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- "If what you say is true then this is either an unbelievable coincidence... OR OUR DESTINY AS LEGENDARY RIVALS!"
- —Hailey Thomas, Yo-kai Watch 3
Hailey Anne Thomas (Japanese: 未空 イナホ Misora Inaho) is one of the main characters in the Yo-kai Watch series. She appears as a protagonist in the original Yo-kai Watch anime, when she first appeared in Usapyon Is Here!. She is also a playable deuteragonist (alongside Nathan Adams) in Yo-kai Watch 3, while she appears as a minor character in Yo-kai Watch 4.
She is a girl who bears a Yo-kai Watch Model U, which was originally bought from an anime hobby store after the figurine she wanted was sold out. She is also friends with Yo-kai Usapyon, who owns a Yo-kai Pad and guides her in the same vein as Whisper.
Appearances
Video Games
- Yo-kai Watch 3: Playable protagonist
- Yo-kai Watch 4: Minor character
- Yo-kai Watch Dance: Just Dance Special Version: Cameo character
- Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble: Cameo character*
Anime series
- Yo-kai Watch: Major protagonist
- Yo-kai Watch the Movie: Lord Enma and the Five Tales, Nyan!: Major protagonist
- Yo-kai Watch the Movie: The Great Adventure of the Flying Whale & the Double World, Nyan!: Cameo character
- Yo-kai Watch the Movie: FOREVER FRIENDS: Cameo character
- Yo-kai Watch!: Minor character
- Yo-kai Watch♪: Cameo character
Manga series
- Yo-kai Watch: Major Character
- Yo-kai Watch: Wakuwaku Nyanderful Days: Major Character
Physical Traits
Appearance
Hailey is a short elementary school student who is around the same age as Nate. She is light-skinned and has short purple hair in a bob with an almost full fringe. She wears big round glasses and has dull purple eyes with black pupils. Her usual outfit consists of a blue top with a yellow music note symbol on the top right with a pink cardigan over it that has white and pink stripes adorning the hems. She wears a white miniskirt, dark blue leggings and yellow trainers with white laces, tips and soles. She wears her Yo-kai Watch on her left wrist, which is of a Model U Prototype that would later become a Yo-kai Watch Model U2.
Her winter outfit consists of a blue long sleeved jumper under a white jacket with a pink collar, pockets and white hanging bobbles. She wears a light brown skirt similar to her white skirt with bright pink tights and brown shoes with light pink laces.
In M02, in the Usapyon's Merry Christmas segment, Hailey sports a Santa outfit while delivering presents with Usapyon. This outfit consists of a short Santa dress with long sleeves, white fluffy trims, two fluffy buttons on her chest and a black belt. She also dons a Santa hat. In the Let's Go to the Yo-kai World segment, Hailey is first seen wearing a winter outfit consisting of a blue shirt under a white jumper with a light pink coat over the top with brown fastenings and a white hood. Her skirt, tights and shoes are almost identical to her usual winter outfit however the skirt is a darker brown. In the Yo-kai World, she wears a lighter outfit consisting of a pink short sleeved top with white stripes on the collar and sleeves with a white skirt, dark blue leggings and brown slip ons with white soles and small bows. At the end of the movie she is seen wearing a pink Hawaiian shirt with white and light blue patterns on it, white shorts and pink sandals with small white flowers on the straps.
In Yo-kai Watch 3, Hailey wears a short sleeved, striped pink shirt with a small Champy symbol on and long dull blue trousers when going to bed. This outfit can also be seen in the anime. When visiting the Hot Springs, Hailey wears a red two piece swimsuit with a cropped strap top and shorts with a white belt tied in a bow. When in the Cluvian Continent, Hailey wears an explorers outfit consisting of a beige helmet with a wisp shaped headlamp, a beige short sleeved top and shorts with a light pink necktie and a brown belt. She also wears bright pink knee socks and brown shoes. She wears an outfit similar to this in Yo-kai Watch! albeit without the headlamp, the shirt has long sleeved and she wears pink tights instead of socks. In Illusory Sparkopolis, she dons a purple Sailor Cuties uniform, a maid dress similar to Cindy's and a Next HarMEOWny uniform.
Personality
Hailey tends to talks a lot and loves anything space-related. She is a bit of an otaku and has a huge collection of space-themed and anime merchandise. Sometimes, Hailey has a short attention span and tends to not notice how she annoys her Yo-kai partner Usapyon with her antics.
She can also be a bit of an airhead, tending to associate anything and everything in her life, from mundane tasks to objects to genuine danger posed by certain Yo-kai, with episodes after her favorite show, Sailor Cuties much to Usapyon's annoyance. Whenever something doesn't turn out to be an alien or anything space-related, she easily becomes disappointed and uninterested.
Profile
Yo-kai Watch 3
Hailey is a playable character in this game. She gets the Yo-kai Watch from an anime store and meets Usapyon in an alleyway. They have adventures together later in the story and later start the Ha-pyon Detective Agency (when you play the game as her, you can do any name you want for the agency but Usapyon will also suggest the first two letters of your name merged with -pyon) which solves mysteries later in the story and is the main source of quests for Hailey.
In Chapter 6, she befriends Nate Adams, Whisper and Jibanyan when they go to the Yo-kai Watch Factory.
In Chapter 7, she befriends Buck when they solve a mystery about Hazeltine Mansion.
