>Yo-Kai Watch was once considered a competitor to Pokemon, to the point that Gen 7 took influence from it>Now YKW is collabing with Rent-a-Girlfriend of all things
>>59507042They had that gay ass cat along side Sailor Moon and Goku. The mighty have fallen and Pokémon stays #1
We just need digi shit to die next
>>59507057Digimon has never gotten even close to YW's peak.
Its fucking real? I thought it was just someone's shitty edit. How pathetic you have to be to collab with RENT-A-GIRLFRIEND, a series for actual legimate cucks?
>>59507059I fucking hate digimon. It should die and go away forever
>>59507066Why? Isn't Palworld the big "danger" to pokemon at the moment?
>>59507061This is what happens when you oversaturate your cash cow too quickly and don't pick a lane to stay in, and then your entire company goes destitute from all of those investments that didn't pay off. Now you have to rely on collabs for your gacha and AI slop while basically BEGGING other companies to invest and collaborate with you, and you're only barely chugging along.
>>59507061Who cares? Chizuru has been the hottest girl in the medium for the past 7 years. Pokemon wishes it could collab with her.
>>59507071Palworld is a meme game that will go away when the hype dies. Digimon has legacy status
>>59507077Nah, all the lawsuit discourse basically guaranteed that Palworld will always be in the back of everyone's minds as long as Pocketpair is still around, which it will be, because it's being backed by Sony.
>>59507077why would you want something that has legacy status to go away?lots of people still enjoy it (me included)
>>59507077if digimon didn't come close yet it wont ever.If pokemon is to be beaten it will be something that's initially seen as a fad, like pokemon was.Not Palworld though.
The ChatGPT Jibanyan variant was enough to tell you this series is dead
>>59507076Oh shit, look guys, Reiji Miyajima himself is posting on /vp/!
>>59507057What happened to it's new game people were trying to shill when Z-A was new?It's like Palworld, only contrarians "like" it.
>>59507083Pokemon's legitimately unkillable unless it dies by its own hand though. A competitor somehow needs to fabricate nearly 30 years of childhood nostalgia in order to square up to the electric rat, which as we know is fundamentally impossible.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>59507082>digimon fan KYS
>>59507091Pokemon is a lightning in a bottle situation. Came out at the perfect time (80s-90s) as culture was gradually beginning to become more globalized. Has there been any franchise created in the past 20 years that have matched it's pop culture influence?
>>59507085ChatGPT Jibanyan?
>>59507098but why? i grew up watching both the pokemon and digimon anime, i had pokemon silver on my gameboy and digimon world 2 on my ps1did angemon fuck your girlfriend or something
>>59507057Lmfao Digimon and Palworld living in your head
>>59507042Isn't yokai watch also trying to be kid's series like pokemon, or was it "tried to be"? Ignoring rent a girlfriend's quality, its very much MEANT for horny older teenagers and adults. What could it possibly provide to yokai watch?
>>59507118That was the original angle, but then when Pokemon reclaimed its throne in Japan kids more or less completely stopped caring about YKW. Since then the series started growing up with the fans that stuck around, and it's been long enough that now they can pander to their nostalgia alongside collabing with goonbait.
>>59507102
>>59507095lmfaooo
>>59507066You sound like you are 10 or 12 either physically or mentally.
good. rot in hell yokai watchnow i pray for palworld to do the same. collab with shitty game like fortnite is one of it
>>59507042So what's the lore for the collab? Chizuru goes yokai hunting with the gang and fucks the kid?
>>59507136Why do you hate palworld so much?The average pokemon fan on 4chan dislikes gamefreak for the bullshit they do while still liking pokemon. You seem to be somewhat else.
YW should collab with that chainsmoker catgirl anime next
>>59507091Pikachu beat Mickey who had more decades of headstart.
>>59507104the only western Digimon fan is itt
what happened to Digimon time stranger...
>>59507101Minecraft maybe
>>59507077cope
>>59507124Jesus Christ...
