Patreon Sponsors got to see this video three days early!: / kohdok And now a look at the status of the franchise two years later, and maybe just where the fault lies on this sort of thing.
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.
Feli Kun Just because someone releases a game for a specific series of consoles doesn't mean that property belongs to the company that produced said series of consoles. Look at Megaman Legends, it was released in the PlayStation series of consoles but Sony certainly didn't own it as the planned Legends 3 was to be released on the 3DS rather than the Vita if Jackass Inafune didn't abandon the project half way.
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.
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.
that still confirms nothing, pushing things to a shite mobile app game means nothing when theres just no real push for YW anymore. they want it to quietly fade into a small niche of obscurity, and really Spectors may be their last shot at possibly localizing the third games if it sells well enough.
Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble got one million downloads in Europe on the first month, and it's getting great events and updates consistently.. It's not doing THAT terribly.
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!
Klonoahedgehog THANK YOU! I love Pokemon as much as the next person (I've played all the way up to sun/moon) but I also adore Digimon (Adventure and Tamers are my fave seasons) and most definitely Yokai Watch (Team Fleshy btw). Now if only I could play Cyber Sleuth and one of the Shin Megami Tensei games....
Crystal Keyblade honestly that’s why i didn’t buy a watch at first, i kept waiting for katie’s version once i saw it. i was gonna use it for a katie cosplay, i’m a girl aswell so i can’t say your points wrong with it being a very enjoyed with girls, after all most of my friends i talked to during the original run of the first game where girls too.
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!
Actually, Pokemon Sun/moon outsold Yokai Watch 2 20-to-1 in their first weekends in France according to my research. 400k vs YW2s 20k. YW2 has sold 140k copies across Europe, meaning that Pokemon Sun/Moon nearly tripled its sales in France alone. The anime also dropped off the Nielsen ratings several months ago, with shows like DBS and SnK kicking its behind like nobody's business. Netflix is helping, I'm sure, but we'll have to see.
erikholmysti I want the type zero in the Netherlands. Yokai watch 2 did not even come with the special jibanyan even though the items are still translated and dubbed in Dutch
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 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.
I think it’s going towards that imo. Especially now level 5 is trying to market again in the West. We still have a shot at reviving Yokai and especially rn that Pokémon is slowly being exposed for being pretty much lazy/rushed work. I dunno. I used to be a big Pokémon fan in elementary-middle school. Now I’m in HS I prefer Yokai watch because how creative they try to teach/reference Japanese folklore.
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.
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.
I address this in the video. The reviews for YW2 are slightly justified because it takes between 8 and 11 hours for anything really new or interesting to happen. Also, anything in the Mon genre is gonna get compared to Pokemon. It's kind of unavoidable.
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.
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 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.
Owain Kun stop being ignorant YW still has big fanbase world wide Pokémon had been around for years. Comparing the too is really unfair since time affects lasting impact
jacobspencer04 ignorant?! funny bitch I'm being fact full and so what just cause you say so I can't compare? shit like bakugan and digimon came around when Pokémon was out and big like it still is NOW and they still stood there ground nicely heck digimon is still alive and kicking to this day there's no excuse here so fuck off little cry baby don't get salty just cause FACTS!! are being thrown and you can't handle it lol
Owain Kun it only popular in Japan because Yokai is culturally ingrained in Japan. America is harder to grasp. Pokémon and Digimon literally assimilated other cultures into to be recognizable by anyone so you are ignorant know there's factors that contribute to this. And curse prove you have a limited vocabulary.
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 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.
True, Mabel does get some points, especially if they have the foresight to grab her VA(I can see Inaho with Mabel's VA) but she's also a bit less annoying than Inaho.
Kohdok As ad there's support I'm good. I also agree with you about the heavily underrated LBX. Unfortunately this fall looks like it will be another battle with Pokemon USUM, Monster Hunter Stories AND YW2: Psychic Specters. I'm getting all of them but....yikes.
140k is disappointing for something with such a big marketing push. Remember, it sold six MILLION in Japan. 300k internationally is VERY disappointing by comparison. That six million includes Shinuchi, though.
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?"
Yeah. Comparing itself to Pokemon was basically a death sentence; not only because of the idiotic "ripoff" complaints but also because it blasted expectations into the unattainable stratosphere. I mean, I knew going in it probably wasn't going to resemble Pokemon that much, but that was only because I had heard of Yokai Watch before. To an outsider, it looked like a rookie taking on the champ...when, in Japan, that could not be further from the truth.
