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Eyes Of Gold has been renamed to Supernatural Gold Eyes as per this thread
, because the trope is for characters with supernatural origins that have gold eyes. It\'s not for anyone who just happens to have them. So, anything that doesn\'t fit the definition or Zero Context Examples will be removed. If the example fits, please put it back with more context.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - Natsume is a [[HairOfGold blond]] with EyesOfGold. Both are Silver in the manga.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - Natsume is a [[HairOfGold blond]] with EyesOfGold.withgold eyes. Both are Silver in the manga.
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* EyesOfGold
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** UglyCute: Taki finds him to be irresistibly adorable, and {{glomp}}s him whenever she gets the chance.
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** UglyCute: Taki (and probably '''you''') finds him to be irresistibly adorable, and {{glomp}}s him whenever she gets the chance.
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* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him. He's also been kidnapped by Matoba two or three times. Nyanko-sensei frequently bails him out.
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* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him. He's also been kidnapped by Matoba two or three times. Nyanko-sensei frequently usually bails him out.
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* TheScrappy: Invoked- Natsume was this to almost every human he meet up until the beginning of the series, due to nobody being able to believe him when he freaked out at the youkai who often were trying to either scare him or eat him.
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* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him.
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* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him. He's also been kidnapped by Matoba two or three times. Nyanko-sensei frequently bails him out.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Nishimura, though contrary to the trope, they have fairly important roles in the plot as one of the few (non-psychic) people who are close friends of Natsume.
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* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Nishimura, though contrary to the trope, they have fairly important roles in the plot as one of the few (non-psychic) people who are close friends of Natsume. They also get more screentime than anyone other than Natsume and Nyanko-sensei.
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* AttractiveBentGender - Though it's not really an outright gender bend -Natsume just gets possessed by a Youkai who happens to be female, and who occasionally slips to the surface causing him to to exhibit feminine qualities (sometimes seemingly having longer hair). All of his friends start finding themselves disturbingly attracted to him.
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* AttractiveBentGender - Though it's not really an outright gender bend -Natsume just gets possessed by a Youkai who happens to be female, and who occasionally slips to the surface causing him to to exhibit feminine qualities (sometimes seemingly having longer hair). All of his friends start finding themselves [[StupidSexyFlanders disturbingly attracted to him.him]].
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long, silky hair, and sometimes wears a sun-hat with a pink ribbon and a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long, silky hair, and sometimes wears has worn a sun-hat with a pink ribbon and a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long, silky hair, and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long, silky hair, and sometimes wears a sun-hat with a pink ribbon and a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.dress.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long hair and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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* ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long hair long, silky hair, and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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* ViewerGenderConfusing: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long hair and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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* ViewerGenderConfusing: ViewerGenderConfusion: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long hair and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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* ViewerGenderConfusing: He's still young, is drawn as a [[GenericCuteness generically cute child]], has long hair and sometimes wears a long, white shirt that could be mistaken for a dress and a girl's sun-hat.
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** Contrary to the stereotype, however, he cannot transform (possibly because he is just too young) and is rather straightforward, not [[TheTrickster tricky]] in the least, nor particularly clever.
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** Contrary to the stereotype, however, he cannot transform (possibly because he is just too young) and is rather straightforward, not [[TheTrickster tricky]] in the least, nor particularly clever.cunning.
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* {{Kitsune}} [[SarcasmMode You don't say!]]
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* {{Kitsune}} {{Kitsune}}: [[SarcasmMode You don't say!]]
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* {{Kitsune}} [[SarcasmMode You don't say!]]
** Contrary to the stereotype, however, he cannot transform (possibly because he is just too young) and is rather straightforward, not [[TheTrickster tricky]] in the least, nor particularly clever.
** Contrary to the stereotype, however, he cannot transform (possibly because he is just too young) and is rather straightforward, not [[TheTrickster tricky]] in the least, nor particularly clever.
