故事发生在一个非常炎热的夏天，久坂悠（岸尾大辅 配音）是一名看上去对一切都毫不在意，非常冷漠的男子高中生。某日，一位名叫夜明瑛梦（水树奈奈 配音）的少女出现在了他的面前，而紧随其后对她进行攻击的，是名为魂兽的可怕怪物。 魂兽激发了隐藏在阿悠体内的特殊能力，原来，阿悠是一名魂兽使，能够通过操纵魂兽来获得强大力量，然而，操纵魂兽也要付出相应的代价，在操纵魂兽的同时，阿悠的心灵也会遭到黑暗的侵蚀，如果阿悠的精神来到了濒临崩溃的边界，他将彻底的被魂兽所吞噬，再也恢复不成人类的模样。
22接到游戏公司邀请，参与他们研发的虚拟现实游戏《盒中海》试玩。游戏世界里的南方沿海渔村，村民们把各家各户供奉的神像请上街来“游神”庆贺元宵。22和其他3名测试玩家发现一位未曾见过的女性神明“慈舟圣姑”。随着深入探查“慈舟圣姑”的来历，他们逐渐发现来自游戏外的人为篡改痕迹，有一个神秘的力量在潜移默化影响游戏里的npc。另一方面，22的妹妹33也在游戏外发现员工的蹊跷行为。居心叵测的公司企业、悄悄策划神秘仪式的npc渔民、还有似乎各怀秘密的同伴。一个多方势力交织的巨大阴谋渐渐浮出海面。
In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sung by J.R. Johnston. This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (although Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped using a few seconds of the theme playing in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even though season six used music from some of their episodes.
