DIGIMON is Better than Pokemon (@RebelTaxi)

[@NumeroPerdido]

One of my favorite aspects of digimon were the backgrounds. The combination of junkyard electronics a tropical landscapes are pretty awesome.

[@FiveOClockTea]

Me too! I always loved how they'd use watercolour like schemes for the Digiworld and the real world was drawn more "realistic" :-D

[@KiomonDuck]

Just gotta say. I liked it more then you.

[@ShadowWolfRising]

"I'll stay and guard the hill." Who else laughed at that line?

[@moving9071]

Great line delivery.

[@rho-starmkl4483]

Best toadying line I’ve ever heard.

[@josephlosoya9660]

20:00

[@summerjonz]

That's how you respond to tackling!?

[@someguy4853]

Ya

[@MrHeavymetalharry]

the woman who does the voice of Izzy also voices kyle's mum from South Park, just throwing that out there.

[@kanchomerocks12]

Ronan K seriously?! I mean, what what WHAT?!

[@KibblezanBitz]

Only very recently, but she's voiced Butters' mom from the very beginning.

[@Tay-xj5ud]

Ronan K I KNEW IT IZZY IS JEWISH! (I'm gonna get blasted for that xD)

[@PIB2000]

Tentomon's voice actor is related to Leonard Nimoy. Just putting that out there.

[@mastermoye3915]

@@PIB2000TF!? 🤯😵‍💫 passing out now.

[@genomight4743]

YOU DON'T HAVE TO REMIND US OF THE OPENING WE GOT IN BRAZIL, PAN

[@neonoah3353]

though the opening was just the english opening translate and it had that angelica covering the good animation on screen, but still, at least we got an good dub and most of the songs from the og version.

[@genomight4743]

the brazillian dub might have been great,but Angelica on the screen is just so horrible

[@MrZDMan]

the digievolution original music mede up for the AWFUL opening.

[@genomight4743]

i guess it did,but it was pretty bad to say ''hey digimon is starting'' and having this being the first thing you see

[@Makocat]

Genomight everyone is reminding me of that intro lately for some reason lel

[@STANNco]

here's a pro tip. Give your character a mask. You wont have to bother trying to lipsynch.

[@RebelTaxi]

I thought about having a turtle neck that goes over the mouth to make things easier but I dunno.

[@OmarAlikaj]

so you're responsible for the Powerpuff Girls review idea. Cool though.

[@Argenté28]

He eventually took your advice with an Ashi mask. In real life tho where lip sync doesn’t matter.... almost doesn’t matter

[@FlameJackstar]

Go to rule for Naruto's animation studio.

[@davidjohnston4577]

But then you need to draw a mask.

[@lturner363]

I'm not gonna lie, I cried at the end of every season as a kid. I think season 3 hit me the hardest.

[@TheConuresrule]

Lyric Turner End of season 3 was criminal. Henry's dad was the reason why the Digimon had to leave. Top 10 anime betrayals.

[@wizardtot4483]

Iderus Naimmee _no, it should be _*_Top 10 Brazilian Sitcom Betrayals_*

[@pizzahut6045]

I love digimon tamers

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

To me, it was Digimon Frontier. It's the only one who, even nowadays, I can't watch because the end breaks me. And I'm 23!

[@nationalcurry]

Although in Brazil we had this awful intro music, the script was almost untouched from the original japanese version. It was really a faithful adaptation where all the songs (except the intro) were kept the same. Oh, and the dub was amazing. 80s and 90s Brazilian dub was simply the best.

[@KiomonDuck]

I grew up with the 'murican version.

[@GrandpaShagger69]

Yeah the Brazilian dub of the anime was very close to the original dub but the intro i- I can't

[@eduardood]

00s dubs are great too (Digimon is from 2000)

[@eduardood]

brasilian dub is still amazing

[@UkieKooki]

Well I'm that weirdo who likes Monster Rancher.

[@jonathansoko1085]

heathen

[@kerdnerl8588]

As am i

[@RedCloudGawdian]

Same, I rewatched it in 2018. It's my favourite of the three, partly because I'm a sucker for the underdog

[@kerdnerl8588]

@Tobias Zechariah DO NOT BELIEVE THIS MAN INSTAPORTAL IS A SCAM! IT PRETENDS ITS GONNA HACK IT< THEN REQUESTS PAYMENT, HOWEVER ITS A PHISHING WEBSITE THAT TAKES YOUR CARD DETAILS AND DOESNT GIVE YOU ACCT INFO

[@kerdnerl8588]

@Allan Darius why u helping him with this scam?

[@AB-bg7os]

Do people still remember bakugan?

[@CouragSomeone]

To this day, I'm still impressed by the mechanisms in the toys.

[@milosnikic4803]

Surprisingly it turned 10 years 3 and 1/2 months ago

[@samuraifighterchick1456]

Synth Curie Yes, but only because I had the magnetic toys. I thought it was YuGiOh.

[@AB-bg7os]

I only watched the show lmao

[@30alex30clubpenguin]

Synth Curie the first season was good

[@WalkingGirlKoi]

Yeah, Digimon has always been unfairly compared to Pokémon even though the set ups of both series are fairly different. I'm more into the Digimon anime for its anime and characterization in the earlier seasons and Pokémon for game mechanics. Also, Monster Rancher is more of an farming mon game that has some fun stuff, although I'm excluding the anime because I barely saw any of it.

[@ClydeJHatbird]

Always found myself more attracted to the Digimon lore as a kid than Pokemon. The thought of having a monster friend with human levels of sentience was way more of an exciting concept. In fact, when I got around to making a Pokemon comic, back in the day, I decided to make the Pokemon talk because of the way Digimon rubbed off on me.

[@pmdmakesmecri2]

Like PMD but with humans?

[@ClydeJHatbird]

@@pmdmakesmecri2 Pretty much, yeah. It was following the plot of gen4, except nearly all pokemon could just talk fluently. I think I imagined a future version of the world based on the logic brought forth by Meowth from the anime. He literally taught himself how to speak, just to impress a girl. It made me think that every other pokemon should be capable, given they can audibly pronounce their own names.