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* PettingZooPeople: Although ordinary people just see him as a regular fox.
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires and looks up to Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor. The rock God's "humans, ayakashi, and beasts have different times" speech to the fox child about why he and Natsume shouldn't be together and his resulting angst seemed to imply [[MayDecemberRomance something else]] though.
* NoNameGiven
* NoNameGiven
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires and looks up to Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor. The rock God's "humans, ayakashi, and beasts have different times" speech to the fox child in season three about why he and Natsume shouldn't be together and his resulting angst seemed to imply [[MayDecemberRomance something else]] though.
*NoNameGivenMundaneObjectAmazement: Falls in love with a [[NiceHat pretty hat]] and a cracked human watch.
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires and looks up to Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.BigBrotherMentor. The rock God's "humans, ayakashi, and beasts have different times" speech to the fox child about why he and Natsume shouldn't be together and his resulting angst seemed to imply [[MayDecemberRomance something else]] though.
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.
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* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.BigBrotherMentor.
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* TheArcher: His main tool of exorcism is a bow.
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* TheArcher: His main tool of exorcism is a bow.bow.
!! Kitsune-Kodomo (The Little Fox-child)
* AdorablyPrecociousChild
* MissingMom: Died before Natsume met him.
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.
!! Kitsune-Kodomo (The Little Fox-child)
* AdorablyPrecociousChild
* MissingMom: Died before Natsume met him.
* HeartwarmingOrphan
* PrecociousCrush: Maybe, but he probably just really, really, ''really'' admires Natsume as a BigBrotherMentor.
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* ChivalrousPervert: In most series, he would not be considered this. In [[NoHuggingNoKissing such a series as this]], when he is the [[ChasteTeenagers only one of Natsume's companions]] who has a crush on somebody and insists that they should have a cafe with bunny girls for the school festival, he comes off as one.
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* ChivalrousPervert: In most series, he would not be considered this. In [[NoHuggingNoKissing such a series as this]], when he is the [[ChasteTeenagers [[ChasteTeens only one of Natsume's companions]] who has a crush on somebody and insists that they should have a cafe with bunny girls for the school festival, he comes off as one.
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* ChivalrousPervert: In most series, he would not be considered this. In [[NoHuggingNoKissing such a series as this]], when he is the [[ChasteTeenagers only one of Natsume's companions]] who has a crush on somebody and insists that they should have a cafe with bunny girls for the school festival, he comes off as one.
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* ChildhoodFriends: With Nishimura, or at least it seems that way.
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*ChildhoodFriends: With Kitamoto.
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* BokeAndTsukkomiRoutine: Occasionally plays the StraightMan to Nishimura, but not constantly.
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* NiceGuy: Natsume's first real friend, he and Kitamoto really do a lot for him.
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* {{Keet}}
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** UglyCute: Taki finds him to be irresistibly adorable, and {{glomp}}s him whenever she gets the chance.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He frequently knocks out strong ayakashi with a punch, the most frequent victim being Madara. It's useless against humans though.
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* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He frequently knocks out strong ayakashi youkai with a punch, the most frequent victim being Madara. It's useless against humans though.though, since it's his SoulPower which does all the work, rather than his physical strength.
* SoulPower: He has a lot of spiritual power, which is the reason behind all of the other supernatural tropes that apply to him, including his ability to [[PunchedAcrossTheRoom punch youkai clear across a room]].
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* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Lets face it. If Natsume suddenly turned into a girl half way through the series, no one would know the difference. And we love him for it.
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* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Lets Let's face it. If Natsume suddenly turned into a girl half way through the series, no one would know the difference. And we love him for it.
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* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - Natsume is a [[HairOfGold blond]] with EyesOfGold. Both are Sliver in the manga.
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!!Natsume Takashi
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy white hair]] and [[GrayEyes silver eyes]] in the manga.
