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Uniqlo UT has revealed the second wave of its Pokémon collaboration, and this time it’s going back to basics, literally. The new collection of graphic tees pulls its designs straight from the monochrome pixel art of the original Game Boy games, keeping the look as close to the source as possible.
The first wave of the collaboration leaned into watercolor-style artwork of first-generation Pokémon, giving it a softer and more approachable feel. This second wave goes in the opposite direction. Instead of polished or stylized art, the tees use the actual dot pixel representations of Pokémon and their trainers, the same blocky, grid-based visuals that appeared on the Game Boy’s 160×144 screen. No added color, no smoothed edges, no modern updates to the art. Just the pixels, as they were.
Keeping the designs strictly monochrome means the graphic only makes full sense if you already recognize what you’re looking at. It’s a design decision that speaks more to long-time fans than to newcomers, which fits the occasion. A 30th anniversary is more about celebrating the people who have been there all along than it is about introducing the franchise to fresh eyes.
There are four shirts in total, available in White, Gray, and Black. Those neutral base colors also play into the overall design logic since with a monochrome graphic, the shirt color itself becomes part of how the image reads. The Uniqlo x Pokémon UT 2026 SS Second Wave is set to launch in late July 2026 at Uniqlo stores across Japan and through the Uniqlo Japan online store.
