Digimon fans wont forget about Digimon, its why it lives.

Man, there was nothing quite like the time Digimon Season 1 was on Fox Kids and I was 13. That Dark Masters Saga had me hooked.

It's worth noting that over the years that digimon has kind of aged with its audience. Especially the games, Last Order and the Cyber Sleuth Dueology, are a little more mature then you'd expect for a franchise about internet monsters.

Decades later I still can't get the Digimon theme song out of my head.

The aurora borealis - at this time of the year, at this time of day, at this part of the planet - localised entirely at this summer camp Tai: Yeah. May we see it? Matt: No.

I was always more into Digimon than Pokémon. Was always bummed that Angemon never had more screen time. And that season where the kids BECAME the Digimon fighters with those statues was probably the best of them all

[Tamag]o = Egg Tomod[achi] = Friends Egg Friends Because it's a digital friend in an egg.

We're fans of Digimon here. It's sad to see that people still see it as a rip off when both franchises were being developed at the same time. The anime was better story-wise, and the games are... unfortunately a mixed bag, but there ARE some absolute GEMS to be found. The card game is fantastic and easy to get into though. We're excited to see what Bandai has in store of us Digidestined in the future!

When we getting that ‘ Monster Rancher’ deep dive though 👀

back in 1998, I was 19, and I had a knock off brand Tomagatchi, called a NanoPet. Until I backed over it with my car, proving me not responsible enough to own a virtual pet...

For me the main difference between Pokemon and Digimon is that if rewatch an old episode of Pokemon I think "I'm enjoying the nostalgia, but I don't enjoy this the way I did when I was 9" whereas with Digimon I can rewatch it and think "Wow there are really serious themes here that went right over my head as a child."

"The movie got bad reviews because it was a portmanteau of three movies" line really got me I wasn't expecting that

One thing I always appreciated about digimon was that the monsters were actually intelligent. In later series, they have their own civilizations and communities. It makes for great world building and lets the digimon actually feel like real characters rather than just cute creatures

In the argument between the two, I enjoy both. Pokemon is somethign I remeber for the first two gens and the card game, but it was Digimon that helped me find anime beyond Dragon Ball and Sailor Moon as an animation style. The characters actually evolved and grew up in Digimon, while Ash in Pokemon kept on mashing the "forget the lesson" button.

Digimon, Pokemon, Monster Rancher, flint time detective, Fighting Foodons, OG shamon King, and Medabots. The 2000 was the time to be alive to see these beautiful animes for kids.

When Patamon first evolved into Angemon.. it was probably the most stoked I had been for a character arch since Goku going SSJ during the Frieza Saga or Gohan's SSJ2 at the Cell Games. "HAND OF FATE!" Edit Fixed spelling

I preferred Digimon because I just couldn't get behind the idea of catching wild creatures and then forcing them to fight others like them. Also, I just can't stand that in the show the pokemon communicate by saying their name over and over again and that the humans actually understand them.

Digimon had a better story than Pokemon. The stakes are far higher. Characters grew with their partner. Yes, the digimon and their human friend are partners, equals to each other. Not a trainer training a captured animal. Also, I'm sick of this bullsh*t narrative that Pokemon invented the catching monsters mechanic on a game. Satoshi Tajiri straight up copied it from Dragon quest 5 and admitted doing it.

I love how every boys toy is just "X, but they fight." "Somehow, Saban returned." Lol. That's a pretty good way to put it.

I miss the set-up to the episode before the opening credits. You guys did them so well.

What, no love for Digimon Adventure Tri series or the movie Last Evolution Kizuna? Which are a season 4 (came out in the mid 2010's) and capstone movie (came out in 2020) for the original cast of the main series. Not to mention the new Digimon movie that came out last year following the cast of Digimon Adventure 02 (which takes place after Kizuna). There was also a reboot of the original anime that came out in 2020 as well. And the new Digimon TCG (which has been around for about 3 years now) is incredibly popular too. They just had the US national championship last week

When I was in the Army in the mid-90s I worked in a stockade (jail), and the only electronic device we had a loophole to bring into the jail with us was Tamagotchis. Everyone had them. Mine was an R2-D2 knockoff.

Imagine being 12 and your Gatomon evolves into an Angewomon, your voice intanstly chances as you declare: "Mother! I've achieved... PUBERTY!" 😃

I still have all my Digimon minifigures. Medabots too!

