I was walking around in Tokyo last month and I grabbed the new MUJI black pencils to my PG500 team. Basically it’s the black version of the current white ones. Inexpensive good quality pencil for both work and home uses though.
Since this is essentially a pentel pencil, so I guess I would just add this one to the pentel section.
Modified : sorry for the out of focus photo, I retook it with addition of CDT version of the pencil to the group.
I think I saw this on Ali Express for notta lotta dough, wherever I saw it, it called to me. Wait, no, I think what I saw was more of the Japanese GG500s - boring colors, but the nice lead-indicator cap. I will confirm & return.
EDIT: it was the boring-color ones, on sale cheapish @ $6.65
By the way, the new black MUJI 0.5 looks looks like a clever cost-cutting measure to me: Take the tip/grip of the PG515, the body of the PG525 (without marking), the clip of the PG51x and the button of the PG1005; for the 0.3 it’s the tip/grip of the PG513 and the button composed of the PG1003 (upper black part) and the PG51005 (lower white part). I wouldn’t be surprised if the white MUJI pencils were soon no longer available because the white parts were only available with these (and probably only produced for them). – This also offers the opportunity for a stylish MUJI 0.4 mod.
Correction: The Pentel GRAPH 600 0.3 (PG603) had a white barrel and a white cap (with black inner part) which looks identical to the parts used for the white MUJI so please ignore most of the above
I believe the official brand talk is that CDT’s various patterns are inspired by the traditional Japanese rope braiding, but yeah – the resemblance is uncanny!
Side note: having a grippy midsection always seems odd to me. I feel like the original Kerry somehow acknowledges this by making the midsection an eye-catching jewel rather than a grippy surface.