Please recommend me the best Digimon games.

when they finally made a digimon game based on the anime plotline they made it japan exclusive, bravo bandai

To list some of the reasons: - Marketing - Different main focuses (video games vs toys) - Video games being more accessible than the V-Pets (the mainline Digimon product) - The drop in quality of the Digimon Anime. And the most important one imo: - Bandai not having faith in Digimon’s success outside of Japan.

The answer is simple, MARKETING. The pokemon and Nintendo have pokemon EVERYWHERE. Bandai has great IPs, but is much more conservative with their marketing and the western audience.

Before watching, I theorize it mainly comes down to three things: 1. Timing: Pokemon started first and Digimon came shortly after, making people think Digimon was just a rip off of Pokemon. 2. Marketing: I remember seeing Pokemon stuff EVERYWHERE when I was younger. Digimon was kinda there, but not nearly as much. I think Pokemon was just marketed way better and more aggressively. 3. Character Designs: Pokemon designs were made to appeal to the broadest audience possible, like even non-gamers/casuals know and love Pikachu for instance. It's not the same with Digimon. Pokemon are made simpler and more cute, generally speaking.

I feel the protagonist of their respective franchise says a lot. Pokemon is just now leaving Ash behind after twenty plus years of just him. Meanwhile Digimon has had multiple different protagonist so it's always fresh.

If you think Digimon being accused of being a Pokemon rip-off was bad, it was even worse for Monster Rancher. Lmao😆😆😆

I think the main reason is because pokemon was more accessible to the more casual audience. They saw it as just cute little animals with a story so basic that a 5 year old could understand. Digimon got deeper into storyline and you had to pay attention to know whats going on.

Being a digimon channel myself, my loyalty is where it is, I think digimon are cooler, but my eyes are open. It's like when you see two people about to race, and one of them is a friend, and the other is whatever. You like your friend and you want the best for him... but you see the superior athleticism of the other guy from a mile away. Good luck, friend.

A lot of it boils down to inconsistency. With Pokemon, you generally know what you're going to get regardless of which angle you're coming at it from (the show, the games, the TCG, etc). Digimon is a lot more all over the place. This can be a double edge sword. They were less afraid to be a lot more experimental with the Digimon franchise which sometimes worked but a lot of the times completely flopped. But I think Digimon is getting better about having a cohesive brand identity now though which is why it's having a gradual rise in popularity the past couple years

You said Agumon isn’t as cute as Pikachu and my almost 6 year old daughter heard it from across the room and wants me to defend his cuteness. I have the first 2 Adventure series and she has seen Last Evolution Kizuna. She wants everyone to know Agumon is cute.

I just thought Digimon just came out after Pokémon and couldn’t be the first to introduce the concept of mons in the entertainment industry. But as you said in the video, there are other reasons besides the bad timing the developers made. The more I think about it, the more I realized that I was (and still am to some extent) more interested in Pokémon than Digimon, because of those 9 other reasons.

Me over here appreciating both worlds despite the good and the bad. 😎

My friend tried to get me into Pokemon, I tried it for awhile, but it felt like that it was for a different demographic. Plus I hated that all the Pokemon only said their names, which got annoying to me. Then I found Digimon and it was more up my alley. Yeah at times it was goofy, but damn I really enjoyed the first two seasons, and the third was ok, but that's where I left the Digimon world. Only ever played the original PSone game. Really enjoyed this video and learned some interesting facts. Thanks.

My mom had called Digimon a pokemon ripoff and banned watching it. After becoming an adult and watching it. Im surprised that she thought that. Digimon was so good.

I'd argue another reason Pokemon has mantained it's popularity is, because it has alwaus remained in the public eye, since the anime is has never really had long hiatuses, unlike Digimon where it doesn't always get yearly anime releases, or have other things to help sustian itself in the public's eyes

I think you missed a small detail here. I think pokemon names are much more marketable than digimon names. Digimon names could be kinda hard to remember sometimes. Pokemon on the other hand always went with "punny" names like "Torchic" for a fire type bird pokemon which made it easier to remember.

As both a Digimon and Pokemon lover, I really do wish Digimon got a lot more love. The anime compared to the Pokemon one had always stuck with me more seeing the crazy stuff the Digital World is for these creatures. Also, nothing will compare to just how insane Digivolutions are and how hard they go too. Digimon is the only thing that can get away with a hamster with freakish teeth, a flying hamster with wings for ears, a man angel with luscious hair and then that same man getting cooler hair and an outfit. If no one guessed, im talking about the Patamon line. Also it can become a pegasus sometimes ig you give it the right DigiEgg.

