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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!,[a] is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.[3][4] The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan.[3] It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.[5]

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Theatrical release poster

Japanese name

Kanji

映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!

Transcriptions

Directed by

Shigeharu Takahashi [ja]

Shinji Ushiro [ja]

Screenplay by

Yoichi Kato

Story by

Animation Real Life

Based on

Yo-kai Watch

by Level-5

Produced by

Kiyofumi Kajiwara

Makoto Wada

Izumi Furusawa

Yukari Hayakawa

Junichi Yanagihara

Starring

Haruka Tomatsu

Tomokazu Seki

Etsuko Kozakura

Romi Park

Yuki Kaji

Cinematography

Tatsumi Yukiwaki

Edited by

Emi Onodera

Music by

Kenichiro Saigo

Production

company

OLM, Inc.

Distributed by

Toho[1]

Release date

December 20, 2014 (Japan)

Running time

97 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Box office

$99.5 million[2]

Plot

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This article needs an improved plot summary. (December 2015)

The plot is the same as Yo-kai Watch 2, but with some changes. One night, the evil Yo-kai duo Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends. He then encounters the Yo-kai Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother Lucy Loo Adams, encounter a shadow and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body—the cork that suppresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel Adams while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battles against Dame Dedtime and her Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world of the past from her evil plans and recover the Nate's Yo-kai Watch.

Voice cast

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Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor

Nathan "Nate" Adams (Keita Amano) Haruka Tomatsu Johnny Yong Bosch

Whisper Tomokazu Seki Joey D'Auria

Jibanyan Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Nathaniel Adams (Keizō Amano) Romi Park Meyer DeLeeuw

Hovernyan (Fuyunyan) / Darknyan Yūki Kaji Johnny Yong Bosch

Darknyan Brent Pendergrass

Meganyan (Dekanyan) Johnny Yong Bosch

Buchinyan Etsuko Kozakura

Tomokazu Seki Alicyn Packard

Joey D'Auria

Dame Dedtime (Tokio Ubaune) Kataoka Ainosuke VI Alicyn Packard

Kin and Gin Vanilla Yamazaki

Mika Kanai Melissa Hutchison

Jenn Wong

Lucy Loo Adams (Yukiko "Yukippe" Amano) Hisako Kyōda (old)

Haruka Shimazaki[6] (young) Jenn Wong

Robonyan Naoki Bandō Joey D'Auria

Shogunyan (Bushinyan) Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Komasan Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Walkappa (Nogappa) Masahito Yabe

Kyubi Ryoko Nagata

Tattletell (Bakuroba) Chie Sato

Blazion (Melamelion) Yuko Sasamoto Brent Pendergrass

Roughraff (Gurerurin) Naoki Bandō

Noway (Murikabe) Toru Nara

Manjimutt (Jinmenken) Naoki Bandō Paul Greenberg

Happierre (Honobono) Masahito Yabe

Dandoodle (Ikemenken)

Aaron Adams Tōru Nara Brent Pendergrass

Lily Adams Ryoko Nagata Alicyn Packard

Katie Forester (Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama) Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Edward "Eddie" Archer (Kanchi Imada) Chie Sato Brent Pendergrass

Barnaby "Bear" Bernstein (Gorota "Kuma" Kumashima) Toru Nara Paul Greenberg

Master Nyada Ken Shimura Joey D'Auria

Bronzlow (Do) Masahito Yabe Paul Greenberg

Production

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Music

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The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.

Opening Theme

"Gera Gera Po (Movie Version)" by King Cream Soda (Japan)

"Yo-kai Watch" by Basilio Fernando Ferreira (USA)

Ending Theme

"Yo-kai Medley" by Yo-kai King Dream Soda & "Kuwagata to Kabutomushi" by King Cream Soda (Japan & USA)

Release

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Marketing

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The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic.[4] The first trailer was released in August[7] and another trailer was released in October.[8] A second film was announced in November.[9] A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13.[10] A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week,[11] and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.[12]

Home media

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The Blu-ray and DVD were released on July 8, 2015, with both reaching the number-one place on the animation rankings, with 14,090 and 84,932 copies sold, respectively.[13][14] By its 13th week, the DVD had sold 128,810 copies.[15]

Western release

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In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening.[16] It was released on Netflix on December 1, 2016 in the United States before leaving the service on March 3, 2021.[17] Its DVD was released on May 19, 2020, nearly four years after its theatrical release. the film was distributed by Wild Bunch in France, 01 Distribution In Italy, Buena Vista International in Turkey, Selecta Vision in Spain and Universal Pictures in some countries.

Reception

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Box office

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The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26,[9] reaching 840,000 by late November[18] and more than 1 million by mid-December.[19]

The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion,[20] a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle.[21] reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend,[22] ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend[23] and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend.[24] The film grossed ¥7.8 billion ($73,623,258) at the Japanese box office, where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2015.[25]

Overseas, the film grossed ₩1.98 billion ($1.69 million) upon its opening in South Korea,[26] and went on to gross ₩3,888,698,100 ($3,437,804) there.[27] The film also grossed $257,343 in the United States and Canada, and $1,715,393 in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Thailand.[2] The film grossed a total of $99.5 million worldwide.[2]

Critical reception

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Kotaku's Mike Fahey described the movie as keeping the humor of the TV show even in its highest dramatic stakes.[28] Anime News Network reviewer James Beckett liked the humor, but was bothered by the pacing issues. He gave it a B grading.[29]

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 80% with average rating of 6.6/10 based on 5 critics reviews.[30]

Notes

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Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!, Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, lit. Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Its the Secret of Birth, Meow!)

References

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"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！(2014)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (June 10, 2014). "Level-5's Yo-kai Watch Games Get Film in December". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (June 14, 2014). "2nd Yo-kai Watch Film Opens in Japan on December 19". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (October 8, 2014). "AKB48's Haruka Shimazaki Guest Stars in Yo-kai Watch Film". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (August 28, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film's Trailer Teases Origin of Magical Watch". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Mahoney, Rachel (October 17, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Anime Film's Trailer Reveals Time-Traveling Story". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Ego (November 2, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Gets 2nd Film Next Winter". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 10, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch 2 Game Gets 3rd Version on December 13". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (December 24, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, December 15–21". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 21, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, January 12–18". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, July 6–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, July 5–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 6, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 28-October 4". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"YO-KAI WATCH: THE MOVIE EVENT | Fathom Events". Fathom Events. September 4, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Whritenour, Jacob (December 1, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Now Streaming on Netflix". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 27, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets Toho Record with 840,000 Advance Tickets Sold". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (December 14, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets New Toho Record with 1 Million Advance Tickets". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loveridge, Lynzee (December 22, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film Beats Out Disney's Big Hero 6 at Japanese Box Office". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Komatsu, Mikikazu (December 24, 2014). ""Yo-Kai Watch" Film Breaks Opening Weekend Record of "Howl's Moving Castle"". www.crunchyroll.com. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 5, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 5 Billion Yen, But Big Hero 6 Rises to #1". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 6.5 Billion Yen, Psycho-Pass Earns 248 Million". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 26, 2015). "Big Hero 6 Tops Yo-kai Watch for 4th Straight Weekend". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"2015". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

