Digimon Story: Time Stranger producer Ryosuke Hara says he hopes the new entry in the series shows players that it and Pokemon are very different beasts.
From perhaps the moment Digimon arrived on the scene, it was faced with comments about it trying to ride the coattails of Pokemon. Even though Digimon initially had more in common with its fellow Bandai toy line Tamagotchi, the brand debuted a year after Pokemon did, and the anime series debuted shortly after the Pokemon anime started airing – around a year later for the English release – so it's not a shocker that comparisons were made that still persist to this day.
