The 20+ Best Anime With Motorcycles, Ranked

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Vote up the best anime that feature motorcycles and bikers.

It turns out there are some great anime about motorcycles and those who love them, but which are really worth your time? This list ranks the best anime featuring motorcycles, including older titles, as well as new motorcycle anime that you may not know about.

One example of a great motorcycle anime is Kino's Journey, which originally aired in 2003 and paired protagonist Kino with the talking motorcycle Hermes. Two short films have also been made based on Keiichi Sigsawa's original series. Another more recent anime about motorcycles is the TV adaptation Bakuon!! (translation: Roar!!), which followed Hane Sakura and her days at the progressive Okanoue Girls' High School where all students could ride motorbikes. There are even anime movies included on this list such as the cult-classic Akira since it features biker gangs riding on cyberpunk motorcycles.

Vote up your favorite anime about motorcycles and bikers!

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646 votes
Bakuon !!
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491 votes
Akira
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In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets.
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203 votes
Kino's Journey
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Kino and her talking motorcycle, Hermes, travel through many exotic lands.
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215 votes
Baribari Densetsu
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271 votes
Bakuon!! OVA
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97 votes
Terror in Resonance
Photo: Terror in Resonance / Mappa
Terror in Resonance (Fuji TV, 2014) is a Japanese psychological thriller anime series from MAPPA animation studio. Tokyo has been decimated by a terrorist attack, and the only clue to the culprit's identity is a bizarre internet video.
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120 votes
One Off
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77 votes
Kino's Journey: Life Goes On
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92 votes
Ride Back
Photo: flickr / CC0
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123 votes
Two Car
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43 votes
Blassreiter
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A corpse rises up in the form of a strange creature and attacks people.
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51 votes
Circuit Angel: Ketsui no Starting Grid
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35 votes
Megazone 23 Part III
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45 votes
Robotech: The New Generation
Photo: flickr / CC0
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39 votes
Megazone 23 Part II
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40 votes
Venus Wars
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The Venus Wars is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko. It was serialized in the Gakken magazine Nora Comics from 1987 to 1990. In 1989, The Venus Wars was adapted into an anime film directed by Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and co-written by Yuichi Sasamoto and Yoshikazu Yasuhiko, and produced by Bandai Visual, Gakken, and Shochiku.
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38 votes
Megazone 23
Photo: Metaweb / GNU Free Documentation License
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30 votes
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33 votes
Futaridaka
Photo: Metaweb / GNU Free Documentation License
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35 votes
Scared Rider Xechs
Photo: flickr / CC0
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29 votes
Ginga Reppuu Baxinger
Photo: Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY
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110 votes
Death Note
Video: YouTube
A high-school student discovers a supernatural notebook that grants its user the ability to kill.
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