Kevin Ma (July 27, 2015). "Assassination slays competition in South Korea". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

"영화정보". KOFIC. Korean Film Council. Retrieved October 16, 2022. Yokai Watch

Fahey, Mark (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets". Kotaku. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Beckett, James (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch: The Movie Event (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

External links

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie at IMDb

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!,[a] is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.[3][4] The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan.[3] It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.[5]

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Theatrical release poster

Japanese name

Kanji

映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!

Transcriptions

Directed by

Shigeharu Takahashi [ja]

Shinji Ushiro [ja]

Screenplay by

Yoichi Kato

Story by

Animation Real Life

Based on

Yo-kai Watch

by Level-5

Produced by

Kiyofumi Kajiwara

Makoto Wada

Izumi Furusawa

Yukari Hayakawa

Junichi Yanagihara

Starring

Haruka Tomatsu

Tomokazu Seki

Etsuko Kozakura

Romi Park

Yuki Kaji

Cinematography

Tatsumi Yukiwaki

Edited by

Emi Onodera

Music by

Kenichiro Saigo

Production

company

OLM, Inc.

Distributed by

Toho[1]

Release date

December 20, 2014 (Japan)

Running time

97 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Box office

$99.5 million[2]

Plot

edit

This article needs an improved plot summary. (December 2015)

The plot is the same as Yo-kai Watch 2, but with some changes. One night, the evil Yo-kai duo Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends. He then encounters the Yo-kai Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother Lucy Loo Adams, encounter a shadow and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body—the cork that suppresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel Adams while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battles against Dame Dedtime and her Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world of the past from her evil plans and recover the Nate's Yo-kai Watch.

Voice cast

edit

Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor

Nathan "Nate" Adams (Keita Amano) Haruka Tomatsu Johnny Yong Bosch

Whisper Tomokazu Seki Joey D'Auria

Jibanyan Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Nathaniel Adams (Keizō Amano) Romi Park Meyer DeLeeuw

Hovernyan (Fuyunyan) / Darknyan Yūki Kaji Johnny Yong Bosch

Darknyan Brent Pendergrass

Meganyan (Dekanyan) Johnny Yong Bosch

Buchinyan Etsuko Kozakura

Tomokazu Seki Alicyn Packard

Joey D'Auria

Dame Dedtime (Tokio Ubaune) Kataoka Ainosuke VI Alicyn Packard

Kin and Gin Vanilla Yamazaki

Mika Kanai Melissa Hutchison

Jenn Wong

Lucy Loo Adams (Yukiko "Yukippe" Amano) Hisako Kyōda (old)

Haruka Shimazaki[6] (young) Jenn Wong

Robonyan Naoki Bandō Joey D'Auria

Shogunyan (Bushinyan) Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Komasan Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Walkappa (Nogappa) Masahito Yabe

Kyubi Ryoko Nagata

Tattletell (Bakuroba) Chie Sato

Blazion (Melamelion) Yuko Sasamoto Brent Pendergrass

Roughraff (Gurerurin) Naoki Bandō

Noway (Murikabe) Toru Nara

Manjimutt (Jinmenken) Naoki Bandō Paul Greenberg

Happierre (Honobono) Masahito Yabe

Dandoodle (Ikemenken)

Aaron Adams Tōru Nara Brent Pendergrass

Lily Adams Ryoko Nagata Alicyn Packard

Katie Forester (Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama) Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Edward "Eddie" Archer (Kanchi Imada) Chie Sato Brent Pendergrass

Barnaby "Bear" Bernstein (Gorota "Kuma" Kumashima) Toru Nara Paul Greenberg

Master Nyada Ken Shimura Joey D'Auria

Bronzlow (Do) Masahito Yabe Paul Greenberg

Production

edit

Music

edit

The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.

Opening Theme

"Gera Gera Po (Movie Version)" by King Cream Soda (Japan)

"Yo-kai Watch" by Basilio Fernando Ferreira (USA)

Ending Theme

"Yo-kai Medley" by Yo-kai King Dream Soda & "Kuwagata to Kabutomushi" by King Cream Soda (Japan & USA)

Release

edit

Marketing

edit

The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic.[4] The first trailer was released in August[7] and another trailer was released in October.[8] A second film was announced in November.[9] A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13.[10] A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week,[11] and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.[12]

Home media

edit

The Blu-ray and DVD were released on July 8, 2015, with both reaching the number-one place on the animation rankings, with 14,090 and 84,932 copies sold, respectively.[13][14] By its 13th week, the DVD had sold 128,810 copies.[15]

Western release

edit

In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening.[16] It was released on Netflix on December 1, 2016 in the United States before leaving the service on March 3, 2021.[17] Its DVD was released on May 19, 2020, nearly four years after its theatrical release. the film was distributed by Wild Bunch in France, 01 Distribution In Italy, Buena Vista International in Turkey, Selecta Vision in Spain and Universal Pictures in some countries.

Reception

edit

Box office

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The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26,[9] reaching 840,000 by late November[18] and more than 1 million by mid-December.[19]

The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion,[20] a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle.[21] reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend,[22] ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend[23] and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend.[24] The film grossed ¥7.8 billion ($73,623,258) at the Japanese box office, where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2015.[25]

Overseas, the film grossed ₩1.98 billion ($1.69 million) upon its opening in South Korea,[26] and went on to gross ₩3,888,698,100 ($3,437,804) there.[27] The film also grossed $257,343 in the United States and Canada, and $1,715,393 in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Thailand.[2] The film grossed a total of $99.5 million worldwide.[2]

Critical reception

edit

Kotaku's Mike Fahey described the movie as keeping the humor of the TV show even in its highest dramatic stakes.[28] Anime News Network reviewer James Beckett liked the humor, but was bothered by the pacing issues. He gave it a B grading.[29]

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 80% with average rating of 6.6/10 based on 5 critics reviews.[30]

Notes

edit

Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!, Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, lit. Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Its the Secret of Birth, Meow!)

