Jungle Taitei: Yuuki ga Mirai o Kaeru

Leo is a white lion cub, the son of the jungle emperor Panja. Leo is kind to other animals, a bad hunter and afraid of jumping over crevices. This causes the prey and other animals to ridicule him and his father who likes humans. Koko, a female bird, is the only one who believes in Leo. Leo and all the other animals live on a fake island created by humans to save the nature. This project is lead by Director Ooyama (male) and Professor Hikawa (female). Ooyama also brought his son, Ken’ichi, who can talk with animals, but noone believes that.

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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.