Digimon was always more fulfilling for me. I got into it with the cartoons, then the games/handhelds. Training up your monsters as _partners_ (especially after combining _with them_ in the cartoons) appealed so much more that the cockfighting of Pokemon. The Digimon Movie was one of the first (along with Summer Wars) to adopt the whole "chunky-animation-equals-speed" thing that is SO common now, and I feel pleased having recognized the oncoming trend when I first saw it. One last thing, there was a little program you could get waaay back in the day called a TamaGothi. It was a PC desktop pet that starts as a bat, and after a regular dose of drugs, beatings, and sleep deprivation transformed into one of 12-ish Goth subtypes. If it still exists, I always enjoyed that one too.

I love the digi-evolution music theme. It always sounded so regal.

"...and if you die in the digital world, you die in the real world." (follow immediately with ad for sugary cereal)

I was all in to Digimon. Had the devices, the cards, the toys, and loved the PS1 game. Thanks for this throwback!

The only time I've heard Portmanteau in 10 minutes was Jeopardy, when they had a category called Portmanteau Words. Which I think was more than once.

You could also throw Yu-Gi-Oh! into that onfusing mix, which I imagine to be why they couldn't get anything from "Capsule" and "Monsters" as Yu-Gi-Oh! had "Capsule Monster Chess", a game at which Mokuba Kaiba was a Games Master, the same way his older brother, Seto, was a Games Master at Duel Monsters, though, back then, it was still called "Magic & Monsters"! I got a Cyber Pet that same Christmas, as well, I didn't play Pokémon until the day I went to see Pokémon the Movie 2000, when I bought myself a purple GameBoy Colour and a copy of Pokémon Blue Version, blue being my favourite colour (I wanted a blue GameBoy Colour, purple was the closest they had...) and that was also my Nintenything, previously growing up with Sega! I've gone off Pokémon in recent years, though, I can't stand the current English dub, as a Brit, I'm not a fan of the Galar Region or Gen. VIII in general, and I'm struggling to get into Violet, but I have been playing a ton of Digimon Story Cyber Sleuth, I'm trying to get all 500 Medals on PS4, I'm doing well, so well, I'm even now pushing for Platinum before moving on to Hacker's Memory proper (jus three more Silvers to go: all 500 Medals, Master Rank and 30 Colosseum Battles! It's on New Game+!)! And, of course, you can probably guess my favourite series, though, now I know the full reason Frontier passed me by, though, I already knew of it through Rumble Arena, plus my mate complained about the size of the Piyomon in Data Squad, so that's how I knew about that series! We did get some Fusion, but I watched the first episodes of Adventure and Adventure 02 when they first aired here in the UK and I did also see some Tamers, though, the odd episode number count kind of worked against them as they'd get to Episode 50, then cycle back to Episode 1 right afer...

Finally talking about Digimon! Today is a good day

I'm old enough to remember a time pre-Mons, and when Pokémon first came out, here in the States. I gave it, and Digimon, each a fair shake, and I did like Pokémon more, which is still true, but I still liked Digimon, enough, and never really saw it as "discount Pocket Monsters". Then again, kid me, who loved Transformers, also liked Gobots, Rock Lords, and orher such toys, never seeing them as inferior; just another fun option. I'm pretty sure I do still have a couple of the Digimon movies floating about, and on a shelf in my basement, where I keep a number of my favorite novels, and Star Wars figs, I still have various other set up action figures, and three of them are Magnamon, Omnimon, and Imperial Draymon, so guess Digimon does still have at least some little bit for me, even all these years later.

I loved the original show up through Frontier, and recently got the Digimon X2 VPet versions C&D, and now hopefully Bandai will translated the X2 E&F VPets after my noble sacrifice. 😌

I’m 33 and I watch DIgimon with my 4 kids and they love it. They sing the song and put it on before bed. We make some awesome memories watching DIgimon adventure 1 and 2. I grew up watching it but my wife didn’t so she watches it with the kids and thinks it’s great as well.

I was in late middle school and high school when I was such a huge fan of Digimon! Because the anime was darker than Pokémon, and I watched it throughout its run on Fox Kids.

