>>99454717I'm not at all a Disney shill or even a fan of Lion King, but sometimes it feels like a lot of the RIPOFF accusations are more based on people hearing the similarity of the name "Simba" to "Kimba" and then assuming everything must have been ripped off from there. Despite Simba of course being an actual word that's been used for lion characters since forever since that's literally its meaning.
Like I think if you compare a film about a lion to a whole series also about a lion, there are bound to be similarities. From what I understand the entire plot of the original Kimba series is pretty different; a lot of those moments that are always pointed to as Lion King ripping them off are pretty general things.
And I really don't think Lion King is a great movie and I've bitched about it being overrated in the past. Kimba is probably better. I just don't think it's ripping off Kimba; while it's likely/possible some working on the movie had to have seen it, I don't think that was the guiding vision for the entire production. Also yeah, there were different Lion King drafts that were pretty different from the final movie, so if it was supposedly "always" based on Kimba it'd be weird to start with something not like it and then move toward something with more similar elements than it had before, if they were trying to avoid such comparisons in the first place.
