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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. [1]
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.
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.
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 ]
Rosario + Vampire is a Japanese anime series based on the manga series of the same title written and illustrated by Akihisa Ikeda.The story revolves around Tsukune Aono, a boy with poor grades who accidentally enrolls into Yokai Academy, a special school inhabited by monsters, and demons where humans are not allowed.
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 ...