History Anime / YokaiWatch

* CulturalCrossReference: One was added in via the dub implicitly taking place in America. After Whisper explains to Nate what {{tengu}} are, Nate says he didn't have to do that, because tengu are such famous mythological figures that he's heard of them already. Walkappa is treated similarly, as Nate has heard of {{Kappa} despite being implicitly American, and knows enough to know they're supposed to like cucumbers... which Walkappa says is just stereotyping.

** One episode has Komasan and Komajiro eating lunch at Mog Burger. Komasan accidentally orders every item on the menu and Komajiro calls him brave for trying food of debatable quality.

* SlapstickKnowsNoGender:
** Nate's Mom and Katie are frequently the victims of Yo-kai inspiriting, and several of the female Yo-kai are brought down or taunted in sometimes slapsticky-ways.
** For instance, Infour, a female Yo-kai with four eyes, gets doodled on while she sleeps in the stinger at the end of her episode.
** Before that, Infour's mind-reading relative Espy is brought low when Nate thinks of a bunch of inappropriate things, which she cannot help but see.
** [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent Mermaidyn]] seems fated to be the only thing Nate will ever fish up whenever he goes fishing, no matter where it is, much to both of their chagrin. At one point, Nate [[InvokedTrope Invokes]] their unusual relationship and fishes her out of a bucket before unceremoniously dropping her on the ground. Thing is, he could have just used her medal to call her, which she points out.

* RecycledAnimation: The summoning dance used for Boyclops is just ''Jibanyan's Model Zero summon with the former plastered on it.''

%% * Seemingly ProfoundFool: Komasan in later episodes.

** Nate constantly always being called average by others, which often pushes his BerserkButton.

* SeeminglyProfoundFool: Komasan in later episodes.

* BilingualAnimal: As a cat Yo-kai, Jibanyan can speak human language, but also has the VerbalTic "Nyan", which he adds at the end of his sentences. However, when he was a normal cat before he died, he could only meow.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: All of the Yo-kai are invisible citizens of Nate's town, and most can recur at any time or not show up for many episodes, except for Jibanyan and Whisper.

* SuddenDownerEnding: The 2019 series ends on one. [[spoiler: At his companions' behest to win the throne of the Yo-kai World, Nate uses Lord Enma's Onechanside. This summons Robonyan F, who turns into a table with an "End Everything" button. Whisper presses the button. The arena explodes 30 seconds later, but Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan make it out. The final scene of the show is Enma and Zazel standing over the ruins of the arena and musing that it's really the end. A storm appears overhead and Enma prepares to fight.]] [[Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind]] reveals that [[spoiler: SnapBack is [[SubvertedTrope subverted]] in this one instance. Whatever came out of this storm not only sticks, but it [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroys the Yo-kai World]] and [[KillEmAll kills almost every Yo-kai]].]]

* ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange: The Disney [=XD=] dub seems to be trying to make the series take place in the US. 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 the US (though it's not as blatant as early ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' and most of the changes aren't visual edits).

* SocietyMarchesOn: A couple of eps are about the way the classic ''yo-kai'' of folklore aren't really all that scary anymore, even the more contemporary ones like Toiletta of TheSevenMysteries in #60. Toiletta blames this on social media, spreading the buzz too far and reducing its half-life. Nate's solution - have Toiletta ignore all those obscure summon rituals and just pop up unannounced from wherever and whenever, turning into a straight-up JumpScare!

* EmbarrassingPyjamas: In the third segment from episode 4, Mr Johnson gets angry at his pupils due to the fact that Katie forgot her pencil case, Eddie came to school with an empty schoolbag, and Nate forgot his schoolbag, only for him to be reminded that he came to school in his pyjamas. When he realizes, he's utterly embarrassed. All of this happened because of a {{youkai}} that made them forget things.
* EmotionControl

* ParentalBonus: The Japanese version at least is ''loaded'' with this. It is absolutely filled to the brim with references to late Showa and early to mid Heisei era pop culture (e.g. the first ending theme being a reference to “Boot Camp” diets popular in the early 2000s, 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 be really familiar with, that will certainly fly over the heads of all but the most pop-culture savvy kids and is clearly intended for the parents.

** One ep has Nate unknowingly caught in between two raving virulent fandoms, one for the Yo-kai Noko, and one for ''pandas''. Thanks to the Yo-kai Pandanoko (just the Noko in black and white), Nate spends a little objective observation time with each of the two fan communities, and comes to the conclusion that they're NotSoDifferent.

In April 2019, they temporarily brought back the original series with Nate returning as the main focus. A new rebbot is set to be released in April 2021.

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

** In the games, Gush gives people nosebleeds. In the anime, he instead makes things drip.

** The Cartoon Network UK airings cut out some scenes that the US airings were fine with. In episode 5, when Whisper strangles Jibanyan with his collar and later when Nate slaps him with a paper fan were cut out. Unlike the above mentions, these scenes are harmless and hardly [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar Getting Crap Past The Radar]].

* SuddenDownerEnding: The 2019 series ends on one. [[spoiler: At his companions' behest to win the throne of the Yo-kai World, Nate uses Lord Enma's Onechanside. This summons Robonyan F, who turns into a table with an "End Everything" button. Whisper presses the button. The arena explodes 30 seconds later, but Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan make it out. The final scene of the show is Enma and Zazel standing over the ruins of the arena and musing that it's really the end. A storm appears overhead and Enma prepares to fight.]] [[Anime/YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind]] reveals that [[spoiler: this storm is [[Anime/YokaiWatchShadowside Sora]][[VideoGame/YokaiWatch4 naki]], which [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destroys the Yo-kai World]] and [[KillEmAll kills almost every Yo-kai]].]]