Pulaman MJ20, Black Ink (JM20-AD)

Writes nicely and the blue is nice and dark, can look a bit black as its so dark. No issuse so far and ive used it a few weeks now.

This pen writes really rather remarkably well, at a cost that defies belief, particularly as it includes P&P all the way from Japan (but it arrived in what seemed the blink of an eyelid). I love trying new pens, but this was a real eye-opener. It writes extremely smoothly and easily, and you can achieve almost calligraphic effects with minimal effort. It doesn't leak, drip or splutter, and the ink dries almost instantaneously. I am very happy to sign official documents with it (which is a bigger thing than it might appear at first sight; I have only ever used fountain pens hitherto), and will certainly buy more of these. I can't say how long the ink will last, or how resilient the nib will prove, but at this price, for this truly remarkable writing quality, I have no hesitation at all in giving this 5 stars in terms of its price/quality ratio.

Writing with this pen i was quite disappointed depending on the speed and pressure you write at depends on the pens quality of the outcome slowly cursive yes speed and signing no it tends to give a running out of ink, dried out feeling when speeding up your writing also it looks like double lines as it struggles to release the ink and nib struggles to cope with the pressure

Ink dries out incredibly quickly, nib is too thin to be used constantly. Would be great quality if the nib was thicker.

とにかく書きやすい コスパの良いペンです。

Schreibt erst etwas kratzig aber mit der Zeit immer besser. Mittlerweile schreibe ich wirklich gerne mit ihm!

Escribe muy bien

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I didn't have super high expectations, but it's a lot more like a fountain pen than you'd expect. It's got some bounce and pseudo-flexibility the way they developed the nib, like an old 1970's parker 180, and the same trick of one side being softer than the other - you can see which is which by the side of the nib with more plastic than the other. It really does teach the importance of light touch, because with pressure you can get a LOT of expressive line variation, so if you're trying to write consistently fine in the margins of pages or you just write small, it requires a very sensitive touch, much like a vintage semi flex or full flex nib pen. Similarly, I really love how you can hold it at the appropriate angle of a fountain pen and it writes. No need to hold it more vertical like a rollerball or ballpoint, you can have the gentle, relaxed low angle. line width varies between a japanese F-EF (a little finer than a western extra fine fountain pen) to probably a western medium, and the variation is very responsive and with a blue color that's pretty amazingly close to pelikan 4001 royal blue, just a HAIR of violet in it. It's not a "flexible" pen, it's an expressive one. There's surprisingly little pressure required to get that EF-M variation. Water resistance for the blue is mild but there. About as good as pelikan 4001 based on licking my thumb and smearing the page. The nib feel is like a good ultra fine felt tip. But comparing it to a fountain pen, I'd say it's very close to Sailor's "perfectly sharpened #2 pencil" sensation. So not glassy smooth, quite draggy by most fountain pens, but not scratchy at all and personally, I hate super glassy smooth pens, I like the feedback. I do like that the ink has very very little/next to no bleed. Again, just like the famously well behaved pelikan 4001 (I have like 250 bottles of fountain pen ink. 4001 is the best behaved ink out there in terms of balancing dry time, bleed and ease of cleaning) Dry time of the ink is super fast. About one second and it's not smearing. Can't speak to the durability or longevity of the nib width and ink supply, but if it's junk, I will update this review. If no edit, assume it's great (I'm very consistent about updating things like that) So honestly, if you're curious about fountain pens but want something cheap to try? Get a platinum preppy with an F nib. They're platonically perfect. If you want something disposable that will never dry out either (the preppy is also perfect for that but there's one even better, though it's not quite as lovely and the ink a little more bland and flat) the pilot varsity. But if you want something specifically not a fountain pen but will give you some expressive line variation, or something to teach you to just write more lightly and hold the pen better (you can press down way too hard with the preppy's steel nib as well so it won't necessarily break that habit) I wholeheartedly recommend. The cap and bottom has the ink color marked on it, it's a nice thin and good size, cap posts well, the clip is good, I do wish you could remove the silkscreen printed barcode on the cap. Price wise, the preppy is a hair cheaper, but on par. as long as the ink lasts as long as a preppy cartridge, I'd call it fair (though bear in mind the preppy can use replacement cartridges in a wide variety of colors, and with a converter, use any ink your heart desires)