The look in Maine's eyes as he says his last words to David makes the scene so much more haunting than it already is. The purity of knowing what comes next and telling the kid to live, shivers down the spine.
2:53 The last thing Maine sees in his psychosis is himself unable to cross the road. But seeing David sprint past it. Maine knows and accepts it’s the end of the line for himself. But he sees David has miles left to go.
david still has miles left to go, but if you skip forward just a couple frames you can also just barely see that david's road also comes to an end, foreshadowing his death.
He could not run any further, cross the line. Yet David is already in the distance. At the time I thought this ment David would not suffer the same fate.
I just realized that David didn't have a father, but then Maine was like a father to him. And then episode 6, which had a huge impact on David. I think this is one of the main reasons why everything ended the way it ended. David couldn't stop, he couldn't stop chroming himself, he couldn't stop working as a merk. He had to keep running.
Yes but David manages to accomplish what Maine could not in the end. While Maines ambition got Doiro killed David was still able to save Lucy in the end before his end.
Maine taught David to drive a car (even let him crash his car), gave him his first gun, and set him up with Lucy. One may argue about what kind of influence he was, but Maine wasn't just like a father - he was David's father.
I noticed when Maine was running. He never crossed the finish line. He was puffing and huffing and still capable of doing a little more. I think that was like foreshadowing his demise. The stories goes on but main has to be left behind.
Your comment made me rewatch it slowly, and I noticed that David was in that landscape running off the track away from Maine standing at the end of it.
It's not about crossing the finish line - it's the end of the road, literally. There's nothing in front of him. He reached the end. Sure, he could take a few steps forward, fight a bit longer, but it wouldn't change anything. The road is still at it's end. It's over.
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners episode 6 was amongst the best episodes i have seen in my entire life. The amount of love and passion that was put into this show can be clearly seen here.
@@LesioJunior1 it worked did it not? Also it's an amazing animation, studio TRIGGER did a fantastic job per usual. I really enjoyed the story but some might not.
I laughed so hard at that, before the shock set in and the soundtrack started to get in my brain. Just the absurdity of it. The smile, the neck snap, it was all great.😂
that shot of David at the end is one of the most iconic parts of the series for me. he's not even screaming. hes going through SO much pain, exertion, and grief. he's probably pushing the sandy harder than he ever has before, while abandoning his mentor to die alone. it goes beyond a scream. his body is contorting in agony. the only thing keeping him from dislocating his own jaw was the fact that he was out of time. he had to move. grab the arms and get out. i genuinely think Edgerunners was a masterpiece of anime. one of the greats, of all time.
It seems the Sandevistan activates automatically when it senses an impending doom and mortal danger, it activated and made David see his mentor one last time, since it was too late, the explosion was already happening There was nothing he could do at that moment, only to scream in pain and sadness For once again, he lost his family
Best character sadly we don’t see a lot of his back story but the moment we see when his young self on that empty road is very beautiful and interesting to watch. I love it
@@kristopherhayes486 No not that at all. Maine's group had another netrunner besides Lucy before she joined, definitely worth the watch as its like a couple minute intro
honestly my favorite part of this scene is David's clear fear of facing Maxtech. The memories of the BD he experienced of dying to Maxtech are steal fresh in his head and his body is clearly screaming at him to run for the hills so much that he is literally yelling for his hands to stop shaking.
Such a soul breaking but beautiful scene that few shows could ever portray, let alone animate. This show is without a doubt one of the best shows to come out within the past decade.
It's a pretty simple story you know? Don't get me wrong, I liked it a lot but I feel that much more potential was lost. They had everything to truly be one of the best animated series that have ever existed, but everything took place very quickly in a single season.
@@diegov3566 simple story doesn't mean it's bad. You see so many shows these days with what appears to be a great and unique story only to completely fail the execution. This isn't just another simple story, it's a simple story that's executed perfectly. Managing to completely incapacitate the audience's feelings. Personally I'd rather have a simple yet great story. Than something that's unique but without any substance.
@@diegov3566 simple stories are often the best, look at the two best tv shows out there: Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. They are very simple stories that are elevated by the writing, characters and acting. It’s the same for this.
how david got the arm, think it just clicked... David literally didn't give up on Maine. He ignored his wish and pulled his arm so hard he strained in rage at what little he could do. And all that was left when he was pulling and running, was the single arm he never quit on. Even when he could not win.
@@keorei Could be both as well...Once he saw Maine essentially get blasted into kibble he just kept running, note how when the camera pans from Young!Maine across the desert, we see David Stumbling? That's likely Maine's weight suddenly becoming no longer a factor and David maintaining pace.
2:03 Maine wasnt psycho anymore, that´s why his words hit even harder. He knows he cant live with himself after what the drugs made him do, so he´s passing the torch to David (also his hands, we see them after she clashes with the van lucy´s waiting him in, its pretty poetic) Maine also passes his wish to David, "keep running", his whole theme and the source of his need to become stronger. The way Maine´s envy develop is perfect for me, i think his rather fast (pun intended) jealousy starts with Maine losing the sandevista for David´s sake since the deal with David´s mom went wrong. The cyberpsychosis amplifies this behaviour, expanding his dream of running and the resentment he feels. At the end he´s grateful and proud of how much David has developed.
Nah, he's still psycho. It's just cyberpsychosis doesn't just turn you into a rage monster. Other forms of cyberpsychosis consist of losing emotional responsiveness and becoming a robot, compulsive desire to steal things, etc. In Maine's case, his psychosis involved delusions/hallucinations, and spouts of uncontrollable rage. In this scene, Maine calms down around David because part of his brain still registers and remembers David as a friend.
@@LightAndDarkMdness02 David seems to develop a similar case, by the end he could only stay lucid when near Lucy and even then we aren't sure to what extent. He does appear to become more cognisant after Adam Smasher rips off his cybernetics.
@@octopus8659 that statement was both terrifying to to the soldiers coming in. And depressing to the audience. Dude is wearing the blood of his lover. His mission has failed. And it's like he single handedly ruined everything. So when he says is this my fault?. It's like self destruction. He resigns himself to crash out. Cause he can't face what he's done. Or what he is becoming.
Can we talk about the very subtle change in expression at 1:16? This may seem like a simple shift in lines artistically, but it brings a whole lot of meaning at how Maine realizes David would stand by him despite having told him to trust no one. And it brings him to tears at how at least there was someone who had good in them after all. I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I love how such tiny twitches or micro expressions can explain a lot. Edit: My first 1K likes!! Can't believe I get to type this!! You guys are so cool!! 😄😄😄
I think it's also partly that despite Maine possibly knowing he's gone completely psycho, David still stands by him. Still has hope, still refuses to give up. In that moment of David saying he would 'stay' and help, Main may have realized that because of him, in this one moment, David stopped running because of him.
2:13 For me, Maine's death was the most saddest event in the show, I was hung up over it. Think about what a great man he is, man got his sandevistan implant stolen by a punk, but he never kills him (god knows how hard it is to get a military grade implant). Then proceed to take him in/recruit him and teach him the ways of being cyberpunk. And then slowly, he realized that all the suppressants are slowly driving him insane aka. cyberpsycho. His woman, Dorio died infront of him, from trying to stop him. Lastly, we catch a glimpse of what Maine was like when he was young. He was like David. He was running in a desert with nothing in sight. He was running but there was no end goal in sight. He huffed and kept running but stopped because there was truly no meaning for doing what he did. Which portrayed him well as he was always pushing himself because he thinks he was going to be special, but in the end, he was just like the rest. Which really foreshadowed what was about to come next. (David's death) He lost his life, his love ones, his wealth, everything from installing too much cybernetics and implants. No matter what he did, there was no happy ending from being a cyberpunk in night city. Wrong story, wrong city. Probably not related, but Maine sounds a lot like Maiet Entertainment, it's a video game company that created Gunz the duel and I loved that company, it's a lot like Maine when you compare with both entity(both grow to its peak and slowly self-destructed on its own). When Maiet shut down, it was the same feeling I felt when Maine died.
