In his essay “Simba Versus Kimba: The Pride of Lions,” Patten includes an extensive list of specific sequences from episodes of Kimba and their analogues in Lion King amid a larger argument marshaling circumstantial evidence that Disney artists and researchers either knew or should have known about Kimba in the early ’90s. “In addition, in the case of the animation here, the strongest evidence is that the actual drawings depicting several scenes are strikingly similar between Kimba and The Lion King.“ We look at similarities in terms of the storyline, the plot and the characters the more similar the second-comer is to the original details of the storyline or plot or particular character personalities and depictions, then we start to cross over into infringement,” she tells THR. “For copyright infringement, we look at a few different things. Madhavi Sunder, a professor at Georgetown Law who wrote about the Kimba/ Lion King controversy in her 2012 book From Goods to a Good Life: Intellectual Property and Global Justice, says that had Tezuka’s company, Tezuka Productions, pursued legal action against Disney in the wake of Lion King‘s release, the case would have been “very strong.” Courtesy of Alli MacKay, “Kimba & The Lion King - How Similar Are They?“ Walt Disney Pictures Tezuka Productions (Oddly, the similarity between the names Simba and Kimba most likely is coincidental, since “simba” is the Swahili word for lion.) But it was the images - The Lion King and Kimba feature several scenes and shots that appear to mirror one another - that critics felt was the strongest evidence of Disney artists having borrowed from Tezuka.Īn early piece of concept art for The Lion King, one of several that appears to show Simba as a white lion. There are even early pieces of concept art for The Lion King that depict Simba as a white lion. Both Simba and Kimba have, among their small circle of advisors, a wise, sagelike mandrill and a bird - Lion King‘s Zazu is a hornbill, Kimba‘s Pauly is a parrot. Scar’s henchmen include three spotted hyenas. Claw’s henchmen include two spotted hyenas. In Kimba, the main villain is an evil lion named Claw who has a black mane and a scar in place of his left eye. In The Lion King, the main villain is an evil lion named Scar who has a black mane and a scar over his left eye. However, Japanese and American fans of Tezuka’s character seized upon several similarities between the two works that, if they are simply coincidental, would rank high among all-time coincidences. Both are coming-of-age stories centering on an African lion cub, and both cubs’ fathers are murdered in the first act, but Kimba includes several human characters in addition to animals, and focuses on the conflicts between encroaching civilization and nature. The plots of The Lion King and Kimba the White Lion share certain, very broad elements. 11, 1966, and it aired in syndication throughout the ’70s and into the ’80s.
According to a history of Kimba by anime historians Robin Leyden and Fred Patten, in 1964 NBC asked Tezuka if he had other ideas for shows that would appeal to English-speaking audiences, and he suggested a cartoon based on Jungle Emperor. While it first began airing in Japan in 1965, Kimba was actually commissioned by NBC, which had established a relationship with Tezuka after purchasing the U.S. Tezuka’s Jungle Emperor,” Yasue Kuwahara, a professor at Northern Kentucky University and director of popular culture studies, says Tezuka “was regarded as not only the forefather of Japanese comics but one of the great men of Japan.” He is often referred to as the “Walt Disney of Japan” due to the universal appeal of his stories and characters (though in recent years that honorific has been more often applied to Studio Ghibli co-founder Hayao Miyazaki, who was himself heavily influenced by Tezuka). In her 1997 essay “Japanese Culture and Popular Consciousness: Disney’s The Lion King vs.
It’s hard to overstate how popular the works of Tezuka - who died in 1989, around the same time Disney started work on The Lion King - were in Japan during his lifetime. 'Lion King' Prequel in the Works with Director Barry Jenkins
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