I wish I lived in a universe where this series actually did well and everything was released here in the west.

Funny thing about what you said about Yo-Kai Watch being a bad introduction to Japanese mythology, it was my introduction. And now I have such a fascination with it that I have drawn one historic Yo-Kai a day for well over a year now. I’m certain it wouldn’t have that same effect for other people but it sure did to me.

GUESS WHAT IT'S 2019 YO KAI WATCH 4 RELEASED AND THE FRANCHISE IS BACK AGAIN :D

I personally hope this ends up like earthbound. At first, the fan base is low and marketing is bad, but soon enough it starts to gain traction and eventually becomes popular with many people.

Incredibly thorough video from someone who is obviously, finally knowledgeable about the franchise. Thank you so much for making this; You said basically everything I've said scattered throughout various places in one great video! Really, really, REALLY wish this whole thing was handled a whole lot better. Yo-kai Watch could've been so much more internationally :( Just one thing you missed: The ball ISN'T in Nintendo's court now; it's in LEVEL-5's. LEVEL-5 will now be self publishing all of their future releases, including Psychic Specters. Nintendo now has nothing to do with the franchise, as far as I know.

I remember when I first watched your Yokai Watch review. It was March 31st, 2015; a rainy Friday afternoon. I got home from school, and I only had one hour before going to my extra-curiculum English classes. Before going, I had fish-sticks for lunch and I was eating in on my lap while sitting in my bed, still in my casual clothes. While I was eating it I was watching that video of yours. I can't believe it's only been two years, yet I feel old.

I honestly liked the direct translation of the Japanese OP. Its catchy as Hell and they clearly tried harder with that than the previous dub op

I actually like this game a lot! The anime is ok but they changed the voices and the actors voices sound so weird.

I'm pretty sure the Katie watch didn't get localized because they were trying to promote this franchise to boys (something that's odd to me considering every Yokai watch fan ive ever met irl is a girl) Ill always hate the stigma the monster genre has with being called Pokémon clones left and right, jesus Christ, theyre all different!

So we're stuck with Pokémon essentially. I like Pokemon do t get me wrong, but I believe Yokai Watch and Pokémon can coexist.

As a person who actually really liked the second game (wowie) I would actually LOVE to see a yo-kai watch 3. It would give me reason to use my 3ds again, cause not too many games have been good on the handheld recently.

and now in 2018, Yo-Kai Watch Busters going world wide (who knows when Europe is gonna get it >_

I for one want to see Yokai 3 release in America! Even if it's just the video game, or has minimal merchandise support. Best way to vote yes for it is to buy the next Yokai Watch game psychic spirits!

It's sad to see yokai watch being slowly killed off and putting up no fight. I really was hoping for YW3, but that is looking like less and less of a possibility as time goes on.

Tbh, yokai watch 2 is one of my favorite games of all time. Compelling story and characters, cool designs with interesting inspiration, great music, cool bosses and a perfect combat system.

I honestly really love YoKai Watch, and I sincerely hope Specters does enough to keep it going in the states! I try and get merch when I can to support it but man is it hard to find. Hasbro's handling of the property is kind of upsetting really.

As soon as something is labeled as a "Franchise-killer" it's pretty much doomed to die in my opinion.

This is an old video and all, but daily reminder that the official English Yo-kai Watch KZfaq channel _did_ host the English dubbed episodes on their channel. *Which eventually all got deleted. Because why throw your backlogs in an easily-findable place when you can charge people who can't record shows to rewatch it?*

Years later it seems like another yokai watch spinoff series is coming to America, and I'm still slowly dying inside from no yokai watch 4 translation

Hasbro really dropped the ball with Yo Kai

Yo kai watch 2 is one of my top 10 favourite games in the series it sold well over here in Europe and I got it on release day it kind of sucks how most people call it a rip off

How about those awful reviews from people who didn't even play an hour of the game before hand? Special shoutouts go to IGN for the normal worthless garbage, GameXplain for not talking about anything past the 1st chapter showing the fact they didn't play past that in reviews for the 2nd game. Jimmy Whetizul (or however it's spelled)and the most bias review ever of the 1st game. And all the people who jumped right to "it's a pokemon ripoff" with out knowing anything about the game at all.

Nearly a year later from this video, and we're getting some new Yokai Watch stuff with Season 3 and Bus...I mean Blasters.

2:05 - 2:14 really shows how much we were gonna get. I don’t think we ever got any of those other watches shown at toy fair. And they look so cool. Especially that figure that looks like it was darkyubi because we never got any of those medals

In one episode of the English dub of the anime, they called rice balls “marshmallow treats” THEY LITERALLY DID THE MOST 4KIDS MOVE.

