Disgruntled Digimon Fans Petition Against Digimon Tri

latest Rozen Maiden design is the best

You're right, there aren't any partitions that worked. They're terrible ideas. Petitions have worked, tho - https://www.change.org/victories

The debate is over. Sora and Taichi was never a thing. Straight from the mouth of the creator:

http://jippy-kandi.tumblr.com/post/51900665766/digimon-creator-speaks-about-sorato-and-taiora

I don't watch re-dubbed anime, but even I know that the Digimon Re-Dub changed meaning all over the place.

As for Taichi and Sora,.. I don't think there was ever anything going on other than the two being childhood friends. (Childhood friend never wins.)

Taichi and Sora were together in the football/soccer club and good friends. To the point were Taichi views Sora as a dude. Maybe Sora feels more, but it's unlikely that Taichi would if ever confronted. I think even the incest route with Hikari has more chances than Taichi and Sora ever hooking up. The two just have zero chemistry going on.

And Mimi and Jou are supposed to be married at the end of DA 02? Did the Re-Dub also change this? Because as far as I know the Japanese version doesn't actually confirm any pairing at all.

Sorry, that should say episode 38, not 39.

Ah, and when I say episode 26, I mean of Digimon Adventure.

Thanks for the fascinating link!

None of what I said except Tai asking Sora out has anything to do with the dub, Anon.

I’ve just rechecked the epilogue, and it doesn’t clearly show Mimi with Jo like I thought. Maybe you’re right and that’s another dub thing, although I’m not even sure I have ever seen the dub of that episode at all. Anyway, I clearly screwed up somewhere, so disregard what I said about Mimi and Jo.

But Taichi and Sora? Please. When Sora is abducted, Taichi begs the others to let him go after her and admits she is “very precious” to him. After Sora’s crest glows for the first time, he says “I want to feel Sora’s love too!”, which eventually gets brushed off as a joke, but what sort of joke is that? In Our War Game, Taichi gives Sora a hairpin for her upcoming birthday (entirely of his own volition) and she gets mad at him because it “doesn’t match her hat”. Gets real mad. She won’t listen to him when he phones her, she won’t talk to him on her own, and yet she waits for an apology email. She considers apologizing herself, too, but decides against it at the last moment. Taichi tries to email her (but it doesn’t work because of Diablomon) but is afraid of phoning her. He doesn’t want to admit that they’re quarrelling or tell why they are, and his face gets all red when it’s mentioned. What is it if not a lovers’ quarrel? Koshiro’s reactions are appropriate, too. Eventually peace is settled when his email arrives to Sora with an accidentally added heart sign at the end—which Taichi doesn’t mind too much. In 02, when Sora wants to give a Christmas present to Yamato, Taichi sees her and she gets embarrassed. Taichi is sad but stoically encourages her to go, and even Agumon sees what’s going on and remarks that Taichi has gotten more mature. At this point he gives up Sora to Yamato, but he’s still the second after him: they’re seen sitting together later in the same episode, and in Diablomon Strikes Back, Sora stands between Taichi and Yamato (and even grips Taichi’s arm, not Yamato’s, when she’s about to fall).

And that’s just the most obvious instances.

(The Japanese epilogue does, of course, confirm two other pairings: Miyako/Ken and Sora/Yamato.)

i ended up reading those comments but who the fuck care really...

Pokémon is also a rip-off... Remember "catch demons and make them fight for you" (yep Megami Tensei)... Change demons to ridiculously colored cute animals and there, you have Pokémon.
Digimon was started as a Tamagotchi so yeah... It has nothing to do with Pokémon.
Also Digimon has more "monstrous" designs as it suits the name and theme.
Pokémon is just cutey fuzzy lil pets biting each others asses (even most serious Pokémon design can't get close to average serious Digimon design)

@Anon 17:38 @Chortos-2
Huh... I thought Digital Monster Ver. 1 (the first V-pet) came out a lot earlier, but it seems I was wrong. Point still stands, though. Pokemon and Digimon are too different and it's utterly moronic to try and claim one's ripping off the other just because they both have "mon" in the title (because using a shortened form of "monster" is apparently such a unique thing that nobody besides GameFreak could possibly think of, amiright?).

I think the concept of Pokemon was before Digimon but Tomogatchi beat them to market?

I just checked and wow, even Monster Rancher made it to the US market on PS1 before Pokemon released in 1998. It could be easy for someone in the US to see pokemon as the copy cat at the time... when in reality, Nintendo really did do the pioneering once again, lol.

I think for the US Digimon actually came first (the virtual pet released in 1997), but in Japan Pokemon came first in 1996. Pokemon games were late to arrive in the US in 1998. But yeah, Pokemon was created first. It even came before Tamagotchi, but I think it's more logical to believe that Digimon first followed in Tamagotchi's footsteps rather than Pokemon's, seeing how it first started with the Digital Pet device.

Although I agree with everything else you said,

> the Digimon franchise itself actually existed well before Pocket Monsters Red and Green ever hit store shelves

really? As far as I’m aware, the first Digimon product of any kind came out in the summer of 1997, while Pokémon Red and Green were released in February 1996.

Even still, they may be within the same genre but they're still leagues apart from each other in almost every way besides "monsters". Anyways, while I do prefer Digimon to Pokemon, but I prefer Monster Farm/Rancher to both. I doubt that'll be getting any love any time soon... except for a cameo in Deception 4.