Hell, the medicine being taken in more doses than he SHOULD have been doing is basically the moment you realize 'Oh shit he is going to either lose it or fucking OD!'
the board game and the videogame also tells that the people that survives are the real winners and the ones who left the city also are the real winners, everyone else gonna get the city as their graveyard, and the city does not gonna stop putting people in a coffin.
I think the music in this scene gets overlooked, it's so haunting and slow and just perfect and Cyberpunk in general had so many songs that were just amazing and were used perfectly that even now going back to listen to certain songs that played behind emotional moments in the game make me teary eyed, and I am sure if I went and replayed cyberpunk a year from now if I heard this song in game the only thing that would be running through my mind is Maine and that lonesome empty dirt road.
2:36 fucking hell, the raw emotion in this shot is just unreal. I love how they chose to have David speechless as his whole world falls apart before him. He's experiencing so much pain in that moment that he can't even begin to funnel it into words.
I'd argue that the single tear in the car driving away contains even more emotion, to the point where he can't even express it, no one would be able to, yet a single tear manages to sneak by
I love the entirety of this scene. This is the second time David witnesses a parental figure die, and he STILL can’t do anything to save them. Despite everything he’s gone through, it still isn’t enough. Moving onto Maine, the “you can’t do it” bit hurts so much when you think of the context of this episode. Whether intentional or not, Maine’s words just callback to earlier in the episode when Lucy told David to tell her she can do it. If Maine gave the word, David would’ve stayed and died. But Maine’s words hold a different meaning compared to David’s. When Maine tells David he can’t do it, it’s not only because David physically wouldn’t be able to handle it, but also because David has a responsibility to Lucy and Maine has a responsibility to both of them. Maine is a sacrifice and he has to be for his people, for his family. The only way to ensure his people’s survival is if he doesn’t.
Lucid isn't the same as not being crazy. Maine was still hallucinating, and even if he knew that what he was seeing wasn't real, it isn't the same as being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Even if he'd left with David, sooner or later his insanity would end up hurting someone else he cared for, and he could not let that happen.
The thing is, Maine absolutely could have gotten better. He could have chromed down and gotten actual therapy, both with drugs and psychological. Its something we know happens because Max-Tac exists, and is staffed with previous cyberpsychos that were actually captured, but the system would rather treat cyberpsychosis as a end point of a disease that cannot be recovered from, than to address the idea that the cyberware is just exacerbating peoples existing traumas and damages until they "go psycho". easier to just write them off as a lost cause and have max-tac clean them up than to actually solve the underlying issues that cause people to go psycho. Its so prevalent a reaction that the normal inhabitants of the city assume that cyberpsycosis is as good as a death sentence, and a violent one at that.
@@UrzaWeatherlight The problem is, even if he chromed down and gotten therapy... could he actually have lived with himself? He'd still have killed someone he loved, as well as multiple inncoent people whose only crime was doing their job as members of Trauma Team. And chroming down and getting therapy is a lengthy process. Who is to say that his cyberpsychosis might not kick into high gear again before he could get the help he needs? He literally almost killed David the moment he entered the room, and that was *after* entering lucidity. And there's the dollar value involved: Even assuming that he could maintain control and lucidity long enough to get the help he needed... who was gonna pay for it? The removal of the cyberware, the aftercare needed to recover from it, and the therapy needed to get him back to sanity? All of that costs money, money that the crew likely could never get, and Maine would never ask his crew to work themselves near to death trying to get it. And there is one of those "reformed" Max-Tac officers you can speak with in 2077. They're still basically cyberpsychos, with the one you speak with making it clear that she deeply loves killing people with her mantis blades, to the point that she won't switch them out with a newer model, despite having a flaw that was literally responsible for their cyberpsychosis in the first place.
@@FirstLast-cg2nk that's not even getting to the point of 'If you're not some Corpo big wig, you will never be able to afford even a piss poor therapist that still has a LEGIT accredation, let alone anyone all that skilled at therapy' thing...Sure Chroming down is expensive but DOABLE (price isn't even that steep compared to Therapy) Also Maine only killed Dorio in being in the situation he was in to begin with. If he had his right mind, she wouldn't have caught that bullet from NCPD to the head...
@@pachasnft9954 Its not about if he pulled the trigger that actually kiled Dorio. More about that because he went Psycho and lose his sanity Dorio tried to pull him back and that what got her killed, In short not actually HIS fault but if he wouldn't have hallucinations Dorio would not need to pull him back and instead she could focus on actually being in the gunfire
Don't forget, this is *the* reason why David dies at the end. The trauma of this gig gone wrong, of not being strong enough, and falsely relating that to the fact that he wasn't more chromed up.
There are plenty of reasons for that. If Lucy hadn't fucked up on purpose, David could have lived well enough, but either night city would get him, or arasaka would. If david had never met lucy, he would have just ran out of eddies, and found himself just another choom out on the streets, with nothing to his name, till arasaka or miltech came for his resistance to cibernetics. If he hadn't chromed up he would have probably died in one of his gigs, or he wouldn't have gotten said gigs in the first place. If he just sold the Sandy, then he would have straight up lost everything. Make no mistake. There are plenty of reasons for why david died. But in the end they don't matter. Its night city. There are no happy endings in night city. There was never a chance in hell this story was gonna have a semblance of a happy ending. You either die a choom that no one will remember, or you die in a blaze of glory so bright your name will never fade away.
@@Loispealz34 I don't think it would be fair to put the blame on Lucy, yeah I'm sure if she had joined back into the crew she could've convinced him to ease on the chrome, but she had her reason as to protect David from Arasaka lowkey, sure she could've told him that he was being sought after but that probably would've just worked up David into wanting to fight Arasaka head on
@@misaamane9914 lucy purposely killed tanaka and blew up the jammer keeping ncpd and trauma team from honing in on tanaka's signal. She did this to protect David, who was a target for arasaka experimentation. This ended up killing both Maine and Dorio.
Id say its less of this episode and more of how nightcity is in general. Everyone unless your some corporate high end official everyone faces the same fate at some point.
In the dream, Maine could never make it past the end of that road. When he told David to run, he wanted him to cross where he had never been able to go, to keep running. That’s why this scene is so beautiful. Maine is transferring his dream to David and in his final moments, seeing him surpass it.
The look in Maines eyes at 2:18 really gets me. He's gone, he's completely lost touch with reality, it's almost as if he doesn't even see David, he's looking right through him. Must be the scariest thing in the world for your own mind to start deceiving you. Maine felt like at this point, he couldn't keep running, what's the point if you can't even tell where you're running to, or from? Saddest part is, he might not have been completely at a loss, he's clearly able to give his final words to David in a calm collected manner, but he was already designated as a cyberpsycho by Maxtac, who would either have killed him themselves or imprisoned him for life. He took the only other option he saw.
@@hanssanjuanino3169 pues cada quien puede decir lo que quiera, en mi caso no la primera vez que veo una serie cyberpunk, y todas me han encantado demasiado, lo unico que me jode es que literalmente acabo como las otras que ví y más o menos tuvieron la misma trayectoria. Pero lo que más adoro son las referencias al juego es decir sabes todos las personas que se volvieron leyendas en el juego( básicamente consiste en hacer algo grande y morir, porque no existen leyendas vivientes), tiene su propia bebida y que por lo visto el David Martínez es una, es algo que llena al mundo de cyberpunk 2077. Yo no creo que para que algo sea una obra mestra tiene que ser perfecto,algunos pueden ver la belleza en las cosas imperfectas. La razón principal de que sea para mí es por una frase que he escuchado de alguien desde hace mucho tiempo "camino antes que destino". Suelo pensar el final de algo no tiene sentido por algunas cosas que hizo mal, como por ejemplo no contar las historias de Maine (que me parece bastante interesante), y otra cosa que no entendía por David estaba tan afanado con cumplir el sueño de su madre, y Maine (no se cual era el sueño de Maine, porque no me pareció que lo explicarán ),pero pensadolo me di cuenta no es cuestión de que no sea tu sueño simplemente las personas son complejas. Y bueno también con las pocas series cyberpunk , acabaron de la misma manera y pues me jode bastante, pero cuando alguien da su vida para darle un futuro a alguien me parece la cosa más extraña pero pero supongo qué el camino que recorriste es lo que te llevo ahí.
