An artistic duo that has brought readers a dark, intriguing, and beautifully crafted action manga — Gachiakuta — nominated in the “Best Shonen Manga” category at the Kodansha Awards in both 2023 and 2024: mangaka Kei Urana and graffiti artist/designer Hideyoshi Andou with their Gachiakuta will be among the guests at Lucca Comics & Games 2025 in collaboration with Star Comics and Crunchyroll (the long-awaited anime adaptation is coming to the platform starting in July 2025).
From Friday 31 October to Sunday 2 November the festival audience will have the opportunity to meet, during gatherings and book signings, this unique mangaka with a dynamic, detailed and immediately recognisable graphic style, and with a narration full of irony; next to her a powerful artist, active in the street culture scene who contributes to the Gachiakuta project by fusing the art of graffiti with the language of manga, giving life to a unique and innovative visual style.
Gachiakuta series and many other new releases will be available at the Star Comics Pavilion in Piazzale Vittorio Emanuele. More information will be made available soon on the publisher's channels.