References

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"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！(2014)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (June 10, 2014). "Level-5's Yo-kai Watch Games Get Film in December". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (June 14, 2014). "2nd Yo-kai Watch Film Opens in Japan on December 19". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (October 8, 2014). "AKB48's Haruka Shimazaki Guest Stars in Yo-kai Watch Film". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (August 28, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film's Trailer Teases Origin of Magical Watch". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Mahoney, Rachel (October 17, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Anime Film's Trailer Reveals Time-Traveling Story". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Ego (November 2, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Gets 2nd Film Next Winter". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 10, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch 2 Game Gets 3rd Version on December 13". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (December 24, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, December 15–21". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 21, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, January 12–18". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, July 6–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, July 5–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 6, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 28-October 4". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"YO-KAI WATCH: THE MOVIE EVENT | Fathom Events". Fathom Events. September 4, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Whritenour, Jacob (December 1, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Now Streaming on Netflix". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 27, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets Toho Record with 840,000 Advance Tickets Sold". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (December 14, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets New Toho Record with 1 Million Advance Tickets". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loveridge, Lynzee (December 22, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film Beats Out Disney's Big Hero 6 at Japanese Box Office". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Komatsu, Mikikazu (December 24, 2014). ""Yo-Kai Watch" Film Breaks Opening Weekend Record of "Howl's Moving Castle"". www.crunchyroll.com. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 5, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 5 Billion Yen, But Big Hero 6 Rises to #1". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 6.5 Billion Yen, Psycho-Pass Earns 248 Million". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 26, 2015). "Big Hero 6 Tops Yo-kai Watch for 4th Straight Weekend". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"2015". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

Kevin Ma (July 27, 2015). "Assassination slays competition in South Korea". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

"영화정보". KOFIC. Korean Film Council. Retrieved October 16, 2022. Yokai Watch

Fahey, Mark (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets". Kotaku. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Beckett, James (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch: The Movie Event (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

External links

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie at IMDb

is that the entire wikipedia article for yokai watch the movie

[thesaurus-official]

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!,[a] is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.[3][4] The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan.[3] It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.[5]

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Theatrical release poster

Japanese name

Kanji

映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!

Transcriptions

Directed by

Shigeharu Takahashi [ja]

Shinji Ushiro [ja]

Screenplay by

Yoichi Kato

Story by

Animation Real Life

Based on

Yo-kai Watch

by Level-5

Produced by

Kiyofumi Kajiwara

Makoto Wada

Izumi Furusawa

Yukari Hayakawa

Junichi Yanagihara

Starring

Haruka Tomatsu

Tomokazu Seki

Etsuko Kozakura

Romi Park

Yuki Kaji

Cinematography

Tatsumi Yukiwaki

Edited by

Emi Onodera

Music by

Kenichiro Saigo

Production

company

OLM, Inc.

Distributed by

Toho[1]

Release date

December 20, 2014 (Japan)

Running time

97 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Box office

$99.5 million[2]

Plot

edit

This article needs an improved plot summary. (December 2015)

The plot is the same as Yo-kai Watch 2, but with some changes. One night, the evil Yo-kai duo Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends. He then encounters the Yo-kai Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother Lucy Loo Adams, encounter a shadow and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body—the cork that suppresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel Adams while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battles against Dame Dedtime and her Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world of the past from her evil plans and recover the Nate's Yo-kai Watch.

Voice cast

edit

Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor

Nathan "Nate" Adams (Keita Amano) Haruka Tomatsu Johnny Yong Bosch

Whisper Tomokazu Seki Joey D'Auria

Jibanyan Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Nathaniel Adams (Keizō Amano) Romi Park Meyer DeLeeuw

Hovernyan (Fuyunyan) / Darknyan Yūki Kaji Johnny Yong Bosch

Darknyan Brent Pendergrass

Meganyan (Dekanyan) Johnny Yong Bosch

Buchinyan Etsuko Kozakura

Tomokazu Seki Alicyn Packard

Joey D'Auria

Dame Dedtime (Tokio Ubaune) Kataoka Ainosuke VI Alicyn Packard

Kin and Gin Vanilla Yamazaki

Mika Kanai Melissa Hutchison

Jenn Wong

Lucy Loo Adams (Yukiko "Yukippe" Amano) Hisako Kyōda (old)

Haruka Shimazaki[6] (young) Jenn Wong

Robonyan Naoki Bandō Joey D'Auria

Shogunyan (Bushinyan) Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Komasan Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Walkappa (Nogappa) Masahito Yabe

Kyubi Ryoko Nagata

Tattletell (Bakuroba) Chie Sato

Blazion (Melamelion) Yuko Sasamoto Brent Pendergrass

Roughraff (Gurerurin) Naoki Bandō

Noway (Murikabe) Toru Nara

Manjimutt (Jinmenken) Naoki Bandō Paul Greenberg

Happierre (Honobono) Masahito Yabe

Dandoodle (Ikemenken)

Aaron Adams Tōru Nara Brent Pendergrass

Lily Adams Ryoko Nagata Alicyn Packard

Katie Forester (Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama) Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Edward "Eddie" Archer (Kanchi Imada) Chie Sato Brent Pendergrass

Barnaby "Bear" Bernstein (Gorota "Kuma" Kumashima) Toru Nara Paul Greenberg

Master Nyada Ken Shimura Joey D'Auria

Bronzlow (Do) Masahito Yabe Paul Greenberg

Production

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Music

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The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.

Opening Theme

"Gera Gera Po (Movie Version)" by King Cream Soda (Japan)

"Yo-kai Watch" by Basilio Fernando Ferreira (USA)

Ending Theme

"Yo-kai Medley" by Yo-kai King Dream Soda & "Kuwagata to Kabutomushi" by King Cream Soda (Japan & USA)

Release

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Marketing

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The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic.[4] The first trailer was released in August[7] and another trailer was released in October.[8] A second film was announced in November.[9] A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13.[10] A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week,[11] and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.[12]

Home media

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The Blu-ray and DVD were released on July 8, 2015, with both reaching the number-one place on the animation rankings, with 14,090 and 84,932 copies sold, respectively.[13][14] By its 13th week, the DVD had sold 128,810 copies.[15]

Western release

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In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening.[16] It was released on Netflix on December 1, 2016 in the United States before leaving the service on March 3, 2021.[17] Its DVD was released on May 19, 2020, nearly four years after its theatrical release. the film was distributed by Wild Bunch in France, 01 Distribution In Italy, Buena Vista International in Turkey, Selecta Vision in Spain and Universal Pictures in some countries.

