A situation that’s surely played out at hundreds of birthday parties over the years gains new life courtesy of the fine folks at Dorkly.
I spent countless hours in toy stores during the early oughts explaining the difference between Pokémon and Digimon to confused parents. Usually the explanation would boil down to Pokémon making better video games and Digimon making better toys. If it came to cartoons, I’d get confused, scream, and run out of the shop.
I mean come on, that Digimon Movie was pretty damn good.
Filby
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:18 AMAnyone excited for the new Digimon World game coming out on the PSP?
Chazz
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:26 AMThe difference can be summed up as Pokemon > Digimon :P
Zac
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:31 AMPokemon > Digimon > Yu-Gi-Oh
Zac
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 11:31 AMThe difference?
Pokemon are pets and Digimon are partners
obviously this is a super simplified way to look at it but that’s how I explained it my parents when I was younger
Kid
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:15 PMIndeed that movie was good.
On a scale of awesomeness of the shows there isn’t much difference. Both of them started out excellent and after about 3 seasons started to droop a little getting boring and repetitive.
Thinking about it a bit more though the Digimon anime did have something of a better story. Rather than Gym battle, Gym battle, Gym battle, Contest. Digomon focused more on the lives of those kids and I think I remember actually starting to tear up at the end of one season.
On the game front Pokemon has it hands down, although Digimon did push out a few good ones they were just never as good as Pokemon. I mean I had a Digimon card battle game which was like some kind of weird Yu-Gi-Oh hybrid and for the record… Everything>Yu-Gi-Oh.
Chazz
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:23 PMhttp://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lupw29k8tB1qjqt8i.gif
Pokemon had way more teary moments.
Pat
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:28 PMPokemon has better games, Digimon has better anime.
wheres
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:29 PMOut of the Digimon/Pokemon anime and the Pokemon/Digimon games, the only thing anyone ever need bother themselves with is the pokemon games.
FIRE RED WOO, SOUL SILVER WOOO
Digimon can’t touch that shit.
Lobo
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 12:56 PMEhhhhhhhhh…. I’m not too sure. The Pokemon games were awesome, they probably still are, but I got tired of it being almost the same game with new critters.
I really started to get into the Digimon games on DS. I like the evolution system, and the battles. It was a nice change from trying to catch em all.
Having said that, Pokemon had better cartoons.
Grandmaster B-Funk
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 1:34 PMhonestly, i liked digimon way more as a kid then i did pokemon, most likely because i didn’t have a gameboy, but i did have a digimon, in fact, i still have my first generation digimon toy!
and yes, that movie was amazing
LinkageAX
Wednesday, January 4, 2012 at 5:42 PMDi Di Di/ Digimon/ Digimon/ Di Di Di/Digimon Digital Monsters/ Digimon Are The Champions/
Absolutely loved the Digimon Anime way more than Pokemon, been trying to track down a couple of Digimon V-Pets. Anyone from Sydney know where I can find a set?
Gamer
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 5:38 AMDigimon started out a virtual pet game while Pokemon sated out as a video game, and the games for the main series are all basically the same, but with diffident trainers same plot.
Digimon has a far better anime, since the charters are not the same people or Digimon every season, unlike Pokemon were we still have Ash and Pikachu who seem to forget things along the way, or losing to new trainers (who just got their Pokemon), Ash will never achieve his Dream.