The king on DVD?

[Danny]

I just noticed that over @ ezyDVD.com.au they are selling Kimda on DVD for $5 for the first two volumes. To be honest I did not even realise this wonderful series was even on DVD. Man I still remember watching this as a kid.

Now I want to buy them for the price, but I know what I am like.. I will get these two and then not having the rest of the set will haunt me into frustration.

Does anyone know how much of this series was actually released on DVD here in Australia?

Whos the king of animals in africa?
whos the one who brought the jungle fame?
Whos the king of doing good and doing right?
Kimba the white lion is his name!

:D

[Haruka-chan]

I'm not sure... but there is a US box set released of the 1st season

http://fm.cartoongallery.com.au/cartoon/FM...12980135&-find= (http://fm.cartoongallery.com.au/cartoon/FMPro?-db=cartoongallery&-format=detail.html&-lay=cgi&Title=kimba&Type=DVD&weekssinceentry=%3e%3d0&-max=10&-recid=35828&-token=12980135&-find=)

sorry for the bad url ^^; i'm at Uni and these computers suck so i can't do much.

Anyway it was released in the US and you can get for AU$135 abouts from Cartoon Gallery, so should be able to import from another place cheaper

[DrFrag]

I just picked up a couple of animation cells from the original Kimba. I never got to see the show, so I partly bought them for the Tezuka memorobilia and partly to maybe frame and give to my wife for her birthday (she loved the show).

It's really amazing to see a genuine cell (with original sketch). You can see how they drew it and put it all together. B)

[Loüßëãr]

:o Ohh wow...where did u get them from??

[DrFrag]

Some guy on ebay called luvasianladies. I think he lives in the US but ships stuff from Japan.

http://search.ebay.com.au/search/search.dl...14&BasicSearch= (http://search.ebay.com.au/search/search.dll?query=kimba+cel&x=12&saavailabletosite=15&ht=1&sosortproperty=1&from=R10&y=14&BasicSearch=)

The stuff on there is ranging from 1 cent to US$61 at the moment. I got mine for US$18. I've seen some go for over a hundred dollars, so just keep an eye on them and be prepared to bid in the final minute!

This is what I won:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Mf...item=3279800036 (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=3279800036)
The colour is incredibly crisp. What they do is draw very precice lines at the edge of some of the colour (from the back), then fill in the coloured areas with paint. Each subsequent colour can overlap previously painted areas because it's a transparency and they're colouring from the back. It's really interesting to look at close up. :) They're about A3 size and have special alignment holes along the edge. They also come with the original sketch for that frame. Very nice.
Astroboy cels seem to be harder to come by.

[Loüßëãr]

:P I know that there are quite a few Black Jack fans here and just fans of the Tezuka Art so I won this cel (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=3283640728:IT) of Black Jack today on Ebay...I think its a great pose of Black Jack. I cannot place the monk charecter but its been a while since I have seen the series ;) But I have also bought a cigarette lighter, silver one, and a flash strap for my mobile......just to annoy the Anti-astro people around my place ;) :wahah: :P ;) :wahah: BTW DrFrag, love your cell. The same seller has a similar piece for sale again now if there is anyone after a great piece of art

[jeffbert]

This is what I won:
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Mf...item=3279800036 (http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=3279800036)
The colour is incredibly crisp. What they do is draw very precice lines at the edge of some of the colour (from the back), then fill in the coloured areas with paint. Each subsequent colour can overlap previously painted areas because it's a transparency and they're colouring from the back. It's really interesting to look at close up. They're about A3 size and have special alignment holes along the edge. They also come with the original sketch for that frame. Very nice.


By the looks of Ham Egg, I would say this is not from the series, but from the movie that we were discussing a few months ago. :lol:

[DrFrag]

That's a great cel, Loüßëãr. He was selling a similar one a few weeks ago and there was about a day to go with the highest bid still at 1 cent. I was so tempted to buy it, but when I checked back it was up to US$22. You got an excellent deal on yours!

[EvilGenki]

well, this topic is about kimba and such..so I'll put this here.
okay, I just bought a volume 1 of Leo the Lion from Wal-Mart for like $8..and I basically got what I paid for. It is 2-Discs with 4 episodes on the first disc and 3 episodes on the second disc. When I brought it home I read the back, it says:
"Created by legendary Japanese animator of 'Astro Boy' Osamu Tuzuka, LEO THE LION makes its DVD premiere. In this sequel series to 'Kimba the White Lion,' Leo guides his family along the path of respecting and helping all other creatures in the jungle.
This award winning series teaches children morals and to value the feelings of others. It will also fulfill the anime crowd as well as anyone who grew up with the original television broadcast."