Reception

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Box office

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The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26,[9] reaching 840,000 by late November[18] and more than 1 million by mid-December.[19]

The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion,[20] a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle.[21] reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend,[22] ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend[23] and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend.[24] The film grossed ¥7.8 billion ($73,623,258) at the Japanese box office, where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2015.[25]

Overseas, the film grossed ₩1.98 billion ($1.69 million) upon its opening in South Korea,[26] and went on to gross ₩3,888,698,100 ($3,437,804) there.[27] The film also grossed $257,343 in the United States and Canada, and $1,715,393 in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Thailand.[2] The film grossed a total of $99.5 million worldwide.[2]

Critical reception

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Kotaku's Mike Fahey described the movie as keeping the humor of the TV show even in its highest dramatic stakes.[28] Anime News Network reviewer James Beckett liked the humor, but was bothered by the pacing issues. He gave it a B grading.[29]

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 80% with average rating of 6.6/10 based on 5 critics reviews.[30]

Notes

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Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!, Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, lit. Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Its the Secret of Birth, Meow!)

References

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"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！(2014)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (June 10, 2014). "Level-5's Yo-kai Watch Games Get Film in December". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (June 14, 2014). "2nd Yo-kai Watch Film Opens in Japan on December 19". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (October 8, 2014). "AKB48's Haruka Shimazaki Guest Stars in Yo-kai Watch Film". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (August 28, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film's Trailer Teases Origin of Magical Watch". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Mahoney, Rachel (October 17, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Anime Film's Trailer Reveals Time-Traveling Story". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Ego (November 2, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Gets 2nd Film Next Winter". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 10, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch 2 Game Gets 3rd Version on December 13". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (December 24, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, December 15–21". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 21, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, January 12–18". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, July 6–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, July 5–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 6, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 28-October 4". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"YO-KAI WATCH: THE MOVIE EVENT | Fathom Events". Fathom Events. September 4, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Whritenour, Jacob (December 1, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Now Streaming on Netflix". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 27, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets Toho Record with 840,000 Advance Tickets Sold". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (December 14, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets New Toho Record with 1 Million Advance Tickets". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loveridge, Lynzee (December 22, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film Beats Out Disney's Big Hero 6 at Japanese Box Office". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Komatsu, Mikikazu (December 24, 2014). ""Yo-Kai Watch" Film Breaks Opening Weekend Record of "Howl's Moving Castle"". www.crunchyroll.com. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 5, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 5 Billion Yen, But Big Hero 6 Rises to #1". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 6.5 Billion Yen, Psycho-Pass Earns 248 Million". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 26, 2015). "Big Hero 6 Tops Yo-kai Watch for 4th Straight Weekend". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"2015". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

Kevin Ma (July 27, 2015). "Assassination slays competition in South Korea". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

"영화정보". KOFIC. Korean Film Council. Retrieved October 16, 2022. Yokai Watch

Fahey, Mark (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets". Kotaku. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Beckett, James (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch: The Movie Event (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

External links

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie at IMDb

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie, released in Japan under the name Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!,[a] is a 2014 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro as part of the Yo-kai Watch franchise.[3][4] The film was released on December 20, 2014 in Japan.[3] It was followed by Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!, released on December 19, 2015.[5]

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie

Theatrical release poster

Japanese name

Kanji

映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!

Transcriptions

Directed by

Shigeharu Takahashi [ja]

Shinji Ushiro [ja]

Screenplay by

Yoichi Kato

Story by

Animation Real Life

Based on

Yo-kai Watch

by Level-5

Produced by

Kiyofumi Kajiwara

Makoto Wada

Izumi Furusawa

Yukari Hayakawa

Junichi Yanagihara

Starring

Haruka Tomatsu

Tomokazu Seki

Etsuko Kozakura

Romi Park

Yuki Kaji

Cinematography

Tatsumi Yukiwaki

Edited by

Emi Onodera

Music by

Kenichiro Saigo

Production

company

OLM, Inc.

Distributed by

Toho[1]

Release date

December 20, 2014 (Japan)

Running time

97 minutes

Country

Japan

Language

Japanese

Box office

$99.5 million[2]

Plot

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This article needs an improved plot summary. (December 2015)

The plot is the same as Yo-kai Watch 2, but with some changes. One night, the evil Yo-kai duo Kin and Gin steal the Yo-kai Watch from Nate Adams to help their master Dame Dedtime prevent humans and Yo-kai from being friends. He then encounters the Yo-kai Meganyan, who tells him that Yo-kai are real. He and the crew head to Nate's grandmother Lucy Loo Adams, encounter a shadow and chase it, but to no avail. Meganyan returns, asking to pull out the cork in his body—the cork that suppresses his energy. Nate decides not to pull it out, and asks Jibanyan & Whisper to pull it out for him, but to no avail. Nate pulls it out, and he and the crew get covered in pink smoke. He finds help from the Yo-kai Hovernyan - and uses a time stone to take Nate, Whisper, and Jibanyan back in time 60 years to when the Yo-kai Watch was first invented by Nate's own grandfather Nathaniel Adams while he was a kid. Dame Dedtime gets word of this, and tries a plan to push the human world farther from the Yo-kai world. Together, the two boys battles against Dame Dedtime and her Wicked Yo-kai minions to save the world of the past from her evil plans and recover the Nate's Yo-kai Watch.

Voice cast

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Character Japanese voice actor English voice actor

Nathan "Nate" Adams (Keita Amano) Haruka Tomatsu Johnny Yong Bosch

Whisper Tomokazu Seki Joey D'Auria

Jibanyan Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Nathaniel Adams (Keizō Amano) Romi Park Meyer DeLeeuw

Hovernyan (Fuyunyan) / Darknyan Yūki Kaji Johnny Yong Bosch

Darknyan Brent Pendergrass

Meganyan (Dekanyan) Johnny Yong Bosch

Buchinyan Etsuko Kozakura

Tomokazu Seki Alicyn Packard

Joey D'Auria

Dame Dedtime (Tokio Ubaune) Kataoka Ainosuke VI Alicyn Packard

Kin and Gin Vanilla Yamazaki

Mika Kanai Melissa Hutchison

Jenn Wong

Lucy Loo Adams (Yukiko "Yukippe" Amano) Hisako Kyōda (old)

Haruka Shimazaki[6] (young) Jenn Wong

Robonyan Naoki Bandō Joey D'Auria

Shogunyan (Bushinyan) Etsuko Kozakura Alicyn Packard

Komasan Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Walkappa (Nogappa) Masahito Yabe

Kyubi Ryoko Nagata

Tattletell (Bakuroba) Chie Sato

Blazion (Melamelion) Yuko Sasamoto Brent Pendergrass

Roughraff (Gurerurin) Naoki Bandō

Noway (Murikabe) Toru Nara

Manjimutt (Jinmenken) Naoki Bandō Paul Greenberg

Happierre (Honobono) Masahito Yabe

Dandoodle (Ikemenken)

Aaron Adams Tōru Nara Brent Pendergrass

Lily Adams Ryoko Nagata Alicyn Packard

Katie Forester (Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama) Aya Endō Melissa Hutchison

Edward "Eddie" Archer (Kanchi Imada) Chie Sato Brent Pendergrass

Barnaby "Bear" Bernstein (Gorota "Kuma" Kumashima) Toru Nara Paul Greenberg

Master Nyada Ken Shimura Joey D'Auria

Bronzlow (Do) Masahito Yabe Paul Greenberg

Production

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Music

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The film's score was written Kenichiro Saigo.

