imho, you shouldn't have stated Maine's death in the title, someone, who haven't seen the show might ruin expirience for himself just by browsing recommendations. Please, rename the vid into somethin like "Maine theme".
Absolutely those going psycho really shows what had a lasting impression on your life. For David it was Lucy and his mom. For Main it was David and his girlfriend.
@@pavma7 Its because Cyberpychosis is heavily implied to be a result of having PTSD while getting cyberware. Thus, those they see are those close to them.
@@shadows_star in the game there are a couple of shards you can read, you have to have psychopathic tendencies to even have the major possibility of developing Cyberpsychosis which could be a result from trauma or anything that affects your mental state. PTSD counts, which is why a lot of Cyberpsychos are ex-military. but yeah the gist of it is overtime you start identifying as a machine, and human interaction makes you angry and annoyed because you'll see humans as less than nothing (parasites, basically), which leads to you wanting to wipe them off the face of the earth. it's kind of like a neurodegenerative disease.
@@Exicide also, during the mission where you save Evelyn from the chrome traffickers there’s a shard that heavily implies cyberpsychosis can be attributed to snapping from the societal weight of Night City
@@nolanalmeida777 i found one called the truth of Cyberpsychosis in that area if you're referring to that one actually xD That's where i got a huge chunk of info on it, including the reference to James Norris' death in the beginning of edgerunners (ex-military Cyberpsycho with the Sandevistan)
i love the fact they used the black box expanding in his inner world and the call back to his flashback where he reached the end of the road. Him running even before gives so much insight into his character and his dream, being represented by him being organic and Not being able to Push as far as He wanted at the time and to strive for better, partially caused by his environment, He did do it to himself to be fair. While knowing subconsciously that he wont reach any further or on a meta-level that he will die soon. ( he knows and is ready for the fact that he will bite the dust eventually). Connecting this to a possible Event in Maines earlier life is Just perfect, connecting him to David Not just trough His naviete, but also the fact it connects to the theme of running. This very much makes him a foil and father-figure for David at the same time, showing what his dream gets you in Night City and foreshadowing Davids own march into insanity just like Maine. Running is what Maine used to do, but now He cant anymore, so David carries on in His stead. And in a quick cut they show David running further on the road that symbolically has yet to be paved.
How the fuck did we go from a 7 man team to 4 man in the space of 3 episodes? Even though we only knew Maine for like 2 hours worth of time he still had such an impact damn man this anime somthing else
Such a perfect song for the scene, made it really feel like a reaper was there for Maine, and it conveyed the feeling of helplessness that David was feeling trying to save Maine
@@SethidusVorscye Made em’ seem like a cyber reapers of sorts. With that picture in mind, kinda gives me chills picturing the static/glitchy effect he experiences.
"we are installing a tracker because it would be troublesome if you run." -i wont run. "thats what everyone says.".... so i guess in the end he proved it and didnt run . staying at marines side until he asks him to run
“Dorios dead. She didn’t make it.” Maine really was at the end of his road. Lost his mind, his loved one, and the trust of his team after snapping on Kiwi and screwing up the mission. David lost his mother and a father figure all across the course of a few months . . . Kid never got a chance to slow down and grieve, he literally kept running till he hit the end of his road.
I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners.
after that episode i fully understood why Johnny wanted to burn the entire city to the ground. The game's troubles always felt self contained, gang members, nomads, all of them always had an agency, and the cyberpsychos always felt like just mini bosses rather than mad people. But this episode genuinely makes you realise that the city has no care for how good of a person you are, it'll feed on the cycle of trauma and carnage you'll leave, maine death pushed david to be the best, and david in turn will make a legend to inspire the next generation like Doc said. A city where "everyone betrays you in the end" and the richest are always the most murderous, one that won't fix cyberpsychosis because it'd cost "too much" in research to multi billion companies. It makes me feel like the screams at the end could literally just be that of the people lost to the meat grinder, rather than demons, Maine sure as hell joined them in that fate, so did everyone good in this place.
The more I play through the game I'm starting to see Johnny is making a hell of a lot of sense, which is great writing by the devs because the characters warn you that you'll slowly become more and more like him until v and him are completely connected
@@eliaspanayi3465 i think it's very much one of the best part of the game, when Rogue says towards the very end "Do YOU want this? Or does Johnny want it ?" It's honestly impossible to tell. Maybe Johnny is common sense since he's from 2020 (like us lol), but there's virtually no way to know, and the openess of it is very good for roleplay perspective, even with a set char like V.
@@hagridsdisappointingson769There's no other way to fight the megacorps. You have to play by their rules to beat them, abandon all your morals, trust no one, stop caring about about other people. You have to become just as morally bankrupt as them. Even if you have to kill millions of innocents along the way to stop them, then so be it because if you don't they will certainly kill many, many more, directly or indirectly. Every price is worth paying to stop them.
Something a lot of people seemed to miss about Maine’s final scene. In his dream, he was able to run for miles and miles to the end of the road. But he never was able to pass it. That was the end for him. But when he saw David in his dream, he told him to run, and David ran past that road to continue on where Maine could not pass. And that’s why this scene was so beautiful.
I thought it would have been cool if in Maine's dream he helped David over a ledge of sorts and we just watched David look back at Maine knowing he couldn't get him beyond that point.
@@seandeterman2499 that’s sort of what happens, just from Maine’s perspective instead of David’s. After all, it’s Maine’s dream. David is just the one who will continue it.
love in the final episode when Maxtac is after him and its flashes back to that scene only to flash forward again to a chromed out David holding 10 guns on a Maxtac squad saying JUST FUCKING TRY
@@Tucker619 he wasn´t even screamign, he was too shocked to even scream, all you hear is his gargling being unable to scream and just capable of running after some sandevistan secs
@@Tucker619 I mean...He lost in the space of months: His Mother A friend (Pilar, an asshole he might have been, he was a friend) A Mother Figure (Dorio who was most certainly the Team Mom) And now a Father Figure (Maine) All of which he was helpless to prevent. Little wonder David definitely took some heavy hits to his Humanity. He lost people who anchored him in heartbreaking fashion.
The way Maine tells David to “Just keep running” is so heartbreaking to me. ‘Running’ was a symptom of Maine’s trauma, his deepest pain. It’s what met him as he slipped into insanity, the core of his ‘self’. To see him pass this trauma on to David after telling him he can’t do it is tragic in every sense of the word. The second he did that, I understood that David would end up just like Maine one day. It’s the curse of cyberpunk. Nobody lives long, and everyone dies bad.
Interesting interpretation. The way I saw it was that running was a past passion of Maine's and while slipping in and out of cyberpsychosis his brain was searching for something familiar from his past to try to latch on to. The corruption popping up in that precious core memory of his symbolized that he really was past the point of no return. Maine kept running in the flashback but we never saw him cross the finish line since he had reached the end of the road. That's why david kept running past the road's end, to take up and accomplish another person's dream, just like with his mom and just like with Lucy.
What is truly insane is that even while going cyberpsycho Maine was still somewhat in control of his said self, to tell David to "Run" and don't stop. It really shows what he meant to him and even when David had come back from the entire scene and made it to the car, Maine left him with all he nearly had left. His arms.
shits depressing, but makes it so beautiful, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners.
It's not a sad ending either. Maine managed to redeem himself last moment by finally stopping and facing his demons, saving David in the process. David lost it all except lucy, and after all that running he managed to save the person he cared most about in the end
the way Maine just lightly slaps David after grabbing his gun, meanwhile in the middle of going cyberpsycho just broke me man. He cares about David so much, he doesn't even appear as a glitch. Especially after having watched a mentor to me pass away, the reaction David has to it is so accurate it's almost scary. How people can't see the genius behind this is beyond me.
