What is this genre all about? The world's second-largest continent and the birthplace of the human species, Africa is a place of a huge diversity, with deserts and savannas, with famine and precious stones, with cultural and economical riches of all kinds. Throughout history, Africa has been the cradle of empires and has been ruled by foreign powers, and as of the early 21st century sees swift changes and economic boom going side by side with inhuman levels of poverty.
We present you the list of Africa anime you should watch right now.
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Top 15 Africa anime you should watch right now. [2024 List]
- 15. JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders 2nd Season
- 14. Jungle Taitei
- 13. Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi: Bush Baby
- 12. Jungle no Ouja Taa-chan
- 11. Jungle Taitei (1989)
- 10. Yoroiden Samurai Troopers Kikoutei Densetsu
- 9. Shounen Kenya
- 8. Jungle Taitei Movie (1997)
- 7. Jungle Taitei: Yuuki ga Mirai wo Kaeru
- 6. Anime Koukyoushi: Jungle Taitei
- 5. Goddamn
- 4. Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
- 3. Doraemon Movie 03: Nobita no Daimakyou
- 2. Jungle Taitei Movie
- 1. Doraemon Movie 34: Shin Nobita no Daimakyou - Peko to 5-nin no Tankentai
15. JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken: Stardust Crusaders 2nd Season
Joutarou Kuujou and his allies have finally made it to Egypt, where the immortal Dio awaits. Upon their arrival, the group gains a new comrade: Iggy, a mutt who wields the Stand "The Fool." It's not all good news however, as standing in their path is a new group of Stand users who serve Dio, each with a Stand representative of an ancient Egyptian god. As their final battle approaches, it is a race against time to break Joutarou's mother free from her curse and end Dio's reign of terror over the Joestar family once and for all.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Battle in Egypt has finished airing and it has 24 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジョジョの奇妙な冒険 スターダストクルセイダース, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Part 3, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders - Egypt Arc
14. Jungle Taitei
Leo the white lion was born on an ocean liner that crashed on the shores of a bustling city, where he spent his childhood learning the language and customs of humans. But something was missing. In search of his family, home, and a place to truly belong, Leo traveled back to Africa and began his journey to become the King of the Jungle.
Leo's adventure centers around finding peace between the animals and humans who live in his African home, often competing for space and resources. As he grows, Leo must survive both the area's harsh environment, dangers from other animals, and humans who hunt lions like him for sport. Only communication and mutual understanding can end the fighting, and Leo's knowledge of human culture may be just what the jungle needed.Jungle Taitei is the epic story of a young lion's struggles to survive in a dangerous land.
Kimba the White Lion has finished airing and it has 52 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝, Jungle Taitei
13. Daisougen no Chiisana Tenshi: Bush Baby
When Jackie Rhodes, a british girl living in Kenya with her family, finds an ill animal called a Bushbaby, she adopts him, calls him Murphy and nurses him back to health. Murphy, Jackie, her family and their friends go on many adventures involving wild animals, poachers and more. But when Jackie's father is recalled to England, Jackie must leave her life in Africa behind. However, before she can go, Jackie, Murphy and Tembo, a friend of Jackie's father, go on one last adventure: they must cross the dangerous savannah to escape the poachers and corrupt police officers chasing them. Along the way, Jackie teaches the now domesticated Murphy to survive in the wild, so that, before she leaves, she can release him in his natural habitat.
Bush Baby has finished airing and it has 40 Episodes. It is also Known as: 大草原の小さな天使 ブッシュベイビー, The Bush Baby
12. Jungle no Ouja Taa-chan
Ta-chan is the king of jungle. He was abandoned in savanna, and has been raised by a chimpanzee, Etekichi. He has a dearest wife, Jane who used to be a top model in New York, but now she looks... Anyway, to protect animals from poachers, Ta-chan is fighting against them with his disciple, Pedro, and a master of Chinese martial arts, Ryo.
This anime is based on the manga with the same title; it begins as a comical parody of Tarzan. The first several episodes are comedies, but the rest of the series consists of (rather) serious episodes.
Jungle no Ouja Taa-chan has finished airing and it has 50 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングルの王者ターちゃん, Jungle King Taa-chan, Jungle no Ohja Ta-chan
11. Jungle Taitei (1989)
Leo (a.k.a. Kimba in the U.S.) is a young ambitious lion cub who takes his father's place as emperor of the jungle when is father is killed by poachers. Even though his father's fate was met by the hands of humans, Leo is one of the few animals in the Jungle that doesn't fear or feel hatred toward humans. He is not alone either, he is guided by friends of his father to help create the best animal kingdom there can be.
Jungle Taitei (1989) has finished airing and it has 52 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝, Bou Bou, The New Adventures of Kimba the White Lion, Jungle Emporer (1989)
10. Yoroiden Samurai Troopers Kikoutei Densetsu
A strange, silent warrior appears. When the Inferno armor is summoned to battle him, the mysterious warrior calls forth his own armor—a black copy of the Inferno armor! Now, the warriors will find themselves half a world away fighting once more to save humanity, but this time, from their own armor!
Ronin Warriors Legend of Kikoutei has finished airing and it has 4 Episodes. It is also Known as: 鎧伝サムライトルーパー輝煌帝伝説, Samurai Troopers OVA 2
9. Shounen Kenya
It is the year 1941. 11-year-old Murakami Wataru lives with his family, Japanese textile traders operating in British Kenya, when war breaks out between Japan and the Allies. Fleeing into the bush, young Wataru falls headlong into a series of fantastic adventures.
