Ink Review #1011: Sailor Manyo Nekoyanagi

Today we are going to take a look at another Sailor Manyo ink, Nekoyanagi. When I looked at the Sailor Manyo promo pictures online, Haha stood out to me the most, then Nekoyanagi. I ordered my bottle from Pen Chalet. The bottles are glass 50ml squares, and frankly I prefer them over the standard squat Sailor bottles.

The color:

Nekoyanagi is a pale, cool-tone purple with green and blue shading.

Swabs:

In large swabs on Tomoe River paper the ink has some crazy shading.

Writing samples:

Let's take a look at how the ink behaves on fountain pen friendly papers: Rhodia, Tomoe River, and Leuchtturm.

Dry time: 30 seconds

Water resistance: Low

Feathering: None

Show through: Medium

Bleeding: None

Other properties: high shading, no sheen, and no shimmer.

On Staples 24 lb copy paper there was some feathering in all nib sizes but just a tiny bit of bleeding.

Comparison Swabs:

Nekoyanagi is cooler-toned than most of the pastel purples I have. It’s not as grey as Sailor Ink Studio 123, and not as warm as Ink Studio 150. Click here to see the Sailor inks together, and click here to see the purple inks together.

Longer writing:

I used a Waterman 452 1/2V with a flex nib on a Yoseka A5 notebook. The ink had a wet flow. I filled the pen and then used it daily for a few weeks before writing this sample. As you can see on the left hand of the page where I wrote the pen and ink, the ink looks blue. Then I ran out of ink and refilled, and the ink shifts between purple and blue.

Overall, I love this ink just because you can get some pretty amazing shading. If you don’t like pastel colors, or you want the ink to be very consistent in color, then this isn’t the ink for you. If you love broad nibs and shading then it’s definitely worth a try!

Disclaimer: I purchased this ink myself, and all photos and opinions are my own. This page does contain affiliate links, but this post is not sponsored in any way.