Can you tell I struggled jumping back and forth between saying Pokemon and Digimon? 😅 Let me know if you'd like to see more Pokemon/Digimon crossover content or stuff from other franchises
Nah, I couldn't tell at all :p Marvel Avengers with digimon partners. The Crests and Infinity stones do have a somewhat tangential plot similarity. Particularly with the 2020's take on them.
My opinion is that more from the other Generations sounds good, but really any other anime series of the time Pokemon and Digimon released like YuGiOh, Monster Rancher, Duel Masters, BeyBlade, etc. Or stuff like Dragonball, Naruto, One Piece, Bleach, or newer stuff like My Hero Academia, Black Clover, etc. But really, do what you think would be fun or something you'd have some knowledge about. I'm fine with any content.
It's one of those "I'm better than you" rivalries. Of course Pokemon fans hate Digimon because it's another show that ends with 'mon. Really the only similarities both franchises have is there focus on monster partners and the fact they grow bigger. But they are both completely different even their source materials are. Pokemon was originally a video game, and Digimon was mad so they could make money off of boys that liked the idea of Tomogatchi but would rather die than be seen in public with one. It's like the Dub vs. Sub debate, one group wants to be superior so they bully the other group, and honestly the other group could care less if they weren't insulted. Digimon definitely has the more inviting fanbase. Digimon is the only group on Facebook I'm in that I didn't delete because I've only ever gotten into one fight with a Digifan and it was more of a misunderstanding than it was a fight.
I would love to see this with the other regions gym leaders, and Ash's friends May, Dawn, Serena, and more for Brock since he had different pokemon for each region.
As a fan of both franchises, I loved this video. The partners felt on point for all characters. On another note, I wondered something for a possible video. What if... the dark digimon that the digidestined fought were reincarnated into good beings, and became partners? Like, what if Machinedramon was reborn as a baby, but with Tai as a partner, giving him a new digivolution line, combining elements from its old and new life (like starting as a BlackAgumon, then a Tyrannomon that would be a rival to Greymon, then something else)? All villains from the first season (Devimon, Etemon, Myotismon, MetalSeadramon, Puppetmon, Machinedramon, Piedmon and Apocalymon, all eight) as new partners
I would think it would be a bit traumatizing to give TK a Devimon and Kari an Myotismon though. I would give Tai a Machinedramon, Joe a MetalSeadramon and Matt a Puppetmon.
Piedmon and Sabrina is an absolute 100% match One turns people into miniature keychains, the other shrunk the characters in the anime to put them in her doll houses
Y'know, when I was a kid I remember imagining Pokemon trainers getting the legendary spirits from Frontier so they could fight too. If memory serves this was as part of an idea I had where members of our friend group had them, too. I remember rattling off the list of who got what to my best friend and he said "Okay, who has the last three? And don't tell me it's Ash, Misty, and Brock again." To which I responded "But they do, though..."
I never understood the perceived competition between Pokemon and Digimon. They both have such a different feel in both games and anime to me. The Coronamon line for Blaine actually made me think of Magmar, I think mainly due to visual similarities.
I feel like Misty's evolution should be Mega or Waru Seadramon. This references Red Gyarados and naturally leads into Plesiomon as a mega better, and gives her 4 Pokémon references. Goldeen/Swimming -> Horsea/Seahomon -> RedGyarados/MegaSeadramon -> Lapras/Plesiomon. I know she didn't have Gyarados or Plesiomon in the anime, but I think it still adds up. I also think Ash's Agumon could have BurningGreymon/Vritramon as an ultimate. Not quite as unique as DoruGreymon but I think it matches Charizard with its fiery dragon motif.
1. RustTyrannomon also kind of references how in the anime Mewtwo had armor while under Giovanni's control. 2. I think VictoryGreymon and ZeedGarurumon need an Omnimon form.
I think my favorite was Erika, while I think an argument could be made for a more traditionally feminine mega or even ultimate, especially since her gym trainers are exclusively female iirc, i love that she gets to have these dangerous looking plants that match well with her team, especially since one of the themes she brought up in her first appearance in the anime was that it's what's inside that matters.
@@NovaSaber fair point. I don't have a good grasp of digimon, so wasn't aware of rafflesimon, having a look, definitely a strong contender based on the indigo league anime, since part of her story in the episode for her gym involved helping a gloom evolve into vileplume. I think the erika team still is pretty good though and fits her theming, though i am biased towards considering tangrowth as Erika's true ace as its often in her final team in generations where tangrowth is available and is the highest level pokemon i've seen her have in main series
Vileplume's Japanese name is "Rafflesia," so in Japan, you'd just be slapping "mon" at the end of the name. I like the more savage looking options for champion and ultimate, but Rafflesimon just seems too perfect to pass up for Mega. Blossomon is even one of the ultimates that actually can evolve into Rafflesimon in some representations.
