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So after the Goulet's sucked me into ordering more stuff I found this ink. I ordered it thinking it might be more purple. After using it and really enjoying it, it seems almost Blurple/Black.... if that's even a color. I put this in my brand spankin new TWSBI Vac 700R that I also got in the same order. It looks almost black but then in bright light it looks very purplish. I think I might like this color so much because as a financial advisor (my boring day job) I am constantly doing forms, paperwork, taking notes, writing messages, and on and on. If I use some flamboyant blue color (which I love to do) everybody looks at me funny. If I use a conservative dark color like this one, then I just get a comment on my fountain pen and nothing about the ink. Also it will copy, and fax much better than Ama Iro.

 

Day to day this color has been well behaved and only feathered and bled on my crappy copy paper at work (office depot generic 18 pound I believe), but every color I use on that stuff feathers and bleeds. Any other paper I used this on it behaved really well. It doesn't have much sheen. It doesn't have much shading. It really is a dark almost black substitute color that is interesting in its own right simply because of its shade. I will probably try and keep this in my form filling out pen at work. I hope the rest of your curiosity can be sated by the pictures below. I would love to hear what everyone thinks. Thanks for looking.

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In the first image, I am reminded of Sailor Shigure. The other swatches look quite blue on my screen.

 

How nice to have found an ink that will serve you well for a specific purpose at work.

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Hmmm. I may need to get an up close and personal look at this ink. (Could this be the "better behaved than Kung Te Cheng but still that color" ink I've been searching for? because Shigure wasn't it...). Okay, it's clearly not as waterproof, and it remains to be seen how UV resistant it is... but, still....

It would be interesting to see what it looks like coming out of a broader nib, or a stub.

Thanks for the review. And possibly not....

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If nothing else, the name will inspire you to write a fantasy story! :D

 

I think this ink is on my wishlist, but I have so many ink samples that it may be a long time before I get any.

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Thank you for doing this review. It seems nice, but it isn't really for me.

"Today will be gone in less than 24 hours. When it is gone, it is gone. Be wise, but enjoy! - anonymous today

 

 

 

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Hmmm. I may need to get an up close and personal look at this ink. (Could this be the "better behaved than Kung Te Cheng but still that color" ink I've been searching for? because Shigure wasn't it...). Okay, it's clearly not as waterproof, and it remains to be seen how UV resistant it is... but, still....

It would be interesting to see what it looks like coming out of a broader nib, or a stub.

Thanks for the review. And possibly not....

Ruth Morrisson aka inkstainedruth

I also use Kung Te Chung from Noodlers. When I compared it with my bottle of KTC the Dragon's Night was darker. They are certainly similar.

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Thank you for doing this review. I like the way you refer to this ink as a blurple-black. Sums it up quite nicely! I personally like the purple undertone in this dark blue ink - in my opinion this makes it an interesting colour that lifts this ink above a standard blue-black. Nice.

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I also use Kung Te Chung from Noodlers. When I compared it with my bottle of KTC the Dragon's Night was darker. They are certainly similar.

 

Thanks for the information.

I had hoped Shigure would be the replacement but it's more purple and less indigo. I may still try Dragon's Night to compare it with KTC at some point. But of course, if I need an ink that won't budge no matter what, KTC is still the one I reach for.... (And it's one of the few inks I've tried that can work on those plastic Post-It flags...).

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I recently acquired this ink while looking for the perfect dark blurple and I love it. You don't mention this in your review but it has quite a sheen to it on tomoe river and rhodia. At least mine does. A kind of lurid petroleum sheen or the subtle iridescence of a starling. It is a dark well-behaved ink with a subversive shadow side. Very well named ink.

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