Salón del Manga de Barcelona
The Saló del Manga de Barcelona is a Spanish anime and manga convention held annually in Barcelona, and is the largest anime convention in Spain.
Activities
- World Cosplay Summit, Spain Preliminaries.
- Cosplay and Karaoke competitions, European Cosplay Gathering & EuroCosplay preliminaries.
- Video Games.
- Anime projections and conferences.
- Matsuri and Japanese culture workshops.
- Japanese cuisine.
| Year | Official name | Date | Location | Attendance | Notable guests |
| 1995 | Saló del Manga i el Videojoc | October 27–29 | Estació de França | 1.000 | |
| 1996 | II Saló del Manga | October 28–30 | Estació de França | 3.000 | |
| 1997 | III Saló del Manga | La Farga | 7.000 | Masami Tsuda | |
| 1998 | IV Saló del Manga | October 30 - November 1 | La Farga | 10.000 | Shingo Araki |
| 1999 | V Saló del Manga, el Còmic, el Coleccionisme, els Videojocs i l'Animació | October 29–31 | La Farga | 20.000 | Haruhiko Mikimoto |
| 2000 | VI Saló del Manga | November 3–5 | La Farga | 30.000 | |
| 2001 | VII Saló del Manga | October 26–28 | La Farga | 35.000 | Akemi Takada |
| 2002 | VIII Saló del Manga | October 25–27 | La Farga | 39.000 | Yuu Watase, Studio Pierrot |
| 2003 | IX Saló del Manga | October 24–26 | La Farga | 43.000 | Yutaka Izubuchi, Yuji Moriyama, Studio Pierrot |
| 2004 | X Saló del Manga | October 29 - November 1 | La Farga | 58.000 | Mari Kitayama, Studio Pierrot |
| 2005 | XI Saló del Manga | October 29 - November 1 | La Farga | 63.000 | Hiroto Tanaka |
| 2006 | XII Saló del Manga | October 27–29 | La Farga | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 130,000 | Kengo Hanazawa, Takeshi Obata, Takehiko Inoue, Ken Niimura, Hideo Baba, Junichi Masuda & Shigeru Ohmori, Masayuki Hirano |
| 2015 | XXI Saló del Manga | October 29 - November 1 | Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-4 and Plaça Univers | 137.000 | Inio Asano, Io Sakisaka, Tetsuya Tashiro |
| 2016 | XXII Saló del Manga | October 29 - November 1 | Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-4-5 and Plaça Univers | 142.000 | Banana Yoshimoto, Mitsuyo Kakuta, Junji Ito, Toshio Maeda, Hidenori Kusaka, Satoshi Yamamoto, Akihiro Hino |
| 2017 | XXIII Saló del Manga | November 1 - November 5 | Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-3-4-5 and Plaça Univers | 148.000 | Robico, Yoshiaki Sukeno, Yoko Kamio, Masao Maruyama, DJ Kentaro, Azumi Inoue |
| 2018 | XXIV Saló del Manga | November 1 - November 4 | Fira de Barcelona Palau 1-2-3-4-5 and Plaça Univers | ＋150.000 | Daisuke Hagiwara, Emika Kamieda, Akira Himekawa, Elsa Brants, Nagabe, Takashi Hatsushiba, Paru Itagaki, Nana Kitade, Eiki Eiki, Taishi Zaou, Masaki Satô, Junnyan, Luiza |
| 2019 | XXV Manga Barcelona | October 31 - November 3 | Fira de Barcelona | Masayuki Satō, Hiroyuki Sakurada |