[@nightforest1693]

It's funny you say that, since when the original Pokémon Anime was being concepted, the Team wanted to have the Pokémon talk just like Digimons but Nintendo at the time despied the idea so the Anime Team compromised by allowing the Pokémon to speak there names only. Although in the movies (that I don't know are Cannon or not) we do see Pokémon speaking full English and even some main title Pokémon games we see some Pokémon speak although it only seems to be limited to Psyhic Type Pokémon who need to use a Human Host to speak through. But sometimes I do wish we in the Anime we could have gotten all Pokémon regardless of their Type speaking. I feel like it would be so cool especially during Pokémon battles to hear their thoughts. Adding on to that apparently in the Pokémon Lore there was a Professor who tries to make a collar that would allow Pokémon to speak but it didn't go so well so the idea was canned. Who knows maybe in future Pokémon games we could see a similar mechanic pop up again that would allow your Pokémon to speak.

[@ClydeJHatbird]

Wow, that really would've changed so much for me. I still think Digimon would've reigned supreme in the end though, due to the more mature and focused story telling. Huh, it's funny re-reading this old comment. Since then, I grew so fed up with pokemon as a franchise that I noped out during gen 7. I would later go on to basically craft my own ideal pokemon game in my head that, funnily enough, featured quite a few of them talking in various ways. One day, I hope to make a video series explaining all about it. I think it'd be fun to talk about. Unfortunately, my video creation skills are nonexistent at the moment. @@nightforest1693

[@MozillaVulpix]

>poor animation oh, Toei. You never change.

[@kanchomerocks12]

MozillaVulpix except for the movies and certain moments

[@WhoMightThis1Be]

Not all movies though, tri looked like an avarage TV anime while being an internationally marketed movie series.

[@attackofthecopyrightbots]

And technically the first movie wasn’t really a movie it’s was a mishmash of separate ovas

[@WhoMightThis1Be]

What are you even talkign about, if someone says the animation is bad they obviously compare it to other anime studios in the first place. Look at the tri movies, Toei might have the resoruces but they are known for pressing out cheap shit because "kids won't notice". Really lost my respect for them after that money laundering scheme of a movie project they pulled of with the anniversary.

[@horaciosi]

And yet: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5zMf2yCa6aGm6s

[@SpookyTanukiGaming]

Digimon had the best anime, Pokemon had the best video games, and Yugioh had the best card game.

[@SgtTwilight]

As a long time Pokemon fan, I'll wholeheartedly say I think the Digimon Story franchise is better than most Pokemon games of the recent era, with Cyber Sleuth being amazing.

[@rikowolfin4984]

Unfortunately Yugioh is now a horrible mess of a card game if you play with anyone using a deck with all the different rules they forced into it. But its still fun if you play with old cards.

[@MekuChanAnime]

@Riko Wolfin Which is why the tournaments have rules for which types of decks and monsters you can use, since many of the new introductions function as their own take of the original card game that Duel Monsters (the first season) introduced. Basically, you learn to love just one type of gameplay, and specialize in that field if you ever feel the interest to go to tournaments.

[@rcarfang2]

I like digimon better but I own both Pokemon X and Sun as well as Digimon Cyber Sleuth. Pokemon X my first 3DS game. Digimon Cyber was my second PS Vita game.

[@applegate3201]

And Beyblade had the best... Spinning tops?

[@isaimorenomendoza5612]

It's great that here in Mexico we had the better versions of a lot of anime series. The digievolution music was not changed here, and it was great

[@calipurnioelreydelodio7141]

In Spain, we had also good things. Usually Spain bought the rights from France or Italy back in the 70s, 80s and early 90s. So we didn't miss a lot of things (Usually, some names were changed), and the songs usually were the same.

[@DarkEmissary617]

Thank you so much for defending Digimon. See I don't mind if people Like Pokemon more, it's the fact that haters called literally everything with collecting a Pokemon ripoff and were killing off anything that could threaten Pokemon's popularity. These haters even still exist today and are now bent on killing Digimon's glorious return and even want to kill Yo-Kai Watch. Can't we just like all of them and stop trying to hate and kill on another similar franchise?!?!?!? Well DANG I didn't think my comment would be so popular. I am so happy to see so many others agree of this total injustice to the other monster collecting franchises.

[@Venom3254]

DarkEmissary617 They remind me of lego fanboys. In fact I'm starting to see some Pokémon fans denounce them.

[@mr.shepherd_1776]

SymbioteNx379 the lego fans are doing what?

[@thekingmansplainer6813]

read the pokemon adventures manga.

[@pikachu0Z]

I agree I love Pokemon but I also love Digimon and I also enjoy Yokai Watch. But yeah the Pokemon fanbase can be incredibly toxic if some fans aren't attacking other fighting monster franchises they attacking the fanbase itself with the " Gen 1 is the only true gen " argument

[@MrDmoney156]

Icy Kirby Yeah definitely! And it's the reason why i hate Pokemon and have no damn nostalgia for it whatsoever!

[@monicaquant268]

"play the real intro... WEY" 😂

[@TheConuresrule]

Monica Q Me morí x3

[@cindyscrawly1672]

Yo si me quede con las ganas de oírlo

[@razo7158]

Monica Q Pan es mexicano?

[@monicaquant268]

Blah Blah Si. nació en USA pero sabe español

[@whatislovebabydonthurtme1188]

Pensar que durante años, creí que la intro original era la wannabe rapper

[@Vitz_atelier]

Man that dub makes digimon sound so stupid sometimes. Gotta say, though... I love the american dub Etemon. He is priceless.

[@Vitz_atelier]

As for the music score the only change we got here in Brazil, was the opening in the Globo airing (the one you showed in your review). The Fox Kids airing (yes, we also had Fox Kids for cable TV over here) featured the same song but over the original opening unedited. There is a thing to this though: If we changed the language to english in the Sky cable TV (the one that had Fox Kids at the time) it simply changed the entire episode to japanese, so if you did this in the opening you would hear Butterfly instead! We could also just switch back to portuguese and watch the episode normally since our dub was closer to the source material and we also kept the background music from the original anime regardless. Gotta love Brave Heart and the ocasional Toei rendition of the Bolero (Ravel) in playing when key moments happened! Butterfly was one of the first japanese songs I've ever heard (we also had Locomotion here and they had the great habit of maintaining the original openings for anime in that channel too) so that was a fucking blast to hear Wada Kouji's performance for the first time. Great stuff!