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.
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.
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
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! ❤️
This is an old video and all, but daily reminder that the official English Yo-kai Watch UA-cam 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?*
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.
CyberSurferXD i’m not gonna lie to you, i would’ve found that the funniest thing to be handed and i would’ve regifted that shit to the first person i see laugh at the game design, or maybe even kept it because i’ve never actually seem that before, it would’ve been kinda funny to see.
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
I mean YEAH WE NEED TO KEEP THE GAME THAT SELLS ALMOST A 100$ WORTH OF YEN (10000¥) MEDALS THAT HAVE NO USE but seriously why are those medals so pricy even the bad ones were 10$ or something also the battle system......😑
@Daddy Feli so you think repeating every Pokémon game again is better than everytime a good story with so much detail ? idk if you have seen it but ykw4 looks hella awesome
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
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!
skelanimaldiego we’re getting the 3rd game in 2019 and a forth aswell, so that’s pretty good. the forth is for the switch though, thanks mostly to level five.
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 :/
NightKnight-77 on the up side it means a lot of the games are currently cheaper in a way, hell i went into a gamestop near my place and got a copy of the original game for 15 dollars. but from what i’ve heard we’re still getting the 3rd for the 3ds and the 4th for nintendo switch, which is moderately interesting in the case of level 5, but a very welcomed addition in my opinion though, i thought we wouldn’t get the 3rd considering everything is kinda an americanized stereotype for the game, but i will find it funny regardless if the writings done well.
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.
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.
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 .
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 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.
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 😔😔🙁
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.
It's sad that Yokai Watch was hyped here in our country (Philippines) and was expected to rival Pokemon back in 2016 yet... It stopped airing here for some time and English medals had funny translations that I wished they just kept the Japanese romanization since it's still good (we can't understand Japanese language so we prefer English translation). With the watered down popularity here, toys like the watch even went to a 90% discount, and Hasbro had stop translating medals for some time that toy stores rarely put stocks. I bought both Sun/Moon versions instead.
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.
Napoli GioGio well good news my fellow yokai watch enjoying friend, we are getting the 3rd game in 2019, and the switch is getting a 4th. so for me as long as the writing is still top notch i have no reason to not buy it. i already have enjoyed the others, nothing is stopping my hype train yet! woot woot.
YW1 got a tepid release and YW2 doesn't give you anything new to do for several hours, rehashing literally the same maps from the first game until ~6 hours in.
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.
In fact Bandai of America seems to be hit or miss recently, especially with their treatment of Sixth ranger roleplay toys (gotta love the role play toys for Dino Charge's gold ranger which had no electronics what so ever!).
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
Well... We did get the dream in the English dub of the show, so maybe we’ll get the watch itself? EDIT: Also, I heard that (maybe from a certain American youtuber getting noticed idk tho (Abdallahsmash026)) busters and possibly Yo-Kai watch 3 are being released here in America! I’m exited and hope that this comes true!
You're just stupid, its not a rip-off of Pokemon, its based off of japanese myth from 200 years ago, You don't CAPTURE Things in a ball, and you can use 3 (at a certain time) in one battle.
I think the biggest problem with yokai watch is how most of the yokai are just recolors of the mascots/yokai sure Pokemon has a pikachu clone in every generation but at least they weren't recolors of it.
The U Onwards are designed to use all previous medals. I can't speak on the Black, but the Dream can handle pretty much all Japanese medals. I'd probably go with the U, though, as it handles the majority of medals and is a bit snappier than the Dream.
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.
Hopefully Yokai Watch 3 will revive the franchise, considering the huge change in gameplay and the fact that it will be appealing to American audiences.
I don't the series is dead by any means. At the very least, I believe it will always stay as that little niche series outside of Japan. Also, people find Inaho annoying? I've seen lots of people that love her.
Its not dead but most people in America will always see it as a pokemon rip off therefore you cant expect it to get fair treatment. As soon as Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon comes out, you better hope hard it wont die by then.Importing has always been an option.
I wish I lived in a universe where this series actually did well and everything was released here in the west.
I come from that universe. Mr Rogers is racist
Same, I love the series
That would truly be the perfect universe
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.
