#jinjin jiba i love you and your single dad swag

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I KNOW THIS IS ABOUT MAINLINE BUT I AM STILL SHOCKED ABOUT JINPEI FUCKING JIBA'S BACKSTORY

ok so picture this: ash's pikachu dies. straight up dies (trying to save ash), but the last word he heard from ash was "pathetic", and pikachu turned into a ghost thinking ash always felt that way about him, so he promised himself to train until he became strong enough to defeat a truck with only his paws (he was ran over by a truck)

then, in his ghost form, he meets this other kid, and he helps him reunite with ash, even though ash can't see him

ok, now that we got the basics, their actual names. ash is amy (or emi if you're going for the og japanese) and pikachu is jibanyan.

anywyas, turns out amy was calling herself pathetic for not being able to protect jibanyan (amy's death was also scheduled for that day but that's a whole another thing. also her home life sucked and jibanyan was the only good thing she had)

ANYWAYS AMY GROWS UP, GETS MARRIED AND HAS A CHILD and i haven't watched shadowside but i'm gonna assume edgy buff jibanyan looks over amy's daughter. how cute.

(and despite wearing the dead mom haircut, she survives)

WELL, SOMEHOW, DESPITE ALREADY BEING A GHOST, JIBANYAN FUCKING DIES. AGAIN and he gets reincarnated into a catboy named jinpei jiba

the whole show, the catboy is off the shits. he constantly looks like there's no thought behind those eyes. and he raps because he feels like it. he gained a guy's respect by punching him in the balls and when he told jinpei his backstory (he was the leader of a gang to get money for his sick mom or something i watched the movie like 3 years ago), jinpei was tearing up and being like "awwwww we are besties now even though you tried to kill me. i'm gonna help you get more money!!!" and when questioned if he could even help monetarily he was like "i honestly don't know but i'll Just Handle It!!!!"

overall a pretty chill, outgoing dude

he also manages to charm The Actual Reincarnation Of God, Actually by lacking braincells.

EDIT: turns out she's not the actual reincarnation of god, she's like. a vessel or something. but her dad IS god senior, so.

this is everyday for him

UNTIL.

UNTIL WE FIND OUT WHO HIS MOTHER IS.

YOU KNOW WHO HIS MOTHER IS?

AMY'S

DAUGHTER.

"oh, that's very cute!" you'll probably think. "it went full circle!"

and it did

because amy's daughter died

in a traffic accident, trying to save someone else

while pregnant with jinpei

and her last moments were spent giving birth, or her baby would die with her.

why is this franchise like this.

and now you might be wondering. do they do anything with this? do we ever see amy, or at least get a confirmation that she's still alive by the time yokai gakuen begins?

no <3

not to talk about yo-kai watch on main but this series is so fucking unhinged. like. here's a compilation of weird shit in yo-kai watch:

• there's one yo-kai who was literally just a dude when he was alive but he got crushed by some wood planks at the same time a dog did so now he's a man-faced dog yo-kai. he gets arrested like five times basically just because of this.

• jibanyan canonically becomes a robot in the future and has gay robot sex. the dub made it even more sensual attempting to censor it.

• there's some segments later on in the anime that literally revolve around komasan and komajiro basically just scolding yo-kai for various things parents complained about. the yo-kai usually do said thing again in the segment. also this all happens in a taxi.

• there's a maid café in one of the games. no i don't know how they got that into an e-rated game.

• there's seemingly some organization who decides when people die and causes their deaths. this is basically a complete non-sequitur in one episode of the anime and is then never brought up again.

• jibanyan's living form when he was a normal cat is a yo-kai separate from him. this is never acknowledged but is seemingly canon.

• there's one yo-kai who was canonically a human before he died and as a yo-kai he's a chicken nugget. i have no idea why.

• one of the main yo-kai in the series is seemingly canonically bisexual for a character who's based on an actual historical japanese shogun.

• the english version of the games translates a language barrier as yo-kai watch america just having a very strong accent.

• every cat yo-kai loves chocolate bars. no the obvious issue with this fact is not addressed.

• in the past there was a literal war started over doughnut filling.

• the games are all implied to take place within the span of a single summer, meaning that in the span of a single summer vacation the main character saved the yo-kai world from a literal TYRANT, saved the ENTIRE FUCKING TIMELINE, and saved both the human AND yo-kai world from the yo-kai mafia. they are canonically 11.

• according to her medallium entry, the yo-kai mermother literally created all life in the yo-kai watch universe. you can only get her through a gachapon machine.

• said gachapon machine is the catalyst for the events of the games, anime and manga. thank god for gacha.