Yo-kai Watch is a children's anime series based on the video game of the same name developed by Level-5. The anime was broadcast from January 8, 2014, to March 30, 2018, on TXN and related stations. An English dub, produced by Dentsu Entertainment USA, started airing on the Disney XD channel in the United States on October 5, 2015, after the series is officially canceled with never airing the new episodes, due to the low ratings. Canada's Teletoon and Disney XD (Canadian TV channel) on October 10, 2015, and 9Go! in Australia on December 14, 2015. Episodes are split into multiple parts. In Indonesia, this anime also aired by Indosiar in 2016, and RTV (Indonesian TV network) start airing on March 18, 2021. Its first opening theme through episode 36 was performed by , with lyrics written by m.o.v.e's vocalist motsu. An English version of the song was used for the dub, written by Mark Risley & David H. Steinberg, and performed by Peter Michail & Kathryn Lynn, but was replaced by "Yo-Kai Watch featuring Swampy Marsh" by Jeff "Swampy" Marsh & Dan Povenmire. The ending theme up through episode 24 (episode 35 in the English dub) is performed by Dream5 (Melissa Hutchison and Alicyn Packard perform the English version). Beginning with episode 25 (episode 36 in the English dub), the ending theme changed to performed by Dream5 and Bully-taichō (Hutchinson, Packard, & Brent Pendergrass for the English version). Episode 37's opening theme was and episode 38's was , both by King Cream Soda, and have alternated until they were replaced. Episodes 48 and 49 used a unique ending theme by , both King Cream Soda and Dream5 along with Lucky Ikeda. In episode 51, the ending theme changed to performed by an AKB48 subgroup named NyaKB with Pandanoko. The opening theme changed again in episode 63 to King Cream Soda's . The ending theme changed in episode 68 to by Dream5. Both the opening and ending themes were changed in episode 77, to mark the beginning of the "second season." The opening theme became by King Cream Soda and the ending theme became by (Gabriel Brown, Michelle Creber, & Rebecca Soichet for the English version). In episode 102, the opening theme became by King Cream Soda and the ending theme became by Kotori with Stitchbird. In episode 130, the opening theme became "You Got a Otomodachi" by King Cream