Can’t find an image at the moment, but there were The Lying King t shirts being sold at cons, with an image of Simba looking in a mirror, and Kimba was looking right back at him.

I watched Kimba when I was little, so the similarities were obvious. The show had not been on American tv for some time when TLK came out, but old school Japanese cartoon fans certainly knew what Disney had tried to pull.

There was a later incarnation of the series, (with Kimba as an adult) that aired on one of those Christian channels on cable in the late 80’s. It was dubbed by a different outfit, and any connection to the original show was lost in translation.