| Personally, I love BOTH Digi and Poké Monsters! While they do have their SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, both are still great CHILDHOOD FRANCHISES! One has a fire-breathing dragon as one of the protagonist's Pokémon, while the other protagonist has only one fire-breathing dinosaur! BOTH ARE JUST AS COOL AS ANY OTHER MONSTERS! EDIT: Honestly, the Holy Trinity for me is Digimon, Pokémon, and Yugioh Duel Monsters. 🐦🔥 🐛🦎🐊🐢🦜🦚🐍🐲🐉🦖🦤🐟🐳🐬🐋🦕  |
PockyPlusleJun 29, 4:44 PM
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PockyPlusle said: Personally, I love BOTH Digi and Poké Monsters! While they do have their SIMILARITIES and DIFFERENCES, both are still great CHILDHOOD FRANCHISES! One has a fire-breathing dragon as one of the protagonist's Pokémon, while the other protagonist has only one fire-breathing dinosaur! BOTH ARE JUST AS COOL AS ANY OTHER MONSTERS! EDIT: Honestly, the Holy Trinity for me is Digimon, Pokémon, and Yugioh Duel Monsters. 🐦🔥 🐛🦎🐊🐢🦜🦚🐍🐲🐉🦖🦤🐟🐳🐬🐋🦕 I love this picture and it represents my childhood as well.🥹 |
| Digimon the anime is more Super Sentai than Pokémon (even the localization was done by the Power Rangers company), and originated as Tamagotchi for boys. Pokémon doesn't have a monopoly on the monster friends concept by any means. I think one thing Pokémon does better is being truer to the concept of befriending monsters. Digimon portrays most of the non-hero mons as mere monsters of the week (most egregiously, the Seadramon line which was the counterpart to the Greymons in the original VPet was purely villainous until the second series finally introduced a kid with Betamon). Meanwhile, Pokémon are not type casted into single personalities, like the normally adorable Togepi or Teddiursa being one-off episodic villains or Tyranitar, which is usually the go-to mon for villains, being a caring mother. Also, despite Pokémon fans complaining about anthropomorphism creep (which is still more like Sonic or Donkey Kong than Digimon's Gundam style mons), Digimon is more disproportionately humanoid and way earlier. While this helped distinguish it from Pokémon, it also further detracts from the mons concept and makes it feel more like a standard shonen anime. That being said, Digimon does go more interesting places while Pokémon is basically the consistent Sunday comics (e.g. Garfield) of anime. It was the one big children's anime series apart from Mega Man Battle Network that dealt with the implications of the early Internet taking over our lives. Our War Game was a clever take on this, while Ken from the second series was a good early portrayal of the terminally online asshole gamer (who's still pretty tame even compared to some users on this very forum). Also, apart from Saban dub Mimi, the female characters were more interesting than Pokémon at the time (though this aspect dropped off a cliff from Frontier onwards). |
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| can't we choose both? |
Personally, I prefer Digimon for the anime since the plot is better, while Pokémon for the games. My favorite Pokémon is Minun (hence my username), and I love DemiVeemon from Digimon too. 😊  |
mintyminunJul 3, 4:39 PM
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| It depends on the particular season, as Digimon is not as consistent as Pokemon. |
| その目だれの目？ |
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