xxTamagotchixx
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What TamaGotchi on theme is more for boys?
To be fair, the Super Glitter and Hyper Feminine designs isn't appealing to most males. I hesitated to purchase one at first even though I like purple.Every variation is suitable for any gender. If a boy likes pink, then he can purchase the pink fairy version.
They're not appealing to a fair few of us girls, either. There are a few designs that don't seem quite as in-your-face with it (though I think all of them have glitter), but they're unhelpfully few and far between thanks to the "for girls" and "for boys" labels that have become increasingly dominant in the toy industry; In this case, the colour-model Tamagotchi shell designs would appear to be limited because supposedly "nurturing is for girls" or something like that, even though in times gone by the neutral approach made the brand a household name globally.To be fair, the Super Glitter and Hyper Feminine designs isn't appealing to most males.
This conversation has reminded me of a certain passage in the Tamagotchi (1996 Pet) page on the fandom wiki....they're unhelpfully few and far between thanks to the "for girls" and "for boys" labels that have become increasingly dominant in the toy industry; In this case, the colour-model Tamagotchi shell designs would appear to be limited because supposedly "nurturing is for girls" or something like that, even though in times gone by the neutral approach made the brand a household name globally.
I must be a female then. I have almost no interest in Digimon. I only seen some anime episodes when I was I kid, and I barely remember it. I only remember watching it, that's it. However, I remember going nuts over my sister's Tamagotchi, and wishing I had one.As Tamagotchi was garnering a sizable female audience, the duo would later create Digimon using the same groundwork and overall concept as Tamagotchi, but with a more masculine style and added training and battling in an attempt to increase virtual pet appeal to males.
I know what you mean. I like Digimon well enough (I have a vintage one and one of the recent anniversary models - it's really neat to see that Bandai did a pro-consumer thing and made them interoperable), but I prefer the older ones, rather than the anime tie-in stuff, precisely because they were so close to the Tamagotchi line that they were spun off from! I just saw it as an extension with different aesthetics, rather than seeing their intended "for girls"/"for boys" division. Raising real pets is not a gender-specific pursuit, after all, so my logic was that why would virtual pets be?I must be a female then. I have almost no interest in Digimon. I only seen some anime episodes when I was I kid, and I barely remember it. I only remember watching it, that's it. However, I remember going nuts over my sister's Tamagotchi, and wishing I had one.
Oh, it can definitely be multi-generational! I was in my teens when the original 1996/1997 models came to the West in early 1997, and I'm far from the only one around here who's in that bracket. The franchise has every hallmark that it needs to reach more people, just like it originally did.If you are wondering, I am pretty young. I am Twenty-Five, practically born yesterday. Tamagotchi can totally be multi-generational if Bandai wanted it to be.
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