Opening Theme

"Gera Gera Po (Movie Version)" by King Cream Soda (Japan)

"Yo-kai Watch" by Basilio Fernando Ferreira (USA)

Ending Theme

"Yo-kai Medley" by Yo-kai King Dream Soda & "Kuwagata to Kabutomushi" by King Cream Soda (Japan & USA)

Release

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Marketing

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The film was announced in July 2014 on CoroCoro Comic.[4] The first trailer was released in August[7] and another trailer was released in October.[8] A second film was announced in November.[9] A story tie-in to the film was included in the video game Yo-kai Watch 2: Shinuchi, released on December 13.[10] A manga of the film, illustrated by Noriyuki Konishi, was released in December, reaching the 30th place on the weekly chart with 32,561 copies sold on its first week,[11] and selling 261,145 copies by its fifth week.[12]

Home media

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The Blu-ray and DVD were released on July 8, 2015, with both reaching the number-one place on the animation rankings, with 14,090 and 84,932 copies sold, respectively.[13][14] By its 13th week, the DVD had sold 128,810 copies.[15]

Western release

edit

In September 2016, it was revealed via the Fathom Events website that the movie would be screened one time only on October 15, in select cinemas across the United States. Attendees received an exclusive Hovernyan medal at the screening.[16] It was released on Netflix on December 1, 2016 in the United States before leaving the service on March 3, 2021.[17] Its DVD was released on May 19, 2020, nearly four years after its theatrical release. the film was distributed by Wild Bunch in France, 01 Distribution In Italy, Buena Vista International in Turkey, Selecta Vision in Spain and Universal Pictures in some countries.

Reception

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Box office

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The film set a new record for Toho for advance ticket sales, with 721,422 sold by October 26,[9] reaching 840,000 by late November[18] and more than 1 million by mid-December.[19]

The film was number-one on its opening weekend, with ¥1.629 billion,[20] a record for a Japanese film, previously held by Howl's Moving Castle.[21] reached ¥5 billion by its third weekend,[22] ¥6.54 billion by the fourth weekend[23] and ¥7 billion by the sixth weekend.[24] The film grossed ¥7.8 billion ($73,623,258) at the Japanese box office, where it was the highest-grossing domestic film of 2015.[25]

Overseas, the film grossed ₩1.98 billion ($1.69 million) upon its opening in South Korea,[26] and went on to gross ₩3,888,698,100 ($3,437,804) there.[27] The film also grossed $257,343 in the United States and Canada, and $1,715,393 in France, the United Arab Emirates, and Thailand.[2] The film grossed a total of $99.5 million worldwide.[2]

Critical reception

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Kotaku's Mike Fahey described the movie as keeping the humor of the TV show even in its highest dramatic stakes.[28] Anime News Network reviewer James Beckett liked the humor, but was bothered by the pacing issues. He gave it a B grading.[29]

Rotten Tomatoes gave the film an 80% with average rating of 6.6/10 based on 5 critics reviews.[30]

Notes

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Yo-kai Watch: Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan! (映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン!, Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Tanjō no Himitsu da Nyan!, lit. Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Its the Secret of Birth, Meow!)

References

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"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！". eiga.com (in Japanese). Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"映画 妖怪ウォッチ 誕生の秘密だニャン！(2014)". allcinema (in Japanese). Stingray. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (June 10, 2014). "Level-5's Yo-kai Watch Games Get Film in December". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (June 14, 2014). "2nd Yo-kai Watch Film Opens in Japan on December 19". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (October 8, 2014). "AKB48's Haruka Shimazaki Guest Stars in Yo-kai Watch Film". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (August 28, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film's Trailer Teases Origin of Magical Watch". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Mahoney, Rachel (October 17, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Anime Film's Trailer Reveals Time-Traveling Story". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Ego (November 2, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Gets 2nd Film Next Winter". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 10, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch 2 Game Gets 3rd Version on December 13". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (December 24, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, December 15–21". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 21, 2014). "Japanese Comic Ranking, January 12–18". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation Blu-ray Disc Ranking, July 6–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (July 14, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, July 5–12". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loo, Egan (October 6, 2015). "Japan's Animation DVD Ranking, September 28-October 4". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"YO-KAI WATCH: THE MOVIE EVENT | Fathom Events". Fathom Events. September 4, 2016. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Whritenour, Jacob (December 1, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Now Streaming on Netflix". Hardcore Gamer. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Hodgkins, Crystalyn (November 27, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets Toho Record with 840,000 Advance Tickets Sold". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (December 14, 2014). "Yokai Watch Film Sets New Toho Record with 1 Million Advance Tickets". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Loveridge, Lynzee (December 22, 2014). "Yo-kai Watch Film Beats Out Disney's Big Hero 6 at Japanese Box Office". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Komatsu, Mikikazu (December 24, 2014). ""Yo-Kai Watch" Film Breaks Opening Weekend Record of "Howl's Moving Castle"". www.crunchyroll.com. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 5, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 5 Billion Yen, But Big Hero 6 Rises to #1". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Nelkin, Sarah (January 13, 2015). "Yo-kai Watch Film Tops 6.5 Billion Yen, Psycho-Pass Earns 248 Million". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Ressler, Karen (January 26, 2015). "Big Hero 6 Tops Yo-kai Watch for 4th Straight Weekend". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"2015". Eiren. Motion Picture Producers Association of Japan. Retrieved February 27, 2019.

Kevin Ma (July 27, 2015). "Assassination slays competition in South Korea". Film Business Asia. Archived from the original on August 29, 2015. Retrieved October 11, 2015.

"영화정보". KOFIC. Korean Film Council. Retrieved October 16, 2022. Yokai Watch

Fahey, Mark (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie Is As Whimsical As Saving The World From Evil Spirits Gets". Kotaku. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

Beckett, James (October 14, 2016). "Yo-Kai Watch: The Movie". Anime News Network. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

"Yo-kai Watch: The Movie Event (2014)". Rotten Tomatoes. Flixster. Retrieved October 16, 2022.

