Rip-off? - The Lion King Reviews

I saw a post proclaiming this was a rip-off. Surely many things did happen the same, but alot didnt. Now Kimba's father was killed by poachers and his mother died on a ship. There were humans in Jungle Emperor, many many different animals, Kimba's mother appeared in the stars whilst his father came to Kimba in the moon, it was also a televison show. Simba means "Lion" in African so there is where your name comes from. Now I do like Disney and I will admit some of the occurences in the two stories are the same but none the less, Tezuka ripped-off{for lack of a better word!} Diseny by creating a 45 minute film about 7 characters who looked strikingly similar to the seven dwarfs: but you see no one debating this? Very well. Oh yeah, all anime originally started with Disney animation. Tezuka for one, admired Disney animation and begain usuing the eyes and such for the character appearances{I am unsure if he was the first though} and the animation begain changing to the anime you see today. Yes, The Lion King WAS recreated after Hamlet - read the two story lines and you will see. Animes does tend to rip-off other ideas, but so do many things so I am on neither side. My iritation with Kimba is he did not look like a lion, nor did many of the chracters look like what they were supposed to be. But what are ya going to do? As for the film, The Lion King was very good, the acting was fairly well and the visuals were fantastic - I wish Dinsey would put as much effort into their newer films as they did into these older ones..