Yo-kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daibōken da Nyan!

Yo-Kai Watch: Soratobu Kujira to Double no Sekai no Daiboken da Nyan!, also known as Yo-kai Watch the Movie: A Whale of Two Worlds, is a 2016 Japanese animated/live action fantasy adventure film and the third film in the Yo-kai Watch film series, following the 2015 film Yo-kai Watch: Enma Daiō to Itsutsu no Monogatari da Nyan!. It was released in Japan by Toho on December 17, 2016. It was followed by Yo-kai Watch Shadowside: Oni-ō no Fukkatsu, which released on December 16, 2017.

Plot
A whale flies over Sakura New Town (Springdale in most English-language releases of the series) and makes a whale noise that engulfs the city in a rainbow light, suddenly turning everything, including Keita Amano (Nathan "Nate" Adams in most English-language releases of the series) and his Yo-kai, live-action. While trying to solve this weird mystery, it is later revealed to be the work of a Yo-kai Keita decides to call "Koalanyan".

Voice cast

 * Haruka Tomatsu/Ryōka Minamide as Keita Amano
 * Tomokazu Seki as Whisper
 * Etsuko Kozakura as Jibanyan and Bushinyan
 * Yūki Kaji as Hovernyan
 * Kotori Shigemoto as USApyon
 * Aya Endō as Komasan and Komajiro
 * Naoki Bandō as Robonyan F and Ultimate Robonyan
 * Yuko Sasamoto as Orochi and Hikari Orochi
 * Ryoko Nagata as Kyubi and Yami Kyubi

Live-action cast

 * Minami Hamabe as Kanami Minami
 * Kento Yamazaki as Lord Enma
 * Takumi Saito as Nurarihyon
 * Emi Takei as Sae Kinoshita
 * Yuna Watanabe as Fumika "Fumi-chan" Kodama
 * Yū Sawabe as Gorōta "Kuma" Kumashima
 * Raza Fukuda as Kanchi Imada
 * Yoko Mitsuya as Keita's mother
 * Shigeyuki Totsugi as Keita's father
 * Kenichi Endō as Jinmenken
 * Kokoa Ishii (now Kokoa Amano) as Inaho Misora

Reception
On its opening weekend in Japan, the film was number-one in admissions, with 545,211, and number-two in gross, with ¥608 million (US$5.2 million). By January 11, the film earned ¥2 billion (US$17.43 million) and tops on number-one from the previous number-five.