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== Bung Box Fujiyama Blue Review ==


'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm. All right. Now, this is really why you need to support us. This is why we need your money. The Bung Box Fujiyama Blue, Myke, appeared out of the ether into our screens over the past week. And let's just cut to the chase. I'm enamored. This is a Brad pen.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Myke Hurley:''' It has the style and aesthetic that I'm looking for. We haven't talked about a Sailor Limited Edition in forever, Myke. It seems like at least one week. That's a good record for us, frankly. Yeah. You know? Like, I think without one week, you know, we haven't gotten those nasty Sailor emails like, oh, you talk about a Sailor. Well, that's all I'm going to talk about in this post is Sailor. It is very similar in color. I forget the model number, the model name, but it was a limited edition that had this blue barrel, these light blue caps, and had some red. I think it was the Kingfisher model, which is a model a couple of my friends have that they constantly tease me about because it's one of my favorite looking models. And this one takes that model. It doesn't have the red finial on it, but in its place, it is the standard ProGear size, the large size one, and it has a metal section. And the metal section is rhodium plated, it looks like. It's not a black ion plating metal section. What else can I want in a pen?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' What else can I ask for? A cap with polished rod and makai work on it, which they have not shown in any of the imagery on their Instagram, which is weird. Like there's something going on on the cap and they're not showing it.

'''Myke Hurley:''' And it's like. I'm a, yeah, I'm a little, I'm not concerned because it's just the finial, like how much, you know, weirdness can happen. Although they did, they did prove to show the clown on the, the, the, the pink one here recently. But the message in the Instagram feed is yes, we can show you that on May 17th. I'm like, what is happening? Like the pre-order is on the 15th or something like that. So that's the thing they're doing a pre-sale on the 15th. So I'm going to try to get one, like, let's just cut to the chase. I'm going to try to get one. Yeah. I haven't bought a limited edition sailor in a while. This one, this is why I don't buy them all. Right. Because when something comes up that I really want, I want to really try and do that. So I wonder if it'll be something with the Mount Fuji on there. That would be great.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, you would expect it's going to be Mount Fuji because it is like the Mount Fuji edition. They even have like a Fuji armor blue special wooden box. I think the 4B had a wooden box. Like this is the higher tier one. This is, this is about $400 US. So this is similar to the 4B. It is one of the more expensive ones that they do.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. And I think it's, you know, it's, it's because it's the bigger size. Bigger size. Metal section.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Custom boxes. The whole nine yards.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So I'll put a link in the show doc of the old pen that I, that I've never owned, but it's, it's the color reminds me of that minus the red. And it's just a really neat pen. And so I love this color. This is, this is a hundred percent my jam. I've sent them an email. I don't know if that puts me on the list or I have to wait for the email list, whatever it is. I'm going to try to get this one. And this is the first one I've tried to buy in quite a while in, you know, the special edition range, maybe since my YY pen club, I'm probably missing something. But for the sailor limited editions, this is, this is one that I would like to own. What about you? What do you, what do you think about this?

