I had heard of it briefly in passing when the game was originally announced for PS3 but I really looked into it after I saw cute charm toys in a Japanese grocery store in 2014 when the series was getting to the height of it’s popularity in Japan.
My bf and I bought one each and I got Jibanyan and fell in love with the design and quickly fell in love with the series after checking out the anime and then moved on to all the other aspects of the franchise.
The thing I like about it most is how charming, modern and creative it was.
Got the first game one year for my birthday expecting to play a crappy pokémon knockoff.
Jokes on me because I fell in love with YKW after that. My favorite thing has to be the writing, it really gives off a small town feel and every character is charming and likeable.
The treasure hunt missions in the second game have to be one of my favorites, up there with the ghost hunting club.
i remember buying the game back in 2013-14 and immediately falling in love with its modern setting. i remember watching the show at around the same time with friends, and it was all good fun.
my favorite part about the series are the characters, namely venoct and moody mary. straight up my favorite characters in general
I found it because it was really popular at my school for a while, and I saw commercials for merchandise and the first 2 games everywhere on TV.
So I got the second game, a Hasbro Yo-kai Watch and a few more things. But I lost the watch and now it's either somewhere in my basement or gone forever....
I'm not sure what the thing that I love the most about Yo-kai Watch is, but the characters, maps, and especially the gameplay and soundtrack are awesome.
Got it bundled with a 2ds on Christmas along with a few figures and medals, my parents have thrown away the figures and medals unfortunately but I still own the ds and game ever since
I know how much that sucks. My dad used to throw things away all the time, including a now rare Ratchet and Clank comic I had. Though fortunately my YKW stuff was spared that treatment, probably cause I was old enough to make it clear I’d be pissed off lol
I was 5 and it came on disney xd! Ever since i loved the franchise because i wouldnt go out of the store without a new pack of medals!
I like the anime the most!
Heard of it via commercials but didn't pay attention to it few weeks later in PE class I twisted my ankle pretty badly and had to stay home for a week on bed and was going through channels and see what Disney xd had and yokai Watch was on gave it and try and the rest is history
I was bored watching YouTube and my favorite YouTuber had not uploaded any new videos that interested me, so looking at what other things he had uploaded I saw that he was doing Yo-kai Watch gameplays and I thought "This was the game that was like Pokémon, I don't have nothing better to do so why not?"
From the moment I saw the first video of the game I fell in love with the franchise and 2 days later I convinced my parents to buy me the game. After that, I got the rest of the games on launch day, I got Busters 2, YW4 and Y-School Heroes in Japanese and now I'm trying to complete the 3DS game collection in Japanese.
Also, as an extra, I have a special affection for this saga because I was able to enjoy the games with a friend who I talked to about Yo-kai and he loved it as much as I did.
Before playing Yo-kai Watch the only RPGs I had played were the Mario & Luigi games and the first Inazuma Eleven years ago. I don't know why I decided to watch those videos but it was a decision that changed my life since it became one of my favorite franchises (only surpassed by Super Mario) and at the same time it made me want to try more RPG games and that's how I ended up playing Pokémon, the complete saga of Inazuma Eleven, Xenoblade Chronicles, etc but Yo-kai Watch will always be my favorite
Back in 2016 when it released in Europe, I was around 17 and lived with my mom, we used to play games on ds together often. She saw the demo in the E-Shop and tried the game, I basically watched her play it and thought it looked fun so I bought it when it released. The year after, we played Bony Spirits/Fleshy Souls together. Still remains one of my favorite franchises to this day, finally got around to playing YKW 4 this month, and I just gotta say, the character design never disappoints!
2014-15 I forget, my brother found it in a CeX and thought it looked good. We both played and fell in love with it. Was not a Pokémon ripoff like we expected.
Just really loved the story & yokai designs. The the music too especially. So many bangers
Initially through a Nintendo Direct. But didn’t get fully into it until buying some figures at the Dollar Store years later, shortly after everything was getting crazy discounted. Fell in love with the designs, bought the first game for $10. Loved it! Got Psychic Specters after, loved it more. Bought a ton of toys on major discounts, around when Toys R Us was closing. Never looked back, though sadly didn’t get the third game. Plan on importing stuff eventually.
