Several infos about the past (1995 and 2003) TV airings of the 1993 Kimba episodes in Hungary, as well as the release of the 2006 DVD with these episodes have been added to the History and to the DVD releases pages.

Update on the collaboration with the New Japan Pro-Wrestling company - on November 7 yet more rubber keychain figures of Kimba dressed up as wrestlers have been released and are sold at the NJPW Shop, this time of Kota Ibushi and of Ryusuke Taguchi, and another Kimba wearing the black Bullet Club shirt.

Another update on the Uniqlo UT shirts - currently the shirts are available only in the recently opened Australian webshop, as well as in Uniqlo stores in Philippines. The shirts are unfortunately out of stock in all other countries (in the Japan, UK & Europe, U.S. and Singapore webshops, and in Uniqlo stores in China, Taiwan, Korea, Germany, France, Russia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia). And the eBay stores Tokyo Lover since 2012 and Cartoon-Mall also have only few of these T-shirts left.

Regarding the manga, Hazard Edizioni has also issued a limited box with all 3 volumes of the manga at a special reduced price (19,00 EUR instead of 22,50 EUR). This is available only to Italian residents and only on the official Hazard website. (this info has been added to the Manga page as well)

The japanese National Institute of Mint has issued an official commemorative proof coin set for the 50^th anniversary of Jungle Emperor/Kimba on TV! In the set are six types of proof coins of 1 yen to 500 yen of the 2015 inscription (with a gloss on the surface using a special technology & a pattern that is embossed on the coin) and a silver medal (silver 925/1000, copper 75/1000). On the front of the silver medal is Leo/Kimba, while Laiya/Kitty is painted on the back. It comes in a special leather case, and it has been housed in the cover case. Around 15000 sets will be sold at a price of approx. $110, and orders will be taken until September 29. (this info has been added to the Recent history page as well)

Update on the Uniqlo UT shirts - currently only a few items are available in the Japan, UK & Europe and Singapore webshops, as well as in Uniqlo stores in France, Russia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Thailand, Malaysia and Australia. The shirts are unfortunately out of stock in the U.S. webshop and in Uniqlo stores in China, Taiwan, Korea, Germany and Philippines. The eBay stores Japan Project, Tokyo Lover since 2012 and Cartoon-Mall also have only few of these T-shirts left.

New Era from Japan has released of 8 MLB-type limited edition baseball caps to commemorate the 50^th anniversary of Kimba the White Lion on TV. Their prices are 5832 JPY (around $48.65) and 5292 JPY (around $44.15). You can check them out on the New Era webshop. (this info has been added to the Recent history page as well)

Update on the Uniqlo UT shirts - since recently the shirts are available in the U.S. and Europe in their U.S. and UK webshops! The T-shirts are also available in the webshops for Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and Singapore, and in worldwide shops (including in France, Germany, Russia, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Philippines, Thailand and Australia).

Cartoon Network Japan will re-air the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series from June 30. 2 episodes a day will be aired from Monday to Thursday at 2:00 AM, and the airing should end on August 12 (this info has been added to the Recent history page as well).

Two new artworks have been added to the Fanart page - one is "Lion of a Tankerman" (shown left) and is again made by Nuno, and features Kimba and Jake from the Advance Wars: Dual Strike video game. According to Nuno, "Lion of a Tankerman" regards to the mission when Jake first found and rescued Kimba/Leo. As you can see, Kimba was injured and, even at that first moment, Jake felt a deep love for his new friend (you can see how much love from their eyes)".

The other one is called "Hefin Training" by Kirara CecilVenes (shown right) and features Panja, Kimba and Lune, and Lady Hefin from the Runescape 3 game as an interesting cross-over. Here's Nuno' description: "Under the leadership of their protective, caring goddess, Seren, the Runescape elves will finally be appearing! In the elven crystalline city of Prifddinas, the elf you see doing that "crane" pose, Lady Hefin, leader of the elven Hefin Clan is helping Jake train his agility. Of course, Hefin elven agility training is tougher than Orange Star drill exercises and he's having some trouble balancing on that serenity post. Lady Hefin, of course, she's a bit embarrassed with his performance. As for Panja, Kimba and Rune, well, unlike Jake, they are having a lot of fun in the Hefin Agility Course (Kimba's eyes didn't turn out so great)."

