Huh, the comparison to 'Beauty' is a new one. Now I really have to read that book. The Atlantis one sounded genuine - like, the similarities in the visuals are INSANE - but Kimba always seemed really spurious to me (and if not there's enough added, like the cultural stuff, that I think I'd enjoy it anyway). That's reading descriptions and not viewing any of these, of course.

I don't WANT it to be true, because there are just coincidences like that sometimes and Disney takes stories from all other kinds of things while giving perfectly good credit, but I want to man it up and admit it if it's so. :(