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November 11, 2015

 

 

 
Manga
1950. "Janguru Taitei" manga was originally published in monthly comic magazine "Manga Shonen" in Japan, which was published by Gakudosha. The manga was later republished in 3 volumes by Kodansha.
The manga started in the November 1950's issue, and ended in April 1954's issue.
 
1977. "Janguru Taitei" manga was republished in 3 volumes in Japan by Kodansha. All 3 volumes were released between June and August 1977.
 
1986. Manga "Kimba il leone bianco" was published in 3 volumes in Italy by Comic Art. The first volume had 160 pages, and it was published in February. Each volume costed 7.000 italian liras.
This manga has been republished by Comic Art in 1998.
 
1996. Manga "Le roi Leo" was published in 3 volumes in France by Glénat.
 

2001. Since May 2001 in Germany are released all three volumes of the german version of the original "Kimba the white lion" manga, and they are published by Carlsen Comics. It is possible to order all of them online on this web page.

Manga

Jungle Emperor (first japanese anime in color)
1965. "Jungle Emperor" is the first anime in color (first animated TV series) in Japan.
It was aired on Fuji Television. The broadcasting started on October 6, 1965. and ended on September 28, 1966. It was shown every Wednesday at 7:00 PM, 1 episode per day.
Production credits
The opening sequence (RealVideo clip, 1,5 MB; from Kimba W.Lion)
MIDI file of this theme (28 kB; source page)
 
1966. "Kimba the white lion" anime was shown in USA.
It was distributed by NBC Films, and it was aired for the last time in 1978.
Production credits                        Lyrics of the opening themes
The opening sequence (RealVideo clip, 1,1 MB; from Kimba W.Lion)
 
1967. "Kimba the white lion" anime was shown in Australia on Melbourne TV. It started at 4:00 PM.
 
1969. "Kimba the white lion" anime was aired as "Kimba el leon blanco" in Spain on TVE for the first time. Also, it's interesting that "Kimba" was the first Japanese anime that was ever aired in Spain.
These series were later released on video in Spain in the 80s (the exact year is not known). (Many thanks to Mazochungo for this info!)
 
1977. 39 episodes of the 1966 "Kimba the white lion" TV series were aired under the title "Kimba der weisse Löwe" in Germany (on ZDF) and in Austria (on ORF 1).
On ZDF it was aired every Tuesday, from January 4 to October 4.
Production credits     Lyrics of the opening theme
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip)
The "Jungle chorus" video clip (RealVideo clip, 1,5 MB, with mkolle's permission)
The complete "Jungle chorus" song (MP3 clip, 600 kB, many thanks to Joachim from Germany!!!) Lyrics (many thanks to Joachim from Germany!!!)
The "Jungle friendship" song (Windows Media Audio 9 clip, 490 kB; many thanks to Swen Steffens!)   Lyrics (many thanks to Joachim from Germany!!!)
 
7 LPs and 7 MCs containing slightly shortened versions of 29 episodes from the above TV series were released in Germany by Poly (a division of Polydor/PolyGram).
 
"Kimba the white lion" anime was aired in Italy under the title "Kimba il leone bianco" for the first time in September 1977 (in Rome on "TV Voxson"; in Lazio on "GBR" on September 5), and these italian-dubbed episodes that actually came from the U.S. (from NBC Films) were aired on several TV stations to date (excluding the "new" italian Kimba series from 1999). During these years there were two opening themes - in the beginning the show used the U.S. (NBC) opening theme, which was replaced with the italian opening theme in 1982. The show had two dubbings - the first one (in which Kimba had a female voice) ran from 1977 to 1990, and the second one that featured Kimba with a male voice was introduced in 1983 and it was aired even recently (in 2001). In the 80s both of these two dubbings were used. (Many thanks to Francesco Piccardo for these infos!)
Production credits
1978. "Kimba il leone bianco" TV series were aired in Italy on "Antenna Nord". The broadcasting started in Spring 1978.
1979. From January 25 to April 14 "Kimba il leone bianco" TV series were aired in Italy on "Quinta Rete" (future "Italia 1") during the "Ora dei ragazzi"("The boys' hour") TV programme. (Many thanks to Francesco Piccardo for the initial correction!)
 
1980. From August 5 to August 25 "Kimba il leone bianco" TV series were aired in Italy on "La Uomo TV", from Monday to Friday.
 
1982. "Kimba the white lion" TV series were again shown in Australia on Melbourne TV.
 
"Kimba il leone bianco" TV series were aired in Italy, but this time with a new (italian) opening theme instead of the previously used (U.S.) one. This opening theme was composed by Riccardo Zara, and performed by "I Cavalieri del Re" ("The King's Horsemen"). It was originally recorded in 1979.
The first airing started on "Telearcobaleno" on March 2 at 1:30 PM and 6:15 PM.
There was also another airing on "T.R.E." (part of the "TV Port" network) that started on March 9 at 6:00 PM and that was aired from Tuesday to Friday.
Production credits                Lyrics of the opening theme
The opening theme (new and improved version; Windows Media Audio clip, 1,5 MB)
The opening theme - 2000 version (streaming RealAudio clip; source)
MIDI file of this theme (44 kB; source page)
The opening sequence (RealVideo clip, 3,51 MB; new version)
The opening sequence, 2nd version (RealVideo, 3,51 MB; from Regno delle Anime)
Italian version of the "A-I-U-E-O mambo" jap.song (and the lyrics; Windows Media Video clip, 1,9 MB)
1983. "Kimba the White Lion" has been released in the UK on video by Entertainment In Video (distributor: CBS). A total of 2 volumes were released, and the first one was released on July 29, 1983. Each volume had a running time of 90 minutes (contained 4 episodes).
 
A new italian dubbing of "Kimba the white lion" episodes, which starred Franco Latini as Kimba, was aired in Italy for the first time. It's important to mention that this dubbing, instead of having only the wonderful Isao Tomita's music, had just 50% of the background music that was composed by Isao Tomita, while the other 50% was replaced by the instrumental version of the italian opening theme. (Many thanks to Francesco Piccardo for these infos!)
 
1985. "Kimba der weisse Löwe" TV series (33 of total 38 episodes) was again aired in Germany, this time on Sat 1. It was aired every Monday, at first (in 1985) at 1:30 PM CET, and then (in 1986) at 3:00 PM. The airing started on September 2 and ended on April 21, 1986. (Many thanks to Joachim and to Marc from Germany for these infos!)

1986. "Kimba der weisse Löwe" was released on video by Taurus Video in Germany. It was re-released in 1995. Video releases

1988. "Kimba der weisse Löwe" TV series was again aired in Germany on Sat 1, every day at 2:10 PM CET, with repeats on the following day at 9:10 AM or at 9:35 AM. This airing started on March 31 and ended on May 7. (Many thanks to Marc from Germany for these infos!)

