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'''Brad:''' All right. So, yeah, we're recording that tomorrow. It comes out a mere few days. It comes out on Monday.

'''Myke:''' I don't think I mentioned that. We're going to put it out on Monday, May 16th. Yep.

'''Brad:''' So, very cool. Very cool. All right. You ready to talk about some more pens? This is the Pen Attic Podcast. We should probably do that. That's what we do. What do you think? All right. So, I saw on Instagram a marketing sheet from Sailor. This is the Sailor Mano fountain pen. All right. So, this crossed my feed. At pens, ink, and paper. This is the link I saw it from first. We'll put that in the show notes. It is since propagated pretty much everywhere. Since. Since. So, this is a lineup of Sailor pens. Sailor fountain pens.

'''Brad:''' Related to their popular Sailor Mano ink lineup. That recently came out two years ago. I think is when they started. Sailor. Don't ask me when Sailor launches ink products. Or pen products, for that matter. Because they are all the time. And different names. And different price points. And different sizes. And different quantities. And all of that stuff. So, who knows, really, when the Mano ink came out. But now they have a pen set. Which Sailor has been on a kick of doing a multiple pen pen set for a while now. Myke. Like, they've done, like, you know, different. I don't know. Spring rain. And all these other colors. Like, five pastel colors. You know, they'll be a set. And they did the five cocktail series. Right. They're a set. So, this is five inks. This is called the overseas exclusive. I think this means outside of Asia. So, they'll be pretty well propagated around the world. In the European, American markets. And everywhere else. Outside of Japan. And I pulled this link up.

'''Brad:''' And I have to say I was impressed. I was expecting to be let down.

'''Myke:''' Every one of these pens. This is their five of them. Every single one is an absolute knockout.

'''Brad:''' Yeah. I was. That killer. Yeah. Looking at this from a distance. I was like, how is this any different or more special than literally everything else they release every three months with five pens at a time? Mm-hmm. And it's better. Like, I'm surprised that I'm saying this because, you know, I'm not burned out of Sailor. Like, I just bought a Sailor at the Atlanta Pen Show. Like, I like my Sailors. I will continue to buy Sailors. But they do a lot of things. Mm-hmm. All of the time. You're never lacking from new products from Sailor. And sometimes that can be a problem. This one, I think they nailed.

'''Myke:''' Oh, they're fantastic. They're so good, man. Every single... So, explain this to me because it's a bit confusing. So, each one of these pens is based on two ink colors. But then they made an ink color for each combination, which is different.

'''Myke:''' Am I correct here?

'''Brad:''' Yeah, kind of. But, like, I look at them like, okay, let's take one, for example, like the Yamogi, which is one of my favorite ones. It's a blue with the red finials. Yamogi ink already existed. It is... I don't think that is a new ink.

'''Myke:''' Well, but this one is called Plum.

'''Brad:''' Mm.

'''Myke:''' Right? And it's based on Yamogi ink and Ume ink colors. And then it looks like they made a particular ink to go along with that. Do you see what I'm saying? No. Based on the images?

'''Brad:''' Not this one. Because if you look down, since this is like a press sheet, you look down, they have the set ink for it. So, Plum is what they're calling the pen, I think.

'''Myke:''' Yeah, that's what I meant.

'''Brad:''' But the ink, are they saying that, but it says set ink, it says Manio ink Yamogi 50 milliliters. That tells me that that's the bottle of ink that comes with the Plum pen.

'''Myke:''' Fair enough. But the colors of the pens are based on two inks. Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. But then they choose, I guess, the dominant color, and that's the one you get in the set. Yeah. Because each pen has a dominant color, and then there's like an accent color too.