In my 33 years I haven’t cried this hard for a fictional character this anime has change my life how ??? I don’t know… but the fact that this episode made me feel genuinely sad for a person that doesn’t exist is an accomplishment to studio trigger unique storytelling.
The basic story and characters were created by the Polish side, it was a team effort and not just studio Trigger. I'm not taking away anything from Trigger but it's unfair to only mention them when there was the other team that contributed a lot to it.
1:15 when David is telling Maine that they'll get through this together it looks like Maine is listening, but when David says "and then . . .and then" Maine's eyes shift back to the realization that there is no "then". He's already at the end.
I can't believe how no one talks about Maine being so calm in 0:23 he also has the look lost, he's in pain and at the same time already accepted his fate, his end. He just lost Dorio and still managed to honor her in his last sane moments, Maine will always be in my heart as one of the most human characters.
The small detail. The eyes of his were originally blue at the own start of his group but after the death of Sasha and everything other bad things, his eyes started to become grey. And right at his death, his eyes just became fully grey, he knew that his dream of becoming stronger, going further is now absolutely destroyed.
The whole first episode and the slow degeneration of the team hits so hard. His mother's death brought him to the edge but, Maine's death made him jump.
This scene, or rather the entire episode in general, is one of the most powerful and well crafted ones I've seen in all of anime in years. Put me straight back to when I first started watching anime, many years ago. Thanks Trigger, for putting together the coolest adaptation for a game.
0:55 The voice actor of david is soooo damn good, you can feel in david voice that he is suppressing his fear and sorrow of losing meine and desperately clinging to his wishful thinking
Hurts more the second time after you really appreciate not only the pure effort that went into every frame of this anime but the sound track on top of that.
didn't really notice the shot at 2:52 on my first watch. maine is at the end of his road and david is running away, but he's also running forward, carrying maine's dream forward with him. the only way he could bring himself to escape was by pushing forward with everything he had, and never stopping from this point until the end.
Still can't believe how good this fucking anime was. I'm a massive fan of the game and I wasn't hyped for this shit at all, expected trash. Boy was I wrong
@1:44 Maine says “you can’t do it YET” but the sub doesn’t include the “yet” part. That’s sad coz it shows that Maine believes David can be a great edge runner who can even fight against MaxTac one day. Great script.
The music is what really fucked me up during this whole scene. It's very much a haunting, "How long are you going to take to just accept it?" vibe and I can only imagine how helpless a person can feel in a situation like that
The switches between what Maine sees and what’s real is such a great addition because how much it expands the cyberpsycho mindset, imagine not knowing what’s going on but you’re stuck in a PTSD limbo.
Soundtrack, Animation, Expressions, Voices, just WOW... This anime reminds me of the 90's anime when blood and deep stories was on your mind for a long time
a really cool thing I didn't notice when I first watched the show (mostly because it happens so fast) but if you pause the video at 2:52 and 2:53 you can see Maine without any cybernetics (similar to how David sees himself in flashbacks without the cyberskeleton at the end of the series) standing in front of a line in the ground dividing a patch of what I think is discoloured sand with a patch of lighter sand Maine who we have seen in previous flashbacks running or walking through the desert is now completely stopped standing on the discoloured sand so close to the lighter sand and then we can see David still running full sprint on the light sand what crossing the line in the sand ultimately symbolizes I'm not exactly sure but my guess would be that Maine has lost all his reason to fight and keep going his determination he has lost everything Dorio his ability to further augment himself with cybernetics and his sanity its the end of the line for him but just the beginning for David of course we all know ultimately David stops running too just like Maine the goal of a cyberpunk is ultimately a fools errand the story of every night city legend ends the same its always just a matter of time you want a happy ending? wrong city wrong people love how there is so much to read into for something that only appears for a collective 3 or 5 seconds
The different shades of sand may symbolize a better life in general. Less of a wasteland with each lighter shade. When Maine looks at David’s back you can see a little bit of grass has grown where David now stands. I think they were both running for a better life. Maine knew he couldn’t reach that goal, but told David to keep running. In the end, when he watched David run like he never could, I think Maine felt awe and respect rather than jealousy.
maine said that this was the end of the line for him drawing back on this vision of him stopped at the end of the road, maine cant go on any longer considering the drug induced psychosis, david is shown running as a way to show that david is continuing maines legacy and dream
He's standing on a freeway. The freeway cuts off into the desert sand. It's literally and metaphorically the end of the line for him. He can't go any further than that.
At 2:52 when it cuts to the desert scene really fast, its possible to see that in Maine's allucination (probably his past or the place he grew up) David is running from Maine. Meaning David had a place in Maine's heart. You cannot see the soldiers or any other object that was close to them aside from Dorio's body previously when he was "preparing" her funeral. It's interesting to see that in this episode we saw many flashes from a young Maine. A very skinny and young Maine, running in the desert... showing us that Maine always "ran" after something. He went to Night City a skinny and poor kid from the desert (that's what I think ok), made a name for him and gathered a group that he could trust.... And after all that he still kept running, never knowing when to stop. And that probably was his demise... What a great character.
And David carries the torch. "Just keep on running". Both the people most important to him at this point have died in a blaze of glory. The last thing Maine sees is David running past him in that psychosis driven haze, he knows David will make it further than he could, and Lucy will ultimately carry David's torch/dream after he's run as far as he could.
Seeing how Maine recognized David, cyberpsychosis might even be subjective. It does make people delusional, but look how Maine treats him in the end. He's still a mentor. He still interacts with him as an adult. He's still there. He's invited David into his world.
@0:50 to me, that simple shot in the desert is such a great way of representing “the reaper”. What better way is there to represent death in this universe, than a small floating black glitched pixel in a cyber hallucination. Really gives you the feeling of fear for the unknown that comes with death. After all the running Maine did, he reached the desert edge, and now death awaits him.
Just realized at 2:51 for a split second you see Maine at the 'end of the road', and David runs on. A comment I saw somewhere mentioned how Maine essentially 'passed on' his trauma/fear to David. Thats why everything after this episode is David spiraling to his own cyberpsychosis and demise. God, what a heartbreaking story.
This scene hit me so hard in the feels and the music fit this scene so well. Maine is one of my favorite characters in the series and was such a huge part of his development and so many other characters.
That terrified scream is David "CHANGING". Not only was he chasing his mother's dream for him, what he thought Lucy's dream was, while never sitting to think about his own dreams (apparent in episode five when he's talking to Tanaka) he now has to pick up Maine's dream and continue it, to never stop running and always keep fighting. David's whole story revolves around the fact he never got to even think about his own dreams, and instead decided to chase dreams of the ones he loved most in their honor. Lucy was right, he was the guy who would jump in the fire and get burned to save someone, no matter if he knew it or not.
What I mean by him not seeking out his dreams. When Tanaka comes to, and is telling him to do the right thing, he asks David what he wants and David, shocked and almost in awe by the question goes.. "what... I want?" As if he had never really sat down and thought about his dreams or what he really wanted. His dream of making sure Lucy followed her dreams was a last minute resort when he knew his dreams were far beyond reach at that point.
While this is horrible sad, someone pointed that while this is happening Becca was probably sleeping so imagine her reaction after waking up "Yo David whats----fuck you mean Maine and Dorio are dead"
2:56 Maine reached the end of his road and was never able to pass that limit because that’s where his life was foreshadowed to end but David was able to run beyond the road thanks to Maine which foreshadowed his survival. one of the best episodes in any fiction I’ve ever seen.