New (upcoming) DVD release has been added to the Japanese releases page - a re-release of the 1989 series (the first DVD was released in 2002), to commemorate 55 years of Osamu Tezuka's animation debut, and almost 25 years after its first TV airing. It comes in 2 DVD-box sets with total 13 DVDs (7+6). The release dates of the box-sets are November 3 and December 2.

As it is usual with japanese DVD releases, these releases have only Japanese audio track, without English subtitles, they are in U.S. NTSC format, and are region-2 encoded.

Leo Ieiri, the 20-year-old Japanese singer-songwriter whose stage name was inspired by "Jungle Emperor", has made another collaboration with Tezuka Productions in honor of the 50^th anniversary of the first airing of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series, and for the ongoing "4^th one-man Tour" based on her latest album simply titled "20" two collaboration badges (pictured left) and a collaboration can will be sold at every concert venue. The tour will last from May 4 to July 21.

To commemorate the 50^th anniversary of Kimba the White Lion on TV Uniqlo has released 12 T-shirts as a part of the special "Message from Tezuka" collection for the "Ultra T" (UT) product line. The T-shirts display Kimba as well as other Tezuka characters, including Astro Boy and Black Jack. Currently the shirts can be purchased only on japanese, taiwanese and korean webshops, but since Uniqlo has shops worldwide (including in US, UK, France, Germany, and Australia) look for these great shirts in your nearest Uniqlo shop! And, if you aren't lucky to find these shirts in Uniqlo store in your vicinity, or you don't have an Uniqlo store nearby, you can find the T-shirts in this eBay store; simply search for "Message from Tezuka" (or just "Tezuka").

As part of the 50^th anniversary of the first airing of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series another "lionish" collaboration project has been made with the New Japan Pro-Wrestling company (whose logo also contains a lion), and the the project will start on April 17 with the release of the green Raglan T-Shirt (pictured right) which is already available for pre-order in the NJPW Shop. Several other collaboration items are planned, and the next one will follow in May, while another one will be presented in early summer (these infos have been added to the Recent history page as well).

Also, to follow the 50^th anniversary of the first airing, the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series that were available on Fuji TV On Demand are still available, as the availability period has been extended to November 30, 2015.

Several infos have been added to the Recent history page:

The opening theme of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" anime, performed by the late Tadahiko Hirano, was aired on japanese NHK Radio 1 on February 17 at 2:22 AM, as a part of the "NHK Radio Midnight Flight" programme titled "Romantic Concert - Work of the Sound Artist: Works by Isao Tomita".

The 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie has been shown on the 2015 Anime Boston (April 3 - 5). The screening was on Sunday, April 5 at 2:00 PM EST in Hynes Convention Center, Video 103.

Almost 50 years after its initial airing on Fuji TV the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series are again aired in Japan on Cartoon Network (SD & HD), 2 episodes a day, Tuesday to Friday at 3:00 AM. The airing started on April 2, and should end on May 15.

A new picture book based on based on the illustrations that Osamu Tezuka drew from the first episode “Go, White Lion" for the LP "Jungle Emperor - Symphonic Poem" will be released in Japan by Juritsusha on November 30. The music from that LP was later made into a movie in 1991 and it was released on DVD twice (this has been added to the Japanese releases and the Recent history pages).

I've added two new infos to the History pages:

The 2006 DVD box from Spain with the 1993 Kimba episodes dubbed in spanish (shown left) has also been released in Portugal in June 2006 by Filmes Unimundo under the title "Kimba o Leão Branco".

The 1993 Kimba episodes were twice on TV in Indonesia. They were aired on ANTV - in 2009 (December 2009-January 2010) at 7:30 AM and in 2010 (November 2010-January 2011) at 3:30 AM.

Two new artworks by Nuno have been added to the Fanart page:

The first one is "Playful Kids" (shown left) and features Lune, Lukio and Colin from the Advance Wars: Dual Strike video game. Colin is the younger brother of Sasha who is already featured on some of the previous fanarts.

