You just know

Anonus

That 1940s playgrounds raged with arguments about whether or not Woody Woodpecker was a ripoff of Daffy Duck or the other way around.

Sredni Vashtar

Probably not, honestly. They're not very similar.

But then, Pokémon and Digimon are only slightly less dissimilar and that was a nightmare of bickering. Pokémon has kind of won out on a memetic level because the games are better and the monsters are cuter, but apparently Tri is really good on a story level, so I guess Digimon has its own niche still? The regular shows have apparently gone downhill since Tamers, though, but that's to be expected when you have Chiaki J Konaka show everyone up and then BAMF out of there.

Crystal

Yeah, I'm definitely going to go through at least some of the Digimon shows later on. I guess I could start Tri now, but considering I never finished any of the multiple seasons I watched as a child, it just doesn't feel right.

Imipolex G

I figured the question would be Daffy or Donald

Tre

Pokémon and Digimon had the weird combo of being popular at the same time, having similar names, and story hooks that were juuuuuust close enough to warrant a fandom war.

I don't know if that was ever a thing with Daffy vs. Donald, though. Sure, you have the general Disney vs. WB rivalry, but I don't know if people ever looked at that with such granularity.

Section42L

Confession: I preferred Frontier to Tamers as a kid. >_>

Sredni Vashtar

Tamers is quite obviously paced and structured like a Konaka show, which is to say it moves like a glacier. If you weren't a very patient kid, if was probably exasperating. It also gets really, really heavy for a Saturday morning cartoon.

I'm not sure I would've liked it as a kid because it was too violent, though. >~>

Crystal

^^ I preferred Tamers to Frontier so I get you.

Yarrun XIX

I like how Tamers went pretty Lovecraft near the end

I'm also still amazed that Frontier got away with the conceit that it did

glennmagusharvey

I was Pokémon-aligned as a kid but I was also kinda secretly curious about Digimon at the same time.

Fossilmaiden

The one true childhood anime was CCS anyway.

glennmagusharvey

which was named Cardcaptors

Anonus

fucking nelvana

Sredni Vashtar

I forgot that Frontier was the one where they turned into monsters. I also tend to forget that it came between Tamers and Savers, which was notoriously Not Very Good.

I guess they hit the wall there? Upbeat series with a neat bit of wish fulfilment doesn't do so well after a dark, traumatising series, and then they think they can repeat that formula and fail to grasp that the darkness wasn't actually the interesting part.

Sredni Vashtar

Fossilmaiden said:

The one true childhood anime was CCS anyway.

My sister watched a lot of Sailor Moon as a child, but CCS never drifted to where we were. We did have the Streamline dub of My Neighbour Totoro, though, which was important.

Anonus

The US dub of Cardcaptor Sakura aired on Kids' WB!, I guess you didn't have a WB station?

Sredni Vashtar

We just watched other things and didn't notice.

I watched a lot of PBS, which is to say I had the distinct and rather bizarre pleasure of growing up watching Mr. Rogers and Gargoyles on the same channel.

I also developed a very low commercial tolerance.

Sredni Vashtar

Also, if I were watching such a network—which would have been irrelevant to me; I mainly remembered Nickelodeon and Disney in those terms for *very* specific reasons—I would have been watching Pinky and the Brain or Animaniacs, which I did enjoy. Girly anime has only really become my jam in the last few years, although I put up with Sailor Moon because my sister watched the VHSes endlessly and the whole Tuxedo Mask "mystery" was kind of engaging.

Sredni Vashtar

(We rented a lot of videos from Blockbuster, some of which never got returned... >->;)

glennmagusharvey

edutainment, early childhood:
3 2 1 Contact / 3 2 1 Classroom Contact
Mr. Wizard's World
Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood
Sesame Street

edutainment, later childhood:
Bill Nye the Science Guy
Kratt's Creatures
Wishbone

non-edu entertainment, early childhood:
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (vaguely)

non-edu entertainment, later childhood:
Mega Man (Ruby-Spears)
Voltron
Pokémon
a random smattering of the following, depending on what times were appropriate to me (read: when my parents were busy): Sailor Moon, Robocop, Gargoyles, Dragon Flyz, Batman Animated, Superman Animated, X-Men animated, Eagle Riders, Power Rangers Zeo, Power Rangers in Space, negligible amounts of other Power Rangers, as well as negligible amounts of Digimon and Cardcaptors and YuGiOh

you know, maybe that's why I'm not really into typical cartoony humor; basically none of these shows are comedies, and i can't really remember when Looney Tunes / Merrie Melodies / etc. came into my life, and they feel like afterthoughts