Adidas × Brain Dead
Brain Dead's late-2025 arc with adidas runs across three silhouettes — the Climacool 2, a 2003 mesh-cage performance runner reissued with reflective green mesh and impact yellow accents; the Taekwondo Mei, the flat-soled martial-arts trainer adidas has made for decades, kept low and pliable in premium leather; and the Techwondo, which finishes the same blueprint in metallic silver and adds the lace cover from the archival adidas Micropacer. The capsule arrived in limited quantities on November 1 and December 18, 2025 through adidas CONFIRMED.
Brain Dead frames the late-2025 capsule as nostalgia for 2000s sport and video-game culture, with collectible gaming figures raffled through the CONFIRMED app alongside the shoes.
01 · jq9215
The Taekwondo Mei in silver metallic with core black and footwear white, style code JQ9215. The flat martial-arts last stays intact, wrapped in a chrome-treated leather upper Sneaker.de notes references the adidas Micropacer lace cover, with reflective panels reading like 2000s football-kit trim.
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02 · KJ8-977
An earlier Climacool sample in a tan-leaning blanch cargo finish, listed against style code KJ8-977. The ventilated cage carries the 2003 cooling architecture, but the upper sits in muted earth tones rather than the impact-yellow palette from the December 2025 reissue.
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03 · JQ9303
The Taekwondo Mei in core black with footwear white and warm vanilla, style code JQ9303. Sneaker Freaker describes black leather uppers, white Three Stripes, and an off-white midsole with Brain Dead branding on the rear heel. The cleanest pair in the late-2025 group.
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04 · JQ6793
The Climacool 2 in core black with impact yellow and silver metallic, style code JQ6793. Hypebeast notes the metallic vents, reflective green mesh, and yellow accents Brain Dead grafted onto the 2003 runner over CLIMACOOL ventilation and a rubber outsole.
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A Taekwondo in core black from the Brain Dead run, listed without a style code. The slim leather upper and flat mat outsole match the JQ9303 colorway Sneaker Freaker covered, kept unbroken black with the cobranded tongue label as the main identifier.
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The Techwondo in silver metallic, Brain Dead's chrome-treated take on the Taekwondo Mei blueprint. Sneaker.de notes the silver edition adopts the lace cover from the adidas Micropacer, layering an archival detail over the martial-arts last so it reads as hardware rather than padding.
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The Climacool 2 in a silver-leaning finish without a confirmed style code, adjacent to the JQ6793 release. The reflective treatment reads industrial against the skeletal plastic cage Hypebeast spotlighted, with cooling ports exposed. A neutral counterpoint to the impact-yellow pair.
The Taekwondo Mei is the flat-soled martial-arts trainer adidas has been making for decades, kept low and pliable in premium leather. Sneaker.de reports the Techwondo edition adds the lace cover from the archival adidas Micropacer, finishing the same blueprint in metallic silver.
It is a 2003 adidas performance runner reissued by Brain Dead. Hypebeast describes it as a retro-futuristic remix built around metallic vents, reflective green mesh, and yellow accents over the original ventilated cage.
Sneaker News flagged a first delivery on November 1, 2025, with the full capsule arriving in limited quantities on December 18, 2025 through adidas CONFIRMED, select adidas retailers, and the Brain Dead online shop.
The adidas press release describes the capsule as sitting at the intersection of rhythm, sport, and circuitry, channeling the 2000s when Y2K football kits, video games, and Japanese sportswear collided.
Hypebeast lists adidas CONFIRMED, the Brain Dead webstore, and partner retailers including 43einhalb, AFEW, Asphaltgold, BSTN, and SUPPA across Europe.
The Taekwondo Mei in silver metallic with core black, style code JQ9215, is the headline pair, leaning hardest on the chrome treatment in Brain Dead's campaign imagery.
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