The Lion King....a rip-off?

Majestic XII · Jul 14, 2004

I think this is interesting. The anime/manga (suprise!) is called Jungle Taitei (Kimba The White Lion as its called in the US), and first appeard in the 50s.

Thing is, Kimba and Simba got more in common than the name. Take a look at this site:

http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm

and here:

http://members.jcom.home.ne.jp/y-asada/leo2.html

This isnt the first time i hear about this, and it isnt the first time Disney stole/copied something, but this is too much. Pretty much everything is the same. I kinda made up my mind, but i let you make up your own. Is the lion king a rip off or not?

The worst part of this is that Disney didnt give any credits to Osamu for this (but they did stop the movie in 97 to show on a movie festival

).

I also heard that the Wachowski brothers got alot of ideas for Matrix from a anime show called Megazone 29 (or was it 26? From 86- i think), but they told us about it.

Anyways, anime is all around us!

CrazyHarij · Jul 14, 2004

I thought everyone knew it was a ripoff. :|

Shuzer · Jul 14, 2004

Holy crap. That's insane. Reading that and looking at pictures side by side, you can clearly see The Lion King IS a ripoff.. nice find

CrazyHarij said:
I thought everyone knew it was a ripoff. :|

I didn't

Dr. Freeman · Jul 14, 2004

wow.. i didn't know it was a ripoff either...and well i guess this proves it.. :|

Some_God · Jul 14, 2004

Wow this is the first time im seeing this... everything I saw as a kid... WAS DAMN CHINESE!!!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

nw909 · Jul 14, 2004

The Fast and The Furious and 2Fast2Furious are obvious ripoffs of Speedracer!

Majestic XII · Jul 14, 2004

Some_God said:
Wow this is the first time im seeing this... everything I saw as a kid... WAS DAMN CHINESE!!!!!!! ARGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!!111111111

Japanese*

kingthebadger · Jul 14, 2004

isnt it copyright? dont disney have to ask permission before they use there story?

nw909 · Jul 14, 2004

KinGadY said:
isnt it copyright? dont disney have to ask permission before they use there story?

Disney owns the world, didn't you know that!?

Hazar · Jul 14, 2004

Wow. I didn't know either.

Direwolf · Jul 14, 2004

You know....its also technically a ripoff of Hamlet.

Murray_H · Jul 14, 2004

Yessss!!!!!1111 i've never seen it, now i can look cool and say i've never seen it because it is a blatent 'rip' (leaving the off makes me more leet)!!1111

Majestic XII · Jul 14, 2004

Now i can say "HAH! Thats a rip-off!" when my little brother is watching Disney Channel! Oh the joy!

KagePrototype · Jul 14, 2004

I couldn't give a damn -- I loved it when I was 10, I love it now.

lePobz · Jul 14, 2004

Disney is American right? Wouldn't exactly be the first time foreign ideas seemed to magically apear in the USA with the 'made in america' tag.

America may be a superpower, but when it comes to new ideas and inventions, they seem to be somewhere around the bottom of the list. Infact, think of something you think was invented in America, and I can probably prove it wasn't.

Pressure · Jul 14, 2004

The model T.

Sai · Jul 14, 2004

times like these gets me glad that pixar plans to break off ties with disney, damn plagerisers, they deserve it

Shuzer · Jul 14, 2004

Pobz said:
Disney is American right? Wouldn't exactly be the first time foreign ideas seemed to magically apear in the USA with the 'made in america' tag.

America may be a superpower, but when it comes to new ideas and inventions, they seem to be somewhere around the bottom of the list. Infact, think of something you think was invented in America, and I can probably prove it wasn't.

Half-Life 2!
/me runs

evil^milk · Jul 14, 2004

i have been owned by the US... and so have many of you :E

Dr. Freeman · Jul 14, 2004

Shuzer said:
Half-Life 2!
* Shuzer runs

lol
and im sure someone will come claiming it was a rip off of another game

Sai · Jul 14, 2004

Dr. Freeman said:
lol
and im sure someone will come claiming it was a rip off of another game

you have no idea how many doom fanboys use that as an argument

DarkStar · Jul 14, 2004

Who cares? Nothing that can be done about it now.

We're talking about a 10-year-old movie ripping off a 40 year-old-movie. I think there are more pressing issues in the world today to spend my time worrying about.

Z|insane · Jul 14, 2004

Wow, I never knew that.

Kangy · Jul 14, 2004

Well, the Hamlet - Kimba thing isn't really too pressing, It's happened a billion of times before that. If it'd had said "Poor Norick..." I'd be a bit more concerned.

palindrome · Jul 14, 2004

stop the presses, stop the presses!!!!!

el Chi · Jul 14, 2004

Sai said:
times like these gets me glad that pixar plans to break off ties with disney, damn plagerisers, they deserve it

Actually, Pixar pretty much stole the idea of the family of lamps - you know, the one that's part of their logo - from a Czech guy.
But Pixar are amazing so I forgive them.

evil^milk · Jul 14, 2004

Some parts of the Matrix were ripped off from the anime movie Ghost of the Shell.

edit: 400th post!

Gunner · Jul 14, 2004

el Chi said:
Actually, Pixar pretty much stole the idea of the family of lamps - you know, the one that's part of their logo - from a Czech guy.
But Pixar are amazing so I forgive them.

Pixar also stole the story of Nemo from a children's book.

Direwolf · Jul 14, 2004

Evil^Milk said:
Some parts of the Matrix were ripped off from the anime movie Ghost of the Shell.

edit: 400th post!

Thats more of an influence. The Matrix movies pulled from hundreds, maybe thousands of ideas/sources.

evil^milk · Jul 14, 2004

oh

tcltcl

CyberSh33p · Jul 14, 2004

while the lion king thing seems too utterly blatant, can't we just say its all been done and get over it? A lot of things are remakes nowadays, because just about every storyline imagineable has been explored.

craig · Jul 14, 2004

I've read this before. Never seen image comparisons before though.

Disney R teh thieves!

Dr. Freeman · Jul 15, 2004

Sai said:
you have no idea how many doom fanboys use that as an argument

actually.. i do

i wouldn't qualify myself as a Doom fanboy...but i definitely grew up playing the Doom games.. they hold a special place in my heart :dork:

CrazyHarij · Jul 15, 2004

Disney is a big corporation based on thievery and shit which they hide to look like the happiest company and Disney Land being the happiest place on earth. :|

There was a few links and stuff with more info of Disney a while ago on the forums.

Korgoth · Jul 15, 2004

have you ever known disney to have a truly original story? No, they are like the pop singers of animation. Somebody else writes their script and they make it pretty...

Bad^Hat · Jul 15, 2004

Nonsense! Cinderella 2? :O

h00dlum · Jul 15, 2004

Pretty much everything Disney make is a rip off from some old tale...

FictiousWill · Jul 15, 2004

The Lion King rip off is common knowlege, as for the matrix - given the crumminess of the 2nd and 3rd movies I find it hard to believe the Wachowskis were the ones that did the 1st one. Whatever.

A2597 · Jul 15, 2004

old news, even in berloin, and thats the last place in the world to hear news.

*looks around*

almost the last place...

yes, it IS a ripoff, and was the start of Disneys animation decline. Alladin was the last Disney movie worth watching. the rest just get stupider and stupider.

FictiousWill · Jul 15, 2004

Animation decline? Ripoff or not, I thought the lion king was the most lucrative production in Disney's history. That's kindof why there's a fuss that it's a ripoff. Nobody would care if it flopped or not if it was an original idea.

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