@@Alaryk111 It WaS tOo ShOrT nah b, it's night city that moves too fast 😢. Jokes aside, i really can't see why they should have made this story any longer.
@@alessandroventuri3194 Just to have more time with the characters, i guess. For example it’s obvious that Maine’s got his own trauma haunting him but it’s never really expanded on. Show hits really hard still, but imagine how *harder* it could hit with more time. They could’ve done two season, the first ending at Maine’s death and the second focusing on the post timeskip squad with David leading the crew.
@@alessandroventuri3194 Just to have more time with the characters, i guess. For example it’s obvious that Maine’s got his own trauma haunting him but it’s never really expanded on. Show hits really hard still, but imagine how *harder* it could hit with more time. They could’ve done two season, the first ending at Maine’s death and the second focusing on the post timeskip squad with David leading the crew.
@@aradshekarian2096 I don't think what happens in the timeskip is important or useful for this story. I also feel like they could expand on the characters but that doesn't need an entire season, maybe some special episodes or a movie.
I just love how this track goes. The funeral dirge played over mournful guitar, the slowly rising drums, the cries that sound like howling demons waiting to grab at you the moment you reach their side, slowly cutting and stuttering into nothing. It feels like the end.
That’s not even a guitar, that’s a Hurdy-Gurdy which makes this even more impressive. There’s no way to make that kind of sound with a guitar but the fact that they used a fucking Hurdy-Gurdy in a black metal song is insane in its own right.
@@iterationfackshet1990 There's both. I even mentioned the dirge over the guitar, I just didn't know they used a hurdy gurdy to play it! It's brilliant and creative stuff.
Iv watched this Show 3 times already. Having lost my mother and holding in my emotions for years without fail, This show ripped it all out. From the car crash to the very top of arasaka. Iv buried friends and walked away from my dream life all without breaking down. But for some reason this show has hit me harder than any punch.. This Show is a Fucking Masterpiece. The emotions the VAs put into these 10 episodes are more raw and soul gripping than any I Love you. Familiarity muddies the mind, leads to Ruin. Stay safe out there chooms and keep running. 👊🏼
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty guitar drop
The lyrics in the background are (in polish): Wheeere! Wheeere are you! it's like a scream challenging gods, like the Maine is desperately looking for his love...
The song also touches on Kiwi's death, and continues with the chaos that David and his team are causing chaos on the streets, it's as if someone challenging the city, looking and screaming at the megacorporations skyscraper
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty guitar drop
I loved the glitched black square in the background of his mind. It's like the reaper just opened the door or something. And I love that we don't actually get Maine's backstory but this scene in his mind still communicates all we needed to know. Way more powerful than a flashback imo.
After all he said it himself, he doesn't care about the other stories before he met them. It would be fitting that we (nor David) knows anything about his past self.
@@lawrencelord9777 I didn't realize that. I thought he was somehow visualizing the Maxtac dropship, but then again they both might as well mean the same.
@@SethidusVorscye I thought it was more symbolic for death but yeah it could be. Dude I've had "MAXTAC FREAKS JUST FUCKING TRY" stuck in my head for so long lol
Not so subtle implication he's long overdue...he must have lost a lot of friends. And yet he still befriended David, despite knowing how it has to end in NC.
I connected really deeply to Maine and David’s story. I suffered some physical and sexual abuse as a child and it’s lead me into this sort of pathological obsession with strength. I want to be so strong that no one could ever hurt me like that again. I started using steroids at 19 because of it and I know it’s taking years off my life but I can’t stand the idea of being small and weak again. Of being hurt again.
The thing about Maine and the other character's deaths is that they are all completely self inflicted. Maine really did end it himself. All he needed was to wind down the chrome and go easy on the gigs, but he just didn't stop running from him demons. No matter what you can conjure to justify why you should keep following a destructive path, in the end it'll all just lead to just that: Destruction.
this Episode made me think back to a lesson quote from an old Cartoon I watched, "Sometimes the only way to push forward is to pull back." sadly someone told me that "pulling back" is not really possible in a place like Night City, you either go all the way or you don't go anywhere.
@@rougedragonwhiteflame3990 that actually aligns very well with the main character of cyberpunk 2077, V. There is no going back or winding down so you just have to keep going.
You can't wind down that's the life. You die like all the men you killed if your weak. Maine has killed too many to wind down, he has a target the moment he winds down he can't protect himself or dorio. That's the curse of the cyberpunk, the curse of those who run on the edge. Behind you are wolfs waiting for a moment of weakness, in front is a cliff. You either become food for the wolf or bones in a pit. The show never stated it directly but David and Maine knew. They knew the whole time......
Same for me, and I didn't follow the show entirely, I just saw episode 5 and 6 and, I already wanted to cry with this theme, even if I didn't entirely know the character.
I coudlnt get past Rebecca for a week lmao. First and last time i watch anything branded as "anime". A friend asked if i was ok once, after i finished the series, i just told him to watch it too and i had to smile because i would know which episode he watched each day.
this song is over 3 minutes but feels like 60 seconds.. thats how a masterpiece it is. just like cyberpunk edgerunners itself, only 10 f episodes but leaves a giant impact.
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
The desert scene really conveys the message well, a desert isn't really the best place to be but it portrays how he ran out of places to run since he kept running from his troubles shows how he has mere hours left in his life Also the desert is like his bridge connecting to the afterlife
@@freeph78 I think it's the other way around, I think he wanted to escape the desert. He was a soldier and if he fought in the unification wars which happened about 7 years before the series, he would have been fighting in those wastelands. It's not quite a war flashback, but part of it is burned into his psyche. That endless, lifeless wasteland. But he could never get away. The best he could do was help others to try and escape.
There are a lot of ways to interpret the desert. I look at it as having escaped the crowded, claustrophobic, and sky-less Night City, but not quite making it to the finish line.
I thought the running was supposed to be maine trying to push his physical limits, but was only able to go so far before reaching a point he couldn't pass without cybernetic enhancements. When david keeps running past that point, he's basically taking the road beyond the human limit, a road leading to cyberpsychosis
I always thought the desert was supposed to convey some sort of isolation, like how everyone betrays you in night city. I think its saying something too that david was there. Like how David was one of the few people that he let get close to him.
The way he treats David the first time he meets him and the way he saves him after his first job was like his protecting his own child. The character development of this show is nuts.
What an excellent synth sound and progression, and the scene itself is better than many psych rock music videos that inspired it. David's fear and screaming against the sealed fate of MaxTac coming, to take Maine's arm with him. Maine's moment of clarity is heart wrenching. The flash between the propane tanks and wood for Dorio, that it is not the chrome which causes the cyberpsychosis. It is the desire to return to nature even though our surroundings have turned to concrete and chrome. Maine's arc is the loss of a father so close to current reality. What an impressive piece of art.
Maine is underrated. He and Dorio gave David and everyone a home, he knew faraday wasn't trustable so he moved his crew to try catch the highest bounty rewards without a fixer, and even when it was too late for him due to cyberpsichosis start kicking in, Dorio's death, trauma team coming for them and his brains almost melted for cyberpsichosis.....he still managed to tell David to escape and achieve his dreams and Lucy's
Notice the string of chords that play at 0:24 the chords of death, composers thar actually have a sense knowledge manage to implement these so well! You can hear these in horror movies, a lot of the dead by daylight killer themes, and now here, the CDproject team did their homework
Funny u should say that, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
The thing that emptied me after watching this episode was how Maine changed so much due to a single event. He went cyberpsycho and started murdering everyone,except Dorio. A sign that,even in his madness without control,he still knew who Dorio was. Then,Dorio got killed. And there,Maine snapped again. He was still violent,but now he was lucid. He knew that he was going to die alone, without the love of his life. He knew his ending was near,he knew everything. That's why he acted so calmly with David,acted like a father to him and told him to "keep running", that's why he did that last thing for Dorio. That's why he died with a "smile" and a calm face. His circle was now closed,the reason of why we were witnessing his past before his death. Maine left an unprecedented void in everyone: in David and in us fans. May his death be remembered
The “keep runnin” Maine said hit hard because Maine hit the end of the line that he couldn’t pass and then saw and told David to keep running past that line.
