User talk:Yoshikart

...The first Digimon manga, which everything is based on, started in '97, only two years after the first Pokemon game was released - much too short of a time for a "ripoff" franchise to be built around it. It was about a completely different subject (holographic monster battles), was not based at all about "collecting monsters", and included death, drama, and character growth. It also has much more blatant references to mythology and religion, as well as references to biology, foreign languages, and computer science.

Pokemon includes none of these things, and is quintessentially based on bug collecting and taxonomy. Except for one of its manga's, not the main franchise, (though admittedly, the one that Tajiri said that "Pokemon is supposed to be"), it lacks threatening antagonists, character growth, story progression, and most kinds of drama.

While not all franchises of Pokemon are "childish" (specifically Colosseum and the Adventure manga), they are not at all on the level that Digimon is, and are not aimed at the same audience.

So, no, Digimon is not in any way a ripoff of Pokemon. Not even Mr. Lister's  Koromon survived intact.  16:22, 1 October 2008 (UTC)