Although it was very heartbreaking for me to seemy favorite character become a complete cyber-psycho, I better of not of been the only one cheering this absolute unit on when he was tearing through all of the trauma team members and when he blew up maxtech. As a leader, its your job to protect your team, and Maine did exactly that.
Sin duda el mejor y si no de los mejores capitulos, la muerte de Maine y cómo se construye es BRUTAL, sin contar la música de fondo que me hace dar ganas de llorar.
Honestly there's one other moment in this series that had me break down into tears on the spot. When David hallucinated talking to his mother and Rebecca responds playing along as his mom.
This scene was so fucking heavy David’s love for his new family was everything to him, he would’ve thrown himself in harms way for anyone of those guys and he did. His own self destruction via too much chrome was all so he could protect everyone more than himself. Even if for the good of others we can still go too far for ourselves. Maine wanted to protect everyone too, his crew, he actually sympathized when David told him his mom had actually died and not that anything was stolen, and he gave him a chance to be part of the family his mom was. This show made me sad and happy god dammit
The brief moment of lucidity as he knows what he has done and what is coming (MaxTac) is what makes this scene hit hard. It reminds me of terminal lucidity that dementia patients have before their death: dementia robbed their memories and their ability to rationalize but they're able to think clearly and remember things briefly just before they pass away.
When I first watched this scene I was screaming for David to run away and live his life with lucy but when David arrived I saw how much Main meant for David as a father figure and was extremely sad that main actually died and the end scene of this episode hit HARD MAN just the mimic of David makes a grown man cry
Maine was sane in his final moments with David, cyberpsychosis is much more than simple madness, I can fully understand Regina's resolve to help them out in the game. No one should end up like Maine, I saved all 17.
This is absolutely imo the best character death and written scene in anime history. The emotion felt throughout, the uncomfortable pause between the childish nature of young David clashing with the harsh reality of the situation and his moment of realization, to point where David sees maine get torn to pieces by explosives and make a futile attempt a scream only to choke on an entire range of emotions. Watching this scene along with the music in the background and the imagery made me feel like I was gagging and choking as well. Absolutely horrific to see a beloved character die in such a blaze of glory but an absolutely perfect send off to an extremely well made character.
Oh man, we should be friends because I have the exact same opinion and it’s pretty hard to find likeminded people. I mostly just read manga nowadays, because the modern anime industry has deeply disappointed me.
that's why we love episode 6 it has that old anime trend like samurai shamploo, cowboy bepop and afro samuria that never becomes old-fashioned but becomes eternal and shockingly epic
@@SexyFace You know, for all it worth, Night City could very well be our future (or at least close to it) if corp greed and culture does not change. And one thing for sure is that technology will not stop developing. It will just keep growing and growing until somewhere down the line, we could get our own Adam Smasher roaming the street like a demon.
Holy crap they managed to actually hit you in the feels in within the span of 6 episodes. That’s less than what it takes for like a shit ton of animes and when animes attempt to get here they usually fall flat and you tend to not give a shit about the characters. Edge runners is just different.
This was honestly the moment i just felt dread, when people talk about sad moments in this show it’s always about Lucy and David’s death but Maine is barely heard of which usually shocks me because to me Maine had the most beautiful yet messed up deaths in the anime I felt dread because after what he did to his girlfriend that was the moment he knew he couldn’t go back he couldn’t recover from this so when David showed up to help him Maine saw new hope a kid who’s life isn’t screwed up yet. He sees himself in David probably when he was younger so he passes on the torch to him. Maine showed David he needed to keep fighting keep fighting for Lucy and the gang and that’s why Maine was so important to David even after he passed
My favorite part is the last shot of Maine. That skinny guy at the end of the road. He, presumably, turned around and ran an entire life's worth but never far enough. More muscle, more tech, more. But never reached the goal. And in the end, he was still that skinny guy. The road was up, and he knew this was it. No more running.
I really like they set Maine's past as a runner in a desert-like place outside the NC, it shows that Maine was a poor, skinny young man chasing his dream so he started his life as a edgerunner here, and also tells that inside of this big guy Maine, is still the same young man and keep running for his dream. However, he finally realized that he is about to be ended, his life, his dream, his love, his memory....the sky above that young man shortly flashed out with the explosion, imply that everything meaningful for Maine are gone at the moment he was blown up. "Davido~"
Just wanted to say thank you for being the few people who put spoiler tags in the title lets me know instantly to avert my eyes if I don't want to be spoiled
who directed this episode? It is quite unusual that the character design and plans do not look very trigger style, was it directed by the same director of redline?
Kai Ikarashi, he’s a animator/episode director got lot of recognition on recent years in the industry from episode 9 of Gridman and episode 10 of Dynazenon, which is also made by Trigger
@@wordsoflove8787 this episode is beautifully sad, in the end trigger didn't just try to plage himself with kill la kill in his other crappy works, here I felt old school anime, sad and metaphorically philosophical in art
God. I’ve watched this scene over a 100 times already. Maine taking everyone out, Dorio is dead, and a final send off to maxtac. The music, the anger, the frustration of it all too much. One hell of a scene
The look in Maine's eyes as he says his last words to David makes the scene so much more haunting than it already is. The purity of knowing what comes next and telling the kid to live, shivers down the spine.
Like a father, a father that David did not have
@@TipoIrritable Should’ve told David not to get so chromed out like he was.
Feels sorta similar to the askeladd and thorfinn scene, in some ways
@@dogestranding5047 David wouldn’t have got chromed out if Maine was there
@@dogestranding5047 Yea but David needs the chrome or else nobody can be gang leader
2:53
The last thing Maine sees in his psychosis is himself unable to cross the road. But seeing David sprint past it. Maine knows and accepts it’s the end of the line for himself. But he sees David has miles left to go.
damn - I missed this the first time around. such a good scene despite how short it was.
david still has miles left to go, but if you skip forward just a couple frames you can also just barely see that david's road also comes to an end, foreshadowing his death.
No me había dado cuenta de ese detalle
He could not run any further, cross the line. Yet David is already in the distance.
At the time I thought this ment David would not suffer the same fate.
goosebumps
I just realized that David didn't have a father, but then Maine was like a father to him. And then episode 6, which had a huge impact on David. I think this is one of the main reasons why everything ended the way it ended. David couldn't stop, he couldn't stop chroming himself, he couldn't stop working as a merk. He had to keep running.
Yes but David manages to accomplish what Maine could not in the end. While Maines ambition got Doiro killed David was still able to save Lucy in the end before his end.
Chroming himself didn’t made him a cyberpsycho, was his mental state
He saved lucy but not our Loli Queen
Maine taught David to drive a car (even let him crash his car), gave him his first gun, and set him up with Lucy. One may argue about what kind of influence he was, but Maine wasn't just like a father - he was David's father.
@@archvermin Sad that David died so soon after Maine and his mom. They sacrificed so he could live, but he died not long after they did.
I noticed when Maine was running. He never crossed the finish line. He was puffing and huffing and still capable of doing a little more. I think that was like foreshadowing his demise. The stories goes on but main has to be left behind.
The literal end of the road
Your comment made me rewatch it slowly, and I noticed that David was in that landscape running off the track away from Maine standing at the end of it.
It's not about crossing the finish line - it's the end of the road, literally. There's nothing in front of him. He reached the end. Sure, he could take a few steps forward, fight a bit longer, but it wouldn't change anything. The road is still at it's end. It's over.
And you can see how in 2:50 David crosses that line and goes further than Maine could ever go.
Shut up
The music for this scene is haunting, gives me goosebumps every time
This is perfect... hearbreaking too..
Thats death metal for you,it's Either ultra violent,or rage filled regret.
same here, i loved the song as soon it started playing, if youre wondering whats the song is called, its called Zurawie by Ugory
@@NeoDesde Thank you!