I have lots of the Digimon games, world next order , cyber sleuth Double pack on switch and survive on switch. Godspeed my Digimon fam

I remember the promos for Digimon leading up to the premiere on Fox Kids. They were touting their "new cartoon straight from Japan!" Storywise/ character development, Digimon holds up better on a rewatch compared to Pokemon

You forgot to mention Digimon Adventure Tri which was a continuation of the original 2 seasons and came out before Ghost Game, found dubbed on both KZfaq and Netflix.

Butterfly the Japanese intro to digimon adventure is still probably my most favored anime theme song to this day

Di Di Di Digimon! Digimon! Digimon Digital Monsters! Something Garlic Champions! Overall I love Digimon the designs r cool to! I played Digimon on the DS and Cyber Sleuth to.

While I enjoyed watching the original 90's run of Pokemon, I preferred Digimon's story over Pokemon's. It included mature themes such as when Sora feels anxious about saving the world and is shown inside the cave or when Mat and Tai fought because Matt didn't like Tai's leadership. By the time the third season came out, I was already older and I lost interest but the first two seasons had great plots.

Butterfly, one of the BEST Anime songs .. EVER! 🦋💗

Back in the 2000s my kids would get the pokemon video games and cards. I never got into pokemon but did like watching the Digimon cartoons and got some Digimon toys when the local Factory2U closed down.

Man I'd love to see you do a video on WMAC Masters. That show feels like a shortlived fever dream but I remember loving it as a kid.

It's worth noting that the US saw the release of several Digimon games on the DS. Digimon World DS, and Digimon World Dusk & Digimon World Dawn. Also, we got Digimon World: Cyber Sleuth in 2015. So the "wait" between World 4 and Next Order wasn't as dry as you claim.

I wasn't a very dedicated Digimon fan as I have been with Pokemon, but "Butter-Fly" is one of my favorite songs. RIP Koji Wada.

Don't forget to mention the remake series that came out before Digimon Ghost game. They updated the first season of the show for current times and it was pretty good. Another great episode again, SG crew!

Having seen all 5 of the first Digimon series, Digimon has one leg up over Pokemon. The characters in Digimon actually grow up in real time while Ash on Pokemon is perpetually 10 years and constantly learning the same lessons over and over again. Also, Digimon Frontier was kinda like a mix of Digimon and Power Rangers where the kids turn INTO monster warriors.

As I read somewhere about if Digimon series is a rip-off of Pokemon: "Digimon is Pokemon but with a good script".

I have been the biggest Digimon fan and I really appreciate you guys giving it a look

The funniest part of the Digimon movie was the Angela Anaconda short where she and her friends go see the movie but Nannette and the teacher try to ruin it.

Wow Pokemon aired for me at 6:30am on fox43. Nice to be represented

The first 10 episodes of Digimon are still more memorable 20 plus years later than the first 10 pokemon episodes. The best decision the digimon team made was to tell a story not just promote toys. I learnt a lot from each of the characters even now Digimon Adventure still holds up very well in terms of story. The biggest knock on Digimon has always been where to take it after the first one. Digimon Tamers was great but because there was no unified front on how digimon would evolve they kept experimenting and some ideas were not so great. I feel that why digimon has gone but to using the original characters so much.

Probably my favorite IP of all time! The irony is modern day Pokémon is now taking a lot of elements used from Digimon. Mega evolution, Bio merge etc.

Personally, I didn't care much for either of them at the time, but I DID really like Team Rocket from Pokemon. Even though they're basically knockoffs of the villains from the Time Bokan series. So to answer your question, this is a Yo-Kai Watch household.

I know this has probably been asked and answered but, where did the Intro go? I loved that and it fully got be prepared and jacked to listen to watch these amazing videos. I thought it was just a weird one off on the Akira video. Please bring it back, a small thing I know, but it just feels lifeless at the beginning without it and I never really know when the episode “starts.”

