not really, it's an old series, it's usually been the rival series of pokemon, it's different, trust me on that. there's a lot of fan war between which is better, but I choose not to pick sides and say they are both equal...digimon tends to get A LOT more violent than pokemon though, and you don't collect other digimon, and your digimon is usually in a small form most the time, and turns back to a small form after the battle