Supporting[edit]

Kaname Tanuma (田沼 要, Tanuma Kaname)

Voiced by: Kazuma Horie (Japanese); Tyson Rinehart[8] (English)
Another student that had recently moved into the area. He is sickly and quite susceptible to
illnesses. Like Takashi, he is able to detect spirits, but to a lesser degree limited to seeing
merely shadows and sensing slight presence of spirits. He wants to help Takashi in any way
he can, but is afraid that he will just be a burden because of his weak ability. He became a
close companion and even knew about Takashi's secret of seeing spirits and always helped
him whenever he is in a tight spot.
Touru Taki (多軌 透, Taki Tōru)
Voiced by: Rina Satō[9]
A new girl at school who rarely talks because of a curse a spirit has placed on her, which
Takashi later helps her to break. She is an onmyouji; she cannot see spirits without drawing
a magic circle. Taki, like Tanuma, wants to help Takashi in any way possible. She has an
older brother who is staying at university and flatly refuses to believe that yōkai even exist.
Jun Sasada (笹田 純, Sasada Jun)
Voiced by: Miyuki Sawashiro[3] (Japanese); Marisa Duran[10] (English)
The class president of Takashi's homeroom. Sasada believes that Takashi can see, hear
and battle spirits, although he repeatedly denies this to her. To Takashi's chagrin, she
frequently tries to accompany him when he is on business involving spirits. She is a recurring
character in the anime; in the manga, she is rarely seen after the encounter with Shigure due
to transferring to another school from her stepfather's new job.
Shuuichi Natori (名取 周一, Natori Shūichi)
Voiced by: Akira Ishida,[3] Fuyuka Ōura (young) (Japanese); Aaron Roberts,[11] Macy Anne
Johnson[12] (young) (English)
A man who is also able to see spirits. He is a famous actor and exorcist and has a lizard
birthmark that moves around on his body. He has the ability to manipulate paper dolls
(Shikigami) and has three spirits under his command. Takashi tends to disapprove of his
forceful exorcism methods. When Natori is first introduced, he hated spirits for his horrible
childhood. But, after meeting Takashi, he gradually softens even though his ways are not
much different. Over the course of meeting Takashi, Natori developed concern for his
wellbeing, for he tends to be too softhearted and reckless when it involves fellow exorcists or
spirits with malicious intent alike. However, he does acknowledge that Takashi may even be
much more powerful than himself or even those strongest of the nefarious Matoba clan. In
the sixth season finale, he is finally is told about Reiko and her Book of Friends by Takashi,
who thinks that such an old artifact as powerful as it is dangerous would be better off burned,
but keeps its existence for Takashi's sake.
Hiiragi (柊)
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino[3] (Japanese); Jill Harris[13] (English)
Seiji Matoba (的場 静司, Matoba Seiji)
Voiced by: Junichi Suwabe (Japanese); Reagan Murdock[14] (English)
The head of the Matoba clan who is twenty-two years old. A coldhearted yet levelheaded
young man, Seiji is a topmost-level exorcist who does not mind sacrificing innocent yōkai to
reach his goals. Although he wants stronger yōkai to protect humans, he will not hesitate in
hurting anyone who gets in his way. He is mostly seen armed with a bow and arrow, which
he uses to eliminate yōkai. There is a scar on his right eye, covered by an eye patch with a
certain protection spell on it, due to an ancestor offering his eye to a yōkai for assistance but
ended up breaking his promise. This causes later heads of the clan to have their eye
targeted by that yōkai, and the distrust from other clans. After his first encounter with
Takashi, he immediately takes great interest in him, and even later asks him to join the
Matoba clan since finding out he is the grandson of Reiko herself.
 Atsushi Kitamoto (北本 篤史, Kitamoto
Atsushi) and Satoru Nishimura (西村 悟, Nishimura
Satoru)
Voiced by: Hisayoshi Suganuma[3] and Ryōhei Kimura[3] (Japanese); Mike Haimoto and
Matthew Elkins[4] (English)
Classmates of Takashi. Kitamoto is a sensible and rational person, while Nishimura is funny
and easy-going, with a slightly perverted side. Although Takashi initially rejects their
overtures of friendship because of his fears of his ability being found out, he eventually
becomes friends with them, although they still hang around more with each other than
Takashi. Nishimura has a crush on Taki, but thinks that she and Takashi are going out.
Touko Fujiwara (藤原 塔子, Fujiwara Tōko)
and Shigeru Fujiwara (藤原 滋, Fujiwara
Shigeru)
Voiced by: Miki Itō  (Japanese); Jennifer AuBuchon[4] and Seth Magill[15] (English)
[3]

A childless middle-aged couple and Takashi's current foster parents. Shigeru is a second
cousin of Takashi's dead father, and as a boy once met Reiko without recognizing it was her.
Both Touko and Shigeru assure Takashi that they consider him a part of their family. They
both worry often about him, wanting him to be as happy as possible. Despite this, Takashi
goes to great lengths to hide his ability from them. Slowly, Takashi comes to understand that
his keeping the Fujiwaras at a distance, including always addressing them formally
(see Honorific speech in Japanese), is preventing him from forming close human
attachments. Despite this, he still fears being rejected because of his ever
developing/increasing spiritual abilities.
One-Eyed Middle Class Yōkai (一つ
目の中級妖怪) and Ox-Faced Middle
Class Yōkai (牛顔の中級妖怪)
Voiced by: Takashi Matsuyama  and Hiroshi Shimozaki[3] (Japanese); Brian Mathis,[16] Greg
[3]

Dulcie[6] (English)
Hinoe (ヒノエ)
Voiced by: Akemi Okamura[3] (Japanese); Molly Searcy[17] (English)
A powerful yōkai whose form is a blue-haired human woman. She is madly in love with
Reiko. Being knowledgeable, she often acts as Takashi's mentor. Hinoe enjoys teasing
Takashi and Madara; the former because of his unncanny resemblance to Reiko.
Misuzu (三篠)
Voiced by: Takaya Kuroda[3] (Japanese); Chris Ryan[12] (English)
A huge powerful horse yōkai with many followers. He acknowledges that Takashi is a worthy
holder of the Book of Friends and offers himself as Takashi's bodyguard in place of the
"useless" Madara.
Kappa (カッ
パ)
Voiced by: Kyōko Chikiri  (Japanese); Danielle Yoshiko Phillips  (English)
[3] [18]

Kogitsun
e (子狐, 
Little
Fox)
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (Japanese); Kristen McGuire[19] (English)
An orphaned fox yōkai whose form is a boy with fox ears and tail however humans only see
him as an infant fox. He becomes friends with Takashi after being rescued from
bullying yokai.
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Voiced by: Chō

Credits to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natsume%27s_Book_of_Friends