External links

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Yo-kai Watch: The Movie (anime) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie at IMDb

This is the longest ask by far I have been asked.

[adachimoe]

More comments now that I've read thru it -

Yui Horie (Chie)

Character you like besides Chie: "Dojima! I want to tell him, 'Good luck, dad!'" I'm glad he finally got to convey his thoughts to Nanako.

Ami Koshimizu (Yukiko)

Character or scene you like besides Yukiko: "Loveline is really cute! [For scenes,] I like how Chie gets all cute after Narukami compliments her swimsuit and her hair looks all fluffy. When it comes to a character's personality, I love Adachi. ♥"

Tomokazu Seki (Kanji)

Character you think is cool: "Kanji!" Character you think is cute: "Chie-chan ♥"

Rie Kugimiya (Rise)

Character you think is cool: "Dojima. I dig his cool adult vibe. ♥" Character you think is cute: "Nanako. I would be so thrilled to have a daughter that's as cute as her."

Romi Park (Naoto)

Character you think is cool: "Naoto Shirogane (...just kidding, it's Yukiko)" Character you think is cute: "Naoto Shirogane (...for real this time)"

Mitsuaki Madono (Adacher)

Character you think is cool: "Yukiko. She's so hardworking during the ryokan scenes that you just wanna give her a hug." Character that left an impression on you: "Teddie. That kind of character is hard carried by voice acting."

Shoutouts to Yui Horie's "Awwww, Dojima is doing his best!" versus Rie Kugimiya's "Mmm, Daddy Dojima :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:"

I bought the pamphlet for the P4 anime movie that was sold at theaters during the movie's screenings. In Ami Koshimizu's interview (Yukiko VA), she talks about being a fellow Adachi fangirl lol. She even put a heart by his name... Gasp...

She's intrigued by how elusive he is, like he's weaving in and out of a crowd; like you want to get close to him ("within reach"), but you can't. And he also has the "gap" moe going for him (referring to how he changes gears after the reveal). She notes that she enjoyed Mitsuaki Madono's performance as Adachi during episodes 24-25 as well.

Confirmed Adachi Fans on Staff:

Whoever the fuck at Nico Nico Video dreamed up the Tohru Adachi Collab Cafe for the release of the Golden anime BD/DVD volume 4

Rokuro Saito's assistant, Yuka

Multiple ladies at ArcSys

The Unnamed Writer who Wrote Episode Adachi for P4U2 Before Wada Even Knew If It Was Okay To Add Story DLC

Yukiko's VA, Ami Koshimizu

Possible Adachi Fans on Staff:

P4 vocalist, Shihoko Hirata: During Persona Super Live 2022, she tweeted a photo of Adachi's choreographer/dancer and the hashtags include, "I wish to offer him a cabbage"... Is she... Is she one of us...?

[sekiumiarashi]

I am overwhelmed with in incessant need to replay p4g

[kazarinn]

Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna commentary trivia

The Blu-ray and DVD for Digimon Adventure LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna contains audio commentary with producer Yousuke Kinoshita and director Tomohisa Taguchi. While I don’t currently have plans to translate the full commentary, I’ve written down some of the more interesting trivia facts from it.

Please note that there are major LAST EVOLUTION Kizuna spoilers.

The one who came up with the idea of using Parrotmon as the first enemy was Hiromi Seki (producer for the original Digimon Adventure and Adventure 02, and supervisor for this movie) -- everyone else had been fussing over what Digimon to use, only for her to quickly chip in “what’s wrong with Parrotmon?”

Taichi’s faulty prototype goggles were based off the original draft design by Katsuyoshi Nakatsuru, causing them to think “well, we have to use this!” But they wanted to use the actual original pair of goggles in the story, so they weren’t sure what to do with said VR goggles, and in the end the VR goggles became a faulty prototype (after all, it’s a little early for VR goggles to work in 2010).

The evolution sequences are close to the original because Director Taguchi wanted you to feel “this is Digimon after all” (he particularly feels the rotating feeling is inherent to Digimon).

The part in the opening where Angemon rescues a potential victim is because “a real hero” would properly try to ensure that there were no victims (and in the end, there are zero deaths from this incident).

This is the Toei Animation building. They had to get permission from the owner to blow it up. Said owner was also a fan from the Digimon generation, so they were very happy to see it blown up.

Yamato's bike was one the director particularly liked and wanted to ride once.

The Japanese morning glory in the opening, according to Japanese flower language, represents “bonds” (kizuna), but also “I am entwined around you and will never let you go”, representing Menoa’s story.

The Digivice in the opening is Sora’s.

The woman sitting next to Yamato in class was actually the original concept for Yamato’s friend Abe (who discusses job prospects with him in the final version of the movie) -- it was changed because they were concerned about what Yamato’s closest friend being female would imply.

The real-life model for the izakaya Taichi and Yamato eat at in Asagaya apparently advertises that they were used in the movie. (The food there is also apparently very good and priced reasonably.)

The two women in the izakaya (Ayaka and her companion) are voiced by Miho Arakawa and Yukiko Morishita (the voices of Meiko Mochizuki and Meicoomon in Adventure tri.), who were brought on because they just really wanted to have them participate in some way.

Miyako and Hawkmon’s “Adiós” wasn’t in the original script, but ad-libbed by the voice actors.

The initial cyberspace fight with Eosmon was something Director Taguchi wanted to do in 8-bit (Famicom style), but it was too difficult to pull off in the actual animation. The final aesthetic used was the Virtual Boy.

Menoa’s reaction to seeing Omegamon is genuine -- it’s meant to reflect someone who’s heard about him in rumors, but never actually seen him.

When the ring is about to appear on Taichi’s Digivice and the voices are blocked out, the scene originally had voiced lines recorded for it (”Go!” “Take it down!”), but they were taken out at the very end.

This shot is meant to be foreshadowing that this is the fragment Koushirou would later analyze, resulting in him pinning down Menoa.

The countdown ring effect was apparently a huge load of trouble to make (both in terms of design and in terms of continually getting it in the shots). It’s not made with CGI, but with cinematography effects.

In the original storyboard, Daisuke’s ramen was a “normal”-looking bowl of ramen, but the animation director went all-out and made it “delicious-looking”.

In the script, the Digimon accompanying Daisuke, Ken, and Iori to the ramen shop were originally supposed to be Child-level, but they wanted them to sit on the their laps, so they became Baby-level in the final version.