OML FOSSIL FIGHTERS. I love that game its so underrated and im so glad u showed it! also keep up the good work 4:07

I got the first watch for $4 at my Dollar store. Wish more would show up there.

This makes me sad... yo kai watch deserved so much better in the US...

There was real effort into next harmeowny they have proper elegant outfits that look cute like real clothes there was a believability to those images being on posters whereas bikini magazines would be torn to bits to obtain wallhangers like I did with shonen jump for decorating my room.

You know that something is over with when you see it being sold at the dollar store.

Hasbro also did poor distrubution of the toys In Canada we barely got anything past wave 2 of season 1 and only got the yo motion watch

It didn't help that as I'm in Walmart, picking up a copy of the first game the clerk comes up to me and says "We're doing a promotion. Everyone who bought a copy of Yokai Watch gets this nice little wall mount you can hang up on the wall" and then proceeds to hand me a large cutout of Cheeksqueek.... meaning the poor clerk is trying his damnest to hand me a literal butt while I'm backing away and insisting that "No, I *really* don't want it".... nearly demanded a refund on the spot just on the account of he wouldn't leave me the fuck alone so long as I had the game.

dude this was great and well made.

Never label or market something as an (x) Killer. Remember when a bunch of shooters were labeled as Halo killers and they either failed miserably or haven't had an entry in years.

I really hope they release at least an eshop version of Yo-kai Watch 4 and the Original reissue for Switch outside the Japan, I wouldnt be mad if it was subbed to cut the cost for them since I just wanna experience it! ❤️

we must keep yo-kai watch alive!!!!

I love Yo-Kai Watch in general. I bought both games.

I got yo-kai watch 1 when it came out and I loved it, but when 2 came out, I didn't even know and was like "get pokemon sun or wait for a game that I don't even know exists?"

5:04 My wish for 2021 : we will never see this Yo Kai again in any Yo Kai Watch game , anime , manga , toy or movie . He shall never exist again and go fart in another game .

I actually finished the 1st game and thought that the game was really fun and enjoyable, I also watched the TV show. I get why the game is not getting as much love as Pokémon.

I used to be obsessed with this game... but when sun and moon came out, I went to target and legit spent a solid 10 minutes deciding if I should get one or another.

I do agree that Hasbro was the one who dropped the ball hardest on it, but for Disney, they didn't actually do the dub. Though I do wish a few more actors were hired for the dub. Maybe in the Third Season? Speaking of, me thinks Inaho might get more love in the west. Characters like Mabel Pines and Jade (From Jackie Chan Adventures) have been very popular over the last few years.

This seems to be the same fate as LBX... i hope their acquiring of Comcept will help with future series.

for this series to survive we all must support the games and any merch we see and get our hands on HELL ONCE I GET A SWITCH I'M DOWNLOADING YOKAI WATCH 4

Also one thing you forgot to mention is that 2 came out a bit before the switch's release, meaning the 3ds was kinda pushed to the side

It really does not suprise Yo Kai has taken this route outside of Japan. I mean I heard my younger brother and his freinds who are 10 years old saying "Yo Kai looks like Low Budget Pokemon" or "Yo Kai is like Pokemon but without the cool fights", In The UK ASDA was lining their toy shelves with Yo Kai toys but after a month or two it all just vanished and the Anime stopped airing too.

I played Yokai Watch 2 Bony Spirits for the first time over the weekend. It was my first introduction to the franchise other than the abysmal television English dub *insert shiver & cringe*. But I've always like the art design (bought a toy years before purchasing a game 😅). I'm enjoying the game thus far!

Noooooo! I love Yokai Watch! Please we must support this ...I really don't want this series to die in any form...

I don't think I've ever seen an IP burn out in the space of 3 years faster than Yo-kai Watch.

IT'S BEEN 2 YEARS!!! wow

If yo kai watch dies I will be sad bc yo kai watch was my childhood

Yo kai will never die!

I feel like Nintedo was tryin to kill it off from the start. They were gonna release Psychic Specters in between Pokken Tournament DX, Silver and Gold coming September with Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon in November. Fall is definitely unforgiving. Fans rather them release Busters over a 3rd sequel which could have DLC instead of a full game. Third versions are not demanding everywhere which is why i think Pokemon stopped doing that.

Hey +Kohdok , With Blasters being localized and released next Friday, your thoughts on that?

If Youkai watch ends Its not worth Living anymore...

Also the game music is super good

Just to be clear, in my Japanese Saturday school, this was actually a big deal... Everyone brought their 3ds to school and played the game tho... Well, it was the Japanese version tho, not the English version.

