It could either be pretty even or possibly in Youkai Watch's favour ...
I'm not entirely convinced that it'll be able to get a whole lot of attention from the Pokemon crowd in the west since one of the biggest benefits about Pokemon is that it's culturally agnostic giving it the universal appeal it has. What the west are relatively big on from Japan are shounen jump comics and I doubt that group finds Youkai Watch all that enticing much like they think about Pokemon. Digimon isn't all that popular anymore in the west so I doubt it'll find a big audience in the end ...







