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Yo-kai Watch Shadowside the Movie: The Return of the Oni King (Japanese: 映画 妖怪ウォッチ シャドウサイド 鬼王の復活 Eiga Yōkai Wotchi Shadō Saido: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu), officially known in Japan as Yo-kai Watch Shadowside the Movie: Wrath of the Demon King[1] is the fourth theatrical film in the Yo-kai Watch franchise. It was released theatrically in Japan on December 16, 2017.

The plot of this movie takes place 30 years after the original series. When a meteor is about to approach Earth, Summer Adams, Cole and Bruno meet up with each other and work together to stop the Onimaro invasion with the power of a new Yo-kai Watch and Yo-kai that can change between Lightside and Shadowside forms.

The film itself serves as the prologue to the Yo-kai Watch Shadowside anime, which premiered a few months after the movie's theatrical debut in Japan.

Blurb[]

"There used to be a boy who could control Yo-kai with a mysterious watch. However, he became unable to see Yo-kai when he became an adult. With the boy's duties finished, the watch was buried away in space-time. Then 30 years later, quiet everyday life comes to an end as a fateful day beging with a comet drawing near. The terrible Yo-kai virus Onimaro infects people's malevolent intentions and spreads infinitely. The one chosen by the Yo-kai Watch is the one who can save humanity from its crisis. The bond between humans and Yo-kai may be recovered with the attainment of a new Yo-kai Watch."

Plot[]

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At the beginning, an imagining voice explains that there was once a boy that could see Yo-kai, and fulfill their deeds. As that boy grew up into an adult, he lost the ability to see Yo-kai, thus causing his Yo-kai Watch to be cast away into oblivion due to its existence threatening to disturb the balance between human and Yo-kai worlds. Over time, the story about a boy that could see Yo-kai became nothing but a legend, but something started to take place thirty years into the future.

A boy named Cole wakes up and looks at the text message at his phone, where he feels depressed because his parents aren't able to come home due to their busy working lives. While Cole gets up, he turns on the television, which is of a news report related to an approaching meteorite. As the news further explains the information about the incoming disaster, Cole walks out of his house, without suspecting some Onimaro following him.

Meanwhile, a girl named Summer Adams is worried about being late for school and tries to get there as fast as she could. When she approaches the bridge, she notices a group of people and a child drowning in the riverbank. Despite the man warning him (then being inspirited by the Onimaro), Summer decides to save the child from drowning and manages to bring them back to dry land.

As she makes her way to school, she gets a flashback about being drowned, but then being saved by a mysterious force. At first, she wondered that it was a hallucination, but it was what inspired her to save other people from drowning. Suddenly, one of her friends Saki notices that Summer is covered in water, who responds by saying she is late for school and would prefer to walk than to take the bus. Summer notices Cole, but walks away from him.

While another boy named Bruno is on his way to school, he notices the huge meteor approaching and rushes back to his home warn his grandmother about it. When his grandmother notices it, she realizes that the threat is worse than imagined and says that it is the result of an Onimaro invasion. Bruno asks what they are, but doesn't know about it and his grandmother says that the invasion will cause doom to be brought upon the world.

When Cole arrives at school he decides not to attend it, while as Summer changes her clothes at the gym lockers she suddenly realizes something about Cole. Back at Bruno's residence, his grandmother further explains about the Onimaro virus, which requires a Yo-kai Watch to stop them. She explains that the Yo-kai Watch was destroyed by the rulers of the Yo-kai World, and it's now nearly impossible to obtain one. Bruno thinks that this information wouldn't be useful, but his grandmother goes on to explain that a different kind of Yo-kai Watch exists, which was created in ancient times. His grandmother gives him a Yo-kai Radar, and rushes out of the house in hope of finding the Yo-kai Watch.

At the Enma Palace in the Yo-kai World, Lord Ananta, the new ruler of the Enma Clan, is annoyed at the lack of visitors and appreciation for him. It also reveals that the previous ruler, Lord Enma is locked inside a cell. A spirit, who is actually Zazel, explains to him about the Onimaro invasion, and Enma replies that they came too early and is worried about the fate of the Yo-kai World. After claiming that all of the Yo-kai Watches were destroyed, Enma explains the existence of the Yo-kai Watch Arcane, which was created by the Genyou tribe a long time ago, and is said to contain bigger power than the other Yo-kai Watches. After asking where it could be located, Enma says that they have it, but the owner of it hasn't been found.

