Pokemon's anime had a lot of potential but we got this seemingly never ending episodic story about a typical kid who (quote the first theme song here). As for Digimon, it does everything better but once again, it fails on the fact that it relies on using typical tropes that are done much better in other series. All and all, both franchises as television programs are awful but as long as the kids eat it up (which many of us did as children and some of us still do), the respective companies make money and in the end, that's all that matters.
Um, I wouldn't really go far enough to call them "awful" truthfully. "Serviceable" would probably be the better word with maybe some of the more highly regarded series being pretty good to great.
Anyway (to be generic), Digimon had the better show, though Pokemon beats them out in games. Can't speak for the manga though since I haven't read Special.
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