>>55455523Just to be clear, I'm speaking as someone interested in animation, not as a fan of either franchise.
>the digimon movie was notoriously awfulMaybe the North American cut, which was inexplicably three films cut up and pasted together (with an angela anaconda pre-show for some reason). But each of these movies are better than any Pokemon movie. And frankly, the slapped together version we got is about as good as any Pokemon movie.
>it’s not really about the animation (which is different than the show for no apparent reason)"Animation isn't about animation." Brain genius take. This is like saying, "video games aren't about gameplay" or "movies aren't about cinematography."
And the animation is different because the budget is different, and (at least some of these) were directed by competent directors (Hosoda most notably) who didn't want their movies to look like a low-rent saturday morning toy commercial.