His death made me think of Kamina and Simon, especially because of the time skip right after. Maine also has a unique name compared to David like Kamina to Simon. Trigger just knows what works.
This song was literally perfect for the scene. Slowly descending to madness, knowing he's about to lose it, telling David to "just keep running" despite knowing that he'll end up just like him in the end. Ugh this show is beautiful. This song gives the perfect implications of death being around every corner.
The title of episode 6 rocked me all over again after I backed out at the end of it. *Girl on Fire* She tried to save him, even at the very end. They loved each other. Real love in Night City is hard to find, and harder to keep.
This serie's music was utterly insane. Not only were there original hard hitting songs made for the show, it also borrowed from Cyberpunk 2077's already amazing soundtrack.
"...what are you doing?" "The last thing I CAN do for her..." There are no happy endings in Night City, nor in Life, only stories told by the ones who keep you chasing them.
This song feels like David slowly coming to the realization that there is nothing he can do to save Maine, he is already to far gone, there isn’t anything left to save, whereas 2:40 has a sense of finality to it, almost like David just ripped away from something he holds near to him. Cyberpunk Edgerunners left me Sandevistated.
excellent description, i def have those vibes in my song! If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
If anyone was interested what the Title of this song means, it's a name of the birds Cranes, and those birds are a symbol of immortality (or to be more precise something that last long ages) in Polish literature.
I appreciate how the anime visually portray how it feels to go into cyber-psychosis. The game only depicts it as people going crazy due to their excessive Chrome uses. Glad we finally get to visually experience how their humanity and sanity is taken away bit by bit.
I like how it isn’t just “ahhh me bad now” And more so your mind slowly melting away. And how devastating it is once you finally tip over the edge, But hey. Atleast you died in a blaze of gory, or.. in a crater at the bottom of Arasaka tower.
The game actually portrays it as people going insane for unrelated reasons, just happening to have fucked up amounts of chrome. The cyberpsychoes are like, horrendously overworked and underpaid construction workers, soldiers with PTSD, stuff like that. People at the end of their ropes, who just lose it. In that sense cyberpsychosis isn't even a real diagnosis in the game, it's just what the authorities write it up as when someone goes fucking crazy due to how awful night city is.
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
You can't make me like a whole group of characters, give them dreams, hopes, personality and then kill them in the most heartbreaking .. *Inhales copium*
@@Tucker619 The really real ending is David and Lucy taking off their braindance visors. "Wow that was intense." "Almost felt real. Let's go get dinner."
@@dustinjones7458 I had a similar idea. after we found out about the scroller in his Sandy I Dreamed up a tie in to 2077, an end credits scene/DLC revealing rouge asking Judy to edit everything David had seen, make a BD so that it wasn’t just another drink on the slowly but surely growing menu at the afterlife for once, this kid did more to Saka than anyone since she and Johnny blew them up, and even while in bed with them she would respect his guts, especially since Gloria was known by a runner crew, meaning queen rouge knew about her too, so why not, have bd around for anyone that asks about him and his crew, an answer for anyone asking what being an edgerunner should strive to be, this kid almost impressed Adam smasher after all. most from humble beginnings, all of them living to the limit, pushing hard for whatever their dream is, dying even harder, but leaving behind a legacy for the next generation of dreamers, who keep the cycle going.
If anyone is interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
This episode and Maine's death will always be one of the core memories I carry with me from this show. Maine was the first big death in the show- I love Pilar but his death was more surprising than emotional. Maine though... bro you freaking FELT that.
@@Lewisl4d2 Blackgaze is a fusion genre combining elements of black metal and shoegaze. So... Everything is kinda under same umbrella somehow, u know genres and bands aren't like fixed and denied to change, doom metal has same themes than blackgaze. And a little different from "pure" black metal. Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. Don't need to be "tr00" here. Chill out, bro.
@@lumber1274 1 - A Body Shrouded - Altar of Plagues 2 - Unrequited -Deathheaven 3 - A mimesis of Purpose - Bosse-de-Nage 4 - Golden Number - Ghost Bath 5 - The Old Ones Are with Us - Wolves in the Throne Room Here some with same atmosphere, but you should look into other songs of theses bands as well. Hope I could help.😆
I watched the anime in one sitting like 4 days ago and in at least like 3 of those days including today ive watched his death scene like from the part where dorio gets shot to the point where david is back in the car, just because the imagery is amazing, emotions run strong in this scene dorio died and david is just scared because its the first time hes been told he cant do it by somone who he looked up to. its a very depressing scene
The fact that the screams fit SEAMLESSLY and PERFECTLY with the animation……… God the last 5 minutes of this episode were so perfect and heartbreaking I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it……
“You can’t do it..” The one man to tell David he couldn’t do it instead of encouraging him how he could do anything,being special,it’s heartbreaking…Yet something okay to tell David,that sometimes he just can’t do certain things or save someone despite the upgrades he gets
There's just something about this song that I can't quite describe. Idk if it's because of the production on the song, the way its laced into the show, or even both, but it hits me everytime man.
ABSOLUTE CHILLS whenever this comes on. Edgerunners was easily one of the best animated pieces of fiction released within the last decade. The music, the character development, the intensity of the scenes, the atmosphere, the gore, the romance, the comedy. It's all there. 10/10 series. Wish I could watch it for the first time again. Another thing the story does really well is mirror reality. Not everything is gonna end happy and there will always be bad times. But we must keep running. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
As odd as it may sound i feel like one thing i can pull from listening to this song is that despite everything ive gone through im still alive. Even if im torn to high hell, missing parts of my original self and still burning with fires i havent put out, im still human. Its thet humanity thats helped me mature and see that ive got a good crew around me. Ive got solid friends, a great family and a place in this world to do great things. Its my dream to own and operate a business centric around helping people. Im a car guy and a food guy so, cars and food right? Since i was a child i wanted a Junk yard and a Restaurant. Now, i want a Restaurant, Body Shop, and Tuner shop along with a lot big enough to host car meets. I want to be the one that leaves a legacy of kidnness amongst a car community so riddled eith competition and dislike. I want to be the legend of my city, hell even the nation, but one thst came from empathy. Not power hunger or brutality. One thst loved when i shouldnt have. That helped even if i was stabbed in the back. That encouraged even as i broke down. Ill get there. It may take ten years, twenty, or thirty, but itll happen. I know it will.
The thing that made me most sad about David was the fact that he was doomed to wear the cyberskeleton regardless if he followed the path his mother set out for him, or following the path he wanted to follow.
i don't even know how much courage david had to bring up to just stay by mains side and accepting his own end even while his whole body "screamed" get the hell out a here
out of all instruments that i thought i would never bawl my eyes out to... a hurdy-gurdy was the last one on my list. but here i am, ugly crying as it plays seeing Maine die and David barely having to grieve over his death.
each night he drowns alone among spark and white stains for nobody who is your lord nobody will erase overlook him, avoid, ignore Don't let in, forget Close the doors, hide The crane is coming, Approaches the crane fly far, go away open the doors, remember Let in, Show yourself The crane is coming, Approaches the crane I rather throw my words away when I pray faith is cutting my throat open I will stay like this The snow has buried me up to my thoughts translated the lyrics from polish
this episode is such a work of art. Its supposed to be the ugliest episode, maine losing it, relations between the group are breaking down, David committing crimes that he thought he never would, two beloved characters dying. Yet, at the same time, its the most beautiful one...
