...and that's not even getting INTO all the cosplayers who were doing an "interpretation" of a Pokemon, which basically boiled down to ears and a tail atop normal clothes (of varying degrees of skimpiness).
And before anybody asks, I'm TRYING to raise them in the ways of Digimon too. It's just that Digimon toys were WAAAAAY scarcer than Pokemon ones back in the day, especially out in the boonies where we lived, so we barely have anything that's suitable for little hands.