1989. "Kimba der weisse Löwe" TV series was again aired in Germany on Sat 1, every Tuesday at 2:05 PM CET, with partial repeats on the following day at 9:35 AM. This airing started on April 4 and ended on January 1, 1990. (Many thanks to Marc from Germany for these infos!)
 
"Kimba the white lion" was released in Finland on video under the title "Kimba valkoinen leijona". These episodes are actually the italian 1979 episodes with finnish subtitles. Each cassette was 45 minutes long and it contained 2 episodes (probably). (Many thanks to Lauri Welling from Finland for this info!)
The opening theme of the Finnish Kimba episodes, recorded in 1986, is actually the 1977 German opening theme translated into Finnish by Ari Pauli Meriläinen. It is performed by Hannu Takala, and it was available only on the "Children TV favorites" LPs and cassettes, released by a Finnish company called Sateenkaari in 1987.
The opening theme (Windows Media Audio 9 clip; 436 kB)        Lyrics of this opening theme
   Note: Again many thanks to Lauri Welling from Finland for the theme and the lyrics! Sorry for the fair
   quality of the sound, I've improved it a bit, but I couldn't do anything else. But, if you're still interested
   in it, download it and enjoy!
1990. From September 3 to November 23 "Kimba il leone bianco" TV series were aired in Italy on "Odeon" during the "Sugar" TV programme, from Monday to Friday.

The complete 1965 "Jungle Emperor Leo" anime was aired as "Le Retour de Léo" in France on "La 5" ("La Cinq"). They were followed by the complete 1966 "Leo" anime, but this time the 1966 "Leo" was recorded with new french voice actors. The airing started on September 17.

The above episodes were later aired on TF1 in 1995 (under the title "Le Retour du Roi Léo") and on FR3 (France 3) in 1996 as well.
The opening theme was sung by Claude Lombard, and pictured here is the scan of the 45rpm record with the theme. This song is actually based on the opening theme of the italian TV series "Sabato al circo"("Saturdays at the circus") - the music (by N.Carucci) is the same in both songs, only the italian lyrics (by A.Valeri Manera) were replaced with the french lyrics by Charles Level.
The opening theme (from the 45rpm record; Windows Media Audio 9 clip; 1,41 MB)
Lyrics of the opening theme (with translation)
Note: Although the image on the cover of the 45rpm record suggests that the 1989 Kimba series were also aired on "La 5", there is no further information on this.
1991. 14 episodes of the "Kimba der weisse Löwe" series that were never shown in 1977 (but which were newly dubbed - including the episode "The Return of Fancy Prancy" that was initially aired in 1977 but which was damaged immediately after that first airing, and so it had to be retaken and redubbed for the "Bou Bou" series), and all 26 episodes of the "Onward, Leo!" series were all together aired on Pro7 as "Bou Bou - König der Tiere". The name was changed because of the copyright reasons. (Many thanks to Swen Steffens for these explanations!)
In addition to Pro7, "Bou Bou - König der Tiere" was also aired on TV München, but the year is not known.
The opening theme (Windows Media Audio 9 clip, 336 kB; many thanks to Swen Steffens!)
Lyrics of the opening theme (with translation)
"Kimba il leone bianco" video has been released in Italy by a company called Pretty Video.
The shown video contains two episodes from the italian 1970s airings, "Invasione degli insetti" ("Insect invasion") and "Distruttori del deserto" ("Destroyers from the desert"). This video is a very rare item.
 
1992. "Jungle Emperor" (aka "Kimba the White Lion") anime was aired in Japan on TV Tokyo every Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 AM.
 
1994. "Kimba der weisse Löwe" TV series were aired in Germany on RTL 2. They were aired almost at the same time "Lion King" was shown in movie theaters.
 
1998. In Germany in the City's library of Munich (München) on two Wednesdays, August 5 and 12, starting at 3:00 PM CET four episodes from the "Kimba der weisse Löwe" series were shown to children on video.
 
2000.
The original Kimba 1966 episodes were finally released on video by Right Stuf International. These episodes were also released on DVD in 2003 and in 2005. Video releases DVD releases
 
 
 
38 episodes of the "Jungle Emperor" TV series were aired in Germany on Junior, part of the pay-TV Premiere World, Monday to Friday, starting at 6:15 AM and 10:55 AM.
The broadcasting started on June 21 and ended on August 9.
 
 
 
2001. "Kimba il leone bianco" anime was shown in Italy on 4 local TV stations:
- on TeleNapoli 34 (Campania) everyday, starting at 5:20 PM CET (this airing ended in July 2001.)
- on Telenuovo (Veneto) everyday, starting at 6:00 PM CET (this airing ended in 2002.)
- on ReteSette (Piemonte), everyday, starting at 3:00 PM CET (this airing ended in January 2002.)
- on TeleRoma 56 (Lazio), everyday, starting at 7:15 AM CET (this airing ended in January 2002.)

On September 7, 2001. Billie Lou Watt, the voice of Kimba in 1966. U.S. Kimba TV series, dies. See the announce taken from the New York Times from September 13, 2001.

2002.
From March 14 to May 7, 38 episodes of the "Jungle Emperor" TV series were again aired in Germany, and again on "Junior", part of the pay-TV "Premiere World". The airing was from Monday to Friday, at 7:00 AM CET.

"Kimba the white lion" TV series was again aired in Germany on "Junior" (part of the pay-TV "Premiere World") from Monday to Friday at 7:20 AM CET under the name "Leo der kleine Löwenkönig" (Leo the Little Lionking). This airing started on September 20.

2003.
On March 25 2003 26 episodes from the 1966 U.S. "Kimba" TV series were available for the first time on DVD by Right Stuf. See DVD releases for more information!
 
The italian Kimba airing called "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" has repeated its broadcast after exactly 4 years in Italy on channel Italia 1. The broadcasting started on September 8 (and it was aired from Monday to Friday at 08:15 AM CET), but it temporarily ended on September 19, and it seems that the airing has been interrupted for good.
 
2004.
The original 1965 episodes were aired on TV on the Nihon Eiga Senmon satellite channel. It is carried on three Japanese satellites as a part of three packages: on Superbird C (at 144.0°E, freq.12583 horizontal) as a part of the I-HITS package, on JCSAT 4A (at 124.0°E, freq.12508 vertical) as a part of the Sky PerfecTV package (channel 707), and on N-Sat 110 (at 110.0°E, freq.12371 R) as a part of the Sky PerfecTV 110 package.
It was aired every Sunday at 11:00 AM, one episode per week (this episode was repeated every Wednesday morning at 06:00 AM). The airing started in the middle of July 2004, and it ended on August 7, 2005.
Also, it is interesting to mention that, along with Kimba, three other popular animes by Osamu Tezuka were aired in the same part of day - an episode of "Astro Boy" and "Princess Knight" was aired before Kimba, while an episode of "The Amazing Three" was aired immediately after Kimba.
 
