Yokai Watch

Fun to watch when you just want to relax and melt your brain. Everyone keeps commenting on the dub, but i watched it with subtitles so i can't say much on that. I was a little annoyed by the repetitive toilet humor, buts it's a kids show so really what did I expect? American kids shows have that kind of humor all the time, Japan just tends to be more blunt with it so people tend to get thrown off. Not much to say other than i love the komasan skits, liked it when i was 8 and i still like it now. That's good enough for me. As long as you aren't the kind of person to look too far into plot and be annoyed by episodic type shows, give it a shot.

Me and my 2 boys love this show, we laugh out loud, very funny. It's different from the usual Pokemon anime and its copies because it is not a battle of good versus evil, but about people being people - with the bad behaviours being influences by the Yokai. It tells the sad stories of some yokai, explaining why they cause a certain bad behaviour (each one does something different than the other) and in the end it is mostly about fighting these bad behaviours through friendship, love, understanding and forgiveness. Some episodes are just silly, but in a good way. It is not violent, and is cute to watch. Streaming platforms should put these back, as its content is way better than average animations I see offered by Netflix and Prime...

I did a review on this but I felt I was a bit too hot head about it and ever since there has been a lot of changes towards the show. So i thought of starting fresh and writing a new one.

It's no lie that I have been a fan of Yo Kai watch for a really long time. All I have to say is it's a good show for kids and adults to laugh and enjoy.

Just to get one thing clear Yo Kai Watch is NOT a ripoff of Pokemon or even Digimon it is just doing it's own thing and it is mostly a comedy like anime then action. There is action involved and heartwarming scenes but not as many however, it is still watchable and a whole load of fun. Yes I have to admit there are some bad episode and few of them can come off too lazy but majority the episodes are good.

This show is based on Japanese folklore which include supernatural monsters, spirits and demons. These are called Yokai which are monster like supernatural creatures that may inspirit you and cause you to do thing you would unexpectedly do or change your behaviour in a very odd way. Once the individual has been uninspired they would have no memory of there action.

Another thing which I do like is the animation it works well with the each scene and it is suit quite well with the art style. Both character and Yo Kai designs are very well drawn. I also think the characters are very well developed and I do think they are very likeable once when you get used to them.

As for the dubbing it's not bad and unpopular opinion but I personally think Johnny Yong Bosch was very good as Nate, I do agree on some stage or other its not easy for a grown to sound young i.e Dee Bradley Baker from many different cartoons even now he is good at voicing young boys from any age. He might not be as good as Dee is but it's still an appropriate voice for an 11 year old and doesn't come off annoying or irritating whats so ever. The rest of the cast apart from the person who voiced Eddie are perfectly fine.

But sometime in December or January due to budget cuts the whole cast got fired and new voice actors took over. The new voice actors okay Griffin Burns pretty good as Nate even though it's not as good as Johnny Yong Bosch's voice but it's still a good performance, Kira Buckland is somewhat close to Alicyn Packard's voice as Jibanyan. However, Whispers new voice actor.................................................I am sorry but no Michael doesn't sound anything close to Joey whatsoever. Michael is a good voice actor don't get me wrong Michael is a good voice, i.e I enjoyed his role as The White Coat on Coppelion but his voice as Whisper is just bad. But I do think Bryce Papenbrook is better as Eddie then Brent Pendergrass ever was.

The dub is nowhere near bad as how 4Kids used to dub as one person here thinks. 4Kids were nothing more then an excuse to dub anime as they cenored too much even small bearable things. (Changing rice ball to donuts seriously??) or (having pointing fingers instead of guns). This person also in compared this to Attack on Titans which I see no logic in. When they completely too different scenes. Apart from having a lead male protagonist and both English and Japanese voice actors of Eren are involved in this show. That's all I can think of. However, I have to thank this person for getting me into One Punch man and FLCL. As for the whole 4Kids and the One Piece thing which a few people have mentioned I am going to leave a link here if you want to learn the full story about that: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/4Kids_Entertainment Not trying to pick on anyone but there was another revier who claimed this anime is worse than Teen Titans Go!, PPG 2016 and Sonic Boom which was just a nonsense in my opinion. I am not into sonic so I have no word about sonic boom but Teen Titans Go! is nothing but an insult towards DC animation's legacy and useless kiddy garbage and it deserves to stay that way and PPG 2016 I may not be a fan but it is a massive slap in the face to the original fans. Yo Kai Watch is nothing like the two shows which I have mentioned.

However, I feel that when Disney are dubbing this they seem to cenor even the smallest things. I get that somethings have to be appropriate for a USA and UK audience like not having nudity, alcohol, smoking or drugs in the kids show. But when Disney are doing it they so miss out a lot of details. They don't cenor as much as 4Kids but still.

I get that Japanese voice can be irritating to listen to, I am not a fan of the voice acting in the Japanese voice acting but trust me it would be worth it better theme tune, more mature and better story in detail. Unless if Viz could release uncut version with the same voice actors from both eras. I am afraid this might be the logical option. I forgot to mention the English dub missed out an entire segment which is another reason to watch. the Japanese version. Try it you won't regret it. Watch an episode of the english dub and watch an episode of the english subbed and see how different it is.

The only other drawback to the show is the Yo Kai Exercise which in my opinion is just the cringiest thing I have ever seen. But other that it's a pretty good anime for young kids and people like monster collecting animes especially if you are into Pokemon and Digimon.

Yokai watch has an aesthetically pleasing design when it comes to the character design of humans but the monsters look awful.One of the things Pokemon got right was having their monsters that appealed to both genders of all ages. But I could never imagine a young girl becoming interested in this monstrosity. The story-line is pretty weak and nothing exactly shines out making it unique from any other monster catching anime.Just another BOY who catches something. I think the soundtrack is decent and I actually like the theme song but, this show will fail if they don't change it up. Everyone going into this show will compare it to Pokemon whether you like it or not so it has to AIM to be better than the show. It just seems like Ben Ten and Pokemon had a child, nothing more.

Yo-Kai Watch is an amazing show, one of the best Anime series aimed at at all ages recently. Instead of your usual collect-them-all Anime with the "motivated and always developing" main character stereotype eager to catch all the monsters, this show does the exact opposite: Main character that just wants a normal life, together with a rather useless sidekick. The show focuses more on comedy rather than action/drama, which is also new for this genre.

However, I understand why some people may be thrown off by it, as it's full of jokes requiring you to know a bit about the Japanese culture, even in the English release. But best of all, most of these jokes are adult oriented. The "Manjimutt" character is based on a drunk Japanese business man, which is why his face is always red. Shibanyan is basically an "Otaku", which is shown by his hardcore fascination of Japanese idols and fandom of Japanese manga. There's also a creature named "Hidabat", a creature that hates the light and shuts themselves inside the house all day in a depressed state, which is a direct reference to people known as "Hikikomori", a huge social problem in Japan.

There's also a few "innocent" jokes that you may not get if you don't have a clue about Japan, like the Japanese Metro Trains, the tradition of handing out tissues with ad fliers (the characters thought they were trading cards) and a bunch of puns on Japanese brands, like "BookOn" and "Aoyaru".

If you're an adult and know enough about Japan to understand the jokes, this will be amazing. Even great for kids, who won't care if they miss a couple of jokes. But for everyone else... it may be a bit hard to enjoy.