When it comes to fashion, Splatoon is cutting-edge gaming. Apart from those amiibo outfits that only dedicated collectors have, there are plenty of varieties of t-shirts, hats and shoes bopping around in the game's plaza at any time, while the stores rotate their offerings on a daily basis. Sure, you can pick outfits based on their buffs and level them up, but that's not the approach if you want to look trendy while splatting fools with ink.
Yet the Jelly Fresh store from the game has some serious competition in the real world. We rather enjoyed a Tiny Cartridge post for three licensed Splatoon T-Shirts from 'The King of Games' store, but were put off by rather ludicrous shipping costs out of Japan. We hadn't considered that little proviso when originally reporting on them back in May.
Yet the Splatoon t-shirt industry is positively booming over on Red Bubble, an online marketplace where people can sell their creations. A search for Splatoon brings up all sorts of merchandise including leggings(!), while Splatoon T-Shirts is a search that returns over 500 results. Even accounting for some duplicates or inaccurate results, that's a lot of merchandise.
We've picked out some favourites below. Unfortunately you can't earn money to buy them by filling a water gun with ink and splatting people - that'll just get you in trouble.
[source redbubble.com]
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These are some amazing designs.
I gotta give props to this one.
http://www.redbubble.com/people/sonic3321/works/15114839-squid-or-a-kid?grid_pos=97&p=t-shirt
Anybody read that "Splat Sq" as something inapropriate? I'm not sure what it was, but for a fleeting second my brain went into NSFW mode. I'm not exactly sure what it was I saw though, "squat" isn't really sexual.
Is there a hentai market of that squid girl yet? I don't need a link, just wondering.
I like the retro nes cover one the most. The one @RupeeClock had there is awesome too.
The 1st, 6th, and 7th ones I need in my life badly.
@rjejr
Naturally. I saw quite a few NSFW material on Tumblr shortly after the game's reveal. Certainly you don't think the furries have slacking for a whole year.
@rjejr I don't know about hentai but I've found a few adorable yuri manga for the series already.
@LoveSugoi Hey, I've made several totally SFW inkling pictures, and I happen to fit into this category of which you speaks.
I want this game, but only if local 4 play comes around .....
Another cool place for Splatoon shirts is https://www.teepublic.com/tees/splatoon?page=1 . There are 4 pages of shirts, my personal favorite being this one: http://i.imgur.com/jcdXmrK.jpg
...the teepublic.com place seems to have a lot of the same stuff that Red Bubble has, only for less money. Hrm.
...the teepublic.com place seems to have a lot of the same stuff that Red Bubble has, only for less money. Hrm.
Nintendo just confirmed that Splatoon has sold over 1 million units worldwide!
@DiscoGentleman - "that hentai started instantly.
Thus, Splatoon is a big hit in Japan"
That would explain it. My hentai years are way behind me, like all my hentai is on VHS tape behind me, but my mind sees so much potential in this, glad Japan is putting it too good use.
Funny. When I saw the cover picture for this article, I said to myself, 'Hey, those look like the graphics from the Red Bubble site.' And sure enough they were. I actually bought four different Chrono Trigger themed shirts from their site about a year or two ago. They do great work!
@rjejr I was kind of thinking "Splatter Zone" sounded dirty, lol.
sees comments Really?....REALLY?! xD
https://d1sb2vhc1h1lwk.cloudfront.net/designs/217844/Preview/262c3a/1/display.jpg
I think this one is more suited to my playing style!
In other new Splatoon has officially passed the 1 million slaes mark!
all those look awesome
@Azikira
Yeah, I know there are furries who aren't into that sort of thing. I was just being cheeky.
@Ryu_Niiyama
Link plz
I could really see myself wearing this one.
@Megumi - If it makes you feel any better I had to Google "furries". I'm getting old.
@LoveSugoi Lol. Head on over to dynasty scans. I'm at work...the splatoon doujinshi is totally PG but I don't want to head over there and have something NSFW on the homepage and my boss starts looking at me funny. I'll update with a link when I go home for lunch.
@JaniN83 Nope, they are shirts made by graphic designers...I've padded out my Nintendo themed wardrobe thanks to these people. (do you know how hard it is to find a decent metroid shirt that is licensed?) It is basically fanart on a shirt.
hey I posted this on the forum a day after the game released. redbubble was really ahead of the curve.
So... Can these people just sell those and make money off them? What about Nintendo and their copyrights. ..?
WHAT?! How did I miss this? Damn, I guess I'll have to order at least one or two T-shirts in the near future...
@Ryu_Niiyama
Thanks! I found it. It is quite adorable.
@LoveSugoi Isn't it though? I was pretty much going "Dawww!" When I finished reading. Sorry I forgot to give you the link but I work 90 hour work weeks and I'm just getting over a cold so I pretty much crashed when I got off work.
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