From September 24 to November 16 "Kimba the white lion" TV series were aired in Germany on "Junior" (part of the pay-TV "Premiere World") from Monday to Friday at 10:40 AM CET. These are the original 1966 episodes dubbed in Germany in 1977 (38 episodes).
2005.
"Kimba el Leon Blanco" was aired in Latin America on Cartoon Network Latin America in the Boomerang section. It was aired from June 6, and it was aired from Monday to Friday at 6:00 AM ET, 2:00 PM ET and 10:00 PM ET. It seems that this airing has ended in the meantime (exact ending date is unknown).

French "Le roi Léo (vol. 1)" DVD-box cover
The first 26 episodes of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series have been published in France on DVD for the first time. It has been released in a DVD box titled "Le roi Léo - tome 1" by a french firm called Rouge Citron Production on June 21. Note that this is a french release, with french audio only.
> DVD releases

Kimba the White Lion DVD box artwork
Madman Entertainment from Australia has released on DVD all 52 episodes of the original Kimba series aired in the U.S. and Australia in the 60s and 70s. It was released on September 21.
> DVD releases

After the airing of the original 1965 episodes has finished on the Nihon Eiga Senmon japanese satellite channel on August 7, 2005, airing of the 1966 ("Go ahead, Leo!" or "Onward, Leo!") series was started.
It was aired at the same time: every Sunday at 11:00 AM (also one episode per week), with repeated airing every Wednesday morning, and ended on February 21, 2006.
Along with it, other Tezuka animes were aired in the same part of day as well: an episode of "Astro Boy" and "Blue Blink" (instead of "Princess Knight") was aired before "Leo", while an episode of "The Amazing Three" was aired immediately after "Leo".

On November 29 Right Stuf released a special DVD box that every true Kimba fan should have: this DVD box contains all 52 episodes of the original Kimba episodes aired in the U.S. in the 1960s and 70s newly remastered with image quality never before seen on previous Kimba DVD releases. More info about it can be found on the
DVD releases page.

The
1977 german-dubbed Kimba episodes were once again aired in Germany and Austria on pay-TV "Premiere" - they were aired on "Junior" from Monday to Friday at 08:45 AM CET, and on "Premiere Start" and "Premiere Austria" every Saturday at 08:45 AM CET.
German "Kimba der weisse Loewe" DVD coverThe airing on "Junior" started on August 24 and ended on October 14, while the airings on "Premiere Start" and "Premiere Austria" started on August 27 and ended on October 15.


German Kimba fans finally got a chance to see some of the 38 episodes of the Kimba series that were dubbed in german and aired in Germany in 1977. On November 11 Koch Media has released on 4 DVDs 16 episodes from the series, while the next 10 episodes were released on March 17, 2006. For more info please visit the
DVD releases page.

Spanish "La leyenda de Kimba el leon blanco" DVD box front coverOn November 17 a DVD box set titled "La leyenda de Kimba, el león blanco" that contains 15 episodes from the
1965 series was released in Spain by Premium Video. What is strange, though, is that the image on the front cover of the DVD box suggests that these are the 1993 series. The box set contains 5 DVDs, and the episodes have both Spanish and English soundtracks. The DVDs feature interactive menus, chapter selectors, and infos about habits and customs of the animal that is shown on each DVD.
(Many thanks to Lauri Welling from Finland for info about this DVD release!)

Gilbert Mack, the voice of Pauley Cracker (and the voice of Mr. Pompus) in the original U.S. Kimba series, passed away on December 5 at the age of 93.

2006.
The german-dubbed Kimba episodes from 1977 were again aired in Germany on "Junior", part of the pay-TV "Premiere". These episodes were aired from January 11 to June 24 on "Premiere Start" and from January 14 to June 26 on "Premiere Austria". They were aired on "Junior" from Monday to Friday at 7:35 AM CET (since March 17), and on "Premiere Start"/"Premiere Austria" Saturdays at 9:25 AM CET.
 
French "Le roi Léo (vol. 2)" DVD-box coverA DVD box with the next 26 episodes of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" (aka "Kimba the White Lion") series, titled "Le roi Léo - tome 2", has been released on January 24, again by Rouge Citron Production. This is a french release as well, with french audio only. > DVD releases
 
Yet more DVD box sets with french-dubbed episodes of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series were released - 2 DVD box sets titled "Le Roi Leo" with 12 DVDs containing all 52 episodes have been separately released by Déclic Images on March 9 and on June 7, and another, 3rd DVD box set, containing 26 episodes of the 1966 "Leo" series has been announced, however it never made to the stores. These DVD sets were discontinued in the meantime, and instead five 4-DVD sets were made available in 2007 and 2008 - first three sets contain the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" episodes, and the last two sets contains the 1966 "Leo the Lion" series. > DVD releases

Starting August 7 the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series were again aired in Japan, this time on Cartoon Network Japan as a part of the "Boomerang" program. It was aired from Monday to Friday at 6:00 AM, 1 episode a day (with repeats on the same day at 11:00 PM). This airing lasted until October 16. However, a repeated airing of the series has started on CNJ on December 11, and this time it is aired from Monday to Friday at 6:30 AM, with the repeat of the episode at 11:30 PM. After January 1, 2007 the episodes were aired Monday-Friday at 10:30 AM. This airing ended on February 19, 2007.
 
2007.
In Germany a 10-DVD box set called "Superbox" and containing all 38 episodes of the Kimba series that were dubbed in german and aired in Germany in 1977 has been released by Koch Media Entertainment on March 23. DVD releases

From July 13 to September 21 the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series were again aired in Japan on Cartoon Network Japan, 1 episode every day from Monday to Friday at 10:00 AM, with a repeat on the same day at 11:00 PM.

From July 15 to August 21 the german-dubbed Kimba episodes from 1977 were again aired in Germany on "Junior", part of the pay-TV Premiere (now Sky), every day at 6:00 AM CET. Just like on "Junior", 5 episodes from this dubbing were aired on the other two pay-TV channels, "Premiere Start" and "Premiere Austria", every Saturday from July 21 to August 18 at 6:00 AM CET.

