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

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.

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

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

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.

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)

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”

Your mind literally starts to fade away, starts out simple, you get distracted, you start forgetting, then.. you don’t even know who you are anymore. Just a mess of chrome.

@@Tucker619 Sounds like early onset dementia 😨

it also kind of relates to V's story losing his own mind because of an implant

@@Main-Villain it really is, but the fact that it is self inflicted, not only by putting all of that chrome but also by forgetting that you can talk to other people, that you can slow down, that you can simply stop, i think it is one of the most tragic things that has been created in Media.

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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.

@@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

"I kept running Maine, like you told me…" "I ran until I couldn’t feel my legs anymore…"

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

Couldn't have said it better myself...

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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😢

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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......

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

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

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.

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

@@kubapuchiianormalguy9607 was more so predictable than forced but i get where youre coming from

@@Messy3264 I mean I don’t think it was predictable I think it was properly foreshadowed

@@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.

Nah seriously i grew up a little bit similarly and i almost cried for the first time in a long time watching that episode.

😭😭

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

@Eclipsed Night ah yeah I'm just learning that now, really great choices of bands on the devs' part

Thank you!

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??

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

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”

Trigger made Gurren Lagaan???

@@lazerwingsynergy gainax did, but many of the animators at trigger are from gainax

@@SageOfTyme 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.

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!

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.

Wait is he saying it in like another language I don’t hear it?

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

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.

J U S T K E E P R U N N I N G

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

Same...

fr

Real

"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.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

At first I thought it was slurred screams max tac

W

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.

Who knows any?

@@jnlovesfraud 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

@@jnlovesfraud try Midnight Odyssey, Mgla, Gris and Mesarthim