* AttractiveBentGender - Though it's not really an outright gender bend -Natsume just gets possessed by a Youkai who happens to be female, and who occasionally slips to the surface causing him to to exhibit feminine qualities (sometimes seemingly having longer hair). All of his friends start finding themselves disturbingly attracted to him.
* {{Bishonen}}: Looks almost exactly like his grandmother.
* BreakTheCutie: The story of his childhood.
* CassandraTruth: Happened a lot during his childhood.
* ChickMagnet: Proves to be this on episode 35.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Natsume will rush headlong toward Youkai, and all kinds of other danger if he knows someone is in trouble. Knowing full well that his opponents are more often than not much ''much'' stronger than.
* ClassicalAntihero - Natsume. He's an ordinary human minus the ability to see youkai, and is filled with self-doubt and trust issues.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - Natsume is a [[HairOfGold blond]] with EyesOfGold. Both are Sliver in the manga.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He frequently knocks out strong ayakashi with a punch, the most frequent victim being Madara. It's useless against humans though.
* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: And so he tries to act manly and uses masculine speech, according to WordOfGod.
** The following exchange near the end of the second season highlights on it:
--->'''Kai:''' ...Sorry for calling you a sprout, a chopping board, and a girly boy...
--->'''Natsume:''' Ah, w-well, i-it's okay...
--->'''Tanuma, Taki & Sensei:''' (suppressed snorts & laughter)
--->'''Natsume:''' ...''Notamusing!''
--->'''Trio:''' (guilty, somber, not meeting one another's eyes) ...Right!
** When Natsume shows his friends his parents photo, they compared him to his ''mother'' at instant, not father.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He considers himself an inconvenience to the people around him, and considers even simply asking for help with something to be a selfish indulgence.
* IdenticalGrandson: Natsume Takashi looks a ''lot'' like his grandmother Reiko, original owner of the Book of Friends. and since many (if not all, Hinoe certainly seems to express a preference) Youkai don't really care too much about gender, Natsume tends to get Youkai who are looking for his ''grandmother'' on his tail.
** Taken to it's logical conclusion when someone calls Natsume "Girly Man".
* IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At first. [[spoiler: He grows out of it later.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Depends if youkai count.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Lets face it. If Natsume suddenly turned into a girl half way through the series, no one would know the difference. And we love him for it.
* LastNameBasis: Almost no one calls him by his birth name Takashi.
* MagneticMedium
* TheMessiah
* MoralityPet: Sort of one for Madara/Nyanko-sensei.
* NiceGuy
* NoSocialSkills
* NotGoodWithPeople
* [[OrphansOrdeal Orphan's Ordeal]] - A good bit of Natsume's difficulty with people (and his reluctance to tell the Fujiwaras about his abilities) stems from the fact that, up until then, he was passed around from relative to relative because nobody wanted to deal with the CreepyChild that kept telling "lies" about [[ISeeDeadPeople seeing ghosts and Youkai]].
** AbusiveParents: Chapter 31 confirms that several of the parents he's lived with were physically or emotionally abusive.
* ParentalAbandonment: Natsume's parents are dead, and every single family he's lived with before the Fujiwara's looked forward to the day he left their family, since he could [[ISeeDeadPeople see spirits.]]
* PlotMagnet
* PsychicPowers
* TheScrappy: Invoked- Natsume was this to almost every human he meet up until the beginning of the series, due to nobody being able to believe him when he freaked out at the youkai who often were trying to either scare him or eat him.
* SilentScapegoat - Natsume often wound up as one in his adolescence, when Ayakashi started causing acts of vandalism around him; his options were either to let everyone believe he was some sort of delinquent, or let them believe he was some sort of ''crazy'' delinquent.
* SociallyAwkwardHero
* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious
* SuperStrength - One of Natsume's paranormal powers is the ability to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out particuarly strong Youkai.]] Apparently it only works on them, though.
* TheHero
* WeirdnessMagnet
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Natsume, in the manga
!!Madara/Nyanko-sensei
* TheAlcoholic: Really likes to drink sake in his spare time.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Gets frequently distracted in his cat-form, often mid-sentence.
