[quote="Daktari"]Sooo, after watching The Lion Guard I can't help but feel a little sad that they've changed Kiaras personality. She was very "bubbeling", laughed alot, and super curious in SP. In TLG they've made her more serious due to her being the older cub and the one with responsability. But for me that responsability doesn't need to affect her personality. When Kiara is a young adult in SP she still has that great personality. I want to see that in TLG! I don't say that I don't like the Kiara in TLG, but it almost feel like it's another cub....
And Kiara also always has this "wrinkle" on her nose in SP, which I cannot see in TLG
AND. I'd rather see that Kion would've got more of Nalas color instead of changing Kiaras from Simbas color to more Nala-ish in TLG. Why change??[/quote]
I feel like Kiara's character change makes sense. She's presumably older in TLG, preteen to young teen. It seems like she started taking her status as future queen more seriously, and now that she's older, Simba is lecturing and training her more. It feels like a natural progression to me. Though, it would be fun to see Kiara loosen up a bit and have fun.
As for the wrinkle thing, well TLG has a much more simplified art style. It needs to, otherwise episodes would take years to make. A wrinkle is a minor detail that doesn't really need to be there, because it'll help speed production along if they don't have to worry about something as small as that.
Nala's father was shown via Rafiki painting, and he had very Kion-esque colors, which makes Kion not having very Nala-like colors more forgivable imo. But I personally didn't notice much color change in Kiara.
I guess she is a bit paler? Probably more of a stylistic choice to go along with the look of the show more than anything else. I doubt it was done to make her look more like Nala.