2008.
From February 19 to March 27 the german-dubbed Kimba episodes from 1977 were again aired in Germany on "Junior", part of the pay-TV Premiere (now Sky), every day at 6:00 AM. The episodes aired on Saturday were aired on the same day at the same time on "Junior", and also on "Premiere Start" and in Austria on "Premiere Austria".
From April 2 to May 8, 14 years after the last airing, the 2nd german airing of Kimba from 1991 known as "BouBou - Koenig der Tiere" has been once again aired on TV in Germany. This time it was aired on "Junior", every day at 11:45 AM, but instead of all 40 episodes, only 37 episodes have been aired.

From July 1-18 only 18 episodes from the german-dubbed Kimba episodes from 1977 were having another airing in Germany on "Junior". They were aired every day: Monday to Friday at 8:30 AM, and Saturday & Sunday at 7:20 AM. The episodes aired on "Junior" on Saturday were aired on the same day at 8:20 AM on "Premiere Start" and in Austria on "Premiere Austria".

From August 10 to October 20 the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series were again aired in Japan on Cartoon Network Japan, 1 episode every day from Sunday to Thursday at 12:00 AM.

Good news for Kimba (and Tezuka) fans in the UK: both "Jungle Emperor" movies, along with the first episode from the 1965 series, were screened during the "Osamu Tezuka: Movies into Manga" festival (September 18-24) held in the London's Barbican Centre. The first episode from the original Jungle Emperor series was screened on September 19 from 5:45 PM as part of the "Tezuka on the Telly 1" programme, the 1997 movie was screened on September 20 at 11:00 AM, and on September 23 at 10:30 AM GMT ("Schools' screening"), and the 1966 movie was screened on September 21 at 12:00 AM GMT. All the screenings were in the Centre's Cinema 1. The 1997 movie was dubbed in English, while the 1966 movie were subtitled in English - for the very first time, which made this screening very special.

On September 22 the japanese Internet TV Branco added a new channel called "Tezuka Osamu Animation World", which showed Tezuka's works/series like Astroboy, Princess Knight, The Three-Eyed One, BlackJack, One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book and Fumoon. The 1965 Jungle Emperor (later known as Kimba the White Lion) series has also been aired. However, on January 30, 2009 Branco ceased to exist as an Internet TV service.

2009. From Wednesday, February 18 to Thursday, April 30, the original 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series were again aired in Japan on Cartoon Network Japan, 1 episode every day from Sunday to Thursday at 12:00 AM.

2010. From April 22 (from July 12 for "Sesta Rete") "Kimba il leone bianco" anime was shown on 3 local TV stations (all airings ended in August):
- on Telestudio (Piemonte) everyday, starting at 6:45 AM and at 8:30 PM CET
- on Quinta Rete (Piemonte) everyday, starting at 8:00 AM and at 5:00 PM CET
- on Sesta Rete (Piemonte), everyday, starting at 4:00 PM and at 7:15 PM CET
 
From October 2 to January 15, 2011, "Kimba il leone bianco" anime was shown on D1 Television (Sicily), every Monday and Saturday at 5:35 PM CET.
Jungle Emperor Leo (first movie)
1966. The first "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie (the second one was released in 1997) was shown in Japan and Italy. In Japan it was distributed by Toho, and the first showing was on Sunday, July 31. In Italy it won a Golden Lion (1st prize) at the 19th Film Festival for youth held in Venice.
Production credits
 
1967. In Venezuela the movie "Jungle Emperor Leo" won a Silver Lion at the Venezuela International Film Festival.

1975. The "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired in Italy on "Telemontecarlo" on October 11, 1975 at 8:45 PM.

1989. The "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired for the last time in Italy on "Junior TV" as a part of the "Film weekend". (Many thanks to Francesco Piccardo for this info!)

2006. The "Jungle Emperor" movie has been aired on Cartoon Network Japan as a part of the "Cartoon Network Theater" on February 18 and on May 6 (at 12:00 PM and at 7:00 PM).

2008.
Good news for Kimba (and Tezuka) fans in the UK: both "Jungle Emperor" movies, along with the first episode from the 1965 series, were screened during the "Osamu Tezuka: Movies into Manga" festival (September 18-24) held in the London's Barbican Centre. The first episode from the original Jungle Emperor series was screened on September 19 from 5:45 PM as part of the "Tezuka on the Telly 1" programme, the 1997 movie was screened on September 20 at 11:00 AM, and on September 23 at 10:30 AM GMT ("Schools' screening"), and the 1966 movie was screened on September 21 at 12:00 AM GMT. All the screenings were in the Centre's Cinema 1. The 1997 movie was dubbed in English, while the 1966 movie were subtitled in English - for the very first time, which made this screening very special.
"Go ahead, Leo!" TV series
1966. "Janguru Taitei - Susume, Leo!" (Go ahead, Leo!) anime, sequel to "Jungle Emperor", was shown in Japan again on Fuji Television. The broadcasting started on October 5, 1966. and ended on March 9, 1967. It was shown every Wednesday at 7:00 PM, 1 episode per day.
One episode from the series was shown in theaters in Italy under the title "Leo il re della jungla". It won a Golden Lion (1st prize) at the 19th Film Festival for youth held in Venice.
Production credits
 
1972. The 1966 "Leo" TV series were aired as "Le roi Léo" in France on ORTF. The broadcasting started on December 20, 1972. This anime was aired in Canada in the 1970s as well.
Lyrics of the opening theme (with translation)
   Note: Many thanks to Lucie Gignac from Canada for the full lyrics of this theme!
1984. "Leo the lion" ("Janguru Taitei - Susume, Leo!") TV series were shown in USA.
1990. The complete 1965 "Jungle Emperor Leo" anime was aired as "Le Retour de Léo" in France on "La 5" ("La Cinq"). They were followed by the complete 1966 "Leo" anime, but this time the 1966 "Leo" was recorded with new french voice actors. The airing started on September 17.
The opening theme was sung by Claude Lombard, and pictured here is the scan of the 45rpm record with the theme. This song is actually based on the opening theme of the italian TV series "Sabato al circo"("Saturdays at the circus") - the music (by N.Carucci) is the same in both songs, only the italian lyrics (by A.Valeri Manera) were replaced with the french lyrics by Charles Level.
The opening theme (from the 45rpm record; Windows Media Audio 9 clip; 1,41 MB)
Lyrics of the opening theme (with translation)
Note: Although the image on the cover of the 45rpm record suggests that the 1989 Kimba series were also aired on "La 5", there is no further information on this.
1991. 14 episodes of the "Kimba der weisse Löwe" series that were never shown in 1977 (but which were newly dubbed - including the episode "The Return of Fancy Prancy" that was initially aired in 1977 but which was damaged immediately after that first airing, and so it had to be retaken and redubbed for the "Bou Bou" series), and all 26 episodes of the "Onward, Leo!" series were all together aired on Pro7 as "Bou Bou - König der Tiere". The name was changed because of the copyright reasons. (Many thanks to Swen Steffens for these explanations!)
In addition to Pro7, "Bou Bou - König der Tiere" was also aired on TV München, but the year is not known.
The opening theme (Windows Media Audio 9 clip, 336 kB; many thanks to Swen Steffens!)
Lyrics of the opening theme (with translation)
1993. "Leo the lion" TV series were aired as "El emperador de la jungla" in Spain on Telecinco (Tele 5). (Many thanks to Mazochungo for this info!)
 
