#yokai watch news

[withmytailtotheworld]

the majority of ykwblr be like /silly

(featuring variants with the other yo-kai watch logos since I got a bit- if not… A LOT- carried away with this… stored them under the cut for your safety and for my safety. there’s 11 of them. :3)

[jobbot]

hydrogen bomb vs coughing baby

[bearofohu]

listen i dont even care that nwos won't be ready till 2025. it looks fucking incredible. the environments and animations are so charming. they've recaptured the laytonesque feel that lady layton bombed and modernized it in a perfectly fitting way

layton and luke are adorable, the gameplay and UI dont alienate old fans, it feels like layton again

ive waited over ten years, another is fucking nothing for nwos to be the best version of itself, and the revival that professor layton needs after coming so close to total abandonment

[sapphire-strikes]

Testing the waters to see if there's any interest before putting these up for pre-order~

The art for this set was done by @ choccy.kate over on insta! They were super sweet and awesome to work with for the first time and I couldn't be happier with the results~♡

• They'll all be around 1.5-1.7 inches in height, but I'll have exact measurements for each when they go in for production.

• During PRE-ORDER, they'll be $11 each or $60 for the set, and then $12 each or $65 for the set when finally in-stock.

But yes! Definitely let me know if there's any interest at all! I'm gonna be adding them to my shop at some point either way, but with so many other pins on my release schedule first, I ended up putting this set on the back burner cause of the size and production costs.

If I know there's an audience for them though, I'll definitely drop them sooner rather than later.

If/when they're available, you'll be able to find them over on My Etsy.

[pochamice]

TWITTER LIKES ARE PRIVATE!!!!! NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! look at my cat btw shes so cute

[amf-studios]

Say hello to a Lil goat boi who got a big head!

This is a an idea that's been on the back burner for almost a year now. A Lil imp that gives inflates people's egos.

To expand on that base concept, I brought in an American cryptid, the jersey devil!

Basically, Importimp was discovered by some humans once in New Jersey. Those humans saw a bipedal goat with bat wings and immediately cried "devil!"

Being but a lowely imp, Importimp was ecstatic to find humans found him as scary as hell's head honcho! So he began popping in for a scare every now and then, eventually creating the urban legend of the Jersey devil!

All this fame may or may not have inflated his ego. Which he spreads to other via his inspiritment.

Importimp is an E rank of the shady tribe. He's a fire attribute, and a Merican yokai. His soultimate is "Self imp-portant" which boosts all of his stats, at the expense bringing all attention to himself.

I hope you enjoy this cheeky Lil devil!

[jqmon]

Yo-kai Watch Respirited: Nate and the Bois!

Here’s the OG trio’s designs for respirited and i’m very happy with how they turned out, especially the shading. Since Respirited takes place a year or so after 4, might as well give some characters new looks.

Jibanyan stays relatively unchanged but has darkened tips of his ears cause that’s a thing i thought that would look cool. That’s about it though.

Whisper has more done with him. with purple eyes and purple tips of his tail and wisp top, as i thought it look more appealing. And he has canines like his shadowside self, inspired by the great amf-studios.

Now Nate has the most done to him, i wanted to combine some of his outfits together so he has his movie 1 vest that now has a hoodie, his standard red shirt, his pants color from MO1 with some new shoes to boot!

Next his hailey and her gang so stay tuned for that!

Enjoy the boys and their new looks!

[residentialsinyomakai]

No context yokai doodles below cut 😋💞

Click for full image shrooekf....a lot of these are oddly shaped :)

[claiai]

What else is there to do on fall break than to rewatch all of natsume yuujinchou for the 12th time hmmmmm

[submaskudari]

Art request dump

here's what I've got in terms of requests so far! One of these were requested in my server ^ ^

Leaving the individual doodles + asks under a cut so it doesn't take up like. Half the page.

[draconic-distress]

Ok apple pen jumpscare aside, I have a LOT of thoughts on the ghost craft/holy horror mansion trailer, so I may as well make a kinda deep dive post like I did with the Legends ZA announcement

this is gonna be long as fuck so be warned, we're diving deep

Ok so first of all… I think we all knew that it was gonna be yokai watch’s spiritual successor, but I don’t think leading with that is a great call, because people will expect more of the same, and I don’t think that’s entirely fair to this new game they’re making.

That being said, let’s get into the actual game itself, because holy shit this is a lot to take in at once and we still know like nothing.

So the first thing we get introduced to right off the bat is our protagonist, Ten Lordland, which is kind of a stupid name so I’m hoping that the localization gives him a better one

^ this is the bitch. He kinda reminds me of Hailey-Anne with how uppity and all over the place he is; we don’t have much substance on him as a character but he seems like a good kid

One thing we do know about him though is that he’s Loaded, and that his grandma is the landlord of the titular holy horror mansion, which is apparently also a gate to the underworld (giving Mt. Wildwood, but this is where the comparisons end)

We also have a better look at smaller areas of the apartment complex, or at least one small room where he whole thing starts. The camera in the third pic shows up a couple times, so I think it’ll be important in some way, especially considering this is where our ‘ghosts’ comes from:

So there’s three types, and honestly this is where the game shines the most in my opinion and really separates itself from yokai watch conceptually. they play into the concept of ‘ghost crafting’ really well:

First off is the green ghost, whose power we saw at the end of the last level 5 vision. Basically this ghost combines with objects and brings them to life, and that’s where the main critter collecting aspect comes in. I really like how they're handling this, it's a really fun idea

This is also where we get our new mascot aka pillow jibanyan:

She’s cute, her design feels very lively but not messy or too much. I hope we get to see more of her personality in game, I like her :)

Anyways back to the ghosts, now we have the blue one, whose thing is making chimera ghosts out of random objects. This is in fact where that fuckass apple pen reference happens

I like this mechanic, it’ll be fun just making fuck all from whatever’s in your inventory. Still, we’ll come back to the pen pineapple apple pen thing and its implications (because yes I’m not done with this)

And lastly is the pink ghost, whose power is… making dungeons?? I guess??

