aria pro ii electric guitar stratocaster

It is common for brands to have travelling fairs where their guitars are on display for sale at different stores then move around the country. I saw a tweet from G-Club Shibuya (The Kurosawa Gakki store in Shibuya) and they said these were hard to find domestically and that they were holding a APII guitar fair to feature these guitars. Here is a recent Youtube video (from Kazuya Yamaguchi's channel) featuring the Aria Pro II high end models (APII). The MIC guitars are priced competitively but again face a lot of competition for other MIC guitars for other Japanese brands like the MIC Ryoga Guitars or Sago's Seed line. There are a few FGN models below $1K but expect to pay at over $1K USD for a MIJ guitar. It's hard to find MIJ guitars under $1K USD. There are also mid-range guitars with the lowest MIJ models around $1100-1200 USD. They do have some interesting designs in the low end. Hard to say what the quality is based only on photos. The MIC low end guitars seem really cheap in price. Black Cloud is unveiling similar modernish guitars next week at Sound Messe. The founder of Dragonfly came from Aria Pro. They are up against companies like T's, Sugi, Freedom Custom Guitar Research, Dragonfly, etc. This segment of the market is really crowded and their guitars go up against a lot of newer Japanese brands that only make guitars in Japan and have more cachet these days. These are listed as coming from the Aria Pro Custom Shop. The high-end guitars range from $2800-4500 USD. They got coverage of the high end MIJ guitars on a couple of Japanese Youtube channels. Recently, they have been making a push to really get back into the market.

They are not that easy to find in Japan since very few shops carry them.

Aria pro ii electric guitar stratocaster