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Yes it is, despite what some people who have not done their research think, The Lion King is a Disney original and no, it is not a copy of Kimba: The White Lion.Takayuki Matsutani, the president of Tezuka Productions, the company that worked alongside Tezuka to create Kimba: The White Lion, said in 1994 (the year The Lion King came out) that “quite a few staff of our company saw a preview of The Lion King, discussed this subject and came to the conclusion that you cannot avoid having these similarities as long as you use animals as characters and try to draw images out of them.” Yoshihiro Shimizu of Tezuka Productions has refuted rumors that the studio was paid hush money by Disney and stated that they have no interest in suing Disney, explaining that “we think it's a totally different story” and that “any similarities in their plots are based in the facts of nature and therefore are two different works.” Also, the son of Osamu Tezuka, Makoto, wrote about the controversy in his book The Genius’ Son, in it Makoto acknowledges that Kimba and The Lion King are two different stories with different themes, and if the latter was about a white lion who spoke with humans, then he would not be able to pardon the similarities, but that wasn’t the case so according to him The Lion King isn’t a ripoff of Kimba. He even mentioned how his father (Tezuka) was inspired by Bambi and The Lion King has been referred to as Bambi in Africa, so there’s nothing wrong with Disney using stuff from their own work. So I don’t understand how there are people who say that The Lion King is a ripoff when neither Tezuka’s son nor Tezuka Productions support them on this. Not to mention that people should take a look at the characters’ designs in both productions, the lions from The Lion King look more realistic because the animators who drew them took a trip to Africa in order to make the characters look as realistic as possible and those who couldn’t travel had lions brought to the studio so that they could adapt their appearances and mannerisms into the characters. Tezuka’s characters, although they look amazing, don’t look as much as their respective counterparts in real life, Kimba’s movements while he runs aren’t very much like the lions from real life. As for the hyenas being evil henchmen, if you’re going to make a movie in which the lions are the good guys, then the logical progression would be for the hyenas to be the villains given that both lions and hyenas are natural born enemies in real life. Next, the wise mandrill part, Rafiki is a wise mandrill, but Dan’l? Not that much, given that Kimba had to stop him from doing something reckless a couple of times and Dan’l didn’t always give the best of advices (e.g. he told Kimba to get revenge on humans for killing Kimba’s parents, which would prompt a war between animals and humans). Dan’l is more like Kimba’s grumpy uncle, Kimba has called him as such a couple of times, while Rafiki is more like Simba’s counselor and he is very good at giving advice (e.g. he told Simba that although the past can hurt he can also learn from it). Then the evil lion with a scar on his left eye, Claw was huge and was nothing but a big bully that didn’t want for Kimba to be in charge, but Claw was never king and Kimba never had to fight him to reclaim his title, again, Kimba only fought Claw because Claw was a bully, but that’s it. Scar was suave and sinister, he was also smart and cunning, and he did manage to become king after getting rid of both Mufasa and Simba. Simba had to fight Scar in order to become king, Kimba didn’t have to fight anyone to become king, he started ruling almost from the moment he was born. There’s also the fact that Claw was in no way related to Kimba and his father while Scar was Mufasa’s brother and Simba’s uncle. Finally, in an interview that came out in 2003 or 2004, Fred Patten, the author of Watching Anime, Reading Manga said that The Lion King didn’t plagiarize from Kimba and that the Kimba fans were making the issue bigger than it really was. Fred Patten was friends with Osamu Tezuka and he was an avid fan of Kimba, he even wrote an entire essay back in 1995 in which he did claim that The Lion King was a ripoff, an essay that was later on published on his book, and yet about 9 years later (the same year his book was published) Patten backpedaled on his words. By the way, none of the people that worked on The Lion King said that they were inspired by Kimba, they said that they did hear from it and that it bothered them that Disney’s legal department declared that none of them knew that Kimba existed, but they (the staff from The Lion King) said that Kimba played no part in their inspiration for The Lion King. Animators Tom Sito and Mark Kausler have both stated that they had watched Kimba as children in the 1960s. However, Sito maintains there was “absolutely no inspiration” from Kimba during the production of The Lion King, and Kausler emphasized