#but this is like.. if they had just said yea next to hamlet and bambi and whatnot kimba was one of the many things that helped inspire tlk | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

jessiescock · 4 months

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I've officially reached net zero information on the kimba controversy. Like wow i love the lion king let's see what other people on the internet have to say about it! Oh no looks like they ripped off some Japanese kids show for this huh that sucks. Wait up tho upon further inspection it looks like they just took some heavy inspiration from it but marketing purposefully obfuscated that so while this is most likely not as bad as it seems at first it's still kind of sucks they did that. Wait actually these scenes that everyone cites as too similar to the lion king are actually from a movie that was released 3 three years after the lion king. Ok but apparently this movie has been stuck in development since the 80s bcs disney purposefully sabotaged it so it wouldn't compete with their movie. Wait actually this is apparently a totally unsubstantiated claim with no proof. I guess all that happened here is that there's two franchises that are about cartoon lions being the rulers of something. Now that's not very exciting is it

#yea i just watched the yms kimba video and that's uh yeah. i guess that settles that #imean I've been reading about this for quite some time bc it's always circulating somewhere #and ive already arrived at the conclusion that this is something that's being wildly blown out of proportion a while ago #i didn't consume all the kimba content tho bc theres way too much. seems like no one who talks about this bothered to check either #i watched the 97 movie tho and uh. was a bit surprised that that was nothing like tlk at all.#like ppl mention this movie specifically a lot. these are two 90ish minute movies it's not that much effort to watch em both for comparison #i do think that disney should have cited tezuka as an inspiration the way they handled it was shitty bc they (corporate) suck #but this is like.. if they had just said yea next to hamlet and bambi and whatnot kimba was one of the many things that helped inspire tlk #it should have been fine #looks like both corps are profiting from the free marketing this whole discussion keeps giving them so if anything they're deliberately #fanning the flames.#the lion king

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