[@justindorthewonderwizard645]

Hes my fave digimon *for* that voice

[@justindorthewonderwizard645]

Damnit not slanted

[@leighmercadokfphrdept.2197]

The Filipino- English dub is much better than the American dub Here's the link: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qaaqfIxsZt6ioM0

[@PeterParker-ff7ub]

It sounds great.

[@CJCroen1393]

Digimon rocks. Pokemon rocks. Monster Rancher rocks. All of them rock and are not rip offs of each other at all.

[@thedigitalismserver9560]

CJCroen1393 YEP.

[@DawnStar007]

As a Monster Rancher fan, thank you so much for this.

[@princefishyfingers7498]

THANK YOU

[@theplexion815]

they are rip offs of pokemon though

[@CJCroen1393]

@@theplexion815 They literally are not.

[@alisonalexandre3603]

Oh shit, I thought only brazilians knew about the disaster of this intro

[@Bruno-wx2yb]

Alison Alexandre I've almost died of shame seeing that kkkk. GO BRAZIL!!

[@GamesXanimeX3]

Mas pelo menos a versão do digi-rap do filme é legal, eu acho :P

[@Vitz_atelier]

Pelo menos a versão da Fox Kids não tinha a Angélica dançando na frente da abertura e lá você podia ouvir a abertura original só usando a tecla sap/mudando pra inglês. Era a Globo querendo competir com a Record na época e imitando as besteiras que uma e a outra faziam que proporcionou esse desastre. (a Eliana fazia algo parecido com Pokemon).

[@davidjohnston4577]

Alison, when then internet contains more information than we ever will, it has its fair share of giving us stuff we never knew about.

[@WILDMUTTDude]

Todo o mundo tem que saber sobre essa vergonha hahahaha

[@Iinneus]

10:55 - "Save it now, or risk doing it again..." Jesus, I felt like you just woke some kind of primal memory inside of me because it sounded _so fucking familiar_ but I couldn't understand why such a mundane phrase would do that. Then I remembered it's just from that Nightmare Before Christmas game.

[@colinfroehlich4138]

Isn't that from the Nightmare before Christmas video game?

[@Iinneus]

I was gonna say "Yes, I said it was from the Nightmare Before Christmas game..." but then I remembered that sometimes the 'Show more' button glitches out for people. So, yes! That's what it's from. also i have pikachu libre's butt because pikachu libre is the best girl in any fighting game plain and simple

[@razerxd5271]

Linneus it made my pipi hard

[@IloveAidan24]

*s a v e i t n o w*

[@BlueMageDaisen]

To be fair, they kept the slap fight and even applied Izzy was... getting a bit of an awakening from it

[@burgerkingJ]

I do love both Pokemon and Digimon, but show wise I like Digimon more. Granted I did like Pokemon more when it first started, during the orange league, the Johto League, and the Hoenn League but I realised something after that. Ash as a character doesn't have a sense of growth. I'm not talking about age,well sort of, but compare Ash with Tai or any other Digidestine Ash is the same as before. I mean compare Tai in S1 to Tai in Digimon tri and you'll see that he indeed change. Now with Ash well...

[@justastrugglermovingforwar6209]

burgerkingJ exactly

[@thekingmansplainer6813]

Honestly the pokemon adventures manga is levels above both and should be the anime but isn't probably because it isn't as marketable.

[@hayakueon3230]

Why so?

[@ze-prestooo]

@@thekingmansplainer6813 The manga isn't remarkable. It's as dark as Digimon but the lessons, characters, etc., are not that good.

[@thekingmansplainer6813]

@@ze-prestooo wrong

[@DragonKnightFire]

Everyone: Digimon and those other shows ripped off pokemon Me: *Points to megami tensei and shin megami tensei* Atlus did it first though.

[@MarvelousAdmirer445]

There's a difference between doing something first and making that thing well-known. Most people don't see it though.

[@GrayFoxHound9]

Dragon Knight and than demikids ripped off pokemon. It is like smt ripped pokemon after pokemon ripped smt

[@SodaPopKazy]

But Jojo did it first

[@GrayFoxHound9]

steve jobs did what? SC is 89. And there is no deamons. If you about persona's, thn, yeah, JoJo did it first

[@SodaPopKazy]

GrayFoxHound9 And SMT was 92

[@TekTheNinja]

A slap fight between two humanoid female digimon... That's... actually kinda hot, ain't gonna lie. XD

[@9Godslayer]

I always thought it was weird how Fundamentalists went nuts over Pokemon and not Digimon because of this scene. And yes, it was extremely hot.

[@ViktorTheMusician]

Tyler Witt Maybe they saw the first few episodes where the villain was the devil and they were saved by a literal angel.

[@sofaris576]

Fore some reason this comment makes me think of the fights between Bayonetta and Jeanne.

[@zayaannashrid1374]

Honestly Digimon was hotter than the Magmar vs. Charizard battle. I don't even know how some designs got past screening by 4kids........well I do. It's called laziness

[@kostajovanovic3711]

+Zayaan Nashrid like angewomon? Are there more? Can't remember

[@ChalkTeacher]

Tamers was great

[@justastrugglermovingforwar6209]

Chalk Teacher tamers was amazing!!!

[@kiwiseatpumpkinpie1709]

Chalk Teacher poor Jerry :(

[@user-nd1bu5ru5u]

Weird to think Tamers creator also made Serial Experiments Lain.

[@yieschu]

Tamers and Frontier had the best openings fuck u fite me

[@SilverShion]

Digimon Savers Opening 2. Nuff said.

[@bloodsword7888]

I'm more of a Pokemon fan, but I can agree that Digimon had the better anime

[@wolkaiserdrake9946]

Digimon still beats Pokemon, sure a lot of Digimon are just recolors, but so are actual animals, its biodiversity , and plus, in Digimon, they aren't afraid of killing of characters or hitting it were it hurts, at least the Digimon universe is more structured than Pokemon, each season is set in a quadrant of the Digital world as show in tamers with Ryo, hes been to the east quadrant were the shows take place even though hes from the south, it all interlinks

[@notarmani4804]

It’s WAY better than newer Pokémon seasons

[@uberlephrad8218]

Digimon criticizes childhood and processes it through a critical and realistic lens while pokemon offers escapism and fun, albeit with some awesome scenes, storylines and conflicts. Still not better than Tamers tho.

