Ehime FC to distribute custom manga collaboration shirts to 4,000 fans

Ehime FC has announced a special collaboration for their upcoming J3 League match against Reilac Shiga FC on November 7, 2026, at Ninjinia Stadium. The club will distribute original ‘Aoashi Brother Foot’ baseball shirts to the first 4,000 attendees.

The initiative was proposed and funded by Yugo Kobayashi, an Ehime Prefecture native and the manga artist behind the popular soccer series ‘Aoashi’ and its spin-off ‘Aoashi Brother Foot’. Kobayashi personally designed the shirts, which are available in M and L sizes to encourage families to wear them together.

The goal of the project is to use the shirts to encourage fans to support the club both at the stadium and in daily life, aiming to ‘dye the stadium and the city orange’ to boost local support for Ehime FC. The manga ‘Aoashi Brother Foot’ is set in Ehime and features a J-League academy modeled after Ehime FC.