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Sho with: Yo-Kai Watch
Episode: 13d
Year: 2015

Writer(s): N/A

Inebtween Nate's usual encounters with Yo-Kai, some of the titular spirits get their own miniarcs in the form of shorts played at the start and end of the episodes, the most common of those involving Komasan but Manjimutt gets some as well. He's honestly one of the best butt monkeys I've ever seen in animation, mainly because he usually brings his punishments upon himself, by relieving himself in public. They also have the courtesy of ensuring his torment isn't played for laughs most of the time as he gets arrested a lot. Even how he came to become a Yo-Kai in death is very very sad. And after so many arrests, no thanks to Nate summoning him and breaking him out they decided to lock him in Alcatraz, and yes I know the prison shut down in the 1960s, but this is animation, where the laws of reality and history are allowed to be tweaked for the plot.

Throughout this 7 part arc we see Manjimutt try in vein to escape the island fortress prison that thousands before him tried and failed to do in the past. Each time failing in one of the most miserable and heartbreaking of ways. Whether it be by succumbing to his own madness or being taken advantage of by his fellow inmates. None of this is played for laughs in the slightest and we see Manjimutt falling further and further into depression. But the saddest part is the 3rd installment where he befriends a teddy bear he named Sam he got for Christmas.

If you've seen/read the Velveteen Rabbit this episode WILL make you cry. Hell it made me cry even though I've never seen it! This is one for the best usages of emotional juxtaposition I've ever seen done for drama since Rick and Morty. At first it seems as if Manjimutt has finally found a friend in Sam that he can confide to and make his afterlife more bearable while incarcerated, someone to sing with, and share chocolate with. He even tries an escape plan that in all likelihood would've seriously hurt him, going through gears is no easy task.

If you've played Yo-Kai Watch you might think that Sam, given he's shown to come to life around Manjimutt might be the Yo-Kai Babblong in disguise cruelly messing with the guy's head; I can assure you that's not the case, and that the truth is far more tearjerking. Manjimutt knew all along that Sam wasn't really alive, he was just a stuffed toy Manjimutt made into an imaginary friend so he wouldn't be lonely, so he would have SOME sort of companionship in such a cold, scary place!

I didn't cry when Goku sacrificed his life twice to save the Earth from Raditz and Cell, I don't cry when Ash Ketchum was turned to stone by Mewtwo and Mew, I didn't even cry when Red-Haired Shanks sacrificed his arm to save Luffy from the Lord of the Coast. But watching this perverted, degenerate dog/human/ghost thingy struggle to form an imaginary friend as he tries in vein to escape the bowels of Alcatraz prison made me break down! It was just so Heartbreaking! If Spongebob could actually manage to take Squidward's torment and use it for drama and not just cruel humor many of the Squidward Torture Porns might have some tragic beauty to them.

This is character torment done right, because Manjimutt was doing this to himself. He's become so broken, alone and scared from all the arrests and the shitty hand fate has dealt him that he's willing to trust a stuffed toy to be his only real friend. And his torment only gets worse down the line as the arc continues, never giving the poor guy a break but never coming off as cruel to make us laugh, but to cry instead.

Yo-Kai Watch is owned by Level-5, Viz Media, Nintendo, Hasbro and Densetsu USA.

1001 Animations is from

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Description
Sho with: Yo-Kai Watch
Episode: 13d
Year: 2015

Writer(s): N/A

Inebtween Nate's usual encounters with Yo-Kai, some of the titular spirits get their own miniarcs in the form of shorts played at the start and end of the episodes, the most common of those involving Komasan but Manjimutt gets some as well. He's honestly one of the best butt monkeys I've ever seen in animation, mainly because he usually brings his punishments upon himself, by relieving himself in public. They also have the courtesy of ensuring his torment isn't played for laughs most of the time as he gets arrested a lot. Even how he came to become a Yo-Kai in death is very very sad. And after so many arrests, no thanks to Nate summoning him and breaking him out they decided to lock him in Alcatraz, and yes I know the prison shut down in the 1960s, but this is animation, where the laws of reality and history are allowed to be tweaked for the plot.

Throughout this 7 part arc we see Manjimutt try in vein to escape the island fortress prison that thousands before him tried and failed to do in the past. Each time failing in one of the most miserable and heartbreaking of ways. Whether it be by succumbing to his own madness or being taken advantage of by his fellow inmates. None of this is played for laughs in the slightest and we see Manjimutt falling further and further into depression. But the saddest part is the 3rd installment where he befriends a teddy bear he named Sam he got for Christmas.

If you've seen/read the Velveteen Rabbit this episode WILL make you cry. Hell it made me cry even though I've never seen it! This is one for the best usages of emotional juxtaposition I've ever seen done for drama since Rick and Morty. At first it seems as if Manjimutt has finally found a friend in Sam that he can confide to and make his afterlife more bearable while incarcerated, someone to sing with, and share chocolate with. He even tries an escape plan that in all likelihood would've seriously hurt him, going through gears is no easy task.

If you've played Yo-Kai Watch you might think that Sam, given he's shown to come to life around Manjimutt might be the Yo-Kai Babblong in disguise cruelly messing with the guy's head; I can assure you that's not the case, and that the truth is far more tearjerking. Manjimutt knew all along that Sam wasn't really alive, he was just a stuffed toy Manjimutt made into an imaginary friend so he wouldn't be lonely, so he would have SOME sort of companionship in such a cold, scary place!

I didn't cry when Goku sacrificed his life twice to save the Earth from Raditz and Cell, I don't cry when Ash Ketchum was turned to stone by Mewtwo and Mew, I didn't even cry when Red-Haired Shanks sacrificed his arm to save Luffy from the Lord of the Coast. But watching this perverted, degenerate dog/human/ghost thingy struggle to form an imaginary friend as he tries in vein to escape the bowels of Alcatraz prison made me break down! It was just so Heartbreaking! If Spongebob could actually manage to take Squidward's torment and use it for drama and not just cruel humor many of the Squidward Torture Porns might have some tragic beauty to them.

This is character torment done right, because Manjimutt was doing this to himself. He's become so broken, alone and scared from all the arrests and the shitty hand fate has dealt him that he's willing to trust a stuffed toy to be his only real friend. And his torment only gets worse down the line as the arc continues, never giving the poor guy a break but never coming off as cruel to make us laugh, but to cry instead.

Yo-Kai Watch is owned by Level-5, Viz Media, Nintendo, Hasbro and Densetsu USA.

1001 Animations is from

Regulas314