Digimon and Pokemon came out around the same time in the U.K., we had two rival kid’s channels here, CITV, and CBBC. CITV got both the Pokemon and Digimon anime leaving CBBC trying to get any cute monster collecting anime they could, which meant they aired Monster Rancher, and Flint the Time Detective.

i feel it's also important to mention that the digital monster version 20th as well as the DMX were released in america and still available on amazon. i figured it's worth mentioning since it's relevant to the american release

Been a fan since it first aired here back in July 2000, and it's crazy how despite Bandai doesn't give a single crap about the franchise (and instead investing in NFTs for their other IPs, like Gundam), the fans kept it alive, even after being so out of the mainstream media in the West. There's a level of depth and worldbuilding in the franchise (which sometimes the anime series touch here and there), that it's simply insane. Divided between Mangas, Novels, web comics and so on, different Digital Worlds with different origins and connections to our world (for example in some canons, Digimon base their form and shape on the content we throw in the internet, while in others they're the inspiration for millennia-old mythos and god figures), make it a very diverse way to get into the big picture, so there's always something out there for everyone. After I got older I managed to finally buy a vpet (since these never managed to reach my country, even now) and lots of mini figures too. Not to mention every year Bandai makes a Digimon-con, focusing on everything about it, which keeps us, fans in the West, with hopes to see more and more of those digital monsters here.

The story, character development as they grow up, and ending seeing them as adults is far better than anything Pokemon had

Season 3 in the US is such a good story. Gotta catch em all! vs. Existential crisis. It's amazing.

Funny thing: Digimon is still DOIN' FINE! Just last year, not only was the Adventure: reboot series localised and bought to a wider western audience on platforms like the Microsoft store and a new Adventure 02 movie was released domestically in Japan, but Discotek Media announced a brand new release of the first three Digimon short films redubbed in a more faithful form. If you haven't seen these movies yet, you definitely should. Digimon Adventure is one of the best anime OVAs I've ever seen and I'm hoping that the new release makes its way to the UK.

I've always been more of a pokemon fan, but I enjoyed having a separate series like Digimon. I remember watching the movie with my little brother in theaters and I remember an anon on 4chan talking about how that movie resulted in his parents divorcing because of the Angela Anaconda short before the movie. He started crying because they thought they were in the wrong movie and the parents started arguing with each other resulting in them leaving the theater and separating that night. I also used to have the Jurassic Park tamagatchi growing up and I had worked at DQ at the time they were doing the Digimon plushies.

Because capsule monster been used in the ultra series

I still have my original Gargomon figure I got at Toys R Us. I didnt even know what Digimon was yet, I just saw a rabbit in jeans with Machine gun arms and knew I had to have it, so I asked my mom like I knew what it was. 😂

One of the many great things about Digimon was that I felt like I grew up with the characters of seasons one and two. Their partners were intelligent and had feelings which brought awesome stories and dynamics. I recently got into the card game two years ago and it’s going fantastic I love it and join as many events as I can. Digimon is truly a gem. I hope one day digimon takes a more serious tone.

This is my first time watching the channel and feeling old. First few lines stating “over 30 years of story” made me realize I was so excited seeing the previews on Fox Kids for this awesome new show.

There were several other Digimon video games that weren't mentioned between main title Digimon World games. Such as Digimon Rumble Arena. There were also a hand full of games including Digimon World games for the Nintendo portables. Specifically the DS as I remember. Digimon World Dawn/Dusk and Digimon World Champion.

I was about 10 years too old to be into Pokémon (or consequently Digimon). I remember the Poke/Digi/Mon debates among my nephews tho. Seemed to be a pretty big debate.

The first season of Digimon was really good.

🎶 "Digimon. Digital monsters. Digimon are the Champions!"

I certainly had both a Tamagotchi and a Digimon. super fun toys. I was a cutting edge 10 year old in 1996 lol. Gotta say looking back, trying to raise a devimon or something better than a greymon was tough but rewarding.

Never was into Digimon, Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh or similar as a teen. I was never much of a fan of the Dragonball-Z, BeyBlade formate of just the same fight format over and over and assumed Digimon was the same. But I watched the series last year at the tender age of 50 and loved the characters and their arcs and the lessons and the world building. It's kinda awesome. And the theme song is killer. Never played any games or anything though.

Didn't have a Digimon or a Tamagotchi. But I did have a Star Wars Rancor Giga Pet which we were able to keep alive for about a year until the battery became so drained you could barely see the screen anymore.

You could start a drinking game based on how many times Dan says 'portmanteau'. I remember watching the digimon movie with my kids. Quite possibly the most quotable movie in film history. "Do you even know what a semi-conductor is?" "Guy who works part time on a train?"

