>>6928718The issue of creature design is a more nuanced one and I wouldn't really say one is better than the other objectively. Pokemon clearly has a more focused style and has a mostly very distinct and polished designs; it's all very clean and safe, they clearly want to avoid at all cost to have any mon that just looks bad. They all look like they belong together and that goes hand-in-hand with how the series builds onto itself with each iteration.
Meanwhile Digimon is all over the place, it's not only varied but straight up inconsistent and all over the place, which isn't necessarily a bad thing because it leads to individual very interesting out-there designs and most importantly it adds to that sense of chaos and disarray that's present in so many other elements of the franchise. Digimon feel unpredictable in a way that totally sells the premise of creatures being born of random pieces of virtual data converging together. I get the feeling whatever crazy idea the artists get immediately gets greenlit which also leads to negatives like a bunch of clones and and just plain shitty designs littering the pool.
