Talk:Tekkonkinkreet

Plot?
"White holds a match to his face. Then it burns him and he fades out." That's not really a plot. At all. Can someone fix this? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.202.251.171 (talk) 03:52, 6 September 2009 (UTC)

If someone could perhaps elaborate better on the plot (Some older revisions make absolutely no sense and look like a 5 year old tried to write the plot out.) that would be really great. If not I guess I will try too. (User:Dobat The Hobbat.) 12:47, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

Who is the voice of Sawada? it sounds a lot like Tom Kenny, the video ended before the English cast members came up. (173.18.28.177 (talk) 18:42, 20 November 2010 (UTC)).

The article seems short. If it won awards for best film, I would expect the article to discuss those things about it that are remarkable enough for it to win, e.g., animation technique/technology, themes, has it been influential, the world it creates, cultural notes. 65.200.157.177 (talk) 19:48, 8 February 2011 (UTC)

Manga Impact
Manga Impact: The World of Japanese Animation, 6 December 2010, ISBN 978-0714857411; pg 137:

Kuro and Shiro (Black and White) are two street urchins at the centre of the 2006 feature film Tekkonkinkreet by Michael Arias, the first non-Japanese director to make a major-budget anime feature film. Based on the manga Black and White by Matsumoto Taiyo, the two wayward street kids are feared by their contemporaries and adversaries of the local yakuza. Calling themselves the 'Cats' of their home town, Treasure City, they are the perfect emblems of a new generation of hero. Soot-covered factories on the skyline, uncultivated land, deserted playing fields and alleys filled with rubbish give a peripheral idea of their world, an abandoned place where social rules have been reinvented. In this new order, Shiro (small and cheerful) and Kuro (introverted and belligerent) are the guardians against Snake, an unscrupulous businessman, and his grandiose plans to transform Treasure City into an amusement park. A postmodern film in concept and style, Tekkonkinkreet is a high-quality work that somehow fails to reach the heights expected of it. Arias' vision of the city and the underworld is fascinating, and the combination of different animation techniques shows the complexity of the main characters' inner world, but a leaden, dialogue-heavy script falls short of Matsumoto's original story. C.C. [Carlo Chatrian]

--Gwern (contribs) 19:49 23 December 2011 (GMT)

Name Change
Would it be too much to change the main characters' names to Kuro and Shiro? The rest of the cast has Japanese names so I feel like unless they're called ブラック(Buraaku) or ホワイト(Howaito) in the original film, their names should Kuro and Shiro like they are called under the IMDB listing. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0831888/

--1Q84 (talk) 20:10, 28 February 2012 (UTC)

City Kids
Hey, this anime is sampled in this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zhejtmxyesc

Dunno if that's worth mentioning. It's how I ended up here. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.42.71.28 (talk) 21:56, 22 April 2012 (UTC)