>>58160133>>58160141>>58161701Zoomers don't understand what people mean when they say a pokemon looks like a digimon. Despite the two franchises developing in parallel around the same time in Japan, Pokemon had a solid head start in the west before anyone knew what the fuck Digimon was. It wasn't until 2000 when Digimon really entered the scene in the US, and kids who had been completely engrossed in Pokemon at the time saw it as a pale imitation. It was the "Sonic the Hedgehog" to Pokemon's "Super Mario Bros", something designed to compete with a Nintendo IP that was selling gangbusters at the time.
In hindsight Digimon feels closer to something like SMT rather than Pokemon. The designs didn't feel nearly as organic and cohesive, and evolved forms were made to look edgier, with lots of extra spikes and protrusions, but even more key, many evolved digimon became more anthropomorphic compared to their earlier stages. That's why Blaziken, more than any other pokemon at the time of its release got called a digimon. It started as a cute, fire breathing chick, and then turned into some uncanny bird-headed humanoid, with human arms and legs with some spikes and pointy head feathers slapped on. It's cool that you like Blaziken, it's cool that you started with later generations, but it was undoubtedly the closest thing to a digimon that Game Freak had designed at the time, and it marked a major shift in pokemon designs to come.
