Kovu's ears compared to everyone else's....

[Jiirani]

I've always been aware of that fact. Kovu just has different ears, and it's probably just to make him look different from the other cubs, and what Akril said, of course...

[Pixie]

Adolescent Simba has the same narrow ear rims as Kovu in TLK1.5, and that's led some people to theorize that the reason Kovu has thin ear rims is because when he and Kiara first meet, he is older than Simba is when we see him as a cub in TLK.

My thoughts exactly. Even before TLK 1 1/2 came out, I always felt Kovu had those ear marks because he is older than the cub Simba we saw. He also has cheek fluff and his distinctive head tuft that makes him look older. And if you take the deleted scene of the first outlander sighting into consideration, Kovu is older than Kiara because he was talking/walking when she was born. But it is a deleted scene, so not technically official. But you get what I mean.

[TheLionQueen]

^ Yeah in all Kovu must be at least a week or two older than Kiara she looks younger than him in the first time we see Kovu, he had a mane tuft and cheek puffs. You know Simba had full ear rims at a little younger than Kovu so maybe as he was growing his ear rims started to retract like Simba's.

[NalaKiaraTani]

That is very odd, but I'm sure the creators just wanted to mix it up a bit

[PrincessKiara]

I`ve never thought much about that, to be honest.
I actually think it looks nicer with a narrow stripe in the inside of the ear rather than the stripe Simba has. Personally, I think that subtle design difference is due to different animators working on SP. Besides, I don`t think there is any rule in the TLK universe that says all male cubs have to have ear stripes. Some do, some don`t. It`s genetics.

[SummerSnowLeopard]

Yeah I know right. It's just Kovu and Nuka. There should be other males as well, not just lionesses.

Yes. It irritates me that it's just Kovu and Nuka!

Anway, I suppose Kovu's ears are odd. I think Scar's were typical black ear rims like Simba. Perhaps Kovu's real father had those kind of ears. Though that can't really be confirmed. But teen Simba had ears like that. But Kovu is a cub...I give up XD It's still interesting though ^^

[Thegeni99]

I always thought it was to make him look like he had Scar's ears...but rougher since he was a cub. The first time I saw TLK I noticed Scar had those soft, narrow, inside-the-ear-rims.

[Mozart]

On the lines that have puppies and compare them with those of Kovu. If you see this image we can see that Kovu is a lion and a teenager, maybe a little bigger than Malka and a little smaller than the adolescent Simba.

According to according to adolescence with the film, when the lion is already teen rays are inside the ear. You can see either an image of adolescent Simba:

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You see, something they did in the movie. But having to solve your doubts.

[Thegeni99]

^ I really don't understand what you just said. And puppies? What does that have to do with anything?

[Mozart]

What I'm trying to say, and do not blame her because I do not understand. Is that the lines of the young lions according to the film, you are no longer on the outside of his ears but are on the inside.

I hope that now if he understands, and sorry for not understanding, you do not speak English but Spanish.