Urusei Yatsura Italian Intro
ⓘ This lostwave is classified as solved. | |
| Urusei Yatsura Italian Intro | |
 The characters of Urusei Yatsura. | |
| Year | 1984 |
|---|---|
| Status | Solved |
The Urusei Yatsura Italian Intro is a solved lostwave created for the Italian dub of anime Urusei Yatsura. The song was identfied as being created by Noam Kaniel, Ciro Dammicco and Shuki Levy.
Origins
In 1984, the Italian Dub of Uresei Yatsura was broadcast by Telecapri. Instead of using the Japanese Intro, a new song was recorded for the program to promote the show. This would be the intro used for Urusei Yatsura up until 1990. No singers or songwriters were credited for the song or listed under SIAE, where most of the Italian copywrite information for the show was registered. The intro song was likely only created for the TV show, as the outro uses the instrumental of the song, suggesting it was commissioned specifically.
Urusei Yatsura went on the become one of the most popular anime TV shows in Italy, with the first intro becoming semi-iconic. The fact that the version played in the show's opening suddenly fades out, led fans to wonder for decades if a full version of the song existed.
KBL Version
In the 2000s, a full 3 minute edit of the song was create with an additional keyboard solo and additional verses. It was revealed that the Youtuber KBL, who had posted this version, had edited it together themselves.
KBL created the KBL Forums for discussing cartoons and TV music, where a thread on the Urusei Yatsura theme was created. KBL tried to release their edit of the theme song commercially in the hopes it would be claimed by the creators, but this did not occur. KBL Forum users also began searching SIAE but only turned up covers of the intro.
During this period of the search, Telecapri was repeatedly contacted by members of the community. They refused to comment on the song and eventually Lawyers associated with the company claimed the song came prepackaged with the dub. Ricmon, the company that dubbed Urusei Yatsura had gone bust, but former employees involved with music suggested Monica Caudieri knew the artists behind the song. Unfortunately, she was unable to be contacted.
Hoax Leads
In the 2010s, Vincenzo Spampinato became a potential lead, as in an interview with SICLIAMEDIAWEB he cryptically implied that he was behind the song and would reveal the truth in 2012. Spampinato was contacted on Facebook and seemingly confirmed his involvement, only for the account posing as him to be exposed as a hoax.
A different version of the opening credits of Urusei Yatsura was found on Youtube, supposedly aired by Polish channel, Polonia 1. These credits contained the Italian intro song. However, Polish anime fans quickly debunked this lead, as the show never aired in Poland.