Producer Seki was the one who came up with the idea of the pay phones and prepaid phones, advising them that if they’d used their normal phones they’d be found out (thus making it come off as more like a spy movie).

Gennai mentions “then it’s possible...” to imply that there’s hope, but the shot being on the window here is meant to indicate that Taichi was so in shock that he didn’t hear that part.

The Digimon greeting each other in the background is something Director Taguchi wanted to do -- he wasn’t particularly focused on doing so, but he felt that it was something Digimon would do if in a situation where they hadn’t seen each other in a whlie.

The idea with Sora’s first scene with Piyomon in the movie is that she does, in fact, know what’s going to happen.

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“Saint Seiya: Saintia Shou” anime additional cast. The new series will premiere on “ANIMAX on PlayStation” on December 10th.

-Staff-

Music: Toshihiko Sahashi

OP & ED: main cast

Studio:  Toei Animation

-Cast-

Shou Equuleus (CV: Aina Suzuki)

Kido Saori (CV: Inori Minase)

Kyouko Equuleus (CV: M・A・O)

Mii Delphinus (CV: Megumi Nakajima)

Toshihiko Seki

Tanaka Hideyuki

Ryoutarou Okiayu

Ursa Minor Xiaoling (CV: Suzuko Mimori)

Katya de Northern Crown (CV: Yukiko Morishita)

Cassiopeia Erda (CV: Ayana Taketatsu)

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長らく更新しておらずすみません。元気です。

去年の11月にアメリカのサンタ・バーバラで開催された展示で私の豆本も取り上げていただきました。こちらに上げていなかったので今更ながらアップしておきます。

本当は今年も展示していただける予定だったのですが、コロナ禍により残念ながら叶わず。

なかなかコロナ以前のようにはいきませんが、気長にやっていきたいと思っております〜

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MANUAL TRANSMISSIONS

2019.11.4 -11.8  glassbox gallery

The alternative Japanese Contemporary Craft by 8 rural artistsco-curated by Yuko Wakaume + Kio Griffithfeaturing : Kaori Kasuya (Tokyo) Nobuki Mizumoto (Hiroshima) Chiaki Saito (Tochigi) Ayako Seki (Tokyo) Akira Shikiya (Okinawa) Yukiko Sugiyama (Kyoto) Mai Yasugi (Nagano) Ayako Yokoyama (Nagano)November 4 to 8, 2019 Artists' reception: November 5th, 2019 5-7pm@ The Glass Box Gallery / UCSB Art DepartmentAkira Shikiya (Okinawa), Chiaki Saito (Tochigi), Kaori Kasuya (Tokyo) and gallerist/curator Yuko Wakaume will be at the reception.

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El Anime ‘Gin no Guardian’ tendrá segunda temporada en enero del 2018

La primera temporada del Anime se estrenó en abril 

Estudio Emon ha anunciado el viernes que su Anime para televisión de Gin no Guardian (The Silver Guardian), tendrá una segunda temporada que se estrenará en enero del 2018. El Anime adapta la historia de un cómic web Chino. La primera temporada del Anime se estrenó el pasado primero de abril en Japón.

Reparto en la primera temporada: 

Sara Matsumoto como Wanchoi

Yuuto Suzuki como Ranshou

Satomi Akesaka como Eru

Mitsuru Miyamoto como Ling

Takayuki Sugo como Riku Yuuki

Ami Koshimizu como Twinstar

Nozomi Nishida como Farina

Nana Mizuki como Phoebe

Jun Fukuyama como Riku Sui Gin

Yuka Saitou como Riku Lei 

Equipo de producción de la primera temporada

Masahiko Ohkura esta dirigiendo el Anime en el estudio de animación Haoliners Emon, y también supevervisa la composición de la serie junto con Hidefumi Kimura. Yoshiaki Tsubata esta diseñando los personajes y es el director en jefe de animación. Minako Seki está componiendo la música. Otroa miembros del equipo incluyen:

Color clave: Kunio Tsujita

Director de arte: Shigemi Ikeda, Yukiko Maruyama

Art de escenarios: Seiji Nishimoto

Director de fotografía: Tatsuo Noguchi

Trabajo en 2D: Miyuki Kojima

Edición: Aya Hida

Productor de linea: Aki Takahashi

Producción de escritorio: Yuuki Fukumoto

Producción de escenario: Ichiko Arai

Productor de 3D: Masaru Yokohagi

Director de 3D: Kenichi Higaki

Emon es una subsidiaria Japonesa del estudio de animación Shanghai E-kai Bunka Denpa de China. La compañía fue fundada en Octubre del 2015.

En la historia original Sui Gin puede ser pobre, pero él es uno de los mejores jugadores de videojuegos en línea. Esta identidad sin embargo, es desconocida para todos excepto para RikuLei, la compañera de clase de Sui Gin. Ella entrega un misterioso dispositivo móvil a Sui Gin, pero antes de poder explicarse, RikuLei es secuestrada y Sui Gin se encuentra a sí mismo envuelto en una serie de circunstancias problemáticas sin darse cuenta. La búsqueda de una forma de salvarla, accidentalmente activa el dispositivo que le permite sumergirse en un nuevo mundo de juego virtual.

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Persona 4 Golden - Unused Data (1 of 2)

Source from “The Cutting Room Floor”:

The Japanese version of the game features interviews with twelve voice actors for main characters. This bonus feature was not done for the European and North American releases with the English voice actors. The models used for the Japanese voice actors interviews remain in the North American release of the game.

Yu Narukami (Daisuke Namikawa), Yosuke Hanamura (Shotaro Morikubo), Chie Satonaka (Yui Horie), Yukiko Amagi (Ami Koshimizu), Kanji Tatsumi (Tomokazu Seki), Teddie (Kappei Yamaguchi), Rise Kujikawa (Rie Kugimiya), & Naoto Shirogane (Romi Park).

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Saint Seiya Spin-Off Anime Saintia Shō PV Introduces Character Voices, Theme Song

    Ten days prior to its premiere in Japan, the official website for the upcoming anime adaptation of Chimaki

Kuori's Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō manga today starts streaming a 80-second PV introducing its main character

voices, including Aina Suzuki as the protagonist Shoko/Equuleus Sho, and its OP theme song "The Beautiful

Brave" performed by its four main voice cast: Suzuki (Shoko), M.A.O (Kyoko), Inori Minase (Saori), and

Megumi Nakajima (Mii).

  The CD single of the OP song, also including the ED song "Hohoemi no Resonance" (Smiling Resonance) by

Suzuki and M.A.O and a character song "Arasoi Shiniyuku Monotachi ni Shukufuku wo" (God's blessing on

those who are fighting and dying) by M.A.O as Evil Goddess Eris, is set to be released on December 26, 2018.