Kenya Boy has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 少年ケニヤ, Shounen Keniya, Jungle Boy
8. Jungle Taitei Movie (1997)
This movie focuses on the last half of Osamu Tezuka's revered saga of a white lion's quest to become king of the jungle. Leo's newborn cub, Lune, takes an interest to humans after discovering a music box in the wreckage of an airplane. At the same time, a greedy treasure hunter known as Ham Egg is leading an expedition team of rough-looking men on a trek for the fabled Moonlight Stones, which can supposedly save the world from an energy crisis. Two other humans, (who go by the rather wacky names of Dr. Moustache and Lemonade) try to stop Ham Egg's mad destruction of the jungle. Later, a terrible virus sweeps through the jungle, poisoning many of the animals. Dr. Moustache comes to save them with a cure. The film culminates with a treacherous journey up the legendary Mt. Moon in search of the stones....
Jungle Emperor Leo has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝 劇場版, Jungle Taitei Movie (1997)
7. Jungle Taitei: Yuuki ga Mirai wo Kaeru
Earth, sometime in the 21st century. Because of non-stop environmental destruction, the United Nations commissions a private company, "Eternal Earth," to create an artificial jungle, to be a nature preserve and to protect animals. All wild animals are forced to live in it.
The animals that live in this "neo-jungle" have an easy life. Leo, son of Panja, is born in this artificial world. Because of the unrealistic nature of the neo-jungle, Leo lives his life like he hasn't a care in the world. But Leo is ridiculed by the other animals; they call him a coward—he is not like his father, the great Jungle Emperor, but Leo vows that some day he will be.
Kenichi, son of the Eternal Earth company's CEO, has no doubt about the great success of the neo-jungle. The story starts when Leo and Kenichi meet. Kenichi has the special ability to understand what the animals are saying.
Jungle Emperor Leo has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝 -勇気が未来をかえる, Jungle Emperor Remake, Kimba the White Lion
6. Anime Koukyoushi: Jungle Taitei
Actually, that 1991 date is misleading. The Symphonic Poem originated with the music Isao Tomita wrote for Jungle Emperor in 1965. He re-worked his music into a long form which tells a story by itself. (This form of music was termed "symphonic poem" or "tone poem" by composers in the late Romantic era.) So music that was written originally to enhance visual story telling became the story teller.
Tomita's symphonic poem was recorded in the mid-60s and issued on LP in Japan. More than once, in fact. It has also been on CD more than once.
In 1991, Tezuka Productions turned the process upside down and created new animation to illustrate the symphonic poem. The story is basically that of the first Kimba episode. We see the peaceful animal kingdom under Panja, the coming of the hunters, Eliza's capture and Panja's death. Kimba is born and escapes back to Africa. All this told without a single word spoken. The style of the Symphonic Poem's animation is unique. It draws heavily on the style of the 1989 TV series, but Kimba looks different from the way he looked in any other production.
Anime Koukyoushi: Jungle Taitei has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: アニメ交響詩 ジャングル大帝, Anime Koukyoushi: Jungle Taitei
5. Goddamn
Car racing anime, based on the manga by Kaoru Shintani that serialised in Big Comic Superior from 1988 to 1990.
Goddamn has finished airing and it has 2 Episodes. It is also Known as: ガッデム, Goddamn
4. Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo!
Jungle Emperor was such a hit in Japan, that Dr. Tezuka went ahead and produced a sequel in 1966, known in Japan as "The New Jungle Emperor" or "Onward, Leo!" The trouble (for us in the rest of the world) was that he made the series without having a deal with NBC, and he made it more like his original manga story, which means that there were a lot of characters that died and some of the episodes could be depressing. NBC thought that there was no way they could sell that kind of show, and they were quite happy with the 52 episodes they had, so the New Jungle Emperor series wasn`t seen in this country until 1984, when it was given the title Leo The Lion.
This series was supposed to take place a few years after the original Kimba series. Kimba was an adult, with Kitty as his mate, and they had two cubs. Most of all this series was the story of Rune, the male cub, as he grew and learned to be as strong as his father.
For legal reasons, the producers of the English-dubbed version could not use the name Kimba, so they used the original Japanese names for all the characters.
Jungle Taitei: Susume Leo! has finished airing and it has 26 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝・進めレオ, Leo the Lion, New Jungle Emperor, Go Ahead Leo!, Jungle Emperor, Onward Leo!
3. Doraemon Movie 03: Nobita no Daimakyou
Nobita finds an stray dog and brings him home, little does he knows that the dog is actually a prince in his homeland, a world appart deep in the african "Smokers Forest" were the dogs evolved and have their own empire, so he and his friends take on a journey to take back the young prince to his homeland but when they get there things have changed...
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita and the Haunts of Evil has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 映画 ドラえもん のび太の大魔境, Doraemon: Nobita's Great Demon
2. Jungle Taitei Movie
The first 2 minutes of this film are taken from the Jungle Emperor Leo (1965) TV series, while the rest is all original. Tezuka was very pleased that this film conveyed his story accurately, something he wasn't able to do with the TV series.
Jungle Taitei Movie has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: ジャングル大帝 劇場版, Jungle Emperor Leo Movie, Jungle Taitei Gekijouban, Jungle Emperor Leo: The Movie, Jungle Taitei (1966)
1. Doraemon Movie 34: Shin Nobita no Daimakyou - Peko to 5-nin no Tankentai
This is a remake of the 1982 film, Doraemon: Nobita's Great Demon, which was written by original Doraemon co-creator Fujiko F. Fujio.
Doraemon the Movie: Nobita in the New Haunts of Evil -Peko and the Five Explorers- has finished airing and it has 1 Episodes. It is also Known as: 映画 ドラえもん 新・のび太の大魔境～ペコと5人の探検隊～, Doraemon: New Nobita's Great Demon - Peko and the Exploration Party of Five