Disney's own Bambi as being their model during development. The idea for The Lion King came from Jeffrey Katzenberg back in 1988, when he talked about his life and talked about when he lost his father, so he wanted to make a movie that portrayed that moment in life in which someone stops being a child to become an adult. That’s why even though the theme of The Lion King is about the ‘Circle of Life’, the heart of the story is the bond between father and son. A theme that was rarely seen in Kimba since Kimba never met his father, Panja (Caesar), and when Kimba became a parent himself he was terrible at it. Another argument that the fans of Kimba love to use as a smoking gun is that upon the release of The Lion King in Japan, multiple Japanese cartoonists including Machiko Satonaka signed a letter urging The Walt Disney Company to acknowledge due credit to Jungle Emperor Leo (Kimba) in the making of The Lion King. 488 Japanese cartoonists and animators signed the petition. However, here’s an excerpt from the aforementioned letter:“There is the eye-scarred, black maned villainous Uncle backed by hyenas, the chattering bird friend, the wise baboon, the promotional shot of the jutting rock, the father lion in the clouds talking to his son, the stony wilderness habitat, insect eating carnivores even the names Kimba and Simba are strikingly similar. I don't need to go on.No one is claiming the stories are identical.”What does this mean? That those 488 animators DIDN’T watch Kimba, they referred to Claw as Kimba’s UNCLE, they thought that the LION IN THE CLOUDS was KIMBA’S FATHER when the lion in the clouds was in fact Kimba and Kimba’s father NEVER talked to him because Panja (Caesar) never showed up as a spirit, he merely showed up as hallucinations. The 488 animators also mentioned INSECT EATING CARNIVORES, in Kimba the carnivores weren’t taught to eat insects like in The Lion King, the carnivores in Kimba were being taught to eat VEGETABLES AND PLANTS. The letter also talks about the name Kimba and Simba being similar, Simba is an actual word, it means “lion” in Swahili, all of the characters from The Lion King have Swahili names, Nala means “gift”, Mufasa means “king”, Rafiki means “friend” and so on. When Jungle Emperor arrived in America, it was discussed that in the English dub the main character’s name would be changed from Leo to Simba but Fred Ladd said that Simba was a “generic name” and that anyone would be well within their rights to name their lion Simba because Simba is an actual word.Also, although those who worked on the production of The Lion King did acknowledge that they grabbed some inspiration from Shakespeare’s Hamlet aside from a few similarities: Main characters are princes, both have shady uncles, close male friendships, one love interest, both of their fathers die, both fathers reappear as ghosts, princes are sent into exile, and both battle their uncles and take revenge; the stories are mostly different.Simba is a child when his father dies, while Hamlet is an adult.Simba is a young child when his father dies, whereas Hamlet is probably about 30 years old. There is some debate about Hamlet's age in the play because he is often referred to vaguely as being very young, but his age is explicitly stated in Act V, Scene 1. In lines 147-149 the gravedigger says that he has held his position since King Hamlet overcame Fortinbras, and later in lines 152-153 he clarifies that this was the same day Prince Hamlet was born. Finally in lines 166-167 he states that he has held his position 30 years. So, if he started on the day Hamlet was born and has held the position for 30 years, Prince Hamlet must be 30 years of age.Simba's story is a happy one.Simba is sad when his father dies, but spends most of his time growing up in a happy, “Hakuna Matata” (♪ it means "no worries" ♪) lifestyle with Timon and Pumbaa.Hamlet, on the other hand, is depressed and suicidal for most of his story, possibly with bouts of madness.Hamlet has a tragic ending.In The Lion King, only two characters, Mufasa and Scar, die. The rest live happily ever after once the circle of life is restored along with the rightful king. Simba and Nala even get married and have a baby.In Hamlet, most of the characters, including all the main characters, die.Simba receives moral guidance.Simba has moral guides like Zazu and Rafiki to help him make good decisions. Hamlet does not receive any moral guidance, except the ghost’s call for revenge, which may be imagined and isn't very moral.Sarabi never remarries.Simba’s mother, Sarabi, and Scar do not get married after Mufasa's death. Hamlet’s uncle does marry Hamlet's mother.The number of minor characters differs.Hamlet includes "extra" plot-relevant characters who play minor roles. For example, Hamlet kills Ophelia’s father, Polonius, and fights her brother, Laertes. These are crucial events in the play that have no equivalent in The Lion King.So, in short, yes, The Lion King is a Disney original film.“Long live the king.”

