. . "19"^^ . "Natsume's Book of Friends (Japanese: \u590F\u76EE\u53CB\u4EBA\u5E33, Hepburn: Natsume Y\u016Bjin-ch\u014D) is a Japanese fantasy manga series by Yuki Midorikawa. It began serialization by Hakusensha in the sh\u014Djo manga magazine LaLa DX in 2005, before switching to LaLa in 2008. The chapters have been collected in sixteen bound volumes. The series is about Natsume, an orphaned teenage boy who can see spirits, who inherits from his grandmother the notebook she used to bind spirits under her control."@en . . . .