Ink Exploration: Sailor Manyo Inks

[@catwhisperer911]

Sailor's has a rather large portfolio of inks ranging from the bland to the sublime. They have something for everyone but because they have so many it might take a while to find the ones that call out your name. Some Japanese retail stores in Tokyo and Osaka will dedicate numerous showcases just for a particular line of ink, even providing dip pens for you to test them out. Japan is fountain pen heaven.

[@adventuredenali]

Jeff Schwartz yes! I agree with you on the variety of inks, and how it may take some time to find the right fit. That sounds like a dream, to walk into a store like that and test the different inks. I was able to find a store like that in Little Japan in San Fransisco!

[@JuceePeachz67]

Great video. Nice inks. Good luck and happiness in your new home.

[@phillipbuscemi4177]

Hi! Congratulations on your new move, I hope it is a perfectly perfect for You!! The inks look really nice, i am patial to the more saturated tones. The darker blues and red look very interesting to me. Thank you!! Njoy your day and have fun!! Stay Healthy Stay Safe!! Hope your furry family is comfortable in the new place too! 😊🌹!

[@Looming_ewe]

Wow, you have such a beautiful handwriting! It's so relaxing and satisfying to watch you write.

[@mieumieu33]

Great introduction video to the inks. And I love your sailor pro mini too. Really like that maroon Color.

[@kristinaugust8717]

Ugh. Love your comments, ink choices, pen choices and calming knowledgeable tone of voice!!! I am an art teacher and fountain pens, inks and paper have become my self care. Thank you 🙏🙏😌

[@LiSaDeLune]

I am loving these ink swatches! Good luck with the move! I hope you'll have a great, safe place to call home!

[@ymj1005]

Thanks again for another great video. I like your thought process of choosing the ink to put in the fountain pens. Me the same.. and i enjoy selecting the inks and watching the swatches definitely..

[@jillbartos8893]

These inks are gorgeous! I'm also into pale inks lately - J Herbin Bleu Myosotis and Monteverde Purple Mist are both in my medium nib Pilot Preras and are soft yet very readable. I love watching your pen videos!

[@adventuredenali]

Thank you! Enjoy writing and playing with ink!

[@jennieeveleighlamond]

Floofle-beans!!! Sweet little ferret content!! I love Sailor inks, thank you for doing this.

[@joymusterer]

Wishing you a smooth move and easy settlement! We moved so many times with the Navy, no matter how much I loved a place, it was always an exciting time to move to some place new. Here's to more adventures!

[@cherylthomae-barnes7852]

Good luck on your move. Thanks for sharing the pretty ink colors. Enjoy!🤓🌻

[@pantalonious3984]

I truly wish all ink reviewers would invest in just 1 watercolor paintbrush and stop wasting so many cotton swabs A but also so much ink wasted! Just one mans opinion. Awesome review and i loved seeing them all inked your and writing !! I’m subscribing :-)

[@redstone5149]

Geez, there’s always one🤦🏽‍♂️. Did you really need to make that comment? You’re worried about wasting cotton swabs and ink? Seriously, that’s what you’re worried about?

[@cindyskimmyhorn4779]

Oohhh I love this! I have my first Sailor coming tomorrow and I got the third ink. Nekoyanaga, and I cannot wait. I wish you mush luck on your move. I know how that upsets your life for awhile. 🌻🌻 Also am getting my first dip pen. Good luck and am so glad to have a new video from you. You’re my fave youtuber.😊

[@ChrisSaenz13]

Wishing you all the very best on your move. ❤ My favorite of these inks was the Akebi.

[@HisGraceHisGlory]

Yomogi for me!

[@AnneAnne321]

I have kikyou too and it’s beautiful out of a B stub. Also have nekoyanaga and haha. I had to put those in a wide music or keep re-dipping my masuyama med curs ital into the bottle to get the full effect

[@marielouiseweeksb33attitud33]

Absolutely gorgeous

[@AstridTuesday]

Beautiful colors, I was pleasantly surprised with how the two inks performed with a dip pen vs. how they appeared swatched. Totally unexpected. Just curious, do you always get samples first before you purchase a full bottle?

[@sodapop1999]

Happy to see u again!