@@NeoDesde bro thank you sm
Cyberpunk: Edgerunners episode 6 was amongst the best episodes i have seen in my entire life. The amount of love and passion that was put into this show can be clearly seen here.
Well this anime was CDP Red last resort to revive Cyberpunk, 1.6 bring only 30 k players Peak 2 weeks after anime 130 k
@@LesioJunior1 it worked did it not? Also it's an amazing animation, studio TRIGGER did a fantastic job per usual. I really enjoyed the story but some might not.
Thats Imaishi’s magic. Hes a fucking alchemist turning shit into gold
Amongst, no. It was the best episode
@@LesioJunior1 100k? it was over a million xD
"This mess my fault?"
Gotta be my favourite moment of realization in anime.
I laughed so hard at that, before the shock set in and the soundtrack started to get in my brain. Just the absurdity of it. The smile, the neck snap, it was all great.😂
Nah I love that line and the grin when he said it😅
that shot of David at the end is one of the most iconic parts of the series for me. he's not even screaming. hes going through SO much pain, exertion, and grief. he's probably pushing the sandy harder than he ever has before, while abandoning his mentor to die alone. it goes beyond a scream. his body is contorting in agony. the only thing keeping him from dislocating his own jaw was the fact that he was out of time. he had to move. grab the arms and get out.
i genuinely think Edgerunners was a masterpiece of anime. one of the greats, of all time.
It seems the Sandevistan activates automatically when it senses an impending doom and mortal danger, it activated and made David see his mentor one last time, since it was too late, the explosion was already happening
There was nothing he could do at that moment, only to scream in pain and sadness
For once again, he lost his family
Honestly it looked kinda goofy. The animation looked really weird in that part
@@Chadius_Thundercock ok nigga
@@Chadius_Thundercock i wouldnt say weird, i´d say saturated, the same way David feels
@@Chadius_Thundercock it's the extreme amount of emotional load he's feeling. When people are ecstatic , furious or seething , they don't look pretty
Best character sadly we don’t see a lot of his back story but the moment we see when his young self on that empty road is very beautiful and interesting to watch. I love it
There is another music video where they show his old teammember fyi, the end song music vid
@@MrBurrrG what's the title of the song?
@@simpnoises436 let you down
@@simpnoises436 you mean that the one they play after the credits with lucy walking the streets of Night city alone and crying?
@@kristopherhayes486 No not that at all. Maine's group had another netrunner besides Lucy before she joined, definitely worth the watch as its like a couple minute intro
honestly my favorite part of this scene is David's clear fear of facing Maxtech. The memories of the BD he experienced of dying to Maxtech are steal fresh in his head and his body is clearly screaming at him to run for the hills so much that he is literally yelling for his hands to stop shaking.
Aren’t they part borgs too?
@@KaijuMobsta They are very close to being cyberpsycho themselves (and some of them literally are former cyberpsychos)
@@lennartj.8072 Yeah lol like the maxtac bitch from the clothing store incident from the game.
@@lennartj.8072 you can get out of cyberpsychosis?
What's the BD? Did he get the previous owner's memories?
Such a soul breaking but beautiful scene that few shows could ever portray, let alone animate. This show is without a doubt one of the best shows to come out within the past decade.
Lmao
It's a pretty simple story you know? Don't get me wrong, I liked it a lot but I feel that much more potential was lost. They had everything to truly be one of the best animated series that have ever existed, but everything took place very quickly in a single season.
I'm with this guy (@@diegov3566 ) on this...
@@diegov3566 simple story doesn't mean it's bad. You see so many shows these days with what appears to be a great and unique story only to completely fail the execution. This isn't just another simple story, it's a simple story that's executed perfectly. Managing to completely incapacitate the audience's feelings.
Personally I'd rather have a simple yet great story. Than something that's unique but without any substance.
@@diegov3566 simple stories are often the best, look at the two best tv shows out there: Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. They are very simple stories that are elevated by the writing, characters and acting. It’s the same for this.
how david got the arm, think it just clicked...
David literally didn't give up on Maine. He ignored his wish and pulled his arm so hard he strained in rage at what little he could do.
And all that was left when he was pulling and running, was the single arm he never quit on. Even when he could not win.
Remember, Maine also promised David his left arm if he ever flatlines.
@@Evangelion543 yes
Shut up man
i always thought it was just him taking the arm like he said he would do if maine flatlined. not that he was trying to rescue him
@@keorei Could be both as well...Once he saw Maine essentially get blasted into kibble he just kept running, note how when the camera pans from Young!Maine across the desert, we see David Stumbling? That's likely Maine's weight suddenly becoming no longer a factor and David maintaining pace.
2:03 Maine wasnt psycho anymore, that´s why his words hit even harder. He knows he cant live with himself after what the drugs made him do, so he´s passing the torch to David (also his hands, we see them after she clashes with the van lucy´s waiting him in, its pretty poetic)
Maine also passes his wish to David, "keep running", his whole theme and the source of his need to become stronger. The way Maine´s envy develop is perfect for me, i think his rather fast (pun intended) jealousy starts with Maine losing the sandevista for David´s sake since the deal with David´s mom went wrong.
The cyberpsychosis amplifies this behaviour, expanding his dream of running and the resentment he feels.
At the end he´s grateful and proud of how much David has developed.
Nah, he's still psycho. It's just cyberpsychosis doesn't just turn you into a rage monster. Other forms of cyberpsychosis consist of losing emotional responsiveness and becoming a robot, compulsive desire to steal things, etc. In Maine's case, his psychosis involved delusions/hallucinations, and spouts of uncontrollable rage. In this scene, Maine calms down around David because part of his brain still registers and remembers David as a friend.
@@LightAndDarkMdness02 i think lucy did the same with David
@@giraf9961 David had a very similar form of Psychosis, Lucy was the only one that David really remembered whenever he went over the edge
@@LightAndDarkMdness02 David seems to develop a similar case, by the end he could only stay lucid when near Lucy and even then we aren't sure to what extent.
He does appear to become more cognisant after Adam Smasher rips off his cybernetics.
@@LightAndDarkMdness02 Pretty much sure that Regina proved that Cyberpsychosis can be cured on 77 in her quests.
ive literally rewatched the last 5 mins of episode 6 like 50 times
Same…I felt hopeless after watched his death…
“This stuff my fault?”😢
Epic and sad
One of the best episodes in anime history tbh. 10/10 episode
Same, it's the peak of the series imo
@@octopus8659 that statement was both terrifying to to the soldiers coming in. And depressing to the audience. Dude is wearing the blood of his lover. His mission has failed. And it's like he single handedly ruined everything. So when he says is this my fault?. It's like self destruction. He resigns himself to crash out. Cause he can't face what he's done. Or what he is becoming.
Can we talk about the very subtle change in expression at 1:16?
This may seem like a simple shift in lines artistically,
but it brings a whole lot of meaning at how Maine realizes David would stand by him despite having told him to trust no one.
And it brings him to tears at how at least there was someone who had good in them after all.
I don’t know if I’m the only one, but I love how such tiny twitches or micro expressions can explain a lot.
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I think it's also partly that despite Maine possibly knowing he's gone completely psycho, David still stands by him. Still has hope, still refuses to give up.
In that moment of David saying he would 'stay' and help, Main may have realized that because of him, in this one moment, David stopped running because of him.
fuck dude,you make me cry again.
😢
Man shut up
@@Coldaardvark2 wow u rite
2:13 For me, Maine's death was the most saddest event in the show, I was hung up over it. Think about what a great man he is, man got his sandevistan implant stolen by a punk, but he never kills him (god knows how hard it is to get a military grade implant). Then proceed to take him in/recruit him and teach him the ways of being cyberpunk. And then slowly, he realized that all the suppressants are slowly driving him insane aka. cyberpsycho. His woman, Dorio died infront of him, from trying to stop him. Lastly, we catch a glimpse of what Maine was like when he was young. He was like David. He was running in a desert with nothing in sight. He was running but there was no end goal in sight. He huffed and kept running but stopped because there was truly no meaning for doing what he did. Which portrayed him well as he was always pushing himself because he thinks he was going to be special, but in the end, he was just like the rest. Which really foreshadowed what was about to come next. (David's death) He lost his life, his love ones, his wealth, everything from installing too much cybernetics and implants. No matter what he did, there was no happy ending from being a cyberpunk in night city. Wrong story, wrong city.