101Leafy huh... I swear You had a check mark
Except giving the check off putting them in their consoles/handhelds but of course they don't
Feli Kun Just because someone releases a game for a specific series of consoles doesn't mean that property belongs to the company that produced said series of consoles. Look at Megaman Legends, it was released in the PlayStation series of consoles but Sony certainly didn't own it as the planned Legends 3 was to be released on the 3DS rather than the Vita if Jackass Inafune didn't abandon the project half way.
Daddy Feli I'm not sure you know how consoles, licensing, or publishing works.
Pokemon223 Pichu What does a checkmark mean
So we're stuck with Pokémon essentially. I like Pokemon do t get me wrong, but I believe Yokai Watch and Pokémon can coexist.
Daddy Feli Yokai watch is really fucking big in japan.
Dragon Quest Monsters weeps.
Yokai watch is slowly dieing in Japan too now and just my opinion the battle system sucks
Wait till YW4
Me too
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.
What’re some interesting sources for learning more about them?
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.
that still confirms nothing, pushing things to a shite mobile app game means nothing when theres just no real push for YW anymore. they want it to quietly fade into a small niche of obscurity, and really Spectors may be their last shot at possibly localizing the third games if it sells well enough.
Yo-kai Watch Wibble Wobble got one million downloads in Europe on the first month, and it's getting great events and updates consistently.. It's not doing THAT terribly.
Well here comes blasters whoo
they might be making one for the switch.
blazinglycoris yo kai watch blasters
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!
Klonoahedgehog THANK YOU! I love Pokemon as much as the next person (I've played all the way up to sun/moon) but I also adore Digimon (Adventure and Tamers are my fave seasons) and most definitely Yokai Watch (Team Fleshy btw). Now if only I could play Cyber Sleuth and one of the Shin Megami Tensei games....
Kristie Kat exactly, just because it's a creature collecting game DOESN'T MAKE IT A POKEMON RIP-OFF, HELL DRAGON QUEST DID IT WAY BEFORE POKEMON
Crystal Keyblade
honestly that’s why i didn’t buy a watch at first, i kept waiting for katie’s version once i saw it.
i was gonna use it for a katie cosplay, i’m a girl aswell so i can’t say your points wrong with it being a very enjoyed with girls, after all most of my friends i talked to during the original run of the first game where girls too.
Same im a fan of pokemon but hell it did not invet the genre
I actually like this game a lot! The anime is ok but they changed the voices and the actors voices sound so weird.
The typical crappy rap theme songs ruined another series.
My favorite was the first it hits the heart but the anime killed me when iloo got mc krakens theme and wazzat got end music why
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!
Ivuul Korol did you watch the full video? It's very much in doubt, if the toy line can't happen. Buy Pychic specters if you want Yokai Watch 3 at all
Actually, Pokemon Sun/moon outsold Yokai Watch 2 20-to-1 in their first weekends in France according to my research. 400k vs YW2s 20k. YW2 has sold 140k copies across Europe, meaning that Pokemon Sun/Moon nearly tripled its sales in France alone.
The anime also dropped off the Nielsen ratings several months ago, with shows like DBS and SnK kicking its behind like nobody's business. Netflix is helping, I'm sure, but we'll have to see.
Luckily Blasters (what was Busters in Japan, I liked the Ghostbusters reference) is coming, so there's more hope for Yo-kai Watch 3.
erikholmysti I want the type zero in the Netherlands. Yokai watch 2 did not even come with the special jibanyan even though the items are still translated and dubbed in Dutch
it comes out in America in February
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 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.
I think it’s going towards that imo. Especially now level 5 is trying to market again in the West. We still have a shot at reviving Yokai and especially rn that Pokémon is slowly being exposed for being pretty much lazy/rushed work. I dunno. I used to be a big Pokémon fan in elementary-middle school. Now I’m in HS I prefer Yokai watch because how creative they try to teach/reference Japanese folklore.
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.
ikr. We still dont have series 3 yo motion medals but we only know they existed cause abdallah was nice enough to ask about it. Thats pretty pitiful.
I hope we at least get 3. Everything is best in trilogies.
GUESS WHAT
IT'S 2019
YO KAI WATCH 4 RELEASED
AND THE FRANCHISE IS BACK AGAIN :D
YEes
@@hopeandjoy0131 YES SIRRRRR
Im still sad Busters 2 isn't localized :C
I hope it comes to US soon
didn't that game fail
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
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.
