Yo-kai Watch | |
Promotional flyer for Yo-kai Watch featuring Nate Adams, Whisper, Jibanyan, Komasan, Komajiro, Manjimutt, Kyubi, Hungramps, Happierre, Dismeralda, Venoct, and other notable Yo-kai.
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妖怪ウォッチ (Yōkai Wotchi) |
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Manga | |
Written by | Noriyuki Konishi |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
Original run | January 2013 – present |
Volumes | 11 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Shinji Ushiro |
Produced by | Yoshikazu Kuretani (TV Tokyo), Kiyofumi Kajiwara |
Written by | Yoichi Katō |
Music by | Ken'ichirō Saigō |
Studio | OLM, Dentsu |
Licensed by | |
Original network | TXN (TV Tokyo), BS Japan, AT-X, Kids Station |
English network | |
Original run | January 8, 2014 – present |
Episodes | 154+ |
Manga | |
Yo-kai Watch: Exciting Nyanderful Days | |
Written by | Chikako Mori |
Published by | Shogakukan |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Ciao (2014–) Pucchigumi (2014) |
Original run | February 2014 – present |
Volumes | 3 |
Manga | |
4-Panel Yo-kai Watch: Geragera Manga Theater | |
Written by | Coconas Rumba |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic SPECIAL |
Original run | October 2014 – present |
Volumes | 1 |
Manga | |
Yo-kai Watch: 4-Panel Pun-Club | |
Written by | Santa Harukaze |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | CoroCoro Ichiban! |
Original run | April 2015 – present |
Volumes | 2 |
Manga | |
Komasan 〜A Time for Fireworks and Miracles〜 | |
Written by | Shō Shibamoto |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōnen, Seinen |
Magazine | HiBaNa |
Original run | April 10, 2015 – September 10, 2015 |
Volumes | 1 |
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Yo-kai Watch Busters | |
Written by | Atsushi Ohba |
Published by | Shogakukan |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | CoroCoro Comic |
Original run | June 2015 – October 2015 |
Volumes | 1 |
Video games | |
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Anime films | |
Yo-kai Watch (妖怪ウォッチ Yōkai Wotchi?, trademarked in Japan as Youkai Watch and Yokai Watch, lit. Spirit/Monsters Watch) is a series of role-playing video games and a mixed-media franchise, created and developed by Level-5. The original game was released for the Nintendo 3DS in Japan in July 2013 and was released in North America by Nintendo in November 2015.
A sequel, Yo-kai Watch 2, was released in three versions; Ganso and Honke, which were released in Japan in July 2014, and Shinuchi, released on December 13, 2014. A spin-off game, Yo-kai Watch Busters, was released in July 2015. A third title, Yo-kai Watch 3, was released in July 2016.
Six manga adaptations have been produced; a shōnen manga series that began serialization in Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic from December 2012, a shōjo manga series that began serialization in Shogakukan's Ciao magazine from December 2013, two shōnen yonkoma series that began serialization in CoroCoro Comic SPECIAL and CoroCoro Ichiban! from October 2014 and April 2014 respectively, a shōnen and seinen manga series that was serialized in HiBaNa from April to September 2015, and a shōnen manga series based on Yo-kai Watch Busters that was serialized in CoroCoro Comic from June to October 2015. An anime television series produced by OLM, Inc. began airing in Japan from January 2014 and began airing in North America from October 2015.