The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion

The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (ジャングル大帝, Janguru/Jungle-Taitei) is an anime television series produced by Tezuka Productions that first ran from October 12, 1989, to October 11, 1990, on TV Tokyo. It is a remake of Osamu Tezuka's 1960s anime series Kimba the White Lion.[1][2]

The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion
ジャングル大帝
(Janguru-Taitei)
Anime television series
Directed byTakashi Ui
Produced byRyōhei Nakamura
Haruyuki Iguchi (TX)
Daisuke Baba (Nikkeisha)
Kuniaki Ōnishi (Gakken)
Written byMitsuru Majima
Music byTomoyuki Asakawa
StudioTezuka Productions
Licensed byNippon Herald Films
Pioneer Entertainment/Ocean Studios
Original networkTV Tokyo
Original run October 12, 1989 – October 11, 1990
Episodes52

Original Japanese cast

English dub cast

In 1998 which was nearly a decade after the original Japanese release, Pioneer Family Entertainment (which then became Geneon Universal which is now known as NBCUniversal Entertainment Japan as of today) has gotten the rights to pick up the series and for distribution in North America under license from Nippon Herald Films. They along with Ocean Studios in Vancouver, Canada, worked together to produce an English dub of the series with an all-star Canadian voice cast, using the Wordfit System and with Karl Williams serving as the director.

Unfortunately, only 13 out of 52 episodes were dubbed in English and the series was left on a cliffhanger, due to the poor quality of the dubbing. From October 13, 1998 to July 27, 1999, six VHS volumes were released across North America with the first tape having three episodes and the rest having two. Episodes 2 and 3 were not dubbed for the English-speaking market mostly due to the content, despite having its importance in the series' through that particular arc. So Pioneer decided to have that arc skipped, thus having Episodes 1, followed by 4 up to 15 dubbed. On top of that, the episodes were edited heavily during production of the English adaptation dub, involving scenes cut and changed, as well as having the score entirely redone digitally, that was sampled with E-mu Proteus 2 Orchestra, being one of the synthesizers used. The music was composed by Tom Keenlyside and John Mitchell and with the editing being handled by Gina Mueller and Eric LeBlanc.

Dubbed episodes

1. Birth ("The Successor" in the Dub)

2. Promise

3. Departure

4. Friends (#2 in the Dub)

5. Homeland (#3 in the Dub)

6. Intruder (#4 - "The Invaders" in the Dub)

7. Courage (#5 in the Dub)

8. Warning (#6 in the Dub)

9. Companions (#7 - "Flash Flood" in the Dub)

10. Freedom (#8 in the Dub)

11. The Law of the Jungle (#9 in the Dub)

12. Red Wings (#10 in the Dub)

13. Prophecy (#11 in the Dub)

14. Wild (#12 in the Dub)

15. Failure (#13 in the Dub)

16. White Beast

17. Pride

18. Fighting Spirit

19. Life

20. Leader

21. Homecoming

22. Reunion

23. Migration

24. Friendship

25. Sacrifice Part 1

26. Sacrifice Part 2

27. Mourning

28. Image

29. Protection

30. Adventure

31. Trust

32. Nature

33. Paradise

34. Time Illusion

35. Threat

36. Reconciliation

37. Father

38. Best Friend

39. Nightmare

40. Escape

41. Premonition

42. Coexistence

43. Decision

44. Infiltration

45. Rebirth

46. Longing

47. Crown

48. Challenge

49. Concentration

50. Victory

51. Harmony Part 1

52. Harmony Part 2

References
  1. "The New Adventures of Kimba VHS 1". Anime News Network. Retrieved March 21, 2012.
  2. "Which Is The Real Kimba?". Animation World Network. Retrieved 26 January 2019.
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