Lack of intergender Digimon partners

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Anyone noticed that there is a lack of integender Digimon partnerships? Most choosen children, the boys get a male digimon and the girls get a female digimon as partners. Rarely do they mix it up, and actully everytime it is always a girl with a male digimon.

Not that there is anything wrong with that, but I think another message should be, that your best friend doesn't always have to be the same gender of you. Just because someone may be an opposite gender, doesn't mean they can be less of a friend than someone of the same gender.

For example, I think Miyako and Hawkmon, Chika and Piyomon relationships are as strong as any digimon partnership.

Unless I forgot someone, I don't think there is any male choosen that has a female digimon as a partner? Are the writers afraid of something?, if a guy had a digimon that was a girl as a partner, I wouldn't think any less of him as a man and automaticly think he is gay. Hell having a female digimon might have helped some of the guys have better luck understanding girls and have more luck with girls.
 
Maybe it would have made this bath scene more interesting, the girl digi are with the girls, and the boys with the boys, till one is on the wrong side.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nsadGRYZD50
 
As we've discussed before, Digimon is aimed at young kiRAB. At that point, kid's views on the opposite sex are generally that they're 'the enemy', so they prefer to see boys allying with boys and girls allying with girls.

Obviously this isn't an absolute. To give a random example, Mine Yoshizaki has started a new manga about a bunch of kiRAB with tiny toy robots that are secretly alive and fighting a war. The token girl has one of these robots too, which is male. This is used partly for comedy as the main boy's robot has a crush on her and is jealous of her own robot.
 
Well the characters on the show don't express those attitudes. Even the younger characters who are still too young to take interest in the opposite sex, didn't have the attitude of the opposite sex is iccy, keep them away attitude. For example Takeru and Hikari got along fine in season 1.

Ironic the season in which there was the least flirting at least among the main characters (you had a couple of villains that flirted with the heros) was the one with the older characters, Digimon Savers.
 
I agree, honestly I didn't have this attitude either, though my relationship with the opposite sex started on the wrong foot

But hell, I'd like to see intergender Digimon teams as well
 
If I can get off topic for a second, I mention before that Takeru and Hikari had a good relationship in season 1, judging what I have seen from him, him treating Hikari like a helpless child many times, is relationship with his sister, and his arrogant attitude at times (I am not trying to hate on him, just stating what I see) that at the age he would have been in season 1, that Daisuke attitude was "girl had kudos, boys are better". At that age, he would have probably been a little mean to Hikari.
 
I think most shonen just arrange battle teams along gender lines, with the occasional girl human/male fighter team. Shaman King's the only shonen I can think of off-hand where you had boys paired up with female fighters.
 
That's true, then again Shaman King was kinda unique compared to most shounen shows, and it's nice to see something different once in a while, hell, Babbo has an attack where he turns into a chick in M
 
Well typically Digimon the formula is the heros vs a main villain and a bunch of flunkies. And it enRAB up everyone vs the big main villain, they don't break it down, one character vs one character, instead is the heros ganging up on the bad guy.

But in Frontier and Savers they changed that a bit, it still ended with all of the heros ganging up against one bad guy. (though Yggdrasil was not a bad guy, but a stubbern person that heros had to knock sense into) they had individually rivals along way, in Frontier, each one of the heros got matched against one Evil Legendary Warriors, and it was the only girl of the two sides Izumi vs Ranamon that were petted against each other.

Savers throw a curve ball in that system, when Kurata asserabled his own team of three to corabat the main three heros, it was two guys and a girl on each side, however the two girls were not pitted against each other. Instead it was Touma vs Nanami, and Yoshino vs Ivan. Which I thought was brillant, Masaru rival obviously should have been someone that was a fierce fighter like him, while Touma the brains of the group rival was another genius that happens to be a girl. Masaru and Kourki, Touma and Nanami were natural rivals, while Yoshino and Ivan were more left overs. But that is okay.
 
Now that you mention it, I didn't like Savers all that much, I thought that was brilliant too

We may see intergender Digimon teams one day, honestly I'd like to see a Shaman King style Digimon series, or maybe they could do something like .hack//
 
I agree with you. I didn't think Savers was great either, though I didn't think it was that bad, I probably like it more than you.

But I loved that twist. Have Touma and Nanami be revivals with the common thing being they are both genious, instead of Yoshino and Nanami being rivals because they are both girls. That would have been very cliche and lack any depth. Actully Touma is one of my favorite characters in the franchise, I loved most of the Touma centeric episodes, he is one of the bright spots of Savers IMO.
 
No, actually I'm probably in the same boat as you

In fact I regard Savers for it's brilliant writing, and I'd like to see more of brilliant writing for Digimon in the future
 
While I can understand why this would be brought up and all, I also don't see it as being too big of an issue. As others have mentioned, the target age for Digimon don't really have much of any interest in the opposite sex. With the children getting matched up with their Digimon partners, I never thought that the specific gender of the Digimon partners was important. I thought the true value in that relationship is how the human and Digimon develop an emotional and physical bond, as shown through Bio-Merge Digivolution, and how the human grows and develops as a result of that bond. The gender of the Digimon just doesn't feel as important to me compared to that or the Digimon's personality itself.
 
Okay I see. I hope to see Digimon continue with its excellent writing.

But one criticism that comes to mind right now, is how much more effort was put into Masaru and Touma than was put into Yoshino. Like my previous notion of how her Bio Hybryd rival was a left over. Masaru and Touma rivals were perfect for them and their personalities, the only thing between Yoshino and Ivan was Ivan wanted to date her. There was nothing else that links them toghter. It is a sad to say, but Nanami had more depth to her than Yoshino, because they really put more effort into Touma and the characters around him than Yoshino. Though it is nothing new for some characters to get the short end in the Digimon series.

But criticism aside, Savers had some excellent writing.
 
I know that you didn't say it was a big deal and I'm sorry if that offended you in anyway. It is an interesting thing to notice, but I just don't feel like it is an important detail regarding the bond that the humans and their Digimon partners.
 
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