Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu (2017)

Original title

映画 妖怪ウォッチ シャドウサイド 鬼王の復活

Directed by

Uro Shinji

Genre

adventure film

Country

Japan

Runtime

1h 34m

Rated

ALL

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A boy named Tokio works with ghosts called Yo-kai to oppose a revived demon king. The movie is set 30 years after the original series and follows a new generation of characters.

nostalgicmysteriousdarkemotionaladventuroussupernaturalfast-pacedvisually stylized

What happens

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside Oni-o no Fukkatsu is a 2017 supernatural anime film produced by OLM, Inc. and distributed by Toho. It is the fourth film in the Yo-kai Watch film series, following the 2016 film Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!, and features characters from Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō manga. It is directed by Shinji Ushiro and written by Yoichi Kato, with Level-5 president Akihiro Hino overseeing the production and script. It was released on Japanese theaters on December 16, 2017 and on DVD on July 4, 2018. The movie takes place 30 years after the events of the original Yo-kai Watch anime series. The original series' main protagonist Keita "Keta" Amano (known as Nathan "Nate" Adams in English) was a wielder of the Yo-kai Watch, with which he befriended Yo-kai and fulfilled many great deeds. However, after he grew up and married his childhood friend and crush Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama (known as Katie Forester in English), he lost his ability to see Yo-kai. The Yo-kai Watch was cast away into oblivion, as its existence threatened to disturb the balance between the human world and the Yo-kai World, with its story becoming but a legend. Many years later, a comet heralds the arrival of a new threat as an epidemic Yo-kai virus known as Onimaro spreads and causes chaos throughout the city, infecting people with malevolent intentions and turning them into Kaodeka Oni. With the end near, only the ones chosen by a new Yo-kai Watch can save both humans and Yo-kai from certain destruction and rekindle the bonds between them. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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