Why did Digimon fail when Pokemon greatly succeeded to the point of being the biggest franchise in all of human history?
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Why did Digimon fail when Pokemon greatly succeeded?
Why did Digimon fail when Pokemon greatly succeeded to the point of being the biggest franchise in all of human history?
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Digimon didn't fail, it just didn't get as big.
Tell me bros plz
All the digimon games suck ass
Pokemon has better furshit
But Digimon is actually a fun series.
Why do i find the fully clothed/armored one hotter than the other two?
Digimon games sucked dick. The anime kept getting worse after each season. Digimon designs aren't cutesy or memorable enough.
Far too much "animal but it's a robot with guns" design
>Far too much "animal but it's a robot with guns" design
I'd rather have that than a keyring or lamp pokemon.
Pokemon was already a hit by then, but Digimon does have plenty of bad designs too
edgy teenagers aren't Pokemon target audience.
>lamp pokemon.
Anon, you are aware that lamp pokemon evolves from a candle pokemon, right?
>The anime kept getting worse after each season.
>preferring 02 over Tamers
>preferring 02 over anything
What the frick happened with season 2 anyways? It seriously felt like a hodgepodge of halfbaked ideas that ends with Myotismon outta fricking nowhere for the ending.
If I remember right they rewrote it for some reason or the other and even had to get rid of an entire dark ocean plotline.
a prime example of too many writers with different ideas, then everyone quit so they had to tack on an ending.
the digimon emperor arc is solid
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They never knew what they wanted to be, the Pokemon games have been consistant from the start and the anime was a huge hit. The Digimon anime's best season was Tamers which came out after most people had kind of dismissed it and the games were nothing alike.
Digimon World 1 was great though.
Pokemon had enough rules to the formula to appeal to everyone's mild autism. Digimon is for dummies (no consistency across the IP) but occasionally puts out something nice in a vacuum.
Pokemon made Pokemon fans while Digimon made fans of XX or YY Digimon thing, and the former strategy is clearly more successful.
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The games are mostly bad to very bad. simple as
because they were too strict about dating mechanics in their game
Ugly waifus
To me there's something amusing that digimon, aside from Renamon, has a pretty low amount of porn, something like 20k?, despite designs like the OP being on-model yet Pokemon with it's kiddy designs has 200k+ porn pics for the Pokemon themselves.
there's more thrill to sexualizing something thats not inherently sexy
look at angewomon. perfect body shape, revealing clothes. very sexy. not a lot to add
but then you have this. it adds a thrill
Casuals only watched OG Digimon and Tamers. So it’s no surprise if you see Angewoman and Renamon get a lot of porn.
Angewomon and other human monsters don't actually have a lot of porn. Angewomon I think has less than 800 pictures according to paheal while Renamon has over 15k. Even in terms of human monster designs Dark Magician Girl has over 6k. Clearly the digimon, aside from Renamon, never really stood out to catch the attention of others. Hell I think Renamon has more porn than any of the Pokemon but that's just the nature of people who like it and Pokemon, they tend to produce a lot of porn.
Theres more gay furry porn than anything when it relates to digimon, female humanoid digimon r34 is pretty much a drop in the bucket in comparison and 75% of that involves Ladydevimon and Angiwomon
The shows already sexualized enough.
There was nothing sexual about this. Are you mentally ill?
>Are you mentally ill?
We know now that you are, moron.
>no, u
is that really the best you got?
I wish lady devimon was my digital partner
>get summoned to the digital world
>various adventures lead you and your partner lady devimon to an icy mountain range
>traveling during a blizzard was too tough so you two decided to camp for the night
>you're shivering, you can barely take it, the campfire is hardly doing anything to warm you
>Despite being your partner she was always a little cold towards you but she sees you shivering like a weak little baby
>she walks over to you and wraps her limbs around you, cradling you like the weakling she perceives you to be
>"Relax, anon" she says "I'll keep you warm tonight. I'm strong. The cold doesn't effect me."
>Her long limbs, her wings and large hand engulf you. You feel...safe. Complete. She smells good. And most importantly in the moment you feel warm.
>You look up at your partner and
>smells good
Frick off
unevolve please.
The answer should be glaringly obvious when you compare the two side by side. Digimon tried too hard to reinvent the wheel with each iteration, and this extended to both the anime and the games.
