100 years from now, AI is an integral part of our daily lives, governing everything that makes a city breathe and live, and making daily life and urban living ideal for humans. But underneath this idyllic appearance, an incredible evil lurks, and only a group of misfit protagonists riding motorcycles can stop it.
The above is, more or less, the synopsis for a new web anime series called 'Tokyo Override' that premiered on Netflix earlier this week. It stars Shelby Young, Kiff VandenHeuvel, and Maya Aoki Tuttle, who voiced their characters under the supervision of directors Yusuke Fukada and Veerapatra Jinanavin. And it also stars a number of incredible motorcycles that were imagined with help from industry giants Yamaha and Honda.
Yamaha is the first to announce exactly what it contributed to the project, giving us a chance to at least try and thank someone for the incredible look, feel, and sounds of the "existing and originally designed motorcycles" featured in the anime.
First up, the Japanese bike maker says it pitched in 3D data for the movie makers to use in designing the bikes. Then, it supplied them with the sound rides like the YZF-R1 and VMAX release when ridden hard, to match the in-series replicas of the machines. Lastly, Yamaha also pitched in some ideas when it comes to the story.
Most impressive of all is the fact that the company helped create a special animated bike for the project. They call it Y/AI, and it's a build so radical you would have thought it could only exist in imagination land. It doesn't, as Yamaha built it in real life as well, and will show it for the first time during the Motor Expo 2024 show in Thailand at the end of this month.
Yamaha did not reveal the full details (actually, it didn't reveal any details) about the real-world bike, but as seen in Tokyo Override it comes with significant MotoGP machine vibes, thanks to some similarities it shares with the YZR-M1, most visible in the position of the rider.
Other than that, not much is about the two-wheeler, so we can't wait for the Motor Expo to kick off, hoping we're going to get to know it a bit better. If you know the bike from the Netflix series, or like the way it looks in the images showing it in the real world, don't get your hopes up we'll get to see it enter production, as that's highly unlikely.
As for 'Tokyo Override,' you can stream it right now on Netflix. There are six episodes available, each of them under half an hour long, but they took three and a half years to make, and that shows.
Daniel loves writing (or so he claims), and he uses this skill to offer readers a "behind the scenes" look at the automotive industry. He also enjoys talking about space exploration and robots, because in his view the only way forward for humanity is away from this planet, in metal bodies. Full profile
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