I’ve been wanting to do this for a while. So here’s a bunch from all the theatrical Disney Feature Animation movies.Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - The dwarves are the real stars herePinocchio - A wooden boy is scarred for life by a mean worldFantasia - Silly Symphonies: The MovieDumbo - An elephant version of Rudolph the Red-Nosed ReindeerBambi - Life is innocent until reality reminds us how fragile everything is. Plus, Man is evilSalados Amigos - A forty-minute documentary of animators taking a vacationThe Three Caballeros - Disney’s love letter to Mexico starring Donald DuckMake Mine Music - Fantasia 2: Cheaper Animation, But Same PassionFun and Fancy Free - Really should have just been separate shortsMelody Time - Same thing as Make Mine Music with different storiesThe Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad - Two dark stories together in the best package film we haveCinderella - One lucky girl’s foot fits a glass slipperAlice in Wonderland - Future LSD/Acid fuel with intelligencePeter Pan - A boy’s fantasyland come to lifeLady and the Tramp - A dog story remembered for the romantic spaghetti songSleeping Beauty - Several plot holes and a really cool villainOne Hundred and One Dalmatians - One hundred cute dogs and a scary villainThe Sword in the Stone- Going to school with MerlinThe Jungle Book - Doesn’t follow the book, but still a good movieThe Aristocats - Same thing as One Hundred and One Dalmatians, but with catsRobin Hood- Disney’s most Libertarian story of allThe Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh - A couple of simple, but deep shorts with lovable charactersThe Rescuers - The most Don Bluth of Disney moviesThe Fox and the Hound - Same thing as Bambi, but with best friends instead of parentsThe Black Cauldron - The dark movie that got beaten by the Care Bears movieThe Great Mouse Detective - We’re all here for Vincent Price having funOliver & Company - Except for “Why Should I Worry”, very bland retelling of Oliver TwistThe Little Mermaid - Selling my soul for a vagina and making all girls want to be mermaidsThe Rescuers Down Under - An underrated Australian adventure with two mice and George C. ScottBeauty and the Beast - The greatest fairy tale Disney will ever put outAladdin - A Generation X fairy tale with Robin Williams as himselfThe Nightmare Before Christmas - Tim Burton’s opera of Halloween and ChristmasThe Lion King - 1990’s nostalgia brought you by Elton JohnPocahontas - A politically correct Romeo + Juliet retelling of a darker life storyThe Hunchback of Notre Dame- Victor Hugo fans hate this, but is still one of the darkest Disney moviesHercules - The story of Superman with Greek mythos and gospel musicMulan - Both Disney’s most feminist and manliest story with Eddie Murphy as himselfTarzan - Extreme sports Tarzan brought to you by Phil CollinsFantasia 2000 - The mainstream, family-friendly FantasiaDinosaur - Forgettable Land Before Time knockoff with CGI animationThe Emperor’s New Groove - Underrated buddy comedy set in Incan cultureAtlantis: The Lost Empire - Disney’s attempt to recreate Indiana Jones before they bought LucasFilmLilo & Stitch - Okay film will generate several sequels and a TV series, thanks to the cute alienTreasure Planet - A Spacepunk retelling of Treasure Island that everyone will instantly forgetBrother Bear - A Canadian, talking-bear movie that also happens to have Bob and Doug McKenzieHome on the Range - A western Pied Piper that’ll kill hand-drawn animationChicken Little - Trying to be Shrek, only to be very mean-spiritedMeet the Robinsons - A kid’s motivational seminar to “Keep Moving Forward”Bolt - Another DreamWorks-like buddy comedy with a dog and a catThe Princess and the Frog - A Disney Renaissance-quality movie with the first black princess, marketed poorlyTangled - The best combination of fairy tales and comedy you’ll see in a whileWinnie the Pooh -The Adventures of Winnie the Pooh 2, but shorterWreck-It Ralph - Retro video games plus Disney storytelling equals a millennial audienceFrozen - Let It Go make billions for DisneyBig Hero 6 - Don’t we all wish Baymax was real? Otherwise, standard superhero storyZootopia - Very complex story of prejudice that includes mafias, drug dealing, nudist resorts, and relatable DMV horror storiesMoana - Polynesian Mulan/ Rapunzel meets Dwayne “The Rock” JohnsonRalph Breaks the Internet - The Emoji Movie done better with more Disney princessesFrozen II - Another grand adventure with memorable songs…but sorry, no LBGT Elsa: we love that China money too much to risk it.

