Netflix has announced that an original animated series titled Tokyo Override will begin streaming on the platform sometime later this year. The announcement was made as part of the company’s Next on Netflix Animation event.
Yusuke Fukada (Perfect World, Ultimate Beastmaster) and Thai director Veerapatra Jinanavin (Midnight Story animated short) are co-directing Tokyo Override, in collaboration with Yamaha Motor and Honda Motor. Fukada, Sornperes Subsermsri, and Kwunchanok Meesilpa are also credited as producers. Thai-based RiFF Studio is handling the animation production for the series.
The series is described by the company as a “fast-paced motorcycle film” that follows a hacker who joins a group of outcast bikes to uncover the city’ dark secrets.
Netflix describes the synopsis of Tokyo Override as:
In AI-optimized Tokyo 100 years in the future, an orphan teenage hacker blends in until a favor for her only friend inadvertently draws her into a benevolent gang of outcast motorcyclists, uncovering the seemingly utopian city’s sinister underbelly through a murder investigation linked to a drug syndicate.