[@BobHancy]

More inkformation! Thank you! I agree with Phonelady61, the lighting at your current home is incredible - I do hope you have the same lighting at your new place! Thank you for this video - it's always so nice to see what the ink actually looks like both as a "splotch" and in the pen. Great idea for a video. Pace yourself with that move and don't pinch your fingers! :-)

[@volcanowb]

no, its picking up the colors. they're beautifully, rich. what is the paper? The two, plums look delicious!

[@adventuredenali]

My Purple Crayon great! The paper is Tomoe River 58gsm, (Nanami cafe notes journal).

[@phonelady61]

oh are you moving to your moms or a new apartment ? that one you are moving out of is gorgeous . It has so much light . I love place that have a lot of light .

[@adventuredenali]

phonelady61 I love that place too. But I’m moving back into a house I lived prior. Different part of town, cheaper rent!

[@eily_b]

Oh, you are moving out of your cosy little house? I really liked it... The ink colours are gorgeous, especially the darker ones as far as I can say through camera and monitor etc.

[@rebeckaar]

Ohhhh I love how Haha is like a milky shimmery cloud!

[@archivist17]

Best wishes for your move. Hope you're back online for more ink fun soon!

[@cathycreates]

It’s so helpful watching your videos. Thanks.

[@vintagelife5195]

New hair, new home. Lots of changes going on.

[@adventuredenali]

Vintage Life haha indeed!

[@sunriseintheeast-080]

I have Haha and Nekoyanagi in a Wingsung 3008 EF, said to be a knock off of the TWSBI Eco, and they perform BEAUTIFULLY. Those pens are real gushers, which helps. In my experience, those lighter manyo inks don't perform well in any other EF/F pen that I've tried.

[@rmdcade1717]

I think they're all gorgeous. I'm especially a fan of the Kikyou, but that Kuzu looks nice, too. Does the Kuzu show any shading or sheening in ordinary writing? The only Sailor ink I've ever tried is Sailor Ink Studio #343. When I first saw it, I thought it looked like a thunderstorm over the ocean. I love it, but it really wants at least a medium nib to really show off the shading.

[@steventrosiek2623]

Love Sailor inks, especially Manyo line. Tell me, are they safe to use in rubber sac fountain pens? Can't find any information about their pH.

[@ambsquared]

I like the yamabuki. I have a bottle in my cart at goulet, but haven’t checked out. I just got Sailor Jentle 4 Seasons Gold Tree Star delivered today. I had to translate the image because I got it from a Japanese store on Amazon. It should yellow/orange like the yamabuki. I have Noodlers Apache Sunset in a broad nib, and I just love the shading it does. I get variations from a yellow to a bright orange. It’s strange to me, but I am really liking the yellow/orange and also brown inks I have bought so far. I would have thought it would be blue, as generally that is my favorite color.

[@cebukitty]

Thanks for the sailor manyo ink sample video. I bought a 50 ml bottle of Yomogi a few days before we were quarantined and it was an instant fave. I think I'll pick up the Akebi too :D

[@rvg55]

Your Sailor Pro Gears are so pretty and dainty looking, do you have any other colors in your collection? and those inks are so temptingly beautiful. You’re moving...lots of things going on..must be exciting.

[@pinkskiestoday]

Ooohhhh...now I know which inks to start with from the Sailor line. I prefer the bold and saturated ones. Thanks for the review! BTW, how many Sailor pens do you have in your collection now?

[@richardc6932]

I prefer the Manyo Kuzu with my Sailor medium nib in a Sapporo “White Russian “. Beautiful!!!

[@ichirofakename]

Thanks for the entertaining video. Interesting to learn that glass pens present inks so differently from metal.

[@ichirofakename]

A year later, I've been using pale inks to draw. I'm gonna try Haha in the hopes that it is even lighter than my current lightest, Herbin Gris Nuage. (Haven't had great luck using diluted inks).

[@aleccox3342]

You actually didn't do too bad saying the Japanese names. I'm glad you took the time to try and say them right, thank you!! You look amazing, as always, and the ink review is great! How quickly would you say they dry? I'm a lefty, and may buy one.

[@Elizkleincaz]

Where are you moving? I'd love to see some moving vlogs or empty tour of your new home 😊

[@adventuredenali]

Elizabeth Kleinkramer well, it’s a bit late for that unfortunately, haha! I was just in moving mode and wanted it done! But at some point, I’ll do a house tour!

