The series follows the adventures Leo, a young lion cub. Leo becomes king of the jungle when his father, the previous king of the jungle is killed by a human hunter.
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The white lion Panja, king of the jungle, dies. He sacrifices himself for his wife Eliza in trying to save her when she is captured by humans. Eliza gives birth to a baby on a transport ship, and names him Leo. She wants to save Leo, who carried the blood of Panja, so she has him escape from the sinking ship in the middle of a storm. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Mandy the orangutan and Coco the parrot are very glad to find that the white baby lion that had been washed ashore is Panja`s child. However, Leo is abducted by a group of death traders. Then the poet Buribal saves him, and Leo returns to the jungle to fight villains. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Kenichi and Mary, who were involved in an airplane accident, wander into the jungle where Leo and his friends live. Leo is very impressed when he sees Kenichi curing an animal by playing his flute, so he opens an animal school to absorb this kind of wisdom. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Panja`s old friend Samson discriminates against animals that live with humans. He gives Leo a mule and says that domestic animals are traitors that must eat by others according to the law of the jungle. However, Leo firmly rejects such barbarism... Source: tezukaosamu.net
The child leopard Rugar, who thinks his grandfather Rupe was killed by Panja, attacks Leo. But Leo had met Rupe in a sewer in Paris, and had promised Rupe that he would... Source: tezukaosamu.net
There is a long spell of drought, and somebody has eaten all the precious grass. Seeing his fellows going hungry, Leo tells them that they can live without being bothered by the weather if they cultivate fields like humans do. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The Black Panther Totto is against the jungle being firmly united by Leo. So he cunningly engenders distrust among the animals of the jungle. Leo tries to sort out the situation, but is tricked and pushed down to the Sulfur Valley. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The carnivorous animals stop eating meat and become herbivorous upon Leo`s suggestion, but they grow weak due to lack of protein. Leo is at a loss when they begin complaining. Then he hits upon the idea that insects such as grasshoppers can be substitutes for meat. Source: tezukaosamu.net
A scientist named Beast transplants the nerve of a great eagle to a tiger, and creates Winger, a tiger with wings. Then Winger kidnaps Romi`s mother. Leo asks the doctor to put wings on his back so that he can get back the mother. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The film crews that come to the jungle where Leo and his friends live think they have the right to do anything for their film. They set fire in the jungle, and try to kill Lyre in the fire. Leo sets out to rescue her. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The chief guard of the Conga Hunting Ground continues training captured animals to become violent, because he thinks hunting would be more fun that way. Leo prevails upon him to stop this outrage, but is lured into a trap by Congo`s lion Kim. He is in a desperate situation when a huge mammoth of a legendary mountain saves him. What is this mammoth called "Ofukurosan"? Source: tezukaosamu.net
Kenichi gets depressed because he misses his country. Leo and his friends begin a chorus to cheer him up. However, Ham egg and his hunting friends appear and take away the animals. Source: tezukaosamu.net
I am different form others. Why am I the only lion different from others? Leo gets depressed when he is treated like a failure. To comfort Leo, Kenichi tells him the story of the white lion Androcres, who was known as a god of Egypt. Source: tezukaosamu.net
During a spring-cleaning of the Jungle School, Tarchie takes some eggs for garbage and throws them into the river. The mother birds were panic. The students go down the river and at last retrieve the eggs. The mother birds collect their eggs, but one egg is left untouched. So Leo is obliged to take the egg himself. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The crocodile Gabuga attacks animals on the land. When he sees that his baby crocodile Pichie has drunk gasoline by mistake, he thinks Pichie`s friends on the land have poisoned his child. Leo sets out to rescue the animals Gabuga has captured... Source: tezukaosamu.net
The blue snake Nura come to the jungle. Nura uses hypnotism to catch the birds of their guard, and tries to eat them. When Leo comes to rescue the birds, however, he is attacked by a hypnotized birds instead. Source: tezukaosamu.net
The wild boar Vera, who has a strong inferior complex about her appearance, is laughed at even by her dear friend Ruca`s mother. She becomes desperate, and goes by herself to destroy the rough baboon that disturbs the peaceful jungle. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Leo meets his sister Ryona by chance in an abandoned village of a wood he has accidentally wandered into. Then Leo learns that Panja had once lived in the village as its guardian angel. Source: tezukaosamu.net
A barter restaurant opens so that animals used to different kinds of diet can avoid killing each other. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Sandy lost a fight with Mandy for the position of boss ten years ago. Now Sandy comes back to the jungle with his followers to take revenge on Mandy. Sandy threatens to spray sulfurous gas in the jungle if Mandy is not handed over to him. Source: tezukaosamu.net
An epidemic breaks out in a village, so Leo and the old barberry sheep Percy head for the rocky mountain Rock to find the cure. However, it is a dangerous place haunted by flying lizards that appear at night. Source: tezukaosamu.net
A swarm of grasshoppers fly out of the cracks on the ground. Suddenly there is an excess supply of food, and carnivorous animals become stout. Then appears a grasshopper that has become gigantic by radioactivity. The carnivorous animals are too fat to move, so Leo has to fight the huge grasshopper alone. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Bubu and Totto force an old horned owl to make a poisonous drug, and give it to Leo. The two are pleased because they think they have killed Leo by poison. However, the drug causes only numbness. When they find that Leo is still alive, they try to make the old owl create a real poison this time. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Leo finds out that thousands of elephants have been killed by Congo and his men, and tells the elephant boss Darba about it. Darba, however, does not believe him. The elephants ignore Leo`s warning, only to find themselves victims of massacre by an army of tanks. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Oba does not like the idea of making friends with herbivorous animals. So she gives meat to her children, and has them come to like its taste. The children are fascinated by the taste; their instincts as carnivorous animals are awakened and they try to attack herbivorous animals. Source: tezukaosamu.net
Small and low on the food chain, it is Newton who has taken to making up big stories and spreading them around the jungle.To the dismay of the other animals,Kimba befriends Newton. Newton's many lies are catching up fast and no one wants to believe him when he needs help. Can Kimba convince his friends to help Newton now that he really needs help?