I kinda like the fact that Digimon became a niche market and it's kind of a cult classic now imo

Both are good. In my opinion.

Reason 9 I think is probably the most valid reason for most people I think. I love digimon, but the lack of canonical evolutionary lines is kind of killing itself. It fine to have some branching evolutions but not every single mon. Reason 10 isn't helping the situation either. Games are suppose to help simplify the concept by having the player preform the task. Digimon Dawn and Dusk I feel did this really well and even cybersleuth to some extent did it well too, cause it had canonical evolutionary lines that were easy for new players to grasp. But that's going to be short lived unfortunately

As a child i couldnt get into digimon because pokemon felt weirdly MORE personal since they're like the actual wildlife of their universe while digimon are alive but they're also like a computer code program tho?

this was really well done and as unbiased an opinion as it gets

It’s also worth noting that Pokémon has the literal Pokémon Company. Which is dedicated to organizing and marketing Pokémon as a brand on a global level. Digimon is owned by Namco Bandai and has never pushed the series anywhere near as hard on any front.

I always thought digimon was better than pokemon cause of its connection to friendship and bonds more so than Going Out and capturing small critters and making them fight

I want to say that the story changing wasn't so much of a negative so much that the fandom just didn't feel the need to follow it. For Pokemon, it was still with Ash during the period that the main fandom were starting to out grow cartoons... so some still stayed because it was still Ash. But for Digimon, since they were feeling like they were outgrowing cartoons... Of course, once we had the internet, we could watch cartoons at our own time. But back then, cartoons were at specific times and us older kids just couldn't always make time for all of them... so we had to choose between the Ash we loved or some new randos we didn't care about....

The only reason I can remember is that not enough kids liked the idea of digital monsters when we had pocket monsters. I was a total computer nerd like my dad and loved digimon more than pokemon and would often argue with friends who tried to say it was a rip-off of pokemon. I will always love digimon and it has been a core part of how I grew up, I personally felt that once they came out with frontier it just wasn't worth trying to figure out how the story connected (because I was young and didn't understand that after season two it was a new story) so I think that played a part in its over all downfall when pokemon felt like one continuous journey with no end

Here's a friendly reminder that Digimon has much more in common with the Cthulhu Mythos and Shin Megami Tensei than Pokemon. No, I am not kidding. In fact, Digimon Tamers' writer, Chiaki J. Konaka, _is_ a Cthulhu Mythos writer.

Popular doesn't mean better though. Pokémon is entirely focused on being popular and marketable to its target audience and digimon is more focused on doing its own thing. While this misses sometimes the end result is a more engaged fanbase

Digimon had better designs. Pokemon was more kid friendly while Digimon was darker. The anime had better songs for Pokemon. Nintendo did a good marketing with the games since Pokemon games were better. Digimon just needed an extra push it was on FOX kids, never saw it on cartoon network or local television. Bandai Digimon figures were better but Pokemon had too much of a variety in products.

I’ve always been a huge fan of Pokémon and Digimon. Digimon being more of my favorite as I generally like the stories and designs more, the battles, the names/designs that come from cool words or mythological figures (as they’re straight up educational and taught me the Roman name of gods, the Four Symbols, what Omega and Alpha meant, and etc.), and personally for me, has my all time 3 favorite things in it: knights, dragons, and giant robots. Sometimes even having a fusion of two of the three! XD I’ve always been a huge fan and excited to tell others that I’m such a big fan and still watching Digimon. Only to get hurt when the other person says “Wow Digimon is still going?!” Physically hurts my gut everytime! TuT

I think another big aspect too, is that Pokemon in all its media, is about collecting. You collect the monsters in the game, Ash collects them in the show and you collect the cards. In Digimon you only collect the cards, but the characters are bound to the digimon they get, which has its own merit of course. But the "Gotta Catch em All!" really creates a cycle where introducing new guys pulls you back in. Any Pokemon can be yours, and the same is not true for Digimon in the games or anime. Collecting things is fun.

Honestly, Digimon was my thing growing up. I actually agree with these reasons. It's a shame a lot of people quickly saw Digimon as a Pokemon rip off. Especially when there's proof it never was one in the first place.

