The Cutest Bike in the World Now Has an Anime Version

A brand new particular version of the CFMoto Papio SS has been unveiled, based mostly on the anime and manga, Akira.

We already advised you again in February that the CFMoto Papio SS is the cutest 125 you can’t buy (within the UK, anyway), however we thought we’d present you this particular version Papio anyway. And also you nonetheless can’t purchase it.

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That’s seemingly true even if you happen to dwell within the Philippines, the place this specific particular version — which appears to be a one-off — has been created by CFMoto Philippines in collaboration with jewelry model 13 Fortunate Monkey. 

Impressed by the 1988 Japanese anime movie, Akira (tailored from a manga of the identical title), the bike, additionally named Akira, options handmade bodywork and a brass key, chain, and badges and is essentially based mostly on the motorbike ridden by the movie’s protagonist, Kaneda.

It’s additionally completed in crimson paint and has numerous stickers — some branding logos, some simply enjoyable stuff just like the ‘smiley face’ to the precise of the headlights — which are consultant of these featured on the bike within the movie, and which give it a type of Eighties race vibe. Not that that is going to be difficult the Yamaha XSR900 GP on a lap of Donington, however it definitely appears to be like equally the half.

“Me and my associate sculptor Noli Coronado [are] large followers of the anime Akira,” mentioned Dante Dizon, inventive director of 13 Fortunate Monkey. “Most of our rings [and] shirts are impressed by this anime from 1988. The hero, Kaneda, rode a crimson bike that’s tremendous iconic and we brainstormed on how you can convey [it] to life. I felt the necessity to customise the Papio into an Akira bike.”