Back in the human world, Cole walks to a video game arcade, while some of the Onimaro follow him. A group of delinquents bump into him by accident and Cole apologizes for it. They suddenly take note of Cole's quiet personality and makes fun of him. After Cole asked them that he was going to get mugged, he is escorted to an alleyway, gets beaten up by them and has his money stolen.

Cole starts to get angry and threatens the delinquents silently, making the Onimaro proud of him and inspirited by them. He suddenly gains power, grabbing one of the delinquents and throwing them onto the garbage bags. The rest try to fight him, but they get thrown around from Cole's newfound strength. When one of the delinquents try to attack him with a pipe, Cole suddenly grows a muscular arm and throws him again, causing them to flee. When the Onimaro inside him question if he liked that strength, they suddenly come out and show themselves in front of Cole.

The Onimaro themselves offer a deal where they give him a share of their power, assuming that Cole liked what he felt then. The Onimaro are proud of Cole's strength, while one of them says that he should make everyone around him exist, whereas Cole realizes that his existence to others has been oblivious throughout his whole life. Cole reluctantly accepts the deal, where the Onimaro suddenly summon the Onimaro Leader and their power is forced into his body, despite feeling startled and scared. Despite having to endure the strength from other Onimaro around him, Cole suddenly takes full advantage of his newfound power and faces himself with a muscular delinquent whom is also inspirited by the Onimaro.

In the meantime, Bruno and his grandmother search for the Yo-kai Watch with the radar in a suburban neighborhood. Bruno asks what the Onimaro are like, where his grandmother exaggerates that they're dangerous and then formally explains that they are like a virus, multiplying when they infect innocent human beings and impossible to prevent once they spread. Bruno asks where Onimaro originated from, while his grandmother further explained that they come from the sky after thousands of years, and they are of extraterrestrial Yo-kai. She also says that they eat up the human's heart, where their animosity builds up until their death and does crime-inducing acts.

While Cole fights the inspirited delinquent, he suddenly gains the upper hand by punching him in the stomach with his muscular arm and finishes him off. The Onimaro praise Cole for his strength where the Onimaro Leader gives him a piece of equipment called the Kigan Gear, which gives him the ability to control other beings under his will. Cole tests the Kigan Gear on the delinquent he took out, and they suddenly obey him while the Onimaro Leader is happy that Cole is worthy of being their new leader.

The Onimaro Leader further assumes Cole that he doesn't like this world, how he doesn't have enough friends, and how he feels unseen towards everyone else. Cole asks the Onimaro Leader if it was the reason why the Onimaro chose him, and they respond that they did, because they noticed the darkness inside of his heart. The Onimaro Leader convinces Cole to build an army of his own with the Kigan Gear, so they can make the whole world aware of his existence. Cole starts to take advantage of this new power, turning the other innocent human beings into Onimaro.

Back at the Yo-kai World, Zazel manages to find a key to unlock the cell where Enma was imprisoned, who had already broken out of it. Enma orders Zazel to quickly stop the Onimaro invasion happening in the human world. When his mentor breaks the news of Enma escaping from the prison cell, Lord Ananta is annoyed at the unexpected situation, while his mentor is surprised that Enma manged to break out of there.

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Characters[]

Debuting Human Characters[]

Debuting Yo-kai[]

Recurring Humans[]

Recurring Yo-kai[]

Pre-release information[]

A fourth movie was first revealed by the staff behind Yo-kai Watch the Movie: The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Nyan!. Like other releases, they said would be released during the winter of 2017 and that they would reveal its release date and its title later on.

In July, 2017, the title and its release date sere revealed in CoroCoro Comic which features Lightside and Shadowside transformations of various Yo-kai.[2][3] It is revealed that they would have the ability to transform into "lightside" and "shadowside" forms. In these forms, Yo-kai show different personalities, abilities, and appearances. The magazine shows pictures of Jibanyan, Komasan, and Whisper in lightside and shadowside forms.[4] Akihiro Hino also described the film as a "completely new horror comedy", and would be much darker in tone than the previous films.[3]

The plotline of the story focuses on three new human characters. The first is Summer Adams, a 13-year-old Junior High School girl and also the daughter of Nathan Adams, who nearly drowned in a river when she was very young. She remembers "something" saving her from drowning. Second is Cole, a 13-year-old Junior High School boy whose parents are busy with work, so he is always alone and is mysteriously attracts Yo-kai. The last is Bruno, a Shaman-in-training and the oldest of the Arihoshi Siblings, whose family uses Yo-kai in fortune-telling for generations.[5]

Later in September 13, Level-5 officially announced the film to be a crossover with Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō manga series, and with the titular characters appearing in the film.[5] The film's second trailer was later released in October 2017.

