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50 free Yo-kai Watch trivia questions with answers — trivia quiz, new questions added Oct 2026.
Yo-kai Watch began as a role-playing game about a boy who can suddenly see the mischievous spirits behind everyday annoyances, and it grew into one of Japan's biggest children's crazes of the 2010s. Games, an anime, films, manga and toys all followed, and for a while the series outsold almost everything around it. This quiz follows the whole story. Expect questions on Jibanyan, Komasan, Usapyon and the humans who befriend them, on the plots and battle systems of Yo-kai Watch, Yo-kai Watch 2 and Yo-kai Watch 3, on the Blasters spin-off, and on the people and companies that made the series. It suits fans who finished the games years ago and newcomers arriving through the anime alike. Every answer comes with a short explanation, so a wrong guess still teaches you something about Springdale and its ghosts.
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Q 01Which ghostly Yo-kai butler gives Nate the Yo-kai Watch after being freed from a capsule machine?
Whisper
Whisper appoints himself Nate's butler and poses as a Yo-kai expert, yet he secretly looks nearly everything up on a tablet called the Yo-kai Pad.
Q 02Yo-kai Watch mascot Jibanyan became a ghost cat after being hit by which vehicle at an intersection?
A truck
A truck ended his life as a pet cat, so Jibanyan now haunts that intersection and picks fights with passing traffic to prove his strength.
Q 03Which rival monster franchise did the Yo-kai Watch anime overtake in Japanese TV rankings in 2014?
Pokémon
Pokémon slipped behind it in the ratings, and the press dubbed Yo-kai Watch a 'Killer' of the older series as shipments of the first game leapt past 500,000.
Q 04Which sweet treat does Komasan fall in love with after leaving the countryside for the city in Yo-kai Watch?
Soft serve ice cream
Soft serve ice cream wins him over as he struggles with city life, having left home when the shrine he looked after was knocked down for construction.
Q 05In Yo-kai Watch, what does a befriended Yo-kai hand over so that Nate can summon it later?
A Yo-kai Medal
A Yo-kai Medal is the token of friendship, and Nate uses his collection to call Yo-kai to fight, win over others or solve everyday problems.
Q 06Which Hollywood comedy franchise does the spin-off Yo-kai Watch Blasters spoof, right down to its Japanese title?
Ghostbusters
Ghostbusters is the target of the parody: the game is called Yo-kai Watch Busters in Japan, and its heroes work out of a red firehouse complete with a firepole.
Q 07In Yo-kai Watch 2, two Yo-kai armies have been at war for centuries after an argument over what?
Donut fillings
Donut fillings set the Bony Spirits against the Fleshy Souls, and many of the soldiers on the battlefield turn out to be Wicked Yo-kai in disguise.
Q 08Usapyon of Yo-kai Watch wears a rabbit-eared space suit, but which animal was he when he was alive?
An otter
An otter is what he was: a rocket scientist's pet being readied to fly into space, who died in a rocket accident he set off himself.
Q 09Which American TV channel premiered the English dub of the Yo-kai Watch anime in October 2015?
Disney XD
Disney XD carried the dub a month before the first game reached North American shops, and later dropped the show as its ratings declined.
Q 10Before Yo-kai Watch, its developer Level-5 was best known for which series of puzzle adventure games?
Professor Layton
Professor Layton made the studio's name, with 15 million copies sold across six titles by 2013, the year Yo-kai Watch launched in Japan.
Q 11In Yo-kai Watch, which younger brother of Komasan adapts to city life far more easily than he does?
Komajiro
Komajiro is the outgoing sibling, and his name fits him: jiro is a traditional Japanese name element for a family's second-born son.
Q 12In Yo-kai Watch, Jibanyan wrongly believes that which teenage owner called him lame for dying?
Amy
Amy was really scolding herself: a trip into the past shows Jibanyan that he died pushing her out of danger as she crossed the road.
Q 13In the Yo-kai Watch games, what do players feed coins into for a random Yo-kai or item?
Crank-a-kai
Crank-a-kai machines take in-game coins or the 3DS system's own Play Coins, and a lucky turn of the handle pays out a rare Yo-kai.
Q 21Which leader of the Wicked Yo-kai is the main villain of Yo-kai Watch 2, plotting to remake the future?
Dame Dedtime
Dame Dedtime seems unbeatable at first because her henchmen keep rewinding the clock, and once beaten she transforms into the stronger Dame Demona.
