Oh man… Japanese clothing retailer Uniqlo is helping celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Shonen Sunday Magazine by releasing a year’s worth of limited edition manga shirts! The first 10 shirts were released for sale on Monday, and feature a range of classic and contemporary manga series, all priced at just $15 a pop! I can’t figure out how to order them internationally, which means that you’ll probably have to pick them up IN Japan. But if you can? Duuuuuuuuuude. You instantly become the coolest otaku in town.
Shown above is the Ranma 1/2 shirt in black, by Rumiko Takahashi. If anyone’s headed to Japan in the next little while, I take an XXL…
More shirts:
Ashitaka No Joe
Cromartie Highschool!
Ge! Ge! Ge! no Kitaro! (Nifty)
– Chris
Uuuuuuuuh… AWESOME. I so want that RANMA 1/2 shirt… and probably every other one.
DUDE. Such good timing– I’m leaving for Japan in just 10 more days! I heard on Umezu’s site that the 3/26 shirt being announced is a Makoto-chan shirt. YES!
I’m gonna try to grab a bunch, and will let you know if I grab extra. At very least, I plan to snap lots of pics of these.
In other news, there is a Uniqlo store in NYC… I wonder if there’s an off chance they’ll carry these too?
Hey… it looks like the shirts are only available at the new Uniqlo UT T-Shirt store in Harajuku. Probably worth printing out a map! I’ve e-mailed their press people to see if the shirts are going to show up in New York, where I will be shortly. But yeah, the Makoto-chan one sounds awwwwwwwwwwesome.
– Chris
I went to the NY Store today and they basically had a giant wall filled with manga shirts, many of the same titles from the 50th, but not the same shirts. Still cool though!
I really wish someone would license some manga properties in the US and release similar shirts here. I love my Junk Food T’s with distressed vintage DC art, but I haven’t read super-hero books in years. I love to have some manga themed shirts that are actually, you know, cool looking.
As opposed, say, to the garish-colors-on-black DBZ shirts that remind me of all those sad clowns on velvet paintings.