Lucca Comics & Games 2024 Lineup So Far!

Lucca Comics & Games has unveiled a new poster created by Yoshitaka Amano for 2024 and some of this year’s lineup, including a touching D&D dedication!

Lucca Comics & Games is making a return in 2024 with the announcement of the lineup attendees can expect so far. They have also released a poster called the Overture by Yoshitaka Amano as it’s dedicated to Puccini’s Tosca. Known for his character design in the Final Fantasy series, Amano has also designed two more posters that will be arriving in September and October. Alongside the posters, some of the lineups we can expect are the preview of Squid Game 2 from Netflix, an anniversary celebration for Dungeons & Dragon s and Tetris as guests arrive from Europe, Japan, and North Africa.

Something major to note this year is Dungeons & Dragons’ 50th anniversary, where Lucca Comics & Games and the city of Lucca will be paying special tribute. Read more below!

Yoshitaka Amano Posters and Lucca Comic & Games Themes!

Focusing a bit more on the posters, Yoshitaka Amano has created three posters centring around the theme of Butterfly Effect for the Locca Comics & Games expo in Italy. The Overture is the first poster to be revealed, as it’s dedicated to Puccini’s Tosca. The designs of Overture focus on two characters embracing each other as they capture the energy of the festival and the variety of colours of its audience of butterflies. The next poster to arrive in September is dedicated to Madama Butterfly and the last poster will be unveiled on October 30th as it’s linked to the immortal princess Turandot to reflect the creativity and passion of Lucca Comics & Games .

Alongside the dedication to Puccini Tosca as we approach his centenary, the theme Butterfly Effect is a reference to the Chaos Theory, meaning a small change could lead to big consequences. This may be quite familiar if you have ever played the Until Dawn game as it relies on the Butterfly Effect mechanic, and this time around, it will be the core theme in Lucca Comics & Games to represent the three acts of the Opera.

Moving on from the posters and the theme meaning, we will be shifting focus on the lineups that attendees can expect to see during the exciting Lucca Comics & Games Expo in 2024!

Lucca Comic & Games 2024 Lineup

Netflix – Squid Game 2 Preview

Netflix will be making a return to the Lucca Comics & Games this year with an exciting preview for Squid Game 2 . On October 31st, the creator, Hwang Dong-hyuk and the protagonists, Lee Jung-Jae and Wi Ha-Joon, will be arriving at the Lucca expo to meet with fans and share an exciting update about the anticipated season of Squid Game. For those who are excited, the second season of Squid Game will be arriving on Netflix at the end of 2024!

25th Anniversary of One Piece

With the celebration starting from Milan, Berlin, London, Madrid, and Paris, the 25th anniversary of One Piece will be coming to a close at Lucca in style to honour the famous straw-hat pirate, Monkey D. Luffy! To honour the lovable pirate, Tatsuya Nagamine (director of One Piece last year and Dragon Ball Super: Broly ) and Kenji Yokoyama (animator of the show from day one to today) will be attending the Lucca Comics & Games 2024 expo with the celebration continuing at TOEI Animation with surprises and features to be announced in the coming weeks.

Amano Corpus ANIMÆ

This year, Lucca Comics & Games will host an exhibition at the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan dedicated to Yoshitaka Amano called the Amano Corpus ANIMÆ, taking place right after the festival as it will be held from November 13, 2024 to March 1st, 2025. The exhibition will focus on Amano’s ability to blend Anime, Video Games, and contemporary art into one artistic vision, as more than 100 original works will tell a story of animation and world entertainment. From being a boy raised in Shizuoka, the Amano Corpus ANIMÆ will showcase his work, ranging from Tatsunoko to Final Fantasy , and showcasing his Vogue posters.

Curated by Fabio Viola, the exhibition will have a VR experience, allowing attendees to access exclusive content. The experience will allow visitors to enter Amano’s three studios in Tokyo to see where his work was created. That’s not all, as it will be possible to touch his work tools, interact with his books and objects, view his collection of his work, and investigate other aspects of his artistic career. The overall VR experience will also tell a story of the representation of the female world, a theme that is present in Amano’s production, and everyone will be able to create art using the primary colours and elements with Amano style!

