There are two problems with the evidence on NAISAN, and you should know both before you read a word of it.
The first is its age. All six comments we hold were posted in December 2017 or May 2018. Nothing in our record is less than seven years old.
The second is that you cannot go and check. The naisan23 Yupoo store is password-gated, so it does not open for a stranger with a link. You cannot browse the albums, you cannot see what is still stocked, and you cannot confirm that the person answering messages today is the same operation people were reviewing in 2018.
This page is the evidence, not a verdict. We have not bought from NAISAN and no rating of ours appears below.
What the 2018 thread found
The record is dominated by one post: a side-by-side of the NAISAN Gucci Ace against a retail pair, put up on r/FashionReps in May 2018 and mirrored to r/Repsneakers the next day. Almost everything we hold comes from those two copies of the same conversation.
The highest-voted comment in it, by a wide margin, is not a recommendation:
finally i nice comparison. people saying they are the best....if naisan got the best then the rest is ridiculously shit... the patch is just so different its funny.
u/bettercallher, r/FashionReps, 16 May 2018
Two other commenters worked through specific details of the same comparison:
No, overall shoe and leather on naisan pair has a creamer Color then retail wich is fully white
u/Emann222, r/FashionReps, 16 May 2018
Yeah the tiger is not so nice on the reps. Also pro tip; looks like you have to size up on Naisan's :-)
u/xssmlxl, r/Repsneakers, 17 May 2018
A fourth offered to test the disputed part rather than argue about it:
If anyone wants to put the whole "his bees are better" thing to the test I have Naisan's Bee Aces, I can take some HD photos to match anyones retail photos if they want.
u/Norway1717, r/FashionReps, 16 May 2018
We have no record that those photos were ever posted. That offer is where the most rigorous thing in this record stops.
The one clearly enthusiastic comment we hold is older still, from a December 2017 post about a Balenciaga Triple S:
Damn naisan nailed the shape pretty good. This is the best I've seen yet!
a deleted account, r/FashionReps, 4 December 2017
"The best I've seen yet" was a statement about the state of the market in 2017. It is not a claim about anything you could buy in 2026, and the account that made it no longer exists.
The sizing advice contradicts itself
Two commenters in the same weekend gave opposite instructions. One relayed the seller's own guidance to size up, and a second repeated it as a tip. A third disagreed outright:
Not really, the fit is the same of retail, I wear 44 EUR and bought 43 EUR from naisan (9,5US)
u/Emann222, r/Repsneakers, 17 May 2018
So the record contains size up, size up again, and a buyer who went down a size and was happy. That is not a sizing rule, it is three data points about three feet and three models, none of which were measured. Compare a pair you already own against the seller's own measurements instead, and read how to buy reps for the QC step where fit problems are still cheap to fix.
Both permalinks, and the original comparison thread in full, are on the NAISAN evidence page.
What this record cannot support
Almost everything, honestly. Here is the list, plainly:
- It cannot tell you about current quality. A shoe reviewed in 2018 tells you nothing about the same shoe made in 2026, if it is even still made. Factories, moulds and staff all turn over.
- It cannot tell you about service. No comment we hold mentions shipping, a refund, a dispute, or a seller who went quiet.
- It is not six independent sources. Four of the six comments are on two mirrored copies of one comparison post. Treat it as one conversation with a handful of voices, not six readings.
- It cannot be re-checked against the store. The password gate means the usual next step, going and looking at the albums yourself, is closed.
The one thing this record does establish is narrow and still worth something: in 2018, several people compared a NAISAN Gucci Ace against a retail pair in public, and found visible differences in the patch, the embroidery and the leather colour. Nobody in that thread claimed the pairs were the same object. Nobody serious ever does. These are replicas.
If you still want to try
The gate is the practical problem. You will need the album password from the seller before you can see anything, and until you can see the albums you have no item link, which means no way to check what an agent will actually charge.
Once you do have a link, the link decoder will turn it into a buy link for every agent this site supports, and will usually recover an item even from a dead 2018 URL, because it reads the item id out of the link itself.
If you would rather start somewhere you can inspect before paying, the seller list shows which stores are open, which have a live catalogue, and how recent each record is.