Yo Pokemon Watch!?

[Norleas]

Yo-Kai Watch is store brand Pokemon

[WubstahWulf]

Yo-Kai Watch is store brand Pokemon

Yo-kai is huge in Japan the games are also pretty cool its diffrnt from pokemon but yet kinda similar but its difintily not compareable with a store brand lol

[Welsper59]

Yo-kai is huge in Japan the games are also pretty cool its diffrnt from pokemon but yet kinda similar but its difintily not compareable with a store brand lol

Reworked ideas like that being big in Japan is common for them, but not for western audiences... despite some rather blatantly reused ideas being marketed. Consumers do like products that are familiar, but take a new spin on things, which people generally won't see from the outside without experiencing it themselves. It's funny because this promotion is clearly intended for the Japanese audience, rather than any western one, but being who we are, the grand majority of us will forever fail to realize that.

[Lambdafish]

It's funny because this promotion is clearly intended for the Japanese audience, rather than any western one, but being who we are, the grand majority of us will forever fail to realize that.

I wouldn't go that far, I'd say that it has helped the brand be recognised more in the west, as it is much less well known over here. It could be primarily for the Japanese audience, but the choice to spread it worldwide is definitely intentional

[AskaRay]

It's funny because this promotion is clearly intended for the Japanese audience, rather than any western one, but being who we are, the grand majority of us will forever fail to realize that.

The anime got an English dub...that's saying more than like, every Precure season ever (leave me alone).
There are tons of mon collection games, Pokemon is just THE BIG ONE. Pokemon didn't even start the genre; it's existed since the early 90s, late 80s.

HONESTLY....and this is my bias showing.... anything involving youkai I'm thankful they acknowledge even exist outside Japan. Do you know how hard it is to get good localization of things involving Japanese myth and folklore?? So this promotion: fantastic I love it please more
Not easy.