{"id":132089,"date":"2023-02-26T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-26T07:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-145714"},"modified":"2023-02-26T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2023-02-26T07:45:00","slug":"level-5-ceo-teases-whats-next-for-yo-kai-watch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/26\/level-5-ceo-teases-whats-next-for-yo-kai-watch\/","title":{"rendered":"Level-5 CEO Teases What&#8217;s Next For Yo-Kai Watch"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75d2910e56024\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75d2910e56024\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture\"><a class=\"scanlines\" title=\"Yo-Kai Watch 4\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75d2910e56024\/yo-kai-watch-4.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/75d2910e56024\/yo-kai-watch-4.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Yo-Kai Watch 4\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em class=\"credit\">Image: Level-5<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Level-5 made quite the comeback at the most recent Nintendo Direct &#8211; announcing a new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/professor_layton_and_the_new_world_of_steam\">Professor Layton<\/a> and much more. One notable omission was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/3ds\/yo-kai_watch\">Yo-kai Watch<\/a> series. There&#8217;s no need to worry though, as the Japanese developer seems to already be preparing something&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a brief message on social media, Level-5 CEO Akihiro Hino mentioned how Level-5 is working on &#8220;the next amazing thing&#8221; in the Yo-kai Watch world (<a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.siliconera.com\/yo-kai-watch-anime-goes-on-hiatus-level-5-teases-whats-next\/\">thanks, Siliconera<\/a>), despite the fact the Yo-kai Watch anime is taking a break.<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, there&#8217;s also an image of a pink cat-like character attached to the tweet. Hino didn&#8217;t elaborate on what exactly the company&#8217;s next Yo-kai Watch project will be but has asked fans of the series to be patient &#8220;for a short while&#8221; until a formal announcement is made.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\"><!-- cache: oembed\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/akihirohino\/statuses\/1629074915466055680 @ 2023-02-26T22:17:53+00:00 --><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p><span lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u30c6\u30ec\u30d3\u306e\u5996\u602a\u30a6\u30a9\u30c3\u30c1\u306f\u3044\u3063\u305f\u3093\u304a\u4f11\u307f\u3057\u307e\u3059\u304c\u3001\u5996\u602a\u30a6\u30a9\u30c3\u30c1\u306e\u6d41\u308c\u3092\u304f\u3080\u3001\u6b21\u306a\u308b\u3059\u3052\u3048\u306e\u3092\u8003\u3048\u3066\u3044\u308b\u306e\u3067\u3001\u5996\u602a\u597d\u304d\u306a\u4eba\u306f\u3061\u3087\u3063\u3068\u5f85\u3063\u3066\u3066\uff01 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DWZ4kRWJjG\">pic.twitter.com\/DWZ4kRWJjG<\/a><\/span>\u2014 \u65e5\u91ce\u6643\u535a (@AkihiroHino) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AkihiroHino\/status\/1629074915466055680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">February 24, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Earlier this week, Level-5 announced &#8216;Vision 2023&#8217; &#8211; a livestream event featuring all of the developer&#8217;s upcoming games featured at the Direct. The Yo-kai Watch series wasn&#8217;t referenced, but maybe there&#8217;s a surprise in store. The Switch has previously played host to a few Yo-kai games including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/yo-kai_watch_4\">Yo-kai Watch 4<\/a> and the <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/07\/level-5_is_releasing_the_original_yo-kai_watch_game_on_nintendo_switch\">original title<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!-- cache: html:nintendolife.com\/ssl\/related-articles:145445 @ 2023-02-26T22:57:57+00:00 --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"block object-related\"> <\/aside>\n<p><em>Have you played Yo-kai Watch? Would you be interested in more gaming entries? Comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Level-5 Level-5 made quite the comeback at the most recent Nintendo Direct &#8211; announcing a new Professor Layton and much more. One notable omission was the Yo-kai Watch series. There&#8217;s no need to worry though, as the Japanese developer seems to already be preparing something&#8230; In a brief message on social media, Level-5 CEO [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132089"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}