MentalEdgeKnock-off pokemon was wild
NocturnalMorningDigimon is so much better than pokemon. Besides, they were developed around the same time anyway, so it’s not possible for it to be a knock off. The ideas of monster hunting and taming isn’t exactly novel, wasn’t even original back then.
The Digimon anime was straight up fire. The digitations (?) were absolutely wild. Not like, it’s a bigger rat now but really insane. Loved it as a child
Unfortunately it suffered even more from the “it evolves into an anthropomorphic animal” syndrome than pokemon does…