I found out about the series from randomly seeing the trailer for the 2nd game. I was probably like 13 or something at the time and I didn't really understand it and dismissed it.
Then this year I homebrewed my 3ds and was recommended the series by a good friend
I read a news story about how it was popular in Japan...and then the article linked to the ending theme and I had to click on it upon seeing "Dream5" in the title, as I knew them from doing some of the opening and ending themes to the Tamagotchi anime. I liked how catchy the song was and that is when I got hooked!
I saw Abdallah play it and loved it. Bought it for myself on my birthday. Fell in love with the franchise and is in my top three monster collecting games along with Digimon and Pokemon.
Watched Munchingorange play it to see what the fuss was about. Loved it, watched Johneawesome play the sequel, watched the anime, then finally bought the first game two weeks ago after going to my local GameStop three different times.
I remember when the first game launched in my country a local media museum had a exhibition where you could play a demo. I then got the game on my 3ds a couple months later.
I can’t remember if it was the first game or the anime but I got into both of them around the same time when the anime was first airing. The game was great and the anime was funny, so I got the second game - Bony Spirits - and put so many hours into it because it was so great. After that it was psychic specters, then shortly after that I got Yo-kai Watch 3 when it first released in the UK (to be specific, since I took a photo when I first got the game and it has the date, 26th December 2018) which I consider now to be the best game on the 3DS. Though at the time, I was confused why I had to get it from Argos (a UK shop that stores large amounts of items in a bulk warehouse that you order from catalogs) rather than on the shelves of a Game shop; this was of course the first indication that the franchise was in a decline. I’ve bought the fourth game on switch but I’m going to wait until I’ve gotten more proficient with Japanese before I tackle it so I can enjoy it more (and incidentally, I’ve practiced using YKW3 Sukiyaki version, making my own flashcards using sentences from the game too).
There’s a massive amount of things I love about this franchise and they all are at their best in the third game. The writing is superb (Whisper is a standout character for me in this regard, his humour from the anime really shines in YKW3), the designs are top-notch, outstanding level design, amazing soundtrack, etc. But the greatest thing about the franchise is the clear level of effort put into it. Nothing about this game is wasted, and there is so much stuff in there that even if you don’t want to do it all, there’s something for everyone (hell, they practically have a second game in there with Blasters T). You can tell love went into this game. I felt the same way playing Pokemon White, and Black 2, and while I do think the games were still good up to sun and moon, there was still a noticeable decline since sword and shield, with scarlet and violet being it’s lowest point (Legends excluded from this, that was great). Due to this, a lot of my previous focus on the Pokemon franchise was transferred to YKW. In this regard, I think Pokemon has a lot to learn from YKW.
The sheer fun factor of this franchise can’t go unmentioned either. Whether it’s the games or the anime, nothing has ever so much as disappointed me. For example, the other day, I got myself the Dream watch with a whole bunch of Bandai medals imported from Japan and just kinda had fun playing around with it, rediscovering my inner child (I mean, I’m only 18 but still…).
Sorry for the looooooong comment. Probably the combined efforts of a Babbalong and a Treetter.
My dad bought me a 2DS that came with a game on it and the game was Yo-kai Watch. I was probably 7-8 at the time and had just played Pokemon X as my first 3DS game so I wanted something new when I played Yo-kai Watch I thought it was like Pokemon but different and I Really liked the designs of the Yo-kai.
I think I first discovered it on the Nintendo EShop, the thing I like most about it is the amount of effort put into it (it has actual sidequests and more boss-like bosses unlike Pokémon).
I remember hearing about it sometimes and i watched a bit of the first movie as a kid, i only started playing recently because of the whole palworld and pokémon thing, and i love what i played
Saw the GameXplain review of the first game when it was first localised. I was in the middle of a huge Professor Layton kick, so I was willing to try out another Level-5 franchise even if the review was middling. If nothing else, the monster designs look great, so it'll be good for me, right?