Yo-kai Watch 4
Hailey first appears in Chapter 5, when she notices that Yo-kai from the future have been appearing in the present. She asks Nate, Summer, Cole and Bruno to determine the cause of it.
Later on, she gets kidnapped by Fukurou, with the Yo-kai thinking that she is the princess.
She later appears in a Chapter 5 quest as an opportunity to befriend Usapyon. After this, the two of them can be found in multiple places around the game together.
In the Blasters++ mode, she becomes playable through possession, where she uses multiple Yo-kai Drones to attack.
In the anime
- Main article: Hailey Thomas (anime)
Relationships
Humans
Nate
Katie
Hailey Anne seems to be very fond of Katie, in the few meetings they have, she always comments on how cute she is.
Jessica
Despite Jessica not sharing the same enthusiasm about the things Hailey Anne likes, the two are really close friends.
Isabel
Hailey Anne is close with Isabel though realises she's a bit out of her league since she's very posh. In Yo-kai Watch 3, when Isabel gets inspirited and tells Hailey she loves her a lot, Hailey is actually quite partial to her advances.
Joshua
Despite Joshua being Hailey's annoying little brother, she does care about him a lot, seen in Yo-kai Watch 3 where she goes out of her way to find him and bring him home when he's missing.
Hailey's Parents
Yo-kai
Usapyon
Quotes
- Blasters T camp:
- "You guys get to go out on expeditions... But we get to wear this expedition gear! Jealous much?! Ahahaha...!
- "*sniff*...*sniff*... That's it! The smell of adventure! This place reeks of it!"
- "Hey hey! I can join those guys' meetings right?! ....I can't?! So cruel...!"
- "I sure hope Usapyon isn't being a hindrance for everyone..."
- "Omigosh! This tent really gives the place a survival feel! Sooo cool!"
- "That Li'l Yora sure is interesting... I keep catching him laughing to himself... What's so funny Li'l Yora?!"
- "Ugh...I wanna go too... This is NOT fair!"
- "They're going to meet some real strong Yo-kai! Ah! I want in on the action too!"
- "So you're saying there's treasure out there no-one has ever seen? P-perhaps even a rare Sailor Cuties not-for-sale figure?!"
- "Aghh...! Blizzie is looking as cute as ever today..."
Etymology
- Her full first name "Hailey Anne" is a play on the word "alien".
- Her name "Hailey" might also be a reference to Halley's Comet, Hailey being one of pronunciation and spellings of Halley's Comet.
Trivia
- Hailey's Japanese catchphrase "Chiwatchi!", combined with the arm motion she does when greeting a Yo-kai, is a reference to Ultraman, where the arm motion is based off of Ultraman's arm position for the Spacium Ray.
- In early stages of localization, Hailey's name was Gracie. This is present, according to some unused lines in the Uptown Springdale and Breezy Hills maps of Yo-kai Watch: Wibble Wobble.
- In these same lines of text, it can be seen that Sailor Cuties was going to be called Sailor Star and that her Japanese catchphrase "Chiwatchi!" was localized to "Watch Up!"
- Hailey is the first playable protagonist to have localized names in different languages as opposed to using the same English name.
- Hailey and Nate sometimes coincide with each other:
- The two first met each other during the events of the second movie.
- Hailey and Nate both race against each other in Yo-kai Grand Prix!.
- Nate helps Hailey solve her conflict with Usapyon in EP134
- Nate and Hailey tries to win the Space Wars X Sailor Cuties Box, but they both fail in EP149
- The two meet each other in Yo-kai Watch 3 as they team up to stop The Ghoulfather when he wants to create a world to his liking.
- In the early episodes of Season 3 for Yo-kai Watch, Hailey Anne said "Hold the phone" as a catchphrase but in Yo-kai Watch 3 she says "Psych!"
- She is shown to be at least somewhat insecure of herself, as shown through dialogue in a rare event that can occur when climbing the pole in front of Springdale Elementary, in which she hallucinates a giant version of her head going through a wall before disappearing.
- At the LEVEL 5 VISION 2015 - THE BEGINNING event during the reveal of the second season, voice actress Aoi Yuki said that she used "quick words" and "ad-libs" in her sentences to capture the epitome of a sci-fi nerd for her character.[1]
- Her German voice actress Sonja Firker also voices Usapyon in Yo-kai Watch 3. Additionally, Firker has lend her voice to other Level-5 productions, such as Professor Layton vs. Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney and Inazuma Eleven Strikers
Gallery
- Main article: Hailey Thomas/Gallery
In other languages
References
Yo-kai Watch 4 Characters | |
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Humans | Nathan Adams | Katie Forester | Summer Adams | Cole | Bruno | Jack Cobbler | Hailey Thomas | Isabelle | Theo | Tate Adams | Alistair | Tae Arihoshi |
Yo-kai | Jibanyan | Whisper | Usapyon | Jibanyan (Shadowside) | Whisper 2040 | Sly | Komasan (Shadowside) | Enma | Zazel | Lord Ananta | Gusto | Kappa (Salaryman) | Zashiki-warashi |
Story Boss Yo-kai | Slimamander | Jingeki | Yamambaa | Shinmagunshin Fukurou | Lady Arachnia | Tamamo no Mae | Shinma Douketsu | Shien | Shinma Kaira | Overseer |
Optional Boss Yo-kai | Raidenryu | Sproink | Hoggles | Yami Kaira |