[@flamedramon68]

That's something I always loved about the franchise, the experimentation. Every new season felt great with a new cast of characters and villians, and I always loved watching the Digidestined overcome their fears and shortcomings

[@RatedB1]

I know the English Version gets a lot of hate, but it's too embedded in Nostalgia for me to dislike it now

[@TheConuresrule]

RatedB1 The English dub was part of my childhood, but it's trash and I hate it's existence.

[@kanchomerocks12]

RatedB1 and I am physically unable to dislike something with Barbara goodson, Lara Jay Miller and Joshua Seth in it.

[@loganrenfrow2544]

kanchomerocks12 I'm really upset that they didn't bring back Lara Miller for Tri.

[@gordieparenteau6555]

@@loganrenfrow2544 And Michael Reisz as Matt, lending credence to the conspiracy theory there's an unwritten law that Vic Mignogna has to be in every anime production in existence. (Seriously, he's in EVERYTHING!)

[@TheAbsol7448]

The only issues I have with it are the opening, the fight music, some voice lines, and...the Digi Rap.

[@TheRawyan]

I was so obsessed with Digimon that in 2nd grade to 4th grade when I was in a picture I would make the pose Tai made in the intro

[@Jonasansu]

Digimon Tamers (season 3) is so good though!

[@speedokingu]

Yeah, it's similar to Neon Genesis Evangelion™

[@CalsCallin]

@@speedokingu they are both directed by thd same person pretty sure

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

You never hear anyone wanting to fuck their Digimon. Only their Pokémon. I think that's unfair. #Digilove

[@FreezepondMapping]

Obviously you're forgetting about Renamon. But besides that, lol no.

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

Freezepond no. They usually let their Lucario or Gulimon fuck renamon.

[@jezreelgarcia2936]

Nicodemus Edwards you've never been to rule 34

[@alejandror.9974]

#digilove

[@sirbruno95]

Nicodemus Edwards Renamon is more popular in rule34 than any other pokemon besides Gardevoir.

[@fennecfoxfanatic]

When i was a kid i thought pokemon and digimon were in the same universe. I swore sandshrew was a digimon.

[@cameronedwards6581]

Fennecfoxfanatic K. Im Sorry but that's a way too creative name for a Digimon. Still, some of the Digimon have better names than some gen 1 or 5 Pokemon.

[@Igorcastrochucre]

You and every mother tasked with getting their kids a toy from the right franchise

[@mcrancher4587]

Fennecfoxfanatic K. *MANDELA EFFECT*

[@tsotry1842]

digimon.wikia.com/wiki/Armadillomon well...

[@joeshroom8482]

Igorowan Ever hear the stories about kids asking for Pokemon Games and getting Digimon games? As a kid, I asked for a Digimon game and got a Robopon game, not even Pokemon lol.

[@SuperJuanTV1]

Woooooh the Mexican dub was the best hehehe

[@leeeroyjenkins555]

SuperJuanTV1 *latin american dub

[@SuperJuanTV1]

I drew this pixel Squirtle well it was dub in mexico by Mexican voice actors , so yeah Mexican Dub ^3^

[@Needwagon4Speedwagon]

Just like dragon ball

[@sofaris576]

I never heard the Mexican Dub but the German one is pretty good too. Music is almost the same as in Japan. There are some slight differences in the songs but its pretty much the same. No Censorship ore bad misplaced jokes. Voices that are actually placed to hear.

[@cindyscrawly1672]

SuperJuanTV1 toma tu laic

[@theycallmejojo6090]

CHAO GARDEN ON SONIC ADVENTURE 2 WAS AWESOME I had every chaos chao, it took my entire summer vacation to do that

[@choux8372]

geez... that japanese score gave me goosebumps, it sounds so beautiful and mystic... but I guess they felt fast paced and loud music would entice children more.

[@jessebrown1996]

The transformation song wouldn't really work if you wanted to get kids pumped.

[@UCvow2TUIH0d2Ax2vik9ILzg]

I grew up with Digimon and I can confirm that that "Brave Heart" song was amazing.

[@quqbalam5089]

Choux Japanese children's anime and US children's cartoons can be compared side by side to show the different cultural attitudes towards raising children in the US and Japan. I mean, a children's show in Japan like Sakura CardCaptor shows death, strained families and very realistic portrayals of children's lives all with actual story progression, unlike a show like SpongeBob or Fairly OddParents which lack story progression and don't involve realistic portrayals of lives. It's the reason why Gargoyles, Teen Titans or The Last Airbender feel so out of place among the general roster of children's cartoons.

[@interfear1]

So glad I grew up in 90s Latin America. Digimon dubs in Mexico's Neutral Spanish still hold up and they dubbed all the Japanese openings into Spanish. We got the best anime with very little edits and before USA. Those were the good old days of Clover Studio and Audiomaster 3000 which no longer exist so now we have to get our anime from the US and the dubs are not as good. Mexico dubbed the best and I always felt sorry for Spain's horrible dubs LOL

[@Melkac]

I love how some companies got the license from the US and INTENTIONALLY reverted all the changes to the original japanese version because the american changes were fucking stupid. Although Sailor Moon did this weird thing where they reverted all the changes but kept the english names. Weird.

[@interfear1]

Daimon Shaw I was not aware of that. Thank you for the information. And yes, that is stupid and weird on the part of Sailor Moon which the Mexican dub used the USA names to a certain extent. Some characters kept their Japanese names, others did not.

[@Melkac]

+interfear1 I just remembered the Digimon dubs did the same thing. I bet they both were dubbed by the same company.

[@interfear1]

Daimon Shaw Oh yeah! Almost forgot.

[@ditcheseleven5403]

Well I recently saw the Latin American version again and it has many Mexican slang words so it's not that "neutral Spanish" XD I still love it though :3

[@linkno1]

I like Pokemon and Digimon, but I always found Digimon more interesting. The variety of Pokemon and the idea of catching fun little monsters is cool, but that's pretty much where the appeal ends for me. The anime was the same shit week after week of what felt like 95% filler which made little to no impact to the goal, the main games are just a pretty typical JRPG with a Pokemon aesthetic which again followed the same formula game after game...The spin offs are mostly trash... Digimon was more of a world where monsters are in place of humans though, with their world ran by monsters doing people things. That was neat. The anime had the characters more consistently working towards a goal with lasting consequences throughout. Digimon World was a great extension to this with the digimon running stores and farms, with you looking after and training your Digmon in that digital world like a pet. Though sadly, they kinda dropped the 'world' formula and went typical JRPG along with Pokemon... I dunno. I just always felt like a Digimon was more like a companion whilst Pokemon were tools for people to use. That's how it was mostly represented across different media.

