Digimon vs Pokemon?
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This one is biased sadly, but my points are as follows:
Digimon has the best story out of the two by far, I love the dark themes of the anime that are still okay for kids, it's also very well written (not counting the first series which I can't stand) and has a overall better show. I feel the Pokemon franchises stories to be lack luster at best, but I guess the series shouldn't really be deep, it's best to be light-hearted and still keep it's little adult jokes in occasionally.
For characters, It depends on whether we look at the human characters or the Pokemon/Digimon. For human characters, I can say that Digimon is better because the characters aren't one dimensional and I can feel connected to some of them. Not that I hate the Pokemon human characters, I like them but they aren't on the same level. For non humans, I far prefer the designs of Pokemon compared to Digimon, they look so much better and much more inventive to me and they don't all have mon at the end of their names, which honestly annoys me.)
Never played a Digimon game past the first one, but I play Pokemon games all the time. They are fantastic games (for the most part). I can't come to a conclusion since I haven't played Digimon games, but thought I would pitch in some thoughts about each series.
Digimon has the best story out of the two by far, I love the dark themes of the anime that are still okay for kids, it's also very well written (not counting the first series which I can't stand) and has a overall better show. I feel the Pokemon franchises stories to be lack luster at best, but I guess the series shouldn't really be deep, it's best to be light-hearted and still keep it's little adult jokes in occasionally.
For characters, It depends on whether we look at the human characters or the Pokemon/Digimon. For human characters, I can say that Digimon is better because the characters aren't one dimensional and I can feel connected to some of them. Not that I hate the Pokemon human characters, I like them but they aren't on the same level. For non humans, I far prefer the designs of Pokemon compared to Digimon, they look so much better and much more inventive to me and they don't all have mon at the end of their names, which honestly annoys me.)
Never played a Digimon game past the first one, but I play Pokemon games all the time. They are fantastic games (for the most part). I can't come to a conclusion since I haven't played Digimon games, but thought I would pitch in some thoughts about each series.
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For me I always split the non-human characters (A.K.A the Digimon/pokemon) into two main characteristics. The Design and their name.
In design, Digimon was, is and will always be the obvious winner. They are far better designed and because of the Digivolution gimmick, it allows for far more freedom in designing stronger digimon unlike Pokemon's Three evolution limit. They look much more badass (biased opinions are biased) and just generally... soo awesome. I mean, Metal Greymon and characters like him still give me goosebumps.
Pokemon on the other hand has lost its touch when it comes to making up new pokemon. Sure, digimon has got its own fare share of bad or weirdly designed digimon but in the end, Pokemon takes the price with pokemon based off of two coned icecreams and swords...
Now sadly on the naming, I would have to agree that Digimon was never good in naming their digimon. Apart from the obvious "mon" after each name, all names are just... so obvious. For example Devimon. Oh I wonder what that stands for. "Devimon" = "Devil Monsters". Or "Seadramon" = "Sea Dragon Monster". Not mentioning how many names are often overused. Pokemon has had better names but eh.
IN the end though, my love for Digimon is... just heaps lol.
In design, Digimon was, is and will always be the obvious winner. They are far better designed and because of the Digivolution gimmick, it allows for far more freedom in designing stronger digimon unlike Pokemon's Three evolution limit. They look much more badass (biased opinions are biased) and just generally... soo awesome. I mean, Metal Greymon and characters like him still give me goosebumps.
Pokemon on the other hand has lost its touch when it comes to making up new pokemon. Sure, digimon has got its own fare share of bad or weirdly designed digimon but in the end, Pokemon takes the price with pokemon based off of two coned icecreams and swords...
Now sadly on the naming, I would have to agree that Digimon was never good in naming their digimon. Apart from the obvious "mon" after each name, all names are just... so obvious. For example Devimon. Oh I wonder what that stands for. "Devimon" = "Devil Monsters". Or "Seadramon" = "Sea Dragon Monster". Not mentioning how many names are often overused. Pokemon has had better names but eh.
IN the end though, my love for Digimon is... just heaps lol.
Don't get your hopes up. I've heard Xross Wars is crap and just a disappointment. Perhaps only a few episodes are worth and those are the episodes in which all the previous main protagonists from previous shows come together to fight the main bad guy.mtwinny wrote:Well Digimon Fusion (the English name for Cross Wars) is soon to air here in the States, so maybe it may rekindle interest in the series again. Then again, I have lost SO MUCH interest in Digimon since Digital Monsters...so yea.
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