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  • this aint ultra rare... i've still got a copy of this on VHS from 1997 (The original... this episode came along with other episodes of other cartoons... i'd say its not rare at all..

  • HOLY SHIT!!!! I SOOOOOO remember this clip!!! My fav cartoon as a little kid!

  • EEEEEEEEEEUUUHHHH WOWIE WHADDA RIP OFF!!!! DEH DISNEY IS BE STOLEN THINGS FROM DEH AMINES!!! WHADDA FUGZ UP WIDDAT? EEEEEUUUUHHH!!!! HURFY DURF FUCK DISNEY!!!!!

    YEAH because Disney used to always make up their own characters, like Snow White and Cinderella, they're totally original Disney characters! They weren't in stories hundreds of years prior.

  • @sobeAdam Big diferance: Snow white and Cinderella are and were in the public domain. And what versions disney took from they bought the rights for.

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  • @elbethere Actually, I messed up my fact checking. Disney intended to buy the rights for Kimba, since they had started the project... They couldn't get the rights, and rather than scrapping the project, they released it anyways. Disney was a Kimba fan.

  • I have this on VHS. Bought it about 9 years ago.

  • i know you difined ULTRA RARE but is it possible to get it any wher? i have a collection and i fear kimba will no longer be around soon.

  • I totally remember this episode watching it as a kid growing up. So sad!!!!

  • Watch "Jungle Emporor Leo".

    Sad movie, but great.

    Then watch "Andromeda Strain".

    Pretty scary, man.

    Watch "A Clockwork Orange".

    Blow brains out from joy, see Kimba flash in front of eyes.

    Im 16, and NOBODY watches classics. Sadly.

  • I remember this when I was a little girl, it was my all time favorite, I had never met my dad and used to love when Kimba would go to the cave and talk to Ceaser, and how his mom died to save him on the boat, wish kids had this today instead of half hour commercials they watch now

  • the last time I saw this was 41 years ago...I loved Kimba!!!and speed racer was right before this show...also, before this scene kimba and his mother on in chains on a ship, the ship goes down and kills the mother...that is what I remember..thanks for sharing this incredible cartoon...

  • I remember watching this as a young thing and hearing him cry out "Mother!"

  • The real lion king..

  • This is the 1965 lost dub, which is better then the slightly newer 1966 dub, though they WERE aired in the same year. In the 1966 version, Kimba's mother says nothing after he says "Mother!". This is better, don't you think?

  • i named my cat kimba

  • LOL. Reminds me of that part in Nester the Long eared Xmas donkey~

    And the Lion king~

  • This one might have been edited out, but they did another version in the 1970's-80's looking Kimba. I know. I have the DVD. If it isn't any bit different though, then they might have just reused this scene and redubbed it.

  • I got this at the dollar store 8D

  • maybe it has to do with a folklore?

  • Honestly, it has been a very long time, since I have seen any Kimba. This scene, however, looks just like the one I have always remembered. Perhaps there is something different. I just cannot tell.

  • Why the hell Disney stole this to itself?! I was born on the same year as Lion King was made and I hear NOW that it is stolen from this!!

  • @Hasegawaa Yup.

  • America stole Kimba, and Japan stole Power Puff Girls. Fair trade, I think.

  • @MoonlitLion When did Japan steal Power Puff Girls.

  • Ah. So I am not cracking up. LOL. This is the one scene I remember when I think about "Kimba", and I always thought it was part of the opening credits/ theme, and I was surprised when I found the opening and the swimming scene was not part of it. I DO in fact remember this scene as a child, so it definitely aired during the 60s.

  • How could such wonderful clip got lost? It's fortunate then that there so many loyal fans trying to revive it, and when they do, the more happy they will be.

    Btw, I never got chance to see this clip before, thank you for sharing it.

  • AmyLou100 - I can't tell if YouTube closed your account because you were advertising on your profile page or if you closed it yourself. :'-( If YouTube closed it and you're still interested in swapping a copy of that tape could you please get back in contact with me from a new account? Thanks

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  • I also own this clip .... i have a 90 minute feature film - kimba the white lion son of caeser - on betamax (before there were VHS) and i cant seem to find anyone else who has this or knows anything about it!

  • I had that!!!

