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Syo-ro and Yama-Guri are my favorites, with great behavior and color shifts, but pick your color and go for it. Not a bad one in the bunch! I actually use others more, but that is an aside :)

 

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Interesting reactions. Makes me wonder if there is an Iroshizuku ink that few people like. Several have been mentioned in this discussion that were not on my list, but now I think I would like them.

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Syo-ro is my favourite, but if only one the Yama-guri. Nothing else exactly like it.

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Syo-ro and Yama-Guri are my favorites, with great behavior and color shifts, but pick your color and go for it. Not a bad one in the bunch! I actually use others more, but that is an aside :)

 

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I didn't wind up buying any ink. I wound up buying a Sailor Pro Gear slim instead.

 

Thanks for the suggestions, everyone. I really enjoyed reading them all.

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Enjoy your new Sailor. :)

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Ooh, it's like choosing your favourite child. :)

 

At the moment I've only tried tsuki yo, shin kai and yama budo. I like all three, but if I had to choose one it would be tsuki yo.

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I'd considered Tsuki-yo for The Essential Blue-Black, but it turns out basic Pilot Blue-Black is significantly more water resistant, and may also contain phenol, something I appreciate in an ink I want to put into my Dad's "51".

 

But there's a decent chance I'll be trying to mix my own from Noodler's Midway Blue and Borealis Black instead.

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For me it would be Yama-budo and Yama-guri. Those are absolutely no brainers. I would not ever want to be without either of them. Still trying to make up my mind about Take-sumi, simply because I don't use black ink much; I haven't tried all the blue family yet to be able to decide one way or another (but I did NOT like Asa-gao's behavior -- it was drippy).

Fuyu-gaki is well behaved -- I just hated the color.

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Ooh, it's like choosing your favourite child. :)

 

At the moment I've only tried tsuki yo, shin kai and yama budo. I like all three, but if I had to choose one it would be tsuki yo.

 

Sorry, I know a lot of people here like Tsuki-Yo. However, this is one ink that really, really bothers me. It looks good on photos, however in person it's got some nasty shade to it that makes me shiver. It looks "dirty". The black/dark grey part of it is really pronounced. I've tried it in several pens, fine, 1.1 stub etc. It looks better in the stub due to shading, but still, can't shake the "dirty" look.

To each their own. I'd much rather go with Jentle Blue-Black which is a truer blue black.

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Without a doubt, it would be Ina-ho for me. I hated it the first time I saw it, but it grew on me and is now one of my favorites. I love Shin-kai, as well.

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Sorry, I know a lot of people here like Tsuki-Yo. However, this is one ink that really, really bothers me. It looks good on photos, however in person it's got some nasty shade to it that makes me shiver. It looks "dirty". The black/dark grey part of it is really pronounced. I've tried it in several pens, fine, 1.1 stub etc. It looks better in the stub due to shading, but still, can't shake the "dirty" look.

To each their own. I'd much rather go with Jentle Blue-Black which is a truer blue black.

 

I'd have to agree with you on Tsuki-yo. I tried a sample of it after getting a letter from someone doing an ink swap and he had such beautiful handwriting. But when I tried it I just was underwhelmed. It does look really good out of a relatively fine flexible nib, though.

I've just true a sample of Tsuyu-kusa, and it's a very pretty light/medium blue. But it feathers badly on less than ideal paper. Haven't had a chance to try the sample of Kon-peki yet.

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I'm surprised so many people said Yama-Guri, I'll have to ink it up and give it another chance. I like it, I just like my blues more.

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I'd have to agree with you on Tsuki-yo. I tried a sample of it after getting a letter from someone doing an ink swap and he had such beautiful handwriting. But when I tried it I just was underwhelmed. It does look really good out of a relatively fine flexible nib, though.

I've just true a sample of Tsuyu-kusa, and it's a very pretty light/medium blue. But it feathers badly on less than ideal paper. Haven't had a chance to try the sample of Kon-peki yet.

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

 

Kon-Peki will probably feather as much. I found that Tsuyu-Kusa and Kon-Peki behave very similarly with Kon-Peki being a bluer, less purple color. I do love Kon-Peki though, this is one of my go-to Turquoise for dry pens along with Edelstein Topaz which works great in wetter pens.

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Asa gao. No contest. Kon-peki is little darker than Edelstein Topaz and surprisingly interesting colour, but I still don't see myself actually using it.

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