{"id":1095719,"date":"2026-01-25T21:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/?p=492675"},"modified":"2026-01-25T21:12:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T21:12:15","slug":"the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers\/","title":{"rendered":"The original Pok\u00e9mon anime had unique theme songs in Italy \u2014 and they\u2019re Eurodance bangers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"A graphic shows Vanni and Longhi over a set of four screenshots from the Pokemon anime\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Graphic: Matt Leone\/Polygon | Source images: Lova Music, The Pok\u00e9mon Company, Mengxin Li\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers.png\" \/><figcaption><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap has-text-align-none\">During a recent live concert at Demod\u00e9 Club in Modugno, Puglia, as a synth-only melody should have given his voice a moment of respite, singer and composer Giorgio Vanni yelled, \u201cSu le mani per il capitano\u201d (\u201cput your hands up for the captain\u201d). Whether surrounded by rave-like light beams in a clubby indoor venue, under the sweltering August sky, or even in a standard concert hall, Vanni consistently urges enthusiastic audiences with chants like \u201cfuori la voce\u201d (\u201csing it out\u201d) and \u201cvi voglio sentire\u201d (\u201cI want to hear you\u201d), while a relentless <a href=\"https:\/\/grahamenglish.com\/four-on-the-floor-beat\/\">four-on-the-floor<\/a> thumping beat powers on.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">This might sound like typical Eurodance fare, but Vanni isn\u2019t your average Eurodance performer. Vanni, 61, and his artistic and business partner Massimo \u201cMax\u201d Longhi, 56 \u2014 known as \u201cIl Capitano\u201d (\u201cthe Captain\u201d) and \u201cL\u2019Ammiraglio\u201d (\u201cthe Admiral\u201d) respectively \u2014 have become cult figures for millennial and Gen Z Italian fans. They are the voices and composers behind the localized opening songs for <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, <em>Dragon Ball<\/em>, and <em>One Piece<\/em>, crafting Eurodance-style anthems for the Italian market.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-vox-media-highlight vox-media-highlight\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"\" \/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\"><em>This week on Polygon, we\u2019re looking at how cultural differences affect media in a special issue we\u2019re calling <a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/special-issues\/505253\/culture-shock\">Culture Shock<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Vanni\u2019s aforementioned synth-only melody is the instrumental interlude of \u201cViva i Pokemon,\u201d Vanni and Longhi\u2019s opening theme for the first 51 episodes of <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> in Italy. Audiences elsewhere around the world listened to French, German, Spanish, and other translations of Jason Paige\u2019s \u201cPok\u00e9mon Theme,\u201d while Italy got a four-on-the-floor dance anthem, a new song composed and written from scratch with lyrics about the joy of exploring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Localizing anime opening themes with original melodies and vocal tracks has been commonplace in Italy since 1978, when anime landed on the state-controlled RAI television network. Back then, the Japanese originals were simply <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ilpost.it\/2024\/09\/17\/sigle-italiane-cartoni-giapponesi\/\">deemed weird<\/a> by those who oversaw the localization. Still, save for an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.italiandiscostories.com\/p\/italian-anime-localization-disco\">early phase<\/a> in the late 1970s and early 1980s (heavily influenced by disco, Europop, new wave, and synthpop), the bulk of early Italian localizations of anime themes could be described as Disney-lite (pop with a feel-good melody and instrumentation). This changed in 1998, when Vanni and Longhi started performing and composing opening themes synonymous with dance-music hits.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Vanni and Longhi owe their continued popularity not only to their danceable tunes but also to the fact that the bulk of the series they composed and\/or performed the theme songs for aired back to back during weekday afternoons. Between 2001 and circa 2005, for example, kids and teens could, after school, watch <em>Dragon Ball<\/em> Z, <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, <em>Naruto<\/em>, and <em>One Piece<\/em> on the same day, hearing Vanni\u2019s light-tenor timbre multiple times between 1 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. Those kids and teens are now full-grown adults, and follow Vanni and Longhi in their copious live concerts, which they kicked off in 2009 at the leading European comic convention Lucca Comics &amp; Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Take the case of Gianluca Allegretta, 28, a train conductor from Puglia and the co-admin of the Instagram anime-themed page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/anime_age_italia\/\">Anime Age Italia<\/a>. He has been watching anime since the early 2000s, when <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, <em>Dragon Ball<\/em> Z, <em>One Piece<\/em>, <em>Naruto<\/em>, and <em>Detective Conan<\/em> aired almost back to back. \u201cEvery time I\u2019d come back from school, I always hoped I would make it on time to sing Vanni\u2019s theme songs every single day,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re really seared in my heart and remind me of when I was little, a fancy-free time in my life I truly miss. \u2018Viva i Pokemon\u2019 remains Vanni\u2019s most beautiful work in the Pok\u00e9mon world.