Transforming Japanese Aesthetics into J-Alternative Rock — BloomingBungei Announces Debut Full-Length Album “Poolside Core”Featuring TEMPLIME and Urara (ChoQMay); “FLASHNOVA” Music FilmPremieres Oc

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Blooming Bungei is a Japanese alternative rock project that transforms a distinctly Japanese aesthetic sensibility into its own

vision of J-Alternative Rock. Built around the dynamics of a rock band, its work moves freely through electronic music,

classical elements, and psychedelia, while extending beyond sound into film, scent, taste, and physical space.

Operating independently through bungei Inc., a company led by members of the project rather than an outside label,

Blooming Bungei has built a combined monthly listener base of more than 400,000 across streaming services including Spotify

and Apple Music.

Blooming Bungei will release its debut full-length album, “Poolside Core,” on October 28, 2026.

The album includes “school zone(MOD),” which reconstructs the sense of time from childhood through a 2010s-style

home-recording sound; “mantle of the earth(MOD),” where electric guitar intersects with strings, featuring violin by Urara

(ChoQMay); “poolside villa,” co-written with TEMPLIME and connecting band sound with electronic music; and “Blooming,” a

ten-minute epic that travels through all four seasons. Together, the songs present a new vision of alternative music.

“Poolside Core” condenses Blooming Bungei’s progressive, alternative approach—along with its philosophy, aesthetic

sensibility, and way of seeing the world—into a single record. For the project, it is a landmark work. Or rather, something

closer to Mount Fuji.

On October 29 at 7:00 PM JST, the day after the album release, the Music Film for album track “FLASHNOVA” will premiere on

Blooming Bungei’s official YouTube Channel.

Directed and shot by Blooming Bungei member and color artist Aika Sumi, the film was completed over approximately

eighteen months. From calligraphic art performed on a snowfield in the depths of winter to a custom-built rocket launcher

created to make cherry blossoms bloom, scenes unfold one after another across the boundary between reality and fantasy.

Expanding the world of Blooming Bungei through both music and moving image, the film is an epic in which not a single

moment should be missed.

〈ARTIST COMMENTS〉

Color Artist Aika Sumi

A Music Film six years in conception, centered on a letter addressed to someone it can no longer reach.

I used to think that what is always out of reach was the future as seen from the past. But perhaps what is truly

unreachable is the past as seen from the future.

I edited the film as though opening a time capsule and looking, one by one, at the things my former self entrusted

to my future self.

Music Creator ko shinonome

Seasons, the Earth, impulse, desire, transformation, and love.

“Poolside Core” seals Blooming Bungei’s inner landscape into a single album.

So that even after loss, even after breaking apart, we can still believe that now is the most beautiful.

Album Title: “Poolside Core”

Artist: Blooming Bungei

Digital Release: October 28, 2026 (Wed), 12:00 AM JST

The “Poolside Core” exhibition, which expands the world of Blooming

Bungei into physical space, will be held at FORMEI in Hatagaya on

November 7 (Sat) and 8 (Sun). Ten artists from different

disciplines—including jewelry, ceramics, glass, illustration, sweets, and

fashion—will participate.

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かがやき / FLASHNOVA

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

recording engineer（drum）：Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

vocal edit：SOZEN OTSUBO, aki

mixing engineer：shino116

ゼン・スペース・シックス・フレア / zen space 6ix flare

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar：ko shinonome

bass：maro takada（chef’s）

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：SOZEN OTSUBO, aki

recording（drum） and mixing engineer：Kenkokotsu

スクールゾーン（MOD） / school zone(MOD)

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

recording engineer（drum）：Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

vocal edit：SOZEN OTSUBO, aki

mixing engineer：shino116

雲海 / Crystal Cloud

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：SOZEN OTSUBO, aki

recording engineer（drum）：Shin Ichikawa, Koki Nonaka

mixing engineer：shino116

ジ・アース（MOD）/ mantle of the earth(MOD)

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

violin：Urara（ChoQMay）

vocal edit：aki

recording engineer（drum）：Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

mixing engineer：shino116, Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

ふたごのたましい / Twin Soul

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：aki

mixing engineer：Yo Nishimura, Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

μεταμορπηοςε / μεταμορπηοςε

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：aki

mixing engineer：shino116

初恋（MOD） / first crush(MOD)

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：aki

mixing engineer：shino116

プールサイド・ヴィラ / poolside infinity - 文藝天国×TEMPLIME

vocal：haru, KBSNK（TEMPLIME）

music and lyrics：ko shinonome and KBSNK（TEMPLIME）

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

beat, synth & programming：KBSNK（TEMPLIME）

mixing engineer：Kenkokotsu

ブルーミング / Blooming

vocal：haru

music and lyrics：ko shinonome

guitar and bass：ko shinonome

drum：Junnosuke Hayashi

vocal edit：SOZEN OTSUBO, aki

recording engineer（drum）：Tomoaki（noise）Shimada

mixing engineer：shino116

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equipment support：Yoichiro Yoshikawa

guitar tech：Kaoru Yamamoto

mastering engineer：Soichiro Nakamura

distributed by Artled

visual produce by aika sumi

sound produce by ko shinonome

release label：bungei records

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