1994. Some "Leo the Lion" episodes were released on video in USA by Palm Beach.
The opening and closing themes (streaming RealAudio clip; from Kimba W. Lion)
Video releases
 
 
1995. 20 episodes from the "Go ahead, Leo!" (aka "Leo the Lion") episodes dubbed in french have been released in France on video as "Le Retour du Roi Leo", by TF1 Video and MMP. Video releases
 
 
 
1996. All episodes from the "Go ahead, Leo!" TV series were released in Germany on 13 VideoCDs under the title "Der Löwen König" by a company called TopWare.
Each VideoCD costed 19.95 german marks (that's about 10.00 US dollars).
TopWare also released some of these episodes on VHS.
 
 
1997. The australian DVD release of the "Leo the Lion" series (containing 6 episodes from the series) has been released on 3 DVDs. These DVDs are region-4 encoded and are in PAL format.
DVD releases
 
1994 "Leo the Lion" release has been released in Croatia under the title "Lav Leo". The video distributor was Continental Film.
 
1998. "Leo the lion" TV series were again aired in Spain, this time as "Leo, el rei de la selva" on TV3. Airings in July were at 8:25 AM.
 
1999. "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" TV series (which consisted of the 1993 "Kimba", "Go ahead, Leo!"/"Onward, Leo!" & "New Jungle Emperor Leo" episodes) were aired in Italy on Italia 1. They were aired Monday to Friday, starting at 7:15 AM, 2 episodes per day. The broadcasting started on Monday, September 13.
Production credits
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip)                      Lyrics of this opening theme
 

2003. The italian Kimba airing called "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" has repeated its broadcast after exactly 4 years in Italy on channel Italia 1. The broadcasting started on September 8 (and it was aired from Monday to Friday at 08:15 AM CET), but it temporarily ended on September 19, and it seems that the airing has been interrupted for good.

21 episodes from the "Leo the Lion" series have been released in the U.S. on September 30 on 3 DVDs by Front Row Entertainment. DVD releases
 
2010. From December 23, 2010 "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" was finally again aired in Italy on Boing TV, every day from Monday to Saturday at 19:15 CET.
New adventures of Kimba the white lion
1989. "New Jungle Emperor Leo" anime (1989 "Kimba" episodes) was aired in Japan on Tokyo TV. The broadcasting started on Friday, April 7, 1989., and ended also on Friday, March 16, 1990. Later it was released in U.S. on video as "New adventures of Kimba the white lion".
Production credits           Lyrics of the opening theme
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip; from Kimba W. Lion)
The extended opening theme (Windows Media Audio 9 clip, 721 kB; many thanks to Swen Steffens!)
The extended closing theme (Windows Media Audio 9 clip, 964 kB; many thanks to Swen Steffens!)
 
1996. One episode from the 1989 "Kimba" series was presented at the "Tampere International Short Film Festival" (March 6-10) in Tampere, Finland. (Many thanks to Lauri Welling from Finland for this info!)
1998. Some episodes from the 1989 "Kimba" TV series were released under the title "The new adventures of Kimba the white lion" on video by Pioneer Family Entertainment.
Video releases
 
1999. 1989 "Kimba" TV series was aired in Germany on "Junior", part of the pay-TV "Premiere World", under the name "Leo der kleine Löwenkönig" (Leo the Little Lionking). All 52 episodes of the series were aired from Monday to Friday at 11:00 AM CET. The airing started on 9th August and ended on October 20, 1999. (Many thanks to Marc from Germany for these infos!)
 
"Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" TV series (which consisted of the 1993 "Kimba", "Go ahead, Leo!"/"Onward, Leo!" & "New Jungle Emperor Leo" episodes) were aired in Italy on Italia 1. They were aired Monday to Friday, starting at 7:15 AM, 2 episodes per day. The broadcasting started on Monday, September 13, 1999.
Production credits
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip)                      Lyrics of this opening theme
 
 
2001. 1989 "Kimba" TV series was again aired in Germany on "Junior", part of the pay-TV "Premiere World" under the name "Leo der kleine Löwenkönig". All episodes of the series were aired from Monday to Friday at 6:15 AM CET. The airing started on December 14, 2001 and ended on March 1, 2002. (Many thanks to Marc from Germany for the update!)

2002. 1989 "Kimba" TV series was again aired in Germany on "Junior" (part of the pay-TV "Premiere World") under the name "Leo der kleine Löwenkönig" from Monday to Friday at 7:20 AM CET. This airing started on 20th September and ended on December 2, 2002. (Many thanks to Marc from Germany for the update!)

2003. The italian Kimba airing called "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" has repeated its broadcast after exactly 4 years in Italy on channel Italia 1. The broadcasting started on September 8 (and it was aired from Monday to Friday at 08:15 AM CET), but it temporarily ended on September 19, and it seems that the airing has been interrupted for good.

2009. On the TOKYO MX the 1989 Kimba series were also aired. They were aired from January 9 to March 31, from Monday to Friday at 7:30 PM, 1 episode a day.

2010. From December 23, 2010 "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" was finally again aired in Italy on Boing TV, every day from Monday to Saturday at 19:15 CET.

"Kimba the white lion - Symphonic poem" movie
1991.
"Kimba the white lion - Symphonic poem" movie has been imported from Japan and distributed by Right Stuf International.
Production credits        Video releases
Music from the beginning of the movie (streaming RealAudio clip)
 
   Note: Most of the music from the above clip Isao Tomita, the composer of
   the music from the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series, later took and rearranged
   for the opening sequence of the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie
1993 "Kimba the white lion" episodes
1993. "Kimba the white lion" remake of the U.S. 1966 series was made (it was released on video later). It was made by Landmark Entertainment Group, Susuki Associates and CEG Cinema Partners, and it was distributed by CEG Distribution.
Video releases
Production credits          
Lyrics of the opening theme
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip; by Kimba W. Lion)
The alternate opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip)
The opening sequence (Windows Media Video clip, 1,8 MB; new version)
The closing sequence (RealVideo G2 clip, 2,1 MB; aired on ex-"M7's Liberty TV")
Ending of the "Catch'em if you can" episode (RealVideo G2 clip, 700 kB)
  
In Australia this release was later released on video by CEL Entertainment (left) and by MRA Entertainment (right).
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
1995.
"Kimba the lion prince", probably the second release of the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" release, has been released on video by UAV (United American Video).
Video releases
 
1993 "Kimba the white lion" video release has been dubbed and released on video in Croatia and Slovenia. Video distributors: Zauder Film (Zagreb, Croatia) and Alteka Video (Kranj, Slovenia).
 