\u201d Similarly, the other half of Anime Age Italia, Andrea Defronzo, 28, a book author and a nurse working for the Italian navy, has been following Pok\u00e9mon since the <em>Red<\/em>\/<em>Blue<\/em> era. \u201cI owe a great part of my personality to watching anime,\u201d he says. \u201cI can never forget getting home from school and tuning in, and singing along to Giorgio [Vanni]\u2019s theme songs, with my grandma smiling at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Pokemon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/g2U1F3tKVdg?rel=0\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen allow=\"accelerometer; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">So how did Pikachu conquer the dance floor?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Vanni and Longhi, both Milan natives, have been aware of each other since the 1980s, when they were both active in the Milanese live-music scene. Longhi was a pianist\/keyboardist with a music degree from Milan\u2019s Giuseppe Verdi conservatory of music, and Vanni was a vocalist for the pop-rock band Tomato. Once, Longhi even filled in for Tomato\u2019s keyboardist at a gig.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cOur first official professional collaboration goes back to 1995,\u201d Longhi says. \u201cWe were part of [then-teen TV host] Ambra Angiolini\u2019s talk show <em>Generazione X<\/em>, where I was the live band\u2019s musical director and he was the singer.\u201d <em>Generazione X<\/em> was produced under Mediaset, Italy\u2019s largest commercial broadcasting company, founded by former media mogul and Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Like many 30-something Italians born in the mid-to-late 1960s, they had some degree of awareness of anime, but it didn\u2019t define their tastes. Despite being a lifelong sci-fi nerd, Vanni says, \u201cI was never really passionate about opening themes per se growing up. I cared more about music in general. I\u2019d hear, say, the <em>Space Pirate Captain Harlock<\/em> Italian theme or Riccardo Zara\u2019s version of <em>Tiger Mask<\/em>, and I\u2019d love them, but as songs independent of their fictional universe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Longhi, meanwhile, felt fairly indifferent about anime and geek culture. Among his roles, he worked on arranging productions for Piero Cassano, a founding member of the synth-pop band Matia Bazar. Cassano also contributed to the localization of cartoon and anime theme songs for Mediaset&#8217;s channels. Overseeing this youth programming from 1980 to 2001 was Alessandra Valeri Manera, who not only directed kids\u2019 and teens&#8217; programming but also wrote lyrics for many of the original songs featured in these shows. These collaborations with Cassano led Longhi to pitch himself \u2014 with Vanni on vocals \u2014 to Valeri Manera in 1998. \u201cShe took a meeting with us and allowed us to present some demos. She liked them and was particularly impressed with the singer,\u201d Longhi says. \u201cOnce she found out it was Giorgio, she said he should absolutely sing the final product.\u201d What stood out in this audition was an original composition for an early version of DC&#8217;s <em>Superman: The Animated Series<\/em>. Valeri Manera hired them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Their version of the theme song for <em>Superman<\/em> (titled \u201cSuperman\u201d), which aired from September 1998 to January 1999, was the duo\u2019s test run for a four-on-the-floor beat in an animated series aimed at children. If that version of \u201cSuperman\u201d hadn\u2019t worked, their second assignment under Valeri Manera, \u201cViva i Pokemon,\u201d might never have come to be.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cI was composing and producing a lot of dance music back then, and Giorgio liked it too,\u201d says Longhi. \u201cWhen we were given the assignment for <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, we said to ourselves, \u2018Why don\u2019t we make [opening themes] a little bit more <em>tamarri<\/em> [think Will Ferrell at <em>A Night at the Roxbury<\/em>, in contrast to the treacly, Disney-lite themes that dominated the anime localizations]?\u2019 [&#8230;] After all, those were the years of Haddaway\u2019s \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HEXWRTEbj1I\">What Is Love<\/a>.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-2 is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers-1.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: OLM\/The Pok\u00e9mon Company\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers-2.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" data-has-syndication-rights=\"1\" data-caption=\"\" data-portal-copyright=\"Image: OLM\/The Pok\u00e9mon Company\" \/><\/figure>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Asked how they landed an assignment for a major player in the anime, video game, and merchandise space such as Pok\u00e9mon, both insist it was just a gig, done almost like a product on an assembly line. \u201c[Valeri Manera] understood the potential of the four-to-the-floor beat and gave us carte blanche, and, well, we obviously fully took advantage of it,\u201d says Vanni.