Probably not related, but Maine sounds a lot like Maiet Entertainment, it's a video game company that created Gunz the duel and I loved that company, it's a lot like Maine when you compare with both entity(both grow to its peak and slowly self-destructed on its own). When Maiet shut down, it was the same feeling I felt when Maine died.
I think him getting the Sandevistan stolen from him was a good think if he had it he would've went insane faster
@@wrappingflea9545 I was about to say the exact same thing
Hell, the medicine being taken in more doses than he SHOULD have been doing is basically the moment you realize 'Oh shit he is going to either lose it or fucking OD!'
Holy cow, a Gunz the duel callout.
I havent played that game in.....I mean literally 15 or something years now? Brr. Wild.
the board game and the videogame also tells that the people that survives are the real winners and the ones who left the city also are the real winners, everyone else gonna get the city as their graveyard, and the city does not gonna stop putting people in a coffin.
0:58
The way he says David... he knows its the end. Died like a trooper.
2:17 maine’s dead cold stare was the exact moment we all realised we just lost him
Nah that was the moment we realized that we didn’t lose him
@@aparou647 he stays in our hearts
And the exact moment I teared up :')
I think the music in this scene gets overlooked, it's so haunting and slow and just perfect and Cyberpunk in general had so many songs that were just amazing and were used perfectly that even now going back to listen to certain songs that played behind emotional moments in the game make me teary eyed, and I am sure if I went and replayed cyberpunk a year from now if I heard this song in game the only thing that would be running through my mind is Maine and that lonesome empty dirt road.
I'm pretty sure this is the composer from Silent Hill.
@@DanielZeal this specific track is from the game
Zurawie - Ugory
Ugory is a real band, btw. They’ve worked with CDP Red before on Witcher, or at the very least have a song named such.
2:36 fucking hell, the raw emotion in this shot is just unreal. I love how they chose to have David speechless as his whole world falls apart before him. He's experiencing so much pain in that moment that he can't even begin to funnel it into words.
I'd argue that the single tear in the car driving away contains even more emotion, to the point where he can't even express it, no one would be able to, yet a single tear manages to sneak by
I love the entirety of this scene. This is the second time David witnesses a parental figure die, and he STILL can’t do anything to save them. Despite everything he’s gone through, it still isn’t enough.
Moving onto Maine, the “you can’t do it” bit hurts so much when you think of the context of this episode. Whether intentional or not, Maine’s words just callback to earlier in the episode when Lucy told David to tell her she can do it. If Maine gave the word, David would’ve stayed and died. But Maine’s words hold a different meaning compared to David’s. When Maine tells David he can’t do it, it’s not only because David physically wouldn’t be able to handle it, but also because David has a responsibility to Lucy and Maine has a responsibility to both of them. Maine is a sacrifice and he has to be for his people, for his family. The only way to ensure his people’s survival is if he doesn’t.
Lucid isn't the same as not being crazy. Maine was still hallucinating, and even if he knew that what he was seeing wasn't real, it isn't the same as being able to tell the difference between hallucination and reality. Even if he'd left with David, sooner or later his insanity would end up hurting someone else he cared for, and he could not let that happen.
The thing is, Maine absolutely could have gotten better. He could have chromed down and gotten actual therapy, both with drugs and psychological. Its something we know happens because Max-Tac exists, and is staffed with previous cyberpsychos that were actually captured, but the system would rather treat cyberpsychosis as a end point of a disease that cannot be recovered from, than to address the idea that the cyberware is just exacerbating peoples existing traumas and damages until they "go psycho". easier to just write them off as a lost cause and have max-tac clean them up than to actually solve the underlying issues that cause people to go psycho. Its so prevalent a reaction that the normal inhabitants of the city assume that cyberpsycosis is as good as a death sentence, and a violent one at that.
@@UrzaWeatherlight The problem is, even if he chromed down and gotten therapy... could he actually have lived with himself? He'd still have killed someone he loved, as well as multiple inncoent people whose only crime was doing their job as members of Trauma Team. And chroming down and getting therapy is a lengthy process. Who is to say that his cyberpsychosis might not kick into high gear again before he could get the help he needs? He literally almost killed David the moment he entered the room, and that was *after* entering lucidity. And there's the dollar value involved: Even assuming that he could maintain control and lucidity long enough to get the help he needed... who was gonna pay for it? The removal of the cyberware, the aftercare needed to recover from it, and the therapy needed to get him back to sanity? All of that costs money, money that the crew likely could never get, and Maine would never ask his crew to work themselves near to death trying to get it.
And there is one of those "reformed" Max-Tac officers you can speak with in 2077. They're still basically cyberpsychos, with the one you speak with making it clear that she deeply loves killing people with her mantis blades, to the point that she won't switch them out with a newer model, despite having a flaw that was literally responsible for their cyberpsychosis in the first place.
@@FirstLast-cg2nk that's not even getting to the point of 'If you're not some Corpo big wig, you will never be able to afford even a piss poor therapist that still has a LEGIT accredation, let alone anyone all that skilled at therapy' thing...Sure Chroming down is expensive but DOABLE (price isn't even that steep compared to Therapy)
Also Maine only killed Dorio in being in the situation he was in to begin with. If he had his right mind, she wouldn't have caught that bullet from NCPD to the head...
@@FirstLast-cg2nk dorio was killed by trauma team I believe🤔
@@pachasnft9954 Its not about if he pulled the trigger that actually kiled Dorio. More about that because he went Psycho and lose his sanity Dorio tried to pull him back and that what got her killed, In short not actually HIS fault but if he wouldn't have hallucinations Dorio would not need to pull him back and instead she could focus on actually being in the gunfire
Don't forget, this is *the* reason why David dies at the end. The trauma of this gig gone wrong, of not being strong enough, and falsely relating that to the fact that he wasn't more chromed up.
There are plenty of reasons for that. If Lucy hadn't fucked up on purpose, David could have lived well enough, but either night city would get him, or arasaka would.
If david had never met lucy, he would have just ran out of eddies, and found himself just another choom out on the streets, with nothing to his name, till arasaka or miltech came for his resistance to cibernetics.
If he hadn't chromed up he would have probably died in one of his gigs, or he wouldn't have gotten said gigs in the first place.
If he just sold the Sandy, then he would have straight up lost everything.
Make no mistake. There are plenty of reasons for why david died.
But in the end they don't matter. Its night city.
There are no happy endings in night city.
There was never a chance in hell this story was gonna have a semblance of a happy ending.
You either die a choom that no one will remember, or you die in a blaze of glory so bright your name will never fade away.
@@Loispealz34 I don't think it would be fair to put the blame on Lucy, yeah I'm sure if she had joined back into the crew she could've convinced him to ease on the chrome, but she had her reason as to protect David from Arasaka lowkey, sure she could've told him that he was being sought after but that probably would've just worked up David into wanting to fight Arasaka head on
@@Loispealz34 how did lucy fuck up?
@@misaamane9914 lucy purposely killed tanaka and blew up the jammer keeping ncpd and trauma team from honing in on tanaka's signal. She did this to protect David, who was a target for arasaka experimentation. This ended up killing both Maine and Dorio.
Id say its less of this episode and more of how nightcity is in general. Everyone unless your some corporate high end official everyone faces the same fate at some point.
In the dream, Maine could never make it past the end of that road. When he told David to run, he wanted him to cross where he had never been able to go, to keep running. That’s why this scene is so beautiful. Maine is transferring his dream to David and in his final moments, seeing him surpass it.
