Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo.

Tetsuuuo! Kaneda's bike is real. It's called the 2015 Honda NM4, it's on-sale in America, and yesterday, I was one of the first journalists to ride it. Spoiler Alert: It really does feel like it ...

Katsuhiro Otomo's 1980s cyberpunk manga epic Akira, which also made it to the ... is building working electric replicas of the Kaneda bike for sale to fans. The all-electric Kaneda bike replicas ...

One of the most iconic moments from Akira is the protagonist, Shotaro Kaneda's, legendary bike slide. The movie's first part puts biker gangs at the forefront of the action, and during an exciting ...

Weston said that he designed the bike on the premise that Kaneda would use it as a weapon ... In silhouette you'd have no problem recognising it as the Akira Bike, but the lighting would reveal ...

Set in the sprawling metropolis of Neo-Tokyo after a devastating world war, Akira follows Shōtarō Kaneda, the leader of ... to the film’s heart-pounding bike sequences and disturbing shocks ...