Shadowside And Why It Can’t Be Canon
I wouldn’t be so against Shadowside if the conditions of it’s happening ACTUALLY MADE SENSE.
Hear me out; apparently Nate can’t see the Yo-kai anymore because he grew up, right? But there are PLENTY adults in both anime and games that can see Yo-kai? Nate’s Grandma for one, with the marble in her glasses.
Not to mention, THIS GUY
The American, Jerry. He’s not the brightest, but HE IS ABLE TO USE NATE’S OLD YOKAI WATCH
Clearly an adult, clearly using a Yo-kai Watch, CLEARLY able to SEE and INTERACT WITH Yo-kai.
So, no, I don’t hate shadowside. The idea actually looks pretty cool. But why can’t you do it with Nate? Give him a consistent personality, have him hang out and have adventures with the other Watch Holders (we never found out what happened to Yuuto after the second movie). At least give a plausible reason for Nate to have forgotten about Yo-kai, or have him secretly help his kids on their adventures. Don’t use half-baked excuses to justify a reboot and change main characters bc you just couldn’t be bothered with the “average” you currently have.
UPDATE: The marble that Nate’s grandma uses to see Yo-kai is used in the Yo-kai Watch. It’s in the design.
(Couldn’t find the english translation, in which it says “marble” instead of “esfera”. It’s the same thing anyways)
So even as an adult the Watch’s function to see Yo-kai should still work, so it isn’t like the watch suddenly stopped working for him. (It shouldn’t if the canon continuity, y'know, actually made sense.)
