hyperknetic animation help along a sometimes too sprawling narrative of homeless street kid white and black who leap from building to building in the neon street of treasure town . treasure town look like an abandon psychedelic amusement park that be over run with urban sprawl ( which be pretty much the center theme of the film and the lose of balance and lose of innocence and illustrate through the symbolically name white and black ) . actually almost all of the character have name reflect some kind of duality and choco and vanilla and dusk and dawn etc . black be the muscle and somber and always ready to fight to defend his town while white be the more innocent and slightly brain damage young of the two who can not dress himself but can leap from the back of move car and like la parkour runner bite by radioactive spider . chinese monkey can ride clouds white state at the beginning of the film and reference certain aspect of china mythic journey to the west and before they begin their matrix leap or glide across the city . the first ten minute of which and be the best moment in the movie ( and no it be never explain how they can fly and leap and fight a they do and so much so it easy to forget how vulnerable a child they be and which be use to get effect ) . the trouble come when there too many yakuza character give too much back story and too much over inflated psychodrama with black attempt to rid himself of his solitary monster like minetaur persona ( this time a greek myth of the bull monster lock in the labyrinth ) and and not enough explanation of who the mysterious villain be and who be his henchman referee to a both kill machine and alien more than once and and what if any connection do he have to re develop the town and kill the kid and his mission from god and and the mysterious organization who lend him the monster . that be say and i be emotionally absorb into the film enough by that point and and satisfy with the unique fluidity and vividness of the color palette and to ignore the weak point of plot and til the movie be over . enjoyable and unique anime and but like so many it reach for seriousness and when whimsy would be a good fit .