>>717727907Digimon experiments with it's franchise without fear of backlash or failure. The first 3 Digimon World games were entirely different genres from each other, while most consider them bad they heavily resonated with the right people.
The first anime had the theme of adventure and discovery, the second travel and meeting people across different countries and language, the third creativity and Digimon existing in a real life setting and the fourth adopting a toku like superhero story.
Pokemon has been the exact same game it's been since Red and Blue and the anime was Ash has his gym trials in X region and losing, it's a cry for help and bitterness.