* BigBadassWolf: His true form is a ''huge'' and rather powerful inukami.
* BigEater
* CatsAreMean
* FatCat
* {{Gonk}}: Pretty much known to everyone as "Natsume's hideous cat".
* IAmBigBoned: Very insistent that his cat form is ''not'' fat, merely very fluffy.
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: His relationship with Natsume is formed on this trope -- In return for serving as his bodyguard, he gets the Book of Friends after Natsume dies.
* ImAHumanitarian: Natsume [[KidWithTheLeash keeps him on a leash]], but he has asked on occasion to eat particularly grating humans.
* TheImp - Nyanko-sensei/Madara.
* IntellectualAnimal - Kind of. Madara is a Youkai example. Though most Youkai tend to be at least sentient.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his claims to be a ruthless, cruel and uncaring monster who threatens to eat other youkai or humans on a whim, [[InformedAttribute Madara is terribly benign compared to many other youkai that appears in the series]]. That image stayed for a little while to begin with, but is completely shattered when Madara pulls a Ghibli-style rescue on a little girl who fell down a cliff. Wanting the Yuujinchou was definitely one of his most important motives, and even this is called into question when Madara tempted Nastume to drink mermaid blood. Nastume called him out on this, saying if he was immortal, Madara would never get the Yuujinchou, to which Madara lapses into silence.
* ManekiNeko: His ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Nobody besides Natsume bothers to get Nyanko-sensei's name right.
** Giving us such gems as Nyan-Nyan Sensei, Nyankichi-kun, and Nyangoro. Tanuma eschews trying to remember it altogether, and just calls him Ponta.
* NobleDemon: Madara continues to insist that he's really nasty and uncaring and only hangs around Natsume because the latter is his prey (or alternatively his servant). He's not really fooling anyone.
* NotSoAboveItAll - Nyanko-sensei regularly brings up his truly awesome powers and the fact that he is "not a fortune cat, damn it!" - Until Natsume starts petting him, or hanging a chew toy in front of his face. Or he spots a grasshopper. Or a little girl has fallen down a cliff and needs rescuing.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: In SleepModeSize.
* SarcasticDevotee
* SleepModeSize: He's been sealed inside a ManekiNeko for so long that it's effectively become his default form.
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick - Nyanko Sensei/Madara.
* SpiritAdvisor - Nyanko-sensei... sort of.
* TeamPet: Sort of. He's not ''technically'' a pet.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can transform into a ManekiNeko, a BigBadassWolf true form, a girl[[hottip:*:based on Reiko]], and Natsume Takashi.
!!Natsume Reiko
* {{Badass}}: You know you're one when you can defeat every single ayakashi you come across. Two bullies throw a rock at her and she manages to knock it back ''with a stick'', without flinching or hesitation.
* BrokenBird: Became rather angry and violent thanks to the treatment she's received over the years.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Hinoe's attraction to her is anything but subtle, though slightly subverted as Hinoe DoesNotLikeMen and most non-humans tend to disregard gender.
* EyesOfGold
* GlorySeeker: Probably the reason why she takes the names of the youkai.
* HairOfGold
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Was said to hate both humans and ayakashi alike.
* PosthumousCharacter: Reiko. Once Natsume has returned the name of a youkai, a flashback is usually shown about the circumstances surrounding when Reiko first took the name.
* ShroudedInMyth
!!Tanuma Kaname
* IllBoy: He's more vulnerable to the influence of spirits, so he tends to get sick quite easily.
* NiceGuy
* NotGoodWithPeople: Tanuma also sees Youkai, but worries that he won't be of any use, or will just be a burden on Natsume, because of his weak power - he can only see shadows and glimpses of Youkai.
* PsychicPowers: Can feel the youkai's presence and can sometimes see shadows, can't exactly see their corporeal forms.
