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The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (TV 1989)

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© Gakushu Kenkyu Sha / Nikkeisha / Television Tokyo Channel 12 / Tezuka Productions


[ remake of Jungle Taitei Susume Leo (TV) ]

Related anime:
    Jungle Emperor Leo (special) (remake)

Alternative title:
Biały Lew Kimba (Polish)
Jungle Emperor
Jungle Taiteii (Japanese)
Kimba - Biały Lew (Polish)
Kimba the White Lion
Le retour du roi Léo (French)
Lew, Król Dżungli (Polish)
Simbad, o Leão Branco (Portuguese)
ジャングル大帝 [1989] (Japanese)
Genres: action, adventure
Age rating: All Ages (Nothing objectionable)
Plot Summary: Leo (a.k.a. Kimba in the U.S.) is a young ambitious lion cub who takes his father's place as emperor of the jungle when is father is killed by poachers. Even though his father's fate was met by the hands of humans, Leo is one of the few animals in the Jungle that doesn't fear or feel hatred toward humans. He is not alone either, he is guided by friends of his father to help create the best animal kingdom there can be.
User Ratings: 23 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 1 vote (sub:1)
 Excellent: 2 votes (Fre.dub:1, Spa.dub:1)
 Very good: 3 votes (dub:2, ?:1)
 Good: 5 votes (dub:3, sub:2)
 Decent: 3 votes (dub:2, Ger.dub:1)
 So-so: 3 votes (sub:2, dub:1)
 Not really good: 2 votes (sub:1, raw:1)
 Weak: -
 Bad: 2 votes (dub:2)
 Awful: 1 vote (Spa.dub:1)
 Worst ever: 1 vote (sub:1)
Seen in part or in whole by 146 users, rank: #2001
Median rating: Decent
Arithmetic mean: 5.783 (Decent-.21), std. dev.: 2.5869, rank: #3355
Weighted mean: 5.701 (Decent-.29), rank: #3392 (seen all: 7.08 / seen some: 6.28 / won't finish: 2.39)
Bayesian estimate: 6.248 (Decent+.24), rank: #2452
Running time: half hour per episode
Number of episodes: 52
Episode titles: We have 52
Vintage: 1989-10-12 to 1990-10-11
Opening Theme:
"Sabanna no Koete (Past the Savanna)" by Ichiro Mizuki 
Ending Theme:
"Yuubae ni Nare" by Tomoko Tokugai
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Related reviews:
    The New Adventures of Kimba VHS 1

Related releases:
    The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (Dub.VHS 1)

Japanese staff 
Japanese cast 

Series director: Rintaro

Director: Takashi Ui

Script: Takashi Yui

Storyboard:
Atsushi Minami
Fumihiro Yoshimura
Hajime Tenjo
Hirohide Fujiwara
Hiroshi Taisenji
Hiroyuki Fukushima
Hisashi Taguchi
Hitoshi Oda
Katsumi Minoguchi
Kazunori Tanahashi
Keiichiro Mochizuki
Kyosuke Onishi
Manabu Imamura
Minoru Arabayashi
Morio Asaka
Shuji Iguchi
Suzumaru Kusunoki
Takashi Ui
Takeshi Ashizawa
Teruo Handa
Tetsuo Imasawa
Toshio Hirata
Yasuo Iwamoto
Yoshihisa Matsumoto
Yusaku Satsukime

Episode Director: Takashi Yui

Music: Tomoyuki Asakawa

Original Manga: Osamu Tezuka

Character Design:
Osamu Tezuka
Yoshiaki Kawajiri

Art:
Akihiro Kanayama
Akiko Nakamura
Eiji Suzuki
Geki Katsumata
Hisatoshi Motoki
Jon Wo Yan
Katsumi Matsuda
Mariko Fujita
Masami Saito
Masami Takebuchi
Midori Nagaoka
Midori Yamakubo
Naoki Hatarei
Naoki Otsuka
Naoko Kitamura
Saeko Fujita
Satoshi Jingu
Setsuko Nobuzane
Shinichi Suzuki
Takayuki Shimura
Takayuki Tonai
Teruo Handa
Toshi Noma
Toshio Nitta
Yasuji Yasuda
Yoshio Chatani
Yoshiteru Kobayashi
Yutaka Tanizawa

