The cable running down the back of Mewtwo's neck has been lifted straight onto the heel of a Spezial silhouette by adidas' design team — reworked into a pull-tab loop that carries the narrative weight of the entire shoe. This isn't a collab that slaps character graphics on for the sake of it; it's a systematic project that dismantles Pokémon anatomy and redistributes it into last shapes and hardware structure. That level of detail is exactly what powers this twelve-shoe collection celebrating Pokémon's 30th anniversary.
Pikachu takes three of the twelve. The most direct hit is the Pro Model and one of the Superstar pairs: a plush-textured yellow upper mimics Pikachu's fur, paired with black detailing and Poké Ball-shaped lace jewels. Another Superstar flips the approach entirely — an all-over Pikachu print covers a white upper, trading the plush intensity for the looser tone of flat illustration. The Charizard evolution line follows the same logic downward: the Superstar "Charmander" builds softness for the baby form through cream and orange layering, "Charmeleon" switches to a crimson upper with claw-shaped Three Stripes branding, and "Charizard" itself piles a wing-shaped flap directly over the eyelets — a design vocabulary that recalls the exaggerated moves Jeremy Scott has long favored in his adidas work.
Darker tones take over from here. The Adistar XLG 2.0 "Gengar" drenches the upper in deep purple with the character illustration printed on the tongue; the Adistar Control 5 "Haunter" carries forward that ghostly unease with sharp layering and moody colorways echoing the character's design. Both are built on adidas' own performance silhouettes, letting structural texture carry the theme rather than relying on colorway swaps alone.
