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00:21, 3 August 2016 {{Episode Infobox
|image={{#ev:youtube|xI2TBeZ5Fss|350}}
|Season=1
|Number=31
|English titles="Yo-kai Journey to the West"
|Japanese titles=-
|Original air date=-
|English air date=-
|Channel=Disney XD
|Previous=[[Yo-kai Watch Episode 30]]
|Next=[[Yo-kai Watch Episode 32]]
|Discussion=-
}}
[[Yo-kai Watch Episode 1]] is an episode of [[Yo-kai Watch Anime]]. It consists of [[#Yo-Kai Are Real!|Yo-Kai Are Real!]] and [[#The Spooky Intersection|The Spooky Intersection]] stories.
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== "Yo-kai Journey to the West" ==
This episode begins with an introduction by [[Whisper]] of the critically acclaimed
yo-kai director [[Mr. Movien]]. A creepy, humanoid yo-kai who wants to shoot a yo-kai
version of “Journey to the West.”
[[Nate]] wakes up in on the ground in ancient China wearing a special costume, and
Whisper is twisted into the shape of a cloud. They try to wake up from what must be a
dream but no luck. While the two are still getting their bearing, [[Jibanyan]] fall out of a
nearby bush wearing a pig nose. He is as confused as his friends are. The three of
them are all being panicked together when a disembodied voice shrieks for them to cut.
Mr. Movien follows the voice out of a portal in thin air himself followed by a small film
crew.
Mr. Movien cuts on the explanation of his director nature because his full title is
“genius movie director yo-kai,” and he demands to be addressed as such. Whisper goes
on to detail all the awards Mr. Movien wins every year and all the festivals where he’s
celebrated. Nate and Jibanyan want to ditch the movie, but Whisper tells them they
can’t all go home until the movie wraps and Mr. Movien lets them go. Since they’re all
playing along, they allow themselves to be directed by the genius movie director as he
explains all their roles. Nate has been cast as the Monkey King, Sun Wukong. Jibanyan
is playing the role of Zhu Wuneng, Pigsy “awakened to ability.” Whisper is portraying the
Monkey King’s cloud. [[Komasan]] appears out of nowhere to fill the role of Sandy. And
[[Kyuubi]] gets to lay the lead, Tang Sanzang.
The gang haven’t met Kyuubi before, and they haven’t heard of him. Kyuubi is so
flustered by this, he forces his medal on Nate like a business card. Then Mr. Movien
cuts away from Kyuubi’s indignation to summarize the story. Three mystical beings
travel with a monk from China to India, the original home of Buddhism, in search of
divine knowledge. Whisper also interjects that the Monkey King wears a headband that
Tang Sanzang can tighten as punishment for mischief. Mr. Movien also introduced the
Obedient Pole, a useful and loyal weapon. Jibanyan doesn’t fully understand what
they’re actually doing and asks for details, but Mr. Movien is already thinking about
award season.
Nate’s hoping to escape still, but there’s no bailing. Lucky for Mr. Movien, he has
one cast member, Kyuubi, who loves all attention. The cast is put through hair,
costuming and makeup instantly, and Mr. Movien is finally ready to call action. When he
does, a crew member holds up a cue card with a little Monkey king drawn on. Nate
reads his line half-heartedly, but Kyuubi responds with 100 percent conviction. And he
moves to shrink Nate’s headband. Then the headband turns into caterpillars instead.
Jibanyan also gets some caterpillars, and the two flip out. Whisper asks if this counts as
acting, but the director loves it and finishes with that take. Next is scene two.
Movien tells Monkey King to use the Obedient Pole to jump over a mountain the
background and that the super magic words are “super long chocopole.” Nate says the
words, and the pole transforms into a chocobar that expands infinitely toward the sacred
land. Kyuubi and Jibanyan fly after him, leaving Komasan to ride on Whisper’s back.
Kyuubi, looking at a hand mirror the whole time, calls for everyone to follow him, but
Jibanyan points out he’s in very last place. Finally, someone other than Kyuubi is
enjoying themselves because Komasan is hype for surfing through the sky on the back
of a cloud. When they reach their destination, the landing is kind of rough. Kyuubi only
just recovers on his landing, but is knocked out by a runaway Whisper. Mr. Movien likes
Whisper’s crash so much, he shoots almost takes of the crash to get an extra authentic-
looking landing without ever explaining what he needed his cloud to do.
Next, Mr. Movien says they’re going to start the first trial of the sacred land: “the
school where you cannot be angry.” Keita asks if this modern school was actually in the
original story, but Mr. Movien checks with his script supervisor, an old man who knows
everything about “Journey to the West,” but looks suspiciously like the old man Keita
once met in a public bath who liked the water too hot. The old man approves the school.
Whisper brags that he’s impossible to anger, but the slightest prodding from Jibanyan
makes him snap and fail the trail right away. With a wave of his megaphone, the director
swaps his cast’s costumes for gym clothes and summons some annoying students, two
girls who want to make boys take out the class garbage. Jibanyan says that gender has
nothing to do with the chore, but his friends bailed before he even started talking, and
the trash is forced onto the cat in the pig nose. They give him so much trash, he can’t
walk. Keita and Whisper agree that girls always do that stuff, but Kyuubi reminds them
to stay cool enough for school. Another student taps Komasan on the shoulder to ask
him a question, but the boy retracts his question and refuses to even hint at what it
might have been. At first, Komasan tears up and nearly begins to cry, but instead snaps
at the kid before returning to his tears. Even more annoying students appear to Keita
and claim they have to tell him something: that he ripped his pants open. The monkey
king is overcome with embarrassment and runs away. Four more kids come for Kyuubi
and make fun of his gym uniform looking worse than everyone else’s.The fox begins to
tremble with fury instantly, but stays calm for like a minute with Whisper’s help. Mr.
Movien calls the scene a failure, but all his actors begin to glow with fiery energy
because they’ve gotten so angry, refusing to try another take.
In the next trial, they’re in the Sensei-approved “cafeteria where you can’t say
hot.” The cafeteria is on a freezing rooftop, so they all think it should be easy. But the
cost of failure is getting sucked up into an enormous gourd-shaped vacuum cleaner.
When Movien calls action, the cast all take seats around a table, and a waitress brings
cups of steaming green tea.Because it’s cold, Kyuubi is too eager to drink his tea and
stops just short of screaming the forbidden word. Right after everyone congratulates
Kyuubi for his quick thinking, Komasan does the exact same thing and gets the whole
word out, so he gets vacuumed into the gourd.
Now there’s only four of them, Mr. Movien directs them to pair up and eat food
where one person stands behind another and acts like that person’s arms. Jibanyan
and Kyuubi are going to eat stew with Keita and Whisper as their arms, respectively.
They both take care to blow on their food to keep it from being too hot, but Jibanyan’s
sensitive cat tongue betrays him and he cries out it’s too hot, but doesn’t get vacuumed.
Instead, Mr. Movien calls it a wrap, and already know that the movie will become
amazing in editing.After bemoaning the process of the movie, the world melts a little,
and they wake up at home. But they wake up to find that Mr. Movien won all the Yo-Kai
Academy awards for the movie they made. Keita still can’t believe that movie happened
until he discovers he was already palming Mr. Movien’s medal when he awoke.