One 1993 episode was aired on Duna Televízió on Sunday, December 3, at 9:00 AM.
 
1996. "Kimba el leon blanco" TV series were aired in Mexico on Fox Kids Network. The airing started on Friday, November 1, 1996. This is probably the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake dubbed in Spanish.  (Thanks to Mazochungo for the update of this info!)
 
1997. 6 episodes of the "Kimba beli levcek" video release was shown in Slovenia on POP TV.
8 episodes from the 1993 Kimba (aka "Canadian") episodes dubbed in french have been released in France on video as "Les Aventures de Kimba Le Roi de la jungle", by L.C.J. Editions. Video releases
 
1998. "Kimba el leon blanco" TV series has been aired in Puerto Rico. This is probably the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake dubbed in Spanish.  (Thanks to Mazochungo for the update of this info!)
 
1999. "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" TV series (which consisted of the 1993 "Kimba", "Go ahead, Leo!"/"Onward, Leo!" & "New Jungle Emperor Leo" episodes) were aired in Italy on Italia 1. They were aired Monday to Friday, starting at 7:15 AM, 2 episodes per day. The broadcasting started on Monday, September 13, 1999.
Production credits
The opening theme (streaming RealAudio clip)                      Lyrics of this opening theme
 
2000.
8 episodes of the "Kimba bijeli lavic" video release was shown in Croatia on ATV Split.
 
Some episodes from the "Kimba beli levcek" video release were shown in Slovenia on TV3, every Sunday, starting at 2:00 PM. The broadcasting started on February 20.
 
"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series was aired in Mexico on Televisa, Sundays at 2:00 PM. This is probably the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake dubbed in Spanish. (Thanks to Mazochungo for the update of this info!)
 
"Kimba o leăo branco" TV series has been shown in Brazil, starting at 6:30 PM. This is probably the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake.
 
"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series has been shown in Peru on Televisión Nacional del Perú (channel 7), Monday to Friday, airing time unknown. This is probably the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake as well.  (Thanks to Mazochungo for the update of this info!)
 
The 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake was aired in Spain as "Kimba el leon blanco" on pay-TV channel Club Super 3. It was aired from January to April 2000, every day at 12:00 PM and at 9:00 PM. Before this airing, these 1993 episodes were aired on some local TV stations as well. (Thanks to Mazochungo for this info!)
 
One episode of the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake was released in Russia on video by Arena Video. Video releases
 
2001.
"Kimba the white lion" 1993 release has been aired in UK on ex-"M7's Liberty TV" (its new name is Life TV). The broadcasting of the series ended temporarily on April 5, but started again in May, and then finally ended on July 13. There were 6 different versions of broadcasting times (thanks to Zarko Perkovic for these broadcasting times!; times are GMT).
The 1st trailer of the series (RealVideo clip, 1,6 MB)
The 2nd trailer of the series (RealVideo clip, 0,9 MB)

In Slovenia in September and November 2001. slovene video release "Kimba beli levcek" from 1995. was on 19th place of the Top 20 of the movies for children and animated films  held by the company Video Marketing Entertainment.

On December 30 one 1993 "Kimba" episode was aired in Croatia at 1:30 PM CET (on "TV Nova Pula").

2002.
On February 9 another 1993 "Kimba" episode was aired in Croatia at 6:25 PM CET (on "TV Nova Pula").

On May 23 one 1993 "Kimba the white lion" episode was aired in Bosnia & Herzegovina at 4:30 PM CET on "TV USK Bihac".

On October 19 one 1993 "Kimba" episode (Jungle Thief) was aired on Croatia on GTV Zadar (thanks to Zlikowsky for that information).

2003.
In Croatia in "Medioteka", which is part of the City library of Zagreb with multimedia activities and which is designed for its younger members (from 7-17 years of age), from Monday, May 26 to Friday, May 30, starting at 2:00 PM CET five episodes from the 1995 croatian "Kimba" release were shown.

"Kimba the white lion" 1993 release was aired again in UK after 2 years, on CTC - Christian Television Channel (part of "Sky Digital"), every Tuesday at 4:00 PM GMT (thanks to Rebecca Gunn for this valuable information). The broadcasting of the series on CTC ended on June 17 and then continued on Life TV.

On June 3 one 1993 "Kimba" episode was aired in Slovenia (on "NET TV") at 7:10 PM CET.

"Kimba the white lion" TV series (episodes from 1993) has continued its airing in UK on Life TV (also part of "Sky Digital", channel 202) from the end of June, every Tuesday at 4:00 PM GMT, and has finished on December 16.
The australian DVD release of the 1993 "Kimba the White Lion" release (containing 8 episodes from the series) was released on September 15 on 2 DVDs. DVD releases
 
Four 1993 Kimba epideos were aired in Hungary on Hálózat TV on Wednesday, October 1, at 8:30 AM, 11:00 AM, 5:30 PM and 7:00 PM.
 
 
"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series has been aired in Spain on TMT Madrid, every Sunday at 10:30 AM. The airing started in December and ended in January 2004.
9 dubbed episodes from the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" video release have been released on 3 bilingual DVDs in Croatia and in Slovenia. Video distributor in Slovenia is Media Film from Kranj, while in Croatia it is Zauder Film from Zagreb.
The slovenian/croatian titles of the episodes on these DVDs are:
- DVD 1: Kimba Krempljev sin/Pandzin sin; Kimba v Parizu/Kimba u Parizu; Kimba in tatovi hrane/Kimba i kradljivci hrane
- DVD 2: Samson napada/Samson napada; Kimba in krilati tiger/Kimba i krilati tigar; Kimba proti kobilicam/Kimba protiv skakavaca
- DVD 3: Kimba in kralj Bubu/Kimba i kralj Bubu; Kimba in hijene/Kimba i hijene; Kimba clovekov prijatelj/Kimba prijatelj ljudi
(Many thanks to Tina from AnimeSlovenija for this info!; NOTE: on the back cover of the DVD 1 is written "Kimba in kralj Bubu" instead of "Kimba Krempljev sin")
2004.
Kimba returned to TV in the U.S., however these were the 1993 episodes. It was aired on the i-Life TV (Inspirational Life TV) channel, which is available on cable TV and which is carried on the U.S. satellites Galaxy 4R (99.0º W, frequency and polarization 12140 vertical) as a part of the HITS - Headend in the Sky package, and on Intelsat Americas 7 (129.0º W, frequency and polarization 4100 vertical) as a art of the OlympuSat package. It was aired every Saturday at 9:00 AM EST. The first episode was aired on Thursday, April 8, and the airing ended in 2009.