* SecretKeeper
!!Taki Tooru
* CutenessProximity: Although her eye for cuteness is called into question when she has this reaction to Nyanko-sensei (who everyone else regards as the cat equivalent to a {{Gonk}}).
* TheQuietOne: At first, but that was only because [[spoiler: an evil youkai cursed her, so that the last thirteen people whose names she says will die. Natsume helps her break it.]] After that, she became more like the GenkiGirl.
* SecretKeeper
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Taki has [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takicrossdressing_8144.jpg one panel]] of this for a school festival crossdressing cafe, and looks damn good too.
!!Sasada Jun
* AdaptationExpansion: In the original manga (chapter 5) she moved away after the test of courage. In the anime she is still interacting with Natsume after the test of courage.
* ClassRepresentative
* DoggedNiceGuy - Non-romantic example in Sasada Jun who's basically trying to get Natsume to spill the beans on the supernatural spirits thing.
* {{Meganekko}}
* SecretKeeper: Promises not to tell anyone about Natsume's ability to see youkai(although he refuses to admit he can, she's just convinced of it and is extremely nosy on her own).
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Is rather strict even to her own classmates, but actually rather sensitive on the inside.
!!Natori Shuuichi
* AnimatedTattoo - Natori has one. Which is also a Youkai.
* BigBrotherMentor: Slowly becomes this to Natsume.
* BishieSparkle
* {{Bishonen}}
* ChickMagnet
* DistinguishingMark: Has a lizard shaped birthmark that moves across his body and can only be seen by other spiritually inclined people. It's actually an ayakashi living inside his skin.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EvenTheGuysWantHim - In the manga, Natori's horde of squeeing fangirls [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natsume-yuujinchou-857822_1890.jpg includes Nishimura.]]
* PaperMaster
* PsychicPowers: Can see and exorcise the youkai.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Not quite since glass can enhance one's ability to see Ayakashi.
* TripleShifter: Both an actor and an exorcist.
!!Kitamoto Atsushi
* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Nishimura, though contrary to the trope, they have fairly important roles in the plot as one of the few (non-psychic) people who are close friends of Natsume.
!!Nishimura Satoru
* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Kitamoto.
!!Fujiwara Touko
* GoodParents
* {{Housewife}}
* ParentalSubstitute
!!Fujiwara Shigeru
* GoodParents
* ParentalSubstitute
!!Matoba Seiji
* {{Bishounen}}
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: He likes to exploit Natsume's weaknesses, like his concern for a youkai's well-being or desire to keep his foster parents in the dark about his ability to see youkai because it might distress them, to force Natsume to collaborate with him. Several times.]]
* DissonantSerenity
* EyepatchOfPower
* EyeScream: Above mentioned EyepatchOfPower also covers up a wound left from an ayakashi who attacked Matoba's right eye. He still has right eye and can see but cannot estimate distances well.
* FoeYay: With Natsume.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just look how he treats his shiki.
* ManipulativeBastard: He manipulates Natsume into helping the Matoba Clan [[spoiler:expose an exorcist possessed by a spirit that hates the Matoba Clan and attacking them by conveniently leaving out exactly who was being attacked.]] See also {{Blackmail}} above.
* SoftSpokenSadist
* TheArcher: His main tool of exorcism is a bow.
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!!Natsume Takashi
* AdaptationDyeJob: Has [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy white hair]] and [[GrayEyes silver eyes]] in the manga.
* AttractiveBentGender - Though it's not really an outright gender bend -Natsume just gets possessed by a Youkai who happens to be female, and who occasionally slips to the surface causing him to to exhibit feminine qualities (sometimes seemingly having longer hair). All of his friends start finding themselves disturbingly attracted to him.
* {{Bishonen}}: Looks almost exactly like his grandmother.
* BreakTheCutie: The story of his childhood.
* CassandraTruth: Happened a lot during his childhood.