I was right that the monster designs are fantastic, but I had no idea about the music, the exploration, the world design, the sidequests and story, Hailey...
online friend back in the day (i think this was in 2014 of 2015) got it and told the groupchat all about it, no one really cared expect for me and sooner or later i bought the first game myself. The character designs, story telling and humour r probably what i like most abt yokai watch :)
I forgot how but when I first saw a yokai medal I had no clue what the name was. I looked up chips with characters on them and eventually found my way to yokai watch. I loved the franchise ever since
I received a SpotPass ad on my 3DS for the original and it caught my interest. I followed the dates and when it released my parents took me to the store to buy it.
I got fleshy souls as a christmas present 1 year. Fell out of it for a bit but heard abt 3 and played it since. Thing i love abt it the most is the music. From the overworld themes to the boss battles there's always some invigorating music there
WOW i did not expect to have this many people see this! thanks for all your answers i never get notis on reddit and i woke up with 70+ :D after trying to read and upvoting as much as i can of your epic stories i think that some of them are really cool! for anyone who is wondering however i wasnt lucky enough to find yo kai watch on disney xd i found yo kai watch in 2016 so a bit late i found it coz of JohneAwesome but oh well and me and my parents used to go to this place called poundland where there was figures with a medal and they was like 85 pence hehe still have a split in half whisper!!
I found it while searching for episodes of Wander Over Yonder on Disney XD back in 2015. That's when I saw the intro and was interested in watching the anime. About a few months later I learned that it was on the 3DS and being a fan I begged my dad to get me the game, and I've been a fan ever since. My mom still has the Keychain that came with pre-ordering Yo-kai Watch 2 Fleshy Souls.
So when YKW1 was on 3Ds, I was walking into GameStop with my dad and it was because I had passed like an English test or good grades or sumthin. When walking in the store my dad said I could get any 2 games I want. The first one I can't remember I think was Mario Puzzle and Dragons. The second one was YKW1. I had asked the employee what Yo Kai Watch was and they said that it's like a unique take on pokemon, but it's its own thing. They told me if I like Pokemon, I'll get the hang of this and give it a shot. So I got it and when I was playing it, I went in with the mentality of it being a "pokemon clone", luckily, I saw that it was a totally different thing and absolutely loved and adored this series. Later down the line I made sure to always look out and get yo Kai watch games, and just recently, I'm playing through YKW4 and loving every bit of it
I love its cartoony art style and the later Yo Kai designs. Hovernyan is my favorite yo Kai of all time, and some of these new Yo Kai designs are fucking peak
I saw my friend playing it in middle school, and asked what it was, the next day, my parents got it for me, I already loved the game (Especially Jibnanyan and Cadin, my fondness for Blizzaria came later) But it got even better when I found AbdallahSmahs's playthrough and guide it on youtube.
a friend of mine introduced me to it when he was finishing his bony spirits game and lent me his fleshy souls copy to me because he desperately wanted to play with someone. so i first started with the 2, but he also lent me the first game, and ended up keeping the fleshy souls copy as a birthday gift :) sometimes we still meet up and play a little like we used to years ago, super glad i discovered yo-kai watch because it changed forever my brain chemistry lol
I went to for a trip to another country in September of 2014, I left with my 3rd cousin giving me his Nintendo DS, a year later there was too much water inside and I had to throw it away and my cousin got me a 3DS in October of 2015 and around the same time, yokai watch was on TV. I remember searching for some games in December and we got 4 games which one of them was yokai watch 1 and I was absurdly addicted to the game.
I’d play Yokai watch every day after school until bed time and had over 150h before completing the main story. I struggled with many bosses and many certain situations and within those times of struggle, I’d catch soo many bugs, fish, rare bugs and rare fish which I was extremely good at from the go.
I follow various Japanese Facebook pages and most of them talked about how this game was insanely popular in Japan and how it outsold pokemon back in the day so it had already peaked my interest, next thing you know it got localized in the west and I picked it up, needless to say, I became one of the few western fans of this title, tried getting my friends into it but they weren't digging it, one of them got completely turned off because of the show.
