Worldwide music unit YOASOBI has announced that they will be collaborating with Uniqlo’s graphic T-shirt brand UT for the second time, five years after their first collaboration.
The collaboration items are scheduled to be released at Uniqlo stores nationwide and on the online store from mid-July 2026. The price is 1,990 yen (excluding tax) for each of the four MEN T-shirt designs.
The biggest feature of this collection is that four creators who have been supporting YOASOBI’s creative work on a daily basis have designed from their own perspectives.
YOASOBI×Uniqlo UT
The participating creators are Ai Niina, who works mainly in animation expression; GILLOCHINDOX☆GILLOCHINDAE, who creates conceptual expressions based on cities and youth; Ryota Daimon, known for street art-style expressions using airbrush techniques; and QINGYI, from China, characterized by fantastical visual expressions. These four creators, each with different backgrounds and expression methods, have reinterpreted YOASOBI’s songs and concepts from diverse perspectives. A special “YOASOBI” logo created exclusively for this collaboration is also incorporated into each design.
YOASOBI×Uniqlo UT
Composer Ayase commented, “If the first collaboration was an introduction to YOASOBI, this collection more fully expresses what we want to convey now.” Vocalist ikura also said, “The four creators who have always been part of our creative process have put the ‘now’ of YOASOBI, which has evolved in various ways over these five years, into their designs from their own perspectives.”
◆YOASOBI Comments
Composer Ayase
I’m really happy to collaborate with UT again after five years. If the first time was an introduction to YOASOBI, this collection is one that more fully expresses what we want to convey now. Since we worked with creators we usually collaborate with, I hope you can feel the YOASOBI-ness that is common across the different designs.
Vocalist ikura
The four creators who have always been part of our creative process have put the ‘now’ of YOASOBI, which has evolved in various ways over these five years, into their designs from their own perspectives. Whether you know YOASOBI or are meeting them for the first time through this UT, I’ll be happy if you wear it freely and enjoy it with whatever feeling you have of ‘I like this.’
◆Creator Comments
Ai Niina
As this is my second UT collaboration, I’m very happy to have my illustrations used again. Inspired by YOASOBI’s concept of “turning novels into music,” I illustrated the stories and music rising from a book.
GILLOCHINDOX☆GILLOCHINDAE
I’m glad to be able to participate in the UT collaboration with YOASOBI, whose live sets and goods I’ve been involved with. I want people who don’t know me at all to wear the design without knowing me, and I look forward to seeing them on the streets. I depicted Ayase and ikura as characters in a shonen manga style. Inspired by YOASOBI’s chaotic image and their expression of breathing life into everything through collaborations, I made clothes, shoes, and flames into creatures.
Ryota Daimon
I drew Ayase and ikura looking in the same direction and freely taking flight. I used airbrush to express their unique radiance, and put my respect for this collaboration and wishes for further leaps into it.
QINGYI
With Ayase and ikura at the center, I drew overlapping the images that spread from YOASOBI’s songs with their sensibilities. I hope you can feel the atmosphere of YOASOBI moving to a new stage from this work.
Since their debut song “Yoru ni Kakeru” in November 2019, YOASOBI has achieved over 1.2 billion cumulative streams, the first in history, establishing an overwhelming presence both in Japan and abroad. In 2023, the TV anime ‘Oshi no Ko’ theme song “Idol” topped Billboard Japan’s “JAPAN Hot 100” for 21 consecutive weeks, setting a J-POP record. In 2024, they performed at the world’s largest music festival “Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival” and sold out their solo US concert tickets in 30 minutes, continuing their global activities. This collaboration, as a special collection that captures YOASOBI’s “now” on the canvas of clothing, is likely to attract attention not only from fans but from a wide range of people.
