Ban Disney
With Kimba being a cultural icon in Japan, kind of like what Simba is in the US, the release of The Lion King raised a protest in the community of animators and cartoonists. In support of producer Osamu Tezuka, thousands of Japanese cartoonists signed a petition against Disney.
Nothing came out of it eventually, and The Lion King became one of Disney’s highest grossing movies. Maybe there’s a lesson here that crime pays off.