Bomb Story: It's safe to say that youth culture hones in on two decades prior as a focal point for nostalgia and trend resurgence. In the early years of The Hundreds (early 2000s), we scanned '80s comics and '90s cartoons. Twenty years later, we hearken back to the 2000s thesmselves, which emphasized anime as the preferred storytelling form. Bobby grew up on Dragon Ball Z, Sailor Moon, Trigun: The Planet Gunsmoke, and Cowboy Bebop. Most recently, The Hundreds collaborated with One Piece. Anime Adam tips its hat to a significant piece of Asian pop culture that went global. | Background Story: Originating in Scotland as ""tartan,"" we now call this pattern of crisscrossed lines ""Plaid."" Growing up in Southern California during the '80s and '90s, plaid beach volleyball shorts were always in our purview, thanks to labels like Mossimo and Stüssy. When we elevated to making cut-n-sew apparel like button-ups in the early 2000s, plaids made their way into our language as a nod to both the surf culture of the West Coast and Polo's influence on the East. In fact, every plaid speaks to a different subculture. Buffalo plaids were woven into the early New York hip-hop lumberjacks. Shadow plaids on swap meet Pendletons. And The Hundreds plaids, for all.