>>41970112Every on screen death in Pokemon as far as I know has been promptly reversed. What kind of respect is that?
You greatly exaggerate. Leomon is one particular digimon, and though his deaths have become a meme, it's still only a handful of times collectively across the entire franchise. And they're still, for the most part, permanent. Nearly every Leomon has been a different individual, with totally different narrative purposes. That one Leomon's death in Tamers has more impact than anything in the Pokemon anime ever will.
Pokemon's anime will never be better than Digimon's best. Hell, it'll never be better than its worst. By design it's made to run indefinitely with the same unaging protagonist that never really grows and develops. He just resets every generation to make the same mistakes over and over, trading his old friends for new ones just to carry out the same boring formula as always. It's garbage.
Now, if you were comparing PokeSpe, then you might have an argument. But even then death has more consequence in Digimon.