Pokemon is more consistent with anime, movies, cards and games. Digimon has several different anime, movies and games that are extremely divisive with the fandom

Apples to oranges is what it is. I really liked both, but I never thought of them as being that comparable. It's like comparing Mega Man or Castlevania to Animal Crossing. Pokemon and Digimon are completely different beyond a few superficial commonalities. You do bring up a good point though how Pokemon had a better sense of identity and direction. Pokemon cards had a better aesthetic and variation, the anime catered towards a broader audience, and I don't need to mention how Pokemon dominates with video games. Anyone into Digimon was most likely already into Pokemon, but most Pokemon fans had no interest in Digimon, and many of them never even branched out into other anime. Digimon never had the right ingredients and opportunity to grow bigger, whereas Pokemon was backed by the might of Nintendo. While on Sega and PlayStation, Digimon also had to complete against Monster Rancher, Final Fantasy, and a dozen other monster games and RPGs. Season 2 concluding all of the character stories, which made season 3 something of an awkward reset for many Digimon fans to get into, further pushed Digimon into the shadows. Any remaining hope for Digimon was probably stolen by Yu-Gi-Oh more than Pokemon.

From having had involvement with both, Pokemon is the "safe" end of things. It doesn't really mess with things too much. Even most evolutions are things like a bird that turns into a bigger bird, which also turns into an even bigger bird. Digimon, on the other hand for me, is the concept of possibility in a franchise. The non-static evolution lines made me feel more open to playing around to try out new monsters. It even showed in the TCGs for both franchises. Pokemon went out of its way to segregate sets of cards. As an example, you couldn't evolve to Dark Charizard (Rocket set) from Charmeleon (Base set). You needed to have the specific named "Dark Charmeleon" to use the Team Rocket set Dark Charizard. Meanwhile, Digimon was out there going "You want Meramon? Cool. Do you have Agumon? No? How about Biyomon?" it felt more fun to play for that reason. The only reason I could think of where it had issues was that it was on Fox's kid's programming block in the afternoon at the same time Pokemon was on KidsWB (Sure it changed later, and they weren't in competition by the time the anime hit Adventures 02, but it did happen).

Look at pikachu design you immediately look that Mickey Mouse

When I was a kid, what definitely turned off my interest was when the Digimon took on human-like characteristics. It would annoy me so much lol

I think the core issue with Digimon is there is no brand consistency, which Pokemon was able to achieve. Say what you will about the main series of Pokemon (I certainly do), but each game has a similar feel to one another, that "Pokemon" feel. This extends to the merchandising, TCG, spin-off games, manga, anime, etc. Pokemon has maintained this relevance because of how consistent the brand is. Digimon does not have this. Every game feels wildly different, the quality of each game and anime release has insanely differing levels of quality (to the point where even the fanbase can't agree on which ones are good), and Bandai just never seems to know what they wanted out of Digimon and every attempt at nostalgia bait has failed or went relatively unknown. I say this not to hate on Digimon, as I did appreciate my time as fan of the franchise, but it just hasn't kept me hooked like Pokemon has. I want better for Digimon, but I'm not entirely sure where Bandai or Digimon goes from here.

The mascot should've been Patamon

I grew up loving both. Indigo League & Adventure 1 had a lot of heart and humor. They were the main reasons I got up early on Saturday mornings. Digimon World and Cyber Sleuth were the only digimon games I've played though, as opposed to Pokemon, which I've played every gen.

Digimon is more experimental with the entire franchise whether it be shows games or the tcg. It hits deeper psychological themes and even in its earliest more simple renditions it's more mature. Obviously not for everyone. Pokémon is easier to digest because it's softer. I respect Pokémon but Digimon is superior for that.

4:44 unfortunately veemon doesn't exist when the first digimon tamagotchi launch, if you want a alternative mascot to agumon, either will be tyrannomon or betamon(or any vpet version 1 digimon), because these three appeared in the same time.

It's simple. Bandai is giving Digimon the Mega Man treatment. lol

I love Digimon. 😂 My favorite season is Digimon S3: Tamers. The Digimon movie is GOATED🎉

Bandai give close to no fucks about Digimon, and thus, barely markets it.

Your Bonus Reason may be more key than most people realize. I do not see Agumon becoming endearing to female demographics like Pikachu.

Easy: Because Bandai gives a sh... about Digimon. And they give a shit about the fans. On the last Digimon Convention they said: "We have fans in europe?" More than you think pal. -.- Here in germany we don´t get any and with that I mean absolutely NONE advertisement for Digimon since Adventure ended.