Kimba has to figure out why Wiley Wildcat is making trouble, especially for his friend Dan'l Baboon and his diner. Kimba resolves to stop him but discovers Wiley just may have had a good reason for acting the way he has.
Dr Spee's experiment with some flowers goes awry and anyone who smells the strange flower is beset with horrible nightmares. The animals are unsure what is a nightmare and what is reality.
KItty's uncle Specklerex comes for a visit and challenges Kimba to a series of contests to prove he is worthy of his heritage.
Kimba makes a journey to the legendary city made entirely of gold. After learning of his nemesis friends,Tom and Tab, have gotten themselves lost, Kimba undertakes the dangerous mission to the city which was buried by massive earthquakes to find them. Kimba faces incredible dangers to save the pair of hyenas from a certain death.
Seymour Hart is a ranger on a wild life preserve that is believed to be a safe place for animals. His job in protecting the animals is in trouble when poachers invade and Seymour is gravely injured. Bucky and Pauley Cracker allow themselves to be captured by hunters in hopes of finding the location of the poachers leader and ridding the preserve of the hunters once and for all.
When Harold Heron mysteriously disappears during a violent storm the animals accuse Clunker, the new Hippo, of being responsible. Kimba must visit Clunker's past and prove why he believes in Clunkers innocence.
The jungle animals want to start their very own amusement park which proves to be a daunting task. While undertaking the construction of the amusement park Kimba has to contend with his father's arch enemy Claw. To help in his war with Kimba, Claw has help from Cassius, the black panther and the hyenas Tom and Tab. When Kimba defeats Claw in a battle he is given permission from Claw to destroy Cassius. Kimba must chose whether he wants to follow the traditional law of the jungle, or declare peace instead.
Claw sabotages Kimba's new amusement park in retaliation for building it on his hunting territory. Kimba is seriously injured when the roller coaster is tampered with and Claw has help with Cassius,Tom and Tab to turn Kimba's friends against him.
Kimba discovers Colosso, the last survivor of a race of giant birds, after rescuing Charlie and Harley Cheetah from Petrified Valley. Colosso is invited to Kimba's jungle but can't fit in.
An ancient well has a message for everyone, from ancient human history to the current hippopotamuses who claim it... while the animals' farm is in desperate need of water during the current drought.
While Kimba takes the children at school on a field trip to Volcano Island, Boss Rhino is busy there trying to make way for a female rhino that's about to give birth. Boss Rhino demands that Kimba leaves, but when Kimba refuses, he is forced to accept Boss Rhino's challenge to a match. The two fight, and both end up equally injured. Neither of them wanting to give up, they both agree to "postpone" the match the other has recovered enough to fight. Though they refuse to admit it, it was a draw. Soon the baby rhino is born, but when the volcano erupts, Kimba and Boss Rhino must set aside their differences and work together to save everyone.
When a heard of antelope start stampeding, Kimba discovers that they are doomed to head straight into a lake. As punishment for assuring the others the farm wouldn't get damaged when it did, Bucky goes off to get the antelope to come back and fix the mess. However, he soon gets caught in the middle, and all of the animals try to save him. Though they succeed in rescuing him, Bucky is outraged that they couldn't stop the antelope. As Kimba realizes that he can't possibly save them all, he breaks down, and loses all confidence in himself, proving he is still a kid. Can the other animals get Kimba to snap out of it and even try to rescue them, even knowing that that he can't save them all?
Kimba meets a young ostrich named Benny, who only wants to hang out with Kimba. However, Benny's uncle, known as Big Ben, disapproves of this action, and always causes problems. Though Kimba tries and tries to shake the ostrich away from him, he just can't seem to get rid of him, causing trouble for Kimba. When Benny gets hurt, Big Ben grows furious and demands that Kimba returns to the jungle. When Benny follows Kimba even there, the animals must get him back to Big Ben before they get in even more trouble.
