Lizstar

Gay Murr Girl

Liz, Goblin, Part-Time Shark, VTuber, retired speedrunner, author, GDQ staff, Sega fan, "Yuri Sommelier", Walking Encyclopedia of All Things Useless, Twitch partner, general menace. Says "Murr" a lot. This is not a place of honor, views my own, etc. Avatar art by me.


Today I was informed that there's an America-themed region of Yokai Watch. If you don't know what Yo-Kai Watch is, it's a yokai-themed Pokemon style game. How do you do that for America, we have no yokai. Well like, I guess the logical thing would be to make them like, based on cryptids? Moth Man, Jersey Devil, Big Foot, some little grey men?

Uh, no.

They did not do that.


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This is Chicken Chukket. It is a child that is a chicken nugget who throws baseballs.

This region in Japan is just called USA. Uh, when they translated it for Western Audiences, it became known as "BBQ". It's the BBQ region.

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Here's Punching Baguette. He is a baguette with boxing gloves. He is part of the charming tribe. I can't imagine a more proper tribe for him.

In Yo-Kai Watch, there are "Fusion Items", which are basically evolution stones from Pokemon. Y'know, a Thunder Stone evolves Raichu. So what evolves 'Murican Yo-Kai?

It is an item called "Starry Spangles", and it is a bag of corn meal that is red white and blue.

You can use it to evolve such Yo-Kai as this charming friend.

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Say hi to Supersize Gramps! He is heartful. I bet.

This is all on the fandom wiki and I'mma be honest, I would straight up assume this is bullshit someone made up (really funny bullshit, but bullshit) if it weren't for the really high quality art.

Also keep in mind that like, in the lore of this universe, these are once living people who died and became spirits.

Okay, one more for the road.

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Here's Oh Bah Gah!. He is a screaming hamburger. You too can become a screaming hamburger when you die!

I can't believe Yo-Kai watch is better than Pokemon.


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in reply to @Lizstar's post:

This is exactly the kind of bull shit teenage me would’ve turned my nose at. Now that I’m a ‘mature’ adult I can appreciate this nonsense for the absolutely hilarious content it is.

Man, the world really slept hard on Yokai Watch. :(

"Oh Bah Gah!" is something fucking beautiful, it is literally the Japanese name but with a romanization that suggests "oh my god!"

giving me flashbacks to the original NES Ninja Gaiden and its "Jaquio" (邪鬼王)