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Kimba the White Lion

52 Episodes
23 min each
FALL 1965

Synopsis

The series follows the adventures Leo, a young lion cub. Leo becomes king of the jungle when his father, the previous king of the jungle is killed by a human hunter.

Adventure
Format
Unknown
Episodes
52
Per Episode
23 min
Source
Unknown

Episodes

52 / 52 Episodes
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Episode 1

Episode 1

The white lion Panja, king of the jungle, dies. He sacrifices himself for his wife Eliza in trying to save her when she is captured by humans. Eliza gives birth to a baby on a transport ship, and names him Leo. She wants to save Leo, who carried the blood of Panja, so she has him escape from the sinking ship in the middle of a storm.
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Episode 2

Episode 2

Mandy the orangutan and Coco the parrot are very glad to find that the white baby lion that had been washed ashore is Panja`s child. However, Leo is abducted by a group of death traders. Then the poet Buribal saves him, and Leo returns to the jungle to fight villains.
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Episode 3

Episode 3

Kenichi and Mary, who were involved in an airplane accident, wander into the jungle where Leo and his friends live. Leo is very impressed when he sees Kenichi curing an animal by playing his flute, so he opens an animal school to absorb this kind of wisdom.
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Episode 4

Episode 4

Panja`s old friend Samson discriminates against animals that live with humans. He gives Leo a mule and says that domestic animals are traitors that must eat by others according to the law of the jungle. However, Leo firmly rejects such barbarism...
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Episode 5

Episode 5

The child leopard Rugar, who thinks his grandfather Rupe was killed by Panja, attacks Leo. But Leo had met Rupe in a sewer in Paris, and had promised Rupe that he would...
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Episode 6

Episode 6

There is a long spell of drought, and somebody has eaten all the precious grass. Seeing his fellows going hungry, Leo tells them that they can live without being bothered by the weather if they cultivate fields like humans do.
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Episode 7

Episode 7

The Black Panther Totto is against the jungle being firmly united by Leo. So he cunningly engenders distrust among the animals of the jungle. Leo tries to sort out the situation, but is tricked and pushed down to the Sulfur Valley.
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Episode 8

Episode 8

The carnivorous animals stop eating meat and become herbivorous upon Leo`s suggestion, but they grow weak due to lack of protein. Leo is at a loss when they begin complaining. Then he hits upon the idea that insects such as grasshoppers can be substitutes for meat.
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Episode 9

Episode 9

A scientist named Beast transplants the nerve of a great eagle to a tiger, and creates Winger, a tiger with wings. Then Winger kidnaps Romi`s mother. Leo asks the doctor to put wings on his back so that he can get back the mother.
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Episode 10

Episode 10

The film crews that come to the jungle where Leo and his friends live think they have the right to do anything for their film. They set fire in the jungle, and try to kill Lyre in the fire. Leo sets out to rescue her.
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Episode 11

Episode 11

The chief guard of the Conga Hunting Ground continues training captured animals to become violent, because he thinks hunting would be more fun that way. Leo prevails upon him to stop this outrage, but is lured into a trap by Congo`s lion Kim. He is in a desperate situation when a huge mammoth of a legendary mountain saves him. What is this mammoth called "Ofukurosan"?
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Episode 12

Episode 12

The chief guard of the Conga Hunting Ground continues training captured animals to become violent, because he thinks hunting would be more fun that way. Leo prevails upon him to stop this outrage, but is lured into a trap by Congo`s lion Kim. He is in a desperate situation when a huge mammoth of a legendary mountain saves him. What is this mammoth called "Ofukurosan"?
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Episode 13

Episode 13

Kenichi gets depressed because he misses his country. Leo and his friends begin a chorus to cheer him up. However, Ham egg and his hunting friends appear and take away the animals.
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Episode 14

Episode 14

I am different form others. Why am I the only lion different from others? Leo gets depressed when he is treated like a failure. To comfort Leo, Kenichi tells him the story of the white lion Androcres, who was known as a god of Egypt.
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Episode 15

Episode 15

During a spring-cleaning of the Jungle School, Tarchie takes some eggs for garbage and throws them into the river. The mother birds were panic. The students go down the river and at last retrieve the eggs. The mother birds collect their eggs, but one egg is left untouched. So Leo is obliged to take the egg himself.
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Episode 16

Episode 16

The crocodile Gabuga attacks animals on the land. When he sees that his baby crocodile Pichie has drunk gasoline by mistake, he thinks Pichie`s friends on the land have poisoned his child. Leo sets out to rescue the animals Gabuga has captured...
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Episode 17

Episode 17

The blue snake Nura come to the jungle. Nura uses hypnotism to catch the birds of their guard, and tries to eat them. When Leo comes to rescue the birds, however, he is attacked by a hypnotized birds instead.
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Episode 18

Episode 18

The wild boar Vera, who has a strong inferior complex about her appearance, is laughed at even by her dear friend Ruca`s mother. She becomes desperate, and goes by herself to destroy the rough baboon that disturbs the peaceful jungle.
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Episode 19

