The Uniqlo ‘Bleach Shueisha’ collection expanded again in early August 2026, with the retailer’s third MANGA UT wave landing on uniqlo.com and handing Tite Kubo’s Soul Reapers two fresh T-shirt designs.
The third drop arrived as part of Shueisha’s 100th anniversary tie-in, as reported by Siliconera, and it brought Yu-Gi-Oh!, Spy x Family, Black Clover and Mashle: Magic and Muscles along for the ride.
Bleach and Black Clover each walked away with two designs.
What the Uniqlo Bleach Shueisha collection wave includes
Yu-Gi-Oh!, Spy x Family and Mashle: Magic and Muscles rounded out the rest of the wave alongside the two double-slot titles.
Five franchises landed in one drop, a decent spread across the eras Shueisha built its reputation on, and enough variety to keep the rack from looking one-note.
Every shirt in the wave carried the same ¥1 990 price tag, roughly $12.50, or somewhere near R230 to R240 for anyone doing the maths from Johannesburg.
Sizing ran from XS all the way up to 4XL, so the whole thing sat squarely in impulse-buy territory rather than collector-drop territory.
UT, Uniqlo’s graphic T-shirt arm, spent years turning anime, art and gaming licences into cheap cotton, and the Shueisha run sat comfortably in that lane. A Bleach shirt cost less than a cinema ticket in most markets, which did much of the persuading.
Why the Uniqlo ‘Bleach Shueisha’ collection doubled up
Bleach earned its double slot. Tite Kubo’s Soul Society saga spent two decades as one of Shueisha’s biggest Weekly Shonen Jump properties, and the Thousand-Year Blood War anime continuation dragged the series back into the conversation, pulling in viewers who were nowhere near the original run.
That resurgence travelled well beyond Japan. A generation that never queued for a Jump chapter found Bleach through streaming, which turned Ichigo Kurosaki and the Soul Reapers into merch-shelf regulars again, and made two shirts in a single wave look like an easy call.
How the Uniqlo ‘Bleach Shueisha’ collection came together
The MANGA UT project began in 2026 to mark a century since Shueisha opened its doors, and the publisher behind Weekly Shonen Jump gave Uniqlo a deep catalogue to raid.
The opening lineup carried 22 designs, and Uniqlo set itself a target of 100 across two years.
Dropping the designs in waves kept the collection ticking over instead of dumping a hundred shirts on shoppers at once.
Each release pulled from a different slice of the Jump archive, which is how a newer title like Mashle ended up sharing rack space with titles that first ran in the nineties.
The Uniqlo ‘Bleach Shueisha’ collection still has designs to go
That left plenty of runway. Uniqlo committed to 100 designs over two years, and after 22 at launch plus the franchises added since, the counter sat well short of the target. More waves were due before the anniversary run closed out, so anyone who missed this one has another shot coming.
