The collectible battleable trend anime I remember from my own childhood was Dinosaur King, but it seems reviews are not as kind to that than to Medabots. I do enjoy a good anime that knows it's silly and leans into it just enough, I might say that Precure is such a franchise though I haven't seen much of it.
Digimon is also sick, the dub has silly gags thrown in and the sub is more srs but I like both cause I grew up with the dub. Bear in mind it was constantly compared to pokemon cause they got a show going a year after pokemon even tho Digimon existed a year before pokemon as a tomagotchi kinda thing. Anyway, it's the kind of kids show you'd like your kid to watch if you had one. First 2 seasons are like that at least, the cast learns personal growth stuff that a pre teen should be hearing about. Then season 3 comes along and is in a whole different continuity and is run by the same dude who made serial experiments lain and while amazing I can recall as a kid being pretty spooked by stuff, it's psychological horror and also the back story involves a bit of knowing how computers work. It's really cool but it's also weird that it aired as a Saturday morning cartoon
The collectible battleable trend anime I remember from my own childhood was Dinosaur King, but it seems reviews are not as kind to that than to Medabots. I do enjoy a good anime that knows it's silly and leans into it just enough, I might say that Precure is such a franchise though I haven't seen much of it.
Digimon is also sick, the dub has silly gags thrown in and the sub is more srs but I like both cause I grew up with the dub. Bear in mind it was constantly compared to pokemon cause they got a show going a year after pokemon even tho Digimon existed a year before pokemon as a tomagotchi kinda thing. Anyway, it's the kind of kids show you'd like your kid to watch if you had one. First 2 seasons are like that at least, the cast learns personal growth stuff that a pre teen should be hearing about. Then season 3 comes along and is in a whole different continuity and is run by the same dude who made serial experiments lain and while amazing I can recall as a kid being pretty spooked by stuff, it's psychological horror and also the back story involves a bit of knowing how computers work. It's really cool but it's also weird that it aired as a Saturday morning cartoon