Yo-kai Watch: The Rewrite Series is a Yo-kai Watch rewrite by Metadata.
The series starts with Yo-kai Watch, except that both Nate and Katie are given Yo-kai Watches. The Fan Verse tweaks elements from the games and adds in new details.
Yo-kai Watch: The Rewrite Series currently consists of the finished Yo-kai Watch: A Rewrite (Book 1 of the Rewrite Series) and in-progress Yo-kai Watch 2: The Yo-kai War (Book 2 of the Rewrite Series).
It can be read on Archive of Our Own here
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These fanfics provide examples of:
- Adaptational Nationality: The Thinly-Veiled Dub Country Change is reversed so that Springdale is in Japan again, yet characters keep their English names.
- Alternate Universe Fic: Both Nate and Katie find Whisper together and are given Yo-kai Watches.
- Curb-Stomp Battle: Cadin defeated Buhu very quickly in the first chapter.
- Decomposite Character: The player role is given to both the male and female protagonists, Nate and Katie.
- Invisible to Normals: Like canon, normal humans can't see Yokai.
- Puppy Love: 11-year olds Nate and Katie admit their feelings for each other in chapter 3.
- Spiky Hair: Nate's spiky hair is lampshaded when Roughraff calls it "rowdy" looking.