With the appearance of the Devil Wind at the sunset, the Destroyers from the Desert show up. They instantly beat up Kimba and force all of the animals to obey them. Daniel knows the truth though, he knows that once their is no moe food left, the destroyers will eat all of the animals. Against Daniel's orders, Pauley begins training Kimba in a new art of fighting to defeat them. The animals all flee the forest, and Daniel refuses to let Kimba fight. However, three children were left behind, and are now on the menu. Pauley tries to save them, but is easily beaten. With no other option, Kimba prepares to take them on again. Will his new technique allow him to defeat these three powerful foes?
After stopping Tom and Tab from stealing some humans' balloon, Kimba discovers Dot, Dash, and Dinky playing in it. Despite knowing not to, Kimba joins in the fun, and the balloon is accidentally started up. The four are awestruck by the view, and enjoy themselves. Meanwhile, the humans have realized the balloon has been taken, and they want it shot down. The bad news is, Kimba and the others don't know how to land it. Even worse...there's a bomb attached to it!
A "chimera" from the Atlas Mountains is terrifying a peaceful little village by appearing in the middle of the night and stealing cattle. Kimba is called for aid; the monster turns out to be a bear and her cub.
Roger Ranger is taken captive by the elephants when he asks them for passage through their graveyard to get to a place known as Rainbow Valley. If Kimba wants him back, he and a few other animals must swim in a swamp, where if you stop moving you'll drown, for 10 days without stopping for anything. While doing this, Kimba recaps the events of how he first met Roger Ranger long ago.
Tonga once again tries capturing Kimba, this time through the use of tanks disguised as Hippos. Her plan soon fails, thanks to Roger, and she flees. When Pompus is taken captive by Tonga, Roger sets out alone to save him, but he is also captured. Tonga prepares for another invasion, while Kimba prepares the animals for war. Meanwhile, Roger becomes convinced that Tonga is Mary, and tries to think of a way to make her remember him.
While Kimba and some of the other animals are playing a game, a car drives up and Kimba and the others hide. To their surprise, the human woman in the car calls for a cheetah named Prancy to hop out of the car. The lady tells Prancy that she's too big to keep now, so she brought her back to where she was found. The car drives off and Prancy finds Speedy stuck in the ground. Prancy recognizes him to be her little brother. Speedy is glad to see her sister again, but when all of the animals start swooning over her, he becomes a little bitter. Kimba even starts to like her a bit. Hoever, when ants soon attack the jungle, everyone is forced to flee. But, when Speedy ends up being left behind, Kimba refuses to go since Speedy "deserved" it. After all of the animals become furious with him, and after realizing how much his friend means to him, Kimba sets off to save Speedy. But, can he do it alone?
A giant spider threatens the jungle, and not even Kimba can defeat it. Regardless, Kimba seems to be the only one who can stop the menace. However, when Kimba gets bit by a tsetse fly, he becomes very ill and has a hard time distinguishing friend from foe. With Kimba unable to help, Daniel Baboon devises a plan to defeat the spider once and for all. But, can they really do it without Kimba's help?
Wildfires in the surrounding area leave a herd of elephants without food. Kimba brings them to his jungle, where the resident elephants resent sharing their food. Kelly Funt imprisons Kimba in an old tower, which becomes the inspiration for protecting their own jungle from the encroaching fire.
Dan'l receives a message from his old great great grand-uncle Scratch who wants help to save the oldest and tallest tree in the world, the "sun tree". Muffy, a young cousin of Dan'l's, resents their intrusion, because he's convinced the tree will die and wants all the animals living in it to save themselves by moving to a new home. Despite Kimba's and the animals' efforts, a storm blows over the old sun tree. But Kimba learns that life will renew itself.
Kimba and a few other animals meet an otter named Flappo. Flappo is an otter who loves to explore the world. Curious, Kimba and the few animals join him on an adventure. However, before the journey's over, Kimba may the one who wants to quit.
After a brutal storm damages the shrine, Kimba's sister, Leona, realizes that the hides of her ancestors are no longer safe. She enlists the help of Kimba to help her move them to a safe location. However, many hides are lost after Kimba's selfless actions save some of the animals helping out. Furious, Leona scolds him and goes off alone. Kimba too wants nothing to do with her anymore. One animal informs Kimba that Leona was captured by the four black leopards, but Kimba refuses to save her because she doesn't want his help. When a solar eclipse happens, all of the animals flee and refuse to talk to Kimba. Boss Rhino informs Kimba of an old superstition, and it's coming true because Kimba's already betrayed someone he loves. Realizing he can't just forget about his sister, he goes off to search for her. Can Kimba save Leona before the prophecy comes true? Can he and his sister make up and work together again?
Silvertail is an old renegade lion who stumbles out of the jungle needing Kimba's help in hiding out from his enemies. But Silvertail needs to learn to be less aggressive with the jungle residents before they will agree to help him.He must also ask to be forgiven in order to stay and live out the rest of his life with Kimba and his friends.
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