Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: The Return of the Oni King (2017)

映画 妖怪ウォッチ シャドウサイド 鬼王の復活

When a meteor is about to approach Earth, Summer Adams, Cole and Bruno meet up 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.

Date of release
2017-12-17
TMDB
6.9 / 10 (10)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Animation, Family, Fantasy, Adventure
Director
Shinji Ushiro
Collection
Yo-kai Watch Collection

Casting

Interesting facts

Yo-kai Watch Shadowside Oni-o no Fukkatsu is a 2017 supernatural anime film produced by OLM, Inc. and distributed by Toho. It is the fourth film in the Yo-kai Watch film series, following the 2016 film Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!, and features characters from Shigeru Mizuki's GeGeGe no Kitarō manga. It is directed by Shinji Ushiro and written by Yoichi Kato, with Level-5 president Akihiro Hino overseeing the production and script. It was released on Japanese theaters on December 16, 2017, and on DVD on July 4, 2018.

Production

First announced on the screening of Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan! greeting event on December 4, 2016. The film was first revealed in the July Issue of Shogakukan's CoroCoro Comic magazine, which also revealed the new Lightside and Shadowside forms of the Yo-kai featured in the film. The film's official plot and characters were revealed in the official movie website alongside the staff working on the movie.

In later announcements for the film, the voice actors for the two main characters were revealed, with Yudai Chiba voicing Touma and Mone Kamishiraishi voicing Natsume. In October 27, the main movie website was updated, revealing more voice actors who would reprise their roles in the film. However, Takaya Kuroda and Daisuke Hirakawa were revealed to be the new voices of Jibanyan and Komasan, replacing Etsuko Kozakura and Aya Endō respectively.

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