The Jungle Book Tv Series Adaptations

There are about five tv series adaptations of the Jungle Book, including fellow honorary adaptations Wolf Boy Ken and Prince of The Wolves.

Wolf Boy Ken - 86 episodes (second most prolific to date) 

The Jungle Book: Young Mowgli - 52 episodes (median) 

Mowgli: The New Adventures Of The Jungle Book - 26 episodes (low mean, second least prolific to date, tied) 

Jungle King Saro - 26 episodes (low mean, second least prolific to date, tied) 

DQ’s The Jungle Book - 156 episodes (most prolific to date) 

Prince of The Wolves - 18 episodes (least prolific to date) 

My Mowgli Boy - 50 episodes (median) 

Wolf Boy Ken seems to be based both loosely and unofficially on a Fiction House comic called Wambi the Jungle Boy, hence the likely African setting being filled with escaped circus animals. 

Interestingly, two out of five Jungle Book adaptations are only based outwardly upon the first produced Jungle Book story of them all, Rudyard Kipling’s In The Rukh. It’s goddamn surprising to see how different they are. While the Taiwanese drama is based both loosely and unofficially on Nachi Yuki’s Boku Wa Ookami, the PRC one is basically more of a Tarzan story with wolves. Both the Taiwanese show and its direct inspiration are inspired by a shapeshifting soccer manga called Totsugeki Wolf by Kazuhiko Shimamoto.