[quote="atouchofgrace"][quote="TheDoctor"]I don't believe that the book's illustrator(s) meant to give Kopa a distinct design, I think they wanted him to look just like cub Simba, but with a tuft of brown fur on his head.[/quote]
This. It's so obvious...[/quote]
Yyep. I believe if they really meant him to look different from cub Simba, they would've made some remarkable and easily noticable difference--other than just the hair tuft because that even Simba would've had soon, as in it was just a sign that Kopa was a bit older than cub Simba in the film.