Well some good news is that we are getting Yokai Watch Busters (renames to Blasters to avoid copyright) pretty soon, and season 2 has already started airing on Disney XD (too bad Inaho is still annoying :/ ) But I agree with a lot of the points you've made in the video, the way they marketed Yokai Watch in the states was incredibly lackluster and now they're not even trying to make such a push like before. Hell, Busters wasn't even announced until AFTER E3! But given that we are still going to get Busters here in the states means that Level-5 still wants the series to sell outside of Japan. I still have hope that we will get a localization of Yokai Watch 3 sometime in 2019, and if we do then I hope it'll be marketed way better compared to how they marketed the first game.

I’m going to be real with you, the marketing seriously turned me away. At Th time Yo-Kai watch began airing on Disney XD I was 12. I was certainly interested, it gave me a Pokémon vibe so it felt familiar. But that god awful marketing really pushed me away, I was an anxious socially awkward 12-year-old. Playing a game, or even watching a show that people knew as “that one bad show with fart jokes” was definitely not an image I wanted for myself. So I avoided it. Now I’m more knowledgeable on the franchises source material. So I want to give it another shot, at a time that it is declining here in the states :/

Cheeksqueek was the only reason I never pick up the game. I picked it up a month ago and have not put it down. So good

Good point

I love both Pokemon and Yo-kai Watch. sure I prefer Pokemon, but I found the second games (Bony Spirits, Fleshy Souls, and Psychic Specters) Really fun. both are great games altogether, and if you havent played Yo-kai Watch, I recommend you play it.

This is my favorite anime/game

I’m watching this 2 years later than this video!

Ok, who else is watching this 2 years later

I'm really hopeful we get Yo-Kai Watch 3, I'm really wanting to see the 'Create - A - Nyan' first hand.

I love LBX and I thought it needed a sequel because the game and show were pretty good.

I feel Appmon would have a hard time in the US because of Bandai of America itself. Remember they didn't even want to port Cyber Sleuth till fan demand pushed them to it.

Kohdax have you seen the Yokai watch 4 trailer yet its really good. And. Yokai 3 is coming to the States some time in February.

Oh look Yo Kai Watch! It's been a while since we've seen a competitor to Poké- aaaaand it's gone.

It’s funny looking at this now

I love yokai watch and its like way more charming and just more fun

hey, Psychic Specters is out. Its actually really fun idk why yo kai watch 2 had a bad launch

For someone starting to buy Yo Kai watch stuff, what watch is newest can can use the most medals?

Hasbro effed up and Disney didn't care

Yo Kai Watch 2 Years Later, uploaded 2 years ago

3 years later, right now.

The thing that i hate the most about Yokai 2 is that L-5 stopped supporting all other 3ds to make room for it. Inazuma Eleven GO 2 and LBX were left with half the post gane content locked behind weekly updates that never came.

Ive put over 100 hours into my first save file for the first game and 32 and my second for the first game. Also which of the prequels should i get?

Still waiting for that second season lbx game which is absolutely needed after they introduced one of the character in one of the quest

3:00 one could appreciate the jelly filled donuts

So I looked it up, and yo Kai watch 3 has done well! Plus I think yo Kai watch 4 might be a thing at some point.

Im playing through the first one and liking it a lot. The battle system is weird but not terrible

Which video is he talking about with the dub voice?

There were actually 3 games: Bony Spirits, Fleshy Souls and Phsycic Specters

5 years later...

Yokai watch is my favourite game so... This is a bit sad

Man this video is still relevant today

That donut commercial still gave us some memes. :u That's a positive. Kinda.

Why did they replace all the current voice actors in the show with new ones the current ones were and did they not have a new intro because of copyright

One thing I hated was that for season 3: No merch in the us (even though it was designed) They changed the va’s They didn’t give us a satisfying ending (just a standard episode (though admittedly it was a good one)) They did this weird thing where the characters Would pause on the middle of a scentence

I really do like yokai watch but I have to agree that everything here is true. I really hope it gets bigger and doesn't stop getting localised, honestly I wouldn't mind buying off of samurai buyer though.

I know it’s highly unlikely but I really do want busters to come out. It looks like so much fun

Hope 3 comes

Will you make a Yo-Kai 3 Years Later on July?

Jibanyan is losing his fandom to BATIM!

even in asia yokai watch stuff is slowly dying.Korean yokai watch wib wob has been offline since 20/07/17 and also most stores that have yokai merch are trying to sell them as quickly as possible by discounting as high as 70%.Well its been awesome learning Japanese folklore from yokai watch 😔😔🙁

Am I the only one who liked Swmpy's version of the Yo-Kai Watch theme song?

Level 5 has amazing games but look at inazuma eleven. They stopped at the last part for the states. I hated it

Now, 3 years later, we get yokai watch 3.