    Do you have the ability to turn it into digital format??? If you don't would you like to arrange it with me? This is a serious offer. My BetaMax tape turned black, as they do, how is the quality on yours?

    I'd love to hear from you on this - very serious. Get in touch and I'll discuss how to go about saving it if you like. :-)

  • That last comment was for MissAmyLou100 by the way...

  • Awesome - brings back memories. I ordered the dvd series....can"t wait!!!

  • WOW!!!!!!!! I Remember this scene from way back when - still makes me cry. Thank you!!!!!!!!

  • I got my DVD in the mail today and I was able to watch this :D So exciting~! It's beautiful!

  • This is my favorite all time show...it took me 25 years to find it again, thanks to ebay. I was so afraid that it wasn't going to live up to me memory...but it was just as good...Kimba Rocks!

  • 0:43 is where the lost stuff begins

  • did anyone else notice that in this and the version in the show she sings leo ;) just saying :)

  • Me too

  • I used to cry watching Kimba.

    LOOOOOOOOOVED this show.

  • Nice

  • There's more power and emotion in those 2mins of video right there than ten $100M budget hollywood movies put together. awesome!

  • I totally agree with you!!

  • i have this clip on dvd lol i watched it yesterday

  • Disney sucks for stealing this and they are the biggest whiners when it comes to copyright infringement! Kimba is way better!

  • @thecirclekkid The two have almost nothing in common, chill.

  • Lionking copied this, and when the director of this movie heard that, he just laughed, and said that he was happy that someone loved his video enough to copy it!

    XD

    Japanese People are Awesome.

  • Agreed

  • Thank you for posting this... and yes I am crying. It still makes me cry after all there's years .

  • I think that they didn't technicly 'Steal' All this from Kimba and put into TLK and so forth but the hmm..updated it like brought it more up to date, they sorta kept the story line but it's a movi not a series

    BTW Love Kimba!! ^_^

  • This was ndeed a ~ VERY ~ moving scene.... I thought this was missing, I DO remember watching this when I was a kid also, and I am GLAD to have watched it again! ~ What memories! ~ I also Heard that a KIMBA (animé) - that's right - an A-N-I-M-E remake is coming into play... and KIMBA is the (TRUE) King (NOT) the ripped off remake that is the lion king...

  • Kimba was my favorite cartoon as a kid! I do recall seeing this scene on tv...very moving. Great to see it again after all these years!

  • I remember watching this one day when I was 4 or 5 and I started crying

    And my mom came into the room and asked me why I was crying "Did your brother hurt you somehow ?"

    I was too embarrassed to tell her why I was crying. I was so sentimental even then.

    It is so weird to see this episode after 40 years.. And it is just the way I remembered it !

  • I remember seeing Kimba swimming home and I also remember seeing his mother in the stars... So, did I see this clip 40 years ago or did I see something similar?

  • I completly agree, this has always stuck with me since childhood for 25 years, it's amazing sometimes what we remember, and the effect it has years on! x

  • I've always loved this show and remember the lioness being trapped and urging Kimba to leave her. The stars falling alway broke my heart. 30 some odd years later, this always has stuck w/ me.

    Thanks for posting.

  • I think I'm going to cry. :'(

  • the lost version speech is so beautiful :'')

  • Is that it? That's all ther is? Don't get me wrong, I'm glad you posted this, really I am, but I always thought there'd be more than this.

  • this looks an AWFULL LOT like The Lion King...and the lion king came out AFTER this show...DISNEY STOLE FROM JAPAN!!! THIS ANIME NEEDS MORE CREDIT

  • True that.

  • In Japan it is called "Rion Kingu"

  • no shit

    knew that the second the lion king came out

    kimba.....simba

  • Actually simba means lion in Swahili. So whatever is similar about these things (and for the record, I don't really care) the name simba probably is just a coincidence.

  • coincidence?

    my ass

    the storylines are far too similar

  • @Animaniac4life01 actually theyb didn't steal disney and the makers of kimba are friends the disney people were inspired and got permission

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  • @mhiatt23 WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!

  • @makesomenoise547 ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok ok! disney made it better now leave me alone

  • @mhiatt23 They didn't get permission.