@@DavrelBlue I guess but at the same time it's sounds like a funeral dirge x guitar or a very mellow song that gives me a feeling that nothings left or something
Maine was a fine character. Really gave off the "he's not so bad afterall" vibe you get after you see more sensitive sides of a person you didn't particulary like at first. RIP King.
The thing that really got to me is that when Maine told David to keep running like he did he was telling him to do the exact thing he was doing his whole life almost like he knew David would eventually end up like him, there really are no happy endings in nightcity.
The entire show holds some powerful references to Akira and Bebop. The psychedelic trail of the Sandy is extremely reminiscent of Tetsuo’s psychic powers activating for the first time. The dissonant love between the Edgerunners crew parodies the feelings of the Bebop crew, knowing Spike is leaving to face Vicious. “I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive.” See you, space choom.
shits depressing....btw I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
My Cyberpunk Edgerunners AMV:
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imho, you shouldn't have stated Maine's death in the title, someone, who haven't seen the show might ruin expirience for himself just by browsing recommendations. Please, rename the vid into somethin like "Maine theme".
@@klearch7706 show is 10 episodes and been out for a while, get on it lol
@@tman6799is doesn't matter, his point still stands
@@syntheovaldy5173 nah it does matter. Glad you have your opinion though 😊
I’m glad you listened to the guy
Even when he lost it, he had a small space in his mind for David. It shows how much he cared for him.
Absolutely those going psycho really shows what had a lasting impression on your life. For David it was Lucy and his mom. For Main it was David and his girlfriend.
@@pavma7 Its because Cyberpychosis is heavily implied to be a result of having PTSD while getting cyberware. Thus, those they see are those close to them.
@@shadows_star in the game there are a couple of shards you can read, you have to have psychopathic tendencies to even have the major possibility of developing Cyberpsychosis which could be a result from trauma or anything that affects your mental state. PTSD counts, which is why a lot of Cyberpsychos are ex-military.
but yeah the gist of it is overtime you start identifying as a machine, and human interaction makes you angry and annoyed because you'll see humans as less than nothing (parasites, basically), which leads to you wanting to wipe them off the face of the earth.
it's kind of like a neurodegenerative disease.
@@Exicide also, during the mission where you save Evelyn from the chrome traffickers there’s a shard that heavily implies cyberpsychosis can be attributed to snapping from the societal weight of Night City
@@nolanalmeida777 i found one called the truth of Cyberpsychosis in that area if you're referring to that one actually xD
That's where i got a huge chunk of info on it, including the reference to James Norris' death in the beginning of edgerunners (ex-military Cyberpsycho with the Sandevistan)
"No more running for me, dog. The Reaper's finally calling my name."
i love the fact they used the black box expanding in his inner world and the call back to his flashback where he reached the end of the road. Him running even before gives so much insight into his character and his dream, being represented by him being organic and Not being able to Push as far as He wanted at the time and to strive for better, partially caused by his environment, He did do it to himself to be fair.
While knowing subconsciously that he wont reach any further or on a meta-level that he will die soon. ( he knows and is ready for the fact that he will bite the dust eventually).
Connecting this to a possible Event in Maines earlier life is Just perfect, connecting him to David Not just trough His naviete, but also the fact it connects to the theme of running.
This very much makes him a foil and father-figure for David at the same time, showing what his dream gets you in Night City and foreshadowing Davids own march into insanity just like Maine.
Running is what Maine used to do, but now He cant anymore, so David carries on in His stead.
And in a quick cut they show David running further on the road that symbolically has yet to be paved.
That line hit different;(
Dawg* he’s his homie not his pet
Imma put that on my gravestone
@@vikinged7102 lol
"you better not be romantizing your melancholic solitude!"
my mischievous ass:
Real
Fuck, I've been seen. Everybody run!
@@scylentknight6272 No more running for me, dog..
@@TheMoonman4 bruh
Thanks, now im tearing up and laughing, i dont know how to handle these feels.
How the fuck did we go from a 7 man team to 4 man in the space of 3 episodes? Even though we only knew Maine for like 2 hours worth of time he still had such an impact damn man this anime somthing else
To think this was all in 10 damn episodes dude
@@MTF-ALPHA1 yea
Eight including Falco.
It's called Edgerunners for a reason. They're constantly running on the edge between life and death, living every day like it's their last.
This whole anime honestly felt more like a one long movie. Characters even though having little screen time were very memorable.
I loved how they didn't show dorio as blown up as others did. She was resting peacefully in the funeral pile Maine made for her.
Noticed that too we got to see Maine's vision one last time
Maine is fucking mad mate what are you talking about!!!!!!!!🤬
She deserved that, and Maine gave it to her.
even if it was made out of bombs
Such a perfect song for the scene, made it really feel like a reaper was there for Maine, and it conveyed the feeling of helplessness that David was feeling trying to save Maine
@@SethidusVorscye Made em’ seem like a cyber reapers of sorts. With that picture in mind, kinda gives me chills picturing the static/glitchy effect he experiences.
"we are installing a tracker because it would be troublesome if you run."
-i wont run.
"thats what everyone says."....
so i guess in the end he proved it and didnt run . staying at marines side until he asks him to run
It sounds almost like an electronic dirge. Like an organ was swapped out, imagine this as organ music...
"Dammit... Why im shaking?!"
ugory have a very good style
“Dorios dead. She didn’t make it.” Maine really was at the end of his road. Lost his mind, his loved one, and the trust of his team after snapping on Kiwi and screwing up the mission.
David lost his mother and a father figure all across the course of a few months . . . Kid never got a chance to slow down and grieve, he literally kept running till he hit the end of his road.
Sadly...fast is what David did best
David was like the sun, you know... The tarot card, figures.
The flame that burns twice as bright burns half as long :(
live fast, die young
Plus no matter what, Maine's wondering if he has killed Dorio even before that police bullet blew her brains out.
But man that shot when he asked "is this all my fault?" was soo bloody terrifying
they did that sooo well lol, terrifying
Yeah, him staring at dorio and like ignoring the dozen or more guys he killed was wow... like without his sunglasses
“This mess my fault”
Seeing that scene for the first time had me giggling like a little school girl. So badass, and terrifying
I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners.
If “it’s over”
Was a song
Couldn't have said it better myself...
This and Early Sunsets Over Monroeville by mcr..
It really does capture the feeling
"yeah i like cyberpunk but i dont like anime"
"lemme watch this one cyberpunk anime because it ties into the game"
F*CK MY LIFE
I couldn't say that any better
after that episode i fully understood why Johnny wanted to burn the entire city to the ground. The game's troubles always felt self contained, gang members, nomads, all of them always had an agency, and the cyberpsychos always felt like just mini bosses rather than mad people.
But this episode genuinely makes you realise that the city has no care for how good of a person you are, it'll feed on the cycle of trauma and carnage you'll leave, maine death pushed david to be the best, and david in turn will make a legend to inspire the next generation like Doc said.
A city where "everyone betrays you in the end" and the richest are always the most murderous, one that won't fix cyberpsychosis because it'd cost "too much" in research to multi billion companies.
It makes me feel like the screams at the end could literally just be that of the people lost to the meat grinder, rather than demons, Maine sure as hell joined them in that fate, so did everyone good in this place.
The more I play through the game I'm starting to see Johnny is making a hell of a lot of sense, which is great writing by the devs because the characters warn you that you'll slowly become more and more like him until v and him are completely connected
@@eliaspanayi3465 i think it's very much one of the best part of the game, when Rogue says towards the very end "Do YOU want this? Or does Johnny want it ?" It's honestly impossible to tell. Maybe Johnny is common sense since he's from 2020 (like us lol), but there's virtually no way to know, and the openess of it is very good for roleplay perspective, even with a set char like V.
