"Flesh&Blood" Pirate Series Reading Club 🏴‍☠️ ⛵

I come with more merch pics today! My quest to acquire as many bonus stories as I can continues! My sweet table will be updated as well with any new information I’ve gleaned~

Merch Pics, round 2

First up is what should be the last of the Chara Birthday Fair booklets + premium sheets I was missing. 2022’s premium sheet will be distributed sometime in mid November, so that’s no included here. While I haven’t done a word-for-word comparison or anything, it’s pretty safe to say that the short story 予感 found in the top left booklet there is the same 予感 found in digital editions of F&B vol. 1. Bottom right is a little art board thing that was distributed for 2022.

(Premium sheets are the four outliers that just have a big F&B picture on the front.)

These next two pictures are of a book jacket that was included with copies of vol. 25 (2012年 01月号) of the 小説Chara magazine. I should’ve put it on one my books for a picture, thinking about it now. :thinking:


Next up are three random booklets. First on the left is some sort of mail-order booklet, middle is associated with the drama CDs in some way (still have no idea how these booklets were distributed), and the right is, as far as I can tell, manga-ized bites of novels Chara was publishing at the time. (See the thread for vol. 2 for inside F&B pics!) Anyone else think it’s neat that the Gloria gets its own crest here?

(@ekg, please let me know if you know any more information about that middle booklet and its siblings. I think it’s an entire section of my bonus stories table that I’ll need to add, but I don’t know a whole lot about how exactly these are related to the drama CDs. One saving grace is that at least all these booklets, as far as I can tell, have the story name on the front.)

Below are more Chara Collection EXTRA books; I still don’t have all the ones with an F&B story, but I’m getting close. Bottom right book is not part of the EXTRA series; it was distributed at an event called AGF2015 (anyone know what this is/stands for?), but I included it here since it was called Chara Collection 2015.

Finally, I managed to get my hands on a couple of copies of 小説Chara (bottom row). It’s one of Chara’s magazines that publishes mostly stuff from their novel authors, though there’s a manga story in there here or there, and some of the novel shorts have pictures with them. (F&B does not in all three of these. It’s probably for the best; a good chunk of the pictures I saw while flipping through were extremely vanilla sex scenes/slightly risque making out or the like. :see_no_evil:)

The top row are pages from two different F&B stories from two different magazines that an enterprising seller sliced from their magazine and sold. (It’s actually a good deal; the magazines are thick, and I don’t necessarily care about having access to the full thing. Plus issues of 小説Chara are really expensive secondhand for some reason.) (The top left cutout, for the story 舟遊び, is actually from the bottom left magazine; I accidentally got two copies of it.)

A question for all you folks still reading with me: the fronts of these magazines advertise author name + their series + illustrator, and the illustrator is always prefixed with CUT+. Does anyone know what this could stand for? It’s not just F&B, but all of them on these covers.

My goal is to start checking publication dates on some of these short stories to see if our little reading club is far enough along to be able to read them. If we are, I will make them available so we can all read!

Edit: @ekg, after looking into things a bit more on both secondhand listings and the BLCD Wiki you sent me before, I think the mysterious ドラマCD小冊子 I mentioned in my pictures above (it’s a green book) is linked to the Special Talk drama CDs. Secondhand listings link most booklets with a Special Talk CD, and it would also explain why the average price of a booklet is so high. Not sure how the booklets were distributed, though, if they came with the CDs or were an extra step you had to take to acquire; I haven’t found any info on the BLCD Wiki yet.

Updated the table with the new info; the ドラマCD小冊子 are listed under the Drama CD section.

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