YMMV / Simba: è nato un re

• Audience-Alienating Premise: There is very little draw other than the Bile Fascination of just how utterly bizarre, nonsensical, random, and bad it is.
• Awesome Music: Though the series' own quality is HIGHLY questionable, its first theme song (titled Simba: è nato un re), sung by Cristina D'Avena, is generally agreed to be quite magnificent, even matching Disney quality.
• Heartwarming Moments: Thin and XL managing to figure out how to use the teleportation powers of their amulets in the final episode, reuniting Simba, Buckshot and all their friends from the jungle. This also means that they can all now visit each other whenever they want without difficulty.
• Ho Yay: Simba and Buckshot are quite touchy feely as children, especially in episode nine. This does not diminish once they get older, and Simba needs more convincing than he probably should to leave Buckshot's side and go home to his new bride.
• Jerkass Woobie: Kurdy. While he serves Shere Khan and indirectly (but intentionally as well) killed Buckshot's mother, it can be hard to not feel sorry for him when everyone, including Shere Khan's other minions, abuse him and make fun of him. Shere Khan himself often beats him up, verbally abuses him and even when complimenting him he acts condescendingly. One has to wonder if him serving Shere Khan is his way of snapping at the rest of the jungle. On the other hand, he also seems terrified of Shere Khan, leaving us to think if he really is serving him out of his own will.
• Memetic Mutation: "Those are Triceratops, Baloo!"
• Nightmare Fuel:
  • Some things in the series, like the more deranged animation in some scenes and Shere Khan himself (particularly when his eyes glow madly as he beats up Kurdy) can be a little disturbing. One of the very early episodes aims to teach children why they shouldn't stare into the sun. Rather than simply explaining, we get to watch a snake do exactly this until her eyes are burned and weeping. Oddly enough, the scene also provides a Heartwarming Moment in the form of her compassionate mate, who promises to hunt for her and be her eyes from then on.
  • The so-called "Triceratops" in the Lost World episode is serious Body Horror for anyone who knows what a Triceratops should look like. They have a single massive horn on their face, eyes where their nostrils should be, carnosaur-like jaws and teeth, and are portrayed as pack hunting predators that hunt sauropods.
• Rescued from the Scrappy Heap: Winner is decidedly less bratty in Simba Jr and the Football World Cup and Winner and the Golden Child, and is a fair bit more tolerable as a result.
• Rooting for the Empire: Given how the heroes tend to be rather unheroic and/or as interesting as a plank of wood, it’s easy to want to root for Shere Khan to take over the kingdom.
• The Scrappy: Winner/Toy the dog isn't well-liked because of his bratty personality and his Plucky Comic Relief role being considered shallow. The canary is also disliked for her rather flat personality.
• Sequelitis : Technically, this series is a sequel to The Jungle Book as it was produced by one of the companies that produced that series and it is mentioned in-universe that the animals raised Mowgli previously. It genuinely agreed that this series' quality doesn't come anywhere close to the Jungle Book. This is due to the constant continuity errors, the heroes being either generic, annoying, and/or unheroic, and being a borderline Random Events Plot.
• Signature Scene: When people are searching for the name of the series online, 80% chance it's "the show where a snake is Blinded by the Sun". It helps that the scene is close to the beginning of the series, but the heavy What Do You Mean, It's for Kids? tone certainly leaves a mark.
• So Bad, It's Good: This show has been lambasted for its low production values; but, for being a very weird show, many can't help but love it anyway.
• Viewer Gender Confusion:
  • Toy the dog has a feminine appearance and voice (at least in the English dub), but is referred to as a he by the other characters. Averted in Winner and the Golden Child where he is voiced by a male.
  • In the Swedish dub, Buckshot -here called Bambi- has a female voice actress and Simba's siblings had male voices while young. Bambi is at least referred to as a he, but more than one viewer was confused when Simba's "brothers" grew up into lionesses.
• What Do You Mean, It's for Kids?: While the series is clearly aimed at a young audience, it goes into darker themes frequently. In fact, its opening scene had the Lion King being shot by poachers in front of his two young daughters, with them screaming and him bleeding to death on screen.

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