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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.
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.
@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.
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.
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.
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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.
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
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.
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.
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
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 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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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...
@@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!)
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!
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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).
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?
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.
@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.
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
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.
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.
@curious seriously though, digimon adventure just doesnt feel right without butterfly & braveheart...hell! even Bolero which was played in some of the best parts
@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
I remember being pretty surprised at how "adult" Tamers was back in the day. By the time Tamers started airing I was more aware of how anime that wasn't on programs like Adult Swim often got edited to make the content more kid friendly, but yet Tamers still had moments that caught me off guard, one of the biggest ones being when one character in the dub outright said the phrase "we were playing God." The fact they got away with even saying that in a early 00s English dub on an anime that wasn't on Adult Swim shocked my 13 year old self. Also that "folksy" song... methinks someone was trying to ripoff the Barenaked Ladies.
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.
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!
+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.
+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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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)
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
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.
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.
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!
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.
+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.
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.
+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.
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..
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?
I still can't believe how shitty the music in the US dub was. Thankfully, besides the opening (which was still insanely cool, and it's a tradition in Italy to make our own) they kept the original score in the italian dub, even the Bolero, that piece of classical music that played sometimes, and there was no censoring.
The thing is that, unlike the US, Italy has had anime since the 1970s, with the early super-mecha genre, so by the time the international boom of japanese animation came between the 1990s and early 2000s, in Italy there was an already enstablished and respected industry both for dubbing and for the openings, some even famous internationally (the first italian pokémon opening is pretty popular amongst international fans of the series for instance, as I found out.)
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!
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.
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
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.
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.
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!
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
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.
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.
