novelties

In every issue of Ribon magazine, you will find various giveaways the readers can enter to win. These can be contest prizes, usually for art contests, or giveaways of apparel and gadgets to people who send in answers to reader polls, or sponsored anime merchandise. Shueisha sometimes also gives out novelties at various events and at booksellers for PR. These novelties are often exclusive merchandise printed with art by popular artists, and they are much more rare and much harder to find than furoku or zen'in reader presents you can see on the furoku page, since they were only given out to a few hundred or few thousand people.

Recently, I've been contacted by a lovely person who was as kind as to share photographs of her collection of Tokimeki novelties! Sadly there is very little information available about these items, such as what issue of Ribon they are from or how many pieces were created, but I hope you will enjoy the lovely images and that maybe this page will serve as a source of information for anyone looking to collect these items. Thank you so much to the anonymous donor!

You will also be able to find images of similar novelties in the Romantic Album fanbook as well as on the tokimek1-starrynight tumblr.

And finally, I have also included scans of the few novelty items I personally own, and ads for novelties from Ribon and related magazines.

Ranze arc novelties – 9 items
Narumi arc novelties – 2 items
Air arc novelties – 3 items
My collection – 2 items
Advertisments – 29 images
tokimek1-starrynight scans – 38 links

Ranze arc novelties

Narumi arc novelties

Aira arc novelties

My collection

Narumi arc pre-paid telephone card from Shueisha's 1989 Summer Comics Fair.

Ririka SOS plastic bag from Shueisha's 1995 Summer Comics Fair.

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tokimek1-starrynight scans

tokimek1-starrynight is a tumblr account which posts a ton of Tokimeki images, including scans from Ribon magazine featuring novelties. I've decided to make a list of these posts for easy browsing.