You can actually hear Maine's heart breaking
You can tell at 2:17 he gave David his last sane words before he lost his shit, his whole expression is so haunting I fucking love it 🤞🏿
The look in Maines eyes at 2:18 really gets me. He's gone, he's completely lost touch with reality, it's almost as if he doesn't even see David, he's looking right through him. Must be the scariest thing in the world for your own mind to start deceiving you. Maine felt like at this point, he couldn't keep running, what's the point if you can't even tell where you're running to, or from? Saddest part is, he might not have been completely at a loss, he's clearly able to give his final words to David in a calm collected manner, but he was already designated as a cyberpsycho by Maxtac, who would either have killed him themselves or imprisoned him for life. He took the only other option he saw.
2:52 I like how david'z actually keep running, even if there's no road anymore for him... :(
yeah really good litle touch that makes this few moments special
This might be my two Favorite seconds of this show
Esta escena es una auténtica obra maestra
Cómo me enseñó un hombre "camino antes que destino", y finalmente lo compredi
Una cosas que odio de esta serie, es no saber más de Maine, le agarre mucho cariño rápidamente csm
@@11lopezdanielfull ya pasó esa parte paso igual que en el juego y causa la misma sensación
Es buena pero asi para decir que es una obra maestra pues no.
@@hanssanjuanino3169 pues cada quien puede decir lo que quiera, en mi caso no la primera vez que veo una serie cyberpunk, y todas me han encantado demasiado, lo unico que me jode es que literalmente acabo como las otras que ví y más o menos tuvieron la misma trayectoria. Pero lo que más adoro son las referencias al juego es decir sabes todos las personas que se volvieron leyendas en el juego( básicamente consiste en hacer algo grande y morir, porque no existen leyendas vivientes), tiene su propia bebida y que por lo visto el David Martínez es una, es algo que llena al mundo de cyberpunk 2077. Yo no creo que para que algo sea una obra mestra tiene que ser perfecto,algunos pueden ver la belleza en las cosas imperfectas. La razón principal de que sea para mí es por una frase que he escuchado de alguien desde hace mucho tiempo "camino antes que destino".
Suelo pensar el final de algo no tiene sentido por algunas cosas que hizo mal, como por ejemplo no contar las historias de Maine (que me parece bastante interesante), y otra cosa que no entendía por David estaba tan afanado con cumplir el sueño de su madre, y Maine (no se cual era el sueño de Maine, porque no me pareció que lo explicarán ),pero pensadolo me di cuenta no es cuestión de que no sea tu sueño simplemente las personas son complejas. Y bueno también con las pocas series cyberpunk , acabaron de la misma manera y pues me jode bastante, pero cuando alguien da su vida para darle un futuro a alguien me parece la cosa más extraña pero pero supongo qué el camino que recorriste es lo que te llevo ahí.
In my 33 years I haven’t cried this hard for a fictional character this anime has change my life how ??? I don’t know… but the fact that this episode made me feel genuinely sad for a person that doesn’t exist is an accomplishment to studio trigger unique storytelling.
You should watch Monster
The basic story and characters were created by the Polish side, it was a team effort and not just studio Trigger. I'm not taking away anything from Trigger but it's unfair to only mention them when there was the other team that contributed a lot to it.
@@FolstrimHori monster sucks lmao
I love how far anime has come
Same. I love how popular its become. Even my parents are interested in watching anime with me now lol
この明らかに正気を失ってるメインの横にデイビットが立つシーン、認知症の老人に懐く孫の様なヒリつきというかスリルがあるし、そういう一触即発で危険な状態からお互いの愛を示し合うというのは、強烈なカタルシスがあるよね
憎い演出
何もかもが手遅れな事が一瞬で伝わるシーンだよね
The part where he blows up Dorio and the music is super calm while the singer just destroys his chords in the back is just such a powerful image
1:15 when David is telling Maine that they'll get through this together it looks like Maine is listening, but when David says "and then . . .and then" Maine's eyes shift back to the realization that there is no "then". He's already at the end.
I can't believe how no one talks about Maine being so calm in 0:23 he also has the look lost, he's in pain and at the same time already accepted his fate, his end.
He just lost Dorio and still managed to honor her in his last sane moments, Maine will always be in my heart as one of the most human characters.
That's what i was Thinking of, This scene was the most memorable to me about the episode
The song definitely fit this scene, I was choked up watching it 😔
2:01からの少し煤けた感じの作画本当に傑作だと思う、そこからの「人より早く走れるんだろ？」がめちゃすこ
The small detail. The eyes of his were originally blue at the own start of his group but after the death of Sasha and everything other bad things, his eyes started to become grey. And right at his death, his eyes just became fully grey, he knew that his dream of becoming stronger, going further is now absolutely destroyed.
The whole first episode and the slow degeneration of the team hits so hard. His mother's death brought him to the edge but, Maine's death made him jump.
This scene, or rather the entire episode in general, is one of the most powerful and well crafted ones I've seen in all of anime in years. Put me straight back to when I first started watching anime, many years ago. Thanks Trigger, for putting together the coolest adaptation for a game.
0:55 The voice actor of david is soooo damn good, you can feel in david voice that he is suppressing his fear and sorrow of losing meine and desperately clinging to his wishful thinking
Hurts more the second time after you really appreciate not only the pure effort that went into every frame of this anime but the sound track on top of that.
didn't really notice the shot at 2:52 on my first watch. maine is at the end of his road and david is running away, but he's also running forward, carrying maine's dream forward with him. the only way he could bring himself to escape was by pushing forward with everything he had, and never stopping from this point until the end.
Still can't believe how good this fucking anime was. I'm a massive fan of the game and I wasn't hyped for this shit at all, expected trash. Boy was I wrong
Same, I thought it was gonna be generic and not good at all, boy was I wrong..
Bro, never expect trash from studio trigger, they never dissapoint.
Just wish the game was good too
@@Brain-Wormed except for kiznaiver but we won’t talk about that
@@Pieruh wtf bro kiznaiver very good anime
He wasn’t just a mentor, he was like a father to him…
Maine's content smile before he obliterates..
@1:44 Maine says “you can’t do it YET” but the sub doesn’t include the “yet” part. That’s sad coz it shows that Maine believes David can be a great edge runner who can even fight against MaxTac one day. Great script.
2:23 what a fucking amazing shot
The music is what really fucked me up during this whole scene. It's very much a haunting, "How long are you going to take to just accept it?" vibe and I can only imagine how helpless a person can feel in a situation like that
2:28 bro somebody screamed the nword
Lmao
The switches between what Maine sees and what’s real is such a great addition because how much it expands the cyberpsycho mindset, imagine not knowing what’s going on but you’re stuck in a PTSD limbo.
Soundtrack, Animation, Expressions, Voices, just WOW...
This anime reminds me of the 90's anime when blood and deep stories was on your mind for a long time
the music in this scene is so freaking good man. it really matches the "end of the line" vibes. this is it. nowhere to run to.
もうどうにもならないやるせなさがすごい切ない…デイビッドが震えながらメインを守ろうとするのがほんとにつらいけどいいシーン…。
2:41 me trying to eat a bigmac in one bite
a really cool thing I didn't notice when I first watched the show (mostly because it happens so fast) but if you pause the video at 2:52 and 2:53 you can see Maine without any cybernetics (similar to how David sees himself in flashbacks without the cyberskeleton at the end of the series) standing in front of a line in the ground dividing a patch of what I think is discoloured sand with a patch of lighter sand Maine who we have seen in previous flashbacks running or walking through the desert is now completely stopped standing on the discoloured sand so close to the lighter sand and then we can see David still running full sprint on the light sand
what crossing the line in the sand ultimately symbolizes I'm not exactly sure but my guess would be that Maine has lost all his reason to fight and keep going his determination he has lost everything Dorio his ability to further augment himself with cybernetics and his sanity its the end of the line for him but just the beginning for David of course we all know ultimately David stops running too just like Maine the goal of a cyberpunk is ultimately a fools errand the story of every night city legend ends the same its always just a matter of time you want a happy ending? wrong city wrong people
love how there is so much to read into for something that only appears for a collective 3 or 5 seconds
The different shades of sand may symbolize a better life in general. Less of a wasteland with each lighter shade. When Maine looks at David’s back you can see a little bit of grass has grown where David now stands.