Johnny: * being a terrorist *
Us: "He's on to something here."
If u readed the notes left by cyberpsychos in the game, u could also see humans in them, that's why i never kill them, just knock them out
@@hagridsdisappointingson769There's no other way to fight the megacorps. You have to play by their rules to beat them, abandon all your morals, trust no one, stop caring about about other people. You have to become just as morally bankrupt as them. Even if you have to kill millions of innocents along the way to stop them, then so be it because if you don't they will certainly kill many, many more, directly or indirectly. Every price is worth paying to stop them.
Something a lot of people seemed to miss about Maine’s final scene. In his dream, he was able to run for miles and miles to the end of the road. But he never was able to pass it. That was the end for him. But when he saw David in his dream, he told him to run, and David ran past that road to continue on where Maine could not pass. And that’s why this scene was so beautiful.
I thought it would have been cool if in Maine's dream he helped David over a ledge of sorts and we just watched David look back at Maine knowing he couldn't get him beyond that point.
@@seandeterman2499 that’s sort of what happens, just from Maine’s perspective instead of David’s. After all, it’s Maine’s dream. David is just the one who will continue it.
I didn't catch this. Thank you.
Maine makes Davids dream come true and David carried on his dream. He was already living his.
No one missed that but thanks
David screaming "COME FUCKING GET US MAXTAC" while shakily holding a pistol is forever seared into my mind.
love in the final episode when Maxtac is after him and its flashes back to that scene only to flash forward again to a chromed out David holding 10 guns on a Maxtac squad saying JUST FUCKING TRY
I think the image of the trauma of losing someone he was close to again, (him screaming) is gonna be in my mind forever
@@Tucker619 he wasn´t even screamign, he was too shocked to even scream, all you hear is his gargling being unable to scream and just capable of running after some sandevistan secs
@@Tucker619 I mean...He lost in the space of months:
His Mother
A friend (Pilar, an asshole he might have been, he was a friend)
A Mother Figure (Dorio who was most certainly the Team Mom)
And now a Father Figure (Maine)
All of which he was helpless to prevent.
Little wonder David definitely took some heavy hits to his Humanity. He lost people who anchored him in heartbreaking fashion.
Juxtaposed against the scene later on when he spaces out and blasts the techie, who resembles his mom, in cold blood.
The way Maine tells David to “Just keep running” is so heartbreaking to me. ‘Running’ was a symptom of Maine’s trauma, his deepest pain. It’s what met him as he slipped into insanity, the core of his ‘self’. To see him pass this trauma on to David after telling him he can’t do it is tragic in every sense of the word. The second he did that, I understood that David would end up just like Maine one day. It’s the curse of cyberpunk. Nobody lives long, and everyone dies bad.
Sums it up perfectly
Interesting interpretation. The way I saw it was that running was a past passion of Maine's and while slipping in and out of cyberpsychosis his brain was searching for something familiar from his past to try to latch on to. The corruption popping up in that precious core memory of his symbolized that he really was past the point of no return. Maine kept running in the flashback but we never saw him cross the finish line since he had reached the end of the road. That's why david kept running past the road's end, to take up and accomplish another person's dream, just like with his mom and just like with Lucy.
They died gloriously
blaze of glory
Unless you are Adam Smasher, the god of death
What is truly insane is that even while going cyberpsycho Maine was still somewhat in control of his said self, to tell David to "Run" and don't stop. It really shows what he meant to him and even when David had come back from the entire scene and made it to the car, Maine left him with all he nearly had left. His arms.
shits depressing, but makes it so beautiful, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
@@FadedLotuss that souns very interesting but i dont wanna be depressed man ;-;
When bro sends you a "thanks for everything" at 4am
Stopppp
Dude
🤫
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners.
@@FadedLotuss Not the right comment to plug yourself, dude..... Read the room
Edgerunners really showed how there is no happy endings in night city
Never will be choom
It showed there will never be a happy ending at all
"(Happy Endings) For people like us? Wrong city, wrong people"
It's not a sad ending either. Maine managed to redeem himself last moment by finally stopping and facing his demons, saving David in the process. David lost it all except lucy, and after all that running he managed to save the person he cared most about in the end
@@Shiftinggers ohh yeah thats what I was remembering
the way Maine just lightly slaps David after grabbing his gun, meanwhile in the middle of going cyberpsycho just broke me man. He cares about David so much, he doesn't even appear as a glitch. Especially after having watched a mentor to me pass away, the reaction David has to it is so accurate it's almost scary. How people can't see the genius behind this is beyond me.
For all I see everyone is praising the series and the only complain that people have is that it was too short which is in a way a compliment.
@@Alaryk111 It WaS tOo ShOrT nah b, it's night city that moves too fast 😢. Jokes aside, i really can't see why they should have made this story any longer.
@@alessandroventuri3194 Just to have more time with the characters, i guess. For example it’s obvious that Maine’s got his own trauma haunting him but it’s never really expanded on. Show hits really hard still, but imagine how *harder* it could hit with more time. They could’ve done two season, the first ending at Maine’s death and the second focusing on the post timeskip squad with David leading the crew.
@@alessandroventuri3194 Just to have more time with the characters, i guess. For example it’s obvious that Maine’s got his own trauma haunting him but it’s never really expanded on. Show hits really hard still, but imagine how *harder* it could hit with more time. They could’ve done two season, the first ending at Maine’s death and the second focusing on the post timeskip squad with David leading the crew.
@@aradshekarian2096 I don't think what happens in the timeskip is important or useful for this story.
I also feel like they could expand on the characters but that doesn't need an entire season, maybe some special episodes or a movie.
I just love how this track goes. The funeral dirge played over mournful guitar, the slowly rising drums, the cries that sound like howling demons waiting to grab at you the moment you reach their side, slowly cutting and stuttering into nothing. It feels like the end.
Yep, that’s polish black metal for you
I like more the longer version, but I just like metal.
That’s not even a guitar, that’s a Hurdy-Gurdy which makes this even more impressive. There’s no way to make that kind of sound with a guitar but the fact that they used a fucking Hurdy-Gurdy in a black metal song is insane in its own right.
i always thought the screams were from the maxtac officers burning alive
@@iterationfackshet1990 There's both. I even mentioned the dirge over the guitar, I just didn't know they used a hurdy gurdy to play it! It's brilliant and creative stuff.
Iv watched this Show 3 times already. Having lost my mother and holding in my emotions for years without fail, This show ripped it all out. From the car crash to the very top of arasaka. Iv buried friends and walked away from my dream life all without breaking down. But for some reason this show has hit me harder than any punch.. This Show is a Fucking Masterpiece. The emotions the VAs put into these 10 episodes are more raw and soul gripping than any I Love you.
Familiarity muddies the mind, leads to Ruin. Stay safe out there chooms and keep running. 👊🏼
You’re comment made me cry man, i’m sorry for you’re loss😔🖤
So sorry for your loss. May god bless you.
Well said.
Hope ur doing better after all this dude
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty guitar drop
The lyrics in the background are (in polish):
Wheeere!
Wheeere are you!
it's like a scream challenging gods, like the Maine is desperately looking for his love...
The song also touches on Kiwi's death, and continues with the chaos that David and his team are causing chaos on the streets, it's as if someone challenging the city, looking and screaming at the megacorporations skyscraper
"Fast is what you do best, ain't it? Just keep running."
"I kept running Maine, like you told me…"
"I ran until I couldn’t feel my legs anymore…"
For anyone interested, i completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty guitar drop
I loved the glitched black square in the background of his mind. It's like the reaper just opened the door or something. And I love that we don't actually get Maine's backstory but this scene in his mind still communicates all we needed to know. Way more powerful than a flashback imo.
