With this review is also the news that Sailor is discontinuing their Jentle line. You may remember that a portion of the Jentle line was discontinued, then brought back, and now it's going again. In the grand scheme of things I supposed it's not that big of a deal—most of the colors were shuffled on over to the Shikiori line—but if you were a fan of colors like Peche or Grenade, this would probably be the time to snatch up some bottles.
Sailor used to package their inks in these flat, oval bottles with a little reservoir insert inside that made it easier to fill up your pen. Nagasawa inks (which are made by Sailor) are still presented in these bottles, but Sailor's own inks have been moved to these cute square bottles with a matte gold cap. A smaller bottle does mean a pretty significant price hike. Shikiori inks are expensive. In the grand scheme of things you probably won't drain a 50 ml bottle for at least a year—assuming you are also a fountain pen enthusiast/hoarder—but still, these inks are probably the same price per milliliter as perfume or alcohol at this point.
This ink has a surprising amount of water resistance. With water splashed on and blotted, there's still enough of the writing left over to read.
It dried pretty quickly too. I've found that many red colors tend to take a while to dry. This ink was okay to touch by the 30 second mark in a fine nib.
There's no shading in a fine nib and you can see more of that purple-pink tone come through. In a broader nib, the red begins to take over, but you can still see some of that pink-purple.
There's a little bit of sheen on Kokuyo MIO paper, but this paper is a bit on the more absorbent side (though I almost never get bleedthrough).
And check out all that sheen on Tomoe River paper! It has a lovely gold-green tint to it.
I compared it to a couple of reds that I have on me. I would probably say Noodler's Tiananmen is closest, though it doesn't have the sheen that Yodaki has and it's a bit darker. Colorverse Redshift is closer to that pink-purple tone that you can see when Yodaki's in a finer nib. 3 Oysters Dancheong and Colorverse Mars Curiosity are both lighter and a bit more pink.
I had this ink in my TWSBI Diamond 540 with a Pendleton Butter Line Stub with Flex. This nib can be a little persnickety sometimes: it works best with wet-flowing inks. Yodaki is a bit on the wetter side so the combination worked well. On Tomoe River paper this ink takes a very long time to dry though (as many sheening inks do). A little patience will yield some lovely colors on the page.
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