  • @mhiatt23 "Are friends with the disney people"?! WTF? xDDDD

  • @SuperRandoms101 i heard it disney and kimba's creators said it

  • @mhiatt23 No they didn't. Disney claims Lion king is completely unrelated to Kimba

  • @Animaniac4life01

    well it was extremely popular at a time, you can find translations of this show in many languages, including english, german, arabic and I think I saw a french version when I was little. It's the first colored animated series from japan.

    An other series aired after, Jungle emperor, about the same lion but grown up. There was a remake in 1993 (not a bad one). than, movies were made:

    1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo The Movie"

    2009 "Jungle emperor leo"

    (omg originality in movie names!)

  • She sounds like his grandma other than his mother.

  • i swair i cray ,,

  • This is the way I remember Kimba... wish there were more clips .... wasn't there a Centaur?.... I remember a clip on a mountain with the archer/centaur.. looking up at the sky

  • i own this episode!

    xD

  • I can't remember too much in life ...But shoot...I remember this episode LOL

  • she does look like a deer zanny!!!

    hahahhaha

  • haha! i used to watch this show ALL THE TIME :)

    good times, good times

  • hey someonestole ur video there like coltster something

  • Disney stole Kimba!

  • They totally did! I wish I had seen it as a kid, but it got taken off the air!

  • yeah cause disney had to be hating on us all and all fucking us over

  • i have the dvd!!!! i have no idea why i relied this to u=3

  • i hav this episode wit this part on DVD

  • We own this.

    I always thought the mother looked more like a deer, though. =/

  • Incredible! Brings back so many memories!

  • energetic fun smart and loves this video

    seen it yesterday!  lets chat LG

  • DISNEY IS A POSER!!!!

  • Is this that "long lost episode" that Craig jacks up on his site for like $15?

  • I read in a book (Japanamerica) that years before he became big, Osamu Tezuka made money drawing Disney characters without their consent and selling his drawings for cash, so in a sense, they were both guilty of "theft". Apparently, there was always a good bond between Tezuka and Disney. They said he would probably be honoured that Disney made the Lion King, were he still alive today. (Although I do think its unacceptable they refuse to accept any similarity)

  • Wow. Apparently Kimba didn't teach you enough about morality and justice.

  • Check out the links in the controversy section of Kimba's wikipedia article... Disney STOLE one of their great classics from Japan!! That's how GOOD anime is!...

  • except for the amazing fact that not all anime is the same. Kimba was a badass show back in the day, while stuff like Naruto and Bleach are just shit TV.

  • I so remember this scene.Disney is a thief. Pretty powerul stuff. I would watch Paul Shannons Adventure time and put up with the very scarey Three Stooges just to watch this.

    Hey I was very young! Like 3 yrs old.

  • this clip makes me think of polar bears...

  • Wow... that takes me back. I got misty watching that. LOL!

  • ik ben helemal geeeeeeeeeeeeek van kimba

    love you kimba

  • this is very similar to lion king

    ive never seen this show

  • No not Similar,in fact Lion King STEALS blatantly from Kimba!!

  • What is so rare about this?

  • aww :D I love this. I have this..part..xD in one of mine..I got it at the dollar store :3 its rly pretty

  • There is a live-action version of this on my channel.

  • This episode made me BAWL when I was little, and even though I only saw it once when I was around 5, I remembered it my whole life until I saw it here. Thanks for posting!

  • Me too, man. I swear, the exact same. But, I was three and it was 1971. And I've mentioned this to so many family and friends and none can remember it.Though they all seem to remember the Banana Splits and Speed Racer. But, now I'm proven correct and known to have a memory of an Elephant. But, like you, never saw it again until 2 days ago right here. Right on. -Steve, SF,CA

  • Kimba the White Lion is the best!

    This is great!

    He is my hero and I WANT TO BE JUST LIKE KIMBA WHEN I GROW UP!

  • I have some found memories of "Kimba," even though I can't actually recall any specific plots. If worse comes to worse, there's always Netflix...

  • Definately reccomend you get it. Amazing show :)

  • Wow, I loved Kimba I must have been lets say 6yrs old. Thanks

  • woah! i wasnt even born yet then ;)

  • Wow, that jostled memories from over 35 years ago. Thanks!

  • i ahve this on my dvd of this epsdoe

  • Kimba....remember who you are.

    Oh wait..

