InkForm vs Suzushii: Two Japanese-Inspired Tee Brands, Compared

InkForm or Suzushii: which should you buy? Choose Suzushii for retro Japanese product-label designs (soda cans, beer, ramen, Mount Fuji) with free shipping worldwide and a 30-day return window. Choose InkForm for Japanese folklore and yokai designs with dry humor, a lower tee price, and faster US delivery: shirts are printed to order in the US, and most orders arrive in 3 to 9 business days.

Full disclosure: we're InkForm. Every Suzushii fact below comes from suzushiiclothing.com, and we left in the parts where Suzushii is better, which took some discipline.

Side-by-side

Prices and policies change, so check both sites before buying.

Where Suzushii wins

• Free shipping on everything, everywhere. No minimum and no borders. We only ship in the US, and only free from $75.
• Longer returns. 30 days against our 14.
• More garments. Every design also comes as a vintage-wash tee and a hoodie. We make tees and only tees.
• A stated fabric weight. Suzushii lists 230 gsm. We don't publish ours.

Where InkForm wins

• Price. Our front-print tee is $32.99, $12 less than Suzushii's $44.99.
• US delivery time. Suzushii lists 7 to 9 business days of US transit after 1 to 3 days of processing. Most InkForm orders arrive within 3 to 9 business days in total.
• Back prints. A big part of our range is large back prints with a small mark on the front, like the Koi Dragon Gate and Sakura Branch.
• The folklore. Suzushii's designs are mostly about places and products. Ours are about creatures and stories: the kappa, the oni who needs his tea first, the hannya who is fine, actually. Each product page explains the story behind the design.

How the styles differ

Suzushii's look is retro packaging: a Japanese soda can, a beer label, a ramen shop sign, Mount Fuji in flat colors. It reads as souvenir nostalgia, done well.

InkForm's look is folklore with a deadpan joke on top. The creature is real Japanese mythology. The caption is the joke. If you like Suzushii for the clean flat-color graphics but want something stranger on the shirt, start with the yokai and folklore designs. If you want classic imagery like waves, cranes and koi, see the classic Japanese art designs.