Tarzan: Man of the Jungle (anime)

The Great Tarzan ( 偉大なターザン) is an anime that is based on Edgar Rice Burroughs book.

Summery
John and Alice Clayton of England with their baby son James Clayton are shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in the year 1869. They build a house in order to survive the jungle, meanwhile a group of mangani gorillas are living their lives led by the great silverback Kerchak with his mate Kala and their child Takut by his side.

Six months later, a rival male gorilla named Belzal challenged Kerchak for leadership of the family & Kala's child is killed by the rival male, both Kerchak and Kala were heartbroken from the lost of their first child. At the same time, Alice succumbs to a fever and passes away. A depressed John has an encounter with Kerchak, at first he was afraid because of what he heard about gorillas, he prepared himself for an attack, but Kerchak got himself between John and his family, that is when John realized that what he heard about gorillas was wrong. One day, John is attacked & killed by a Bakanga, but Kerchak was able to kill it before it can kill anyone else. Now alone without anyone, James has no chance of surviving, but then Kerchak's mate Kala adopts the human baby.

One day, a group of humans arrived and two worlds become intertwined with one another, Tarzan now 20 years old.

Cast

 * Kazuhiro Nakaya & Roger Craig Smith as Tarzan/James Clayton: the main protagonist of the movie. the son of John & Alice Clayton. After his human parents died he was adopted by a female gorilla named Kala and is raised in the African jungle by the Mangani gorillas, he loves to play pranks on his gorilla family.
 * TBA & Ryan Nicolis as John Clayton: Tarzan's biological human father
 * TBA & TBA as Alice Clayton: Tarzan's biological human mother
 * TBA & TBA as Willaim Cecil Clayton: the cousin of James
 * Noriko Hidaka & Willow Johnson as Kala: Kerchak's mate, alpha gorilla female, and Tarzan's adoptive mother. She saved an infant Tarzan after
 * Unshō Ishizuka & Neil Kaplan as Kerchak: the alpha silverback of the Tarzan's gorilla troop, Kala's mate and Tarzan's adoptive father. once he was warm and loving but after the death of his child, he became somewhat. but can be sweet and caring when he wants. He is protective of his family espcially Kala. He is wary of Tarzan because of his hairless appearance. Has somewhat of a Tsundere actor.
 * Aoi Yuki & Anjali Kunapaneni as Terkin: A major character and Tarzan's best friend.
 * Gen Sato & Brandon Winckler as Mungo: gorilla
 * Ken Narita & TBA as Tublat: A Mangani silverback & Kerchak's brother. He serves as his brother's right hand in the troop and is Tarzan's adopted uncle. A wise, humorous. respected his brother.
 * TBA as Karnath: a silverback.
 * TBA as Haka: gorilla
 * TBA as Tana: gorilla
 * TBA as Neeta: Kala's second child after the death of the first child and Tarzan's adopted sister.
 * TBA as Chulk: gorilla
 * TBA as Gunto: gorilla
 * TBA & TBA as Jane Porter: the daughter of Archimedes and Tarzan's love interest.
 * TBA & Michael Sorich as Archimedes Q Porter: A professor
 * TBA & TBA as Samuel T. Philander: Archimedes colleague
 * TBA as Paul D' Arnot: A French explorer and soldier
 * TBA & TBA as Robert Canler: explorer and hunter
 * TBA as Tantor: the elephant
 * Sabor: a leopard

Animals

 * Gorilla Mangani
 * Chimpanzees
 * Bushbabies
 * Mandrill
 * Colobus Monkeys
 * Bonobos
 * Baboons
 * Elephant
 * Civets
 * Leopard
 * Bakanga
 * Okapi
 * Bongo
 * Duiker
 * Flying foxes
 * Red River Hog
 * Pangolin
 * Hippo
 * Chameleons
 * Python
 * Crocodiles
 * Mamba
 * Hornbills
 * African grey parrot
 * Serpent Eagle
 * Kingfishers
 * Hawk-eagle
 * Weavers
 * Eagle Owls
 * Shoebill
 * Peacock
 * Nandi Bear

Differences from the novels
This version of Kerchak is more of a father to Tarzan in this than any other forms of media.

Rather than being their own species as in the novels, the Mangani are instead a species of gorilla that is unknown to science.

Trivia
Like the many versions of the character including the Disney version, Tarzan wears the traditional loincloth.

The series takes a little inspiration from The Boy and the Beast anime film. Like in the Disney animated film and the 1999 Tarzan of the Apes animated, Kala survives to the end.

Shown their work: Gorilla troops often have more than one silverback in a group. Male gorillas will roar, scream, or hoot when threatened and do their famous chest thumping, they have their hands open and a "popping" sound is produced instead of thumping. Most of the animals in the show are from the rainforests of Africa.