Jungle Emperor (ジャングル大帝, Janguru Taitei), known in the United States as Kimba the White Lion, is a Japanese anime series from the 1960s, created by Osamu Tezuka, and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950. It was the first color TV animation series created in Japan. The entire series of manga was first published in serialized form in Manga Shōnen magazine.