[@curiokryptic]

Tao Well, in case you haven't heard, Digimon World: Next Order follows a more similar gameplay style to the original Digimon World game rather than being turn-based. If you haven't already, you should check it out. Based on your comment you'd probably like it!

[@thekingmansplainer6813]

read the pokemon adventures manga trust it makes pokemon way more interesting! Like it explores stuff you probably haven't thought of.

[@linkno1]

+Bluesapira I've had it since launch. It's not perfect by any means, but it was a lot more along the lines of what I wanted from Digimon games (not that I didn't like the other games, they just weren't what I wanted). I really hope it wasn't just a one off nostalgia throwback though.

[@linkno1]

+The King Mansplainer Yea, I've heard as much and I really should pick it up at some point. It's less that I feel Pokemon isn't interesting (I still enjoy the games), just that the anime didn't do it justice and the games don't really make the Pokemon feel more than just interchangeable party members. I really liked the Mystery Dungeon games though, which partly goes along with my reasoning to why I preferred Digimon over Pokemon.

[@tbc1880]

Tao yeah thing is pokémon had the better games but now pokémon games are crap. There is hardly any good story elements, the games are stupidly easy and the peak of the competative environment is stale with very little variety. Not to mention the iv crap and stuff. I'm awaiting monster hunter stories to get my good rpg with monsters. I mean fossil fighters was an awesome game but the changes in frontier where just crap. Rotation and team attacks were unique to me and fun, making good teams and cleaning fossils to perfection was awesome. If only frontier didn't add the crappy team mechanic with them sharing sp and the shot bonuses. But a good Digimon game and I'm dead.

[@sailor3047]

"i'll stay and guard the hill" LMAO

[@juskillmefam3680]

commander wormmon was the best

[@TBoneTony]

To be honest, Digimon and Pokemon are two completely different series. If we were going into specific story and senario situations, Digimon was closer to Power Rangers/Super Sentai with a mix of digital world and reality comparisons compared to Pokemon that was its own universe unrelated to reality itself.

[@leonaides6010]

What happened to the "Don't you wanna rematch?" outro T_T

[@KuroAzure64]

shhh... Let Matt play his harmonica~

[@Nashking20]

Re-watching this show years later, the most awkward moment in the dub was in the episode "Return to Highton View Terrace", where Joe explains the Greymon-Parrotmon fight from years ago was covered up as a "terrorist bombing"....I know that this dub was made back in the 90's, but hearing that on a kid show made my jaw drop.

[@Elvusmiw]

True.. it's like they made 911 cannon

[@nisrntje3240]

@@Elvusmiw but 9/11 is canon to Digimon

[@Masonicon]

This reminds me of "9/11 was an inside job" thingy

[@mr.shapirro7901]

In the Brazilian version of Digimon was shown the Japanese introduction on the Fox Kids channel. Already the version sung by this blonde (Angelica) was shown on TV Globo, which also presented the Japanese introduction sometimes. And, fortunately, we only had English music in the introduction and the rest is the original version of Toei. Signed by a huehuehuehuehuhue

[@NyanYoYo]

MR. Shapirro Eu também reparei que a dublagem só pegou a abertura americana. Todo o resto era em japonês. Não entendi o por que disso, mas pra mim tá ótimo.

[@GrandpaShagger69]

I watched it on KZbin and I watched at night on boomerang and it had the ANGELICA INTRO

[@waywardlaser]

Poekmon became way more popular but the Digimon anime had a lot more depth. Tamers is still the best season, and I didn't even appreciate it as a kid.

[@kanchomerocks12]

not you I dunno, I think season 1 had better characters

[@andredrw289]

Frontier actually isnt that bad once you get past the humans becoming Digimon part

[@thisp0ryg0nwillgiveyourdev65]

Andre Drew frontier? I'm not a digimon fan but why haven't I heard of it

[@pistachisato6678]

Evan Sageser gosh, very well put.

[@SgtTwilight]

@Evan. I see where you're coming from on Frontier part but I have to disagree. In my opinion, the core appeal of Digimon was more so the human characters, their dynamics and their development. I agree with you on Tamers though, it was the best in my opinion. Even the religious subtext of Tamers was left largely intact, the only censorship I really remember was them cutting out the "blaming Digimon on Terrorist" attacks thing.

[@bocodamondo]

the english dub of digimon hurts my everything...

[@Makocat]

bocodamondo Mostly cause of the music tho. I can take the dialogue

[@StanTheBland]

bocodamondo Well, I'd rather watch dubs then subs no matter how bad. I'm not there for the subtitles I'm there for the anime I might miss something on screen to.

[@DjPrimeVideos]

bocodamondo hurry up with dragon balk multi verse already

[@bocodamondo]

@curious seriously though, digimon adventure just doesnt feel right without butterfly & braveheart...hell! even Bolero which was played in some of the best parts

[@bocodamondo]

@bland man i watched the german dub and not japanese as a kid, and that version was way more faithful to the original one, they even had german cover of the vocal tracks

[@uncreativeusername8362]

Unlike Pokèmon, Digimon actually switch the characters and themes in each season. The same goes with Yugioh and Power Rangers.

[@Masonicon]

Pokemon games and special changes it's protagonists just as much as Digimon, Yugioh, and Power Rangers While digimon 02(and it's sequels) are closest thing any other anime(mon or not) got similar treatment to current seasons of Pokemon anime

[@lunachan9307]

10:48 And this is why in Digimon Adventure Tri they used a split screen to have all the main Digimon Digivolve at the same time. That way it wouldn't drag out like the Digivolution scenes did in the original Adventure series.

[@leandrocesar5207]

Brazil also got Brave Heart during the digivoluton. But yeah, that...

[@caless7947]

Leandro César I always find funny how they use the rap thing for opening and then use Brave Heart as digievolution theme

[@sirbruno95]

Moon Eraser Is a nice slap to the face to every American that grew up hearing that instead of hearing such masterpiece.

[@ojuze4792]

What's wrong with Angelica's op?