Other reasons: Nintendo & Pokemon has a solid footing in the female demographic, never underestimate the God tier power of Plushies. Both are struggling as monster battling franchise, but Pokemon is also going the Hello Kitty route

Sounds like digimon never had an identity

I don't think that Digimon is less popular than Pokemon when we know Digimon is very popular in Japan like Pokemon and that we even get a new Digimon movie this years with the fact that Digimon World: Next Order Steam and Switch port was received very positively by the community. However I think it's more inverted about Digimon be more popular than Pokemon in those modern time unlike the past and, if someone ask me why, I invite those people to check an eye into the Pokemon community reaction about those last Pokemon game like Sword / Shield, Legend of Arceus, Scarlet and Return of Detective Pikachu. I'm not sure how people react about it in others country but, in my own country, I never see so much Pokemon fanboys be so much upset about those last Pokemon games that it even have create 2 clans inside the Pokemon community: From one of them there is the clan of "The graphics are ugly, there are somes lags and glitch issue, the story is too short and the difficult is too easy, we need to spend money into DLC for get others missing Pokemon unlike the past when we get all the Pokemon creature already in the game without need DLC" and in the other side we have the clan of "The game is perfect, the graphics are so good and it deserve a good review of 20/20 without have any kind of issue and it must be the GOTY in the Game Awards for each years at coast" so, of course, when those 2 clans meet each others and not agreed each others, it end up with a lot of rage with a lot of insult more and less vulgar like someone who ask to check an eye again on the grass texture due to be ugly and ask that the guy who think it's perfect must get somes eyes for his face while others think the water texture are beautifull and that, those who think it's ugly, they need to buy somes glasses for their eyes. Also sometimes I meet up somes people who roasts the Pokemon new game by troll and say it's a good to see a GCN/PS2 reissue on the Switch because the graphics itself. However, when there was Scarlet released the last years, I see more people than before throw so much hate and that I even see somes of them who swear with anger that between Pokemon and them it's over for good and tey think that the Pokemon serie is dead for them. I even have a friend in USA who like so much the Pokemon serie since a long time ago and Scarlet didn't really interest it due to a lot of issue that he hear about it. However when I advice him to buy Digimon Cyber Sleuth on the Switch, he give a try and he wasn't disappoint and even told me he admit that it's a bit more better than Pokemon so I feel like he stab back the Pokemon serie by say that but I admit he doesn't have wrong since the story, graphics and gameplay seem more better while I see so much people be upset about story, gameplay and graphics in those last Pokemon game. Also, to be honnest, I don't care about the Pokemon serie but, since the Pokemon community in my own country enjoy act like a clown in public, I always click on the new Pokemon video released by Nintendo on KZfaq but I pause the video just for be focus and enjoy the wars in the comment section of Pokemon who is more fun than the Pokemon trailer video itself and I'm never disapoint about how they are so upset between each others about who gonna have the best argue and who gonna have the best roasts. So I guess it's a sort of consolation prize due to Nintendo who don't care by still don't do anything for a new Star Fox and Kid Icarus game on the Switch since 6 years just like Metroid Prime 4 who have been announced there was 6 years ago and no more official news about it like the content inside the game if a side online mode is planned or no or about a short gameplay teaser trailer since it feel like, in a jokes way without be serious, that Nintendo is about to be bankrupt due to mainly care about the same grab money game very popular in Japan with more than 10 Pokemon games, 6 Kirby games and 5 Fire Emblem games and a lot of old Mario game port from previous console who get a lot of success like Paper Mario TTYD from GCN, Luigi's Mansion 2 from 3DS and somes Wii U games port to the Switch and be sold to a expensive price like of those games never exist before despite we know the story like Peach is possessed at the end of TTYD and Mario is captured in a paint by the King Boo that the Mario paint is fully reveal in the final mansion (yeah free spoiler for somes old game who gonna be release next years on the Switch so no need to thank me😁) on the Switch than take care about their other serie who don't have much or nothing on the Switch like no new Star Fox and Kid Icarus games and just 2 Metroid games since 6 years on the Switch. However the Pokemon community always made me laught so much when they complaint about the new Pokemon game that they just got by not be happy about it and want asap a new Pokemon game for forget the one they just have and when they get a new Pokemon game, they complaint about the same things again and want again asap a new game. Like say Shockwave it's illogical. So, for concluate, maybe the Pokemon serie is still popular but, in my own country, the serie start to lose his popularity and be less liked unlike the past so seem like that too much grab money game kill the grab money game so, if it was for do this, I would definitively prefer see somes true Nintendo video game on the Switch like a new Star Fox, Kid Icarus, Metroid, F-Zero and somes others Nintendo games who appear rarely than another Pokemon game being released every years in a Call of Duty style just for the money with a Pokemon community who doesn't stop crying like a cry baby on each new game because the game isn't perfect enough for them.

It doesn't help that Digimon never had a consistent series of games as a backbone. The game side of the franchise has always been wildly varied in rules, roster, and tone to the point where knowing one or two of them would give you no useful information for the next one.

basically pokemon's main strength was maintaining consistency.