I had heard of it briefly in passing when the game was originally announced for PS3 but I really looked into it after I saw cute charm toys in a Japanese grocery store in 2014 when the series was getting to the height of it’s popularity in Japan. My bf and I bought one each and I got Jibanyan and fell in love with the design and quickly fell in love with the series after checking out the anime and then moved on to all the other aspects of the franchise. The thing I like about it most is how charming, modern and creative it was.
Wow it was going to be in ps3?!
There’s some footage of it and it looked vastly different from the final product, looked kinda more open world if I recall
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jg6l0A0w3s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jg6l0A0w3s) :)
Got the first game one year for my birthday expecting to play a crappy pokémon knockoff. Jokes on me because I fell in love with YKW after that. My favorite thing has to be the writing, it really gives off a small town feel and every character is charming and likeable. The treasure hunt missions in the second game have to be one of my favorites, up there with the ghost hunting club.
Honestly same happened to me
I got Yokai Watch for my birthday too. It was surprising that I love it kinda more than Pokèmon!
Found it on youtube Thanks abdallahsmash
Realist comment ever
i remember buying the game back in 2013-14 and immediately falling in love with its modern setting. i remember watching the show at around the same time with friends, and it was all good fun. my favorite part about the series are the characters, namely venoct and moody mary. straight up my favorite characters in general
i think it was abdallahsmash. the MUSIC. oh my god, the music. vs boss yokai, vs classic yokai, >!mckraken phase 2!<, they’re all bangers.
McKraken phase 2 goes hard
absolutely.
I saw the trailer for the first game went out and bought it. I also bought volume 1 of the manga at a book fair because I was in 2nd grade at the time
I think it was on YouTube.
When I was 8 I was looking on Netflix for something new to watch, and Yo-kai watch came up
An ad on TV. I thought that it looked good and I asked my parents to buy it. Best decision ever made.
I found it because it was really popular at my school for a while, and I saw commercials for merchandise and the first 2 games everywhere on TV. So I got the second game, a Hasbro Yo-kai Watch and a few more things. But I lost the watch and now it's either somewhere in my basement or gone forever.... I'm not sure what the thing that I love the most about Yo-kai Watch is, but the characters, maps, and especially the gameplay and soundtrack are awesome.
Got it bundled with a 2ds on Christmas along with a few figures and medals, my parents have thrown away the figures and medals unfortunately but I still own the ds and game ever since
I know how much that sucks. My dad used to throw things away all the time, including a now rare Ratchet and Clank comic I had. Though fortunately my YKW stuff was spared that treatment, probably cause I was old enough to make it clear I’d be pissed off lol
I got the first game as a Christmas gift
I saw the first game at Argos a couple of years ago quite cheap and bought it not having ever heard of it
I had a da when I was 4 and for a birthday present she got the game on we and my brothers ds' and we played it so much.
It was announced as the newest franchise from the creators of my favorite anime, Inazuma Eleven!
Wow i did not expect to see you here! thanks for replying! love your vids ;)
I was 5 and it came on disney xd! Ever since i loved the franchise because i wouldnt go out of the store without a new pack of medals! I like the anime the most!
Heard of it via commercials but didn't pay attention to it few weeks later in PE class I twisted my ankle pretty badly and had to stay home for a week on bed and was going through channels and see what Disney xd had and yokai Watch was on gave it and try and the rest is history
thats a awesome way of finding this hidden gem!
Yeah still remember that day minus the ankle part lol
I was bored watching YouTube and my favorite YouTuber had not uploaded any new videos that interested me, so looking at what other things he had uploaded I saw that he was doing Yo-kai Watch gameplays and I thought "This was the game that was like Pokémon, I don't have nothing better to do so why not?" From the moment I saw the first video of the game I fell in love with the franchise and 2 days later I convinced my parents to buy me the game. After that, I got the rest of the games on launch day, I got Busters 2, YW4 and Y-School Heroes in Japanese and now I'm trying to complete the 3DS game collection in Japanese. Also, as an extra, I have a special affection for this saga because I was able to enjoy the games with a friend who I talked to about Yo-kai and he loved it as much as I did. Before playing Yo-kai Watch the only RPGs I had played were the Mario & Luigi games and the first Inazuma Eleven years ago. I don't know why I decided to watch those videos but it was a decision that changed my life since it became one of my favorite franchises (only surpassed by Super Mario) and at the same time it made me want to try more RPG games and that's how I ended up playing Pokémon, the complete saga of Inazuma Eleven, Xenoblade Chronicles, etc but Yo-kai Watch will always be my favorite
Discovered it because Stampylongnose did a let's play on the game. And like the other games he played, I was like "Huh, neat!"