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">The pair\u2019s first <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> theme, \u201cViva i Pokemon,\u201d was approved by Valeri Manera with few edits. In addition to its usage of synths, an electronic bassline, and a regular four-on-the-floor beat, it also stands out for its use of autotune. \u201cNow, everyone uses autotune excessively, but in 1999, Cher\u2019s \u2018Believe\u2019 had just come out,\u201d says Longhi. \u201cI took the title track\u2019s signature style \u2014 the autotune \u2014 and put it into both <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> and <em>Dragon Ball<\/em>.\u201d Vanni adds, \u201cWe were among the first in Italy to use that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Following <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>\u2019s Italian premiere on Jan. 10, 2000, the song became one of Italy\u2019s most popular anime opening themes. The fact that you could barely escape <em>Pok\u00e9mon Red<\/em>, <em>Blue<\/em>, and <em>Yellow<\/em> in schoolyards (the games came out in Italy in the fall of 1999) clearly helped with the series\u2019 popularity. But Vanni and Longhi also understood their audience\u2019s tastes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cWhen I was a kid, [Euro]dance music was basically served with your breakfast milk,\u201d says musician Matteo Mucavero, 39, who, as a content creator under the moniker <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@loqimusic\">loqimusic<\/a>, specializes in 1990s and Y2K nostalgia through the lens of dance music. He attributes the success of the genre to easy, earworm-like melodies and a rhythm above 130 bpm, which made it highly palatable for children, and to its frequent play in leisurely contexts such as arcades and carnivals. Those were the years of continent-wide Eurodance hits, such as Me&amp;My\u2019s self-titled album; Aqua\u2019s album <em>Aquarium<\/em>; Eiffel 65\u2019s <em>Europop<\/em>, which yielded the single \u201cBlue\u201d; and Vengaboys\u2019 <em>The Party Album<\/em>. \u201cBack then, dance music was as popular as pop music. The closest equivalent today is trap music; 9-year-olds listen to it just like 30-year-olds,\u201d says Mucavero.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">By the middle of 2000, <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>\u2019s second season, which covered the latter part of the Indigo League and the Orange Islands, was fast approaching. Valeri Manera wanted another heavy-hitting theme to mark the change of location for Ash and his travel companions. \u201cIt was harder the second time around, because after composing a Eurodance anthem like \u2018Viva i Pokemon,\u2019 we thought we had already given it all,\u201d says Longhi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">But the pair was not short of resources. \u201cWe already had a demo in mock-English, with the recurring phrase \u2018I wanna know what I am,\u2019\u201d says Vanni, immediately adding that he could not recall what he had created that melody for in the first place. \u201cOnce [Valeri Manera] asked us to compose for the second season, and we already had this melody, we just superimposed the lyrics she had written. It was just perfect. The melody of the refrain is just our style signature,\u201d Vanni continues, referring to the combination of ascending and descending chords that progress toward a resolution. You can also hear it in the chorus of their subsequent hits \u201cWhat\u2019s My Destiny Dragon Ball\u201d (<em>Dragon Ball Z<\/em>) and \u201cAndiamo tutti all\u2019Arrembaggio, Forza!\u201d (<em>One Piece<\/em>). Thus, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/lvBbsjuFz0w\">\u201cOltre i cieli dell\u2019avventura\u201d<\/a> (\u201cbeyond the skies of adventure\u201d)&nbsp;was born, and the first episode of the season aired on Sept. 3, 2000.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cOltre i cieli dell\u2019avventura,\u201d which covers episodes 52 to 116, is Longhi\u2019s favorite. \u201cThe first is much more of a standard crowd-pleaser,\u201d he says. \u201c\u2018Oltre i cieli\u2019 has a more solid structure, with a more singer-songwriter-like acoustic intro with piano and voice. If you listen to the piano intro of \u2018Oltre i cieli,\u2019 we were inspired by and wanted to homage Eiffel 65\u2019s 1998 hit \u2018Blue,\u2019 produced by our friend Massimo Gabutti,\u201d he says. \u201cThe first opening theme has had the strongest grip on our collective brain, if only because it was the very first one,\u201d says Mucavero. \u201cThe second one is the one that, despite being Eurodance, makes you shed a tear, and that\u2019s its winning formula.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-vox-media-highlight vox-media-highlight\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Valeri Manera<\/h2>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Vanni and Longhi have high praise for Valeri Manera, who passed away in 2024 at age 67, and who remains a divisive figure in the Italian anime community due to the degree of censorship she had to apply, at the urging of child psychologists, to the vast majority of the series. This included the treatment of queerness in <em>Sailor Moon<\/em>, where, for example, the canon romantic relationship between Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune is presented in very vague terms (coming across as a toxic friendship). Many fans, who convened in forums and were able to purchase Italian translations of manga, saw it as an infantilization of the medium. For <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em>, Italy adhered to the censorship of the U.S. version.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cShe changed the lives of myself and Max,\u201d says Vanni. \u201cShe changed them to the point that losing her was like losing a sister, a mentor both professional and personal. She enriched our lives, and she brought so much joy to at least three generations of Italian anime watchers.