After all he said it himself, he doesn't care about the other stories before he met them. It would be fitting that we (nor David) knows anything about his past self.
In this crew your past doesn't matter
-maine
Dude hell yeah I took that glitchy black square to be a representation of death itself
@@lawrencelord9777 I didn't realize that. I thought he was somehow visualizing the Maxtac dropship, but then again they both might as well mean the same.
@@SethidusVorscye I thought it was more symbolic for death but yeah it could be.
Dude I've had "MAXTAC FREAKS JUST FUCKING TRY" stuck in my head for so long lol
"No more running for me, dog. The Reaper's finally calling my name." the coldest line i have ever heard in an anime
Not so subtle implication he's long overdue...he must have lost a lot of friends.
And yet he still befriended David, despite knowing how it has to end in NC.
@@dustinjones7458 The previous netrunner before Lucy and Kiwi died in front of him. Maine was mentally fucked from the start.
honestly one of the coolest lines in any tv show i've seen
dawg*
@@arunk5895 *no one fucking cares
"I'm tripping balls right now David"
-maine probably
This edible ain't shi... - Maine probably
I connected really deeply to Maine and David’s story. I suffered some physical and sexual abuse as a child and it’s lead me into this sort of pathological obsession with strength. I want to be so strong that no one could ever hurt me like that again. I started using steroids at 19 because of it and I know it’s taking years off my life but I can’t stand the idea of being small and weak again. Of being hurt again.
Sorry to hear that man, really wish you to overcome this trauma or at least being able to live without it affecting your life so much. Hang in there 🙏
nobody cares 😂
@@shitikishitiko you think you are edgy for saying nobody cares? Fuck off, go do something better with your time
@@shitikishitikoyeah we do bud
@@shitikishitiko Nobody cares about YOU, retard.
Fucking hell that profile, such a virgin.
The thing about Maine and the other character's deaths is that they are all completely self inflicted. Maine really did end it himself. All he needed was to wind down the chrome and go easy on the gigs, but he just didn't stop running from him demons. No matter what you can conjure to justify why you should keep following a destructive path, in the end it'll all just lead to just that: Destruction.
this Episode made me think back to a lesson quote from an old Cartoon I watched, "Sometimes the only way to push forward is to pull back." sadly someone told me that "pulling back" is not really possible in a place like Night City, you either go all the way or you don't go anywhere.
what is chrome?
@@Frank........... Chrome is what Cybernetic Implants are called in the Cyberpunk world!
@@rougedragonwhiteflame3990 that actually aligns very well with the main character of cyberpunk 2077, V. There is no going back or winding down so you just have to keep going.
You can't wind down that's the life. You die like all the men you killed if your weak. Maine has killed too many to wind down, he has a target the moment he winds down he can't protect himself or dorio. That's the curse of the cyberpunk, the curse of those who run on the edge.
Behind you are wolfs waiting for a moment of weakness, in front is a cliff. You either become food for the wolf or bones in a pit. The show never stated it directly but David and Maine knew. They knew the whole time......
If I had to keep just one episode of absolutely all the shows I've ever seen, it would be episode 6.
Thanks, Trigger.
W pfp
😭😭😭😭😭😭
Fax, the Animation also was soooo good
For me probably the finale of Devil Man Crybaby
@@pavma7 not episode 9? The post credit scene in that episode destroyed me.
This song looped in my head the entire day after I watched this scene.
Same and it still does
@@tjaykellam795 same ;-;
Same for me, and I didn't follow the show entirely, I just saw episode 5 and 6 and, I already wanted to cry with this theme, even if I didn't entirely know the character.
Same😢
I coudlnt get past Rebecca for a week lmao. First and last time i watch anything branded as "anime".
A friend asked if i was ok once, after i finished the series, i just told him to watch it too and i had to smile because i would know which episode he watched each day.
this anime OST needs to be on vinyl someday, every song is phenomenal
@Eclipsed Night ah yeah I'm just learning that now, really great choices of bands on the devs' part
this song is over 3 minutes but feels like 60 seconds.. thats how a masterpiece it is. just like cyberpunk edgerunners itself, only 10 f episodes but leaves a giant impact.
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
The desert scene really conveys the message well, a desert isn't really the best place to be but it portrays how he ran out of places to run since he kept running from his troubles shows how he has mere hours left in his life
Also the desert is like his bridge connecting to the afterlife
@@freeph78 I think it's the other way around, I think he wanted to escape the desert. He was a soldier and if he fought in the unification wars which happened about 7 years before the series, he would have been fighting in those wastelands. It's not quite a war flashback, but part of it is burned into his psyche. That endless, lifeless wasteland. But he could never get away. The best he could do was help others to try and escape.
There are a lot of ways to interpret the desert. I look at it as having escaped the crowded, claustrophobic, and sky-less Night City, but not quite making it to the finish line.
I thought the running was supposed to be maine trying to push his physical limits, but was only able to go so far before reaching a point he couldn't pass without cybernetic enhancements. When david keeps running past that point, he's basically taking the road beyond the human limit, a road leading to cyberpsychosis
Create mind! I like the interpretation 💯🙌🏾
I always thought the desert was supposed to convey some sort of isolation, like how everyone betrays you in night city. I think its saying something too that david was there. Like how David was one of the few people that he let get close to him.
The way he treats David the first time he meets him and the way he saves him after his first job was like his protecting his own child. The character development of this show is nuts.
His death hard hit hard in the episode
it hit hard after getting over the initial pace and shock and listening to this later😔
Literally cried
“reapers finally calling my name”
it hit hard just like his punches every time lmfao
did it hit as hard as when Adam Smasher dropped on Rebecca
“Reaper’s finally calling my name.” is such a great fucking line
After watching Edgerunners, now I can fully understand why Silverhand hates Arasaka so much
2:19 having the biggest emotional breakdown I've ever had while this guy in the background absolutely shredding it on vocals
Damn, and I thought it was Maxtacs screaming in slow-mo
I thought it was David screaming
@@prosaic.7944 You'd be correct
@@ALCauG technically not
@@prosaic.7944 I'm sure it was done purposely.
What an excellent synth sound and progression, and the scene itself is better than many psych rock music videos that inspired it. David's fear and screaming against the sealed fate of MaxTac coming, to take Maine's arm with him. Maine's moment of clarity is heart wrenching. The flash between the propane tanks and wood for Dorio, that it is not the chrome which causes the cyberpsychosis. It is the desire to return to nature even though our surroundings have turned to concrete and chrome. Maine's arc is the loss of a father so close to current reality. What an impressive piece of art.
That not synt sound that middle ages intrument hurdy gurdy .He sound this way
@@Maja_J This song was made by a polish post-punk/metal band so it's most likely a hurdy gurdy
what is chrome?
@@Frank........... In the cyberpunk world they call the cyberware implants "chrome"
@@Silasssssssss i thought ugory was black metal
Maine's death hit harder than the show's ending
Not the same vibe.
@@Dougidogg69 well yeah kinda, since Maine's deathwas emotional and the ending felt forced in a way
Agreed, episode 6 hit the hardest
@@anormalguy-t42 was more so predictable than forced but i get where youre coming from
@@Naz1Killer I mean I don’t think it was predictable I think it was properly foreshadowed
Maine is underrated. He and Dorio gave David and everyone a home, he knew faraday wasn't trustable so he moved his crew to try catch the highest bounty rewards without a fixer, and even when it was too late for him due to cyberpsichosis start kicking in, Dorio's death, trauma team coming for them and his brains almost melted for cyberpsichosis.....he still managed to tell David to escape and achieve his dreams and Lucy's
Notice the string of chords that play at 0:24 the chords of death, composers thar actually have a sense knowledge manage to implement these so well! You can hear these in horror movies, a lot of the dead by daylight killer themes, and now here, the CDproject team did their homework
Funny u should say that, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
@@FadedLotuss let's hear it
The thing that emptied me after watching this episode was how Maine changed so much due to a single event.
