Jungle Taitei (1989)

Wild

Failure

When a volcano erupts not far from Panja's jungle, it causes damage to the jungle. Seeing the damage done to his father's jungle, Kimba (Leo) begins to get more abrasive as he struggles to do everything at once, worrying his friends and the other animals. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

White Beast

Lyra had noticed that Leo has started to change since she had first met him. She reveals over the episode to him that he has gotten more brutal and cruel in his fighting style and shows no mercy to his enemies. Meanwhile, Leona gets captured by poachers so that they can sell her for profit. Leo and Laiya chase the hunters and rescue Leona. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Pride

Kimba (Leo) goes into exile and journeys out into a desert. There he meets an elderly Barbary lion named Crave, who has lost his pride. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Fighting Spirit

Kimba (Leo) continues his exile, coming across a coalition of vicious cheetahs hunting him down for trespassing into their territory, learning an important lesson. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Life

Kimba (Leo) continues on with his exile, continuing further outside of Panja's jungle, Kimba (Leo) must learn the facts of life and death before he can finally return home. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Leader

Kimba (Leo) realizes after his journey that he is happiest with his friends and promptly decides to return to his former jungle. On the way, he encounters some poachers who are hunting for mountain gorillas. He happens to run to a den of mountain gorillas nearby. He meets Garu, Giru, Zeo and their leader, Silverback. The poachers capture the baby gorillas nearby. As Kimba (Leo) helps defend the gorillas from the poachers, he learns what it means to be true and just leader - not a boss or a king. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Homecoming

As Kimba (Leo) makes it back to the jungle, he's greeted with fanfare. But he's is stuck between a rock and a hard place: wanting to abide by the laws of Panja's jungle and defending it from Bubu. All the animals decide to stand up together against Bubu and Toto. They are driven out of the jungle. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Reunion

Leo's human caretaker, Kenichi, returns to Africa and meets his little white lion friend again. Leo is unable to recognize Kenichi, but he realizes that he is not like the other humans that want to destroy the jungle. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Migration

Different kinds of animals are migrating to Panja's Jungle. As coco states: "it's starting to look cramped here!" A cape buffalo herd run by Rog is challenging Bob in order to stay there. But their main concern was getting away from the poachers. Out of desperation and trying to stop the conflict, Kimba (Leo) gets emotional, not knowing what to do to stop them in his inner struggle. This makes the fighting cape buffaloes rethink their actions. Coco also helps Kimba (Leo) finds his den where he will live. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Friendship

Tony finds a gun and recklessly starts swinging it at Coco. He accidentally fires it and injures a baby monkey. Due to the laws of Panja's jungle, Tony is driven out of the jungle. He meets up with Bubu and Toto, who were also exiled. Sneakily, Bubu manages to gain Tony's trust to let his guard down. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Sacrifice, Pt 1

An organization led by Miss Chiffon are set out to find a special mine. A helicopter team hired by the organization (codenamed Condor 8) is instructed to have full coverage of the area within two kilometers of the mine and destroy everything within a hundred kilometers of the site. The nearby ship crew are instructed to steal the rare white lion Goddess. One of the ship crew members, Julian tranquilizes Leona and shoves the lion into a sack and takes her back to the ship. Hired by the organization, Ham Egg and Kutter attempt to swindle the Palos Village's members and attorney by trying to encourage the Palos villagers to leave their home before the village is blown to smithereens. Their plan doesn't work, so the palace, sanctuary and the rest of the village is destroyed. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Sacrifice, Pt 2

Kimba (Leo) and Kitty (Laiya) continue on their perilous journey to rescue Leona, as they come across various obstacles along the way. The pair are unaware that Ham egg (Jake) has set a trap for Kimba (Leo) using Leona as part of the trap. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Mourning

A grieving Laiya carries Leona's collar with her everywhere, but loses it forever when she helps a leopard cub. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Image

Kimba (Leo) shows Laiya his hidden treasure: a temple that shines in dust that he discovered in Episode 6: Intruder. Gibo, a young warthog collects human treasures that they lose. He is attached to them so much that he personifies the objects as his family, so that he doesn't feel alone. The other animals call him strange for doing this and want to cast him out of the jungle for encouraging humans to come near Panja's Jungle as Gibo steals a tracking device. This was placed by researchers that are staying near the jungle. While Laiya befriends Gibo, his objects cause a forest fire. All must work together to extinguish the fire, along with Gibo giving up his processions. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Protection

While on a walk with Coco outside of Panja's Jungle, Tony gets captured along with a herd of gazelles and taken to the nearby safari park. Peter, his wife, Coco, and Kimba (Leo) come to Tony's rescue. The Wildebeest from the park asks if Kimba (Leo) made it to his father's jungle. He attempts to escape the park again, but fails. He promised Kimba (Leo) that they would see each other in Panja's jungle. Tony tries to free the animals from the reserve with the help of Kimba (Leo), Marody, Peter and another leopard he and other animals finally escape. Bobby, a barbary lion along with other animals from the escaped group felt safe and secure at the safari park and wished to be taken by the humans again. Marody does not tolerate this from Bobby and immediately kills him. Panja also would not tolerate animals being tamed by the humans and would slice the traitors' throats, Marody says. Kimba (Leo) doesn't take this fact kindly. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Adventure

