Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle

Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle (千歳くんはラムネ瓶のなか) is a Japanese light novel series written by Hiromu and illustrated by raemz. Shogakukan published the first volume under its Gagaga Bunko imprint in June 2019. A manga adaptation with illustrations by Bobcat began serialization in Square Enix's Manga Up! in April 2020.

Light novels
The series is written by Hiromu and illustrated by raemz; its first volume was published by Shogakukan under its Gagaga Bunko imprint on June 18, 2019. As of June 2023, eight volumes and one short stories volume have been released.

In July 2021, Yen Press announced that they had licensed the series for English publication.

In 2022, the government of Fukui budgeted 6 million yen for a pop-culture tourism campaign collaboration with Chitose Is in the Ramune Bottle.

Manga
A manga adaptation, illustrated by Bobcat, began serialization in Square Enix's Manga Up! website on April 12, 2020. As of July 2023, the individual chapters have been collected into six tankōbon volumes.

At Anime NYC 2021, Yen Press announced they would also publish the manga adaptation in English.

Reception
In the Kono Light Novel ga Sugoi! guidebook, the series ranked first in the bunkobon category in 2021 and 2022. The series has over 280,000 copies in circulation.