>>59507217oh yeah true how could I forget
>yo-kai watch collaborates with shit like rent-a-girlfriend>digimon collaborates with fucking godzillaDigichads stay winning
>>59507042 Rent-a-Girlfriend is a highly successful show tho, not many anime get 5 seasons of high quality animation
>>59507080>backed by Sony...Sony? Wasn't the game Xbox exclusive and even revealed in their own events? I thought it was 100% backed by Microsoft.
>>59507042The absolute state of moids. They're so desperate that they need to make a collab with waifuslop anime to attract the lowest scum of society.
>>59507277Its popularity is irrelevant, its actual quality is beyond shit.
>>59507277Wow, FIVE whole seasons of will-they-won't-they slop? I have to tell my wife's boyfriend about this!
>>59507277I don't know. With a name like that, I feel the MC will become a cuck by the end. You don't rent girlfriends, you pay hookers. That's how the transaction should be.>Inb4 sugar babiesIf youbwant to go with that, sure. Still, pussy-leasing is what killed modern America. IN THE 80S. EDDIE MURPHY TOLD US.
>>59507295The entire romancre genre revolves around will they won't they, because once they do, the audience loses interest. This is a common trend known as "shipping bed death". Once the "chase" is over, the story goes to shit, the characters lose their chemistry, and the audience loses interest.
>>59507199The game has no multi-player, everyone has played it and beaten it
>>59507266>digimon collaborates with fucking godzillaIronically, it was Toho backing away from a collab with Tamagotchi that created Digimon in the first place, as Bandai had to improvise and make original creatures for the Digital Monsters toys that were meant to have classic kaijus instead.
Digimon x Godzilla was pure Kino
>>59507295Sure go ahead, good to know that people who dislikes rent-a-girlfriend are this progressive
>>59507334You misunderstand, I love slop! A show that is literally ALL filler? Sign me the fuck up!
>>59507266They're also collabing with Ultraman (huge inspiration for Pokémon too) soon.
>>59507057>>59507066>>59507077>>59507098Digimon's target audience isn't even children anymore autsimoImagine seething over a niche franchise LMAO
>>59507279>backed by sonynope it isn't, only aniplex and toys which is fair since most companies would go out of business if they tried to make their own branch for animes and merchandise, this is a lie spammed by retards who generally despise anything mentioned with the word sony, honestly you should take people who say palworld was made by sony with a grain of salt cause most of the time they usually get their lies from fanboy twitter accounts with 0 receipts to back up their claims
>>59507057>>59507066>>59507077>>59507098>59507098honestly all these seething replies only show that /vp/fags are petty as hell, when the only good thing about pokemon for them, is that it sold a bunch of copies for a mediocre game, like they are some sort of investor
>>59507057>>59507066Seethe harder
>>59507365Beatbreak is fucking weird man, one episode it feels like it truly is aimed for older viewers and the next like it's for 8 year olds again.
>>59507277Beyond Chorizo's body I don't get why that shit is so popular
>>59507442Kino episode
>>59507095Kekaroo
>>59507076Cute feet
>>59507442>>59507449what an absolute SLUTpokemon would never
>>59507217Purely as a game, maybe, but as a multimedia phenomenon, it's not even close.
Yokai's fall from grace will be studied someday.
>>59507365That's not a digimon win you know.>>59507385So they're like digimon fans?
Last year
>>59507962At least this makes a bit more sense. You got characters that can shoot and punch and all that. With Rental Kanojo it just feels like you're trying to be discount Monstrike.
>>59507057How about you rope yourself anon.
>>59507449FUCKING BRAT
>>59507076Author himself coming to /vp/ to shill his shitty series.
was shadowside any good?
>>59507962Diddy Tensei
>>59507104He's probably some underage guy (or just overall young by this boards standards) who thinks the series are supposed to be big rivals, all the stupidest posts on this board are from guys who only started fuck probably with XY.
>>59507266Its at least (mostly) run by people who know what their doing so they'd know how to negotiate good collabs even without post Time Stranger boost. While Yo-kai watch is run by people trying to keep any relevancy no matter what.