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Well, I have something, I think Adina found this and I don't know what it's going to be. I don't really know where it came from, but she was just Googling around and found that this, a listing for this pen from a year ago on a website called Carousel.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I don't really understand how that's the case, but it looks like this exact pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' I think Fujiyama Blue has been released. That's what the chat is saying. Like the Fujiyama Blue has been released before, but maybe it's a little different somehow.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. So I think that this pen has existed before from Bongbox. Yes. Right. So here it is. That's maybe the second time they've done it. So if you want to get a sense of what this pen actually is going to look like in full, including the Mount Fuji finial, you're going to be able to get it from here. Like this, and this isn't a bad thing, a weird thing. Like this may have been the second time they've done this. We've known this, right? They do this a lot. They will reproduce pens maybe with some slight tweaks, like the pink love or whatever.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. So this, the original was June 2018, Pro Gear, price 41,000 yen, limited to 100. And it has the Mount Fuji finial, which is beautiful. So I bet they changed the finial like they've been doing with the pink loves, right? So they've released three pink loves and the finial has been different every time. Yeah. Right. Like I have the Clover, Adina has whatever the second one was. The Joker. And then the third one is the Joker. Oh, Adina has the Joker one. There was one in the middle.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Mine is the Maya, the middle one, and it's a bow and arrow. Okay. With a Cupid heart arrow.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Gotcha. So yeah, I missed out on this one. I'm going to try not to miss out this time because I think this is really one I will enjoy. Especially since it's the full size sailor. I would think about it more if it was the smaller. So I'm trying to limit my Pro Gear Slim purchases. It's going to have to really, really jump out. And I don't know. This one might have. If it was the standard, I still might have tried to get it.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' But it being the standard one makes it more tempting because that is also, as you said, it's rarer for them to do this. Like bung box tend to do slim. It's probably because they can sell them cheaper, right? Like because it's a cheaper pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Well, in this one, this one, yes. Yes. On the slim. In this one, if they're going to have the metal section, they don't do that in the slim size.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah. And that's why like the metal section ones that I have, I have two of them. They're both on the larger side. So.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yep. Yep. Ooh. I'm getting my metal section. One that I busted. Remember that fell off recently? I'm getting that back this week. Maybe today. I have a, I've got a special surprise on, on that one. We're going to have to talk. We're going to, we're going to have a long conversation about this pen in the process.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you do something weird?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Okay.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. In the very most Brad way possible. Yes.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh my God. It's going to be like quantum level thickness, right? Like how thin can a nib be? Oh, maybe that. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yeah. Oh, maybe. We'll see. We'll see. All right. I don't know what the quantum level relates to. Would the Platinum 3776 Shiyun be quantum level purple? I don't know what, what's going on here, Myke. We have a new Platinum limited edition release. This was released. This was linked to me by some friends on Twitter. It's been all over Reddit. It's been in the Pen Outic Slack. Mm-hmm. So this is the latest in Platinum's limited edition series. You know, where the Kung Fu and the Raka and the Shungyou and all those great pens that we always talk about have come from. This is the next in line and it's purple. And I have a lot of questions. I have some questions, Myke. Well, here's my question.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' So the barrel has something going on.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Mm-hmm.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Is this just an indentation or are there holes in it again? It looks like just indentations, right? Like a relief?

'''Myke Hurley:''' Yes. So let's start with number one. Our image is not great. No. Image quality is low. Very low quality scan. This is the best image. Like I searched like another hour after I got this scan to try to find like a real one, like the full-size PDF, and I couldn't find it. So we're going to have to go with what we have. This is very much a combination of the one thing that the Kung Fu did, Myke, was not show off the ridges in the barrel as well in the pictures as they were in real life. I felt that it was a very deep and swirly pattern on the barrel, and that wasn't relayed in the pictures. It looked, you could tell there was some indentation in there and that there was a pattern you could feel, but the pictures didn't do it justice. This is on the other side of the ledger. This feels like deep trenches cut out from this looking at the images, right? And if I'm seeing this and like I couldn't see them on the Kung Fu and I'm seeing them this visually on this, it's going to be aggressively deep. And I'm curious on how that's going to look and feel in the hand. I think good. I mean, this is going to crush, right? Because of the color, right? I think this is going to be a quick sellout.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, very deep purple. I'm intrigued, honestly. Like I'm intrigued. You know, I've started a very small love affair with a 3776, right? I own two now. And like yesterday, I was sitting down to write in my theme system journal, and I was thinking to myself, today I want to pick, I just had this thought, the best nib. That was what I thought to myself.

'''Myke Hurley:''' Okay, so like your choice of writing, you're saying, I'm going to pick. Okay.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' And I thought to myself, I want a really good nib today. That's what I want to write with. Like sometimes I pick a pen color. Sometimes I'll go for an ink color. But yesterday I was like, I want a really good nib to use. And I reached for my 3776 Nice Lelass, which is the purple one with just the straight ridges in it, which has a bold nib, 14 karat gold, bold platinum nib. That was what I picked. I was not wrong in my feeling there, right? Like it is one of the best, if not the best nib that I own on a pen. And that was just like an interesting thought to me where it was very quick that I came to that conclusion. So I would very happily welcome another platinum nib into my life in a nice bodied pen.

'''Myke Hurley:''' That you won't have to send off for six months and get repaired. I just thought I'd mention that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, I don't know why you would do that.