Kimba the White Lion – What Do You Do With a Herd of Suicidal Antelope?
Remember Kimba the White Lion? It was on at 1pm, and every day when I got home from kindergarten my friends and I would watch it. The episodes were full of hard lessons for Kimba and his animal pals.
Hard lessons that often dented my poor little 5 year old brain.
In one episode that I simply was never able to forget, a herd of antelope have gone crazy with some kind of brain fever. They are running wild and if they did not stop they would plunge into the sea and die. Kimba and his friends try to stop them every way they can, but in the end they fail and most of the antelope jump to their deaths in the sea. Kimba and friends do manage to save a few, and that in the end is the moral: Even if you can only save a few wild crazed suicidal antelope , it’s better then not trying at all.
As an adult I do not quite know what to do with that information. But if I ever meet a methed out antelope at least I’ll have food for thought. If you want to see the episode, some kind soul has uploaded it to YouTube!
Kimba the White Lion: Episode 39 – Running Wild.
Another fun tidbit — the show was created by the Godfather of anime Osamu Tezuka. And I found an awesome fan site with English translation covering his massive body of work!
September 9th, 2010 at 8:55 am
I believe there’s also a bit of truth to the rumor that Disney ripped this show off heartily for The Lion King.
September 10th, 2010 at 7:45 pm
when you’re in trouble and you need a friend
who’s the one who just won’t turn and run?
who believe in doing good and doing right?
Kimba the white lion is the one!
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Kimba the white lion is the one!
October 6th, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I remember the one episode where they kidnap a bunch of donkeys from a mining camp.
Not to liberate them, but to *eat* them. And the one who wants to eat them is Samson the wild bull.
Kimba, the nominal meat-eater, decides that it’s wrong to kill and eat your fellow animals, so he beats the shit out of Samson and tells the donkeys to scram. They declare that they’re going back to the mining camp, because work sucks but at least they get free meals and nobody wants to eat them.
I have *no* *idea* what message this was supposed to send.
(And, of course, there’s the bit where Kimba’s friends decide to motivate him by stealing the trophy-mounted head of Kimba’s father and putting it on a stick.)