History Anime / YokaiWatchJamYokaiAcademyYCloseEncountersOfTheNKind

** #09: Prison Break! Akatentraz Camp - ''Series/PrisonBreak''

** #03: Back to the Morning ~Don't Step On It~ - ''Film/BackToTheFuture''

The series began in December 2019, replacing the original ''Anime/YokaiWatch''. A Korean dub of the series was released in 2021, while Creator/AnimaxAsia aired it and its predecessor movie subtitled under the name ''Y School Heroes''.

The series began in December 2019, replacing the original ''Anime/YokaiWatch''.

** #02: The Melancholy of Giant Salaryman Miyazawa - ''[[LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya]]''

* CreatorCameo: Satomi, Rinu, Nanamori, and Jel of Strawberry Prince, the idol group who sings this series' first two opening themes, feature in the anime as four VictimsOfTheWeek.

** Jinpei fuses with Bakera to become '''Kengo Benimaru''', a nekomata-themed Brave hero, and with Goromi to become '''Wild Boy''', a gunslinger-themed hero.

** Ranto Kirigakure's Alien Watch allows him to transform into '''Mist Shadow''', without the need to fuse with an Onryo.

The series features humanized versions of various {{youkai}}. Jinpei is a young boy who goes to the elite school Y Academy. He and a few of his friends are a part of the "YSP Club", a school club that solves mysteries involving yokai.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: As with Anime/YokaiWatch, this series does not shy away from dirty butt and underwear jokes.
** Episode 13 is entirely focused on Principal Daiouji trying to rid himself of a [[PornStash gravure magazine]] that keeps coming back to him. [[spoiler: Turns out said magazine was insprited by his late pet frog, whom he accidentally killed while trying to hide the magazine from his daughter ''in the midst of reading it in school''.]]

** Rantaro Kirigakure's Alien Watch allows him to transform into '''Mist Shadow''', without the need to fuse with an Onryo.

** Rantaro Kirigakure's Alien Watch allows him to transform into '''Mist Shadow''', without the need yo fuse with an Onryo.

** Jinpei fuses with Bakera to become '''Kengo Benimaru''', a nekomata-themed Brave hero.

** #06: Get Cursed if You Stop the Camera - ''Film/OneCutOfTheDead''[[note]]also known as ''Don't Stop the Camera'' in Japan[[/note]]

* BlessedWithSuck: Clock Lady is able to generate a force field that slows down the movement of anything within it... ''including herself''. If that wasn't bad enough, she is also able to create smaller clones of herself that ''are'' able to move normally within the field, but they are ''too weak to deal any damage'' to the enemy.

* ShoutOut: The title references the 1977 movie ''Film/CloseEncountersOfTheThirdKind''.

* AdaptationExpansion: The first episode acts as a prequel to the movie and series, showing Jinpei and Koma's first meeting in elementary school and becoming good friends, and how they were scouted by Enra to be transferred into Y Academy.

* HenshinHero: Anyone who uses the YSP watch will gain the ability to fuse with a specific Yo-Kai into a superhero. When Bakera fuses with Jinpei, for example, he turns into Kengou Benimaru.

''Yo-kai Watch Jam - Yo-kai Academy Y: Close Encounters of the N Kind'' is an anime spinoff of ''Franchise/YokaiWatch''. It's a sequel to the film.

* MoeAnthropomorphism: Jibanyan and several of the others are turned into cute children.

* HighSchoolAU: The series is a middle school AU starring various yokai as humans.