The resurgence that the series got in its video game series due to Cybersleuth Complete Edition in 2019, will always be as special to me as watching the anime for the first time.

I'm glad Teknoman got a mention! Great series if you find the completed "International" version. The full story, in English and uncut! It's a classic and a real winner!

I still remember my reaction to the first mega evolution. I lost my mind.

I think what make whoever enters digimon from digimon seasons 3-onwards difficult to like first 2 seasons of Digimon was: willingness to have any superpowered beings that aren't digimon themselves(mostly from having living creatures made from computer data that aren't digimon, occassionaly from giving humans superpowers)

From what I knew, the name "Tamagotchi" it's actually a mix of 2 Japanese words: Tamago (egg) and Tomodachi (friend)

Glad to see you cover this-I definitely was swept up in the Poke/Digi wave of the late 90s/early 2000s, though I think I dropped off Digimon once Frontier hit.

Digimon always made me think of a mashup between Pokemon, dot//hack and power rangers

Hey, I like the retooled cold intro.

My tamagotchi v4.5 is still alive after 17 years and I didn’t realize it until I put a new battery in it….

All this time I thought Tamagachi was a pun of Tamago (egg) and Tomodachi (friend)

Tamago = egg Tomodachi = friend "Tamagochi" = egg-friend

Additional Digimon media left out from the video: Digimon Tri released in both subtitles and English dub In addition to Digimon Last Evolution Kizuna from Shout Factory now Shout Studios.

For the most part, it was pretty good.... there are some inaccuracies here and there, and you left out quite a few things; but I'm thankful for you to explain the origins of the franchise and not just focusing on the anime.

I was firmly in the Pokémon and Tamagochi camp...but Tamagochi hampered my Japanese for thinking it was "friends" but only until someone proved to me Tomodachi is the real friend. 😂

Butter-Fly will always be one of the best anime intros ever. The struggles and stakes were always higher in Digimon, so I always prefer it over Pokemon. Also I'll never choose any pokemon over Wargreymon and Omegamon.

Love this! Hope you tackle Medabots soon!

One of early digimon adventure movie was really impactful to me. It told the story when Agumon hatched from digi egg in real world. And Tai was around kindergarten age at that time while TK was still a baby. It really showed how difficult digimon which non-animal creature to live among human. Also the friendship between Tai and agumon was totally touched my heart emotionally. I didn't felt the same feeling in any other digimon series beside the 3rd series, digimon tamers. In tamers , the heavy , matured subjects were more emphasized. Like they literally shown the feral side of digimon after digivolution and how its affecting the digimon psyche and surrounding. There were consequences in human world and the fear of revealing digimon to other people and government agencies.

That theme song still slaps to this day and the transformation sequences remain utterly epic.

Longtime fan of both Pokémon and Digimon, and if I had to choose between them, I choose Digimon all day every day. They have always had better stories and way better characters. The only thing Pokémon has gone for it are its awesome video games.

I was really into Pokemon when it first came out but as soon as I started watching Digimon I left Pokemon behind. I recorded a vast majority of Digimon episodes on VHS as it was airing on TV when I was young. As an adult now I see how the Digimon TV show was highly edited by Saban to remove some of the more violent moments (like a Digimon getting a huge needle injection). Even as a kid I saw those edited moments in the show and I could just tell that something didn't seem right about it but I just couldn't understand why at the time. My favorite character was Metal Seadramon, I liked they way talked and I would even try to talk like that lol. Can't say I had too many Digimon toys but I did have a shapeshifting Greymon figure. I didn't have a Digimon virtual pet but I did have a Tamagotchi along with several other digital pet toys like a Pikachu and Nano Fighters (anybody remember those lol?). I bought a deck of the Digimon trading cards but I never got into them because I don't think anybody else I knew had them, whereas I got a lot of use out of my Pokemon cards since everybody had those.

Another great video from Dan Larson-mon.

I’ve always loved digimon. The art style and designs were always so interesting and unique.

I had the Digimon tamagotchi and I'm pretty sure they had 2 batteries that you could switch one at a time to save your pet. One battery was enough to keep the save.

I was really hoping for a "Digimon the Movie is a portmanteau..." joke. Thanks for not disappointing.

Good timing with Palworld becoming extremely popular and being called a Pokemon rip off