Uniqlo puts 100 years of Shueisha on a T-shirt: wave three brings Bleach and Spy x Family

Uniqlo set itself a big goal this year: celebrating the centenary of Shueisha — the publisher behind Shonen Jump — by turning its catalogue into T-shirts. The collection is called MANGA UT, it launched on 16 March 2026 with 22 designs, and the stated plan is to reach roughly 100 designs spread over two years. The Japanese price is 1,990 yen including tax, which is the normal UT band rather than a tribute product in luxury clothing.

The first wave was a love letter to classic Jump: Jujutsu Kaisen, Hunter x Hunter, Yu Yu Hakusho, Saint Seiya, Kinnikuman, Golden Kamuy, GANTZ, Kingdom, Captain Tsubasa and KochiKame. In early August the third batch arrived with 13 new designs adding Bleach, Spy x Family, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Black Clover and Mashle. If you have been waiting for your series, the maths is on your side: more than half of that hundred is still unreleased.

Alongside it, the ONE PIECE Spring/Summer 2026 line went on sale on 20 July, built around the Elbaph Arc — the 33rd arc of Eiichiro Oda's manga and the second of the Final Saga — with artwork from that stretch and characters such as Kuma, Bonney and the Giant Warrior Pirates. In the United States each shirt landed at 29.90 dollars, on open sale in stores and online, with no lottery and no waiting list. No artificial scarcity here: if you see it, you buy it.

And here comes the part this tanuki hates to report. Uniqlo does not have a single physical store anywhere in Latin America: as of February 2026 it operated in 27 countries with around 2,512 stores, all across Asia-Pacific, Europe and — in the Americas — only the United States and Canada. The US online store ships within the United States only. Buying from Chile, Mexico, Peru or Argentina means going through a forwarding address, and at that point the real price stops being the one on the tag.

One last warning, because this is the one that can cost you money: several sites named things like "Uniqlo Chile" or "Uniqlo Brasil" are circulating, and we could not verify any of them as official brand channels. If you are going to buy, do it from the uniqlo.com domain of the relevant country or through a forwarder you already trust. A 1,990-yen shirt is not worth a cloned card.