Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

This Japanese watercolor set is GREAT!!! I LOVE IT!. The paint is very opaque, but can be diluted and to look like regular watercolors. The colors are very vibrant. If you apply heavily they will dry with a shellac like sheen. The more you diluted them, the more they will dry with the watercolor look and texture. The paints are in individual pans that can be replaced. I have seen the replacements in other online stores, but not Amazon; i wish they had them available because i really enjoy these paints. They will probably will last some time because I use many different types of paint media, but I know that I will want to use these again and again. The pans have the color name and number as do the dividers, but the box and colors are labeled in Japanese. There is no english color name in the box, but a quick google search will show you the color names easily from any of the reviews from other buyers that purchase from a different vendor/store or site whose set came with an actual english written color chart. The lid has a color chart in Japanese, but it is just common sense to realize it and fill it with the colors since each provided box has the color number that matches the divider number and the number in the bottom of the pans!! The pans are separated by cardboard dividers that are part of the bottom of the box so it minimizes cross contamination of colors. However the pans are loose and if you tip over or drop the box they will fly out of it; nothing that can't be fix with a glue dot or magnet strips (like some other sets have). Also, I have notice in other reviews from other vendors/stores or sites that some of these sets come shrink wrapped and even some even have the paints shrink wrapped; mine were not. In fact the whole set came in a plastic bag (the kind that has removable adhesive in the end flap and the flap is folded to the back. However my paints came intact and without a problem. Delivery was fast and the item even arrived ahead of schedule.