First a rough history lesson about Plus and it’s relation to Pentel.
In September 2019, Kokuyo purchased shares in Pentel and became the largest shareholder. Later in November 2019, Kokuyo launched a hostile takeover of Pentel to make Pentel a subsidiary of Kokuyo. In 2020, Plus stepped in as a White Knight in the attempted hostile takeover of Pentel by Kokuyo. Plus purchased 30.7% of Pentel’s stock and saved Pentel from takeover by Kokuyo.
In 2022, Kokuyo sold it’s 45.6% stake in Pentel to Plus, giving Plus a 76.3% ownership of Pentel and making it a subsidiary of Plus.
On April 1st, 2026, Plus changed the name of the overarching company to Astrum Corporation, with Plus Stationery, Pentel, Sailor Pen and Nippon Notebook their stationery division.
Now, back to the Plus PE-205-E. The PE-205-E is the third Pentel pencil released under Plus branding, the first two being the PE-005-E (Orenz) and the PE-006-P (PD205).
The PE-205-E is based off the Pentel P205 and was released in 4 colors: Blue, Green, Yellow and Red. But Plus did not release these with different color codes, just all under the same model number and barcode.
As of 2026, none of the above pencils are available from Plus. It is my supposition that these were started when Plus did not own Pentel but was still partnering with them. Once they owned Pentel, this line of Plus pencils was discontinued to move the pencils all back under the Pentel brand and Plus concentrated on other stationery products.
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