I have one relative who was included in "Daftar 150 Orang Terkaya Indonesia" by Globe Asia. My dad was not on that list but I know that our net worth is substantially higher than my relative's quoted net worth. We would rank in the top 100 or so according to the magazine but of course it would be an overestimation. I personally know at least ten unlisted-in-rich-guys-list friends with more than US$100 million net worth in the family, more than the net worth of the 150th guy on the list. I dated granddaughter of a billionaire, one of my closest friends is a grandson of a billionaire and they both say that Forbes includes only half of their real net worth. It is worth noting that Forbes or Globe can only access value of public companies accurately while there are great number of undetected capital controlled by the owners of big family businesses. While the last of 150 guys in Globe has around US$90 million net worth or roughly equal to 1 trillion IDR which means there are only 150 people with net worth of at least 1 trillion IDR in Indonesia, I believe that there are actually at least 500 IDR trillionaires in the country so ~US$500 million of our family should come only in the top 200 or 300. I copied this answer from my own answer on another question thread and pasted it here, hope it doesn't go against Quora's rule.My mother's side of the family was very wealthy. A little bit rare among wealthy Indonesians nowadays who are mostly new riches (only around two or three generations), their wealth can be traced back at least since 1800s during the Qing Dynasty. Arriving as immigrants, or to be precise, refugees from the civil war in China during early 1900s, they were one of the wealthiest families in Surabaya during the Dutch occupation, at the time when Surabaya was the largest city in Dutch East Indies and virtually the center of trading in the nation, exceeding those of Batavia, competing with the likes of Singapore and Hong Kong. Another branches of our family fled to the Straits Settlements (Malaysia and Singapore) and some are still very wealthy until today. Getting their money mainly from inheritance and political connections (my great-great-grandfather and several of his relatives were quite prominent in China at that time. His father, brother and at least two if his relatives have their own Wikipedia pages and during my visit to our ancestral hometown in China several years ago I was surprised that a lot of older people there still recognize my great-great-grandfather), my great-grandfather had no skill in real world business and spent his fortune on women, gambling, and shits. He got six wives and more than thirty children. His first wife (my great-grandmother) was quite exceptional for a lady of her generation. She spoke good English and Dutch (we still have her book collection and letters from her friends across the globe) and lived enviable jet-set lifestyle, sharing her time living in the Netherlands, US, Hong Kong, and Siam/Thailand, which was pretty unusual for an Asian lady at that time. My grandfather is the only son of hers and as Chinese custom says, he inherited most of family fortune when my great-grandfather died in 1970s. Those included were heirloom jewelleries, properties in Hong Kong and the States, numerous big houses at most strategic locations of Surabaya like Raya Darmo and Manyar, almost one hundred shophouses in Surabaya and Malang, and a poorly managed rubber plantation in Jambi. He also had no good business sense and went bankrupt just several years before I was born in late 1980s. Now in his 70s, he is still very wealthy by any standards but is dirt poor compared what he used to be.My paternal line of the family was the exact antithesis. Grew up dirt poor with not enough food, my grandmother experienced hardship raising her children. She often tells me stories about how her mother divided an egg for seven of her children. She educated her children pretty well, my dad and all of his brothers and sisters are either medical doctors or graduated from good German universities (because they are free!). Some brothers of my grandmothers are also doing well. One of them established a medium size cigarette company and another one is into oil palm and coal now. My dad started his business from scratch and now the revenue from his companies is in hundred millions US$ per year.Growing up was easy. From my