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The story
September 5th is “Propose with a Bulb Day,” established by Flower Garden Karen, a flower and houseplant shop in Osaka. The date comes from a wordplay on the numbers 9 (“kyu”) and 5 (“kon”), spelling out “kyu-kon” (bulb/proposal). The idea is for men to give women flower bulbs as a way to pop the question. On 5ch’s live-discussion board, a late-night thread kicked off with this trivia, but the conversation quickly drifted away from the anniversary itself and spiraled into unrelated chatter — whether a guy named Daisuke Hori is the real deal, how little sleep comedian Sanma gets, who’s actually been to a wedding, and fan-casting for a One Piece live-action movie.
What people said
The date comes from the wordplay 'kyu (9) kon (5)' — read together as 'kyukon,' meaning both 'bulb' and 'proposal.'
Unlike Valentine's Day, where women confess their feelings to men, this day flips the script: it's meant to give men a reason to propose to women, with the hope that they'll gift a flower bulb on this date to set the moment in motion.
Oh, you stayed up waiting for me? My oshi! ❤😎
Wait, there are fakes going around? 🙄
Don't make it sound like Clara stood up! lol (a nod to the famous "Clara stood up!" scene from the Heidi anime)
What do you think it is? *smirk*
Type 💒 (wedding chapel) and it pops up
Only someone with way too much time on their hands goes to other people's weddings
Don't go all John Lennon on us lol (channeling his "Imagine" era)
You can't really skip a relative's wedding though
Don't talk like a naughty "4610" lol (an obscure number/slang reference that doesn't translate cleanly)
You're an old man, aren't you 🫵
Re: #99
IMAX adds another +¥700 on top, you know~ 🤥
Guess I'll use this to calm myself down for now
Zoro — Shintaro Katsu
Nami — Rino Katase
Sanji — Toshiro Kandagawa
Usopp — Kiyoshi Atsumi
You're an old man, aren't you 🫵
Everyone except Rino Katase is already six feet under, you idiot!
What's with this font?
Background and talking points
“Propose with a Bulb Day” is an anniversary established by Flower Garden Karen, a flower and houseplant shop in Osaka’s Chuo Ward, set on September 5th based on the wordplay “kyu (9) kon (5)” for “kyukon” (bulb/proposal). The idea, mirroring Valentine’s Day in reverse, is for men to give women flower bulbs as a prompt to propose — but within the thread, this trivia served only as a jumping-off point, and the actual discussion had little to do with the anniversary itself. On “nandemo jikkyo” (anything-goes live commentary) boards like this one, the founding topic is often just a pretext for starting a thread, with conversation routinely veering off in all directions — and true to form, this one drifted into questions about whether a man named Daisuke Hori is real, rumors about celebrities’ private lives, and fan-casting chatter for a movie adaptation. Readers going in expecting a deep dive on the anniversary itself, based on the headline alone, may be surprised to find the actual thread barely touches on it.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Nandemo Jikkyo G) thread “Today is “Propose with a Bulb Day” 💍(・o・🍬)💒.”
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