[@AleksKwisatz]

We kept all the insert songs and the original BGM but we changed the intro to match the U.S. version. We even got the first ending intact, but after a few episodes in the ending theme also got replaced by the same tune used in the opening! Go figure.

[@angstyandproud4875]

Damn son, the last time I was this earliy to a Pan video, he was still pumping out weekly SideMissions, I mean amirte, amirite, my racially nonspecific Pan fans?

[@thefvguy5648]

yes

[@EnderForge]

Angsty And Proud yee

[@JFairy189]

Angsty And Proud racially nonspecific Pan fans 😂

[@guyincognito8043]

Oh! It took be a bit to realize to you meant Pan Pizza, not the shit movie. But, yes, yourite.

[@violetprincessgreen8]

Your comment made me bust out laughing upon rereading it.

[@esmo9728]

i like the cactus with the punching gloves

[@SgtTwilight]

Togemon, yeah. I always liked her evolution pathway, at least until Rosemon.

[@Nashking20]

Judging by his reaction, I'm sure Pan would like Rosemon.

[@sandradermark8463]

Here in Spain we had the original Japanese openings and evolution songs, and drunks and guns and the slap fight... uncensored, and all the Japanese written text was translated into Spanish. The company who did it: Arait Multimedia.

[@kanchomerocks12]

Sandra Dermark Coño, ya están tardando con Tri

[@sandradermark8463]

kanchomerocks12 Y con Applimon

[@kanchomerocks12]

Sandra Dermark al menos con Applimon es algo que pasa por todo el mundo. Tri ya tiene varias películas dobladas en otros países. En Alemania ya han doblado la tercera

[@golfer435]

Why couldn't they have just done the English sub instead of Saban?

[@endeavor3406]

Here in Finland we also had everything uncensored and it was made by Tuotantotalo Werne

[@IANGEL101I]

While the English theme for Digimon Adventure Tri isn't great, at least the English dub has some of the original Japanese music like Brave Heart (Digivolution theme) featured in it. That and returning English VAs is what made me give the English dub of Tri a chance.

[@AlimiAlpha]

TheAngeluco when did they dub Tri? where to watch it

[@justastrugglermovingforwar6209]

AlimiAlpha on blue ray and DVD

[@Animemus]

AlimiAlpha The first three movies were dubbed. The first movie dub was shown in theatres in 2016, the third movie dub was shown at Anime Expo.

[@YTHandlesBlow]

Me and a few people I know are waiting till all the Tri episodes are dubbed then we'll binge watch them all haha. We hate waiting a year or so after a cliff hanger for the next one.

[@JaelinBezel]

Just like Kill la Kill I'll probably continue watching the Sub and then when the Dub is finished I watch the whole thing over again. lol xD (disclaimer: did not actually laugh out loud)

[@sparkthedog6291]

Digimon totally earned that Death Battle victory. Fight me

[@LadyLunarSatine]

There's another one on the horizon: Renamon vs. Lucario.

[@secrettoad]

Lol My friend who is a huge pokemon fan and never liked digimon was super salty when Tai punched Ash during the fight.

[@kiwiseatpumpkinpie1709]

SparktheDog god that fight was So satisfying

[@giornogiostar3214]

Daikaizen * that was Red not Ash.... they literally talk about it for the whole Pokemon section, yeah Digimon totally deserved that win and I like Pokemon more, but please never call Red Ash again lol.

[@secrettoad]

EtherForceZX stop crying about it, I haven't seen that video since it came out like wha 2 years ago. Red is better than Ash tho

[@Kaimax61]

Speaking of OSTs, RIP Koji Wada. Now I tear up every time I hear Butterfly, Biggest Dreamer or FIRE

[@kpcher]

18:25 My favorite Barenaked Ladies song

[@MegaGameCore]

Ha, in germany we got a pretty good dub. We even kept all the music and added roughly translated lyrics on top of that! As far as i remember i even saw the "bitch-fight" Scene on TV :D

[@notdoingthemario8494]

people in my class legit just call it a ripoff of pokemon lmao, thanks for defending this masterpiece.

[@Hornfluffy1964]

12:09 Well actually there was a flood of syrup in 1919 called Great Molasses Flood in Boston, Massachusetts. 21 people died from drowning in the sticky syrup.

[@girlywolfpup1588]

Okay... You made me feel old and reminded me about how many sexy Digimon there were.

[@theemann7981]

8:26 Wow Pac-man sure has fallen on hard times. He's been drinking away his problems ever since the last pac-world didn't do so great.

[@danielfontoura3084]

17:40 I'm brazillian, I'm not proud of that.

[@ProxyDoug]

No one is.

[@Getsumatake]

The song wasn't good but the dub of the show itself is amazing.

[@Getsumatake]

The song wasn't good but the dub of the show itself is amazing.

[@mentealternativa4026]

I wish it never happened...But hey, we got the original OST so it's all good... :^)

[@spreadthewordofwalpole9737]

I seriously do not remember that. In fact i remember the braveheart song from the Japanese version eventhough I never even Japanese was a thing around the time I watched Digimon. Maybe they used it in a later reiteration of the show, maybe the dude who pirated the disk and sold it to me was real fucking crafty.

[@RamTheproDragon]

Thanks for mentioning the different music! I watched it all in South America and it kept Butterfly and Braveheart - which has become a nostalgia staple for everyone here hahaha!

[@Clonetos]

when I was young every guy including me who were digimon fans all unanimously agreed that angewoman was the hottest

[@smugfortune9977]

Same cannot be said for ladydevimon

[@DijaVlogsGames]

I lived Pokemon, loved Digimon and adored Monster Rancher. I guess I'M the weird one. Never knew Monster Rancher was based on a game, though. Those never came out here in Europe.

[@jhaynewe]

'Sonic Advance-Chao Garden' uses sonic adventure 2's chao music therefor triggering my autism

[@mushroomdude123]

reala Like, how do you confuse a GBA game with one that uses non-midi instruments?

[@jhaynewe]

I guess since 'advance' and 'adventure' sound and look similar and they came out around the same time so....

[@necksweateronion6954]

+Mal Nexus Fuck the chao garden.

[@BugsyFoga]

If I'm being honest I was more of a Beyblade kid growing up , the idea of playing with spinning just seemed way more appealing to me as a kid.

[@japzone]

Digimon Tamers is still my favorite season. Shit got _dark_ in that season, and I liked how it spent more time on Earth and showed humanity and Digimon trying to work together to fight off a greater evil.