The other one is called "Feline Love" (shown right) and features Kimba and Jake; this is some sort of "sequel" to the previously posted "All Cuddled Up" and "Loving Times".

Nuno Aguiar has sent me five new artworks, and I'm adding them to my Fanart page with pleasure. The first one is called "A Trusting Love" and, along with Kimba and Jake from the Advance Wars, features Silvertail, the old renegade lion from the Kimba TV series. The next two are called "When I Make A Promise" 1 and 2 (nr. 1 is shown left), and the story behind these is that Jake got himself injured while protecting Kimba, while on a mission to rescue Kimba's family. The last two are called "All Cuddled Up" (shown right) and "Loving Times". All these four feature Kimba and Jake.

A japanese 2-minute-long YouTube video has been posted after the celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the Seibu Railways, and you can view it here (this has been added to the Recent history page).

Regarding the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series aired in Japan on Cartoon Network, since September 6 2 episodes a day are aired, and the airings are now Saturdays and Sundays at 5:00 AM (with repeats at 12:00 PM). The airing should end on November 2. This has been added to the Recent history page.

Two new artworks have been added to the Fanart page - one is "A Omega Land Sunset" by Marta Lebre (shown left) and features Kimba, Kitty, Lune, Lukio, and both characters from the Advance Wars: Dual Strike video game (Jake and Sasha) as a beautiful group cross-over.

The other one is called "Calm Embrace" (shown right) and is again made by Nuno, and features Kitty and Sasha; this is some sort of "sequel" to the previously posted "Warm Blue".

Since July 12 the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series are again aired in Japan on Cartoon Network (SD & HD), 1 episode a day, Saturdays and Sundays at 6:00 AM (with repeats at 11:00 PM). The airing should end on January 4, 2015. This info has been added to the Recent history page.

For the upcoming celebration of the 100^th anniversary of the Seibu Railways during which the "Jungle Emperor" series will be promoted, a triple cooperation between Jungle Emperor Leo, Japanese singer-songwriter Leo Ieiri and Seibu Lions has been arranged. This event will take place from August 12 to 17 at the Seibu Dome. This will also be the last time the players of Seibu Lions will be wearing the special uniform that features the mascot Leo which was designed by Tezuka Productions and announced in 2013. Several things will take place during this event, and you can read more about it on the Recent history page.

Here is the updated list of TV stations the 1993 Kimba episodes in Spanish:

• KBEH-DT (Santa Barbara and Los Angeles, California) - channel 63, subchannels 3 and 7, Saturdays & Sundays at 9:00 AM PDT
• KYPK-LD (Yakima, Washington) - channel 38, subchannel 7, Saturdays & Sundays at 9:00 AM PDT
• KMDF-LD (Midland and Penwell, Texas) - channel 22, subchannel 3, Saturdays & Sundays at 11:00 AM CDT
• KOHC-CD (Oklahoma City) - channel 45, subchannel 4, Saturdays & Sundays at 11:00 AM CDT
• WRJK-LP (Chicago) - channel 22, subchannel 4, Saturdays & Sundays at 11:00 AM CDT
• WNYN-LD (New York City) - channel 39, subchannel 1, Saturdays & Sundays at 12:00 PM EDT
• WBWP-LD (West Palm Beach, Florida) - channel 57, subchannel 2, Saturdays & Sundays at 12:00 PM EDT
• WCEA-LD (Plaistow, New Hampshire and Boston, MA) - channel 58, subchannel 4, Saturdays & Sundays at 12:00 PM EDT

Additional stations that might be also airing Kimba can be found on the Tele-Romántica page on RabbitEars.info. The airing should last until September.

Tadahiko Hirano, baritone singer of the opening theme of the 1965 Jungle Emperor and professor emeritus at the Tokyo University of the Arts, passed away on June 13 at the age of 76. This info has been added to the Recent history page as well.

On Monday, May 5, the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie will be again aired in Japan at 10:00 AM on the TOKYO MX channel. This info has been added to the Recent history page as well.

