#kinakobo

So, Classic Yo-kai are probably the easiest to make. They’re literally the yōkai from legends. You just go onto yokai.com or get a book about yōkai and draw anything you find that Yo-kai Watch hasn’t done. There are, like, six that aren’t because they’re evos or recolors of actual yōkai and three that gijinka them because the original yōkai was a shapeshifter but I probably won’t be doing any of that.

This was actually how I started making fankai all the way back in middle school. I had these notebooks of my own Yo-kai Watch OCs, and they were all just Classic Yo-kai because they were so easy to make. Nowadays, I try to limit how many Classic Yo-kai I have. I've learned to like making new characters based on obscure yōkai. I can teach people about them but I don’t have to have a battle monster that gives you scrub typhus, and I get to show off my own designing chops.

I was originally gonna do one from each tribe here, but there’s actually a limit on how many pictures you can post on mobile and I wanted to get specifically Seto-taishō out there because I like him. None of these are actually from Shikoku, and one of these is explicitly not from Shikoku, but like, travel is possible.

Here are some links to these guys so you can get an in-depth read on them.