Q 22Which town, home to the hero's grandmother, is added as a new area in Yo-kai Watch 2?
Harrisville
Harrisville is where the hero, lured there under hypnosis by a giant cat Yo-kai, first stumbles on the feud between the Bony Spirits and the Fleshy Souls.
Q 23Which cat Yo-kai from the past carries the hero back 60 years in Yo-kai Watch 2 and its film version?
Hovernyan
Q 14What do the Yo-kai Watch games call the powerful signature move that every Yo-kai can charge up in battle?
Soultimate
Soultimate moves can heal or strengthen allies as well as attack, and Yo-kai Watch 2 added stronger versions that drain the Soul meters of neighbouring Yo-kai.
Q 15Which sci-fi-loving girl does Usapyon trick into buying a Yo-kai Watch so she can help build his rocket?
Hailey Anne
Hailey Anne is a self-proclaimed otaku who adores outer space, and she joined the series as a second lead in Yo-kai Watch 3 and the anime's second season.
Q 16Which third version of Yo-kai Watch 2 followed Bony Spirits and Fleshy Souls with extra characters and scenarios?
Psychic Specters
Psychic Specters arrived in Japan in December 2014 to coincide with the first Yo-kai Watch film, and it sold over 2.6 million copies there within six months.
Q 17In Yo-kai Watch, which nightmare event has players hunt treasure chests while a powerful Oni chases them?
Terror Time
Terror Time drops the player into a dream realm full of patrolling Yo-kai, where being spotted sets off a chase by an Oni strong enough to wipe out most teams.
Q 18Yo-kai Watch 3 first went on sale in Japan in two versions named Sushi and which other dish?
Tempura
Tempura was the partner version, with the cat Yo-kai Tomnyan on its box, while Sukiyaki arrived five months later as an enhanced third edition.
Q 19Bandai made Yo-kai Watch toys for Japan, but which company sold them under licence in the Americas and Europe?
Hasbro
Hasbro took the Western licence after a craze in Japan so intense that shoppers entered lotteries for the chance to buy a toy watch.
Q 20In Yo-kai Watch 2, a journey 60 years into the past reveals that which person invented the Yo-kai Watch?
The hero's grandfather
The hero's grandfather drew up the plans as a boy, and the player helps his younger self by gathering the parts for his first working prototype.
Hovernyan first appears as the huge Meganyan, a form he swelled into by absorbing soul energy over six decades.
Q 24Which pair of Wicked Yo-kai steal the Yo-kai Watch and erase the hero's memories at the start of Yo-kai Watch 2?
Kin and Gin
Kin and Gin can manipulate the clock, and they later make Jibanyan relive his last day as a pet in a failed attempt to tempt him into changing history.
Q 25In Yo-kai Watch 2, which older version of the watch lets players poke enemy Yo-kai to find a sweet spot?
Model Zero
Model Zero is pieced together during the trip to the past, and a well-aimed poke with it can raise the odds of befriending a Yo-kai or win extra money.
Q 26What are the American-themed Yo-kai that Nate meets once his family settles in BBQ in Yo-kai Watch 3 called?
'Merican Yo-kai
'Merican Yo-kai include Tomnyan, a cat modelled on Jibanyan, and the English script swaps the original language barrier for a thick southern drawl.
Q 27Yo-kai Watch 3 dropped the rotating wheel used in earlier battles and placed the player's Yo-kai on what instead?
A three-by-three grid
A three-by-three grid called the Tactics Board lets players slide Yo-kai around mid-fight, either to dodge an incoming attack or to line up a stronger one.
Q 28Yo-kai Watch Blasters was sold in two versions: Red Cat Corps and which other team?
White Dog Squad
White Dog Squad shipped alongside it, and the free Moon Rabbit Crew update reached Western players only twenty days after the two games launched there.
Q 29Every playable Yo-kai in Yo-kai Watch Blasters fills one of four roles: Fighter, Tank, Healer and which other?
Ranger
Ranger Yo-kai back up their teammates by weakening enemies while still dealing damage, a mix that sets them apart from the pure attackers.
Q 30Which powerful Yo-kai blackmails the hero into entering a construction site at night in the first Yo-kai Watch game?
Kyubi
Kyubi is steering the hero toward the real troublemaker on the site, Massiface, and he turns up in the anime too, trying in vain to win Katie's heart.