Synopsis of TekkonKinkreet
Two brothers, thirteen year old Black (Kuro) and almost eleven year old White (Shiro) are two derelict children called “stray cats” in the city of Takaramachi or Treasure Town. The city serves as their backyard and they scramble, fight, play, explore, and conquer the town that Black calls “my city” (115). Everything seems to be fairly pleasant until a prominent yakuza gangster, Suzuki “The Rat”, comes back into the city limits and a threatening character enters the story – a foreigner known by Snake. Snake wishes to build an amusement park using the yakuza’s territory of Treasure Town rendering the boys subject to “extermination” (352). White suffers a severe injury and is whisked away by the police for his own protection, which his brother, unbeknownst to White, cruelly agrees and pushes him into their care. Black, believing himself to the ultimate guardian of White, then realizes that his own darkness, personified by the Minotaur, wishes to overtake his identity, promising power and truth in exchange for forsaking the belief in the powers and truths White offers. Black rejects The Minotaur’s proposal and is reunited with White.
