Yo-Kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daiboken da Nyan!, also known as Yo-kai Watch the Movie: A Whale of Two Worlds, is a 2016 Japanese animated/live action fantasy adventure film and the third film in the Yo-kai Watch film series, following the 2015 film Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!. It was released in Japan by Toho on December 17, 2016. It was followed by Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu, which released on December 16, 2017.
Plot
A whale flies over Sakura New Town (Springdale in most English-language releases of the series) and makes a whale noise that engulfs the city in a rainbow light, suddenly turning everything, including Keita Amano (Nathan "Nate" Adams in most English-language releases of the series) and his Yo-kai, live-action. While trying to solve this weird mystery, it is later revealed to be the work of a Yo-kai Keita decides to call "Koalanyan".
Cast
Voice cast
- Haruka Tomatsu/Ryōka Minamide as Keita Amano
- Tomokazu Seki as Whisper
- Etsuko Kozakura as Jibanyan and Bushinyan
- Yūki Kaji as Hovernyan
- Kotori Shigemoto as USApyon
- Aya Endō as Komasan and Komajiro
- Naoki Bandō as Robonyan F and Ultimate Robonyan
- Yuko Sasamoto as Orochi and Hikari Orochi
- Ryoko Nagata as Kyubi and Yami Kyubi
Live-action cast
- Minami Hamabe as Kanami Minami
- Kento Yamazaki as Lord Enma
- Takumi Saito as Nurarihyon
- Emi Takei as Sae Kinoshita
- Yuna Watanabe as Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama
- Yū Sawabe as Gorōta "Kuma" Kumashima
- Raza Fukuda as Kanchi Imada
- Yoko Mitsuya as Keita's mother
- Shigeyuki Totsugi as Keita's father
- Kenichi Endō as Jinmenken
- Kokoa Ishii (now Kokoa Amano) as Inaho Misora
Reception
On its opening weekend in Japan, the film was number-one in admissions, with 545,211, and number-two in gross, with ¥608 million (US$5.2 million). By January 11, the film earned ¥2 billion (US$17.43 million) and tops on number-one from the previous number-five.
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