You should do other NPCs and the Elite 4! Lance, Nurse Joy, etc. I love Misty eventually ending up with Plesiomon! I would normally suggest the Seadramon line for her, but Plesiomon represents ties to water much better than MetalSeadramon in my opinion. Misty seems more pure, so an industrial route wouldn’t work.
Honestly this was really interesting to watch and I love the reasons and logic behind it I'd love to hopefully see more Gym leaders with digi partners!
Over the last year you and this channel have reignited my love of digimon. Great to see digimon content again. Started watching adventure 2020 and revisiting the original series because if this. Great to have you around and appreciate the passion and effort you bring to a beloved franchise.
This crossover has been in my head for so long! Just never dared to say anything / dabbled into the idea because of the fragility/tension between the two communities
@@bartmuljono872 not even close. The numbers aren't in his favor and what he actually did isn't all that impressive to pokemon on the level of the elite four.
I saw the other video first, but I'm glad you guys made this. I love both these series and they hold such a wonderful place in my heart. I hope to see you both do more awesome collaborations like this again. Maybe do the other gym leaders and various leaders of the... (Crap, I don't know how to fraze this...) Main enemies from each region. I mean, you already did Ash. No need to do him again. Edit: Just a shout out mention from the other video, the anime Hoenn region and the video game Kalos region are my favorite regions.
I like this. I think the pokemon franchise has done great work giving their characters a lot of story and personality, even in the old games where we didn't see a lot of them. Its easy to get a vibe and story from these characters from their design, their gym layouts, and the few scant bits of dialogue we got from them. It's one of the reasons why I liked Pokemon Masters so much, which fleshes out these elements even more. I think this kind of videos works really well, because we can intuit so much about pokemon characters, and there are so many digimon that its easy to find a good fit for them.
Pulseman, a videogame by Game Freak for the Mega Drive, that has an attack called Volteccer, that became Volt Tackle in Pokémon, that is Pikachu line signature move, that is one of the lines used by LT Surge, that got a Pulsemon in this video. Oh, yeah. It's all coming together
4:33 the digimon getting more ‘evil’ looking could also reference his role in the manga, at least the first book of it, where he’s a member of Team Rocket.
Major fan of pokèmon and I was overjoyed to find your channel, someone talking about Digimon that made it interesting to watch the videos with my incomplete knowledge of the franchise
I probably would’ve given Ash Patamon. I don’t know why, but as a kid, Patamon always screamed Pikachu energy and I saw him as the mascot given that he also saves the day in the first part of adventures when he becomes Angemon.
I've dabbled in Pokemon/Digimon crossovers before (mostly in art styles) and I know that pain of accidentally saying Digimon when you mean Pokemon and vice versa 😔 Edit: Also, having watched the video, all I can think of is Giovanni needs a Gazimon. Not only is it a cat-like mammilian, but in the original V-Pet, Gazimon evolves into all Kaiju-inspired forms! Gazimon> Deltamon> Chimeramon> Milleniumon/Chaosdramon fits thematically. You have a Persain equivalent, a Nidoking/Nidoqueen equivalent, a creature created to serve its corrupt human master (Mewtwo's origin/Digimon Emperor's creation), and then Milleniumon or Chaosdramon to really show that Giovanni is a man of corrupt power!
Finally, the crossover content we never knew we needed! Though now I have to wonder what Pokémon species DigiDestined would have. (Personally I imagine Takeru from Adventure having a Togepi.) Edit: crap, I should have started the vid before I typed this.
@6:11 Piedmon is also fitting for Sabrina as they both gave me nightmares as a kid, and Sabrina transformed the heroes into dolls while Piedmon turned them into keychains.
Also, for Ash I would've done Augumon as well, but instead of divivolving in the standard way I'd give him access to the xwars/tamers like effects before having it eventually digivolve to Bond of Courage Agumon as a reference to the first movie.
I’m a fan of both. I love Pokémon and Digimon. To me they are very similar in which kids partner with monsters but besides that they are very different plot wise and how they treat things.
Really enjoyed this video! Would love to see more of this for other Gym Leaders, or perhaps coming back to some of these characters as they change through the series (like for instance, with Brock going from Gym Leader to Pokemon Doctor, with a Blissey and all, a Cutemon would also work perfectly well for him). I think my favorite of these would definitely have to be Giovanni and the BlackAgumon line, especially since it definitely doesn't hurt that RustTyranomon is one of my favorite Digimon. :P Other than that, with Ash having Agumon, and with the idea of each stage representing a different part of the Digimon franchise, I'd have his Ultimate/Perfect level specifically be MetalGreymon 2010/Fusion/Xros Wars to keep it concretely in the Greymon line while still referencing a different part of the franchise (though full disclosure, that could in large part be due to bias in my part due to my love of Xros Wars, but yeah, it avoids the ambiguity a bit and still works, but those are just my thoughts).
