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Originally Posted by MMM
ARTS BB
TOPIC: ROY DISNEY
TIME: 07/19 8:23 PM
TO: JILL SAUDER (JKFG91B)
FROM: ROY DISNEY (STAR99B)
SUBJECT: "ROY ON MOMS"
Jill, you asked whether we had any "nice motherly figures"
in Disney's animated future.
Wait until you see next summer's "The Lion King," and
Kimba's mother. She's quite lovely.
Roy Disney
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Kind of hard to deny they had never heard of Kimba or Tezuka before the movie's release when Roy Disney's mentions Kimba by name a year before the release. And Tezuka and Walt Disney had met and talked about collaborating in 1964.
Those that say Simba was a ripoff of Kimba are not talking storylines, but style and characters. The link I posted shows some pretty clear examples and explains why they never got sued.
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I don't think anyone really denies that they'd heard of Kimba. I think what my sources are arguing is that "rip off" has a negative connotation, when really all Disney did was use inspiration. Apparently, there was a mutual relationship of inspiration between Tezuka and Disney. I wonder why people don't say that Tezuka ripped off Disney's animations. Maybe it's because The Lion King was a much larger success than Kimba: The White Lion.