What if Digimon had been an adult anime?

[DragonMasterX]

To answer your first paragraph, it depends on the areas it's aired. I'm gonna remain silent on SPECIFIC details that might harm people's feelings or nationalism (If that's even a word), but let's just lay it down in an example based on easy comparisons:

Adults don't watch lots of TV, they are busy, and have busy lives, whereas children don't have anything at all to do in most places, which means that, if Digimon were to have been aired in places where children don't have usual access to watching TV in a conditioned air time for the supposed Adult Digimon, then their popularity would drastically have dropped in terms of rating.

Sure, to people like us, this would be rather appealing and we'd like it a lot more, but if you think about it twice: Kids fuel the ratings. Popularity wouldn't be as great.