Episode 19

Leo meets his sister Ryona by chance in an abandoned village of a wood he has accidentally wandered into. Then Leo learns that Panja had once lived in the village as its guardian angel.
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Episode 20

Episode 20

A barter restaurant opens so that animals used to different kinds of diet can avoid killing each other.
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Episode 21

Episode 21

Sandy lost a fight with Mandy for the position of boss ten years ago. Now Sandy comes back to the jungle with his followers to take revenge on Mandy. Sandy threatens to spray sulfurous gas in the jungle if Mandy is not handed over to him.
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Episode 22

Episode 22

An epidemic breaks out in a village, so Leo and the old barberry sheep Percy head for the rocky mountain Rock to find the cure. However, it is a dangerous place haunted by flying lizards that appear at night.
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Episode 23

Episode 23

A swarm of grasshoppers fly out of the cracks on the ground. Suddenly there is an excess supply of food, and carnivorous animals become stout. Then appears a grasshopper that has become gigantic by radioactivity. The carnivorous animals are too fat to move, so Leo has to fight the huge grasshopper alone.
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Episode 24

Episode 24

Bubu and Totto force an old horned owl to make a poisonous drug, and give it to Leo. The two are pleased because they think they have killed Leo by poison. However, the drug causes only numbness. When they find that Leo is still alive, they try to make the old owl create a real poison this time.
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Episode 25

Episode 25

Leo finds out that thousands of elephants have been killed by Congo and his men, and tells the elephant boss Darba about it. Darba, however, does not believe him. The elephants ignore Leo`s warning, only to find themselves victims of massacre by an army of tanks.
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Episode 26

Episode 26

Oba does not like the idea of making friends with herbivorous animals. So she gives meat to her children, and has them come to like its taste. The children are fascinated by the taste; their instincts as carnivorous animals are awakened and they try to attack herbivorous animals.
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Episode 27

Episode 27

The chameleon Bero is a liar and he makes everybody angry by his lies. A pigmy hippopotamus Kabu is after him. So Leo tries to put an end to Bero`s lying habit, only to get himself angry when he is deceived by Bero`s lying. Leo expels Bero from the jungle, but finding that Bero is trying to commit suicide out of despair, he follows Bero hurriedly.
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Episode 28

Episode 28

The wild cat Myuu disturbs the order of the jungle. Nevertheless, Leo tries to accept her as one of their members. So he dares to act as if she were his friend. However, Myuu`s behavior does not change. Moreover, humans come into the jungle because of her, and the jungle is exposed to danger.
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Episode 29

Episode 29

The animals of the jungle suddenly start fighting each other in a fit of madness. The cause of this behavior turns out to be the smell of a gigantic plant Araune. Moreover, it is a carnivorous flower.
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Episode 30

Episode 30

Raiza and Maroji come to see Leo. Maroji, who does not want Leo to treat him as an elderly one, follows the car that humans Don and his father Lowtle are driving to town.
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Episode 31

Episode 31

Leo jumps into the dead man`s cave to save one of his fellows. A lizard attacks Leo in the cave, but Leo does manage to save his friend. When they are passing through a hollow, they find a golden city protected by an old turtle at its end. Then appear the humans Gold and Rush who are looking for gold, and they attack Leo and his friend.
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Episode 32

Episode 32

Seymour Hart is a ranger on a wild life preserve that is believed to be a safe place for animals. His job in protecting the animals is in trouble when poachers invade and Seymour is gravely injured. Bucky and Pauley Cracker allow themselves to be captured by hunters in hopes of finding the location of the poachers leader and ridding the preserve of the hunters once and for all.
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Episode 33

Episode 33

Tom, the child of a white egret, is thrown into a river. Then the drifter hippopotamus Huke is accused of killing Tom. Leo does not think Huke is responsible, so he tries to prove Huke`s innocence. Despite Leo`s desperate plea, Huke is sentenced to death.
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Episode 34

Episode 34

Leo and his fellows try to build an amusement park in the jungle, but it is in Bubu`s territory. Bubu becomes angry, and tells his followers to attack Leo. The amusement park is now going to be built. However, soon after Totto betrays Bubu and joins Leo and his fellows, Totto encourages them to behave languidly and in a slovenly manner. Totto in fact has pretended to betray Bubu, and they are planning to expel Leo from the jungle.
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Episode 35

Episode 35

Leo and his fellows try to build an amusement park in the jungle, but it is in Bubu`s territory. Bubu becomes angry, and tells his followers to attack Leo. The amusement park is now going to be built. However, soon after Totto betrays Bubu and joins Leo and his fellows, Totto encourages them to behave languidly and in a slovenly manner. Totto in fact has pretended to betray Bubu, and they are planning to expel Leo from the jungle.
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Episode 36

Episode 36

The monster of Mask Valley, the strange bird Moa, becomes friends with Leo and comes to the jungle, but cannot get used to the life there. Leo continues to cover up for Moa, who causes trouble all over the jungle. However, when Moa chases the hedgehog Harley and nearly scares him to death because he wants to eat it, Leo can no longer cover up for him.
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Episode 37

