Salón del Manga de Barcelona

Salón del Manga de Barcelona
Status Active
Genre Anime, Manga
Venue Fira de Barcelona, Montjuic
Location(s) Barcelona, Catalonia
Country Spain
Inaugurated 1995
Attendance 130,000 (2014)
Website
http://www.ficomic.com/

The Salón del Manga de Barcelona (Catalan: Saló del Manga de Barcelona) is a Spanish anime and manga convention held annually in Barcelona and is the largest anime convention in Spain.[1][2][3][4][5]

Activities

XX Salón del Manga stand
Event history
Year Official name Date Location Attendance Notable guests
1995 Saló del Manga i el Videojoc October 27–29 Estació de França (Barcelona) 1.000
1996 II Saló del Manga October 28–30 Estació de França (Barcelona) 3.000
1997 III Saló del Manga La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 7.000 Masami Tsuda
1998 IV Saló del Manga October 30 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 10.000 Shingo Araki
1999 V Saló del Manga, el Còmic, el Coleccionisme, els Videojocs i l'Animació October 29–31 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 20.000 Haruhiko Mikimoto
2000 VI Saló del Manga November 3–5 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 30.000
2001 VII Saló del Manga October 26–28 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 35.000 Akemi Takada
2002 VIII Saló del Manga October 25–27 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 39.000 Yuu Watase, Studio Pierrot
2003 IX Saló del Manga October 24–26 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 43.000 Yutaka Izubuchi, Yuji Moriyama, Studio Pierrot
2004 X Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 58.000 Mari Kitayama, Studio Pierrot
2005 XI Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 63.000 Hiroto Tanaka
2006 XII Saló del Manga October 27–29 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 58.000 Masakazu Katsura, Atsuko Nakajima, Tachibana Higuchi, Hideshi Hino, Monkey Punch, BLOOD, Hirobobu Kageyama, Akira Kushida
2007 XIII Saló del Manga November 1–4 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 67.000 Shigeyasu Yamauchi, Range Murata, Nobuo Yamada, Fréderic Boilet
2008 XIV Saló del Manga October 30 - November 2 La Farga, Poliesportiu del Centre, Centre Cultural Barradas (L'Hospitalet) 60.000 Kaiji Kawaguchi, Ian Lovett, JAM PROJECT, Junko Mizuno, Michihiko Suwa, Tamakasa Sakurai, Yoshikazu Yasuhiko
2009 XV Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 62.000 Issei Eifuku, Taiyou Matsumoto, Ken Niimura, Misako Aoki, YÛ Kimura, Takamasa Sakurai, Yuka
2010 XVI Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 65.000 Takashi Shimizu, Hideshi Hino, Wataru Yoshizumi, Izumi Matsumoto, Kayono, Kamiyama Kenji, Peter Molyneux
2011 XVII Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 La Farga (L'Hospitalet) 65.000 JYJ, Carlos Rubio López de la Llave, Cécile Corbeil, Fujo Hirata, Hiroshi Hirata, Kazue Kato, Keiichi Hara, Morinosuke Kawaguchi
2012 XVIII Saló del Manga November 1–4 Fira de Barcelona Palau 2 (Barcelona) 112.000 Hiro Mashima, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Masao Maruyama, Hiroshi Matsuyama
2013 XIX Saló del Manga October 31 - November 3 Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2 (Barcelona) 115.000[6] Aiko Nakano, Li Kunwu, Shintarō Kago
2014 XX Saló del Manga October 30– November 2 Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2 and Plaça Univers (Barcelona) 130,000[7] Kengo Hanazawa, Takeshi Obata, Takehiko Inoue, Ken Niimura, Hideo Baba (Tales Of), Junichi Masuda & Shigeru Ohmori (Pokémon), Masayuki Hirano (Bandai Namco)
2015 XXI Saló del Manga October 29 - November 1 Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-4 and Plaça Univers (Barcelona) 137.000 Inio Asano, Io Sakisaka, Tetsuya Tashiro

References

  1. "El Salón de Barcelona premia a Shinta Cho y Naoki Urasawa". ABC.es (in Spanish). 2008-11-03. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  2. "El Salón del Manga 'Murcia se remanga' espera la visita de 25.000 jóvenes aficionados al anime japonés". 20minutos.es (in Spanish). 2010-11-12. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  3. Israel Punzano (2008-10-31). "Esto no es Tokio, por más que a veces lo parezca". El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  4. "El Salón del Manga de Barcelona prevé batir su récord con 65.000 visitantes". El País (in Spanish). 2007-10-30. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  5. "El Salón del Manga se llena de ‘otakus’ de toda España". adn.es (in Spanish). 2010-10-29. Retrieved 2012-01-30.
  6. "La passió nipona desborda Montjuïc" (in Catalan). FICOMIC. 2013-10-04.
  7. "El XX Salón del Manga de Barcelona alcanza los 130.000 visitantes" (in Spanish). FICOMIC. 2014-11-02.
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