* ChickMagnet: Proves to be this on episode 35.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Natsume will rush headlong toward Youkai, and all kinds of other danger if he knows someone is in trouble. Knowing full well that his opponents are more often than not much ''much'' stronger than.
* ClassicalAntihero - Natsume. He's an ordinary human minus the ability to see youkai, and is filled with self-doubt and trust issues.
* CurtainsMatchTheWindow - Natsume is a [[HairOfGold blond]] with EyesOfGold. Both are Sliver in the manga.
* DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu: He frequently knocks out strong ayakashi with a punch, the most frequent victim being Madara. It's useless against humans though.
* DistressedDude: Natsume has the bad habit of getting captured frequently. For instance, in episode 5 of season three. He gets captured by an ayakashi that's intent on cutting off his arm so that it can use it to retrieve its lost head. Natsume's friends are left frantically searching the house for him.
* DudeLooksLikeALady: And so he tries to act manly and uses masculine speech, according to WordOfGod.
** The following exchange near the end of the second season highlights on it:
--->'''Kai:''' ...Sorry for calling you a sprout, a chopping board, and a girly boy...
--->'''Natsume:''' Ah, w-well, i-it's okay...
--->'''Tanuma, Taki & Sensei:''' (suppressed snorts & laughter)
--->'''Natsume:''' ...''Notamusing!''
--->'''Trio:''' (guilty, somber, not meeting one another's eyes) ...Right!
** When Natsume shows his friends his parents photo, they compared him to his ''mother'' at instant, not father.
* HeroicSelfDeprecation: He considers himself an inconvenience to the people around him, and considers even simply asking for help with something to be a selfish indulgence.
* IdenticalGrandson: Natsume Takashi looks a ''lot'' like his grandmother Reiko, original owner of the Book of Friends. and since many (if not all, Hinoe certainly seems to express a preference) Youkai don't really care too much about gender, Natsume tends to get Youkai who are looking for his ''grandmother'' on his tail.
** Taken to it's logical conclusion when someone calls Natsume "Girly Man".
* IDidntTellYouBecauseYoudBeUnhappy
* IJustWantToBeNormal: At first. [[spoiler: He grows out of it later.]]
* ISeeDeadPeople: Depends if youkai count.
* InTouchWithHisFeminineSide: Lets face it. If Natsume suddenly turned into a girl half way through the series, no one would know the difference. And we love him for it.
* LastNameBasis: Almost no one calls him by his birth name Takashi.
* MagneticMedium
* TheMessiah
* MoralityPet: Sort of one for Madara/Nyanko-sensei.
* NiceGuy
* NoSocialSkills
* NotGoodWithPeople
* [[OrphansOrdeal Orphan's Ordeal]] - A good bit of Natsume's difficulty with people (and his reluctance to tell the Fujiwaras about his abilities) stems from the fact that, up until then, he was passed around from relative to relative because nobody wanted to deal with the CreepyChild that kept telling "lies" about [[ISeeDeadPeople seeing ghosts and Youkai]].
** AbusiveParents: Chapter 31 confirms that several of the parents he's lived with were physically or emotionally abusive.
* ParentalAbandonment: Natsume's parents are dead, and every single family he's lived with before the Fujiwara's looked forward to the day he left their family, since he could [[ISeeDeadPeople see spirits.]]
* PlotMagnet
* PsychicPowers
* TheScrappy: Invoked- Natsume was this to almost every human he meet up until the beginning of the series, due to nobody being able to believe him when he freaked out at the youkai who often were trying to either scare him or eat him.
* SilentScapegoat - Natsume often wound up as one in his adolescence, when Ayakashi started causing acts of vandalism around him; his options were either to let everyone believe he was some sort of delinquent, or let them believe he was some sort of ''crazy'' delinquent.
* SociallyAwkwardHero
* SupernaturallyDeliciousAndNutritious
* SuperStrength - One of Natsume's paranormal powers is the ability to [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu punch out particuarly strong Youkai.]] Apparently it only works on them, though.
