History VideoGame / YokaiWatch

* TheSevenMysteries: The "summer festival" section of the game has the characters talk about the Seven Mysteries of their school, and that episode's story is focused on investigating one such mystery.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: If you're playing as Katie (the female PC) in the museum chapter, then Eddie insists that taking you to the museum is NOT a date. Nope. Whisper naturally lampshades this.

* BadassAdorable: Jibanyan and Shogunyan (and the rest of Jibanyan's variants) are obvious examples, but several Yo-kai can count for this.

* CerebusRetcon: It's established in the anime (and in the games starting with the second) that Whisper has very little actual knowledge of Yo-Kai ([[KnowNothingKnowItAll despite insisting that he does]]), and he uses his Yo-Kai Pad to look up information. Initially it's simply a RunningGag that comes up whenever a new Yo-Kai or concept needs to be explained. Then, in ''Psychic Specters'', [[spoiler:the Whistory Lesson postgame quests reveal another primary reason he uses the Yo-Kai Pad. Whisper's inspiriting ability causes the afflicted party to spout off LittleKnownFacts, which he used in the past to (unwittingly) become the advisor to UsefulNotes/IshidaMitsunari. He managed to be successful at this through sheer dumb luck, but eventually let Mitsunari and his army to their deaths in a hopeless battle, which Whisper took... [[MyGreatestFailure badly, to say the least, causing him to swear off using his inspiriting abilities again]]. Thanks to PowerIncontinence, he doesn't have much control over when his powers activates, so he uses the Yo-Kai Pad to simply look up information that he doesn't know to keep his inspiriting abilities in check and keep anyone he hangs around safe from it.]]

** Yo-criminals are yet another example, as all of them are simply palette-swapped versions of common Yo-Kai with slightly different names. You also can't recruit any of them, despite having to battle them in order to apprehend them.

* CerebusRetcon: It's established in the anime (and in the games starting with the second) that Whisper has very little actual knowledge of Yo-Kai ([[KnowNothingKnowItAll despite insisting that he does]]), and he uses his Yo-Kai Pad to look up information. Initially it's simply a RunningGag that comes up whenever a new Yo-Kai or concept needs to be explained. Then, in ''Psychic Specters'', [[spoiler:the Whistory Lesson postgame quests reveal another primary reason he uses the Yo-Kai Pad. Whisper's inspiriting ability causes the afflicted party to spout off LittleKnownFacts, which he and the affected party are embarrassed by, and thanks to PowerIncontinence, he doesn't have much control over when it happens. Whisper uses the Yo-Kai Pad to simply look up information that he doesn't know to keep his inspiriting abilities in check and keep anyone he hangs around safe from it.]]

** One exists as one of the MascotMooks of the series. He's a kappa called Nogappa in Japanese and Walkappa in English, and is a SurferDude who loves sushi and pizza. He's also known for being a bit of a spaced out CloudCuckoolander.

* {{Kirin}}: There are two yokais based off of the mythological kirin, Unikirin -- a black kirin with a mane of bluish clouds and a unicorn's horn -- and Kyryn -- a blue and red kirin with a mane of orange clouds, long whiskers and straight, backward-pointing brown horns. Both are part of the Heartful tribe and have the Restoration attribute -- [[TheMedic meaning that their attacks do not deal damage, but instead heal allies]] -- and their sprites show them FlyingOnACloud.

** Most yo-kai have different names in translations, but the mascot Jibanyan is an exception. This stands out even more as the translations [[ThinlyVeiledDubCountryChange remove references to the games taking place in Japan]], yet Jibanyan and even his VerbalTic are untouched. The Disney dub of the [[Anime/YokaiWatch anime]] keeps them as is; however, the Toonami dub, by contrast, uses "meow" as his Verbal Tic. Most of Jibanyan's clone characters (Robonyan, Sailornyan, etc.) also keep their names.

* MenLikeDogsWomenLikeCats: Inverted. Nate is associated with the cat yo-kai Jibanyan while Katie is associated with the lion-dog (with an emphasis on "dog") yo-kai Komasan.

* MalevolentMice: Phantasmurai (and its recolor Spooklunk) is a boss fight who attacks the player. Whenever it's weakened, it's revealed that it's actually being controlled by a mouse.

* ChildhoodMarriagePromise: The sidequest "Marry Me Someday?" has you finding a nice ring for a little boy (who appears to be between the ages of 5 and 7) who wants to propose to his "girlfriend." Whisper even lampshades this and wonders if they'll be able to get married when they're older. In the second game, you can even see them planning their wedding outside the local preschool.

* DudeLooksLikeALady: Plenty of Yo-kai, like Cupistol and Shmoopie, look ''very'' pink and feminine, but are explicitly referred to as male. Taken UpToEleven with Casanuva, who has long pink hair, girly clothes, and long eyelashes... but is still male.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtThatWas Not to be confused with]] the action of looking out for the feral monsters called ''yao guai'' in the ''VideoGame/{{Fallout}}'' universe. Although, believe it or not, the names technically have the same meaning and the kanji for yo-kai and yao guai are written the same way (yao guai is the Cantonese pronunciation for yo-kai).

* ''Yo-kai Three Kingdoms'' (April 2016 Japan), a partnership with Creator/{{Koei}}

** The third game partly takes place in America (dubbed "USA"), where most of the local Yo-Kai are either CaptainGeographic or [[WearingAFlagOnYourHead covered in American flags]]. If they're not chicken nuggets, slices of bacon, hamburgers, or misplaced literary references.[[labelnote:*]]A Yo-Kai based on Fraulein Rottenmier from Swiss novel ''Literature/{{Heidi}}'' makes an appearance.[[/labelnote]] They also happen to be called Merican Yo-Kai.

** ''The Gera Gera Po Song'' has gone on to appear in rhythm games ''VideoGame/MaiMai [=PiNK=]'' and even ''VideoGame/TaikoDrumMaster'', beginning with ''Taiko no Tatsujin Kimidori Ver.''. The former uses the opening theme video while the latter has Nate and several Yo-Kai appear to cheer the player on. In exchange for the song and characters appearing in ''Taiko Drum Master'', Don-Chan has been given a playable cameo in ''Yo-Kai Watch 2''.

** Is it "USApyon" or "Usapyon"? The English translation ended up using the latter.

* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch4'' (2019 Japan, UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch)

* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch1'' (July 2013 Japan, November 2015 US)

* OldSaveBonus: Mister E will give you a special Crank-a-kai coin for showing him a photo taken with the Yo-Kai Cam function from the first ''Yo-Kai Watch'' game. It has to be one taken within the last two hours, presumably to keep players who played the first game and then traded it in or gave it away from exploiting the feature with a saved picture.

* {{Youkai}}: [[CaptainObvious Uh, yeah.]]