It’s cool and I like the idea of themed dungeons from everyday objects and the cool gameplay that will come of it, and I adore the cake themed dungeon, but it sticks out like a sore thumb, mostly because it’s the least purposeful of the three.

The green and blue ones have mechanics that make sense within the gameplay of being a critter collector, but the pink one’s uniqueness in its mechanics makes it feel weird.

I’m guessing that we’ll get more of an explanation of what it’s being used for in the actual game, so I’m looking forward to that. And also finding out whether the ‘something important’ Ten mentions is story related or if it’s just the thing at the end of each dungeon.

And then we hit the story aspects… ooh boy I know Yokai Watch and creature collectors in general aren’t really popular for their story, but this one just feels strange to me.

First off, our villain is the “De Ville Corp” and the "Dakarymen", and I mean I’m glad they’re not being subtle with it, we all knew what happened with YKW3, though its a bit on the nose; it makes some sense this game is clearly more family friendly/“kiddie.” But I think weirdly what irks me the most is…

why is this rich kid beefing with other rich kids? Like dude you’re fucking loaded your grandma literally owns the only known(?) gate to the underworld and makes bank off of other people living in this apartment complex that you live off of, what do you mean the villain is capitalism in a game where the protagonist is Rich.

Ok that one’s more nitpicky but still an odd decision imo. Anyways into the villain’s tactics, the main thing they do is they sell 'ghost items' which do... something. i dunno they're evil and hurt people ig maybe it'll get expanded on more later

there's also other wild ghosts that you have to find with your yokai wat-- i mean this shitty camera guy whose design is good on paper but bland in execution, and you fight those guys. i'm gonna say it now as much as i don't want to, i don't think this game is gonna beat the pokemon clone allegations in the west

i don't doubt that the battle system will be unique but at first glance i just have a feeling that people are gonna compare it to pokemon the same way they did with yokai watch, and it's a shame.

now that we've gone over the whole trailer, let's get into my three biggest concerns for this game because yes i sure do have opinions about it

first thing i wanna talk about that they said up-front is the fact that this is gonna become a HUGE multimedia series. ok. kind of horrifying if we're getting that immediately. i don't think it's such a good idea to have a brand new ip that's not even ready yet be put up to the expectation of this behemoth of a new series. that sets the bar pretty high, and there's a lot of worry of this getting too much and crashing from the pressure before its time like what happened to yokai watch

the second thing i've got which i think is a bit nitpicky but i want to mention anyways: "the theme of this title is 'family'," which means it will be "an experience for the whole family to enjoy together." this worries me a little because it gives the implication this is gonna be a more 'kiddie' game in a way. like the trailer was exciting and fun, but i could barely keep up with how fast and in your face it was even with how simple and straight forward is. (someone described it as like a tik tok brainrot vid and i think that does make sense). I hope that making it more appealing to all ages doesn't sacrifice Holy Horror Mansion's heart (we'll get to that) and willingness to go to darker places.

last thing, which i didn't know when i started writing this post, is the use of AI in like 90% of the trailer. because holy shit there's a lot.

look at that. gross. i knew something felt weird about Ten but I couldn't put my finger on it until i found out about the AI thing. this damn kid is the most damning evidence, at least for me since it's the easiest to see on him. and that's not even close to everything that could be AI, that's just the fucking protagonist!

I think deep down we all saw this coming considering Hino's previous statements on AI and the fact that he used a bunch of shitty ai yokai watch mockups as an example. Obviously if this game does use AI for all this stuff we're not gonna fucking support it, but this is still a very very VERY early proof of concept, and anything could happen between now and the game actually making any progress; until we see more I'm gonna be cautiously optimistic about the direction this game goes. Either Hino gets his shit together or we're not playing Holy Horror House because what the fuck.

to be honest, I think it's ok that yokai watch as a major franchise is ending. it kinda sucks since we've been waiting like five years since y school, but i do think it's over and that this is gonna be a fun new ip that can stand on its own from yokai watch. for a series whose first game's resolution was to live and let go of something you love, I think we should take a page from yokai watch 1's book more often. i'm excited to see where Holy Horror Mansion goes from here on out! also we still have puni puni and Jaen is there so I'm satisfied enough I guess.

anyways tl;dr, Holy Horror House looks fun and has a lot of potential as a brand new ip, i'm afraid for its future as a multimedia giant and/or an ai shitshow, and Fantasy Life i: The Girl Who Steals Time is my most anticipated game of 2025

[relatablepicturesofwhisboi]

[jobbot]

hes so stupid (affectionate)

[cisacoolkid]

Fucked up new art style

[withmytailtotheworld]

draw jibanyan saying he will commit world domination whilst holding a flamethrower >:)

Hey anon (@ctlaserdisc) you actually helped me with my art block I had again with this funny little request you sent. You a real one.

[theyokaiwatchblogever]

been dead a hot sec on here but coming on to say im very disappointed in L5 using AI for the new game!!! i was genuinely excited when i first saw the trailer- the idea and concept seems REALLY fun and its still following a YKW vibe, so i was happy!- and then later tonight i saw very damning evidence that AI was used for the BG art :/ we just cant have nice things anymore, can we? uhg.

i sense a trip on the Seven Seas to play the game in the future... sighh. iykyk.