Asics Wmns Novablast 2 LE 'Deep Plum Barely Rose'
Colorway: Deep Plum/Barely Rose · Style code: 1012B177-500 · Release date: January 15, 2024 · Price: $2682 · Availability: Available now
More colorways: Asics Wmns Novablast 2 LE 'White Pure Silver' (1012B177-100) · Asics Wmns Novablast 2 'Platinum' (1012B131-020) · Asics Wmns Novablast 2 'Smokey Rose' (1012B049-700) · Asics Wmns Novablast 2 'Thunder Blue' (1012B049-400) · Asics Wmns Novablast 2 'Birch Pink Rave' (1012B049-200)
The second Novablast was a corrective release. The original had introduced FlyteFoam Blast in a tall, trampoline-inspired midsole and given ASICS a genuinely bouncy trainer, but reviewers were consistent about its faults: an unstable heel, a forefoot short on cushioning, and an upper that felt cheaper than the shoe deserved. Version two widened the platform, raised the midsole sidewalls, added a TPU stabiliser along both sides of the heel and more foam under the forefoot, dropped the offset from ten millimetres to eight, and rebuilt the upper in a double-jacquard woven mesh. It gained a fraction of an ounce and lost most of the criticism. The LE designation marks this as a limited make-up rather than a standard seasonal colour, and Deep Plum with Barely Rose (a deep purple against the palest pink) is a softer pairing than the model's usual high-contrast graphics, which suits a shoe whose shape already does plenty of talking.