YMMV / Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind

• Awesome Music: The second opening theme Great Cosmic Rendezvous is pretty badass-sounding.
• Crosses the Line Twice: While the Yo-kai Watch franchise is no stranger to some particularly vile characters, just how over the top evil Mazera is compared to some of the series' earlier antagonists like McKraken and Dame Dedtime ends up being unintentionally hilarious, especially when imaging how most of them would interact.
• Demographically Inappropriate Humor:
  • Episode 3 has Benimaru fight Clock Man in an endless loop since Clock Man can rewind time 5 seconds. The others know they have to somehow stop him from reversing time and realize real clocks can't move if you stop the pendulum. Makes sense, however, the pendulum is between Clock Man's legs and when Mataro grabs the pendulum, Clock Man blushes and has an awkward smile on his face.
  • Episode 4 has students acting obnoxiously gross when their names are written in a notebook. When the puppet culprit writes Jinpei's name, he takes off his clothes except his socks and boxers...which are on his head. Fortunately, Momo covers Jinpei's crotch.
  • Episode 5 has Jinpei dress as a turtle and bite a chocolate maker. He spins around to shake Jinpei off and Jinpei slips out of the turtle costume naked and hits Mataro in the face, sausage first.
• Fan Nickname: My Yo-kai Academia for the series.
• Iron Woobie: Out of all of Mazera's underlings, Elzemekia is by far the most sympathetic. She was blackmailed into serving Mazera in exchange for sparing her planet right after he murdered two of her friends.
• Stock Footage Failure: Whenever Kengo Benimaru activates his Finishing Move, his YSP Watch is worn in reverse, resulting in him somehow inserting the Skill Medal into the ejection slot of the Watch.
• The Woobie: Pretty much all of the major students qualify to some extent.
  • Jinpei's mother died the same day he was born.
  • Koma was born to strict parents expecting him to follow in his father's footsteps of performing rakugo comedy, something he wasn't good at and had little interest in. He could also see onryo and detect the other students only caring about filling their master's position.
  • Mataro for his butt monkey moments, sometimes deliberately caused by the other characters, albeit, not out of malice on their part. Its implied he was also bullied before middle school as a flashback had him asking his grandpa why he always loses fights and has bandages on his face.
  • Ranto from losing his family to the N-kind. Even with Mazera's defeat, it didn't bring back any of his victims, effectively meaning he's alone.
  • Nozuchika couldn't have friends that didn't meet his father's high expectations and his first friend turned out to only play with him because his parents paid him.
  • Similar to Ranto, Chiaki had a run in with the N-kind prior to the series' beginning, getting abducted along with his bandmates. The aliens modified his DNA giving him snake-like skin on his back, and merged his friends with their chimeras, leaving him unable to save him.
  • Kumako/Kuka getting expelled from Y-Academy thanks to the aliens infiltrating the school's disciplinary committee and badmouthed by Ranto right to her face albeit, to keep her out of harm's way.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Given Jinpei is Jibanyan reincarnated and his mother is Amy's daughter and died the same day he was born, it would've been interesting not to mention heartwarming to see Amy appear occasionally, alas she only appears during one of the opening songs.
  • Like the youkai from previous installments, defeated onryo have medals allowing them to be summoned anytime, but it only happens in episode 50 where they're easily defeated by Mazera.