I honestly thought they were created just to compete with Pokémon

    • KuromiGirl04@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      7 days ago

      Yeah that was apparently the original intentions of BANDAI.

      Looking back now, the ads I remember watching on Disney Channel for Tamagotchi really did only have girls in them. I never realized that til now.

      I think the thought process was probably like “girls like cutesy wootsy little characters! Boys like monsters that’ll fight each other!”