 3/10: I know what they are trying to do: having little stand alone stories that try to connect with audience on the emotional level. To me, they failed miserably for most of the episodes. The stories were often too simple. Most side characters only showed up once, resulting that they are flat and not believeable. It is hard for me to have emotional connection if i don't buy into the story or invested in the characters. I think the season would be much better if they get rid of at least half of the episodes that has nothing to do with main character development or introducing returning characters

Enjoyment 4/10: 2-3 good episodes mixed with boring ones that was a waster of my time.

Overall 4/10. In my system, this means that this is waste of my time while not offensively bad. I do feel the 2nd season can be better.