Kimba/Simba

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by O2Destroyer@Oct 7 2005, 06:23 AM
Sadly, my understanding of Jungle emperor is also constructed from watching the 60's series + the Jungle Emperor movie + reading websites. I think with the animated series you have to read between the lines. Tezuka's ideas are still there, but they are buried beneath tons of 'TV friendly' debris. And there is even a sense of continuity not present in the 80's astroboy series, but again, it is not overt in the slightest. You could see the episodes in random order and perhaps not notice, but it is there.

Again, without the comic being out, we're stuck with reading synopsis and inferring based on the new movie.

I believe it was one of NBC's requirements that the series have no particular on going story to it, so that the episodes could be shown in any order. This requirement is what made the series so different from what Tezuka wanted. However, he apparently needed NBC's $$ to produce it (in color, anyway), so he agreed.

[DrFrag]

But didn't Kimba grow into an adult during the series and screw up their episode order?

[O2Destroyer]

Originally posted by DrFrag@Oct 8 2005, 02:37 AM
But didn't Kimba grow into an adult during the series and screw up their episode order?

Another NBC constraint--Kimba does NOT age in the 52 episodes done for them, though I understand There is a second season where Tezuka does continue on where the plot SHOULD continue, with Kimba aging, characters dying, etc.

I wonder, with the kimba set coming out if I should start pestering companies to put out the Jungle Emperor comic?

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by DrFrag@Oct 7 2005, 12:37 PM
But didn't Kimba grow into an adult during the series and screw up their episode order?

No more so than Atom (at least within the 1st season). I am certain that that was also among the 'constraints' as O2Destroyer said. There would be no circle of life, no old generation passing away no new generation taking over. Kimba was a perpetual cub.

I do not remember if he aged in that second series, I will need to check my captured frames.

[Astro Forever]

From memory, he doesn't age in the second series since he is an adult from the beginning. His young son and daughter don't age either. Of course, it's been around 20 years since I've seen it!

[O2Destroyer]

Is the second season available anywhere? (I've heard it was not as popular (so says Fred Ladd), but I'm sure it was truer to the story).

[jeffbert]

Originally posted by O2Destroyer@Oct 9 2005, 11:42 AM
Is the second season available anywhere? (I've heard it was not as popular (so says Fred Ladd), but I'm sure it was truer to the story).

Do you mean the 2nd season of the 1st series, or the 2nd series?

Here is the thread about the upcoming release of the 1st series.

[O2Destroyer]

I meant the first series (which I understand Tezuka continued on his own and NBC did not pick up). But really, at this point, anything one can get ahold of would be welcome...