The 1993 Kimba episodes in Spanish are currently on air in the U.S., again on Tele-Romántica, and they are aired as follows:

• Santa Barbara and Los Angeles area, CA: KBEH-DT (channel 63, subchannels 3 and 7), Saturdays & Sundays at 9:00 AM PDT
• Penwell, TX: KMDF-LD (channel 22, subchannel 3), Saturdays & Sundays at 11:00 AM CDT
• Plaistow, NH and Boston area: WCEA-LD (channel 58, subchannel 4), Saturdays & Sundays at 12:00 PM EDT

The airing appears to have started on April 5. This info has been added to the Recent history page.

The 1966 and the 1997 movies will be aired on two public events in Japan and in the US. The 1966 movie will be shown on the 2014 Tokyo Anime Award Festival (March 20 - 23) as a part of a special screening to commemorate the 85^th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth, along with the screening of the 1996 "Black Jack" movie and the 1964 "Astro Boy" movie, while the 1997 movie will be shown on the 2014 Anime Boston (March 21 - 23). Both screenings will take place on March 21. More on the Recent history page.

A small update has been made regarding the airings of Kimba in Peru. More on the History pages.

100,000^th hit to the home page has been logged on March 10, and the approximate visitor's location was Brea, California, US. Thanks to everyone who visited this website in the past 14 years!

Nuno Aguiar, the guy who previously sent me the "A Moment of Affection", has sent me another fanart made in the similar vein to the before mentioned one - "Warm Blue" is another cross-over between Jungle Emperor and Advance Wars video game and features Laiya/Kitty and Sasha who also share the similar type of personality. Also, according to Nuno there has been a spark of romance between Sasha and Jake. You can find this fanart on the Fanart page.

On the same page I've put the two component drawings which Nuno used to create "A Moment of Affection". Look for the links to them under the final drawing.

Two new infos have added to the Recent history page:

On December 19 on a press conference Seibu Lions announced that, on the occasion of the 100^th anniversary of the Seibu Railway, they will hold "Jungle Emperor Series supported by Tezuka Productions" in 2014, and the uniform featuring Leo (pictured left) that was designed by Tezuka Productions will be worn at "several official games" in 2014.

Leo Ieiri, a 19-years-old Japanese singer-songwriter whose stage name was inspired by Jungle Emperor has released her 2^nd album titled "a boy" whose title track's music video has been made in collaboration with Tezuka Productions and features the anime version of Ieiri (based on Kimba) as a young lion meeting the characters from Jungle Emperor. The video combines animated and live-action video (the preview of the video can be accessed here), and the album "a boy", released by JVC Music in both regular and limited edition (including bonus DVD with the mentioned music video and some other extras), is out now.

I'm proud to announce a brand new entry that I've added to the "neglected" Fanart gallery page - "A Moment of Affection" by Nuno Aguiar. Nuno made this artwork some time ago as his reaction to the sad ending of the 1997 Jungle Emperor Leo movie. At the same time, this fanart is made as a clever cross-over between Kimba and CO Jake (from the Advance Wars: Dual Strike video game) who seem to share the similar type of personality. Feel free to check it out!

On March 22, 2013 the manga books with the first portuguese version of the original Jungle Emperor manga have been released in Brazil by NewPop. The books are in the A5 (15 x 21 cm) format and cost R$ 24,90 each. This info has been added to the Manga page as well.

Thanks to informations found on the italian forum Zap Zap TV, I've added some new informations regarding the airing of Kimba on TV and in the movie theaters in Italy from 1975 to 1982 to the History pages.

I've also added to the History pages two old spanish DVD releases (from 2006 and 2007) that aren't Kimba-related by its title, but which do contain some episodes from the spanish dub of the 1993 Kimba series.

Since December 1 the episodes from the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series are available on Fuji TV On Demand, a pay-per-view service of the japanese TV station Fuji TV which originally aired these series in 1965. Only the first episode seems to be available for free, but everything is in Japanese only. The episodes will be available on FOD until November 30, 2014. This info has been added to the Recent history page as well.

Again thanks to my dear friend Joachim from Germany, I've added to the History pages his "complete" version of "The Jungle Choir" made from the original TV soundtrack by joining the first part from the beginning of the episode "Die Tierfaenger" (AKA "The Trappers") and the second part from the very end of that episode. It is available in MP3 format, size: 600 kB (and the lyrics are still available).

