Samba de Wanda

**Samba de Wanda** (Japanese: **サンバdeワンダ**, ***Samba de Wanda***) is the first ending song of the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season and the first ending song of Kamiwaza Wanda anime series. It is sung by Wanda. It used from episode 01 to episode 22 and was replaced by RADIO FISH's WONDERLAND, starting from episode 23.

It is written by scriptwriter Hiroko Fukuda and composed and arranged by the Kamiwaza Wanda anime series music provider Takatsugu Wakabayashi.

The Samba de Wanda ending animation shows Wanda dancing to the song itself with several Promins joining in during the chorus.

From episode 10 to episode 18 when they were first aired, a live-action footage was added to the ending animation and it shows a real person named Yoshio Kojima doing Wanda's dance to the Samba de Wanda song.

*For the manga segments in the original Kamiwaza Wanda manga series, see: Samba de Wanda (manga segment)*

## Lyrics

* Opening version
* Full version

## Ending animation

The ending animation begins with Wanda, standing in a dull background, as he walks in to the beat of the ending song's intro. The background then lights up as Wanda starts dancing. Next, there were 7 scenes showing Wanda appearing in the following order:

1. Wanda leaving the Wonder-Star and going to Earth in his Kamiwaza pod.
2. Wanda looking at the audience.
3. Wanda blushing.
4. Wanda enjoying a huge supply of chicken karage bites.
5. Wanda doing a super-jump.
6. Wanda crying but then stops crying and moves on.
7. Wanda doing his trademark pose and then smiles at the audience.

We then cut to Wanda as he's dancing to the chorus part of the song. Promins Kagimin and Turbomin and then Tonkmin and Gauzemin join in. Railmin goes by with his train carrying the 3 Bugmins Bug-Freezemin, Bug-Chakkamin and Bug-Hasamin. The ending animation ends with a cute headshot of Wanda.

#### Promins

* Kagimin
* Turbomin
* Tonkmin
* Gauzemin
* Railmin
* Freezemin (Bug-Freezemin)
* Chakkamin (Bug-Chakkamin)
* Hasamin (Bug-Hasamin)

## Trivia

* Both TV size and full versions of this ending song appear on the Kamiwaza Wanda song collection CD along with the TV size and full versions of the opening song Wanda Nanda and the 5-minute song Kamiwaza Promin-Zu.
* When the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season was dubbed in Korean, all 47 episodes of the original season use this song as the ending theme.
* Instrumentel snippets of this song were heard in the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season via Episode 6, when Gakkimin started manipulating the instruments, and episode 17 when Wanda and a robot dance to the tune of this song. An unidentified mambo-style instrumental cover version of this song was played on a CD player during Turbomin and Bug-Banemin's game of musical chairs in episode 16 and was also heard in the background during the end of the original season finale after Wanda arrived back on Earth in his Kamiwaza Pod.
* In the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season, characters sing in the tune of this song 3 times:
	+ Wanda sang to the tune of this song on stage in episode 13.
	+ Yui and Wanda sing to the tune of this song whilst taking stroll in episode 20.
	+ An unnamed delivery boy was singing his own song in the tune of this song whilst doing his job in episode 23.
* This song is published by Being Records.
* Gauzemin's hands were blue instead of pink, this must be an error.
* There is an event related to the Kamiwaza Wanda franchise in which visitors can dance with Yoshio Kojima to this song. (*See: Let's Dance with Yoshio Kojima! ~Samba de Wanda~*)
* In the summer of 2016, live-action footage, showing Yoshio Kojima dancing to this ending song, is added to the ending animation and the credits roll is positioned between the animation and the live-action footage. The live-action footage was only shown when episodes 10 to 18 were first aired in Japan on TBS.
* When the first 9 episodes of the original Kamiwaza Wanda anime season first air on Japanese television, the animation of Wanda dancing during the first part of the chorus has less frames in the ending animation's prototype version than in the official version.

## Video

新アニメ！【カミワザ・ワンダ】ワンダと一緒にダンスを踊ろう！ EDテーマをフル公開!!Corocoro Channel's upload of the Samba de Wanda ending animation