Digimon is kind of like the midway point between Megami Tensei and Pokémon

4 reasons. 1. only 1 digimon per tamer. Sure the games vary greatly on how many digimon a person trains with, but popular belief based on the shows tells people they can't catch them all, and in fact can only pick 1. 2. Dumb names for digivolutions. Rookie, Champion, Ultimate, & Mega? They're data! Obviously should have been Byte, Kilo, Mega, Giga, & Tera. Even Digivolution itself should be called Upgrading, while temporary boosts should be called Patches or Mods. 3. Not enough emphasis on type advantages. There is a rock, paper, scissors function to most of the games, either with elements or types (Vaccine, Data, Virus) But this concept could be expanded on a little bit and given more relevance in the shows. 4. Too many variations of the same digimon and inconsistent branches of variation. slap Shadow, Black, Skull, or Dark to the name of anything to make it evil, or give them a power up complete with full transformation that somehow is not a digivolution.

I know visual design is subjective but I feel like it’s almost an objectively correct statement to just say pokemon looks better

Personally, I find Digimon more intriguing. From the concept(who wouldn’t want a digital companion) to world building and lore to the story, characters, monster designs and branching evolutions is so much better to me.

It's crazy cause I love Digimon more than Pokemon.

I watch Digimon for the plot

the funny thing is. Sonic actually not popular in Japan but in US sonic is everywhere

Wow. Interesting. I liked both franchises as a kid. Now I am just a hardcore Pokemon fan. The main reason is that the Pokemon creatures themselves looked better. This is especially true for the first two generations. That would make it even harder for Digimon to gain popularity. I like Pokemon better than all other monster collection franchises for this reasons. Other examples are things like Yu-Gi-Oh, Monster Rancher and Bakugan. Pokemon stand out to me mainly because the designs are so cute, especially the lower stages. Stuff like Pikachu, Eevee, Jigglypuff and the three Kanto starters are absolute gold. Heck I even like Seel and Sunflora for being so cute and appealing. They are so underrated. This video gets into that issue as well as others. There even some things in Pokemon that I gained new appreciation for. Pokemon is very consistent through time, and it is very repetitious. It does get criticized a lot. However maybe that is a good thing. Digimon changed a lot, and it ended up alienating a lot of fans. At least Pokemon doesn't have this problem. It also doesn't suffer from huge divisions in the fan base. The one noteworthy division is between Genwunners and everybody else. Ugh Genwunners. Screw those guys. They are the Pokemon version of the conservative uncle that is such a killjoy. Nobody would like them. I have been a fan since the later part of gen 1. I have a lot nostalgia for the first two generations. However I can still enjoy the new generations just fine. I am especially fond of gen 6 and Legends Arceus. I even enjoyed the notorious gen 8 games. They are fun games for a regular casual player. I especially like the innovations in the wild area and the dynamax gimmick. Pokemon is very formulaic true. However to its credit, each new generation has new creatures, new regions and new game mechanics. That is something. Maybe Pokemon lasts so long because it strikes a good balance between consistency and innovation. There is the evolution thing. I think it is cool that Digimon has multiple forms. I didn't know that would be too confusing. The Digimon changes can be a bit out there. When I was a kid, I was confused by two Digimon that were in the Digidestined group. I don't remember the names. I just remembered the wolf rookie evolved into the walrus champion, while the walrus rookie evolved into the wolf champion. That was weird. It is sort of explained that the walrus rookie has a wolf pelt. I don't know. Pokemon is a lot more consistent. Pokemon normally look like they came from the previous form. Some can be easily explained with metamorphosis, like the Caterpie and Poliwag lines. Eevee is the Pokemon with the weirdest evolution. Yet even that is understandable since all forms look vaguely like foxes. Granted Espeon is more cat-like, but overall it is still close enough. It is psychic. A cat form would make sense, since cats are associated with witchcraft and the supernatural. There are hardly any Pokemon lines that stand out as irrational evolutions. The Magikarp and Dratini lines are really weird. However they are based on folklore, so drastic changes make sense. I have become quite fond of the imugi of Korean folklore. That is what the Dratini line is based on. Another weird one is the Remoraid line. However that is consistent with being sea creatures based on weapons. The connection is more apparent in the beta designs. I didn't know that understandable evolutions would be so helpful.

