Youkai Watch hits because the comedy doesn't need a timer, you're five minutes into an episode and a yokai is already doing something absurd that makes zero sense until it makes perfect sense. The show trusts that kids and adults will laugh at the same gag for completely different reasons, and it never stops finding new ways to make a supernatural pest problem funny instead of scary. You're not watching a story unfold so much as you're watching Keita get progressively more exhausted by creatures that exist solely to make his day worse in the most ridiculous ways possible.

Elementary schooler Keita Amano is back at the center of this new season of Youkai Watch, a supernatural comedy that ran for 36 episodes in 2019. The story picks up right after the original season ends. In the franchise timeline it still comes before the events of Shadow Side, which is set thirty years later. The tone leans toward lighthearted, comedic fun with a supernatural twist.