#kanji tatsumi kin

[gluttonyedits]

requested by anon: matching Kannao icons No she/her for Naoto please.

[worlds-greatest-thief-lupin-iii]

This playlist is single handedly getting me through the Kanji Shift oh my god I’m so good at playlists.

[adachimoe]

Morooka and his rotten oranges

When the protagonist asks Morooka if he's calling him a loser, Morooka responds by saying he'll put the protag on his shit list. In Japanese, Morooka instead says he will put him in his "rotten orange book" (or rotten mikan) which is a reference to a Japanese drama about a high school teacher called Kinpachi-sensei.

Morooka then proceeds to call students "rotten oranges" throughout the game, and I thought it was disappointing that it's never translated as "shit (list)" ever again.

When Morooka shit talks Kanji, "rotten orange" was translated as "lazy punk":

During the camping trip, he says it while he's drunk and checking if students are out of their tents, and here it's become rotten apple (makes sense; rotten apple is something you say in english):

And then during Void Quest, in the RPG text, it actually is just rotten orange:

The first time it shows up is on floor 2, and there's no text surrounding it that indicates that Mitsuo is encountering Morooka, so the "rotten orange" (and pronoun; see below) bit is how you're supposed to know it's Morooka.

As mentioned in PClub P4 and the Premium Fun Book, Mitsuo used to be a Yasogami High student, but he got caught messing around outside of school by Morooka, got suspended, and then he was so ego butthurt mad that he dropped out of Yasogami and went to another school. So this text is referring back to that incident where Mitsuo got suspended by Morooka, why he held a grudge against him, etc.

(I think the text is oddly worded here too - "stand against me *for* being a rotten orange" could be interpreted as Mitsuo saying this while fighting Morooka, but it's Morooka saying it. Maybe more like, "You've got some nerve defying me, you rotten orange"? In Japanese, the text uses Morooka's pronoun (ワシ), so there's no ambiguity about who is speaking.)

Anyho, the 2nd time this appears is on Void Quest floor 8, and this time it explicitly says, "Morooka has appeared", so you know it's him.

Personally, I really like the "shit list" localization. Like it works really well since it gets Morooka's crass nature across. I feel like there's a missed opportunity that they didn't keep translating it as "shit" for the rest of the game: "Kanji Tatsumi, that shit", "Are there any little shits out of their tents?!", "You stand against me, you piece of shit", blah blah. This totally sounds like Morooka in my head lol.

Also related to Kinpachi-sensei is that Morooka seems to be named after him too. Kinpachi-sensei's name comes from the timeslot the show aired: Friday at 8pm. Friday in Japanese is "Kin"yobi, and 8 is "hachi/pachi", thus "Kinpachi".

Similarly, Morooka's first name Kinshiro uses the same "Kin" character as "Kinyobi" and "Kinpachi", and then "shi" is 4, and he's in Persona "4". (Hey the first character being "gold" works out too cause Golden came out later.)

[yo-kaiwatchkillyourfamily]

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

is that the entirety of the first Yo Kai watch movie? on IMDb?

[gimmickblog-posts]

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

edit

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

edit

"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

edit

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

[raleydrew]

My Kins & Fave Characters List [wip]:

Bold = Kinnie

Futaba Sakura - Persona 5 Series

Joker / Protagonist - Persona 5 Series

Naoto Shirogane - Persona 4 Series

Kanji Tatsumi - Persona 4 Series

Chie Satonaka - Persona 4 Series

Marie - Persona 4 Golden

Yukari Takeba - Persona 3 Series

Fuuka Yamagishi - Persona 3 Series

Aigis - Persona 3 Series

Rosie - Animal Crossing Series

Ankha - Animal Crossing Series

Bob - Animal Crossing Series

Lolly - Animal Crossing Series

Raymond - Animal Crossing Series

Merry - Animal Crossing Series

Punchy - Animal Crossing Series

Tangy - Animal Crossing Series

Rover - Animal Crossing Series

Blanca - Animal Crossing Series

Katie - Animal Crossing Series

Velma Dinkley - Scooby-Doo

Soleil - Fire Emblem Fates: Conquest

Yuri - Doki Doki Literature Club

Natsuki - Doki Doki Literature Club

Marie - Splatoon Series

Shiver - Splatoon Series

Fluttershy - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Rainbow Dash - My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic

