Anonymous
10/20/2025, 3:31:26 AM
No.723681738
>>723680463
02 has problems, but it's not bad, and neither is Frontier. Let's not pretend that Digimon didn't peak commercially and critically in March 2000 and everything after wasn't a downward spiral in popularity due to a variety of factors. Yes, even Tamers did worse than 02. V-Tamer, which had been running since before any Digimon anime, had a fairly rushed ending in 2003 around the time Frontier was in its final stages. 2003 was spent introducing X-Antibody stuff, the brand trying to reinvent itself AGAIN and struggling, and then it was essentially dead in 2004, with only some Seven Great Demon Lords stuff. There was a bit of a resurgence in 2005 that would lead to Savers in 2006-2007, but then it was mostly dead again until Xros Wars.
Digimon never had a powerful core like Pokémon did, so when Pokémania started dying around 2000, various monster games went down with it. But Pokémon at least had its games to fall back on. As milquetoast as the anime was, it was at least a source of consistency that advertised the new product, while Digimon kept reinventing itself and its media synergy was all over the place. The anime is popular? Better ditch the v-pet concept for Digivice toys! The games were of such varying quality, there was no way to categorize anything, no rhyme or reason, which made it harder to get into, along with the fact that a ton of Digimon material just wasn't localized (didn't help that the WonderSwan wasn't released outside Asia).
02 has problems, but it's not bad, and neither is Frontier. Let's not pretend that Digimon didn't peak commercially and critically in March 2000 and everything after wasn't a downward spiral in popularity due to a variety of factors. Yes, even Tamers did worse than 02. V-Tamer, which had been running since before any Digimon anime, had a fairly rushed ending in 2003 around the time Frontier was in its final stages. 2003 was spent introducing X-Antibody stuff, the brand trying to reinvent itself AGAIN and struggling, and then it was essentially dead in 2004, with only some Seven Great Demon Lords stuff. There was a bit of a resurgence in 2005 that would lead to Savers in 2006-2007, but then it was mostly dead again until Xros Wars.
Digimon never had a powerful core like Pokémon did, so when Pokémania started dying around 2000, various monster games went down with it. But Pokémon at least had its games to fall back on. As milquetoast as the anime was, it was at least a source of consistency that advertised the new product, while Digimon kept reinventing itself and its media synergy was all over the place. The anime is popular? Better ditch the v-pet concept for Digivice toys! The games were of such varying quality, there was no way to categorize anything, no rhyme or reason, which made it harder to get into, along with the fact that a ton of Digimon material just wasn't localized (didn't help that the WonderSwan wasn't released outside Asia).