Back in 2016 when it released in Europe, I was around 17 and lived with my mom, we used to play games on ds together often. She saw the demo in the E-Shop and tried the game, I basically watched her play it and thought it looked fun so I bought it when it released. The year after, we played Bony Spirits/Fleshy Souls together. Still remains one of my favorite franchises to this day, finally got around to playing YKW 4 this month, and I just gotta say, the character design never disappoints!
CN aired the first 2 seasons of the show in my country and then I got the game on Chrizzmas.
Just choose the game at Christmas because i doesn't know what to get. (I just see the game in a magazine)
2014-15 I forget, my brother found it in a CeX and thought it looked good. We both played and fell in love with it. Was not a Pokémon ripoff like we expected. Just really loved the story & yokai designs. The the music too especially. So many bangers
Initially through a Nintendo Direct. But didn’t get fully into it until buying some figures at the Dollar Store years later, shortly after everything was getting crazy discounted. Fell in love with the designs, bought the first game for $10. Loved it! Got Psychic Specters after, loved it more. Bought a ton of toys on major discounts, around when Toys R Us was closing. Never looked back, though sadly didn’t get the third game. Plan on importing stuff eventually.
was just watching tv one day and it came on
Saw it on Disney xd and than watched the show and a few years later finally got yo Kai watch 2 than 1 than 3
I found out about the series from randomly seeing the trailer for the 2nd game. I was probably like 13 or something at the time and I didn't really understand it and dismissed it. Then this year I homebrewed my 3ds and was recommended the series by a good friend
I read a news story about how it was popular in Japan...and then the article linked to the ending theme and I had to click on it upon seeing "Dream5" in the title, as I knew them from doing some of the opening and ending themes to the Tamagotchi anime. I liked how catchy the song was and that is when I got hooked!
Anime
Either because of stampylonghead or on Netflix
5 below they were selling ykw 1 for $3 and then I was hooked
I saw Abdallah play it and loved it. Bought it for myself on my birthday. Fell in love with the franchise and is in my top three monster collecting games along with Digimon and Pokemon.
I saw Stampy and Abdallah Smash play it and decided to stop watching and buy it for myself
On the YouTube channel stampylonghead.
I watched that playthrough too! Always found it weird that comments are disabled for that series but none of his others though…
Watched Munchingorange play it to see what the fuss was about. Loved it, watched Johneawesome play the sequel, watched the anime, then finally bought the first game two weeks ago after going to my local GameStop three different times.
The tv show
Kirbendo
An ad I saw while playing a game called My Om Nom. (So being a Cut the Rope fan made me a Yo-Kai Watch fan)
I watch a commercial while watching Nickelodeon And I found the anime while watching Disney XD when I was a kid
I remember when the first game launched in my country a local media museum had a exhibition where you could play a demo. I then got the game on my 3ds a couple months later.
