History Manga / KimbaTheWhiteLion

** DashJoey is a cheetah/leopard cub with blue fur.

** Dash is a cheetah cub with blue fur.

* ShootTheShaggyDog: Episode 39 of the 1989 series, appropiately called "Nightmare". In it, [[spoiler:an atomic satellite crashes near Kimba's jungle and all the animals nearby slowly die via radiation poisoning or being shot in the head one by one by human cleanup crews. The main plot of the episode involves Kimba and Laiya helping a Gorilla mother find her baby. They do, just in time for the baby to see its mother shot by humans. The episode ends with said baby dropping dead from the radiation]].

* AmazingTechnicolorWildlife: Dash is a cheetah cub with blue fur.

** Piranhas we’re depicted living in Africa, specifically, the Atlas Mountains of Northern Africa.

** In the manga and the 2009 movie, they ''do'' eat meat, [[PredationIsNatural but only in order to survive]]. Near the end of the manga, one of the human characters tells Kimba he's inventing a fake meat substitute so the animals can stop killing each other.

** In the 1989 series and the 1997 movie, Kimba once again makes it so animals can't kill one another in order to eat their meat, but it is never really explained ''what'' they're eating instead.

** The 1965 dub of the original series remains the only case in the franchise where Panja does not keep his original name in English and is instead called "Caesar."

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: The 1965 dub of the original series remains the only case in the franchise where Panja does not keep his original name in English and is instead called "Caesar."

* CatsAreMean: Played straight with Claw, inverted by Kimba.

* DigitalDestruction: Some official DVD releases of the original series(' english dub) have screwed-up brightness so they are incredibly dark, and they have the audio quality of a [[SensoryAbuse broken]] [[LoudnessWar speaker]]. Oddly enough, you can find the exact same episodes from WebSite/{{Youtube}} without either issue.

* CarnivoreConfusion: When Kimba became the new king, all of the carnivores, including the titular character, weren't allowed to eat one another. RealityEnsues when the animals start dying because veggies don't have as much protein as real meat, even Kimba is shown to have carnivore urges from time to time because of it. Eventually, they switch to bugs after their farm is attacked, but even that turns out to be conflicting as the other animals still prefer real meat and Kimba doesn't want any living thing to die, including the bugs. The conflict is finally solved when Dr. Albert invents a fake meat substitute.

* ArtisticLicenseZoology: The special portrays black panthers as a subspecies when that is the hardly the case. A black panther is either a jaguar or leopard with melanism.

* ''Jungle Emperor: The Brave Can Change the Future'' (2009): OVA with an brand new story and different setting from the manga. Taking place in an AfterTheEnd 'Neo-Jungle'. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpIhB0wKieY An English dub]] was produced in 2019 by the Japan Foundation, but it has not been officially released as of this writing.

* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Even with the 1993 redub, the 1965 dub of the original series remains the only case in the franchise where Panja does not keep his original name in English and is instead called "Caesar."

* [[spoiler:TheHeroDies: Kimba in all but the 60's TV series and the TV special. The 1989 series doesn't come out and say it but whatever happened, our hero's been shot and is currently bleeding to death....[[GainaxEnding then there's a shot of the clouds]].]]

* SkyFace: Kimba sees the stars in the night sky form the image of his dead mother, who speaks encouragement to him. Since Kimba was swimming many miles through the Atlantic Ocean, this might have been delirium.

* TertiarySexualCharacteristics: Averted. Just like many of Tezuka's other works.

--> Gypsy: You wouldn't hit an old lady-

* GagDub: Stuart Chapin, (the guy behind pretty much the entire dub of ''Leo the lion'') would often reject the original Japanese scripts in favor of writing his own [[JustForPun Pun]] heavy ones. This includes turning an spy inspired episode into an full-on Film/JamesBond parody, and have Leo at one point [[BreakingTheFourthWall explain why the dub-team of the original series changed his name to Kimba.]]

* CerebusSyndrome: The 1989 series starts as a lighthearted show about animals wanting peace and coexistence, but around the second half, descends into a full-blown war story where countless animals die every single episode because of human interference. One of the most infamous episodes, appropriately titled "39: Nightmare", [[spoiler:involve an atomic satellite being dropped near Kimba's jungle and all the animals nearby, including a Gorilla mother and her baby, either slowly dying via radiation poisoning or being shot in the head one by one]]. It only gets worse from there.

* LaserGuidedKarma: The elephants in episode 25 of ''Leo the Lion''.

* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Oyama. Sort of. Money isn't his objective so much as [[spoiler:[[AGodAmI godhood]]]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: When Kimba became the new king, all of the carnivores, including the titular character, weren't allowed to eat one other. They eventually decided to feast on insects.
** In the 1993 dub and original Japanese, it's shown that Kimba struggles with allowing the carnivores to use the locusts as a food source, but it's that or the predators continuing to attempt to eat the other animals in the jungle. Even Kimba is not exempt from his natural urge, occasionally going wild with hunger (but stopping himself from actually doing the deed).
*** Later Inverted (or is it subverted?) when an artificial meat substitute is found.

* ''Jungle Emperor Leo'' (1997): Another feature movie adapting the second half of the manga with The adult Kimba.
* ''Jungle Emperor: The Brave Can Change the Future'' (2009): OVA with an brand new story and different setting from the manga. Taking place in an AfterTheEnd 'Neo-Jungle'. Never dubbed.