[@melanieandbookstacks]

All the best for your home move x

[@AF-yq6ew]

Manyo Haha is one of my all time favourite inks because of the STUNNING purple blue, green, grey hues that come out on tomoe river paper.... just curious, which ones did you end up buying!!

[@adventuredenali]

It is gorgeous! I didn’t end up buying any of them, I have so many inks!

[@AF-yq6ew]

@@adventuredenali that hasn't stopped me hehe

[@Richard_Barnes]

Nice inks and pens 🙂👍🏻

[@TheGingerNinjaKnitsandJournals]

Beanzilla. 😀 Good luck during your move!

[@papermademedoit]

Love those inks! 💕

[@bensmith-mannschott9640]

Have a good move!

[@adventuredenali]

Ben Smith-Mannschott thank you by the way!

[@crispymerchant5070]

I don’t write much but these look like they’d be awesome to paint with!

[@Lacassyla]

Thanks for this video! Been really eyeing Haha and Neko Yanaga

[@lyndasnart7823]

Love the second one but love bean zilla more 😜🌍👍🇦🇺

[@lyndasnart7823]

They are all really nice I will have to look into them more 💓

[@sashaspellman8312]

Happy to see you :)

[@Ecuador86]

What paper? I’m finding the haha and nekoyanagi to be very light in pens as well. I plan to try it in my fine pelikan and see if that helps, it seems to have a wetter flowing nib.

[@DDixon-kk1kf]

I used up a sample of Nekoyanagi in a TWSBI 580 Bold and found that it was still a little light. My solution was to limit the space within the ink chamber every once in a while to make the nib write wetter. If I had thought about it sooner I would have used a drop of the Vanness White Lightning, according to reddit a drop of dish soap the size of a toothpick tip can render similar results.

[@cryskiiim]

just curious, why do you so fully immerse the cotton swabs into the ink? they seem really doused! ^^

[@adventuredenali]

nebulous I like having a really saturated amount on the paper to see all the fun properties the ink has to offer.

[@foody4723]

@@adventuredenali maybe this review is interesting, it is german but from minute 8.36 to 18.50 you don't need to know german, the colours speak for themselves! The fourfold swatches or swabs are on Rhodia dot paper the really fat swatch or swab is on tomoe river paper 52 gr.. Greetings from here!

[@foody4723]

@@adventuredenali sorry! Forgot to lift the link of the HA-HA review yesterday. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fH2ueKGoj6xsZtU

[@PenFriends]

Aghhhhhhhhhhh beanzillaaaaa *points and runs* . In all seriousness the Neko ink is crazy different, did you shake the bottle?

[@adventuredenali]

Pen Friends beanzillaaaaa!!!! (I’m really behind on comment responding >.

[@PenFriends]

AdventureDenali *runs for the hills*

[@volcanowb]

you came from Washington to where you are now, in Arizona, right? moving again?

[@Irate_Mastermind]

What paper are you using?

[@メキシコ人-k2v]

The cc reads as tamales river paper lol omg

[@wittwittwer1043]

I recognized the Japanese "neko" from the time I was in Japan. It means "cat." In fact, I had a female "tuxedo" cat that I named "Neko." Nekoyanagi means "pussy willow."

[@VariscoLuca]

Neko Yanagi

[@VariscoLuca]

Noooo they are not available in japan :O

[@VariscoLuca]

Neko Yanagi is Pussy Willow. They are all flowers names.

[@muthumanishanmuganathan4086]

The audio voice pronunciations and text the text scrolling are in most of the places are horrible. " PELIKAN " is texted as pillock on.. What nonsense!

[@grayautumnday]

This would be amazing except that the use of a full cotton swab of ink to just do a tiny swatch makes me cringe so hard at the wastefulness. I'm low income and even buying ink samples of most of the inks I'd love to get is too expensive. Wasting that much ink is like seeing someone buy a huge plate of lobster, take tiny nibbles off each claw and another tiny bite of lf the tail and then immediately throw the rest of the piece in the compost bin. Please - you can use the back end of your glass dip pen to spread a swatch. You don't need to waste expensive ink like that. Cotton swabs hold so much liquid. You're so lucky to be able to try inks, that's such a shame that you waste so much of it. If you were using a cotton swab to cover half an index card, sure. But not a 1/2"x3/4" rectangle, come on!

[@KostyaBugaienko]

Will have to teach English