* TheHero
* WeirdnessMagnet
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Natsume, in the manga
!!Madara/Nyanko-sensei
* TheAlcoholic: Really likes to drink sake in his spare time.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Gets frequently distracted in his cat-form, often mid-sentence.
* BigBadassWolf: His true form is a ''huge'' and rather powerful inukami.
* BigEater
* CatsAreMean
* FatCat
* {{Gonk}}: Pretty much known to everyone as "Natsume's hideous cat".
* IAmBigBoned: Very insistent that his cat form is ''not'' fat, merely very fluffy.
* IfYouDieICallYourStuff: His relationship with Natsume is formed on this trope -- In return for serving as his bodyguard, he gets the Book of Friends after Natsume dies.
* ImAHumanitarian: Natsume [[KidWithTheLeash keeps him on a leash]], but he has asked on occasion to eat particularly grating humans.
* TheImp - Nyanko-sensei/Madara.
* IntellectualAnimal - Kind of. Madara is a Youkai example. Though most Youkai tend to be at least sentient.
* JerkWithAHeartOfGold: For all his claims to be a ruthless, cruel and uncaring monster who threatens to eat other youkai or humans on a whim, [[InformedAttribute Madara is terribly benign compared to many other youkai that appears in the series]]. That image stayed for a little while to begin with, but is completely shattered when Madara pulls a Ghibli-style rescue on a little girl who fell down a cliff. Wanting the Yuujinchou was definitely one of his most important motives, and even this is called into question when Madara tempted Nastume to drink mermaid blood. Nastume called him out on this, saying if he was immortal, Madara would never get the Yuujinchou, to which Madara lapses into silence.
* ManekiNeko: His ShapeshifterDefaultForm.
* MyNameIsNotDurwood: Nobody besides Natsume bothers to get Nyanko-sensei's name right.
** Giving us such gems as Nyan-Nyan Sensei, Nyankichi-kun, and Nyangoro. Tanuma eschews trying to remember it altogether, and just calls him Ponta.
* NobleDemon: Madara continues to insist that he's really nasty and uncaring and only hangs around Natsume because the latter is his prey (or alternatively his servant). He's not really fooling anyone.
* NotSoAboveItAll - Nyanko-sensei regularly brings up his truly awesome powers and the fact that he is "not a fortune cat, damn it!" - Until Natsume starts petting him, or hanging a chew toy in front of his face. Or he spots a grasshopper. Or a little girl has fallen down a cliff and needs rescuing.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: In SleepModeSize.
* SarcasticDevotee
* SleepModeSize: He's been sealed inside a ManekiNeko for so long that it's effectively become his default form.
* SnarkyNonHumanSidekick - Nyanko Sensei/Madara.
* SpiritAdvisor - Nyanko-sensei... sort of.
* TeamPet: Sort of. He's not ''technically'' a pet.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Can transform into a ManekiNeko, a BigBadassWolf true form, a girl[[hottip:*:based on Reiko]], and Natsume Takashi.
!!Natsume Reiko
* {{Badass}}: You know you're one when you can defeat every single ayakashi you come across. Two bullies throw a rock at her and she manages to knock it back ''with a stick'', without flinching or hesitation.
* BrokenBird: Became rather angry and violent thanks to the treatment she's received over the years.
* EvenTheGirlsWantHer: Hinoe's attraction to her is anything but subtle, though slightly subverted as Hinoe DoesNotLikeMen and most non-humans tend to disregard gender.
* EyesOfGold
* GlorySeeker: Probably the reason why she takes the names of the youkai.
* HairOfGold
* HatesEveryoneEqually: Was said to hate both humans and ayakashi alike.
* PosthumousCharacter: Reiko. Once Natsume has returned the name of a youkai, a flashback is usually shown about the circumstances surrounding when Reiko first took the name.
* ShroudedInMyth
!!Tanuma Kaname
* IllBoy: He's more vulnerable to the influence of spirits, so he tends to get sick quite easily.
