‘Stranger Things,’ Video Games and French Comics to Light Up Lucca

Netflix, Cartoon Network and Crunchyroll will lead the entertainment lineup at Lucca Comics & Games 2025, the international pop culture festival, which returns to the Tuscan city for this year’s event, running Oct. 29-Nov. 2.

Netflix will spotlight the fifth and final season of Stranger Things with a special event at Lucca on Oct. 31, ahead of the show’s multi-part release starting in late November. Cartoon Network will unveil The Wonderfully Weird World of Gumball, an interactive pavilion experience inspired by Ben Bocquelet’s cult animated series, which has been revived for a final, seventh season, that will premiere on Hulu and Cartoon Network International. Crunchyroll will return to Lucca with a dedicated anime space featuring screenings, previews, and exclusive merchandise.

Headline’s Lucca’s video game section this year will be Japan’s Kojima Productions, presenting Hideo Kojima’s Death Stranding 2: On The Beach. Fellow Japanese game designer Keiichiro Toyama,…