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Wasn't The Lion King a rip off of the Japanese anime Kimba? https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/ https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king

Wasn't The Lion King a rip off of the Japanese anime Kimba? https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/ https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/

miningape 3y ago
Basically - no, the Kimba / Lion King controversy is fake (the Kimba movie often cited as the work copied was actually released 3 years after the Lion King). Check out YMS's review on this exact topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4
- glandium 3y ago
  The Kimba anime is almost 30 years older than the Lion King movie. The Kimba manga is 15 years older than that.
  - miningape 3y ago
    Yes, the Kimba TV show is about 30 years older, but this show has basically 0 similarities with TLK. It's like saying The Simpsons is the same as The Princess Bride - yes, some individual shots and scenes are comparable but its only when those are taken out of context, and it completely misses the overarching story/themes/characters. And it also misses the fact that the anime has ~3,000 hours of content in comparison to the 90 minute runtime of TLK.
  - HideousKojima 3y ago
    Seriously, watch the YMS video about it. Apart from some superficial similarities Kimba and The Lion King are majorly different. And Kimba is just bizarre, The Lion King never had humans genocide elephants with tanks and helicopters, Kimba did. The Lion King never had weird racist stuff, Kimba did. Simba never wore Mufasa's hide around to boost his confidence, Kimba did with his father's hide.
- ekianjo 3y ago
  Tezuka's work is much earlier than the Lion King. You have been misled
  - Sniffnoy 3y ago
    This is addressed in the video. Tezuka's work has very little in common with The Lion King. The bulk of the apparent similarity comes from the 1997 movie; if one ignores that there's very little.
jhawk28 3y ago
The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet.

Wasn't The Lion King a rip off of the Japanese anime Kimba? https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/ https://12tomatoes.com/kimba-similarity-lion-king/

miningape 3y ago

Basically - no, the Kimba / Lion King controversy is fake (the Kimba movie often cited as the work copied was actually released 3 years after the Lion King). Check out YMS's review on this exact topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5B1mIfQuo4

glandium 3y ago
The Kimba anime is almost 30 years older than the Lion King movie. The Kimba manga is 15 years older than that.
- miningape 3y ago
  Yes, the Kimba TV show is about 30 years older, but this show has basically 0 similarities with TLK. It's like saying The Simpsons is the same as The Princess Bride - yes, some individual shots and scenes are comparable but its only when those are taken out of context, and it completely misses the overarching story/themes/characters. And it also misses the fact that the anime has ~3,000 hours of content in comparison to the 90 minute runtime of TLK.
- HideousKojima 3y ago
  Seriously, watch the YMS video about it. Apart from some superficial similarities Kimba and The Lion King are majorly different. And Kimba is just bizarre, The Lion King never had humans genocide elephants with tanks and helicopters, Kimba did. The Lion King never had weird racist stuff, Kimba did. Simba never wore Mufasa's hide around to boost his confidence, Kimba did with his father's hide.
ekianjo 3y ago
Tezuka's work is much earlier than the Lion King. You have been misled
- Sniffnoy 3y ago
  This is addressed in the video. Tezuka's work has very little in common with The Lion King. The bulk of the apparent similarity comes from the 1997 movie; if one ignores that there's very little.

jhawk28 3y ago

The Lion King is an adaptation of Hamlet.