Yo-kai Watch 2: Bony Spirits   (Japanese: ??????2?? Hepburn: Yokai Wotchi 2 Ganso) and Yo-kai Watch 2: Fleshy Souls   (??????2?? Yokai Wotchi 2 Honke) are a pair of 2014 role-playing video games developed and published by Level-5 for the Nintendo 3DS. The games are a sequel to 2013's Yo-kai Watch and were released in July 2014 in Japan in North America and Australia in late 2016 and Europe in 2017. Much like their predecessor the games put players in an open world befriending and battling various Yo-kai which are ghosts and apparitions originating in Japanese folklore that cause mischief in daily life. In the beginning of the story the memories of the protagonists Nathan "Nate" Adams and Katie Forester are erased when their Yo-kai Watch is stolen leaving them with no recollection of their past adventures. However they soon stumble across their Yo-kai butler Whisper once again and their adventures resume.