I certainly would love to see more. Even the 02, Tamers, Frontier, Data Squad, Fusion Fighters and Hunters Pokemon teams. But I would love to see what Goh's Digimon Partner would be!
while Agumon can work for Ash, I heavily disagree with it working for Red. out of the three starters, Red's Starter is actually bulbasaur rather then charmander, based upon some old promotional art, his team in the let's go games and his pokemon adventures incarnation. and if we look at the adventures manga which gives most character and story to the game characters, Red's actual starter is a poliwag he caught as a little kid, followed by bulbasaur and only then getting pikachu.
Also Giovanni having Rhydon (the first drawn Pokemon) in his team convert to a Tyrannomon line (Tyrannomon being the first drawn Digimon) is a little extra deeper layer
ever since i was little ive always luv the 2 franchises becuz of them i become who i am and who i wanna be in the future which is a good person in life who doesnt care for himself and only luvs ppl around him
erika is also traditinal japanese girl with flower arrangment theme like sora, in recent pokemon anime erika comes back to teach ash flower arrangemnt so bloomlordmon can also fit with the nobal job of flower arrangment with plant
Glad this video was on my recommended videos, I would actually love to see you do a video on Elite 4 and Champion (the person) Digimon partners. I was a fan of both series as a kid too and still am but good job on the video guys
the rusttyranomon also works really well cuz team rocket is known for making robots and other contraptions like mewtwo armour alot of mechas are involved with team rocket, also supprised ash did not get plusemon a moscot of sorts for the vital brace fitting with electric and fits with how much ash WALKS
I’d love to see this continued through further generations, maybe at the elite 4’s as well and only 90% of the reason I’d love this is I suspect Karn would give Bugsy a sting on as the closest representative for Bugsy’s ace scythor
Wow Bro, you guys did a really good job with this. Another super fun video! I actually feel like the digimon you picked for the pokemon trainers fit them very well thematically. I love pokemon too. I like too many different franchises lol.
Thank JustJamie for telling me about your channel. Honestly, I thought you would do something like Divermon or Betamon for Misty, especially cuz of the Betamon line being something related to Gyrados, or Divermon being related to more of her underwater escapades and dangers. Truly a great video. If I had to pick a favorite, I think I would have to go with Blaine because I LOVE Coronamon. Really nice work. Please keep it up!
You have no idea how much I loved this. I would love to see more videos of this sort of content. Some suggestions: Gary- I think, if Ash got Agumon, then Gary should definitely have Gabumon. I'm unsure about the Champion or ultimate forms, but ending with Zeedgarurumon would be perfect May- I think I would give her Biyomon or even Hyokomon to reference her starter Torchic. From there, It gets a little tricky when regarding the rest of the digivolution line Max: I think a digimon like Fanbeemon would work well for Max since he almost feels like an Izzy equivalent in pokemon (albeit more annoying) and the Crest of Knowledge and its association with bugs definitely fits. Terriermon could also be another option. Dawn: Penguinmon kinda feels like an obvious choice, given her Piplup, but I also feel that Herissmon would be a great digimon partner for Dawn based on its personality Paul: I'm thinking of a Digimon like Tsukaimon or Gaomon would fit with him. Serena: Renamon seems like best option for her, aligning with her Braixen. From there, perhaps use Youkomon, Daomon and Kuzuhamon?
I think it'd be cool to see the Pokemon player characters get their game protagonist get Digi-destined honestly. I think MandJTV's video of what would each protagonists full team would be would be a good reference to go on. But I would love to see other regions and characters too. I would also like to see the other digi-destined get their Pokemon as well.
This was a really interesting idea and I think the choices were spot on, my favorite being koge. I wonder what the elite four and champion partners could be because you'd have the fully evolved teams to base it off of.
This is awesome and I really, REALLY wanna see Digimon partners for the other Gym Leaders, Ash’s companions, and even the main villains-not counting Giovanni, since he’s already used here.
Persian is more like his pet then his Pokémon if that makes sense, so he'd probably just have a gatomon that just sits around and looks cute while black agumon does all the work
Love your episodes, I am a huge fan of Both franchises as I enjoyed Pokemon games and shows as a kid right along the DIgimon show and games as well. And I still enjoy both from time to time. ANd I still have the whole show of season 1-3 of Digimon as a whole
Can you imagine Piedmon voiced by Stephen Derek Prince with his Tim Curry impression in the Pokémon anime in the two Sabrina episodes? That would have been amazing and horrifying at the same time lmao
Gosh, I remember coming up with crossovers of the 'mons as a kid. I think I remember drawing some armor "digivolved" pokemon once or twice. And I had a digimon oc that looked an awful lot like darkrai years before darkrai was a thing. Unrelated, but I have an idea knocking around my head that I think could be a cool one to cover. What if, like (or instead of) Antylamon, any of the other Deva chose to take a human partner? What would their line be, and who might they bond with?
