Manga Barcelona, formerly known until 2018 as Saló del Manga de Barcelona () is a Spanish anime and manga convention held annually in Barcelona, and is the largest anime convention in Spain and the second largest in all Europe.
Activities
World Cosplay Summit, Spain Preliminaries. Cosplay and Karaoke competitions, European Cosplay Gathering (ECG) & EuroCosplay & WCS preliminaries. Video Games. Anime projections and conferences. Matsuri and Japanese culture workshops. Japanese cuisine.
+ 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 Suda 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, Yoshisuke Suga 2013 XIX Saló del Manga October 31 - November 3 Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2 (Barcelona) 115,000 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 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 Tashiro2016XXII Saló del MangaOctober 29 - November 1Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-4-5 and Plaça Univers (Barcelona)142,000Banana Yoshimoto, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Junji Ito, Toshio Maeda, Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto, Akihiro Hino, Band-Maid, Yoshisuke Suga2017XXIII Saló del MangaNovember 1 - November 5Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-3-4-5 and Plaça Univers (Barcelona)148,000Robico(My Little Monster), Yoshiaki Sukeno(Twin Star Exorcists), Yoko Kamio, Masao Maruyama (film producer), DJ Kentaro, Azumi Inoue2018XXIV Saló del MangaNovember 1 - November 4Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-3-4-5 and Plaça Univers (Barcelona)150,000+Daisuke Hagiwara, Emika Kamieda, Akira Himekawa, Elsa Brants, Nagabe, Takashi Hatsushiba, Paru Itagaki, Nana Kitade, Eiki Eiki, Taishi Zaou, Masaki Satô, Junnyan, Luiza2019XXV Manga BarcelonaOctober 31 - November 3Fira de Barcelona152,000AKB48, Masayuki Satō, Hiroyuki Sakurada2022XXVIII Manga BarcelonaDecember 8 - December 11Fira de Barcelona163,000Mahousyoujoninaritai, FAKY, Yoko Takahashi
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