He went cyberpsycho and started murdering everyone,except Dorio. A sign that,even in his madness without control,he still knew who Dorio was.
Then,Dorio got killed. And there,Maine snapped again. He was still violent,but now he was lucid. He knew that he was going to die alone, without the love of his life. He knew his ending was near,he knew everything.
That's why he acted so calmly with David,acted like a father to him and told him to "keep running", that's why he did that last thing for Dorio. That's why he died with a "smile" and a calm face. His circle was now closed,the reason of why we were witnessing his past before his death.
Maine left an unprecedented void in everyone: in David and in us fans. May his death be remembered
His death really hit the Hardest
He almost killed her though, he was certainly trying to shoot her before she jabbed him.
he acted so because Dorio succeeded in giving him immunosuppressants before getting shot
The “keep runnin” Maine said hit hard because Maine hit the end of the line that he couldn’t pass and then saw and told David to keep running past that line.
crazy brooo
Is all this shit my fault?
This mess my fault? 🤪
Imagine being that trauma guy standing there looking at a borged out 8ft tall black man covered in blood
@@ab466🙃
@@imjustaquestion9922 ☠
That shot was terrifying af holly sht
His death made me think of Kamina and Simon, especially because of the time skip right after. Maine also has a unique name compared to David like Kamina to Simon. Trigger just knows what works.
Trigger made Gurren Lagaan???
@@lazerwingsynergy gainax did, but many of the animators at trigger are from gainax
@@Sejikan oh ok. That’s one of my favorite animes besides code geass
@@lazerwingsynergy nice me too
There’s actually a Kamina Easter Egg in one of the earlier episodes.
Its incredible how much emotion you can feel during a single scene for characters youve spent 6 episodes with
This song was literally perfect for the scene. Slowly descending to madness, knowing he's about to lose it, telling David to "just keep running" despite knowing that he'll end up just like him in the end. Ugh this show is beautiful. This song gives the perfect implications of death being around every corner.
The title of episode 6 rocked me all over again after I backed out at the end of it.
*Girl on Fire*
She tried to save him, even at the very end. They loved each other. Real love in Night City is hard to find, and harder to keep.
that last line of your comment could be said about ep. 6 and 10
@@naeth6250 shit, you're right. I'm gonna go cry now
This serie's music was utterly insane. Not only were there original hard hitting songs made for the show, it also borrowed from Cyberpunk 2077's already amazing soundtrack.
Not even the trauma team can save you from the feels
😭😭
"Bedsheets finally calling my name, Solo Queuing is what you do best ain't it? Just keep on grinding"
シンプルな重低音でここまで絶望感感じさせるのマジで凄い……秀逸過ぎて聞いてるだけで辛くなってくる……
As an FF7 fan I immediately liked Maine as a Barret Wallace type of guy. Pour one out for my homie.
i was convinced he was voiced by the same guy who did barrett, but I looked it up and he voiced Rude in the remake
@@jamesharrison658 he could have easily voiced Barret if he auditioned for it but I love John Bentley, he’s kickass.
correct
@@jamesharrison658WAIT REALLY??
"...what are you doing?"
"The last thing I CAN do for her..."
There are no happy endings in Night City, nor in Life, only stories told by the ones who keep you chasing them.
Wrong city, wrong people.
Night city waits for nobody. You have to keep up, or you get swept away in a body bag
“Another tale for the next dreamer”
My grandma died a few days ago, she was there for me when my parents couldn't be. For the last day all i could think about was this song.
I get you man, went through something similar 2 years ago. I loved my grandmother very much, Stay strong.
This song feels like David slowly coming to the realization that there is nothing he can do to save Maine, he is already to far gone, there isn’t anything left to save, whereas 2:40 has a sense of finality to it, almost like David just ripped away from something he holds near to him. Cyberpunk Edgerunners left me Sandevistated.
real😭
excellent description, i def have those vibes in my song! If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
The second it started play, you knew it's over for him. One of the most memorable scenes in any anime for me.
Absolutely, the whole show has to be one of the best game adaptations in media.
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
I will always remember when he gave David that empty, dead inside final look
If anyone was interested what the Title of this song means, it's a name of the birds Cranes, and those birds are a symbol of immortality (or to be more precise something that last long ages) in Polish literature.
Thank you!
I appreciate how the anime visually portray how it feels to go into cyber-psychosis.
The game only depicts it as people going crazy due to their excessive Chrome uses. Glad we finally get to visually experience how their humanity and sanity is taken away bit by bit.
I like how it isn’t just “ahhh me bad now”
And more so your mind slowly melting away.
And how devastating it is once you finally tip over the edge,
But hey. Atleast you died in a blaze of gory, or.. in a crater at the bottom of Arasaka tower.
The game actually portrays it as people going insane for unrelated reasons, just happening to have fucked up amounts of chrome. The cyberpsychoes are like, horrendously overworked and underpaid construction workers, soldiers with PTSD, stuff like that. People at the end of their ropes, who just lose it. In that sense cyberpsychosis isn't even a real diagnosis in the game, it's just what the authorities write it up as when someone goes fucking crazy due to how awful night city is.
This really the ultimate soundtrack for crashing tf out. Feel like im gonna hear this start playing when the last of my sanity evaporates.
Last of my sanity is gone, and here I am somehow, listening to this.
If your interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop. something extra and fresh if uve listened to the original alot and want something drastic and new on the song
"F A S T I S W H A T Y O U D O B E S T, A I N T I T"
J U S T K E E P R U N N I N G
You can't make me like a whole group of characters, give them dreams, hopes, personality and then kill them in the most heartbreaking ..
*Inhales copium*
Nono guys The REAL ending is that they beat up Adam smasher and then went out for ice cream I’m not crying you’re crying shut up
@@Tucker619 The really real ending is David and Lucy taking off their braindance visors.
"Wow that was intense."
"Almost felt real. Let's go get dinner."
@@dustinjones7458 I had a similar idea. after we found out about the scroller in his Sandy I Dreamed up a tie in to 2077, an end credits scene/DLC revealing rouge asking Judy to edit everything David had seen, make a BD so that it wasn’t just another drink on the slowly but surely growing menu at the afterlife for once, this kid did more to Saka than anyone since she and Johnny blew them up, and even while in bed with them she would respect his guts, especially since Gloria was known by a runner crew, meaning queen rouge knew about her too, so why not, have bd around for anyone that asks about him and his crew, an answer for anyone asking what being an edgerunner should strive to be, this kid almost impressed Adam smasher after all. most from humble beginnings, all of them living to the limit, pushing hard for whatever their dream is, dying even harder, but leaving behind a legacy for the next generation of dreamers, who keep the cycle going.
If anyone is interested, I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
This episode and Maine's death will always be one of the core memories I carry with me from this show. Maine was the first big death in the show- I love Pilar but his death was more surprising than emotional. Maine though... bro you freaking FELT that.
Probably one of the best anime characters ever created. Cyberpunk Edgerruners truly suceed my expectations. "Keep running"
I love how even when Maine was losing all his care and emotions towards his friends he found the last bit to give to David before ending it
Episode 6 made me experience something I don't think I'll ever feel again. What a masterpiece
In case someone's wondering this genre is called "doom metal". Actually is depressed AF. Fits well with Maine's last moments.
blackgaze not doom metal
@@Lewisl4d2 Blackgaze is a fusion genre combining elements of black metal and shoegaze. So... Everything is kinda under same umbrella somehow, u know genres and bands aren't like fixed and denied to change, doom metal has same themes than blackgaze. And a little different from "pure" black metal. Both the music and the lyrics are intended to evoke a sense of despair, dread, and impending doom. Don't need to be "tr00" here. Chill out, bro.