  • I remember hearing that The Lion King was a ripoff of this, but I had no idea they even swiped THAT scene.

  • How did they swipe this? Was it the speech in the clouds with Mufasa?

  • nah actually the lion king stole everything from kimba. kimba came out in the 60's or some shite but TLK came out innn ... the 90s or somethin... they stole it ALL from Kimba

  • LOL!:°-D

  • ...

    ...

    Wasn't this clip on the VHS tapes with the white slip cover? I remember this scene, and I have that vhs.

  • OMG i have the dvd and she doesn't talk tht long!!

  • they have DVDs! I only have a million VHSs

  • Thank you. That is my most favorite scene.

    The female chorus singing "leo-leo" lol

  • THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!! I love love love love this cartoon, and this clip makes me cry still. Anyone has this cartoon, this particular version, please upload it on youtube!!!!

  • Does anyone know if this was made originally for an American audience or Japaneese?  I was noticing similarities in styles and in voice actors to the Speed Racer series which I also watched around the same time.

  • Theres a youtube vid up with the same clip, exept without the second part of eliza's speech. This could every well be a lost dub, it could been a test tape but was turned down by the FCC. Its just a damn shame that eliza's full speech wasn't on TV 40 years ago, but turned up 40 years later!, i wonder how graig anderson got a hold of the actual audio? There could be more of this tape missing, he even said that this episode might have lost audio or scenes...damn, anyways thanks for uploading!

  • This scene used make me bawl like a baby when I was a kid...hell, it STILL does!

  • LAWL!~!

    u here his mommy say "KIMBA, my brave little lion cub" and then the background singers say "LEO" LAwl, silly dubbers.... (by the way the Paja's cub's real name is Leo in the Japanese version)

  • @yokomesome No Kimba's real name is Leo. Panja is Panja.

  • God, I remember this scene from 1969... It made me so sad!!!!! Granted, I was only about 4, but I remember it so vividly!!!

    Thanks, it's a great scene!

  • This allways makes me cry.

  • This isn't rare of lost! I have an old vhs tape with this on it!

  • well I don't, its very hard to find english episodes on here too, I'd usually have to read the subtitles, well atleast the last time I had a good look I did.3/4 so far today

  • Ha I got 2 dvd's for chrsitmas from my parents....I don't remember watching these but my dad made a comment about me loving this show as much as my neice loved watching little bear......that had to be alot cuz she loved that show.. I think it's funny cuz Lion King was my favorite Disney movie now I see where they ripped it off from....guess sublimanaly I did remeber it =)

  • Over a decade after this show was made the Tezuka remade his own show it was called

    The New Adventures Of Kimba it's so much like this but more advanced in animation because Tezuka's skills had improved since this but the origanal is so much better.

  • In defense of the creator Tezuka, he made Kimba (Leo) white to represent peace. White being a universal color of peace (white dove and all that). Tezuka was a humanitarian, and wanted only peace and unity. Apparently it was his pacificism that stopped his company from suing the pants off of Disney. So, while I understand what you are saying, I don't believe there is any subtle ethnicism going on in Kimba. But, the evil panthers black...hmmm...

  • I hope you're only joking about the last part, panthers are SUPPOSED to be black, anyone who sees racism in that is paranoid. :P

  • I wasn't serious, but I am embarrassed because somehow I commented about the wrong clip! I was commenting about the clip in which the panthers. Several folks questioned Tezuka's choice of white as good and black as evil. My comment makes a whole lot more sense in that forum.

    oops... silly me...

  • Kimba, my hero!

  • wow, The Lion King was so inspired by this.

  • the fact that Kimba sees his mother in the stars is analogous to Simba seeing his father in the stars. Disney is a total ripoff artist. Nothing is original in their cell animation. Albeit they do it well. Only Pixar animation is original. It's sad that Jobs sold Pixar to Disney

  • you know, since the beginning of literature people have been stealing ideas from one another. in teh renaissance it was actually frowned upon to bring something new to the scene; people prefer what they know and are familiar with. for example, not a single one of shakespeare's plays were original in any sense. but it's all about retelling the story and using those ideas in a new way.

