Maybe this is cold , but a part of me thinks maybe failure in its current western incarnation would do this series well . They wrote themselves into a corner by trying to make it America all along , now that the AmericaJapan thing is being made a big part of the series . If they want to keep localizing this stuff , they could probably overwrite that plot point , but do we really want them to do that ? It still leaves open the possibility that children who learn the word YoKia will go on to find out that ridiculous names like Venoct , Toiletta and Pallysol aren ' t real , and then they ' ll have an embarrassment on their hands . I ' m thinking I ' d rather Yokai Watch takes a break , and then gets revived after some time , when expectations have dissipated and they can start fresh more or less the way Ganbare Goemon known as Mystical Ninja in the West and Kunio Kun known as River City in the West did using the original Japanese names .