{"id":14484,"date":"2009-01-27T13:55:35","date_gmt":"2009-01-27T17:55:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/?p=14484"},"modified":"2009-01-27T15:33:45","modified_gmt":"2009-01-27T19:33:45","slug":"new-jungle-emperor-anime-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/new-jungle-emperor-anime-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"New Jungle Emperor Anime Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/new-jungle-emperor-anime-announced.jpg\" alt=\"New Jungle Emperor Anime Announced\" title=\"New Jungle Emperor Anime Announced\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-14486\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Fuji TV network has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fujitv.co.jp\/fujitv\/news\/pub_2009\/09-019.html\" target=\"_blank\">revealed<\/a> the development of a new Jungle Emperor TV special based on the Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s beloved 1950 manga series. The new special, written by Osamu Suzuki, screenwriter of the Lovely Complex live action film, will be an entirely original story introducing a white lion cub raised in an artificial &#8220;Neo Jungle&#8221; who vows to grow up to become the jungle emperor. While the new special will have no direct continuity connection to Tezuka&#8217;s Jungle Emperor manga and anime, it will concentrate on a similar story and the themes of family, friendship, and environmental issues that characterized Tezuka&#8217;s original work. The special will commemorate the Fuji TV network&#8217;s 50th anniversary, and the 80th anniversary of Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s birth.  Tezuka passed away in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Code Geass director Goro Taniguchi, Minoru Nishida, art director for the Kiku-chan to Okami TV special and the Hi no Tori TV series, and acclaimed painter Yoshitaka Amano have all been confirmed to work on the new TV special.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsnetwork.com\/news\/2009-01-27\/geass-taniguchi-ff-games-amano-on-new-jungle-emperor\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Fuji TV network has revealed the development of a new Jungle Emperor TV special based on the Osamu Tezuka&#8217;s beloved 1950 manga series. The new special, written by Osamu Suzuki, screenwriter of the Lovely Complex live action film, will be an entirely original story introducing a white lion cub raised in an artificial &#8220;Neo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}