I address this in the video. The reviews for YW2 are slightly justified because it takes between 8 and 11 hours for anything really new or interesting to happen.
Also, anything in the Mon genre is gonna get compared to Pokemon. It's kind of unavoidable.
You can't call Jimmy out for bias and then get this angry over other people's opinions and blocking out the valid flawa.
Daddy Feli Isn’t that every pokemon game also?
Kohdok it doesn't really take that long to find an interest if u actually like the franchise
i actually bought yokai watch 1 because i thought it was a pokemon knock off
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 >_
Hasbro really dropped the ball with Yo Kai
japan has it great
litteraly (now)
You could say that they dropped the watch
@SpaceRabbit617 it's cuz it's don Chan which is a crossover character
Why did they stop anyway
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.
In one episode of the English dub of the anime, they called rice balls “marshmallow treats” THEY LITERALLY DID THE MOST 4KIDS MOVE.
It was just on one day, so I'm not too sure witch season it was, but I defiantly remember hearing it.
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.
Hunter Messer FACTS!!! plus it never was as good as Pokémon let's be honest here lol
Owain Kun stop being ignorant
YW still has big fanbase world wide
Pokémon had been around for years. Comparing the too is really unfair since time affects lasting impact
jacobspencer04 ignorant?! funny bitch I'm being fact full and so what just cause you say so I can't compare? shit like bakugan and digimon came around when Pokémon was out and big like it still is NOW and they still stood there ground nicely heck digimon is still alive and kicking to this day there's no excuse here so fuck off little cry baby don't get salty just cause FACTS!! are being thrown and you can't handle it lol
Owain Kun it only popular in Japan because Yokai is culturally ingrained in Japan. America is harder to grasp. Pokémon and Digimon literally assimilated other cultures into to be recognizable by anyone so you are ignorant know there's factors that contribute to this. And curse prove you have a limited vocabulary.
Owain Kun in your opinion i personally think there equal
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.
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
Some of those big Yokai plushies ended up at the Dollarama for 4 dollars.
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
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.
True, Mabel does get some points, especially if they have the foresight to grab her VA(I can see Inaho with Mabel's VA) but she's also a bit less annoying than Inaho.
Kohdok there redubbing the cast
Noooooo! I love Yokai Watch! Please we must support this ...I really don't want this series to die in any form...
At best, it will nestle in as the niche series it should have always been.
Kohdok As ad there's support I'm good. I also agree with you about the heavily underrated LBX. Unfortunately this fall looks like it will be another battle with Pokemon USUM, Monster Hunter Stories AND YW2: Psychic Specters. I'm getting all of them but....yikes.
It's not doing that great in Europe. YW2's been out since April and has sold 140k units across Europe.
Kohdok wow thats bad? That's so unfortunate. If only that Level5 magic could be realized.
140k is disappointing for something with such a big marketing push. Remember, it sold six MILLION in Japan. 300k internationally is VERY disappointing by comparison.
That six million includes Shinuchi, though.
This makes me sad... yo kai watch deserved so much better in the US...
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?"
As soon as something is labeled as a "Franchise-killer" it's pretty much doomed to die in my opinion.
Yeah. Comparing itself to Pokemon was basically a death sentence; not only because of the idiotic "ripoff" complaints but also because it blasted expectations into the unattainable stratosphere. I mean, I knew going in it probably wasn't going to resemble Pokemon that much, but that was only because I had heard of Yokai Watch before. To an outsider, it looked like a rookie taking on the champ...when, in Japan, that could not be further from the truth.
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.
Yo I didn’t expect to see you here
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.
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
Nearly a year later from this video, and we're getting some new Yokai Watch stuff with Season 3 and Bus...I mean Blasters.
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! ❤️
This is an old video and all, but daily reminder that the official English Yo-kai Watch UA-cam 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?*
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.
CyberSurferXD
i’m not gonna lie to you, i would’ve found that the funniest thing to be handed and i would’ve regifted that shit to the first person i see laugh at the game design, or maybe even kept it because i’ve never actually seem that before, it would’ve been kinda funny to see.
This seems to be the same fate as LBX... i hope their acquiring of Comcept will help with future series.
