I secretly liked the Digimon anime better than the Pokémon anime: the Digimon and the kids actually interacted as equals, none of that cockfighting BS that was Pokémon's selling point; Digimon didn't recycle the same plot structure for every episode. While, especially for both shows' respective first seasons, there was a 'quest' element that really appealed to me in both series, I think Digimon ended up looking the best, because there was more of a real danger, and the villains were more powerful (more importantly, every follow-up villain was scarier than the previous one), and through the course of the season, the kids also get separated from each other for multiple episodes.
So yeah, for me, it was Digimon all the way, even though I was a Pokémon freak back in the day, and owned the games, stickers, and a lot of beanie dolls, but I did have a stuffed Gatomon and Gabumon. My favourite was Gomamon, but I couldn't find it for some reason.
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