Was digimon cooler than pokemon?

Was digimon cooler than pokemon?

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I like Digimon's potential for story telling better than Pokemon's.

absolutely. video and card games aside digimon stomped in every other avenue.

Yes, but it's far less marketable which is the problem.

Yes.

Yes

Yes and no.

The designs of the monsters are more wide and varied, drawing from an eclectic, sometimes esoteric array of sources, and usually the different traits are incorporated into one another very well. Off the top of my head, I can't think of a bad Digimon design, but I can tell you Zeraora, Necrozma, and the Unova starters save for Snivy all look bad. The Galar starters are also weak designs.

However a lot of Digimon's really cool design work is undersold by their uniform naming standard.

Their card game was borderline incomprehensible to me as a child, but I was never particularly interested in Pokemon's card game either, as I was always more into Yu-Gi-Oh!, but I've heard very good things and I know it still has traction today. Dawn, Dusk, and Cyber Sleuth are the only Digimon video games I've ever played but all of them feel like slow burns and in my opinion those first two don't have very much replay value. Pokemon games on the other hand are very fun and easy to go back and replay, even if they've plummeted in quality since Generation 6.

On average I think every season of the Digimon anime is inherently more valuable than the Pokemon anime just because they try to do something different with each one. Tamers had a visionary working on it; people love Serial Experiments Lain and I love The Big O.

I can't say anything on their respective manga spin offs, because I haven't finished them and people love Adventures (Pokemon), and they love V-Tamer, NEXT, and the Xros Wars manga (Digimon).

Digimon is much less marketable though, and I think the reason for that is because something about it inherently feels bootleg. I know it wasn't inspired by Pokemon or anything like that, I'm talking about how it feels.

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Digimon aren't exactly pets like Pokemon are, and they don't come across as loyal servants like with Monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh!. They're portrayed as sentient creatures, but for what purpose, I can't seem to parse.

I don't really know how to feel about the morals and values Digimon espouses in comparison to its contemporaries. I don't really understand the gist of what it's trying to say with each respective work.

If they're a study on the strength of bonds and the importance of friendship, Yu-Gi-Oh! does this better than either Pokemon or Digimon.

No because the designs didn't really have any coherence to them. Even the strangest pokemon still look like pokemon, with Digimon two monsters can look like they come from entirely different genres.

>the strangest pokemon still look like pokemon
Disagreeing with this.ignoring the weirdest of all of them being the hyperbeasts (whose whole point was to be pokemon who didn't look like pokemon), there are definitely pokemon that don't have that "pokemon" look. The ice cream cones and klefki coming to mind immediately. Not a genwunner, but I'm old enough to have grown up playing red/blue. Gen1 had its bad designs too, but even grimer and voltorb had that "pokemon" look.