AniWorthYo-kai Watch the Movie: It's the Secret of Birth, Meow!
Introduction
The movie will feature special guests such as popular familiar characters from the TV anime series and the latest Youkai from the upcoming Youkai Watch 2 sequel games.
Audience ratings
MyAnimeList / Tenrai : 7.11/10 · 4844
| 1/10 | 36 |
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| 2/10 | 22 |
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| 3/10 | 63 |
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| 4/10 | 141 |
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| 5/10 | 440 |
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| 6/10 | 827 |
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| 7/10 | 1337 |
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| 8/10 | 995 |
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| 9/10 | 487 |
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| 10/10 | 497 |
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Audience reviews
2 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
SevensDran
A franchise that started with a very simple game with a very simple down to earth supernatural storyline. The game was novel, but really it was the anime's spin on it that launched it with its hometown adventure comedy + skit variety show structure. Like what if Ben 10 had a bunch of segments of a dude who will eventually meet Ben but Ben will never know his storyline full of movie parodies or petty crime.
And then this is where movie 1 comes in, an adaptation of Yokai Watch 2, and the purest example of how much a media storm it was and why it shot up.
Keita gets his Yokai Watch stolen and forgets about yokai in the first few minutes. But be it a fan or even likely a new audience member who came to see what the fuss was all about, they are blasted with a version of its opening Gera Ger…
Read at the sourceCatSoul
Yokai Watch is, in a nutshell, a Pokemon imitator that actually tries a few new things, which is why it stands out from the crowd of Pokemon imitators and has become such a success in Japan. Of course, much like Pokemon, they had to have their opportunity to show off their success on the big screen!
That success has partially translated over to the international side, however not to the same extent as Japan. That's probably why this movie was only in theaters for a single day in America, and wound up quickly popping up on television and Netflix.
It's clear from the beginning of this movie that it doesn't take itself too seriously and recognizes that a lot of its audience will consist of ADHD children. The first two minutes are devoted to a sketch of familiar characters (to anyone who's w…
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