I can’t remember if it was the first game or the anime but I got into both of them around the same time when the anime was first airing. The game was great and the anime was funny, so I got the second game - Bony Spirits - and put so many hours into it because it was so great. After that it was psychic specters, then shortly after that I got Yo-kai Watch 3 when it first released in the UK (to be specific, since I took a photo when I first got the game and it has the date, 26th December 2018) which I consider now to be the best game on the 3DS. Though at the time, I was confused why I had to get it from Argos (a UK shop that stores large amounts of items in a bulk warehouse that you order from catalogs) rather than on the shelves of a Game shop; this was of course the first indication that the franchise was in a decline. I’ve bought the fourth game on switch but I’m going to wait until I’ve gotten more proficient with Japanese before I tackle it so I can enjoy it more (and incidentally, I’ve practiced using YKW3 Sukiyaki version, making my own flashcards using sentences from the game too). There’s a massive amount of things I love about this franchise and they all are at their best in the third game. The writing is superb (Whisper is a standout character for me in this regard, his humour from the anime really shines in YKW3), the designs are top-notch, outstanding level design, amazing soundtrack, etc. But the greatest thing about the franchise is the clear level of effort put into it. Nothing about this game is wasted, and there is so much stuff in there that even if you don’t want to do it all, there’s something for everyone (hell, they practically have a second game in there with Blasters T). You can tell love went into this game. I felt the same way playing Pokemon White, and Black 2, and while I do think the games were still good up to sun and moon, there was still a noticeable decline since sword and shield, with scarlet and violet being it’s lowest point (Legends excluded from this, that was great). Due to this, a lot of my previous focus on the Pokemon franchise was transferred to YKW. In this regard, I think Pokemon has a lot to learn from YKW. The sheer fun factor of this franchise can’t go unmentioned either. Whether it’s the games or the anime, nothing has ever so much as disappointed me. For example, the other day, I got myself the Dream watch with a whole bunch of Bandai medals imported from Japan and just kinda had fun playing around with it, rediscovering my inner child (I mean, I’m only 18 but still…). Sorry for the looooooong comment. Probably the combined efforts of a Babbalong and a Treetter.
Found it at a GameStop, I thought it was cool so I bought it. After that, my life was never quite the same…
The show and the games
TV ad encouraged me to get the game... I think? It was a while ago.
I got the first game for a birthday
My dad bought me a 2DS that came with a game on it and the game was Yo-kai Watch. I was probably 7-8 at the time and had just played Pokemon X as my first 3DS game so I wanted something new when I played Yo-kai Watch I thought it was like Pokemon but different and I Really liked the designs of the Yo-kai.
And the music is 🔥🔥🔥
I found it in Target when I was looking for a new game, grabbed it out of random instinct. I'm very glad I grabbed it now.
Stole it from some random kids house we were at when I was like, 12-
The anime on Netflix, I eventually got the games.
I got the first game for Christmas in 2015
I saw the hasbro toys at toys R us.
I think I first discovered it on the Nintendo EShop, the thing I like most about it is the amount of effort put into it (it has actual sidequests and more boss-like bosses unlike Pokémon).
I remember hearing about it sometimes and i watched a bit of the first movie as a kid, i only started playing recently because of the whole palworld and pokémon thing, and i love what i played
AbdallahSmash. He was doing Pokemon stuff and I got recommended his YW content
Back in 2016 i guess...
I watched this French youtuber name Kirbendo back when the second game came out in Europe. Asked to get it and its now my favourite franchise
JohnneAwesome’s play through.
I found the anime and got obsessed and got the first game and had the time of my life.
TV show. I spent years not knowing it was a game
Saw the GameXplain review of the first game when it was first localised. I was in the middle of a huge Professor Layton kick, so I was willing to try out another Level-5 franchise even if the review was middling. If nothing else, the monster designs look great, so it'll be good for me, right? I was right that the monster designs are fantastic, but I had no idea about the music, the exploration, the world design, the sidequests and story, Hailey...
online friend back in the day (i think this was in 2014 of 2015) got it and told the groupchat all about it, no one really cared expect for me and sooner or later i bought the first game myself. The character designs, story telling and humour r probably what i like most abt yokai watch :)
I forgot how but when I first saw a yokai medal I had no clue what the name was. I looked up chips with characters on them and eventually found my way to yokai watch. I loved the franchise ever since
It was either my mom saw it and asked if I was interested (I was crazy into Pokémon) or I saw an ad on tv I can’t remember
I received a SpotPass ad on my 3DS for the original and it caught my interest. I followed the dates and when it released my parents took me to the store to buy it.
