/mon/ is as fucking necessary as ever (this includes things like Medabots). Otherwise the situation will get worse with threads about persona, temtem, yokai or monster crowns popping up relentlessly. Stop acting like preschool kids having recess war because digimon or yokai watch are "pokemon ripoffs" when Pokemon itself isn't exactly a complete pioneer idea, not even SMT nor that old ass game Mail Order Monsters. We know everything has the same core idea and that many of us enjoy indiscriminately other similar series and games and would like to have a space to share our taste without getting shut down because it's not Pokemon every time we want to talk about a game or show even if thematically and objecticaly they keep some relation.