Why Yo-kai Watch will never be "The Next Pokemon" in the West - Opinion

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Yo-Kai Watch (2013)
Duration: 9:17
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Yo-kai Watch has often been dubbed "The Next Pokemon" in the media, but is it? Katy discusses the Japanese cultural barriers stopping Yo-kai Watch becoming the phenomenal succcess that Pokemon was in '90s/00s in the West and looks at the origins of the Yo-kai themselves.

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Intro song - Gaur Plains 8-bit: http://bit.ly/1zGLKQN
Ending song - Littleroot 8-bit: http://bit.ly/1LFhJ3N



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