Youkai Watch Movie 6: Youkai Gakuen Y - Neko wa Hero ni Nareru ka

[NOTE: This movie is a prequel, and takes place right before episode 2 of the anime!]

As per usual, I enjoyed the movie. There were only certain gripes I had with it, which usually seems to be the same case of “fart and poop jokes = funny lol”. When firstly, it’s just unnecessary. And secondly, even though this is made for a younger demographic, they could at least TRY to think about the older people watching too for once.

In the final battle of the movie where the school turns into a robot, and fights a sentient meteor monster, there was a scene where the ground caught ... on fire, and they needed to put it out. What better way to do that than a fire extinguisher, right? But the extinguisher was built into a small pipe in the lower waist area of the robot, where it looked like it had a full on penis, and then proceeded to pee the extinguisher out all over the damn ground..

I *usually* smile and just shake my head at these sorts of jokes, but like.. damn man. Every single time I’ve seen a Yokai Watch movie so far, there has been at least one or two fart / poop jokes in it. For no reason at all.

Not to mention, after Jiba saves Emma from inside the robot (she was stuck in some part of the school and couldn’t get out), they had to “go to the entrance” to escape. Now, somehow I instantly knew where this was gonna go, and my intuition ended up being correct. The robot had to take a massive dump for them to escape through the backdoor.
It even had a little scene of the robot blushing as he let everything out. Like.. why bro??

Anyways.. uh

Enough about my annoyances though, I definitely do think the movie was good. It’s very cool. I love the Y-Hero transformations (especially Jiba’s) and their ultimate moves so much. I thought all of that stuff was extremely cool.

The animation was pretty good as well. It’s very nice to see that, even in recent times, Yo-Kai Watch hasn’t lost budget or dwindled on how good they animate their show + films. Even the CGI Robot School looked good.

I think that’s about everything I had to say. If you do wanna watch the movie, you’ll have to view the same subpar english fansub someone made of it as I did so that you can even understand it. And that’s if you even want to attempt that after reading the top part of my review, lol.

Would’ve rated it a 9 if it wasn’t for the doodoo humor. Still cool nonetheless.