Three new items from Italy have been added to the European Kimba toy & video museum - the reissue of the 45 RPM 7" single from 1979 with the italian opening theme by "I cavalieri del Re", and the two movie posters of the 1966 movie shown in italian movie theatres as "Leo il re della jungla".

For all Kimba fans and owners of the Android-based smartphones and tablets, good news are that the japanese on-line bookstore bookpass and KDDI have created a clock widget on the occasion of the good sale of the Osamu Tezuka manga. This clock widget comes with three "versions" - Kimba, Astro Boy and Black Jack. You can download it directly from the Play Store.

Thanks to my dear friend Joachim from Germany, lyrics of two songs (The Jungle Choir/Oh, How Beautiful It's In The Jungle and The Jungle Friendship Song) from the 1977 Kimba TV series aired in Germany (with their accurate English translations) have been added to the History pages.

Since August 2011 the japanese web-portal Goo is offering themes based on the Tezuka's characters, including Kimba and Kitty, and two themes are still available with the latter two. If you're familiar with Goo, you can access Goo with these themes by clicking on any of the below 2 thumbnails (also please note the picture at the bottom of each title page of the portal):

A brand new page, the European Kimba toy & video museum, has been created. It is actually a page that was supposed to be made and put on this website some 6-7 years ago, but I never got to that before recently discovering the draft version of the page. Aside from the videos and DVDs that you can already find on this website, on it you can find some rare items, for example some special items that were produced for the first airing of Kimba in Germany in 1977 (like the real wallpaper for your room or the 50 cm high Kimba plush), or the promo poster for the 1983 UK VHS release. There are more items that need to be added, so look for them as well!

New DVD set has been added to the Japanese releases page. It is actually the limited edition of the 2005 Osamu Tezuka Animation World DVD set that has been released back in 2008, but I've added it since it is still available from CD Japan.

New japanese release, the Jungle Emperor Best Selection DVD Book Vol.1, a DVD with the best selection from the 1965 Jungle Emperor series and the accompanying A4-sized book, has been added to the Japanese releases page.

The official Tezuka Osamu World on-line shop (in japanese) has been added to the Other merchandise page.

English version of the original Jungle Emperor manga is finally available as a bilingual comic (Japanese & English) on 191 pages and in pocket book size! However, here is contained only the first half of the entire Jungle Emperor manga drawn by Tezuka, and the rest should follow soon. More info and ordering links are on the Manga page.

Lacoste has teamed with Tezuka Productions and the designer Hiroaki Ohya to create the Tezuka Collection for their Lacoste L!ve line of products. For Fall/Winter 2013 (available November 2013 in selected Lacoste stores) scenes from 3 mangas including "Jungle Emperor" (pictured right) were selected for the products. This information has been added to the Recent history page as well.

The 1965 Kimba episodes are on the air in Japan on Cartoon Network HD, 1 episode a day, Monday-Friday at 5:00 AM (with repeats at 2:00 AM). This airing has started on June 20 and will end on august 30. Also, the 1966 Jungle Emperor Leo movie will also be aired in Japan on Sunday, July 21 on MBC 1 at 3:35 PM. Both of these infos has been added to the Recent history page.

Because of constant spamming activity on the previous guestbook, I was forced to close that one and to open a new one, which is now provided by Bravenet, which is also the provider of the "60 Years of Kimba mailing list". You can view and sign it here.

A new TV airing of Kimba, this time of the 1966 "Jungle Emperor: Go Ahead, Leo!" series on TV Kanagawa in Japan, has been added to the Recent history page. This airing has started on February 18, and 1 episode is aired every day from Monday to Thursday at 8:00 AM. The airing should end on April 2.

I've updated the links leading to Kimba W. Lion's website because, after being inaccessible for a while, it's URL has changed (temporary?).

An update on screening of the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie in Korea has been added to the Recent history page - after the weekend November 16-18 it dropped to place #9, and after the last weekend (November 23-25) the movie reached place #16 and thus dropped out of Top 10 of the Korean Box Office ranking list.