For those who are massive fans of Yoshitaka Amano, there will be a Kickstarter campaign to pre-order exclusive products and limited runs from July 18 to August 9. For the fans who are Kickstarter backers, the exhibition will open with the Backers Wall with the names of those who supported Amano’s first exhibition in Europe, becoming part of his history. If you participated in the project, you could receive limited edition autographed art prints and a different edition of the exhibition catalogue, including special editions that are signed and numbered. Lastly, multiple objects created for the exhibition will be available with amazing works and the possible chance to visit the exhibition with Yoshitaka Amano as your guide.

Be sure to visit the Kickstarter page !

Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons!

Dungeons & Dragon s will be celebrating their 50th anniversary, and to celebrate big, Lucca Comics & Games will be hosting two tributes to the franchise as a dedication to Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the creators! The first tribute to the role-playing board game will have the Koder Collection attending the exhibition for the first time, alongside Larry Elmore, Jeff Easley, Clyde Caldwell, Keith Parkinson, and Todd Lockwood in a unique exhibition called Gateway to Adventure: 50 Years of D&D Art. Curated by Jon Peterson and Jessica Lee Patterson, the exhibition will be hosted in the Church of the Servi to showcase more than 100 original works by many artists from D&D over the 50 years it has existed.

The second tribute to the legendary Dungeons & Dragons is the municipal administration of Lucca will be renaming the basement of the San Paolino Bastion, after Gary Gygax and Dave Arneson, the creators of Dungeons & Dragons and Keith Parkinson, an artist of the RPG who has sadly passed away in 2005. Leaving a permanent mark in the city of gaming.

“This year, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of Dungeons & Dragons , the city of Lucca is naming a real medieval dungeon in its historic walls to the creators of the game that revolutionized the lives of millions of people. It is something we have been planning for a very long time,” said the Festival Director of Lucca Comics & Games, Emanuele Vietina , about the tribute to the creators of Dungeons & Dragon s.

Alongside the exciting news, Jeremy Crawford, the lead rules designer of Dungeons & Dragon s and the lead designer of the 2024 version will be attending in Lucca to investigate the present and future of the longest-running role-playing game to bring joy.

The Celebration of Tetris 40th Anniversary!

Being originally released in 1984, Tetris will be celebrating its 40th anniversary at Lucca Comics & Games with the creator and co-founder of The Tetris Company. Tetris was created by Alexey L. Pajitnov, a programmer at the Moscow Academy of Science who loves puzzles and stormed the world with Tetris as it became an iconic and beloved video game of all time with hundreds of millions of copies being sold across 50 platforms. Alexey L. Pajitnov and Henk B. Rogers, the co-founders of The Tetris Company, will be attending the exhibition to share stories about the game’s history and impact on pop culture and share their thoughts about the future of the beloved brand.

Star Wars: Unlimited – World Premiere of Set 3, The Twilight of the Republic

Star Wars: Unlimited will be joining the lineup at Lucca Comics & Games to premiere Set 3, The Twilight of the Republic! Although the worldwide pre-release event will take place on November 1st, it will start on October 30th at Lucca Comics & Games for all the players and Star Wars fans to see, touch, and experience the new set before anyone else could in the world.

Larian Studios is joining the celebration!

With Baldur’s Gate 3 winning the Game of the Year award at The Game Awards 2023 , some of the creative minds from Larian Studio will be making a stop at the Lucca Comics & Games. Jason Latino (Cinematic Director), Joachim Vleminckx (Art Director), and Borislav Slavov (Music Composer) will share with the people of Lucca insight into the development of one of the best games in 2023.

With the details regarding Lucca Comics & Games posters created by Yoshitaka Amano and the list of lineups so far as it will be held from October 30th, 2024, to November 3rd, 2024, are you excited to attend the exhibition? If so, be sure to check out the Lucca Comics & Games 2024 website for more details and to stay up-to-date for the upcoming exhibition!

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