You know what the most popular Digimon anime are? Adventure, Tamers, and to a lesser extent Savers. You know what they all have in common? They're Digimon stories without overly intrusive gimmicks. Sure, Tamers had cards and Savers had digisoul, but if you stripped them away no one would really notice. They were flavor, as Digimon still mostly evolved the same way they always did. Now look at the not-so-loved series. 02, Frontier, Xros Wars, etc. Intrusive gimmicks, to the point that it bogs down the storytelling.
On the video game front it's an even worse story. Before the first Digimon Story on the DS, Digimon games were largely all over the place. The World series changed genres with every new iteration, and then you had spin-off titles like the smash clones. They weren't bad, but it was all over the place without any real identity. And that doesn't even scratch the surface with all the JP only shit like the wonderswan games. It's no coincidence that Digimon games went through somewhat of a renaissance once they started settling in to their own set of formulas by making DW1 sequels and Digimon Story sequels.
Pokemon in contrast, people frequently complain about how the games never change, but it's been the secret to its enduring success. Consistency sells, people like what's familiar, something they can keep coming back to. Pokemon has a very clear cut identity, both to its anime(as shitty as it is) and to the games, and that's why it's been such a massive and enduring success.
Pokemon already had the concept down in a far more cohesive way, and had a successful TV show, and card game, and video game series, and countless amounts of merchandise, all before anyone knew what Digimon was. I also observed that Digimon was a pussy repellent as no girls were into it, only nerdy boys who previously liked shit like Gundam Wing. Meanwhile Pokemon was for everyone.
Digimon honestly had horrible management. Especially in the game departments. Management still sucks to this day.
Just to give you an idea, Digimon Suvive was supposed to be a filler game, but they made it too ambitious and now it’s in development hell. They have to reprogram shit
They committed the fatal mistake of sticking most of their marketing exclusively to
Isn't Digimon still alive after 20 years? I don't think something that fails lasts that long.
dicky sells
furhomosexualry doesn't
Why do you keep making this thread, asking this same question with slight wording variations every time? You've gotten the answer handily already.
they all talked and it was really off putting for me when i was a kid so i watched pokemon instead
Well we'll see, the new anime did just start and seems kinda promising.
It even managed to make fricking Clockmon scary.
Pokemon had mass appeal, digimon was strictly boys for a long time not to mention it became a thing in the tail of pokemon so it was doomed to be seen as a clone due to the similar name.
I wouldn't say a franchise that makes millions every year is a failure. You said it yourself, nothing is as big as Pokemon.
On a similar note, I'm glad Monster Rancher is making a comeback too.
Kinda surprised Monster Rancher hasn't been revived yet
>bring back the old system of being able to unlock monsters by inserting discs
>add in unlocking monsters by buying online games
Digimon change from Mon partners to BEING THE Mon. Frontier kill the digimon on the west.
I am amazed no one made a monster game that you capture via barcode scan. You would think this would be popular with everyone owning phones
I still have my skannerz.
Never had anyone to play with.
I still have mine too. I-I'll play with you anon
Speaking of Frontier, this is the first time since Tamers into Frontier that we've had two Digimon shows air back to back.
>Adventure 1999
>02: 2000
>Tamers: 2001
>Frontier: 2002
>Savers: 2006
>Xros Wars: 2010
>Appmon: 2016
>Adventure: 2020
>Ghost Game: 2021
Digimon games were almost never polished or high quality while Pokemon games, while braindead easy and simple, were quality games. The superior monster collecting game will always be Dragon Warrior Monsters though.
Digimon tried to have the game grow up with their audience and gotten moronic with the story as a result. They've also design the waifu to cater to a specific fanbase instead of a wider audience, which is why most Digimon waifu's are rather forgettable while Pokemon waifu's are more timeless in a sense. Also, Digimon's final designs are basically human wearing funny costumes (and it's even a plot point about that) while Pokemon does not.
>Digimon failed
I wouldn't call lasting 20+ years with several anime seasons, games, and toys a failure by any means. It just didn't get as popular as Pokemon.
I think it's because Pokemon is just so fricking dead simple as a concept. Every normalgay brainlet understands pokemon, even girls. The designs tend to be cute and simple as well. And Pokemon essentially never changes. Combine that with the huge marketing and you have a massive success.
Digimon is a slightly more complex and less straightforward concept, although I personally find it more interesting. However it it's always changing, so normalgays can't just get into it.