Animation director:
Hiroshi Wagatsuma
Junji Kobayashi (Mushibayashi Osao)
Nobumasa Arakawa
Osamu Horiuchi
Shinnosuke Kon
Takao Kasai
Takuo Noda
Teruo Handa
Toshi Shishikura
Yuzo Sato

Director of Photography: Hisao Shirai

Animation:
Akiko Toba
Fumiko Tanizawa
Harumi Suzuki
Hiroko Tezuka
Hiroshi Sugihara
Hitomi Mori
Kakuko Shinozaki
Kazuhiro Miyawaki
Kenji Hayama
Kunio Takahide
Kyoko Kikukawa
Masanobu Minakami
Michiko Ono
Sachiko Kamimura (ED)
Toshiyuki Komaru
Wataru Abe
Yoko Nakamura
Yuji Fujimoto
Yuka Endo

Animation Check:
Isao Ishikawa
Naoko Kitamura

Animation producer:
Mineo Kachita (Tezuka Productions)
Yutaka Sugiyama (Gakushu Kenkyu Sha)

Background Art:
Hitoshi Nagao
Katsushi Aoki
Kazuko Katsui
Kazuo Okada
Kazuyoshi Shimoide
Keiko Tamura
Kiyohiro Iwasaki
Masato Shibata
Masayoshi Banno
Mayumi Hijikata
Nobuhiro Sato
Sadakazu Akashi
Sawako Kikuchi
Takanobu Sugano
Takashi Watabe
Tatsuo Imamura
Tomoko Maeda
Toshikatsu Sanuki
Tsuyoshi Watanabe

Color design:
Chinami Fujikawa
Kumiko Takahashi
Takako Suzuki
Tatsunori Nishimura
Tsutomu Okano
Yoko Wakana

Color setting:
Chinami Fujikawa
Masako Fujioka

Editing: Masaki Sakamoto (Morita Editing Room)

Executive animation director: Junji Kobayashi

Production Coordination: Minoru Kubota

Storyline:
Hitomi Hirami (eps 33-39)
Mitsuru Mashima

 

Megumi Hayashibara as Leo (Young)

Sakiko Tamagawa as Leah

Shinnosuke Furumoto as Leo (Adult)

Hiroshi Masuoka as Kutta

Isao Sasaki as Panja

Kappei Yamaguchi as Kenichi

Kei Tomiyama as Ham Egg

Mahito Tsujimura as Ban Shunsaku

Masako Nozawa as Gibo (ep 28)

Rokuro Naya as Lamp

Ryusei Nakao as Totto

Shigeru Chiba as Coco

Sukekiyo Kameyama as Tony

Sumi Shimamoto as
Eliza
Ryona

Tesshô Genda as Bubu

Tetsuaki Kuroda as Bubu

Kiyoshi Kobayashi

Japanese companies 

Broadcaster: TV Tokyo

Production:
Tezuka Production Company Ltd.
Tezuka Productions

English cast 
English staff 
(none)

Brad Swaile as Kimba

David Kaye as Icara

Cathy Weseluck

French Tickner

Janyse Jaud

Kathleen Barr

Lisa Ann Beley

Paul Dobson

Richard Newman

Venus Terzo

English companies 

ADR Production: The Ocean Group

Licensed by: Pioneer Family Entertainment

French staff 
French cast 

Theme Song Performance: Claude Lombard

 (none)
French companies 

(none)
Italian staff 
(none)
Italian companies 

Dubbing: Telecinema 2001

Italian cast 
(none)
Portuguese staff 
Portuguese cast 

Dubbing Director: Guilherme Lope

 

Tânia Gaidarji as Leah

Portuguese companies 

Dubbing Studio: BKS (Brazil)

 
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