The Mizuno Wave Hitogami is a brilliant shoe for fast paced running. Plus, with a MSRP of under $100 -- and several stores selling them for $75 or less -- the price is certainly right.
Aesthetically, though, they're a bit of a disaster (not that that will keep me from running in them). Yes, I get it, if you take the left and the right shoe and line them up just so, they sort of look like a Japanese kabuki mask. So, Mizuno added a bunch of extra overlays to create a feature that has nothing to do with running and that nobody will ever see, just for the sake of a talking point? Add on top of that the generally clown-like colors, and I just wasn't impressed.
Luckily, Mizuno will be abandoning all of that for the Wave Mizuno 2, overhauling the upper to create a shoe with an aesthetic closer to that of the now-discontinued Wave Ronin series.
Coming in January 2015, the Hitogami 2...
Aesthetically, though, they're a bit of a disaster (not that that will keep me from running in them). Yes, I get it, if you take the left and the right shoe and line them up just so, they sort of look like a Japanese kabuki mask. So, Mizuno added a bunch of extra overlays to create a feature that has nothing to do with running and that nobody will ever see, just for the sake of a talking point? Add on top of that the generally clown-like colors, and I just wasn't impressed.
Luckily, Mizuno will be abandoning all of that for the Wave Mizuno 2, overhauling the upper to create a shoe with an aesthetic closer to that of the now-discontinued Wave Ronin series.
Coming in January 2015, the Hitogami 2...
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