Vultures attack a group of monkeys which causes Laiya and Kimba (Leo) to come to their rescue. Kimba (Leo) protects Laiya some getting injured; however, Kimba (Leo) is badly scratched along the way. Laiya decides to go to the Crystal Forest to find a cure through a special herb, despite the other animals' hesitance. Kurosagi explains that it's a dangerous journey to get to the Crystal Forest and a guardian protects the legendary herb. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Trust

Jean, an outsider sets up camp near Panja's jungle. He captures Tony by a rope and tries to convince him that he's not trying to kill him, by treating a wound on his leg. As Kimba (Leo) frees him, Jean becomes fascinated by the white lion protecting the gazelle from harm, but knows he must be wary while keeping distance from the lion's jungle. Bubu and Toto take notice of this and want to take advantage of the humans being near. They plot to drive Kimba (Leo) out of the jungle again by breaking the jungle's rules, using Kimba (Leo)'s weakness to resort to violence and keeping humans out of Panja's jungle. They consistently bring the humans near by provoking Jean and Sylvia. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Nature

Twin brother leopards, Billy and Kerry, arrive in the savannah outside of Panja's Jungle for a movie shoot. Kerry is taken out of the jeep they arrived in. When Kimba (Leo) goes to investigate, he opens the back door to find a frightened Billy. Kimba (Leo) takes him back to the jungle. All of the other animals are amazed at the tricks Billy can do, until they find out that Billy was raised by humans. All become wary of him. Billy becomes impatient and wants to be taken back to the humans. He sees his brother, Kerry, get killed by a lion, where humans were filming. The humans put Billy in danger by having him climb a cliff over a ranging river. Kimba (Leo) comes to his rescue, Billy realizes how nice it is that Kimba (Leo) has freedom. After both of them fall off the cliff, presuming, they had gotten killed, the humans leave Billy behind. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Paradise

Many members of Pagoola (Pagura)'s herd are killed by poachers who want to take their tusks and sell them for profit. Pagoola (Pagura) decides to take his herd to Panja's jungle for protection, because he reminded himself about what Kimba (Leo) said to him when they first met: "This jungle is everyone's last sanctuary". Pagoola is trying to protect his herd instead of fighting the humans. This makes his son, Bizo think his father is turning into a coward. When the humans decide to enter Panja's jungle, Kimba (Leo) to keep this a secret from the elephants as they are still wounded from their previous encounter with humans. Pagoola is suspicious when he hears gun shots and wants to investigate. He drives the poachers' truck off of a cliff and saves everyone, but he lose his left horn in the process. Pagoola leaves the herd and gives Bizo permission to lead the others. They both decide to leave the jungle. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Time Illusion

Tanner and his crew are searching for Abipollion (Abiporion), a legendary forest where the white wizard resides. His crew leave him to find food and water. He spots the legendary white lion running towards a huge cliff with a gorge. They both manage to fall in and discover a jungle with prehistoric inhabitants. Tanner and Kimba (Leo) also come across a Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs along the way. Tanner leaves a pistol in the creek where the animals drink from, which leaves gun residue behind, this poisons the dinosaurs, including the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Both want to help him recover, but the Tyrannosaurs rex goes and finds a place to die, not before showing the way out of the prehistoric jungle. Tanner figures out that the white wizard IS the white lion, Leo. The Abipollion (Abiporion) is actually Panja's jungle where the lion rules. He respects that Kimba (Leo) owns this territory and he takes the opportunity to leave the jungle with his crew. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Threat

A peaceful day in the jungle turns into tragedy when Kimba and Laiya discover birds dead in the water. Then an ominous dark cloud appears that's sending humans running for cover as acid rain begins to fall in the jungle. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Reconciliation

Skull rock started crying in the eyes of Kurosaji (Uncle Black Rhino) and the Jungla people. The tribe is preparing a ceremony to stop the rock from crying so the village will be cursed forever. The men capture six gazelles along with Tony and plan to sacrifice them with the black hidden treasure. Clayton and Lam want the black hidden treasure for themselves and plan to steal it. While not being the brightest humans in the bunch, they are not very successful being cautious and quiet. They do manage to sneak Tony away who has the black hidden treasure around his neck. Conga beings to grow fond of Kimba (Leo) for she realizes that he's trying to protect his fellow animals. After this revelation, Conga bandages Kimba (Leo)'s wound and works together with Kimba (Leo) to fight off the humans and retrieve Tony holding the black hidden treasure. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)

Father

During a rain storm, Kimba (Leo) can hear his father, Panja's voice calling him through the thunder while the lighting is pointing in his direction. Leo ventures out of Panja's jungle to find the village that Panja was shot in. Eventually, Leo finds Panja's hide in a hut where he was being worshiped as a god by the village. Leo steals his father's hide from the village after he is touched by his father's presence. He takes the hide back to Panja's jungle to watch over the jungle and its animals. (Source: Jungle Emperor Leo Wiki)