"I-Am-Atom's-Sister" wrote:o3o
Okay. Here's what I got so far:
THe original Kimba the White Lion came in 1966, Tezuka was in charge of most of it at the time, so it's closest to original.
And then 'Leo' came after, wich was a bit better animated (Okay, a lot) But not so close to the original.
And there was a... movie? I don't know XD
Am I close?
Youre completely wrong here after the succes of Astro Boy in the States Tezuka was invited to the USA to go talk whit NBC Enterprises who had bought the rights to Astro Boy
he drew even a picture of it.
Here comes the point i'm trying to make the guys at NBC wanted to pay the hole production cost for the show and a little extra but then they wanted the law of the jungle concept sort of out the way they kinda wanted it took make it the new Bambi as Fred Ladd would say later in a interview.
So what Mushi PRO had to do was make a show about a Whitle Lion in the Jungle whitout actual killing o screen and such while still making it advantures and such.
And the Show started in 1965 not 1966 when the first 52 epoisodes where over from the not so Law of the Jungle concept the origional deal with NBC was over and Mushi Pro had taken the change to continue it with another 26 episodes.
where Kimba/Leo was an adult and would later on die, NBC who wanted a new Bambi was not intresed in this part of the series at all and so the second part was never show in the USA in the 60's later on i think it was the 80's some tv channel broadcasted this 26 episodes but it never was as popular as the first show and many Americans don't even know of it.
So later on before Tezuka passed away he would make another Leo series this series would start as it was supose to be but unfortunly after 6 episodes tezuka died ....
many say that the rest of this series was terrible that the wrong pepole where placed on it while another series made in that time Bible stories still continued to be a succes the 80's version of Leo is by many considerd verry bad and not tezuka like.
And the movie is just a short retake of the manga in one movie if you wanna know the actual manga is only 3 volumes about 800 pages that's about all you wanna know right ?
i know much more.
Also verry intresing is the change in the American version in the Japanese version they made it sometimes clear that leo would want to eat some of his frends by making frames where almost nothing happned this was changed in the American version having sometimes verry awkward scenes in it.
