ASICS is the Kobe running-shoe company, and Google Shopping interest for the keyword asics printed 44 the week of September 5 2026. That is up 2.33% from 43 on August 29 and up 62.96% from 27 on August 8, per Trends MCP get_growth on google shopping pulled September 10 2026. The 261-week get_time_series on the same source runs from September 11 2021 (first print 19) through September 5 2026 and peaked at 100 on December 6 2025. Same-week 2025 printed 28. Google Search for asics is 71 on September 5, down 12.35% from 81 over 7 days and down 2.74% from 73 over 30 days, a search story that fails both mover bars. Shopping is the source that clears the 30-day bar and still has a readable cart climb.
About asics
ASICS is the performance-running brand Kihachiro Onitsuka started in Kobe in 1949, later renamed in the 1977 merger, which is why people now shop the asics mark for Gel-Kayano and Gel-Nimbus pairs rather than a lifestyle-only sneaker.
Wikipedia dates Onitsuka Co., Ltd. to September 1 1949, records the July 21 1977 merger with GTO and Jelenk that created ASICS Corporation, and renders the acronym as anima sana in corpore sano, a sound mind in a sound body. The same page notes that Onitsuka's early United States distributor, Blue Ribbon Sports, later became Nike. ASICS Corporation's February 13 2026 filing for the year ended December 31 2025 put net sales at 810,916 million yen, up 19.5% from 678,526 million yen, and operating profit at 142,519 million yen, up 42.4%. Hoka tracks the other late-summer running-shoe cart on this site.
What the time series shows
Google Shopping interest for asics printed 44 the week of September 5 2026, up from 43 on August 29 and 27 on August 8, a six-week cart climb that still sits 56% under the December 6 2025 peak of 100.
The 261-week series opened at 19 on September 11 2021. Last eight weekly prints are 20, 20, 21, 27, 31, 41, 43, and 44. Closest 30-day point is 27 on August 8 (+62.96%). Closest 90-day point is 41 on June 6 (+7.32%). Same-week 2025 printed 28, 2024 printed 29, and 2023 printed 24, so this 44 sits above those Saturdays. The winter bulge ran 54 on November 29 2025, 100 on December 6, then 59 on December 13. An October 11 2025 print of 95 sat next to 27 the week before. July 18 and July 25 2026 both printed 20, the recent trough, before the August rebuild. Week-over-week percent-change sample standard deviation on the last 52 weeks is 47.49%. The chart window starts September 7 2024.
Why the page charts Google Shopping
A shoe people buy should be tracked on a shopping source first, and Google Shopping for asics clears the 30-day +25% bar while Google Search for the same keyword fails both the 7-day and 30-day windows from a 71 print that is still sliding. Google Search for asics is 71 on September 5, down 12.35% from 81 on August 29 and down 2.74% from 73 on August 8. The 7-day print fails +20%. The 30-day print fails +25%. The 1-year print is 71 from 78, down 8.97%. Search is a high, stuck query. Shopping is the cart.
Google Shopping is the story source: 43 to 44 in the frozen weekly series over 7 days, 27 to 44 in 30 days, 28 to 44 in 1 year (+57.14%), 261 weekly points, week-to-week sample standard deviation 47.49% on the last 52 changes. Same-day get_growth on google shopping, 30-day window, puts pickleball at 40 (+110.53% from 19), on running at 11 (+83.33% from 6), brooks at 29 (+61.11% from 18), hoka at 38 (+58.33% from 24), saucony at 45 (+55.17% from 29), strava at 28 (+33.33% from 21), and nike at 31 (+29.17% from 24). get_top_trends on Google Trends by Category Shopping as of September 10 2026 put asics at rank 11, two slots above hoka at rank 14. Race-week context: Pickleball. Source context: Google Shopping trends.
The Trends MCP calls for this keyword
get_time_series with source google shopping and keyword asics is the call behind the chart, returning 261 weekly points from 2021-09-11 through 2026-09-05 stored as {date, value} with no smoothing, which is the only series this page is allowed to quote. get_growth on the same pair, windows 7D and 30D, is the headline math: 43 to 44 (+2.33%) and 27 to 44 (+62.96%). Mixing the Google Search 71 with the Shopping 44 would invent a story the APIs do not tell.
A copy-paste pair for Claude or Cursor:
get_time_series source="google shopping" keyword="asics"
get_growth source="google shopping" keyword="asics" percent_growth=["7D","30D","1Y"]
REST is the same body at https://api.trendsmcp.ai/api with Authorization: Bearer and mode set to get_time_series or get_growth.