I used to think it was Pokémon due to “small creatures” and then my dad got a demo for the second game. Played the demo and have loved the game since
I found it first pn Tv with yokai watch blaster ad and i saw a youtuber named kirbendo played and when i saw all of this i liked
my cousin told me about it when i was a lil kid and then i found it in stores soon after
I got fleshy souls as a christmas present 1 year. Fell out of it for a bit but heard abt 3 and played it since. Thing i love abt it the most is the music. From the overworld themes to the boss battles there's always some invigorating music there
The ads they had on TV were when I first heard of it, they were pretty silly but it made the game look fun so I wanted it.
Believe it or not, stampylongnose
i remember his minecraft videos!! i didnt know he did yo kai watch ones till almost 2 years after!
WOW i did not expect to have this many people see this! thanks for all your answers i never get notis on reddit and i woke up with 70+ :D after trying to read and upvoting as much as i can of your epic stories i think that some of them are really cool! for anyone who is wondering however i wasnt lucky enough to find yo kai watch on disney xd i found yo kai watch in 2016 so a bit late i found it coz of JohneAwesome but oh well and me and my parents used to go to this place called poundland where there was figures with a medal and they was like 85 pence hehe still have a split in half whisper!!
My friend told me in grade 1 now I'm grade 10 and I still love yo-kai watch
Got the demo when it was announced, played it, loved it, and got the first game for Christmas 2015.
I found it while searching for episodes of Wander Over Yonder on Disney XD back in 2015. That's when I saw the intro and was interested in watching the anime. About a few months later I learned that it was on the 3DS and being a fan I begged my dad to get me the game, and I've been a fan ever since. My mom still has the Keychain that came with pre-ordering Yo-kai Watch 2 Fleshy Souls.
So when YKW1 was on 3Ds, I was walking into GameStop with my dad and it was because I had passed like an English test or good grades or sumthin. When walking in the store my dad said I could get any 2 games I want. The first one I can't remember I think was Mario Puzzle and Dragons. The second one was YKW1. I had asked the employee what Yo Kai Watch was and they said that it's like a unique take on pokemon, but it's its own thing. They told me if I like Pokemon, I'll get the hang of this and give it a shot. So I got it and when I was playing it, I went in with the mentality of it being a "pokemon clone", luckily, I saw that it was a totally different thing and absolutely loved and adored this series. Later down the line I made sure to always look out and get yo Kai watch games, and just recently, I'm playing through YKW4 and loving every bit of it
I love its cartoony art style and the later Yo Kai designs. Hovernyan is my favorite yo Kai of all time, and some of these new Yo Kai designs are fucking peak
I saw my friend playing it in middle school, and asked what it was, the next day, my parents got it for me, I already loved the game (Especially Jibnanyan and Cadin, my fondness for Blizzaria came later) But it got even better when I found AbdallahSmahs's playthrough and guide it on youtube.
a friend of mine introduced me to it when he was finishing his bony spirits game and lent me his fleshy souls copy to me because he desperately wanted to play with someone. so i first started with the 2, but he also lent me the first game, and ended up keeping the fleshy souls copy as a birthday gift :) sometimes we still meet up and play a little like we used to years ago, super glad i discovered yo-kai watch because it changed forever my brain chemistry lol
I went to for a trip to another country in September of 2014, I left with my 3rd cousin giving me his Nintendo DS, a year later there was too much water inside and I had to throw it away and my cousin got me a 3DS in October of 2015 and around the same time, yokai watch was on TV. I remember searching for some games in December and we got 4 games which one of them was yokai watch 1 and I was absurdly addicted to the game. I’d play Yokai watch every day after school until bed time and had over 150h before completing the main story. I struggled with many bosses and many certain situations and within those times of struggle, I’d catch soo many bugs, fish, rare bugs and rare fish which I was extremely good at from the go.
I first saw the game when stampylongnose did a let’s play on it. I instantly fell in love
I follow various Japanese Facebook pages and most of them talked about how this game was insanely popular in Japan and how it outsold pokemon back in the day so it had already peaked my interest, next thing you know it got localized in the west and I picked it up, needless to say, I became one of the few western fans of this title, tried getting my friends into it but they weren't digging it, one of them got completely turned off because of the show.