Poplar To Release Puppet Sunsun Guidebook On November 11
Puppet Sunsun has run as a serialized work without a book of its own, and Poplar is now pairing that first guidebook with a goods and bookstore-event push scaled past 600 retail locations, so the release tests whether the property can carry merchandise and in-store events beyond its existing audience.
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Poplar Publishing will release the Puppet Sunsun Guidebook on November 11, with online pre-orders opening September 16 at Rakuten Books and other online bookstores. The book collects character profiles and setting material on the puppet country Two Hook, including newly shot gravure pages of Sunsun, Nonnon, Zonzon, Tsukutsuku and Fanfan. Original goods go on sale at about 600 bookstores, 12 stores will hold pop-ups, and the event Where's SUNSUN? runs at 195 Miraiya Shoten stores from November 11 to November 29.
The guidebook is priced at 2,090 yen including tax. Buyers who order at Rakuten Books by September 24 get a sheet sticker, while supplies last.
Original items arrive at roughly 600 bookstores: a book cover at 1,760 yen, a glasses case with cloth at 1,650 yen, and a crinkly keychain at 1,540 yen. Purchasing the book at a participating store brings a "FUWAA" bookmark, and spending 2,200 yen or more on bookstore-original items earns a novelty gift whose details are still to come. Pop-ups at 12 bookstores will add book-original items and products using book art.
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