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Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!

2015 Japanese anime film directed by Shinji Ushiro Shigeharu Takahashi

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Source revisionSep 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ21329154 ↗
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Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan! is a 2015 Japanese animated fantasy adventure film directed by Shigeharu Takahashi and Shinji Ushiro. It is the second film in the Yo-kai Watch film series, following the 2014 film Yo-kai Watch: The Movie. It was released on December 19, 2015. It was followed by Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!, which released on December 17, 2016.

Plot

Nate, Whisper, Jibanyan, Hailey, USApyon, and the many Yo-kai they have encountered embark on five adventures that all end up tied together in the end.

Episode 1: Nate turns into a Yo-kai (エピソード1:妖怪になったケータ, Episōdo 1: Yōkai ni Natta Kēta)

On his way to school, Nate unexpectedly and mysteriously falls into a manhole, dies and becomes the Yo-kai Fuu 2, so he becomes friends with a kid, who's the opposite of him, has trouble with his grades at school, and wishes to become a comic artist.

Episode 2: Jibanyan's Brilliant Strategy (エピソード2:ジバニャンの華麗なる作戦, Episōdo 2: Jibanyan no Kareinaru Sakusen)

Jibanyan, Shogunyan, and Robonyan F-Type are mysteriously flung 8 years into the future, where Jibanyan helps Amy (his former owner before becoming a Yo-kai) at her new job.

Episode 3: Komasan Returns Home (エピソード3:コマさん 家に帰る, Episōdo 3: Komasan Ie ni Kaeru)

Komasan and Komajiro return home and discover that their mother has had a third child named Komasaburō, But much to their shock, Komasaburō is a human infant.

Episode 4: USApyon's Merry Christmas (エピソード4:USAピョンのメリークリスマス, Episōdo 4: USApyon no Merī Kurisumasu)

USApyon is chosen to be Santa Claus this year by the Yo-kai Committee, so he and Hailey go throughout town to hand out gifts, but they come across a boy who does not want one, and instead, he wants his mom cured at the hospital.

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The public source identifies “Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!” as 2015 Japanese anime film directed by Shinji Ushiro Shigeharu Takahashi. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yo-kai, Watch and Enma.

Editorial reviewA productive route into publication, performance and collection histories when the underlying object or edition remains clearly identified. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2015, 2014, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2015-12-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yo-kai, Watch and Enma providing the first useful test.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21329154. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2015, 2014 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.