The Barcelona Manga Show shall be held from December 8 to 11 and all of the advance gross sales tickets have already been bought out The occasion brings again worldwide friends resembling Nakaba Suzuki or the Japanese singer Yoko Takahashi The twenty eighth version has 6% extra exhibitors and expects to exceed 152,000 attendees in 2019
The Barcelona Manga present will maintain from this Thursday, December 8 to the eleventh, an version that expects to exceed 152,000 attendees in 2019 and that shall be held for the primary time on the Fira de Barcelona Gran Via venue in L’Hospitalet de Llobregat ( Barcelona).
This twenty eighth version recovers internationality after years restricted by the restrictions as a result of pandemic, and it does so with manga and anime artists and authors resembling Nakaba Suzuki, Yoko Takahashi, las Faky and Mahousyoujo Ni Naritai.
Specifically, the creator of ‘The seven lethal sins’, Nakaba Suzuki, who’s at present engaged on the sequel, will take part in signing classes, a ‘masterclass’ and a gathering with followers. Illustrator Carles Dalmau will evaluation his expertise in a lecture, and different friends will even embrace the creator duo behind Xian Nu Studio and cosplay couple Yuko and Exion.
The artist Shun Umezawa, not too long ago awarded the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award, will take part telematically from Japan in an interview and in a ‘masterclass’ on how to attract ‘humanzee’, and also will have his personal exhibition on the venue.
The change of location will enable the opening of recent areas to answer the editorial actuality of the second: thus, the brand new Kitsune room will host extra editorial shows and within the Manga Academy room there shall be debates, conferences and talks on manga, anime and Japanese common tradition.
live shows and podcasts
On a musical stage, probably the most excellent friends is the Japanese singer Yoko Takahashi and the 5 singers from Faky, who will current their new album solely internationally, and Mahousyoujo Ni Naritai, the Kame Band, Vítormame and Tenkaichi Musical will even carry out.
One of the novelties is the creation of the Radio Music Stage, which can combine music with the recording of a number of stay podcasts and which would be the starting of a collaboration with Radio Primavera Sound: it should enable listening to this system ‘Puja al puto robotic!’ with the singer LilDami, in addition to the podcasts ‘Milana bonita’ and ‘Sopa de Miso’, and the music of Lumica Stage, amongst others.
Program for youth and youngsters
This version will recuperate the programming of Manga Kids, an area for younger and household audiences; will current the novelty Manga Kids Academy, and can open up the La Academia space, the place 4 Japanese tradition actions shall be carried out uninterruptedly.
Visitors will be capable to return to areas such because the Nihon Ryori, devoted to Japanese delicacies; the Nihongo Experience, devoted to Japanese tradition and language; the Cool Japan Experience, with manga and anime talks, and the Manga Barcelona Auditorium, with premieres of anime and live-action movies and among the biggest hits of 2022 which have handed via cinemas.
The director of the Federation of Professional Comic Institutions (Ficomic), Meritxell Puig, highlighted within the presentation of the present on December 1 the “euphoria for manga” that she sees within the public, in addition to that this version has a 6% extra exhibitors than in 2019 and with a particular presence of manga in Catalan.
This switch of the standard venue, in Montjuïc, is definitive and entails extra sq. meters that improve the capability and the likelihood that the occasion continues to develop as a result of, in keeping with Puig, the services in Montjuïc had change into too small.