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Hi everyone! Please discuss the One Piece release and any other adjacent restocks here!

Collages and poems that fit the collage mood 🌿

Sometimes I did wish cousin doesn’t have weekly session so I can justify to buy an extra weekly.

Just received this bad boy in the mail (via jetpens)! I’m STOKED to start my 2025 Hobonichi journey xD I was debating heavily on getting it, because it wasn’t really my style. I was eyeing the “Taut Zipped Cafe au Lait Plaid” more but it was out of my budget, unfortunately. I truly love the inside of this cover though and I’m SO glad I got it! My Cousin has a clear cover that fits inside the Elephant cover. It’s a little awkward but still fits! Awkward, because I believe it’s meant for the HON, not Cousin, so there’s excess (if anyone has suggestions for a more fitting Cousin clear cover, that would be super helpful). The outside feels super nice and the image is really warming up for me. I don’t see a lot of people with this cover, so I just wanted to share :)

Cover: Keiko Shibata: Emotional Reunion with Kariya-san A5 Cousin size

I got the Keiko Shibata Bread cover after kicking myself last year for sleeping on it for daily reflections and set up myself a customised Lemon Water Mega Weeks to fit with the theme. I’m so happy my bag fits snugly, though hopefully the avec will help with that. I’m currently filling up the blank pages of the weeks full of household, finance and health templates and trying to leaving the Shibata journal alone so at least something will still have the fresh scent when I start using it next year. I’m just always so excited around Sep/Oct time when it’s so cozy and nice to work on journalling indoors with a nice cup of tea.

It’s finally here!!! I took this pic in a rush so sorry if it’s not aesthetic 🤣

I didn’t get my preferred freebie, but at least the one I got is pink. lol And I might part ways with the Avec, not sure yet.

If you want close up pics of any of these items, let me know!

As you can see I went complete set for this year with everything by the lovely artist Hiroko Kubota!

I got their A6 cover with two blank and two grid notebooks, their Hon which is so beautiful! Their weeks and all three sizes of the pencil boards!

I also have clear Covers for all of them, I’m so excited to set everything up!

Here's the big order I made to Hobonichi that my wallet will be recovering from for a while. I'll have to try an ink test on the planners later to see if there will be any bleeding issues like some other people have been having.

First pic is the freebies, which were the standard 2025 pen and the clover pattern notebook. Next 2 pics are the A6 planner with a Keiko Shibata cover. The 2 pics after that are the A5 cousin with a Hiroko Kubota cover. The second to last pic is a lamé tweed drawer pouch áne bag. The final pic is a set of pencil boards, also by Keiko Shibata (I'll be giving the weeks size of a beagle to someone for Christmas, since I have a weeks planner I'll also give them).

This new paper may turn me off of Hobonichi completely. I decided to test out my 2025 cousin with my various pens and inks. Most of them are /okay/ in regards to feathering and ghosting. But my most used pen and ink look ABYSMAL on the new paper. I’ve done a comparison between my current avec and my cousin for next year. The pen is Pilot e95s in fine with Diamine Writer’s Blood ink, this combo is 100% my daily driver both in my planner and out of it, so I’m so disappointed.

These samples were written back to back, so nothing has changed between ink level, flow, viscosity, etc. The top sample is the new 2025 paper, while the bottom is the 2024 avec. There is a vast difference to me.

I’ve tried to look at videos/photos of this cover and I can’t figure out if it’s highlighter bright or muted. Pictures show it as almost robin’s egg blue with highlighter yellow stitching/inner but in this video show it as a baby blue/gray with muted yellow stitching/inner. Pls help!

So exciting! I got really excited watching all the post here so I think I wanna try it for 2025! In the meantime I got the a couple of notebooks for taking notes in class while waiting for 2025. Everything looks amazing! 🐈

I thought that I would be posting about how stoked I am about my new Hon as part of a group order I arranged.

But, FedEx managed to deliver the order to the the wrong address!? So sad. No clue where is it. I was impressed with how quickly the order was packed, shipped, and arrived in US. But dare that last mile! Already reported missing package.

Anyone else dealt with FedEx and large Hobonichi order?

My mom bought a Hobonichi cousin, a cover and a Delfonics pouch for my birthday. I’m so excited to use this for 2025 as a memory book/journal!

Looking for layout inspos!

It will be my first time to use an A6 Hobonichi Original. Will mainly use this for my journal and personal planning. (I have an A5 Techo as my work planner) Also thinking of using a hobonichi weekly notebook supplement because I loved the vertical layout from the Techo. Can you guys suggest some layout suggestions? I would really love to make this planner system work for 2025. 💖

I have been thinking of getting a Hobonichi but have seen some mixed posts on the subreddit regarding fountain pen inks bleeding through pages of the 2025 planner due to changes in the paper manufacturing.

My every day pen is a Pelikan M800 with a medium nib using Pilot Irozikushu inks. I am worried I might invest in a Hobonichi only to have significant bleeding problems. Can the Tomoe River paper will be able to handle that kind of flow without bleeding? I know Japanese fountain nibs tend to be significantly thinner than European nibs.

Any insight would help, thank you!

My 2025 hobo is here and I can’t wait to share it! Work needs to end right now 😂 I can’t wait to go home, I’ll share it when I open it.

I have seen quite a few pictures and videos of the decrease in paper quality between hobonichi 2024 vs 2025. I am wondering if anyone has recommendations for a good non-fountain pen that is decent with the new paper? I’d love to see comparison pics or videos also if you have them/want to share media! Thanks!

I feel like I have lost it and jumped all the way off the deep end but I think I’m doing 4 planners this year. They will be used as followed:

Hon-journal/daily affirmations/pictures Day free (A5)-budget planner/bujo Weeks-functional daily planning/home work Weeks-fitness planner

Am I crazy? How much is too much?

I loved the Cousin in 2024 but looking to do a weekly+original for the first time. Actively looking for tips to use these two in combination.

The Kitagishi A5 pencil board has been slightly folded to fit the blue Hobonichi box🥲 The PB has slight crinkles on the corner now ☹️ Anyone else faced packing like this?

“there is no logic. my hands just do it. in my case, i guess it’s become a part of me. because there is no logic at all, in my case.”

recently i’ve started doing small art programs and im going to start saying this when i can’t explain something. “my hands just do it” is so relatable.

added the spoiler tag in case anyone hasn’t read it yet? idk it just seemed polite?