Year 2003
From this year, the small Japanese brand (small according to Japanese standards) have started the production of minidisc with notable aesthetic characteristics, so I added these models to the most renowned brands
Daiso Ocean Series
Daiso has produced a series of five blanks, Ocean, with beautiful pastel colors, and with dolphins on the front shell; the color is given by the rear shell that is colored.
Available only in 74 min.
Brings to mind the Axia PS Dolphin.
It was produced in medium quantities.
TDK Fine 3° series
Products with duration of 60, 74, 80 min.
The front of the shell opposed to the shutter is colored and wrinkled and there is a film to allow you to write directly onto blank without using labels.
It was a method abandoned by TDK and, as far as I know, no other manufacturer has followed this road.
TDK standard Cases
It was produced in medium - large quantities.
Maxell Mono Tone Label
With this blank, 80 min, Maxell produces the first blank that glows in the dark.
Equipped with metal shutter, you cannot define as "beautiful".
.. .and why do a blank that light up in the dark?
It was produced in medium quantities.
Axia My & Our
In blue with orange shutter and orange with blue shutter, was produced for the brand My & Our in 74 and 80 min.
No news on the year actual production.
Not easy to find.
Axia J'z Paki
This series produced in 74 and 80 minutes, with obvious cosmetic differences between the two versions (certainly the most beautiful 80 min) was also called "Lego" series for colors.
They resemble so much colorful bricks with which we played everyone.
Altogether beautiful, it is impossible to consider a rare blank in the version from 74 min, harder to find the 80 min.
Slimcase Pack products.
Sony Neige 3° series
Apart from the location and dimension of the inscription Neige, no changes.
Available 74 and 80 minutes.
A simple blank born perfect.
I found a variant of the 80 min with a dull band at the center of the blank.
Same case and label of 1° series.
It was produced in large quantities.
Maxell Burari
A reply Maxell to the Neige, very clean line with shell and transparent shutter with two figures (man with dog 80 min and woman with dog 74 min) in silhouette, less visible.
Soft plastic cases.
It was produced in medium - large quantities.
TDK Ho Japan edition
Wonderful series in 5 colors produced in 74 and 80 min.
Abstract design on a white background.
For the first time on the front shell is not present the bounding box for the positioning of the label.
In this way, the blank has a very clean line and "different" for users of blanks.
Tdk cases Standard.
It was produced in large quantities.
Sony premium 3° series
Produced for the European market, resumes the pattern used for the 3° Prism series.
Product 74/80 min versions.
Like every European Edition, the case is in hard plastic; back shell black.
It was produced in medium - large quantities.
Axia "Select your style"
Difficult to speak of this product, available in 74 and 80 min, sold in slimcase or in bundles with classic cases Axia.
Probably an answer to TDK Club Bit series.
Are ten several blank, each of them is a small work of art.
In my opinion, were taken features paintings of the great names of world painting; both blank white color remind me of the style of Gustav Klimt, while the 80-minute green reminds me of the greens used by Van Gogh.
Only fault I find in this series is the presence of the channel in the left margin to position the adhesive label.
It was produced in medium quantities.
To possess!