yugioh, manga card game, got it. pokemon, video game anime, got it. digimon… tamagotchi anime?
yugioh monsters, projections of cards. pocket monsters, attack pets. digital monsters, like, from what I hear they’ve got essentially human-levels of intelligence?
I genuinely am having trouble discerning where the hook-on point for this, weird multimedia blob is? It’s the anime, right? Because from the outside of having literally no interaction with the franchise over my life outside of like stray mentions in the context of specific contrast to pokemon, it looks like it’s a franchise that kinda had a neat little toy, got an anime that hit, and then bumbled into literally every other industry that collectibles do and did them all in a way that made essentially zero cultural impact outside of unlimited contrarianism against pokemon by kids who had a chip on their shoulder about it.
all power to those kids in retrospect, good bit if that was the case, but it’s something that’s confounded me for a bit: have I been fucking hermetically-sealed off from a major cultural phenomenon? is this like an ozymandias situation where it’s all ash in the present? is this just contrarian’s pokemon as I thought it was when I was 12? I’m looking at the wikipedia page and my eyes are glazing over, it’s like it’s designed to be the most unintuitive thing for people who want to get a handle on it.
I don’t get it 
the funniest thing about digimon is how a little creature that looks like a dinosaur or lion or whatever can evolve into either a giant cool monster, a giant disgusting monster, a mech, or a woman with almost no clothes on
can evolve
Ackshually, they digivolve.
Didn’t the Charizard-looking one at some point just turn into a big scary skeleton too?
Just looked it up, skull graymon did exist. The whole phenomenon feels like a fever dream, where I vaguely heard of this and saw random episodes in my youth, but had no fuckin clue what was happening. Every time it comes up in conversation online, I remember some weird shit about it, look it up, and am always surprised that it really was real.
That episode was really good.
They needed to make up for totally phoning it in with his other form, where the dinosaur transforms into a larger dinosaur but with missile launchers strapped to it.
Well, digimon digital monsters digimon are the champions so jot that down
For the longest time i thought they said “digimon garlic champions”
What if it was “digimon garlic champignons” and it was a French mushroom dish
dijon garlic champignons
Wait what if i heard it wrong
looks like it’s a franchise that kinda had a neat little toy, got an anime that hit, and then bumbled into literally every other industry that collectibles do and did them all in a way that made essentially zero cultural impact outside of unlimited contrarianism against pokemon by kids who had a chip on their shoulder about it
Nah that’s like 90% of it.
The other angle is that the anime was better than the Pokemon one. If you were only engaging with these things by watching their shows, you’d think Digimon was the best. Of course the Pokemon games were better than either of these things, but that didn’t mean anything if you didn’t own a game boy.
It’s the anime. Watch the first 3 seasons. The first 2 are in the same continuity and are the kind of kids show kids should watch. They really deal with some pretty heavy real shit that like an 8 year old might irl and take that stuff pretty serious and it’s just generally a really really good kids show that had care put into it. Season 3 is amazing but it’s like if Eva and serial experiment lain had a kid and they somehow barely passed it past kids show censors. I fell off after that
You would actually recommend it??? I thought it was just a toy-selling grift. It has positive aspects?
The anime at least the first 3 seasons, never watched past have genuine care put into them (adventure 01 is fairly typical until the 3rd arc but that’s cause it was to cunically sell toys but then the show was way more successful than they toys and they switched gears). But yeah, Digimon. Has surprising depths
from what I hear they’ve got essentially human-levels of intelligence
So do pokemon you racist
How dare you compare humanity to Alakazam’s 5000 IQ.
Umm, sweatie, the hook-on point is clearly the official stage play where the villain is called Political Correctness who attacks the protagonists with Cancel Culture because one of the writers got mad that their favorite conspiracy theorist was banned from youtube.
Oh no, Digimon Tamers is my favourite season. Please tell me it isn’t the same writer from that show
Unfortunately the same person is credited with Series Composition and Series Structure of Digimon Tamers, as well as with the script writing on 16 individual episodes
God fucking damn it I can’t have anything nice
Separating art from artist struggle session when?
You shouldn’t.
Struggle sesh ended
It is
I must admit, looking at the articles while he misses far more than not and on some important things (mainly covid), it’s hilarious if nothing else? Though admittedly I tend to err on the side of “anyone who distrusts the US govt. to such an extent at least has the right spirit about it (so long as they aren’t ghouls).”
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just watched adventure recently and i thought it was good fun
Like all that grimdank stuff it seems like a rabbit hole with no payoff
Born too late to enjoy the euphoria of the fan-made AMV. This shit was the epitome of cool to nerdy 10-year old at the time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWtyWjhbhSA
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The hook up is the anime, mostly talking about the first 4 series (adventure, 02, tamers, frontier) after that it had many breaks and it lost its momentum and unlike Pokemon it didnt have a big game to center its identity on since the many digimons games tried diferent things to see what sticks but that meant it didnt have a mainline game so it could keep getting popular.
it just kinda fumble on many things so it never capitalized on its early popularity hit like pokemon did with red and green
Ok, hear me out. Christopher Walken Devimon https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5st8Wemu7Y4
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yugioh, manga card game, got it
yugioh monsters, projections of cards.
Poor naive woman…
i’m reading it rn, it’s easier to say that to encompass both Kaiba’s holograms and the Shadow Game spirits (if I’m interpreting them roughly accurate, I just finished the DDM arc), both are technically projections of monsters from the cards
Buckle up. Your mind will not return intact.
i’ll take your word for it and hunker down w/rt that
Just watch Digimon Tamers and don’t touch anything else
I like the digital pet but that’s only because I’m a freak that loves anything monster related.
Adventure 01 is a great kids show and 02 is good IF you use your imagination and headcanon s bunch of stuff in. And Our War Game! That shit rules so hard! It’s literally about saving the world thru posting
Ok fine the first 3 seasons are great.
I liked Pokemon and Digimon as a kid. There’s some good video games that I still like as an adult. The little devices are fun. The creature designs are fun in a goofy, over-the-top kind of way. The new card game is pretty interesting, if you like that kind of thing. I don’t think it has to be any more complicated than that.
I re-watched the Digimon anime recently, and surprisingly, it still holds up sub however, it’s just peak, something that kids ought to watch, despite being meant to sell toys.
