Chronicle
- 1950 — Original Jungle Emperor story started in Manga Shōnen (Comic Boy) magazine.
- 1965 — Anime series started as the first color TV anime series in Japan.
- 1966 — Theatrical version of Jungle Emperor (Dir. Eiichi Yamamoto) released in Japan. Jungle Emperor Symphonic Poem (by Isao Tomita) released on LP. Kimba The White Lion (translated version of Jungle Emperor TV series) airs in U.S. A sequel series, Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo! (Jungle Emperor: Onward, Leo!) airs in Japan. Features Leo (Kimba) as an adult.
- 1967 — Jungle Emperor theatrical feature awarded the St. Mark's Silver Lion Award at the 19th Venice International Film Festival.
- 1978 — Adult Leo character becomes mascot for the Seibu Lions (current Saitama Seibu Lions) baseball team.
- 1984 — Jungle Emperor: Onward Leo! finally comes to the US, as Leo the Lion on CBN Cable Network.
- 1989 — Dr. Osamu Tezuka dies at age 60 on February 9. A remake of Jungle Emperor is made and shown in Japan. This series bears little resemblance to the original manga or the first TV series, as the plot is extremely different and the characters have been completely reworked and changed.
- 1991 — A new animated film is created, using the Symphonic Poem for its audio.
- 1993 — The first Jungle Emperor/Kimba The White Lion series is dubbed into English again, featuring the voice of Yvonne Murray as Kimba and having a new opening.
- 1994 — In Japan, over 1100 manga and anime artists and fans sign a petition requesting that the Walt Disney company acknowledge that their movie The Lion King was based on characters and situations from Jungle Emperor.
- 1997 — New Jungle Taitei theatrical film (Jungle Emperor Leo; Dir. Hiroo Takeuchi) released in Japan, based on the second half of Dr. Tezuka's original manga story. It is not entirely faithful however.
- 1998 — Several heavily edited episodes of the 1989 remake of Kimba the White Lion are dubbed into English and released directly to video under the name: The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion, by Pioneer Family Entertainment. It features the voice of Brad Swaile as Kimba.
- 2003 — The 1997 Jungle Emperor film is dubbed into English and released on DVD under the name "Jungle Emperor Leo", by Anime Works.
- 2005 — The original 1966 dub of Kimba the White Lion is released as an 11-disc DVD set by Madman Anime of Australia and Right Stuf International of the U.S. It was a best seller.
- 2009 — A TV premiere was on air in summer 2009. The movie bears almost no resemblance to the TV shows or the manga it was based on. The settings were based on 20XX Earth in an artificially created jungle. In this movie, Panja and his mate, Eliza, are still alive, Coco is an unspecified female bird, and Sylvester, the black panther, serves as a secondary antagonist until he changes his ways when a young boy mends his leg.
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