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The following is a list of characters from Level-5's video game and anime franchise, Yo-kai Watch. The version of the manga distributed in Southeast Asia, including the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei, by Shogakukan Asia uses the original Japanese names.
Yo-kai Watch Jam was developed and published by Level-5, [9] who had developed and published other Yo-kai Watch games. The game is based on the Yo-kai Watch Jam: Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind anime series, [10] whose first season was ongoing at the time of the game's release.
Yōkai Academy, the main setting of Rosario + Vampire. Tsukune Aono is an average teenager who is unable to get into any local high schools due to his poor grades. As a last-ditch effort to secure his education, his parents enroll him in a private school called Yokai Academy, which he discovers is a boarding school for monsters.
Ikeda drew inspirations from Kaibutsu-kun and has incorporated some references later into the first serialization of the Rosario + Vampire manga. In an interview at Lucca Comics 2012, Ikeda said he is a big fan of Tim Burton and was inspired by his works, including The Nightmare Before Christmas, and particularly Edward Scissorhands because the monster has a sensitive soul.
Yo-kai Watch 4 was released for the Nintendo Switch in Japan on June 20, 2019, featuring a new artstyle and character designs from Yo-kai Watch Shadowside, [27] as well as the original designs. The game includes characters from previous games as well as the main characters from Yo-kai Watch Shadowside and Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends.
The franchise's anime series are produced by OLM and the manga series are published by Shogakukan, who have serialized the series in various different magazines. Yo-kai Watch was developed as a multimedia franchise, as Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino believed it to be one of the main factors that made an IP long-lasting. [ 1 ]
The VIZ translation uses western character names, while the Singapore English translation uses Japanese character names. [9] Nathan "Nate" Adams / Keita Amano (天野景太, Amano Keita) – An 11-year-old 5th grader who acquires a Yo-kai Watch while bug hunting in the Mount Wildwood forest. He's portrayed as a relatively average and ...
An anime series based on the video game premiered on the TX Network, owned by TV Tokyo, on January 8, 2014, six months after the Japanese release of the game. [22] The series has run continuously on TV Tokyo since then, including a rebranding as a "Second Season" featuring new characters [23] from the upcoming Yo-kai Watch 3 game. [24]