>>59508091Re:Bieber
Yo-Kai watch is directly responsible for both Sun and Moon's pacing issues AND Rotom-tech becoming a massive fixture in universe(despite it both contradicting Rotom's Gen 4-6 characterization and Porygon being a far better fit)
>>59508212I don't remember Porygon being able to merge with technology
>>59507042>>59507061Overlapping Fanbase. The business people proobably noticed and made a collab
>>59508223Porygon goes into software and is software. That counts for something.
>>59508178
>>59507042Pokemon has never had real competition besides two franchises: Digimon and Palworld.The first because they were aired at the same time and shared a few similarities while being aimed at the same public, but while Digimon had a much better anime, it fell off in every other aspect.Palworld simply did what Nintendont, giving players what they have asked for decades. So much so that Nintendo tried scummy lawsuits to stop them, and failed miserably, making them even stronger.And as far as other franchises go, as long as they were Japanese they never bothered Nintendo at all, they know they cant even get to scratch Pokemon's empire.
>>59507137She's just a giveaway character so there's no proper event tied to her. You just automatically get her for completing a series of challenges. But some of the promotional stuff suggests the in-universe context they're going with is "Keita knows her because Jibanyan keeps hiring her".
>>59508281MEILI ToT
>>59508301Palworld is in an entirely different genre
>>59507620Well then I would probably have to say then for games Fortnite.
>>59508301Yokai Watch was on the same platform as Pokemon and scared them into copying it for Gen 7.
>>59507287True sis, they should have collabs with a series about something more dignified like being stalked and gaslit by a sparkling vampire or squeezing semen out of Minotaur cock
>>59507076for manga girl standards that's a very generic designthere are at least 5 hotter girls in frieren alone and it's not even trying fanserviceand at least another 5 in dandadan>>59507095KEK
This feel whole thread feel like bait. I think it's either one guy or multiple pretending to be a Pokefag just to make the whole group look more insane than usual.
>>59507042the higher ups of pokemon truly are the problem
>ctrl f>kanokari>0 hitYeah nobody in this threads it.
>>59508381"Scared"? They were already the biggest franchise in the world by then I think?
>>59508506Who?>>59508816>They were already the biggest franchise in the worldYou can say the same about the Palworld incident, and how did that went? They tried to pull a Dysney, and all they did was give a TINY game studio FREE ADVERTISEMENT.
>>59508301>and Palworld
>>59508816Didn't it come out in the teraleaks that GF was obsessively tracking YKW's sales in Japan? They were scared shitless. The only reason they didn't resort to lawfare is because Level-5 is an established publisher whose games Nintendo needed, not some random indie studio who they thought they could punch down at.
>>59509083>Level-5 is an established publisher whose games Nintendo neededWhat the fuck happened to them, they used to be a legit publisher with well known franchises. I had a lot of fun playing Inazuma eleven
After this thread, I went to YT and I got this on my feedhttps://youtu.be/rJ0fXJYiIOw?si=pqFf9TXp26qunEFbThis must be the work of a Yokai.
>>59507101FNAF has certainly tried
>>59508301The only "competition" Digimon ever did was which one was most talked on recess. Nintendo never took it seriously.YW and arguably Palworld did more.>>59508100>Its at least (mostly) run by people who know what their doingAnon was talking about Digimon I think.
>>59509332And that's what was talked about in that post too anon.
Ugly little series with wretched critters and foul songs about poop.
>>59509083YKW seems to have given gamefreak ptsd, that's why they react so harshly and paranoid towards palworld.
>>59507077I agree that Palworld will never compete with Pokemon on the merchandising side of things, and I don't think people will ever buy Palworld 2. But Palworld itself can just get continuously updated forever, like League or Fortnight. It doesn't need a Nintendo console in order to play. And it can be modded to add new pals and gameplay modes. The games appeal to different demographics. Pokemon appeals to young kids and nostalgiafags (which is fair), and Palworld appeals to the market in between.
>>59508281>>59508329
>open thread about yokai watch>DUDE PALWORLD MAN PALWORLD HAS GAMEFREAK RUNNING FOR THE HILLS>BETTER LOOK OUT GUYS PALWORLD IS THE NEXT BIG THING
Palworld Won
