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.
• 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.
• 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.