[@rexwrecks2735]

Small brain: Pokémon Big brain: digimon Galaxy brain: monster rancher Universally entity: Invizimals

[@domesticV1190XxOo]

That harmonica with the title image was soooo Cowboy Bebop

[@TeamFriendship8600]

Man, Digimon was more real than I remember. Who would have thought an anime with silly superpowered cartoon animals could cut so deep?

[@fabianlaibin6956]

Holy crap that's how the dubs sounds like? We had our own local dub of them and while it's not anything amazing I'm so glad we kept the original Japanese intro music!

[@HORRIOR1]

14:37 Oh my god! That TF2 reference suits Joe so god damn well XD

[@zfrometa8316]

I had a huge Crush on Mimi as a Kid

[@spiritrosewolf6377]

You weren't alone there. #Mimi4Life

[@GasmaskAvenger]

Me three! Digimon was great for self-discovering my own heterosexuality between Mimi and LadyDevimon. Good times.

[@saulodoamordivino]

...It was the bathtub scene, wasn't it?

[@nekromorg]

We all did.

[@zfrometa8316]

The Riffster it was that hair and those bigass shoes

[@StarlightGippy]

I loved the Digimon theme here in the US, Still love it over the other songs but that's my opinion

[@lunachan9307]

I always hated how Pokemon fans wanna call Digimon a rip off, yet they only wanna bash Digimon Adventure series to make a point against Digimon. It's like them Pokemon fans don't know anything about Digimon. At least Tai/Taichi and the gang grew up while Ash/Satoshi is still a child. Digimon changes up it's storyline every now and again. While Pokemon id mainly the same thing over and over again. 20 years later Ash becomes a Pokemon Master while still being a child.

[@lil_spicyscrub8733]

Same here and I’m Digimon fan

[@benh6379]

Finally someone else thinks the Digimon anime is better than the Pokemon anime. Love both but I think Digimon is better

[@newuser13able]

What happened in several Mexican dubbed anime is that they kept the song but dubbed the lyrics. César Franco is basically the guy that sang everyone's childhood in Mexico.

[@c0mpu73rguy]

I discovered Digimon recently... As a pokemon fan, I felt like I chose the wrong fandom to belong to, because Digimon is awesome (mostly the third season, Tamers). But discovering it late have one advantage: Subbed original dub.

[@justastrugglermovingforwar6209]

c0mpu73rguy welcome to the fandom!

[@Venom3254]

c0mpu73rguy You'll love being in this Fandom

[@c0mpu73rguy]

SymbioteNx379 The dub sounds terrible though - -'

[@horationelson2440]

Why not enjoy both? I personally find no reason why not.

[@c0mpu73rguy]

Horatio Nelson I do enjoy pokemon, games and manga, I enjoy less (wayyyyyyy less) its animated adaptation. And as for Digimon, I love the anime and don't care about the games. So you can say they complete each other pretty well.

[@sirbruno95]

17:57 Oh man, the goosebumps are real! I totally forgot about that soundtrack! It sent a chill down my back.

[@lunachan9307]

1:54 I miss them days where you can stick on a Sonic The Hedgehog video game, and spend hours on in, in the Chao garden. And playing some Chao mini games after feeding and raiding the Chao. I miss them days. And I'll never understand why Sega had to remove the Chao from Sonic The Hedgehog games.

[@jacobpacheco6505]

Protip: don't watch rebeltaxi around normal people

[@tigertim620]

Jacob Pacheco Or as he likes to call them: "Normies"

[@sparkthedog6291]

Damien Bustamante REEEEEE

[@Zararthur]

OH MY GOD!!! ANGELICA!! KKKK (the Brazilian chick) I mean, thank god that Clip wasn't actually in the show, as in Fox Kids Br we had the translated version of the opening theme, but the rest of the soundtrack was in Japanese. Buy Oh my.... That's a trip down memory lane. Thx @RebelTaxi

[@hermitfox3053]

The German dub of Digimon was so well made. They even made German covers of all the original Japanese songs in the show. I still love listening to them nowadays, they give me shivers everytime a Digimon digivolves.

[@DSIan]

We sure had Angelica's opening, but that's kind of Saban's fault lol, I'm just glad we had Brave Heart and the japanese ED, sometimes even Butterfly would play through some episodes.

[@masonpelzer8052]

I have watched half of the 1st season on Netflix Then it was removed :(

[@nicodemusedwards6931]

Mason Pelzer Anti-Life Justifies our Hate.

[@rojolonestar3907]

Mason Pelzer fuck i feel your pain,i wanted to watch it for nostalgic feels and wanting to know what happens, but my brother disliking anime (i do as well, just not some) i couldn't watch it..

[@bastardblizzard]

There's always Crunchyroll

[@YujiUedaFan]

In the UK, there's no Digimon on Netflix and Hulu doesn't exist.

[@IfJesusWoreAHat]

Blame networks for playing just the tip with Netflix and switching to Hulu which no one uses but hey they have advertisements and that's like TV right?

[@BugsyFoga]

Can we all agree that the Digimon movie has the greatest soundtracks out there ?

[@DannyJennyArtz]

I would honestly LOVE to rewatch Digimon now. I remember watching it a litttle as a kid and even a few times years after. I feel like I'll have a good time rewatching the show now. Tho admittedly, I'm kind of indecisive between watching the dub and the sub. Because over time I've learn to appreciate watching foreign shows in their original format even if I can't understand what they're saying. There's just something unique about watching these show in their original languages and stuff. Although I actually have some nostalgia for the english dub. Even if the voice acting looks really dumb at times, I feel it stil had it's share of fairly good quality. I REALLY like some of the music they use for the dub like the instrumental theme for Digivoling and the main theme song is always a blast for me to listen to. Maybe I should watch both at the same time, that might be cool to do. Anyways, Digimon was a cool show, would LOVE to rewatch it now.

[@aaronlandry3934]

Who else thinks animes that were censored in the 90s and early 2000s deserve better English dubs?

[@spiritrosewolf6377]

Totally agree!

[@daltonwilliams1723]

Aaron Landry eh. depends on what you consider unwarranted censorship. im kinda glad some dubs take out references to smoking and alchohol

[@aaronlandry3934]

Dalton Williams Yeah, those are relatively unnoticeable, and would just seem weird considering the characters' ages. Things like the amount of censoring in things like One Piece, Yugiho, or Sailor Moon deserve better dubs, though. It's absolutely shameful how terribly they were censored!

