LUCCA COMICS & GAMES 2024 UNVEILS: THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT

Lucca Comics & Games has today launched the new poster for its 2024 edition. This year’s festival, themed ‘The Bufferfly Effect’, has had its poster designed by world famous Japanese artist, Yoshitaka Amano.

For ‘The Butterfly Effect’, Amano created not just one image, but three, each representing an act of this extraordinary work.

Today Lucca Comics & Games releases OUVERTURE represented by the work that Amano dedicated to Puccini’s Tosca. An embrace between two characters, between physicality and imagination, which captures all the exuberant energy of the festival and the thousand colors of its audience of butterflies. The image dedicated to Madama Butterfly will arrive in September and on 30 October the festival will present a third work by Amano, this time linked to his immortal princess Turandot, to reflect the apotheosis of creativity and passion that is Lucca Comics & Games.

Lucca has always aimed to be a crossroads of different arts – a place where comics, games, cinema, literature, and music converge into a multisensory experience.

In the year of the Puccini centenary, it is only natural to think that Lucca Comics & Games would present a contemporary version of that synesthetic ideal which, a century ago, was represented by opera, a combination of literary invention, scenic wonder and musical magic.

In addition to a clear reference to Puccini’s masterpiece, the title refers to the well-known “Butterfly Effect”, a corollary of Chaos Theory which studies the way in which small changes can lead to large consequences. It is a theme that resonates perfectly with the spirit of Lucca Comics & Games, and to visually represent the three acts of this unique Opera, they have called upon a great Sensei who embodies a melting pot of cultures and media in Yoshitaka Amano.

Lucca Comics & Games 2024, The Butterfly Effect, promises to be a memorable edition, an event that celebrates the transformative power of art and creativity, in perfect harmony with the spirit of innovation that has always characterized this extraordinary festival .

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Netflix returns to Lucca Comics & Games this year with an unmissable event for SQUID GAME 2. On Thursday 31 October, the creator, writer and director Hwang Dong-hyuk and the protagonists Lee Jung-jae and Wi Ha-Joon will be in Lucca to meet fans and to reveal to the whole world some news from the highly anticipated second season. The second chapter of Squid Game which still remains the most popular series on Netflix more than two years after its release, will only be available on Netflix by the end of 2024. The event in Lucca promises to be an event not to be missed.

25th anniversary of One Piece started simultaneously from Milan, Berlin, London, Madrid and Paris, on the occasion of the birthday of Monkey D. Luffy, the famous straw-hat pirate, but it will be in Lucca on most important moment to close the celebrations in style and with all the numerous fans. In fact, two great guests from Japan will participate in Lucca Comics & Games: Tatsuya Nagamine (director of the last years of One Piece and previously of many other TOEI titles, including Dragon Ball Super: Broly) and Kenji Yokoyama (historical animator from the first episodes to today). Not only that, the celebrations will also continue at the TOEI Animation stand with many surprises and new features to be announced in the coming weeks!

In a new feature for 2024, Lucca Comics & Games will this year leave the urban walls of Lucca and land at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, with the exhibition AMANO CORPUS ANIMÆ, dedicated to Yoshitaka Amano. This exhibition will offer a complete overview of his work, highlighting his extraordinary ability to merge Anime, Video Games and contemporary art into a single, inimitable artistic vision. More than 100 original works will tell the history of animation and world entertainment; the epic images that have consecrated the “boy from Shizuoka” in the Olympus of contemporary artists will range from Tatsunoko to Final Fantasy , passing through Vogue. The exhibition will happen after the festival. From November 13, 2024 to March 1, 2025, “Amano Corpus Animae ” will be the first retrospective to celebrate the 50-year career of the visionary Maestro. The largest and most complete exhibition ever dedicated to the Japanese artist in the West. Curated for Lucca Comics & Games by Fabio Viola, with the exhibition design and itinerary is created in collaboration with POLI.design of Milan.