>>56145748More retard gushing.
>Implying you can't understand, communicate and be friends with a creature that cannot talk human language.>Do you have a pet? Can you understand its non verbal language? Can you love it for who it is and consider it your best buddy even despite it being unable to talk like a human?I cannot have the same love and bond with a pet that I do a human being. They are not the same. No. No matter how much you love a pet, and think they're your friend, there's a huge disconnect between that and being able to communicate on a personal level and genuinely grow and change with that person.
Digimon has great character development in part because the characters have actual personalities, can talk, and grow and change with their partners instead of being HM slaves or pets. There's a very obvious power dynamic that exists in Pokemon that isn't in Digimon. Pokemon are not equals to their trainers. They're pets and slaves. Them being friends is not what their depiction shows.
>Yeah, and so does Pokemon, that's the entire reason why wild Pokemon are weaker on average compared to their counterparts owned by trainers.Digimon pulls this concept off far better by having the Digimon be actual characters and growing with the humans that raise them. Something that Pokemon cannot do for the life of them.