* NiceGuy
* NotGoodWithPeople: Tanuma also sees Youkai, but worries that he won't be of any use, or will just be a burden on Natsume, because of his weak power - he can only see shadows and glimpses of Youkai.
* PsychicPowers: Can feel the youkai's presence and can sometimes see shadows, can't exactly see their corporeal forms.
* SecretKeeper
!!Taki Tooru
* CutenessProximity: Although her eye for cuteness is called into question when she has this reaction to Nyanko-sensei (who everyone else regards as the cat equivalent to a {{Gonk}}).
* TheQuietOne: At first, but that was only because [[spoiler: an evil youkai cursed her, so that the last thirteen people whose names she says will die. Natsume helps her break it.]] After that, she became more like the GenkiGirl.
* SecretKeeper
* WholesomeCrossdresser - Taki has [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/takicrossdressing_8144.jpg one panel]] of this for a school festival crossdressing cafe, and looks damn good too.
!!Sasada Jun
* AdaptationExpansion: In the original manga (chapter 5) she moved away after the test of courage. In the anime she is still interacting with Natsume after the test of courage.
* ClassRepresentative
* DoggedNiceGuy - Non-romantic example in Sasada Jun who's basically trying to get Natsume to spill the beans on the supernatural spirits thing.
* {{Meganekko}}
* SecretKeeper: Promises not to tell anyone about Natsume's ability to see youkai(although he refuses to admit he can, she's just convinced of it and is extremely nosy on her own).
* SugarAndIcePersonality: Is rather strict even to her own classmates, but actually rather sensitive on the inside.
!!Natori Shuuichi
* AnimatedTattoo - Natori has one. Which is also a Youkai.
* BigBrotherMentor: Slowly becomes this to Natsume.
* BishieSparkle
* {{Bishonen}}
* ChickMagnet
* DistinguishingMark: Has a lizard shaped birthmark that moves across his body and can only be seen by other spiritually inclined people. It's actually an ayakashi living inside his skin.
* EstrogenBrigadeBait
* EvenTheGuysWantHim - In the manga, Natori's horde of squeeing fangirls [[http://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/natsume-yuujinchou-857822_1890.jpg includes Nishimura.]]
* PaperMaster
* PsychicPowers: Can see and exorcise the youkai.
* PurelyAestheticGlasses: Not quite since glass can enhance one's ability to see Ayakashi.
* TripleShifter: Both an actor and an exorcist.
!!Kitamoto Atsushi
* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Nishimura, though contrary to the trope, they have fairly important roles in the plot as one of the few (non-psychic) people who are close friends of Natsume.
!!Nishimura Satoru
* ThoseTwoGuys: Along with Kitamoto.
!!Fujiwara Touko
* GoodParents
* {{Housewife}}
* ParentalSubstitute
!!Fujiwara Shigeru
* GoodParents
* ParentalSubstitute
!!Matoba Seiji
* {{Bishounen}}
* {{Blackmail}}: [[spoiler: He likes to exploit Natsume's weaknesses, like his concern for a youkai's well-being or desire to keep his foster parents in the dark about his ability to see youkai because it might distress them, to force Natsume to collaborate with him. Several times.]]
* DissonantSerenity
* EyepatchOfPower
* EyeScream: Above mentioned EyepatchOfPower also covers up a wound left from an ayakashi who attacked Matoba's right eye. He still has right eye and can see but cannot estimate distances well.
* FoeYay: With Natsume.
* {{Jerkass}}: Just look how he treats his shiki.
* ManipulativeBastard: He manipulates Natsume into helping the Matoba Clan [[spoiler:expose an exorcist possessed by a spirit that hates the Matoba Clan and attacking them by conveniently leaving out exactly who was being attacked.]] See also {{Blackmail}} above.
* SoftSpokenSadist
* TheArcher: His main tool of exorcism is a bow.