[@daltonwilliams1723]

Aaron Landry yeah. but those show are kinda only as good as they are on a so bad they're good level. I'd kinda rather have that. if i wanted to take the story seriously, id just read the manga

[@sirbruno95]

Aaron Landry I just want a new Zatchbell dub cause the English one is shit. I want a new one or for someone to finish the Latin dub.

[@mattardis]

that Digimon /Sonic Adventure comparison is pretty much a perfect analogy

[@maddybutyoutube]

Summer Pan videos always the interesting ones

[@ThePolishGent]

Boy, it's been so many years since I last watched Digimon. I do fondly remember watching to premiere of it back in 1999 and continued to watch it until after Tamers came to a end. I also collected of some of the toys and cards. Such fun times.

[@justastrugglermovingforwar6209]

ThePolishGent Me too those were the days

[@samuelademeso6061]

Same here though sadly I dont have the merchandise, though I do have digimon dusk world the nintendo game on my computer

[@6abial]

I thought that was pretty fuckin clever to say that the Japanese was "Digi-Code"

[@junbird]

I don't know if it's just nostalgia or anything like that, but I still think to this day that the best Digimon opening is the italian one. I think it is a genuinely great song.

[@maximillianlylat1589]

Jun Bird, il maestro di Game Design italy gets the best intros i swear

[@junbird]

I actually think that's kinda true. The ones who made those intros were really talented people. You can see some serious effort put in many of those songs.

[@thefvguy5648]

I remember watching that episode of that Rock and Pumpkinhead digimon where they just die and we see their pieces fly out and land of the floor later disappearing into thin air. I was so shocked when I saw that for the first time.

[@vriskaserketvore413]

You mean Gotsumon and Pump(kin)mon?

[@pokcow01]

"...for making our friends go away." Yeah. Those aren't graves right in front of you.

[@9Godslayer]

I think was a kids way of saying died.

[@pokcow01]

I think it was a 4kids way of saying "banished to the Dark Dimension".

[@9Godslayer]

Joel Fulker Shadow Realm?

[@NitroIndigo]

This was dubbed by Saban...

[@samuelademeso6061]

Tyler Witt marik : voice :silence!

[@josephgarfield3363]

Please review Iron Man: Armoured Adventures, the animation is Crap, but the artstyle and designs were cool and the writing was good. Not to mention the huge amount of references, seriously, there's a line about Moon Knight. MOON KNIGHT.

[@alejandrotomascarreno3867]

I grew up with the Mexican Dub, wich addapt the japanese script from the feet to the head. And it was great; but it looks like the english dub take a LOT of liberties, but well...

[@roxxyblade3104]

Tomason Alexander Producciones sometimes networks don't want take risks, but some do.

[@MrMato]

And digimon had the cuter monster. Screw pikachu. Just terreriermon it boi.

[@Melkac]

It also had far worse designs overall. Pan already mentioned weregarugamon (literally my mom's first fursona).

[@MrMato]

Daimon Shaw pikachu was a f*** for the first episode but nobody cared cuz he was cute. Same with terreriermon except bad model designs. Also rikas my wife in tomodachi life. Hey that rhymes.

[@Melkac]

+Ice Bear Ok. But what does that have to do with designs.

[@விஷ்ணு_கார்த்திக்]

your mom is a furry...

[@kanchomerocks12]

Calumon, man.

[@namingisdifficult408]

Watching obscure Nick shows video. New video in notifications. YEAH

[@namingisdifficult408]

Andre Johnson which one?

[@king-k9675]

How Dare you insult Weregarurumon! That man was the hypest shit during my childhood.

[@KamiAnimeS1]

I really love digimon way more than Pokémon way better story

[@chillplayer1234]

Xthe Man Gen 5 dude. Pokemon is better than Digimon.

[@lucianocastrogiovanni2879]

+Chill Player 123 I think Pan was pretty clear, "Pokemon has the better games, but Digimon has the better shows" that statement is valid even to this day.

[@chillplayer1234]

Luciano Castrogiovanni No, that is not valid at all. That was always wrong. Pokemon is better in both. Digimon is boring garbage. So no, the Pokémon Anime is better. Even to this day it is better. You are wrong. Period.

[@lucianocastrogiovanni2879]

+Chill Player 123 Since you aren't remotely giving any arguments at all, and you are giving the impression of a 5 year old child, this conversation is over. Go be stubborn in the corner where people who get too passionate and have no substance go to believe what they want to believe for no basis. And just to make sure I am not a hypocrite, since I am more conscious than a 5 year old, I will give some arguments in favor of what I said. Digimon games are badly balanced, have a lot of issues and their animations feel.. incomplete. Plus it has no discerned game genre, whereas pokemon made its own, with spin offs to shove around on other genres. That's why pokemon has the better games (plus there is something to say about the obvious success of pokemon games vs digimon ones which barely anyone speaks of). On the other hand, the pokemon show is a copy paste of the game, whilst simultaneously breaking all the game rules, pushing the marketing but adding zero substance or plot. It has a general goal which rarely moves towards and inconsistencies all over. It is just "making the game come alive to get people to buy more merch" rather than a show with morals, teachings, plot and character development, etc. On the other hand, Digimon explores interesting plot ideas, getting full stories that progress constantly or if they don't they at least take a moment to give character development. The interactions between digimons and their humans are far more endearing than pokemons and their humans and the kids actually do more than just shout attacks at their "mons" taking an active part in a lot of the fights. The villians are more interesting and the plot twists more engaging, as well as knowing how to raise the stakes with very good pacing. The journey is thoroughly enjoyable and doesn't feel repetitive even tho it is sort of the same idea over and over and that is a lot to say about any anime. On the other hand pokemon felt repetitive as soon as the second season, it ran out of ideas even by the middle of the first season, and is far more a gag comedy than a story driven show. It's not bad, but digimon tramples it far and wide. That's why digimon shows are better than pokemon shows. With that said, I do not care about your following replies, unless you actually address my arguments with counter arguments. Otherwise you will just be displaying how childish and uninspired of a little person you are.

[@kanchomerocks12]

Chill Player 123 You just made his statement more valid.