>>15080152Digimon designs were a fucking mess from the start. They didn't have a distinct "look" to them like Pokemon, they looked like generic anime monsters with shit all over them. The mergers weren't that strange because we already had digimon who looked like that, the kids were just inside them now.
It's like Pokemon is LOTR and Digimon is Warcraft. Magical steam robots from space aren't that weird in Warcraft, but in LOTR it's just fucking wrong.