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">While the duo continued to compose Italian Pok\u00e9mon themes throughout the <em>Diamond<\/em> and <em>Pearl<\/em> arc, their subsequent nine songs did not make a splash as big as \u201cViva i Pokemon\u201d and \u201cOltre i cieli dell\u2019avventura.\u201d Still, Vanni and Longhi\u2019s sound ended up shaping the musical direction of Mediaset\u2019s cartoon programming \u2014 at the height of their collaboration,<strong> <\/strong>they made approximately 24 theme songs per year, with typically only a synopsis and some generic video assets to get started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">After Valeri Manera stepped down in 2001, anime popularity on network TV started to decline, and by 2008, Mediaset began phasing out original songs for its anime and cartoon programming. Vanni and Longhi\u2019s contributions to that universe have become more sporadic ever since. Their last <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> original song came out in 2007, covering the <em>Diamond<\/em> and <em>Pearl<\/em> arc, while their most recent official opening theme for an animated series was \u201cMy Hero Academia\u201d for the eponymous series in 2018. Vanni and Longhi\u2019s day job is at their record company LoVa Music (est. 2002), where they do sound design and commercial work, compose for Latin-pop and J-pop performers, and dabble in post-production for TV and film.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">Still, they keep making tracks inspired by Pok\u00e9mon and Dragon Ball, just as unofficial themes released on their own: \u201cPokemon Sole e Luna\u201d (2019) is a Latin-pop and reggaeton number; \u201cPok\u00e9mon Go\u201d (2016) and \u201cDragon Ball Super Kamehameha\u201d (2019), released for the launches of <em>Pok\u00e9mon Go<\/em> and <em>Dragon Ball Super,<\/em> would not be out of place at any club doing a 2010s night. Plus, they often fully subvert their four-on-the-floor fame. Their 2022 album <em>The Gold Session<\/em>, for instance, inspired by lockdown-era jam sessions, contains acoustic versions of some of their most notable songs. \u201cOltre i cieli dell\u2019avventura,\u201d the only <em>Pok\u00e9mon<\/em> theme included, was rearranged into a full-on power ballad (Mediaset owns the rights, while Vanni\/Longhi own the master for this version). Usually, you see the opposite, i.e., ballads or classical crossover tracks getting the dance-beat treatment, such as Andrea Bocelli\u2019s \u201cCon te partir\u00f2\u201d becoming Donna Summer\u2019s 1999 Eurodance hit \u201cI Will Go With You.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">\u201cThat\u2019s because our melodies work. You can put any instrumentation underneath, but the melody has to be the main focus,\u201d Vanni says. \u201cThat was always Alessandra\u2019s request: \u2018Guys, I am OK with your <em>tunz tunz<\/em> [the four-on-the-floor beat], your technology, your autotune, but please make the melodies catchy.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-none\">And catchy they are: Vanni and Longhi are constantly touring Italy, where they regularly fill venues that accommodate up to 10,000 people, with the majority of the fandom being Gen Z and millennials \u2014 yes, a mosh pit is included. In November 2024, the pair released a vinyl album with Sony Music containing not only their greatest hits but a new, non-cartoon-adjacent track titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fRkJB23VTQQ\">\u201cUno di noi\u201d<\/a> (\u201cone of us\u201d), which reached No. 3 on the official Italian singles chart. \u201cIt has the four-to-the-floor beat, but in a more pop-friendly version,\u201d says Longhi. \u201cIt\u2019s dedicated to our public: During our concerts, they erupt with the stadium chant \u2018uno di noi, Giorgio uno di noi,\u2019\u201d says Vanni. \u201cMax and I are one of them, and they are one of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.polygon.com\/pokemon\/492675\/pokemon-theme-song-italy\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent live concert at Demod\u00e9 Club in Modugno, Puglia, as a synth-only melody should have given his voice a moment of respite, singer and composer Giorgio Vanni yelled, \u201cSu le mani per il capitano\u201d (\u201cput your hands up for the captain\u201d). Whether surrounded by rave-like light beams in a clubby indoor venue, under the sweltering August sky, or even in a standard concert hall, Vanni consistently urges enthusiastic audiences with chants like \u201cfuori la voce\u201d (\u201csing it out\u201d) and \u201cvi voglio sentire\u201d (\u201cI want to hear you\u201d), while a relentless four-on-the-floor thumping beat powers on. This might sound like typical Eurodance fare, but Vanni isn\u2019t your average Eurodance performer. Vanni, 61, and his artistic and business partner Massimo \u201cMax\u201d Longhi, 56 \u2014 known&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"excerpt-more\"><a class=\"blog-excerpt button\" href=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/the-original-pokemon-anime-had-unique-theme-songs-in-italy-and-theyre-eurodance-bangers\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1095720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1095719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-polygon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The original Pok\u00e9mon anime had unique theme songs in Italy \u2014 and they\u2019re Eurodance bangers | Arcader News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"During a recent live concert 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