I got the first watch for $4 at my Dollar store. Wish more would show up there.
I love Yo-Kai Watch in general. I bought both games.
Yokai watch is my favourite game so... This is a bit sad
for this series to survive we all must support the games and any merch we see and get our hands on
HELL ONCE I GET A SWITCH I'M DOWNLOADING YOKAI WATCH 4
According to google, Japan has a ps4 yokai watch 4 too, so hopefully that comes to America too, since I don't have a switch.
OML FOSSIL FIGHTERS. I love that game its so underrated and im so glad u showed it! also keep up the good work 4:07
we must keep yo-kai watch alive!!!!
just because you don't like yo-kai watch doesn't allow you to hate on people that like it
Daddy Feli it really wasn't that deep.
No matter what happens
I mean YEAH WE NEED TO KEEP THE GAME THAT SELLS ALMOST A 100$ WORTH OF YEN (10000¥) MEDALS THAT HAVE NO USE but seriously why are those medals so pricy even the bad ones were 10$ or something also the battle system......😑
@Daddy Feli so you think repeating every Pokémon game again is better than everytime a good story with so much detail ? idk if you have seen it but ykw4 looks hella awesome
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
You know that something is over with when you see it being sold at the dollar store.
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!
If Youkai watch ends Its not worth Living anymore...
Please don't say that. Not even as a joke.
I'm really hopeful we get Yo-Kai Watch 3, I'm really wanting to see the 'Create - A - Nyan' first hand.
well, we're getting Blasters localization this year! WOOHOO!
skelanimaldiego
we’re getting the 3rd game in 2019 and a forth aswell, so that’s pretty good.
the forth is for the switch though, thanks mostly to level five.
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 :/
NightKnight-77
on the up side it means a lot of the games are currently cheaper in a way, hell i went into a gamestop near my place and got a copy of the original game for 15 dollars.
but from what i’ve heard we’re still getting the 3rd for the 3ds and the 4th for nintendo switch, which is moderately interesting in the case of level 5, but a very welcomed addition in my opinion though, i thought we wouldn’t get the 3rd considering everything is kinda an americanized stereotype for the game, but i will find it funny regardless if the writings done well.
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.
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.
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 .
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.
There were actually 3 games: Bony Spirits, Fleshy Souls and Phsycic Specters
He literally addressed this in the video
5 years later...
IT'S BEEN 2 YEARS!!! wow
Randomnes of DKL so
Almost 3 now
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.
I don't think I've ever seen an IP burn out in the space of 3 years faster than Yo-kai Watch.
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 😔😔🙁
Ariq ze gamer but is it a fad to an extent?
pitta fat idk
Feli Kun i think he meant japanese folklore but im not sure
Feli Kun lmao
Ariq ze gamer yo kai watch isnt 100% accurate by any means but i still had a fun time looking up the different origins of yo kai
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
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.
It's sad that Yokai Watch was hyped here in our country (Philippines) and was expected to rival Pokemon back in 2016 yet... It stopped airing here for some time and English medals had funny translations that I wished they just kept the Japanese romanization since it's still good (we can't understand Japanese language so we prefer English translation). With the watered down popularity here, toys like the watch even went to a 90% discount, and Hasbro had stop translating medals for some time that toy stores rarely put stocks. I bought both Sun/Moon versions instead.
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.
Napoli GioGio
well good news my fellow yokai watch enjoying friend, we are getting the 3rd game in 2019, and the switch is getting a 4th.
so for me as long as the writing is still top notch i have no reason to not buy it.
i already have enjoyed the others, nothing is stopping my hype train yet!
woot woot.
hey, Psychic Specters is out. Its actually really fun idk why yo kai watch 2 had a bad launch
YW1 got a tepid release and YW2 doesn't give you anything new to do for several hours, rehashing literally the same maps from the first game until ~6 hours in.
the sad thing is that i already have 18 hours into the game in two days :3
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.
In fact Bandai of America seems to be hit or miss recently, especially with their treatment of Sixth ranger roleplay toys (gotta love the role play toys for Dino Charge's gold ranger which had no electronics what so ever!).
I should also mention that it was Hasbro that took care of Yokai Watch's toys in America, not Bandai of America.
It would do horribly because it's just a rip off of Yokai watch. lol
dude this was great and well made.
