Random Nostalgia: Italian Anime

Added by gia manry on Dec. 17, 2009

"WTF? Italian? On MY animu site?" you may be thinking right now. If you even recognized that title as Italian. But the other day I was sitting in my car and I put in an older mix CD (I have an mp3-CD player, so I have batches of CD-Rs lying around with ~150 random songs on 'em), and this track came on: the group 883 singing a song called "Regina Del Celebrità" (more or less "Princess of the Party").

It's a really catchy pop tune, but it wasn't my ear that noticed it first: it was my eyes. When I was in Italy in the summer after my sophomore year in high school, and there were two things I almost always found when I would flip through a hotel TV's channels: Italian-dubbed Kodocha, and this music video.

Yes, Italy is also fond of its anime, and I suspect whoever did the animation for this video is particularly a Rumiko Takahashi fan. Anyway, I always thought it was a really cute video and a really nice song (I can tell what's going on even with my distressingly minimal Italian). So I thought I'd share it. Enjoy!

10 Comments

Kelleth on Dec. 17, 2009

@gia: Yeah me and Haseo have been here for awhile y`know >_> lol
hmmm... i think i`ve seen this on a kind of music channel on my grandpa`s kabel tv. it catchy but by far not as good as artists like Tiziano Ferro or Franco Battiato

JJOR64 on Dec. 17, 2009

It looks like some really bad Saturday morning cartoon.

Konanda on Dec. 17, 2009

I'm pretty sure Regina means Queen in Latin. Although what it means in Italian I couldn't tell you but I assume it would be the same being the acting monarch that is female. Anyway random fact Regina is the capital of Saskatchewan.

@JJOR64 said:

"It looks like some really bad Saturday morning cartoon. "

Ya the animation isn't the greatest I'd say.

gia on Dec. 17, 2009

@Kelleth: Hey, I have to write for the majority, y'know. ;)

@JJOR64:
@Konanda:
For the record, this is a crappy YouTube video for a music video from Italy that was released in 1999. ;)

Konanda on Dec. 17, 2009

@gia said:

" @Kelleth: Hey, I have to write for the majority, y'know. ;)

@JJOR64:
@Konanda: For the record, this is a crappy YouTube video for a music video from Italy that was released in 1999. ;) "

Oh and it shows.

sora_thekey on Dec. 17, 2009

@gia said:

" @Konanda: For the record, this is a crappy YouTube video for a music video from Italy that was released in 1999. ;) "

Well for 1999 it doesn't look bad!

and @Konanda: was right Reignia means Queen

gia on Dec. 17, 2009

@sora_thekey: D'oh! Princess had that nice alliteration ;)

constanzadellarosa on Dec. 17, 2009

It's kind of an anime version of the RAI (Radio Televizione Italiana) channel regular programming. The go-go dancer reminded me a little of Lum. Odd.

imortal0 on Dec. 17, 2009

well ive never watched it, but the only anime that i new of that was based in my home country is GunslingerGirls!! and i love the anime to!

erxwolfbeilx on Dec. 18, 2009

It looks cheap! Avert your eyes!

wait.......

is that Johnny Bravo @ 0:25? WTF it is!

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