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The 26th Comicon in Napoli gathered more than 180,000 attendees in a passionate, colourful (and warm!) atmosphere and the festival put together a varied lineup of guests and artists. At Gamereactor we had the pleasure to talk with 20+ of them and here are three specific highlights by our David Caballero.
"Hi friends, this is it. This is the final day of the 26th Comicon in Napoli.
As you can see, it's a Sunday. It's a very crowded day. It's actually pretty hot.
It's the hottest day. It's really warm. Everyone's got to be sweating in those beautiful cosplay costumes, right?
I wanted to give you some of my highlights and to do the traditional badge drop."
"So, yeah, this year, as I said in my previous update, we had a more interesting guest list, I would say.
It was slightly more varied and I enjoyed the manga energy to this event compared to other events in Europe.
They've been doing this for a while and they know what they do, right?
So I had Kazuhiko Torishima, who was the editor for Dr. Slump and Dragon Ball, by late Akira Toriyama."
"And we had a really nice conversation about how to publish manga, how to detect talent and how to identify potential global hits.
And that was very interesting. I was warned that he's a difficult interview.
And, you know, I like a challenge and that was a nice one. I didn't have any problems and he was nice to me.
And I think that's going to be very interesting to you guys."
"It's going to be on text. That's the only one we couldn't film, but we could film all the other ones.
I'm bringing back more than 20 interviews this time around.
And from the film area or field, there were many, many interesting talents, both big and small.
And I had Troy Baker, who I had five years ago."
"And we talked AI and, you know, and voice acting and performance capture.
And Indiana Jones, of course, and a little bit of Judas and Intergalactic as well.
And I had him with Austin Wintory, who I knew 14 years ago.
And it's a magnificent composer and I love him. And that was a really nice catch up."
"And then as a final highlight to me personally, very personally, but of course, he's a legend here.
He's a legend in Italy. He's a maestro, Milo Manara.
And I've been loving his art since I was a little kid at home.
And my dad had a lot of comics from him."
"And, yeah, you know, it's just a maestro, as I said.
He gave me this incredible insight comparing when he started drawing and his art and his intention to nowadays sort of context.
And he compared eroticism to pornography in a very interesting way.
So, yeah, many more names I'm not saying now, but you will check that out."
"You will have everything at your local Gamereactor site.
And also some videos showing you the beautiful atmosphere here, the color, the passion of the community and many cosplayers saying Ciao Gamereactor.
So now is my time to say that Ciao Gamereactor.
And I'm going to drop my badge as per our tradition."
