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Onitsuka Tiger

Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66

Everything we hold on this shoe: 3 written pieces.

ASICS is not a word. It is an acronym of a Latin phrase: anima sana in corpore sano. A sound mind in a sound body.

Onitsuka Tiger


The spec

BrandOnitsuka Tiger
ModelOnitsuka Tiger Mexico 66

No style code and no colourway here. Both come from the retailer listings on the calendar ahead, and this shoe has nothing on it, so the rows are absent rather than guessed at.


What we have written

Every piece, with the place each claim came from underneath it. Where we could not reach a source we say so instead of quietly leaving it out.

The shoes history

Onitsuka Tiger

ASICS is an acronym of the Latin anima sana in corpore sano, which the company renders as "a sound mind in a sound body"
Wikipedia, read 2026-08-31

The shoes quote

5 letters on the side of a running shoe

Same sources as above on this page

The shoes fact

The brand behind the best selling sneaker on the resale market last year…

Same sources as above on this page


What we do not hold on the Onitsuka Tiger Mexico 66 yet: nothing on our UK release calendar and no reading in our price index, so no ask we could quote. Everything above is what we do.