Forum - View topicNEWS: Yo-kai Watch to Air in U.S., Europe, Other Regions Globally
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MetalUpa1014
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Yeah, because they're TOTALLY going to become fluent in English AND be able to voice act well in that language within a few months. Sure, Hino-san. Whatever you say. 
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mdo7
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Oh boy, good luck finding a US broadcaster to show Yo-kai Watch. Somebody might want to remind him that Saturday morning cartoon in US are dead already. But I have a suggestion, why not put it on Dramafever's kid section (since children shows from Korea and China are shown on there too), and also put it on Hulu since more people are watching online (but I don't know if that will happen because most Japanese companies don't like internet streaming).
Well that's nice to know they won't change the name. |
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Veniamin
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Saturday Morning Cartoons are dead on Television, but if they play their cards right and actually cared about marketing, they could use Hulu, Neon Alley, Viz, etc. Saturday Morning Cartoons are more prominent if you use online.
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yappers4
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Can someone explain to me why Yo-Kai Watch is popular? To me, it seems like Pokemon, but a bit more childish (Pokemon can get serious sometimes but I don't see any seriousness in this series, pun not meant to be intended).
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malvarez1
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If I were them, I'd just stream it on Youtube, which is what Buddyfight, Cardfight, B Daman, and Scan2Go does now.
Anyway, I'll watch, as long as the dubbers don't pull an LBX (skip whole episodes, splice others, etc) |
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CallumKeyblade
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If there's more chance of us getting the games, I'm all for it! Inazuma Eleven aired here in the UK and we got the games at a similar time so hopefully they have a similar plan for Yo-kai Watch.
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ParkerALx
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Seeing how they handle localizing such a heavily Japanese property as Yo-Kai Watch should prove interesting. After the mixed-bag localization the Pokemon anime has received over the years, my expectations are reasonably low. Kids shows from Japan always seem to get the shaft one way or the other when brought over. I'm talking d-list voice actors, replaced soundtracks -the works.
Kid's like it for being a new take on the monster-collecting genre for their generation, rather than an old-school franchise like Pokemon.
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Last time I checked, Cartoon Network, Nickelodeon and Disney's various cable channel's all still play cartoons. Not only on Saturday, but throughout the week. If Doraemon can air on Disney xd, anything is possible. Last edited by ParkerALx on Sat Dec 20, 2014 2:04 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Well, at least Jibanyan and Whisper's names will remain unchanged, which is a good thing, considering that they're the mascots of the show.
Why Akihiro Hino asked that Etsuko and Tomokazu [Seki] to go learn English, I'll never know... |
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mdo7
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Well I don't know Saturday Morning Cartoon will be more prominent online via streaming because those cartoon streaming on sites like Hulu, Netflix, Dramafever, and those sites you mention are on-demand meaning they can be watch whenever, wherever. So kids don't need to watch it on Saturday, they can watch it after school or after dinner and it doesn't have to be on a Saturday. Do you know what binge-watching is? I have a feeling this is going to become more common. So Saturday morning cartoon are dead, and it wouldn't make sense for kid to watch cartoon online on Saturday when they can watch it whenever, wherever and it won't be on Saturday.
Another ANN user on another thread has your question answered for you:
It still a slim chance though. As I said, more people are watching online. |
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Kaioshin_Sama
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One of the few recent hit anime that could actually feasibly make it onto TV in countries outside of Japan and South-East Asia.
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Stuart Smith
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Very disappointed another show which celebrates Japanese culture will be whitewashed for the US audience once more. I also have to imagine the content cuts there will be given it has some fairly America-unfriendly humor like Jibanyan perving over NyaaKB gravure swimsuit posters and photo books, or Jinmenken being a drunk salaryman.
It's not very much like Pokemon at all. It has closer ties to Persona than Pokemon. -Stuart Smith |
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mdo7
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Uh, Pokemon went through that too when it first came out in the US, yet it still became popular in the US despite whatever edit and culture change it went through to it's US localization. |
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Ryu Shoji
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I'll be very interested in seeing whether Yo-Kai Watch manages to achieve the popularity it has in Japan. I admittedly have yet to watch or play Yo-Kai Watch, but on a first impression, Yo-Kai Watch looks distinctly more "Japanese" than Pokémon. Sure, Pokémon does have some species based on yokai (such as Froslass), but the franchise as a whole is more self-contained in its own universe. And also, will that put off non-Japanese children or won't they care?
In terms of distribution of the series, I think a TV broadcast should still be the best way to go in regards to giving the series exposure and advertising. However, that doesn't mean that on-demand services like Netflix should be ignored either; the two should be used in tandem.
About fifteen years from now, that fan is going to wake up one morning, peel off his Yo-Kai Watch bedsheets and stumble towards the bathroom, where he will brush his teeth with his Jibanyan toothbrush. Then, he will look up into the mirror and recoil in horror at the sight - he has become an "annoying adult fan"! Yo-Kai Watch has only been around for 3 year years compared to Pokémon's 18. It'll happen xD. Last edited by Ryu Shoji on Sat Dec 20, 2014 3:52 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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Fedora-san
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Did they really end up doing that? I only saw the "sneak peak" episode and it was terrible, but are we back to the days of splicing and skipping episodes again? I could see them doing that for Youkai Watch though. Quite a number of episodes would probably be inappropriate for our censors, and the ways some of them are set up like the Jinmenken and Komasan storylines might be spliced together rather than being mixed in with other episodes just for the sake of making it more episodic/accessible to American audiences.
Main leads seem to generally keep their names, which makes it really awkward to have clearly Japanese names next to a bunch of Americanized ones. I say if you're going to ethnically cleanse something, go all the way at least.
Assuming Youkai Watch is still a thing. Level 5 have this bad habit of killing off their popular franchises after a few years. |
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mdo7
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They're probably going to end up like them but replace Pokemon with Yo-kai Watch. You're right, I could imagine 15 years from now (if Yo-kai Watch's popularity remain high for many years), we could see Yo-kai watch's "annoying adult fan", the same "annoying adult fans" of Yo-kai Watch that claim Pokemon has too many adult fans 15 years earlier. 
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