History Trivia / KimbaTheWhiteLion

* OldShame: Tezuka deeply regretted how he depicted Africans in the later volumes when the titular protagonist becomes a grown lion and the 1966 sequel series.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: When it came to giving Leo a DubNameChange "Simba", the Swahili word for "Lion", was suggested, until the legal team stated they would not be able to market an everyday word.

* TheWikiRule: [[https://kimba.fandom.com/wiki/Jungle_Emperor_Leo_Wiki Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki.]]

* ColbertBump: WebVideo/YourMovieSucksDotOrg made a two-hour-long video debunking the claim that ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing'' was a rip-off of Kimba, delving into the anime in great detail in order to showcase the many extreme differences between the two. A lot of people ended up watching the show for themselves after realizing that Kimba wasn't simply a proto-''Lion King''.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Music/MegumiHayashibara (Kimba as a kid in the 1989 series) and Shinnosuke Furumoto (adult Kimba in the same show) have worked together a couple of times, Furumoto guest starred in 2 episodes of ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' as Pantyhose Taro and Megumi of course voiced Ranma's female form and they also worked together on ''Manga/SorcererHunters'' where Megumi voiced Tira Misu and Furumoto voiced Carrot Clacé and they both sang the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tn_TWwCD49g opening to the TV series]] as well.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered and scaly-tailed ornithischian dinosaur that was discovered in 2014. And not only that, this would mean ''Kimba the White Lion'' one of the earliest appearances of a feathered dinosaur in fiction.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered and scaly-tailed ornithischian dinosaur that was discovered in 2014. And not only that, this would also ''Kimba the White Lion'' one of the earliest appearances of a feathered dinosaur in fiction.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered and scaly-tailed ornithischian dinosaur that was discovered in 2014. Consequently, this would also make ''Kimba the White Lion'' one of the earliest appearances of a feathered dinosaur in fiction.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered, scaly-tailed ornithischian dinosaur that was discovered in 2014.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered ornithischian with a scaly tail that was discovered in 2014.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of feathered dinosaurs. Especially with the discovery of ''Kulindadromeus'', a fuzz-covered ornithischian with a scaly tail.

* AccidentallyCorrectZoology: One episode of the 1965 series features the Brodo bird, a bizarre kind of extinct flightless bird with sharp teeth, hands, and scaly tails. This combination of features makes them reminiscent of feathered dinosaurs.