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'''Yo-Kai Are Real / The Spooky Intersection''' (original title: ''妖怪がいる (There is a Monster) / 恐怖の交差点 (Intersection of Fear)'') is the first episode of ''Anime/YoKaiWatch''.

!!Segments
* '''Yo-Kai Are Real''' - While out hunting bugs with his friends, Nate, an ordinary fifth-grader, finds a Yo-Kai, Whisper, within a slot machine, who grants him the Yo-Kai Watch.

* '''The Spooky Intersection''' - An intersection has had many supernatural events occur there. When Nate investigates, he meets a cat Yo-Kai, Jibanyan.

!!Tropes from "Yo-Kai Are Real"
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the original Japanese, Whisper says the worst case scenario is Dismarelda doesn't leave is that Keita's parents will divorce. The English dub softens this to them fighting forever.
* DubNameChange:
** Keita to Nate
** Kuma to Bear
** Kanchi to Eddie
** Fumi-chan to Katie
* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Nate catches a normal-sized bug, and takes it personally when Katie calls it average, establishing him as TheEveryman and unhappy about that status.
* RevoltingRescue: When Nate gets swarmed by bugs, Whisper shoos them away with a huge fart.

!!Tropes from "The Spooky Intersection"
* BloodlessCarnage: In the flashback to how Jibanyan became a Yo-Kai, Rudy's body is only scratched up, with no blood present.
* {{Bowdlerise}}: In the English dub, Rudy's body is cropped out of his death scene.
* DubNameChange: Ami-chan to Amy.
* HiddenEyes: Amy's eyes are hidden in black shadow when she looks down at Rudy's body.
* ShoutOut: While trying to fight a truck, Jibanyan shouts "[[Music/SurvivorBand Eye of the tiger!]]".
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