History Anime / TheJungleBook

For the most part, it's follows the book more closely than some adaptions, although it incorporates some elements from the Disney version. The series had 52 episodes and was made by Creator/NipponAnimation, and, while it has much in common with the same animation studio's ''Anime/WorldMasterpeaceTheater'' series (including its director, Fumio Kurokawa, who previously had done ''Anime/PrincessSarah'' and ''[[Anime/AiNoWakakusaMonogatari Little Women]]''), it aired on Creator/TVTokyo, not Creator/FujiTelevision. An English dub, made in Canada, saw partial home video release in the U.S.

For the most part, it's follows the book more closely than some adaptions, although it incorporates some elements from the Disney version. The series had 52 episodes.

* AdaptedOut: Some of the characters from the book, such as Phaona and White Hood, are absent in this version.

** Averted with Kaa, who is much more helpful to Mowgli than [[Disney/TheJungleBook the Disney version]], his characterization being more closely adapted from the books. Unlike the Disney adaptation he is neither weak, nor cowardly; he is in fact the only non-human besides Haithi who Shere Kahn outright fears and it's well justified. The few times they face off, Kaa wipes the floor with him.

* NobleBirdOfPrey: Chil.

** Averted with Kaa, who is much more helpful to Mowgli than [[Disney/TheJungleBook the Disney version]], his characterization being more closely adapted from the books. Unlike the Disney adaptation he is neither weak, nor cowardly; he is in fact the only non-human who Shere Kahn outright fears and it's well justified. The few times they face off, Kaa wipes the floor with him.

* GenderFlip: Tha, the first of the elephants, was male in the original story. Here, he was changed to a female.

* ManiacMonkeys: Louis and his monkeys, which are [[{{Expy}} expies]] of the Bandar-log from the novels.

* AbledInTheAdaptation: Shere Khan doesn't have his limp in this adaptation.

* {{Jerkass}}: Buldeo.

** Played straight with Buldeo's pet cobra, which attempts to kill Mowgli only to be slain by Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
* SssnakeTalk: Also averted with Kaa, surprisingly.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kichi the red panda, Tabaqui the striped hyena (in the book he is a jackal), Chil the Brahminy kite, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the Indian mongoose. More obscure Indian fauna appear as well, such as sambar deer, langurs, mugger crocodiles, and dholes. In episode 10, Bacchus's stories feature Asiatic lions and a gigantic Komodo dragon.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kichi the red panda, Tabaqui the striped hyena (in the book he is a jackal), Chil the Brahminy kite, and Rikki-Tikki-Tavi the Indian mongoose. More obscure Indian fauna appear as well, such as sambar deer, langurs, mugger crocodiles, and dholes.

It is based on the books of the same name with some elements of the Disney movie, though as far as accuracy goes, it leans to the former most often.

** Played straight with Buldeo's pet cobra.

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent:

* ReptilesAreAbhorrent: Averted with Kaa, who is much more helpful to Mowgli than [[Disney/TheJungleBook the Disney version]], his characterization being more closely adapted from the books. Unlike the Disney adaptation he is neither weak, nor cowardly; he is in fact the only non-human who Shere Kahn outright fears and it's well justified. The few times they face off, Kaa wipes the floor with him.

** Averted with Kaa whose characterization is true to the books.

* HonorableElephant: Hathi the elephant like its book counterpart is the temperate but righteous leader and lawgiver of the jungle.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kichi the red panda (a new character) and Tabaqui the striped hyena (in the book he is a jackal). More obscure Indian fauna appear as well, such as sambar deer, langurs, mugger crocodiles, and dholes.

* SeldomSeenSpecies: Kichi the red panda (a new character) and Tabaqui the striped hyena (in the book he is a jackal).

* SnakesAreSinister: Averted with Kaa whose characterization is true to the books.

* HumansAreBastards: The villagers after being spurned by Buldeo's lies.