DID DISNEY RIP OF ANIME?

[Evangelion Unit 01]

who thinks thats eiichi yamamoto's "kimba the white lion" was directly copied by disney to create the lion king?

despite obvious parralels between the two films/ series in kimbas case production staff at the lion king studios stated they were unaware of Tezuka productions original film.

is this coincidence? or maybe disney are honouring his work? have any other anime titles been slipped into mainstream tv in a copy cat fashion?

Everyone steals or bases ideas of others, one intesting not is that I heard once from a pretty reliable source that anime is based of disney's orginal work. For example look how mickey's eyes are like that of most anime characters. Also looking at other Japanese anime before they came out with what we know as anime. All the eyes of the people in the drawings were small lines, not giant eyes. There are some other things too, I forgot them though. Anyway, the only way to create something is with tools, you can only get tools that other people have, and there fore your ideas have to be based of others in some way shape or from or something anyway. I have seen neither of these films, but it would not suprise me to see what you say as true, and yes there is such thing as basing your ideas off of others a little too much.

[bum]

The Lion King is actualy a rip off of a well known (in africa) african story called The white lion, or something along thoughs lines.

[Tainted_Eden]

In essence, nothing is original. everything is based off a previous work. you can't have a truly original work. doesn't mean it can't be good though.
[/senselessness]

Yosh, I agree. What really makes it different is how you bend/use the ideas/concepts.

[the Black Monarch]

-_- WOW. How about the Lion King is actually a "rip off" of Shakespeare's "Hamlet"....

'nuff said.