On the bottom it says it plays on all DVDs worldwide..and I don't think thats a good sign. It also says Dolby Digital Sound AC-3 Stereo..I have no idea what AC-3 is. Did you notice they spelled 'Tezuka' wrong? hmm..

I put in the first disc and went to the static menus and the song had a muffled sound to it..like it was old. I played the episode and the crappy sound stayed throughout the whole disc. It even got worse at parts and it was hard to make out what the characters were saying. I tried it on my PS2 aswell and the sound was still terrible.

The artwork on the cover is'nt even Tezuka art..and the company that did this is called, Palm Beach Entertainment. I only spent $8 so I got what I paid for..its not even watchable though, because of the sound quality. Im guessing they could'nt make something old sound better?
Or did they even try? *cough* well Im down ranting..anyone have something to contribute?

[jeffbert]

That is probably the series I rented a whila ago. The color and sound were both saturated. Even with the color level set to zero, it was still toom much. There was no helping the sound, though. I think I watched all available disks, but am not certain. It was intersting to see the white lion as an adult, with cubs of his own, though. The theme song was pitiful!

[EvilGenki]

yeah, I found info on the net and it was released in 2003. Most of the sites that were selling it did'nt have an image of the box. My expectations were too high, and I was disappointed with what I bought. It really makes the series look awful..Im sure Tezuka Productions made a better disc.

[Haruka-chan]

Heh i have the first 3 dvds....they look so bootleggy and the series looks/sounds awful. AC3 is a sound codec (decoder) that the DVD players needs to have to play the disc ^_^

[EvilGenki]

hah! At least I wasn't the only one who bought a DVD..Is there a better quality DVD set out of Leo the Lion?

[O2Destroyer]

Oh my goodness...

...just saw the Jungle Emperor Leo (1998) DVD and felt I better put my 2 cents into this thread, along with a lot of questions.

Regarding Kimba (the 60's series), obviously we have the Rhino set. Not that Rhino did a bad job with it, but I'm wondering how much was cut for NBC. Never mind it is only half the series. There's a Japanese release, but like Astroboy, it's about $250 a box, and it doesn't even look like there are English subtitles. Nice.

Is the Jungle Emperor manga available at all? I had no idea I was going to get into this so much, and now having seen the movie, I'm even more compelled to want to read it, if not everything I can get ahold of by Tezuka. One beautiful thing this has going for it, unlike Astro Boy is that it apparently does have continuity throughout--a bad thing for TV shows I suppose, but a great thing for comics.

Back to the movie anyway...so, some reviews do not seem compelled by Tezuka's writing and seem to think he is dated--somehow the self sacrifice at the end is too 50's or something. I don't understand. Personally I think our attitude toward stories and heroes tends to go in waves. For a long time we've had nothing but anti-heroes or more sophisticated characters who are sometimes heroic and sometimes not. For me, the Spiderman 2 movie was sort of a return to form, where Spidey really was, if only for part of the film, the old fashioned 'good guy'. It's hard to say that kind of idea ages, it just isn't always appreciated.

I'm sure Astro boy's 'robot with a big heart' mentality is probably a turn off to a lot of people, what with Astro Boy being so relentlessly good, but I'm realizing more and more that's what I love about Tezuka--he sticks to this vision and always makes it interesting, where so many of the 20th centuries do-gooders were often such a bore.

So here we have Jungle Emperor Leo, and while I don't know if it is a GREAT movie, I think it feels like a good adaptation of Tezuka. It had no problem having fun and being cute while also enveloping the characters in tragedy. Knowing I'm probably never going to be able to put down $500 and learn Japanese to see the big box sets, being able to see the beginning and the end was extremely rewarding. Hell, just seeing at the beginning of the film that Leo/Kimba has been successful and accomplished his dream was enough to make the film worthwhile; never mind the reward of seeing Mustachio and Leo team up for a good portion of the film.

[jeffbert]

Upon checking Amazon.com, I see that only German versions of Kimba (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-form/104-2640709-6211116) have been listed among the 80 titles by Osamu Tezuka. :cry: