The Akira inspired jersey by FOKOHAELA

Think about the led Tokyo lights, Shunsuke Nakamura's freekicks, the manga's warm sunsets and the Hidetoshi Nakata's haircut. Now put all these Nippon vibes and concentrate them in a football jersey. Nothing that you thought about will match last FOKOHAELA's creation: the Kaneda Frozen Flames football shirt designed by Losdejos, aka Jason Lee.

The main inspiration for the shirt was the notorious manga Akira, that recently was linked to Supreme. The graphics and the badges are inspired by the bike of Shotaro Kaneda, Akira's protagonist and boss of a biker gang called Capsule. The whole jersey resumes the cyberpunk atmosphere of the Manga with a cold and metallic aesthetic that is now partly associate with vaporwave movement. A stunning detail is the "cogito ergo sum" on the back of the neck, a reference to René Descartes philosophy touched in Akira's movie (shoot by Katsuhiro Ōtomo in 1988).

The rest of the inspiration is the old Japan National's team jerseys. The most known sponsorships are switched with wise anagrams (SONY becomes NOYS) and the crest is redesigned with a mash-up between a smiley face and with the Land of the Rising Sun. Other references to Japanese culture are on the shirt: the Araki sponsorship refers to the photographer Nobuyoshi Araki.