Pilot Iroshizuku Fountain Pen Ink - Ajisai 50mL

I love love love this colour, i have inked two pens with it (piloy kakuno fine and medium) and the flow is great in both.

Fine

It’s like no other ink I have in my stash. It’s bluer than Kobe #62 Nunobiki Lavender and redder than J. Herbin Bleu Myosotis. In dry pens, it’s similar to Montblanc Royal Blue only in its palest tone with nothing else in common.

I’ve had the same experience as did the other two reviewers of this ink in 2017 and 2018: “It’s a lovely, soft violet-blue and you couldn’t ask for a better behaved ink. Even with an extra fine nib it flows and lubricates for a very smooth ride”; “it’s much darker than the picture here, but it does have that gorgeous mix of purple-blue you see, leaning a bit towards the blue side. I find it to be a great all-purpose ink.”

I observed a tiny bit of coppery sheen in heavily saturated area while doing swabs, but mostly saw a deep dark blue, almost black, outline where the ink pools on those areas. YMMV. The ink shades well and is paper-and-pen combo dependent. It is a richly saturated ink that cleans well from the converter. I easily achieve a full, contained and crisp line with my Sailor 1911 L 21 kt H-EF; the colour is readable and doesn’t cause eye strain.

This ink has great flow and coats the nibs well, even my dry Sailor 1911S H-M. I’ve experienced no feathering, no skipping, no hard starts, no bleed through, some to-be-expected ghosting on thinner papers; I only took this ink for a spin on various Japanese papers and the Rhodia DotPad.

The colour reminds me of blue balloon flowers. It is clear, vivid and cheerful; shines on white paper!

Fantastic ink. In my experience it's much darker than the picture here, but it does have that gorgeous mix of purple-blue you see, leaning a bit towards the blue side. I find it to be a great all-purpose ink, because it's professional but still fun, and I keep finding new places I want to use it. It's a very wet ink that's so smooth on good paper. Makes me feel like I'm writing with watercolours. Highly recommend!

Gorgeous. Amazing. Perfection.

I expected it to be slightly more on the purple side was ever so briefly disappointed, but I am now beyond delighted with this ink. It's a lovely, soft violet-blue and you couldn't ask for a better behaved ink. Even with an extra fine nib it flows and lubricates for a very smooth ride. This will be in regular rotation for sure.