Simba was controversial when The Lion King was released in Japan, as the Japanese accused Disney of basing him on what animated Japanese lion from the 1960s?

Kimba the White Lion was a manga series originally in a magazine in Japan from 1950 to 1954. A series based on it aired on Fuji Television from 1965 to 1967 and it aired in North America starting in 1966.

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