New Stationery Highlights: Mildliners, Moomin Pens, Soft Ring Notebooks and More

Introduction

It has been a strong season for stationery, with new arrivals spanning highlighters, character-themed gel pens, notebooks with unusual binding, a fresh everyday gel pen line, April-start planners, and two eye-catching limited edition fountain pens. This roundup walks through the highlights worth a closer look, with notes on who each item suits best.

New Zebra Mildliner Colors: The Calm Set

Zebra Mildliner fans have five new colors to track down: soft pastel purple and green hues, plus a more vibrant red and yellow. You can buy each color individually, or pick up the new Calm set to get all five at once. Mild Mint stands out as the subtle favorite, exactly the kind of understated shade the Mildliner line is known for.

If you already collect Mildliners, the Calm set is an easy way to round out the pastel end of your palette without hunting down singles.

Moomin Gel Pens from Zebra and Pentel

Zebra Sarasa Clip Moomin

The Sarasa Clip line gets a Moomin makeover with opaque bodies printed with designs featuring the beloved characters from the Finnish children’s series. The Moomins are hugely popular in Japan, where there is even a park in Saitama inspired by Moominvalley. These are everyday gel pens first, collectible designs second, which makes them easy to justify.

Pentel EnerGel Moomin

If that is not enough Moomin for you, Pentel EnerGel pens decorated with Moomintroll and other characters are also available. EnerGel is known for quick-drying, smooth ink, so these combine a fun barrel with a dependable writing experience.

Uni-ball ZENTO: A New Everyday Gel Pen

The ZENTO is Uni-ball’s newest gel pen, built around a simple idea: make everyday writing enjoyable. Its pigment-based ink is smooth and formulated to be water and bleed resistant, which matters for journaling, planner pages, and anything you want to last.

You can choose from four models. The Basic and Standard look similar to Uni-ball’s One, the Flow adds an anodized aluminum grip section, and the Signature is a sleek, compact pen with a magnetic cap. That range makes it easy to pick a model based on grip feel and pocket size.

Notebooks and Trackers Worth a Second Look

Kokuyo Campus Soft Ring Notebooks

These limited edition Kokuyo Campus Soft Ring Notebooks might be the most charming thing in this batch. Each one includes ear-shaped sticky notes you can apply to transform the notebook into a furry friend, and the soft rings themselves are as squishy as paw pads. If the animal theme feels too bold, the A6 Sooofa and A4 Campus Soft Ring notebooks offer simpler covers with the same pleasant binding.

Paperian Goal Tracker Notebooks

Paperian’s new releases cover readers and goal setters alike. The Book Tracker Cards work like bookmarks and help you track reading progress, the Flat Notepads are handy for deadlines and to-dos in two desk-friendly sizes, and the slim Goal Tracker Notebooks hold forty calendars, letting you keep an eye on the same goals across two years.

2025 April Start Planners

April-start planners from NOLTY and Kokuyo have arrived. From NOLTY, the Ecri Plus and Access 5 use different internal formats, so it is worth reviewing the layout details carefully before choosing. Hobonichi planners are also still available, with some markdowns on offer.

Kokuyo Jibun Techo Biz

The Kokuyo Jibun Techo Biz uses a weekly vertical format that suits busy students and professionals who plan by blocking out periods of time. If your schedule lives in time slots rather than task lists, this format makes it easy to see a whole week at a glance.

Limited Edition Pens: Kaweco and LAMY

The Kaweco Collection Sport in Honey pairs a compact amber body with gold details. It keeps the pocketable Sport form factor, which makes it an easy pen to carry daily, and the warm translucent look is genuinely distinctive in person.

The LAMY Safari Scarlet is the other limited edition release, featuring a deep purple body. It is not quite scarlet, but it is still a handsome color, and it is available in ballpoint, fountain pen, rollerball, and mechanical pencil versions, so you can match your whole writing kit.

Conclusion

This season’s arrivals cover a wide range of needs: new Mildliner shades for color lovers, Moomin gel pens for a bit of character, the ZENTO for everyday writing, soft-ring notebooks and goal trackers for planning, April-start planners for schedule builders, and two limited edition fountain pens for collectors. Pick the one that fits how you actually write, and it is hard to go wrong with any of these.