Kaorin - Azumanga Daioh

Miss Sakaki - Azumanga Daioh

Knuckles the Echidna - Sonic the Hedgehog

Shadow the Hedgehog - Sonic the Hedgehog

Sonic the Hedgehog - VA: Jason Griffith

Cilan - Pokémon: Black and White

Misty - Pokémon

Dawn - Pokémon: Diamond and Pearl

Amity Blight - The Owl House

Luz Noceda - The Owl House

Kyoko Kirigiri - Danganronpa

Toko Fukawa - Danganronpa

Genocide Jack - Danganronpa

Byakuya Togami - Danganronpa

Makoto Naegi - Danganronpa

Komaru Naegi - Danganronpa

Sayaka Maizono - Danganronpa

Celestia Ludenberg - Danganronpa

Chiaki Nanami - Danganronpa

Mikan Tsumiki - Danganronpa

Hajime Hinata - Danganronpa

Fuyuhiko Kuzuryu - Danganronpa

Peko Pekoyama - Danganronpa

Sonia Nevermind - Danganronpa

Gundham Tanaka - Danganronpa

Himiko Yumeno - Danganronpa

Tenko Chabashira - Danganronpa

Maki Harukawa - Danganronpa

Juleka Couffaine - Miraculous Ladybug

Purple Tigress - Miraculous Ladybug

Rose Lavillant - Miraculous Ladybug

Pigella - Miraculous Ladybug

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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

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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

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

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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

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

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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

edit

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

edit

"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

edit

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

Yo-kai Watch: The Movie at IMDb

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STAFF INTRO: LUPIN 💎

Hi! I’m Lupin (or Hawkeye), server owner of the Kyndicate! I’ve been on the verge of the kin community for almost 5 years at this point, but officially identified as spiritual kin back in 2021! While I mostly just fit under the spiritual fictionkin label, lately I’ve also been exploring the therian side which has been a whole thing on its own.

As for my kinlist, it totally gets pretty long and I’ve been told that but hey. Means I’ve lived many experiences,,, old soul,,, /lh. My main kins and most frequent shifts I’m in are:

Mondo Owada - Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc

Arséne Lupin III - Lupin the Third

Kanji Tatsumi - Persona 4

Suguru Geto - Jujutsu Kaisen

Benjamin Franklin “Hawkeye” Pierce - M*A*S*H

Anthony J. Crowley - Good Omens

Denji - Chainsaw Man

Laios Touden - Dungeon Meshi

As well as many more! I’ll throw the rest of my kinlist below! But beyond just kin stuff I’m a screenwriter, and most of the time you’ll find me either working, seeing a show/movie, going to museums, or driving aimlessly.

And beyond all that, my goal with the Kyndicate is honestly just to grow a community! One that happens to have a sick criminal theme for a sick criminal kin.

[endingboyhansel]

in return i shall ask you:

the whole ask game for persona, you can pick the game because idk

1. The first character I first fell in love with

Ah. Yusuke Kitagawa. I still love him to this day.

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now

Koromaru. That’s my dog!

3. The character everyone else loves that I don’t

Minako Arisato. If you know why, you know.

4. The character I love that everyone else hates

Morgana! I love my little go-to-sleep cat, screw you fandom. Bonus points to Ken Amada but that’s a kin so.

5. The character I used to love but don’t any longer

Ai Ebihara? I don’t know?

6. The character I would totally smooch

Kanji Tatsumi (boyfriend!!)

7. The character I’d want to be like

Myself obviously (Naoto & Wonder). But at the same time I want to aspire to be like Akihiko Sanada.

8. The character I’d slap

Takaya Sakaki. I need him dead.

9. A pairing that I love

Kannao! Also AkiShinji!

10. A pairing that I despise

Surprisingly, I don’t like ShuAke that much. Also ShuAda. What the fuck.

[findthebae]

haii im kanji tatsumi from persona 4. im looking for anyone really, especially my senpai yu narukami !! Love to just chat honestly. kin blog @heterophobickanji

@heterophobickanji

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[burned-my-dread]

Shoutout to Kanji, he’s a real bro.

[annsaesthetics]

An aesthetic for a nonbinary Naoto who was in love with a trans male Kanji. Requested by Anonymous.

NB Naoto icon: [X]

Kanji icon made by me.

~ Mod Ann

[green-tea-kins]

No one requested:

Gay Kanji Tatsumi icons

-Mod Katie (Makoto shift)

[sweetkincafe]

Moodboard for Kanji Tatsumi with themes of acceptance in purple and black for anon

❐ mod pudding puppy ❐

[kincalling]

Hello. I'm Kanji Tatsumi from the Persona 4 game/animation/manga. I am 20 years old, so I would prefer 18+. I have multiple lives as Kanji, so Itll be easier to contact me for details. Im currently looking for everyone from the Investigation team. You can contact me here on tumblr @emperor-confidant for my memories or simply to talk.

😼