Any similar songs you reccomend?
@@lumber1274
1 - A Body Shrouded - Altar of Plagues
2 - Unrequited -Deathheaven
3 - A mimesis of Purpose - Bosse-de-Nage
4 - Golden Number - Ghost Bath
5 - The Old Ones Are with Us - Wolves in the Throne Room
Here some with same atmosphere, but you should look into other songs of theses bands as well. Hope I could help.😆
@@w0lf_step Thank you, will check them out!
Maine was straight up foreshadowing what would happen to David
I watched the anime in one sitting like 4 days ago and in at least like 3 of those days including today ive watched his death scene like from the part where dorio gets shot to the point where david is back in the car, just because the imagery is amazing, emotions run strong in this scene dorio died and david is just scared because its the first time hes been told he cant do it by somone who he looked up to. its a very depressing scene
"Club penguin is kill"
"No"
Phone ring...
The fact that the screams fit SEAMLESSLY and PERFECTLY with the animation………
God the last 5 minutes of this episode were so perfect and heartbreaking I’ve lost count of how many times I’ve watched it……
"David.... you can't do it". Excuse me while I go cry for a character I knew for only 3 episodes
When Maine told David to 'Keep Running'. I can't be the only one think of the moment when Johnny Silverhand told V to 'Never Stop Fighting' right ?
It's weird I can play back the whole show based on the soundtrack I love the music of cyberpunk they better have new songs in the expansion
Both HoS and B&W had fantastic osts accompanying them so I don't doubt CDPR will do the same for Phantom Liberty.
there will be a new radio station with Sasha Grey as the DJ
“You can’t do it..”
The one man to tell David he couldn’t do it instead of encouraging him how he could do anything,being special,it’s heartbreaking…Yet something okay to tell David,that sometimes he just can’t do certain things or save someone despite the upgrades he gets
There's just something about this song that I can't quite describe. Idk if it's because of the production on the song, the way its laced into the show, or even both, but it hits me everytime man.
ABSOLUTE CHILLS whenever this comes on. Edgerunners was easily one of the best animated pieces of fiction released within the last decade. The music, the character development, the intensity of the scenes, the atmosphere, the gore, the romance, the comedy. It's all there. 10/10 series. Wish I could watch it for the first time again. Another thing the story does really well is mirror reality. Not everything is gonna end happy and there will always be bad times. But we must keep running. Almost brings a tear to my eye.
"We have a test today?"
As odd as it may sound i feel like one thing i can pull from listening to this song is that despite everything ive gone through im still alive. Even if im torn to high hell, missing parts of my original self and still burning with fires i havent put out, im still human. Its thet humanity thats helped me mature and see that ive got a good crew around me. Ive got solid friends, a great family and a place in this world to do great things. Its my dream to own and operate a business centric around helping people. Im a car guy and a food guy so, cars and food right? Since i was a child i wanted a Junk yard and a Restaurant. Now, i want a Restaurant, Body Shop, and Tuner shop along with a lot big enough to host car meets. I want to be the one that leaves a legacy of kidnness amongst a car community so riddled eith competition and dislike. I want to be the legend of my city, hell even the nation, but one thst came from empathy. Not power hunger or brutality. One thst loved when i shouldnt have. That helped even if i was stabbed in the back. That encouraged even as i broke down. Ill get there. It may take ten years, twenty, or thirty, but itll happen. I know it will.
The duality of Maine refusing David's help, while the singer is screaming 'help me' at the top of his lungs is really something.
Wait is he saying it in like another language I don’t hear it?
@@jayhassan976it’s in polish
As a black metal enjoyer, it is great to see a BM song used for soundtrack. And what a great use, what a great scene.
The thing that made me most sad about David was the fact that he was doomed to wear the cyberskeleton regardless if he followed the path his mother set out for him, or following the path he wanted to follow.
i don't even know how much courage david had to bring up to just stay by mains side and accepting his own end even while his whole body "screamed" get the hell out a here
*"Just keep running."*
_"Never stop fighting"_
I don't think I can describe the feeling this song gives me...
out of all instruments that i thought i would never bawl my eyes out to... a hurdy-gurdy was the last one on my list. but here i am, ugly crying as it plays seeing Maine die and David barely having to grieve over his death.
each night he drowns alone
among spark and white stains
for nobody who is your lord
nobody will erase
overlook him, avoid, ignore
Don't let in, forget
Close the doors, hide
The crane is coming, Approaches the crane
fly far, go away
open the doors, remember
Let in, Show yourself
The crane is coming, Approaches the crane
I rather throw my words away
when I pray
faith is cutting my throat open
I will stay like this
The snow has buried me up to my thoughts
translated the lyrics from polish
I know its not your first time here, welcome back, and just keep running
this episode is such a work of art. Its supposed to be the ugliest episode, maine losing it, relations between the group are breaking down, David committing crimes that he thought he never would, two beloved characters dying. Yet, at the same time, its the most beautiful one...
He was the best mentor a kid could ask for. Rest in power, Maine.
its been 4 months.....the pain of it will stay like a scar for life
Let's all thank Akira Yamaoka for truly making this scene, this moment wouldn't have hit half as hard without his iconic brand of emotion
IS Akira yamaoka ?????!
Silent Hill for ever.
AKIRA YAMAOKA??? HE DID THIS? i think i can actually hear his style now that you mention it!
Yeah !:0
@@LutherTaylor yeah!!! Almost had a heart attack when I saw his name in the credits lmao
This is a track from the game, I don't think this one is by Yamaoka.
"This is it, this is the end of the line for me. But not for you. Fast is what you do best ain't it? Just keep running."
i need more music like this,
i absolutly love this song
Who knows any?
@@youcantfindjona I was thinking about it and I would say it kinda sounds like black metal.
@@DavrelBlue I guess but at the same time it's sounds like a funeral dirge x guitar or a very mellow song that gives me a feeling that nothings left or something
its called sludge metal think
@@youcantfindjona try Midnight Odyssey, Mgla, Gris and Mesarthim
Maine was a fine character. Really gave off the "he's not so bad afterall" vibe you get after you see more sensitive sides of a person you didn't particulary like at first. RIP King.
I watched this shit in one day and I was devastated. I will NEVER forget that day.
Same...
The thing that really got to me is that when Maine told David to keep running like he did he was telling him to do the exact thing he was doing his whole life almost like he knew David would eventually end up like him, there really are no happy endings in nightcity.
I always felt like Maine’s episode felt like an homage to AKIRA or Cowboy Bebop. It just has that vibe.
"You're gonna carry that weight..."
The entire show holds some powerful references to Akira and Bebop. The psychedelic trail of the Sandy is extremely reminiscent of Tetsuo’s psychic powers activating for the first time. The dissonant love between the Edgerunners crew parodies the feelings of the Bebop crew, knowing Spike is leaving to face Vicious.
“I’m not going there to die. I’m going to find out if I’m really alive.”
See you, space choom.
the whole show you mean?
@@wonkybiscuit2760 it also kind of reminded me of the Pierrot Le Fou episode with how trippy it was and how cyberpsychosis was handled in the show.
This is the end of the line for me, but not for you. Just keep running. Fast is what you do best, ain't it?
shits depressing....btw I completley remade this song (maine death song) from scratch on my channel, to be in my opinion much more depressing. I think anyone who liked the original song, will like this version even better, I put alot of time and effort into it, for one of the best songs in edgerunners, made it have a sick gritty melancholic guitar drop
It's incredible how such a simple sounding song can have so much emotional weight