Adidas and Pokémon have joined forces to create a mini-collection of shoes featuring Ash Ketchum’s best friend.
The athletic brand has taken Pikachu’s likeness and put it on not one, but three pairs of shoes. The sneakers each have different names and designs to them, but each shows off an adorable Pikachu and Adidas’s signature three lines. These sneakers were created for children and go up to size 40 EU, which is about a 9 and a half in US/AUS and a 7 and a half in UK sizes. This sneaker collection was released in Spain on June 2nd, and it’s the second collaboration between these two companies in 2020 alone.
The three sneakers to choose from, Training, Tennis, and Skateboard have their own unique style despite sharing Pokémon’s mascot against a white background. The shiny Tennis shoe has a two sided design, with a happy go lucky Pikachu on one side and the Adidas three line logo reimagined as thunder bolts on the other. The Training shoe is a bit more simple but classic, these have just an 8-bit Pikachu on toward the back with a peek-a-boo of more 8-bit Gen I lining the inside. Finally, the shoe with the most going on, the Skateboard, is a cloth shoe featuring that same plucky Pikachu image from the Tennis shoe, but decked out with thunderbolt outlines rather than a flat white.
This collection was only released in Spain and each shoe runs at € 39,95. They’re still in stock for now so if you have the means, catch ‘em while you can!
Source: Adidas, Nintendo Soup