"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series has been shown in the U.S. on
La Familia Network in the 2nd Qt. 2004, Monday to Wendesday at 8:30 AM ET and at 4:30 PM ET. This is (probably) the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake.
1993 Kimba has been aired on another U.S. TV - America One Network. It was aired every Saturday at 11:30 AM EST, 1 episode per week. The airing started on July 4, 2004, and ended in January 2009.
Although I've found that America One is carried on the Intelsat Americas 7 satellite (129.0º W, freq.4060 vertical), the receipt of America One on satellite is not announced yet.
Instead, on Kimba W. Lion's website you can find a list of your local America One stations sorted by State, by City and by Metropolitan Area.
Kimba was aired on the Canal Sur channel in Spain (and recently it was also aired on Canal 2 Andalucia channel as well). These were also the 1993 episodes. The airing started in May and ended in June.
It was aired every Saturday and Sunday morning as the part of the La Banda program for children (starting at 8:00 AM), and Kimba itself started at approx. 9:30 AM/10:30 AM.
And, the current distributor of Kimba series for TV stations in Spain is Iniciativas Visuales Los Barrios.  (Many thanks to Mazochungo for all these infos!)
 
While it was still operating, Kimba has been aired on another U.S. TV - Urban America TV (UATV), and these were the 1993 episodes as well. They were aired every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 3:30 PM EST, and every Saturday at 7:30 AM EST, one episode a day. UATV had several affiliate stations across U.S. - perhaps you will be able to use this link to find their nearest affiliate station. It was also carried via satellite on Intelsat Americas 5 (97.0°W, freq.3757 vertical). However, in May 2006 UATV suspended its operations indefinitely.
 
A DVD release with 8 episodes from the 1993 Kimba has been released in the U.S., this time by Genius Entertainment. See the DVD releases page for more information.
 
Some other airings of Kimba in the U.S. have also been reported: KVBC 3 Las Vegas had Kimba from October to December 2004 Sunday evenings from 6:00 to 7:00 PM PT, while KSN Kansas City also had Kimba weeknights from September to December 2004 at 1:40 AM CT/2:40 AM ET after their replay of the evening's 10 PM news.
 
"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series was aired in El Salvador on Agape TV Canal 8 from the end of 2004 until June 2006, every Saturday at 10:40 AM MT (before that it was aired at 12:04 PM MT). This was the 1993 "Kimba the white lion" remake.
 
2005. The 1993 Kimba episodes that were aired on Agape TV Canal 8 in El Salvador were aired until June 2006 with a slightly modified schedule - they were aired every Thursday at 12:00 PM, and every Saturday at 10:30 AM MT.
2006.
On February 2 a DVD box set titled "La leyenda de Kimba, el león blanco" that contains 15 episodes from the 1993 series was released in Spain by Premium Video and Llamentol. The box set contains 5 DVDs, and the episodes have both Spanish and English soundtracks. The DVDs feature interactive menus, chapter selectors, and infos about habits and customs of the animal that is shown on each DVD. This DVD box was also released in Portugal in June 2006 by Filmes Unimundo under the title "Kimba o Leão Branco".
(Many thanks to Lauri Welling from Finland for initial info about this DVD release!)
 
1993 Kimba was aired on TV in UK. At first, it was aired every Wednesday at 6:00 AM GMT on INI - Inspiration Network International (many thanks to Kimba W.Lion for this info!). The airing actually began in May 2005, after which it stopped and continued again in December 2005. It ended on August 30, 2006. However, another UK airing took place in the meantime, and this time it appeared on Life TV and Life Showcase. On Life TV was aired every Monday at 7:30 AM GMT (with repeats on Friday at 7:00 AM and Sunday at 6:00 AM), while on Life Showcase it was aired every Monday at 6:30 AM GMT (repeats: Monday at 2:00 PM & Tuesday at 7:30 AM) and every Tuesday at 7:00 AM GMT (repeat: Tuesday at 2:00 PM). The airing began in the 2nd half of 2006, and ended on January 29, 2007.
 
1993 Kimba episodes were aired on another U.S. TV station - KTV - Kids & Teens Television, which is a part of the SkyAngel satellite services. The airing times were: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 10:30 AM ET (english-dubbed episode), Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 AM ET (english-dubbed episode) and at 11:00 AM ET (spanish-dubbed episode). The airings have started in 2005 (it was aired already on June 16, 2005), and ended in April 2009.
KTV is carried on two satellites: on EchoStar 3 (61.5°W, freq.12676 left) as a part of the
SkyAngel package, and on AMC 4 (101.0°W, freq.4108 vertical).
2 DVDs containing 6 Kimba episodes from 1993 have been released in Hungary by Vertex Plain on July 18, 2006. > DVD releases
2007. The 12-disc DVD box "Aventuras del libro de las virtudes" (Adventures from the Book of Virtues) released on January 16 also contained 11 episodes (1 episode per DVD) from the 1993 Kimba series. The episode numbers are: 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 24, 25 and 26. Video distributors are Premium Video and Llamentol.

2008. The 3-disc DVD box "Daniel el Travieso" (Dennis the Menace) released in Spain on June 10 also contained 1 DVD with 3 episodes from the 1993 Kimba series (Vol. 3 from the 2006 DVD box set "La leyenda de Kimba, el león blanco"). These episodes are "Great Caesar's Ghost", "Fair Game" and "The Red Menace". Video distributor is Llamentol.

2009. "Kimba the white lion" TV series were shown in Indonesia on ANTV from December 2009 to January 2010, every day at 7:30 AM, 1 episode a day. The airing started approximately at December 9 and ended on January 27, 2010.

2010. "La Leyenda de Kimba, el Leon blanco" was aired on spanish TV network Retelsat, Monday to Friday, from May 28 to June 17.

"Kimba the white lion" TV series were shown in Indonesia on ANTV from November 2010 to January 2011, every day at 3:30 AM, 1 episode a day (from December 23 to January 2011 2 episodes a day were aired every day at 3:00 AM). The airing started approximately at November 5 and ended on January 1, 2011.

From December 23, 2010 "Una giungla di avventure per Kimba" was finally again aired in Italy on Boing TV, every day from Monday to Saturday at 19:15 CET.