Episode 37

Leo and Mandy are thinking of leveling down the east valley, where the statue of evil is kept, to irrigate water to the fields. However, the valley turns out to be a sacred place for hippopotamuses. Fearing that their sacred place might be sunk, the hippopotamus boss Bacchas offers to talk to Leo...
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Episode 38

Episode 38

As the white hippopotamus couple, who are Leo`s friends, go back to their den in the island of volcanic lake to reproduce, and Saibos, who hates humans, drives Leo and his friends out of the island as they are making a playing field there.
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Episode 39

Episode 39

A herd of antelope is going to move to another place because they are starving due to drought. Leo tries to stop them because it is too dangerous to move the whole herd right now. However, the antelopes are determined to protect their herd and do not listen to Leo`s warning. So Leo has to stop them by force.
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Episode 40

Episode 40

The little boy Mar is so fond of Leo that he always follows him. Mar`s grandfather Tom, however, it is not aware of this. One day he thinks that Leo had taken Mar away, so he goes to take Mar back from the camping site where Mar and Leo are staying.
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Episode 41

Episode 41

Three outlaws that are feared as the gods of death appear. Even Leo is no match for them. Seeing Leo being defeated, Mandy argues that they should leave the jungle as soon as Leo`s wound heals. Coco, however, objects, saying that simply running away from vicious enemies doesn`t solve any problems. He encourages the injured Leo, and trains him for a return match with the gods of death.
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Episode 42

Episode 42

Leo and the Tenpai Trio climb on a balloon just for fun, but it floats up into the air. They happily begin their flight, but carelessly crash into the hut of an old blind man...
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Episode 43

Episode 43

Leo and Kuma-suke go down a river on a raft looking for a Chimiset bear, but a storm throws them into the river. This misfortune, however, gives them a chance to meet the Chimiset`s baby Misette.
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Episode 44

Episode 44

Leo and his friends are talking about the rainbow valley that they have not yet been to. Kenny hears them talking and goes to investigate the route to the valley, but gets captured by the elephant Pagura on his way. When Leo goes to save him, Pagura tells Leo that he will let Leo pass into the rainbow valley if he keeps swimming in the bottomless marsh for ten days.
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Episode 45

Episode 45

An army of tanks led by Mary together with a wild beast corps stage an assault on the jungle. Despite their brave fight, Leo and his fellows are driven into the sandbank of a river, and Kenichi and Higeoyaji are captured.
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Episode 46

Episode 46

Tarchi`s older sister Jane, who had been living with humans, comes back to the jungle. Jane behaves like a queen and says she is going to build her house on the ground where Leo and his friends have their play tree. The jungle is now separated into two opposing groups: Jane`s henchmen and Leo`s friends led by Mandy.
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Episode 47

Episode 47

A huge spider attacks Leo, and he is hung on a spider`s web deep in the jungle. The trapped Leo is barely saved by lightning. When he returns to the jungle in relief, he is astounded to find the whole forest covered with spider webs.
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Episode 48

Episode 48

A fire called the "Red Tusk" sweeps over the jungle where the elephant Jumbo lives. Jumbo and his fellows lose their food and place to live, so Leo takes them to the swamp that is the territory of another group of elephants. Pagura, who is guarding the feeding area, however, refuses to accept the "refugees."
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Episode 49

Episode 49

An old mandrill named Canty lives in a big tree called the "tree of the morning sun." When Leo and Mandy visit him, he asks them to find a cure for this wonderful tree, which is suffering from a disease.
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Episode 50

Episode 50

A fur seal Otto comes from the western sea, with as host of various adventures behind him. Leo is so impressed by Otto`s daunting adventures and courage that he says he will travel to the eastern sea with Otto.
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Episode 51

Episode 51

Leo, his older sister Ryona, and some okapis are carrying their ancestors` fur to a big shrine when they encounter enemies, and some precious furs are thrown into the river during the fight. When Ryona finds out, she gets angry and quarrels with Leo. Immediately after that, the news that Ryona was killed in the shrine reaches the jungle.
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Episode 52

Episode 52

A lion that was too old to get any food has no choice but to eat a human baby. Then he runs away into the jungle with a squad of hunters after him. Mandy shelters him, but Coco accuses Mandy of putting the whole jungle in danger of a human attack by saving the lion. When Leo and Mandy let the lion go, the squad of hunters raid the jungle and try to set it on fire.

Characters

Leo
Voice Actors
Yoshiko Oota (japanese)

Leo

Main

Coco
Voice Actors
Kinto Tamura (japanese)

Coco

Supporting

Staff

Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka
Original Creator
Rintarou
Rintarou
Chief Director
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
Tsuyoshi Matsumoto
Art Director
Tomoyuki Asakawa
Tomoyuki Asakawa
Music
Isao Tomita
Isao Tomita
Music
Shunichi Yukimuro
Shunichi Yukimuro
Script

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Aired Oct 05, 1965 to Sep 27, 1966
Season FALL 1965
Source Unknown
Format Unknown

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