Yo-Kai Watch♪ Keita to Orecchi no deai hen nyan♪ Wa, Watakushimo～♪♪

The hit franchise Yo-Kai Watch is back on the big screen with a compilation film starring the stars of our favorite show airing on TV Tokyo every Friday night. Who's up for some flashbacks on how the show began as well as who is Jibanyan?

Yo-Kai Watch♪
Keita to Orecchi no deai hen nyan♪
Wa, Watakushimo～♪♪

The Yo-Kai Watch compilation film features how the show began as well as the secret origin of Jibanyan, plus a special 4-Komasan segment to pass the time.

Centered on the pilot episode and the 25th episode of the original Yo-Kai Watch TV anime series aired about seven years ago, fans and newcomers of the franchise will relive the beginning of the show where young boy Keita (Nate) made a fateful encounter with a Yo-Kai butler named Whisper and granted with a mysterious device called, you guessed it, Yo-Kai Watch!

After seeing Nate saying hello to Jibanyan, fans can also relive Jibanyan's secret origins. What's that, you may ask? Well, when Jibanyan was just a living cat under Amy's care, the two shared a special kind of bond until a fateful accident caused his demise, and yes, the cat who died protecting Amy became the Yo-Kai everybody knows. Case closed.

This compilation film saw the beginning of Nate's misery as well as Jibanyan's origins fully remasted in 4K, giving fans and newcomers a fresh new take on the iconic franchise and that's all we really know.

Now that's flashbacks on how the Yo-Kai Watch story began.