"Jungle Emperor Leo" 1997 movie
1997. The second, new "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie has been released in Japan. It was distributed by Shochiku and by BMG Japan. The first showing was on Friday, August 1, 1997. at 9:40 AM.
Video releases
 
1998. 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown at the 47th Melbourne International Film Festival (July 23 - August 9, 1998).
It was shown on 2 places: in the Bourke Street in Village Center on Friday, July 24, at 1:00 PM, and at the Forum Theatre on Saturday, July 25, at 3:15 PM.
 
1999. 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown at the Anime Festival in Berkeley 1999, on Saturday June 20, at 3:00 PM.
 
2000.
The new "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was planned to be shown in movie theaters in Germany under the title "Leo - Herrscher des Dschungels", but it wasn't shown to date.
 
1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown at:
- Japanime (the major film component of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Arts Festival) at Dendy Opera Quays (August 23-27), on Sunday, August 27 at 11:15 AM
- Japanese Animation Film Festival (September 23 - October 15, 2000), on Saturday, September 23 at 1:00 PM, and on Sunday, September 24at 3:15 PM
- 2000 Asian Children's Film Festival (October 26-29), at 7:00 PM on Friday, October 27, and at 1:00 PM on Saturday, October 28
 
1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown somewhere by the Ohio State University Japanese Animation Association on November 17 at 7:30 PM.
 
2003.
1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown at the Los Angeles Anime Festival, on Wednesday May 7, at 9:30 PM.
 
1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was shown at Anime Expo in Anaheim, California on July 4 and 5.
 
Since October 28 the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie is finally available in the U.S. on DVD. The DVD contains both subtitled and dubbed versions of the movie. It is distributed by RightStuf. See DVD releases.
"Léo, roi de la jungle" movie poster2005.
1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" was shown in the theaters in France starting at April 20.
It was probably dubbed in french, but the original version with french subtitles may have also been played in some theaters.

The 1997 Jungle Emperor Leo theatrical movie that was shown earlier in 2005 in theaters in France under the title "Léo, roi de la jungle" has been released by Wild Side Films on DVD on December 7. > DVD releases

On December 10 the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired on TV in Italy under the title "Kimba - la leggenda del leone bianco". It was aired on Italia 1 at 9:00 PM CET.

2006. 1997 "Jungle Emperor" movie has been aired on Cartoon Network Japan as a part of the "Cartoon Network Theater" on February 25 and on May 13 (at 12:00 PM and at 7:00 PM).
 
2007. On Monday, June 25, the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired in Japan at 6:00 AM on the NitTelePlus channel.
 
2008.
Good news for Kimba (and Tezuka) fans in the UK: both "Jungle Emperor" movies, along with the first episode from the 1965 series, were screened during the "Osamu Tezuka: Movies into Manga" festival (September 18-24) held in the London's Barbican Centre. The first episode from the original Jungle Emperor series was screened on September 19 from 5:45 PM as part of the "Tezuka on the Telly 1" programme, the 1997 movie was screened on September 20 at 11:00 AM, and on September 23 at 10:30 AM GMT ("Schools' screening"), and the 1966 movie was screened on September 21 at 12:00 AM GMT. All the screenings were in the Centre's Cinema 1. The 1997 movie was dubbed in English, while the 1966 movie were subtitled in English - for the very first time, which made this screening very special.
 
2009.
On Saturday, January 3, the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired in Japan at 7:00 PM on the TOKYO MX channel.
 
On Monday, March 30 the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired in Japan at 9:00 AM on the NHK BS2 channel.
 
2010. On Thursday, October 14, the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie was aired at 7:00 PM on Cartoon Network Japan channel.
"Jungle Emperor: Hon-o-ji"
2000. A 9-minute animation special titled "Jungle Emperor Leo: Hon-o-ji" has begun screening at the Tezuka Osamu World located in the Kyoto Station building. The screening was done on an 300-inch theater screen. An excerpt from the summary of the anime says "...When a child tiger rose by humans falls off a jeep and wanders into the jungle, she jumps on any animal because she is very lonely and needs a friend. This behavior, however, is considered very barbaric and causes uproar in the jungle. Here, Leo observes this intruder calmly. Then he accepts the child tiger as a friend on the condition that she keeps quiet in the jungle...". The Kyoto Tezuka Osamu World closed on January 16, 2011. Production credits
"Jungle Emperor - Leo's Courage Changes the Future"
2009. In commemoration of the 50th anniversary of Fuji Television's launch, and the 80th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth, a new remake of the "Jungle Emperor" anime titled "Jungle Emperor - Leo's Courage Changes the Future" was broadcasted on Fuji Television on Saturday, September 5, 2009. The movie is directed by Goro Tanibuchi ("Code Geass"), and it is written by Osamu Susuki, while the music is composed by Takefumi Haketa ("Vampire Knight"). Also, one of the character designers is Yoshitaka Amano, known for artwork in "Final Fantasy" series of games.
This remake can be called a "21st century Kimba", as it is set in year 20XX, where "humans are at a complete loss what to do with continual environmental destruction; to protect nature being destroyed and to save animals being extinguished, the project to make an artificial jungle (called Neo-Jungle) is launched".
Prior to the broadcasting of the movie, 2 special T-shirts (probably limited edition) were on sale at the Fuji TV webshop, and 1 additional was sold on Graniph website.
From the official website you could download a PDF with a coloring page with a scene from the movie, but three other gadgets (a jigsaw puzzle game, a sliding puzzle game and a desktop digital clock with characters from the movie) are still available.

In 2010 CD with the movie soundtrack has been released (you can find it on the CD releases page), as well as the DVD with the movie (released in both standard and special edition; both can be found on the Japanese releases page).
Unknown releases:
1996. "Kimba the white lion" anime was aired in Australia on a Fox pay cable service (I don't know its exact name).
 
1997. "Kimba the white lion" TV series were aired in UK on Fox Kids Network. The airing started in August 1997. The episodes were aired every Saturday and Sunday, starting at 6:00 AM GMT.
 
1999. One "Kimba the white lion" episode was aired in Turkey on the satellite channel Cine 5. It was aired on September 2 at 6:30 AM.
 
2000.
13 episodes of "Kimba the white lion" TV series were shown in Hungary on Minimax TV under the title "Kimba a feher orozslan".
 
14 episodes of the unknown "Kimba the white lion" release (probably the croatian 1995 release) has been shown in Croatia on "NeT" ("Independent Television"), every Thursday at 4:30 PM CET.
 
2002.
"Kimba the white lion" TV series were aired in Turkey on "Star TV", from April to July 2002 starting at 7:30 AM CET under the name "Aslan Kral Kimba".
 
"Kimba el leon blanco" TV series has been aired in Peru on Red Global (channel 13), starting at 8:00 AM. The airing took place in August. Later it was aired at 11:00 AM.
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