History Anime / YokaiWatch

In April 2019, they brought back the original series with Nate returning as the main focus.

Another spinoff title, ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies (''[[Anime/YokaiWatchJamTheMovieYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?]]'') before being made into a television anime that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies (''[[Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?]]'') before being made into a television anime that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies (''[[YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCanACatBeAHero Yo-Kai Academy Y - Can a Cat Be a Hero?]]'') before being made into a television anime that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies before being made into a television anime (''Yo-kai Watch Jam'') that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Yo-kai Watch Yokai Academy Y'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies before being made into a television anime (''Yo-kai Watch Jam'') that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Yo-kai Watch Yokai Academy Y'', which focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies before being made into a television anime that premiered later in 2020.

Another spinoff title, ''Yo-kai Watch Yokai Academy Y'', focuses on a HighSchoolAU featuring Jibanyan as a teen [[HenshinHero transforming superhero]], began in 2019. Like ''Shadowside'' before it, ''Y'' began as one of the annual movies before being made into a television anime that premiered later in 2020.

* InconsistentTranslation: The anime is inconsistent to the games when it comes to how much of a ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange the serie is. This is due to different localizers between mediums. The games feature more Japanese references then the anime. For example, you can buy rice balls in the games, but the anime has Komasan eating "marshmalllows" and calls the green tea that Hungramps pour on rice "guacamole gravy".

** #39 has the mightly-acclaimed SpaceOpera trilogy "[[Film/StarWars Space Wars]]".

* SpiritualSuccessor: A threefer - not only the popularizing of ''Yo-kai'' by ''Manga/GeGeGeNoKitaro'' ([[IncrediblyLamePun heh heh, spiritual...]]), but fills the WidgetSeries niche left by ''Manga/SgtFrog''. The anime is also this to the western, ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''.

* AlternateUniverse: In #67, Whisper dreams Katie was the one who freed him from the Crank-A-Kai instead of Nate. In this new reality Jibanyan is replaced by Baddinyan, Hidabat is replaced by Shadow Venoct, Robonyan is replaced by Goldenyan (who only wants to solve challenging problems to further their status), Whisper himself promised Katie to memorize everything about Yo-Kai and is not allowed to use his pad and develops a "special attack", "Ultra Super Sonic Whisper Tornado" which involves Katie throwing him at the Yo-Kai causing trouble. Katie treats Whisper kindly (tho the act doesn't follow through when she weaponies him...)

* AlternateUniverse: In #67, Whisper dreams Katie was the one who freed him from the Crank-A-Kai instead of Nate. In this new reality Jibanyan is replaced by Baddinyan, Hidabat is replaced by Shadow Venoct, Robonyan is replaced by Goldenyan (who only wants to solve challenging problems to further their status), Whisper himself promised Katie to memorize everything about Yo-Kai and is not allowed to use his pad and develops a "special attack", "Ultra Super Sonic Whisper Tornado" which involves Katie throwing him at the Yo-Kai causing trouble. Unlike Nate, Katie treats Whisper kindly and is concerned for his safety, even if she has weaponize him.

Overall very successful for a children's anime, the series boasts 4 movies to date and quite a few international dubs.

On February 24, 2019, [[https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2019-02-14/yo-kai-watch-anime-gets-new-series-in-april-with-returning-protagonist-keita/.143427 it was announced that they'll be bringing back the original series in April]] with Nate returning as the main focus.

** Jibanyan still dies by being hit by a truck, although images of his dead body were edited out. Averted in ''Jibanyan's Secret'', where his body is shown.

* ParentalBonus: The Japanese version at least is ''loaded'' with this. It is absolutely filled to the brim with references to late Showa and early Heisei era pop culture (e.g. the first ending theme being a reference to “Boot Camp” diets popular in the early Heisei era, the PoliceProcedural parody segments being straight-up just “Taiyo ni Hoeru-zura!”, a blatant reference to popular 70s-80s PoliceProcedural “Taiyo ni Hoero!”), I.e. the exact pop culture the parents of the kids watching would have grown up with, that will certainly fly over the heads of all but the most pop-culture savvy kids and is clearly intended for the parents.

* NeverSayDie: Averted. The English dub is able to get away with mentioning death numerous times. The fact that Yo-kai are spirits of once living creatures is kept in, Jibanyan still dies by being hit by a truck, and Whisper reconfigures himself after being sliced in two by Shogunyan, saying that Yo-kai can't die.

* OurSpiritsAreDifferent: The American marketing tried to emphasize that Yo-kai aren't exactly ghosts or monsters or fairies or anything. Even in Japan, the game's Yo-kai are differentiated from classical folklore by playing up the EmotionControl aspect.

* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: The Disney [=XD=] dub seems to be trying to make the series take place in America. This is despite the fact it's ''incredibly'' obvious it takes place in Japan. The names are westernized, the currency is referred to as [=USD=], the text is in English, and various changes allude to it taking place in America (though it's not as blatant as early ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and most of the changes aren't visual edits).

** Robnyan's recap in America states that Springdale is somewhere in Georgia, though Baku's shows they're in the New England area.

** #55. The boys of Nate's class go all out to do favors for the girls just before UsefulNotes/ValentinesDay, leading to Whisper and Komasan doing ''color commentary''.

* TheReveal: The second iteration of the [=InaUsa=] Detective Agency segment revolves around revealing the pasts of major Yo-kai, like Tattletell and Blazion.