childhood time, I could always have anything that I wanted. Whatever I wanted, I got. As simple as that. Want to see real dinosaur bones? Mom took me to the States. Want to see real lions after watching The Lion King? Went to South Africa when I was 7. Hong Kong or Sydney for the weekend? I've done that. Want fast cars? The first car I drove was a Ferrari Berlinetta (F355) when I learned to drive at 14 which I crashed into my dad's Mercedes-Benz S500 and the wall of our garage just one week later. Then I got Porsche 911 (996) for my 16th birthday present. My daily car during highschool was a Range Rover which I requested to my dad just because I want to stand out among BMWs and Mercedeses of my classmates. We also traveled constantly. Even before highschool, I had already been to 40 countries. My parents both love the sea, so we’d spend holidays in Fiji or Maldives.We own one main residence each in Surabaya and Jakarta, both are in one of the best (if not the best) neighborhoods. One is 2500 square meters and the other is around 4500 square meters. We employ a total of 9 asisten rumah tanggas for both houses. Pak kebuns, kokis, pak sopirs, pak satpams not included. For most part of my childhood, sadly I was raised by these people. Like many other children of wealthy parents, my childhood was a little bit lonely. My father was not home 7 days out of 10, and my mother attended her own events.I wasted my highschool doing crazy stuffs. I was into party everyday, doing car race at South Jakarta or at the highway all the nights, frequenting nightclubs, drinking excessive alcohols, renting private jet for shopping and lunch in Singapore with my friends, doing private heli trips to Bali just for killing boredom, and shits. It got even worse during my college time abroad. With practically unlimited source of money available for me, I did all the craziest things you can imagine before got kicked by the university. Fortunately I went back on track early, finisihing college after bloody struggle. I am really grateful of that since a lot of my wealthy childhood friends are still in their crazy life even until now.Went back to Indonesia, I started several businesses (restaurants, cafes, office buildings, ruko complexes, and low budget housing complexes) with my highschool friends while helping to do tiring overseas business trip replacing my dad for our family companies. I live rather down-to-earth lifestyle now. I live at my own apartment which I bought myself from my own savings. I drive nice but not extravagant car anymore. Porsche, Ferrari, Lamborghini? Sold. No US$20000 watches. No ridiculous luxury stuffs. My only splurge last year was buying used Mercedes-Benz SL63 AMG for half of the new price, got tailored clothings by a Singaporean guy instead of mass-produced ones, flying business instead of coach, several ridiculously expensive dinners, and doing grocery shopping only at Ranch Market. Now I'm trying to live as normal as possible, and it seems to suit me very well. Beside watching movies with my partner and friends, my hobby now is donating anonymously for causes matter to me on Kickstarter, Indiegogo, or Kitabisa and to dogs and cats shelters. In recent years we also contributed to clean water projects and donated to schools in impoverished areas. I sent our beloved bibi (asisten rumah tangga) who had been working for our family since before I was born to Umrah and built a very nice house for our recently retired driver who worked for us more than four decades. Overall, I spent only around 50-100 juta rupiah which is less than 5% of my monthly income for myself. The rest goes to investments and charities. I always try to blend in the society, eating at warungs sometimes or driving ordinary Innova once a week but alas, once you know me for a while, it's pretty obvious what end of the spectrum I come from, still I guess I get points for acknowledging that we all come from different and equally awesome places.And the last, I would like to add something I modified from quote by Bill Gates. Being rich is surely nice but being filthy rich is overrated. After you hit US$20 million or something, it is the same nasi goreng afterwards. I am sure that my nasi goreng tastes equal, if not better than Anthoni Salim, Aburizal Bakrie, Putera Sampoerna, or Budi Hartono's.Thank you for reading, sorry for writing too long, and hope that's helpful.