     The TV anime Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō is set to premiere on Amazon Prime Video Channel (Sky PerfecTV!

Anime Set for Prime Video) and ANIMAX on PlayStation (PS4) at 19:00 on December 10, 2018 (JST), then

will be also aired on the ANIMAX TV channel (BS/CS, CATV,IPTV) on December 24.

  PV

      Poster visual 

    Main voice cast:

Shoko/Equuleus Sho: Aina Suzuki (Mari Ohara in Love Live! Sunshine!!) 

Kyoko/Equuleus Kyoko: M.A.O (Hinako Sakuragi in Hinako Note) 

Saori Kido: Inori Minase (Rem in Re:Zero − Starting Life in Another World) 

Alicia Mii Benethol/Dolphin Mii: Megumi Nakajima (Ranka Lee in Macross Frontier)

Scorpio Miro: Toshihiko Seki (Duo Maxwell in Mobile Suit Gundam Wing)

Leo Aiolia: Hideyuki Tanaka (Fujitaka Kinomoto in Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card)

Gemini Saga: Ryutaro Okiayu (Kunimitsu Tezuka in The Prince of Tennis)

Ursa Minor Xiaoling: Suzuko Mimori (Umi Sonoda in Love Live!) 

Cassiopeia Erda: Ayana Taketatsu (Azusa Nakono in K-ON!) 

Northern Crown Katja: Yukiko Morishita (Love Tochiotome in PriPara) 

Pavo Mayura: Rina Sato (Mikoto Misaka in A Certain Magical Index)

Jyabu: Hideo Ishikawa (Kenya Onizuka in Aesthetica of a Rogue Hero) 

Atë: Rika Tachibana (Sae Kobayakawa in The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls)

Emoni: Marika Kouno (Yumina Urnea Belfast in In Another World With My Smartphone)

Mirai: Aki Kanada (Makoto in Marvel Future Avengers)

Shinato: Akeno Watanabe (Rito Yuuki in To Love-Ru)

      Source: TV anime "Saint Seiya: Saintia Shō" official website 

  ©Masami Kurumada, Chimaki Kuori/Akita Shoten, Toei Animation

  By: news+feed@crunchyroll.com

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MMA RESULTS

#Figureskate #MasakazuKagiyama [Orange County Register]Takayo Hashi def. Hitomi Akano, 3-round una. dec. Hiroko Hiroko def. Yoko Takahashi, 3-round una. dec. Su Hi Ham def. Ayumi Saito, 2-round una. dec. Emi Fujino def. Yukiko Seki, 2-round una. dec. Saori Ishioka def. Masako Yoshida, 2-round una. dec. Takuya ...

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MMA RESULTS

#Figureskate #MasakazuKagiyama [Orange County Register]Takayo Hashi def. Hitomi Akano, 3-round una. dec. Hiroko Hiroko def. Yoko Takahashi, 3-round una. dec. Su Hi Ham def. Ayumi Saito, 2-round una. dec. Emi Fujino def. Yukiko Seki, 2-round una. dec. Saori Ishioka def. Masako Yoshida, 2-round una. dec. Takuya …

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“Saint Seiya: Saintia Shou” anime PV. It will premiere on “ANIMAX on PlayStation” on December 10th.

-Staff-

Series Director: Masato Tamagawa

Series Organization: Ikuko Takahashi

Character Design: Keiichi Ichikawa, Ayana Nishino

Music: Toshihiko Sahashi

OP & ED: main cast

Studio: GONZO

Planning, Production: Toei Animation

-Cast-

Shou Equuleus (CV: Aina Suzuki)

Kido Saori (CV: Inori Minase)

Kyouko Equuleus (CV: M・A・O)

Mii Delphinus (CV: Megumi Nakajima)

Toshihiko Seki

Tanaka Hideyuki

Ryoutarou Okiayu

Rina Satou

Ursa Minor Xiaoling (CV: Suzuko Mimori)

Katya de Northern Crown (CV: Yukiko Morishita)

Cassiopeia Erda (CV: Ayana Taketatsu)

via: https://www.saintia-sho.com/pc/

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Imagen promocional de la segunda temporada de Gin no Guardian

El Anime se estrenará en enero del 2018 

La  web oficial del Anime para televisión de Gin no Guardian (The Silver Guardian), ha revelado el lunes la primera imagen promocional de su próxima segunda temporada. El Anime se estrenará en enero del 2018. El Anime adapta la historia de un cómic web Chino. La primera temporada del Anime se estrenó el pasado primero de abril en Japón.

Reparto en la primera temporada:

Sara Matsumoto como Wanchoi

Yuuto Suzuki como Ranshou

Satomi Akesaka como Eru

Mitsuru Miyamoto como Ling

Takayuki Sugo como Riku Yuuki

Ami Koshimizu como Twinstar

Nozomi Nishida como Farina

Nana Mizuki como Phoebe

Jun Fukuyama como Riku Sui Gin

Yuka Saitou como Riku Lei

Equipo de producción de la primera temporada

Masahiko Ohkura esta dirigiendo el Anime en el estudio de animación Haoliners Emon, y también supevervisa la composición de la serie junto con Hidefumi Kimura. Yoshiaki Tsubata esta diseñando los personajes y es el director en jefe de animación. Minako Seki está componiendo la música. Otroa miembros del equipo incluyen:

Color clave: Kunio Tsujita

Director de arte: Shigemi Ikeda, Yukiko Maruyama

Art de escenarios: Seiji Nishimoto

Director de fotografía: Tatsuo Noguchi

Trabajo en 2D: Miyuki Kojima

Edición: Aya Hida

Productor de linea: Aki Takahashi

Producción de escritorio: Yuuki Fukumoto

Producción de escenario: Ichiko Arai

Productor de 3D: Masaru Yokohagi

Director de 3D: Kenichi Higaki

Emon es una subsidiaria Japonesa del estudio de animación Shanghai E-kai Bunka Denpa de China. La compañía fue fundada en Octubre del 2015.

En la historia original Sui Gin puede ser pobre, pero él es uno de los mejores jugadores de videojuegos en línea. Esta identidad sin embargo, es desconocida para todos excepto para RikuLei, la compañera de clase de Sui Gin. Ella entrega un misterioso dispositivo móvil a Sui Gin, pero antes de poder explicarse, RikuLei es secuestrada y Sui Gin se encuentra a sí mismo envuelto en una serie de circunstancias problemáticas sin darse cuenta. La búsqueda de una forma de salvarla, accidentalmente activa el dispositivo que le permite sumergirse en un nuevo mundo de juego virtual.