I prefer the digimon franchise when it comes to story and the digimons digivolution and lifecycle and all. pokemon on the other hand had the gaming part down way better but is fumbling pretty hard in the last couple generations while digimon games seem to get a little better lol

What if The Powerpuff Girls had Pokémon Team

I used to like Digimon much more than Pokemon. I always felt that Digimon was aimed at slightly older viewers in the 10-12 age range while Pokemon could reach 3-10 ages which is a bit wider. But what made me drop off Digimon was when the first season ended. I felt that it ended too soon considering that it took nearly the whole series to really get attached to the characters. I felt that there was a lot more story to explore. When season two started, I didn't like it all that much because it didn't feel like the original Digimon series and they introduced too many new characters too fast. I tried to give the series a chance but by the time season three came around it might as well have been a different anime series if you took out the Digimon name and brand. I think that Digimon changed its identity too fast and too frequently to sustain an audience compared to Pokemon. Pokemon changed at a slower pace while keeping the fundamental elements of what made it work present. I feel that the producers of the Digimon series didn't have the patience to establish a larger audience and take them on a longer journey with the original characters.

I personally like that Digmon's evolution lines aren't 'fixed' since the games have an emphasis on the way you raise them, giving each experience a bit more of a unique feel to it (e.g., raising a Greymon with high discipline gives you MetalGreymon, but SkullGreymon otherwise). I do agree, though, that some evolutions are way too farfetched thematically, Gatomon into Angewomon being the prime example, and might be a turn off for some.

The issue is that there was multiple creature based video games and animated movies/series at the time when Digimon came around and instead of finding it's own place they decided to ditch the western market and become Japan exclusive for nearly 2 decades with only occasional releases for the west (EU and US), You can't blame people in the west for moving on, there is a whole generation that never properly experinced Digimon and the more recent games and animated movies/series are living of nostalgia that people back during the late 90's early 2000's experinced.

Digimon is cool and my parents are fine with me watching it as they watched when they were. Young

Definitely agree with all the points given Marketability is a pretty good point, because pikachu has a very cute and simplistic design while agumon, while he has his charm, is a little more rough around the edges. Like, imagine a kid trying to draw these two and think of which one would be easier Veemon definitely would’ve been better, or perhaps patamon since he’s basically like the togepi of the group, and like pikachu he has a very cute and simplistic design that’s sure to be appealing towards kids (until he evolves anyways. Veemon works more like a starter mon in that regard, starting out cool then becoming *awesomeness*)

Its funny, as i was growing up i always played the pokemon games but for the past ones i felt a bit dissapointed and got into digimon and now is my favorite of the two

Here's my two cents. first; one think I preferred about pokemon was that they only evolved once, in game and show. Digimon go back and forth in there stages, and the anime just used that as filler. Second; I don't know where the hate for Digimon Fronter comes from. I liked this one because the kids fought there own battles. They didn't just send there pets into a fight and watch from the sidelines.

I grew up with both pokemon and digimon and I love both equally al yeah that's true,if digimon's mascot was gatomon since she's just as cute as pikachu,I think they would've helped the digimon francise,people love cute things,pikachu is cute,gatomon is cute,soooo yeah XD that just made sense in my head,I wouldn't know a better digimon mascot than an adorable cat with a tail ring,plus it can also be considered a counterpart thing,pokemon mascot mouse,digmon mascot cat,also I like your digimon mascot idea,veemon is also cute,and smarter than davis,I did not like davis XD veemon though he was cute and not annoying like davis was,I probably also hated davis cause he took the leadership from tai (I'm sorry for rambling,my mind likes to do that when I have things on my mind)

Timing didnt help either. When pokemon and Digimon first aired in the west the major mentality was Cartoon=small kids. Digimon had much darker stories and delt with serious issues where as pokemon had none of that (first movie is an exeption). The people the digimon anime was aimed towards were not watching cartoons anymore. Had the two been released nowadays I think Digimon would have done a whole lot better.

