>>40320195I mean, in my country Digimon completely blew Pokemon out of the water. Kids would do nothing but play with Digimon toys/cards, talk about the series, be expectant of the upcoming ones, have OCs, literally bet on the schoolyard using said toys, etc. We even had a lot of big ass events in shopping malls that were always filled with lots of people, with incredible decorations such as a huge tunnel which gave the feeling that you were rotating, whose walls were decorated with a lot of animated digital code, and it led straight to the cinema for a 3D show.
Even to this day people remember Digimon fondly and talk about it a lot more than Pokemon, almost no one even plays Pokemon to begin with.
In cosplay events you'll see two or three Pokemon trainers/fursuiters vs a lot of people cosplaying Digimon characters (mostly from Adventure). And then there's the Japanese institute I go to which is full of weebs from all ages, and everyone think Digimon is fucking cool whereas Pokemon is "ah yes, I like buying Pikachu plushies sometimes but that's it" and maybe one or two normalfag who bought LGPE simply as Switch fodder.
I'm not saying Pokemon isn't popular here or anything, just that for some reason Digimon actually won here.
