Find out what are the latest additions and changes made to "55 years of Kimba the White Lion (Jungle Emperor)" website, this time directly from your Firefox browser http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/updates.html After 2 years of silence I've started working on update and redesign of my website, particularly because of the "60 years of Kimba". The silence occured because in the meantime I got married and I've become a father, but right now I've finally found time to return to this website. I'm planning many new things, including bigger website format so that it fits bigger screen resolutions, splitting of History by year page into decades, and of course new website look. The new website will be launched in the beginning of 2012. # Because of constant spamming activity that was unnecessary consuming my bandwidth, I was forced to remove the fanart gallery as it used to be, and to migrate all the picture to a "static" version of the gallery. Even though files cannot be uploaded automatically like before, everybody is welcome to submit fanarts by e-mail. Thank you for your understanding! http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/fanart.html The "Jungle Emperor Leo" complete box (limited edition) from Japan, that has been released on 23rd July 2008, at a much lower price than the original DVD-box from 2005, along with 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series and the 1966 "Leo" episodes, also contains a bonus - three booklets about the "Jungle Emperor" series. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/japanesereleases.html#23-07-2008 The french "Le roi Léo" complete DVD box (limited edition) that at a reduced price contains 20 DVDs with all episodes of french-dubbed 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series and the 1966 "Leo the Lion" episodes, aired in 1990, has been released on 23rd March 2009. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2007dc To make this website up-to-date, on History and on Recent history pages several updates have been made - After 5 years of airing of 1993 "Canadian" episodes on U.S. TV, some of them have ended in the meantime (on American One and on Kids and Teens Television), and currently there is only one left - Saturdays at 9:00 AM ET on i-Life TV. Also, the past airings of the 1965 "Jungle Emperor" series, of the 1989 Kimba series and of the 1997 movie on TV in Japan have been added. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historyafter2000.html#2009 After being released in the U.S. and in France, the 1997 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie has been released in Germany as well. Just like Right Stuf's english release of the movie, this version also features german dubbing and german subtitles, plus some bonus features like the movie trailer or TV ads. However, this release includes the soundtrack CD of the movie, which makes this release a "Collector's Edition". http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2008 On 22nd September the japanese Internet TV "Branco" added a new channel called "Tezuka Osamu Animation World" which showed the original japanese Jungle Emperor (AKA Kimba) series, along with other Tezuka works/series like Astroboy, Princess Knight, The Three-Eyed One, BlackJack, One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book and Fumoon. However, "Branco" has been shut down in January 2009. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historyafter2000.html#2008 Wonderful news for the Kimba/Jungle Emperor Leo fans in UK: both Jungle Emperor movies, along with the first episode from the original Kimba the White Lion series, and many other works by the great Osamu Tezuka, are going to be shown at the "Osamu Tezuka: Movies into Manga" festival, held from 18th to 24th September at the London's Barbican Centre http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historyafter2000.html#2008 I've updated the airing informations and airing times for the re-dubbed "canadian" Kimba series on TV in the U.S. Here can be found more info for Kids and Teens Television. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historyafter2000.html#2006 I've updated the airing informations and airing times for the re-dubbed "canadian" Kimba series on TV in the U.S. Here can be found more info for i-Life TV and America One TV. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historybycountry.html#usa In Australia the Kimba Ultra Limited DVD box is again sold by JB HI-FI at a reduced price of AU$29.98 (cca. US$26.20) instead of the regular price of AU$140.00. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2005a66 I've also corrected some mistakes on the DVD page, and since in the meantime the last (5th) DVD set with the french-dubbed "Leo" series has been released, I've added that info as well. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2007dc For the 6th time in the last 5 years, the 1977 german Kimba series are again aired on german "pay-TV" Junior. This airing has started on 1st July. The episodes are aired Monday to Friday at 8:30 AM, and Saturdays and Sundays at 7:20 AM CET. The airing will end on 7th August. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historyafter2000.html#2008 I've added a new video clip that contains the italian version (from the original italian Kimba series from the 1970s) of the song known in the original "Jungle Emperor" series as the "A-I-U-E-O mambo", or "Let's sing a (human) song", to the History pages. It's available as an Windows Media Video file which you can download (2 MB in size), and I've also written down and translated the lyrics of the song for better understanding. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historymain.html#1982 A new (although old) video release has been added - it is the rare UK Kimba video from 1983 that was released as 2 volumes, each containing 90 minutes of episodes (it was 4 episodes edited into a movie by removing the opening and closing sequences between the episodes). The first volume was released on 29th July 1983. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historymain.html#1983 Two new DVD releases have ben added to the DVD page - the first one is a "reduced" version of the Kimba Ultra Limited Set called Kimba Mini Set, and the second one is the "revised" version of the previously released (and in the meantime discontinued) french Le Roi Leo DVD box sets http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2007ms Thanks to Peter Domaszwicz from Australia, I've added to the DVD releases page an interesting info for australian Kimba fans that didn't yet manage to buy the Ultra Limited Kimba DVD-box set - JB HI-FI is selling on their online shop the Ultra Limited Kimba DVD set for just AU$40.00 until 27th September. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2005a66 Thanks to Joachim from Germany, I've made some small corrections of the Production Credits for the 1977 german Kimba series, as well as some updates of the opening theme's Lyrics. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historymain.html#1977 I've removed some defunct ordering links for some Kimba video releases. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/videoreleases.html A new 1993 "Canadian" Kimba DVD release that is currently circulating on eBay has been added to the DVD releases page. It was made by Digiview Entertainment in 2006. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/dvdreleases.html#2006digi I've added two new airing dates of the first 1966 "Jungle Emperor Leo" movie that took place in Italy, thanks to Francesco Piccardo from Italy and thanks to one Italian website. http://www.50yearsofkimba.com/historybyrelease.html