Animated adaptation of Level-5's Nintendo 3DS video game. While going deeper into the woods one day, primary school student Keita Amano ('Nate' in the English localisation) notices a bizarre capsule toy machine who tells him to insert money which he obeyingly does. But after opening the capsule that came out, a ghostly creature named Whisper materialises. Whisper, who was sealed inside the capsule, rewards his liberator Keita by becoming his Yo-kai butler and gives him a Yo-kai Watch. Whoever wears the watch gains the ability to see supernatural creatures called Yo-kai, each type possessing different kinds of magical abilities, and which are normally invisible to humans. The Yo-kai Watch also allows the wearer to summon any Yo-kai they have befriended, enabling the wearer to make use of the Yo-kai's powers. Using it, Keita and Whisper encounter many mischievous Yo-kai around town, resolving the trouble they're causing and befriending many at the same time.
Japanese study overview
Youkai Watch is a Japanese anime of 993,410 characters, with 19,554 unique words and 2,022 different kanji. Its difficulty rating on Jiten is average, 2.6 out of 5. The full vocabulary list ranks all 19,554 words by how often they appear, and you can study them on Jiten or download them as an Anki deck.
Vocabulary highlights
Here are some of the words that appear most often in this media, as well as a sample of its rarer vocabulary.
- 妖怪ghost×5,400
- 私I×1,825
- 君Mr×1,297
- 俺I×1,286
- 言うto say×1,238
- 今日today×1,117
- 出るto leave×786
- 今now×614
- 食べるto eat×544
- 思うto think×535
- 俺っちwe×525
- 僕I×491
- 不祥disgraceful×202
- ＵＳＡUnited States of America×80
- 冒険家adventurer×76
- ２世nisei×76
- 天野Amano×72
- 河童kappa×63
- 取り憑かれるto be possessed (by a spirit, demon, etc.)×57
- 矢良Yaryō×56