Better say these... Ok yeah I'll agree with that one. There were some very questionable designs the Digimon development team chose to create and implement into the show that weren't sexual. They were downright disgusting. The ugly green Digimon that looks like an alien blob with two antenna eyes was one of the more disgusting ones. The Pokemon Grimer and Muk is much more appealing than that ugly thing. Strict parents back in the 90's and early 2000's are all hypocrites if you didn't know. They would purposefully steer their kids away from a lot of foreign cartoons because "MeRiCa' OnLy!", but will glorify for their kids American cartoon violence such a Tom & Jerry and Looney Tunes where guns, hammers, swords and all sorts of weaponry were used for violence, sports where violence is present (football, wrestling and boxing), literally any super hero show or movie with violence (and guns to add to the parental hypocrisy) especially Harley Quinn and the Joker's corrupt streak, etc. This same thing happened with Pokemon back at the time. Although some of this is still present in today's standards it's not as bad since most of the 90's and early 2000's kids are all grown up now so they can watch these without their hypocritical parents around to stop them. Anime cartoons were heavily looked down upon at the time and it went full circle to heavy praise today. Thankfully my parents were more understanding and never minded one bit with violence in kid's anime cartoons or a few sexual characters here or there because they knew we used something that the plebians don't use which is called "discernment " which is knowing the difference between what's fiction and what's not. Understanding that what you're watching is ok (depending on what it is) and knowing what to expect. If it gets out of control then stop watching. *American parents when they see their kids watching a Marvel/DC cartoon or movie where characters are using guns or see provocatively dressed girls* "Oh my kids love this new violent Batman movie! It starts off with an intense gun fun between the police and thugs, but Batman later shows up to help. Oh there was even a scene where Harley Quinn came out dressed in a micro bikini alongside six other girls before they all pulled out assualt rifles from inside their cleavage." *Also American parents the second they see a gun or a provocatively dressed girl in a kids anime cartoon* "STOP WATCHING THIS JAP STUFF AND GO GET READY FOR FOOTBALL PRACTICE!" Aside from parental hypocrisy yes, Digimon's start and popularity isn't as high or mentioned much compared to Pokemon. To the parents only that hate foreign cartoons with violence and sexuality, but will praise the American things I mentioned today that are exactly in Japanese cartoons today or irl, please continue being hypocritical, most especially the carnal Christians (fake Christians).

Way I see it is that Digimon has the better show, but Pokémon has the better games. Granted, I REALLY liked the last couple games Digimon had WAY more than Pokémon Gen 6 onwards.

An added to that most of the Digimon look like just straight up human

Maybe the fact that digimon had so few seasons while pokemon never stopped airing, i enjoyed digimon (season 3 was too dark for my tasting) as well as pokemon, but Pokémon was repetitive

Ok I agree with some of this stuff but we can all agree that a digemon can beat up almost any pokemon depending one what digemon and pokemon

I love Digimon as a concept and am one of those people that was enamored by the first 3 seasons, but at present I think the franchise as a whole is hot garbage. The people in charge of it have no idea what they want, end up writing mediocre nonsense (ghost game), and in general drove what I consider to be the best concept for an isekai into the ground. I was deeply moved by the first two (and to a lesser extent three) seasons, but now I'm just sad at what this property has become.

We have to all collectively stop saying Pokemon clones they're all monster games/ franchises. Pokemon needs competition and havimg a variety of monster catching games is always a good thing.

my thoughts on the reasons. Reason 2: Yes but no. Pretty much every digimon story, aside from Adventure, is self-contained. You can watch Digimon Tamers with no prior knowledge on what a digimon is. And most of the stories are actually pretty good, Tamers I'd say is deff something an Adult could enjoy even if they don't like Digimon. Pokémon has over 1000 episodes if I recall, and pretty much every episode repeats itself. Also Ash constantly reset himself and was 10 forever, where as Digimon you actually grew up. It's not that Digimon is complicated, it's that Pokémon is so simple you can hardly call it a story. Reason 5/7: This can be said for literally any franchise. Reason 6: kind of goes with reason 2, but I think this is actually a good thing. How many Pokémon fans actually watched all of Pokémon? Pretty much every Digimon fan has seen at least one of these seasons. Reason 9/10: I don't like repeating the same thing every time i enter a franchise. That's just my opinion. Bonus: This is true. But Digimon was meant to be marketed towards boy's, so Agumon being rough actually makes sense. But you right, Veemon probally would have been better. pretty good reasons except for 5/7, I feel like that's redundant.

I grew up with VHS of Pokemon and their games but I did have a cd of data squad. I really miss data squad despite crying a few times since it was scary for young me haha. I do agree that the games, for me, personally I had no interest in but on the other hand I really enjoyed the anime. It was really emotional from the clarity of deaths and such. Pokemon saying their names is what reminds me of their names. I still don't know the Dino's name or his evolution despite watching the whole series when I was young. The Digimon anime didn't really relate to the games and the most desirable took a long time to be made into English. If only they had playground rumors about some cool Digimon I'm sure the game would have skyrocketed.

Philippines: Poor ratings and Legislative franchise lapsed (Digimon sa ABS-CBN) Italy: Poor ratings and budget reasons plus the intense competition with Mediaset. (Digimon su Rai 2)

Digimon was about saving the world with your friends, Pokemon was about being the best. Never understood why it was more popular.

