Bouquet (magazine)

Bouquet (Japanese: ぶ〜け, Hepburn: Būke) was a monthly Japanese shōjo manga magazine. It was published by Shueisha between 1978 and 2000.

The magazines was founded in 1978 as a sister magazine to the shōjo magazines Margaret and Ribon by the same publisher. The magazine's readership in 1997 was reflecting that the readership had changed more towards josei manga: 57.8% of readers then were college students, "office ladies" and housewives; 27.3% were high school students and 12.3% were middle school students. In 1995, the magazine had a circulation of 195.000 copies per issue, in 1996 and 1997 the circulation was 150.000.[1][2]

In 1999, the editors of Bouquet switched to working on the magazine Cookie instead and in March 2000, the last issue of the magazine was published. Some of the ongoing series of Bouquet at that time, such as Clover or Zoccha no Nichijō, continued their serialization in Cookie.