  • This is true. There are few "original ideas". Monty Pytthon's influence was an earlier British comedy troupe, the Goonies. and CBS's All in the Family was an adaptation of BBC's 'For Better or Worse." What I object to was Roy Disney Jr who said that Lion King was Disney's FIRST true original story. Bullshit. What a bald face lie. Kimba or Simba was based on an old African story to begin with. Still, character for character, and storyline, Lion King was a rip off of Kimba.

  • Yeah but this is now, when you take a copyrighted idea and claim it to be original. That is called stealing, not borrowing,which is illegal.

  • It's not a matter of legal or illegal, but a matter of moral honesty. It fine and dandy to adapt, even re-make, but give credit to credit due. Roy Disney Jr. stated that the Lion King was a truly original Disney Studio idea. This was not true. And this was not 1960s but the 1994. This is "now".

  • that thing dont seem to be a lion, is like a mouse. i have never saw a white lion.

  • It's Japanese manga. They draw everything wide eyed and cute. Albino lions do exist. Very rare. Most mammals will ocassonally have an albino. Different from the white snow leopard which is white because of it's habitat

  • there are white lions, just watch wikipedia and google.

    because you cant see, doesnt mean that it doesnt exist.

  • White tigers aren't albino. At one point in time a tiger was found in the wild with white fur, blue eyes, and brown stripes most likely due to a deformity. Then they took it into captivity and bred it with a regular bengal tiger until white babies. =3

    That's all I remember.

    And Disney is totally a rip off artist. D=

  • Oh wait, wrong species. xD

    Yeah white lions exist, too. They're albino. x3

  • white lions are not albino actually. It's a recessive gene that turns the fur white, much like what happens with white tigers.

  • i remember watching this when i was little. it's so cute ^^

  • Kimba is my cats name

  • I have Jungle Emperor books from 1958(this character is older than most think he is) and they show Leo on a log raft when his mother appears in the night sky. This story seems to change with time, but is always very emotional. The death of Panja is quite graphic in the 1958 book version as well. Much more so than in the Kimba or Leo TV versions. Just thought I'd share this info.

  • bastard its young uns on this site

  • Beautiful...

  • I haven't seen this in 40 years and remeber it like it was tomorrow. Watching this certainly makes you contemplate where we came from and where we have been. Has it really been 40 years.

  • two fans think alike ;)

  • Probably because this sequence was TOO emotional and moving for a younger audience {"What are you CRYING for?"}, Fred Ladd decided to create a less emotional version- and THAT was the one seen in the first episode, syndicated in September 1966.

  • I just realized that there is a scene in: The Mysterious Cities of Gold. that mirrors the wonderful butterfly scene in Kimba the white lion.

    Mendoza, Esteban and everybody are abord the ship stunned at a appearence of a lot of migrating golden butterflys. Mendoza says: Golden Butterflys, thats a good sign.

  • I find myself awestruckand crying at the beauty I see in:: Kimba the White Lion and Nickalodeons: The Mysterious Cities of Gold.

    Both are treaures not to be missed.

    Again, I thank you.

  • Kimba the White Lion is More Beautiful,Noble, Special,and Loved than I ever would be able to describe. Thank You! for sharing it with the world. I pin a Gold Medal upon your coat and in love and friendship, I salute you!

    I have a porcelin deer with Japan markings on it.

    It's Dodi Deer!

  • It's very simlair to Simba... of the lion king 0_o did Disney copy this?

  • a bit off topic but which episode was the one kimba helping this cowardly King Kong like ape?

  • Sweet, who cares if the LK was erm like kimba? Both are friken awesome in their own ways =p

  • I TOTALLY AGREE!!! Except I prefer Simba xDD

  • Ehh, i'm undecided, i like Leo's design, but Simba, i dunno :p

  • I loved this show when I was a kid... I thought I was the only one who remembered this show.

  • Wow, thank you. Our "Leo" is known KIMBA in the world...bit strange for me but glad to know he is loved by people in other countries. (in JPN, Kimba is known "Leo", whilte lion"

    My brother loved this so I grow up to watch this cartoon with him a lot (repeated version though)

    I think I remember this one...

  • thanks pinnapple for posting this. I have heard of this clip for so long. I agree its very moving.

  • Thank you, and you're wlecome!!! ^_^

  • Just follow your heart, that's what I always do.

  • itsd like simba

  • And according to a lot of people that´s not by accident.

  • It's so beautiful...