Asics Sortiemagic RP 6 'Safety Yellow Velvet Pine'
Colorway: Safety Yellow/Velvet Pine · Style code: 1013A098-751 · Release date: November 2020 · Price: $1026 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Sortiemagic RP 6 'Mako Blue Hazard Green' (1013A098-400) · Asics Sortiemagic RP 6 'Illuminate Mint' (1013A098-401) · ASICS Sortiemagic RP 6 'Shocking Orange' (1013A098-800)
The Sortie range sits at the sharp end of ASICS' Japanese catalogue: very light, very grippy racing flats with minimal cushioning and very little year-to-year change. The sixth Sortiemagic RP follows that pattern rather than breaking from it.
A high-rigidity propulsion Trusstic runs through the midfoot, resisting twist while adding push at toe-off. The midsole combines FlyteFoam Propel for rebound with standard FlyteFoam to keep weight down, a two-material approach rather than the single soft slab that defines modern trainers. Underneath, a duo-sole construction is capped with ASICSGRIP, the compound ASICS reserves for shoes where losing traction costs a race, and it holds through the final push-off phase on wet or dry road.
The shoe is aimed squarely at athletes racing to win, and it remained largely a domestic Japanese product even as plated super-shoes reshaped the rest of the racing category around it. That narrow distribution is part of why the line changed so little; its buyers were not asking it to.
Safety Yellow with Velvet Pine trim dates to November 2020, early in the model's run. Buying a pair outside Japan generally meant paying an import premium, which this listing's price reflects.