Oh look Yo Kai Watch! It's been a while since we've seen a competitor to Poké- aaaaand it's gone.
Ok, who else is watching this 2 years later
Yup. I'm hoping the series makes a comeback with yokai watch 4 once it gets localized.
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
3:00 one could appreciate the jelly filled donuts
Jibanyan is losing his fandom to BATIM!
That donut commercial still gave us some memes. :u That's a positive. Kinda.
It makes me wanna throw up.
Level 5 has amazing games but look at inazuma eleven. They stopped at the last part for the states. I hated it
Yo kai will never die!
I love LBX and I thought it needed a sequel because the game and show were pretty good.
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
Well... We did get the dream in the English dub of the show, so maybe we’ll get the watch itself?
EDIT: Also, I heard that (maybe from a certain American youtuber getting noticed idk tho (Abdallahsmash026)) busters and possibly Yo-Kai watch 3 are being released here in America! I’m exited and hope that this comes true!
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.
It has. They didn’t pooch the launch and just gave us Sukiyaki right out of the gate.
If yo kai watch dies I will be sad bc yo kai watch was my childhood
It did die but it’s still fun
Hey +Kohdok , With Blasters being localized and released next Friday, your thoughts on that?
Also the game music is super good
Wait did you say 8 to 11 hours ? I FINISHED THE GAME YOKAI WATCH BONY SPIRITS IN 7 hours
Same dude
Hasbro effed up and Disney didn't care
Panda Powa Didn’t they ended up getting the TV license for Pokémon?
I’m watching this 2 years later than this video!
Im playing through the first one and liking it a lot.
The battle system is weird but not terrible
It takes a while to get used to. Yo kai watch 3's fighting system is so weird but a LOT better
Please Yo Kai watch has to continue with the show, merchandise and games because I am a huge fan of Yo kai watch👍
You're just stupid, its not a rip-off of Pokemon, its based off of japanese myth from 200 years ago, You don't CAPTURE Things in a ball, and you can use 3 (at a certain time) in one battle.
TheMasterRiolu15 who is stupid medal Robert and daddy feli
Don't keep the medals those are over priced
It’s funny looking at this now
I think the biggest problem with yokai watch is how most of the yokai are just recolors of the mascots/yokai sure Pokemon has a pikachu clone in every generation but at least they weren't recolors of it.
Not at all, majority of Yo-Kai have original designs
it's on Netflix. all the dub episodes and the movie
That's better, but it's still no match for other programs who put their stuff on UA-cam.
Also, it has to compete with Voltron.
Kohdok we know nothing has a Chance when compared to Voltron, especially the fanbase size.
Not all of the seasons
No it isn't. Only Season 1 is.
Yo Kai Watch 2 Years Later, uploaded 2 years ago
Even ‘Merican Yo-Kai don’t get AMERICAN MEDALS OR WATCHES!
For someone starting to buy Yo Kai watch stuff, what watch is newest can can use the most medals?
The U Onwards are designed to use all previous medals. I can't speak on the Black, but the Dream can handle pretty much all Japanese medals.
I'd probably go with the U, though, as it handles the majority of medals and is a bit snappier than the Dream.
Weeaboo nah get the fancier looking watch
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.
Now, 3 years later, we get yokai watch 3.
I know it’s highly unlikely but I really do want busters to come out. It looks like so much fun
Victini 626 Good news buddy
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?
I feel like yokai watch 4 might save the series. I've only seen bits and pieces since it's not in america yet, but it looks promising.
Maybe
Lets face it, Hasbro has been ruining Japanese toylines for years now, look at what they did to Bdaman Crossfire.
Hasbro Was The People Who F***ed Up The Localization We Barely Got Yokai Watch 3 (Super Rare BTW)
Am I the only one who liked Swmpy's version of the Yo-Kai Watch theme song?
No
Hopefully Yokai Watch 3 will revive the franchise, considering the huge change in gameplay and the fact that it will be appealing to American audiences.
I don't the series is dead by any means. At the very least, I believe it will always stay as that little niche series outside of Japan. Also, people find Inaho annoying? I've seen lots of people that love her.
Its not dead but most people in America will always see it as a pokemon rip off therefore you cant expect it to get fair treatment. As soon as Pokemon Ultra Sun/Moon comes out, you better hope hard it wont die by then.Importing has always been an option.