Never saw a video like this before

I think one of my favorite Digimon is Wizardmon. Because one: he reminded me of one of my favorite Naruto characters: Yota. He's not a wizard but they look similar. Two: I love wizards.

Western parents be overly protective

Back when they showed Digimon adventure and adventure 2 here in the Netherlands I enjoyed both animes, by the time I even learned there were other seasons of digimon America was up to Digimon frontier

Reason 7 is basically what the sonic community is like

As a fan of both Digimon and Pokemon, what annoys me most was: both make their respective titular species only superpowered beings that exist, when Digimon are adventure sequels/reboots and Pokemon anime shoehorns Ash and Team Rocket trio

Think the change of style wasn't that bad on the series, but it was very evident on the videogames, they were massively different, which, considering they weren't still a well stablished series, drove away fans of the previous game when releasing next one Also, I am not sure the shows were oriented to the same ppl, think Digimon was oriented towards slightly older audience, take Tamers for instance with Juri, or a more recent case (pun intended) with Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth, where there's a sidequest where we have a Digimon that is tired of only being seen as a weapon and decides to... umm, erase his own data, there's multiple occult references and there's another case involving both sexual dolls AND kidnapping / organ harvesting / murder

You know what just because a series isn't as popular as one franchise doesn't mean its inferior or trash Digimon to me are the underdogs of the entertainment and you always root for the underdog because the underdog can beat a powerful foe if they put effort into it.

The two main reasons are that the games weren’t as consistent and accessible as Pokemon, and the anime constantly changing the main cast every season and resetting the continuity makes it difficult for the fan to remain invested

I think a main reason why Digimon is not as popular is that it is a traditional style anime with a plot with twists, turns, a dark side and resolution. Pokemon is a fun anime with a very simple plot to follow with not much development or growth in most the characters. As a franchise Pokemon is massive and the marketibility speaks for itself. Digimon no doubt the more indepth and edgey story isn't something that would be accepted universally.

Don't forget that some seasons were inconsistent like Adventure 2,Frontier(it's sad that it spawned my favorite Digmon opening song) a,Adventure Tri and I think the Digmon Adventure reboot.

Their own fault I never watched it. It came out just after pokémon, so I assumed it would be a crappy rip-off, example, 4:40, bootleg Charmander.. Finally watched it YEARS later, I was wrong, very wrong. Still their fault it flopped due to timing.

The actual reason its not qs popular qs pokemon is this main factor Pokemon allows you to bring your pokemon from the first gen to the 9th gen somewhat Digimon doesn't let you bring your digimon over to the next game

Betsumon is one of my favorite Digimon designs because he encapsulates why I prefer Digimon designs over Pokemon's. Generally, I would state these as my reasons. 1) Timing 2) Marketing. Pokemon has a marketing powerhouse backing them up, and Nintendo was a household name. Meanwhile, for most of Digimon's existence like... maybe almost half the games Digimon had actually left Japan. Maybe if the Wonderswan did better it would have helped a bit. And, yes, Pokemon is more marketable. It is the most profitable multimedia franchise ever and most money it makes is off merch and PGo. A broken game or 3 is not enough to harm such a strong brand. 3) Not as formulaic. Obviously, due to Digimon's various changes I can get that it wouldn't hold an audience. I've heard people say they dropped off when Tamers came out because it was different. That said, at this point I've seen people say Digimon has had trouble finding an identity when I think the variety *is* the identity. It is both a boon and issue for both; that Digimon maintained variety, basically becoming something similar to Final Fantasy while Pokemon remained consistent. 4) The games being less consistent. That being said, I've seen some people say Digimon should have a main, consistent series despite already having two, the Story and World series. If this was 15 years ago, sure, I would understand, but Story has been fairly consistent since inception, only having major changes once Cyber Sleuth came along, while World returned to its roots with ReDigitize. But the fact that a lot of Digimon games never came outside Japan does not do them any favors. Fun fact: last I checked, if you googled "When did Digimon come out?", Google will not give you when the franchise came out, it will give you when the anime came out.

Franchises like Pokemon and Yu-Gi-Oh are easier to market because of the collecting aspect of it and how easy it is to turn it into a game. You cant do much with Digimon.

Digimon could be bigger than bandai thinks i mean its lasted this long. My 7 year old boy started off with pokemon until i told him tobwatch digimon one day and he loved it. Weve played the x digivices and collect the new cards and next order on switch and for his bday i got him the vital hero. He loves both franchises but really likes digimon alot more. Of they marketed more in the us it would be bigger. The new anime dub on hulu is great but no toys or anything to coincide with ot being realsed its crazy

Though Digimon is not famous as Pokemon, both of them are still parts of my childhood.