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by sdoering 4820 days ago
Well. OK; they really do not look alike. ;-) I have no idea, how far the stories match up, but coming from a literature background, I can only say, that a lot of stories are a lot alike, when they tell anything in the same genre.

I mean, look at a lot of forensic women in thrillers. But that is just meant as a bit background-info on literature. There is even a "scientific" way of saying, some (very) old author copied from someone else:

Intertextuality: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intertextuality

But as a side-note: Don't the ears of the white lion remind anyone of Mickey Mouse? Just saying... ;-)

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"But as a side-note: Don't the ears of the white lion remind anyone of Mickey Mouse? Just saying... ;-)"

* Mickey Mouse: First appearance - Steamboat Willie (1928)

* Kimba The White Lion: [..]Kimba the White Lion, is an anime series from the 1960s. Created by Osamu Tezuka and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950