Casting[]

Most of the cast from GeGeGe no Kitaro returned to reprise their roles in the film as well as some newcomers. Masako Nozawa will reprised her role again as Kitaro, 9 years after last voicing her character in the 2008 Anime Adaptation of the original Hakaba no Kitarō manga.[6] Other cast that appeared in the film are Yudai Chiba voicing Cole and Mone Kamishiraishi voicing Summer[5] while Takaya Kuroda and Daisuke Hirakawa voiced Jibanyan and Komasan respectively.[7]

Gallery[]

Main article: M04/Gallery

Logos[]

 
M04 Japanese logo
Japanese logo.
 
M04 Mandarin logo
Mandarin logo.
 
M04 Netflix logo
Netflix Taiwan English logo.

Production Art[]

 
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Production Art.

Posters[]

 
M04TeaserPoster
Teaser poster.
 
Yo-Kai Wtch Movie 4 Poster
Japanese M04 poster.
 
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside South Korea movie poster
South Korean M04 poster.
 
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside M04 Movie Poster Other Version
Alternative version of the poster

Video gallery[]

Trivia[]

Usapyon End Credits

Invader Mode Usapyon during the credits

  • This is the first Yo-kai Watch film:
    • To be a sequel to the original series, serving as a pilot to the Shadowside anime.
    • To focus on completely different main characters.
    • For Etsuko Kozakura and Aya Endō to not voice Jibanyan and Komasan receptively.
      • Excluding original series Jibanyan's voice that speaks during the end credits.
    • For Hovernyan to not make an appearance.
    • To not have "Da nyan!" at the end of the Japanese title.
    • To not have an Ichiban Kuji tie-in.
    • To have characters from another franchise.
  • Invader Mode Usapyon, Dame Dedtime, Narwail, Komajiro, and Noway all appear in the credits for as a callback to the other movies.
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside Movie Blood

Touma Tsukinami Fudou Raimeiken (M04)

  • This is also the first piece of Yo-kai Watch media to show blood, as Summer is injured when Oniou Rasen attempts to drown her.
  • Because of how Yo-kai Watch: Forever Friends has connections to this movie, it's most likely to served as the prologue to this movie, with the former, setting the elements of Yo-kai Watch Shadowside into place, and the latter being what happened 30 years afterwards.
  • This is the first and only Yo-kai Watch movie where the voice actors of the main characters got changed in other media.
  • When the movie was released in South Korea, a dubbed version of a Snack World short film screened with it in theaters.[8]
  • In the 2017 McDonald's Calendar released in late 2016, it listed a date for when a possible fourth movie would come out, which was December 17, 2016, one day before the actual film's premiere.[9]
  • Because of Jibanyan's personality in the Shadowside series, his respect is not easily earned. But after seeing Summer save a kitten from getting hit by a speeding truck, he quickly jumps in to save her.
    • This could be because she briefly reminded him of Amy during that scene.
  • Despite still having contact with Jibanyan, he does not seem to have any contact or any memory regarding Nate.
    • Although, he describes Tate as "someone familiar" in the second episode of the Shadowside series. Not knowing that he is, in fact, Nate's son.

In other languages[]

Language Name Meaning
Flag of Japan Japanese 映画 妖怪ウォッチ シャドウサイド 鬼王の復活
Flag of South Korea Korean 극장판 요괴워치 섀도사이드: 도깨비왕의 부활

References[]

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Yo-kai Watch Movies
Yo-kai Watch Yo-kai Watch: The MovieEnma-daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da-nyan!Soratobu Kujira to Daburu Sekai no Dai-bōken da-nyan!
Yo-kai Watch Shadowside Oni-ō no FukkatsuForever Friends
Yo-kai Watch Jam Y School Heroes Movie
Yo-kai Watch♪ Keita Tōrecchi no Deaihen da nyan♪ Wa, WatakushimoJibanyan VS Komasan Mongee Daikessen da Nyan
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