I think they were both running for a better life. Maine knew he couldn’t reach that goal, but told David to keep running.
In the end, when he watched David run like he never could, I think Maine felt awe and respect rather than jealousy.
maine said that this was the end of the line for him drawing back on this vision of him stopped at the end of the road, maine cant go on any longer considering the drug induced psychosis, david is shown running as a way to show that david is continuing maines legacy and dream
He's standing on a freeway. The freeway cuts off into the desert sand. It's literally and metaphorically the end of the line for him. He can't go any further than that.
It was the end of his line. He could not run any further.
please invest in punctuation
At 2:52 when it cuts to the desert scene really fast, its possible to see that in Maine's allucination (probably his past or the place he grew up) David is running from Maine. Meaning David had a place in Maine's heart. You cannot see the soldiers or any other object that was close to them aside from Dorio's body previously when he was "preparing" her funeral. It's interesting to see that in this episode we saw many flashes from a young Maine. A very skinny and young Maine, running in the desert... showing us that Maine always "ran" after something. He went to Night City a skinny and poor kid from the desert (that's what I think ok), made a name for him and gathered a group that he could trust.... And after all that he still kept running, never knowing when to stop. And that probably was his demise... What a great character.
And David carries the torch. "Just keep on running". Both the people most important to him at this point have died in a blaze of glory. The last thing Maine sees is David running past him in that psychosis driven haze, he knows David will make it further than he could, and Lucy will ultimately carry David's torch/dream after he's run as far as he could.
Seeing how Maine recognized David, cyberpsychosis might even be subjective. It does make people delusional, but look how Maine treats him in the end. He's still a mentor. He still interacts with him as an adult. He's still there. He's invited David into his world.
@0:50 to me, that simple shot in the desert is such a great way of representing “the reaper”. What better way is there to represent death in this universe, than a small floating black glitched pixel in a cyber hallucination. Really gives you the feeling of fear for the unknown that comes with death.
After all the running Maine did, he reached the desert edge, and now death awaits him.
Yeah and the maxtac shot just after
Looked more like loneliness and regret
Just realized at 2:51 for a split second you see Maine at the 'end of the road', and David runs on. A comment I saw somewhere mentioned how Maine essentially 'passed on' his trauma/fear to David. Thats why everything after this episode is David spiraling to his own cyberpsychosis and demise.
God, what a heartbreaking story.
2:37 you can see maxtac guys get obliterated behind david and maine both. insane attention to detail!
@lol nose yeah, you can see the faint outline in the background to the right of David and to the left of Maine
What I liked from the scene with young Maine was that it looks like something you'd see in a killer7 cutscene
This definitely contributed heavily to David's cyberpsychosis
This scene hit me so hard in the feels and the music fit this scene so well. Maine is one of my favorite characters in the series and was such a huge part of his development and so many other characters.
honestly if the show ended on episode 6 i would have been fine
it is a really good ending.
But then you wouldn’t have gotten see me… 😢
That terrified scream is David "CHANGING".
Not only was he chasing his mother's dream for him, what he thought Lucy's dream was, while never sitting to think about his own dreams (apparent in episode five when he's talking to Tanaka) he now has to pick up Maine's dream and continue it, to never stop running and always keep fighting.
David's whole story revolves around the fact he never got to even think about his own dreams, and instead decided to chase dreams of the ones he loved most in their honor. Lucy was right, he was the guy who would jump in the fire and get burned to save someone, no matter if he knew it or not.
What I mean by him not seeking out his dreams.
When Tanaka comes to, and is telling him to do the right thing, he asks David what he wants and David, shocked and almost in awe by the question goes.. "what... I want?" As if he had never really sat down and thought about his dreams or what he really wanted. His dream of making sure Lucy followed her dreams was a last minute resort when he knew his dreams were far beyond reach at that point.
While this is horrible sad, someone pointed that while this is happening Becca was probably sleeping so imagine her reaction after waking up
"Yo David whats----fuck you mean Maine and Dorio are dead"
2:56 Maine reached the end of his road and was never able to pass that limit because that’s where his life was foreshadowed to end but David was able to run beyond the road thanks to Maine which foreshadowed his survival. one of the best episodes in any fiction I’ve ever seen.
this is so well writen and done !! truly a master piece anime !! it had me getting emotional several times.
Although it was very heartbreaking for me to seemy favorite character become a complete cyber-psycho, I better of not of been the only one cheering this absolute unit on when he was tearing through all of the trauma team members and when he blew up maxtech.
As a leader, its your job to protect your team, and Maine did exactly that.
Sin duda el mejor y si no de los mejores capitulos, la muerte de Maine y cómo se construye es BRUTAL, sin contar la música de fondo que me hace dar ganas de llorar.
esa musica de fondo literal se siente como "el final"
it's been 1 year since i watched edgerunners, still hits hard to this day.
Honestly there's one other moment in this series that had me break down into tears on the spot.
When David hallucinated talking to his mother and Rebecca responds playing along as his mom.
1:18でメインの眼が動揺してるのか、ウルってしてる気がする…こう言う細かいの良いよね…
This scene was so fucking heavy
David’s love for his new family was everything to him, he would’ve thrown himself in harms way for anyone of those guys and he did. His own self destruction via too much chrome was all so he could protect everyone more than himself. Even if for the good of others we can still go too far for ourselves.
Maine wanted to protect everyone too, his crew, he actually sympathized when David told him his mom had actually died and not that anything was stolen, and he gave him a chance to be part of the family his mom was.
This show made me sad and happy god dammit
The brief moment of lucidity as he knows what he has done and what is coming (MaxTac) is what makes this scene hit hard. It reminds me of terminal lucidity that dementia patients have before their death: dementia robbed their memories and their ability to rationalize but they're able to think clearly and remember things briefly just before they pass away.
When I first watched this scene I was screaming for David to run away and live his life with lucy but when David arrived I saw how much Main meant for David as a father figure and was extremely sad that main actually died and the end scene of this episode hit HARD MAN just the mimic of David makes a grown man cry
I can't stop watching this scene, it's too good.
Maine was sane in his final moments with David, cyberpsychosis is much more than simple madness, I can fully understand Regina's resolve to help them out in the game. No one should end up like Maine, I saved all 17.
This is absolutely imo the best character death and written scene in anime history. The emotion felt throughout, the uncomfortable pause between the childish nature of young David clashing with the harsh reality of the situation and his moment of realization, to point where David sees maine get torn to pieces by explosives and make a futile attempt a scream only to choke on an entire range of emotions. Watching this scene along with the music in the background and the imagery made me feel like I was gagging and choking as well. Absolutely horrific to see a beloved character die in such a blaze of glory but an absolutely perfect send off to an extremely well made character.
the chills when it scrolls over the MaxTac AV approaching... this scene made me cry ngl
MaxTac was fucking awesome in this anime. I hope we get a season 2 following a rookie MaxTac agent
"No more running. Reaper's calling my name."
It’s sad because Maine really did care about David and became a good friend, if it wasn’t for him being so chromed up they all could have lived
This is how anime should be.
Masterpieces made by directors and artists without modern taboos
As in its golden age, in the 80s and 90s
for what it is worth night city is literally the perfect setting for fictional storytelling. the fruit doesnt hang much lower
Oh man, we should be friends because I have the exact same opinion and it’s pretty hard to find likeminded people.
I mostly just read manga nowadays, because the modern anime industry has deeply disappointed me.
that's why we love episode 6 it has that old anime trend
like samurai shamploo, cowboy bepop and afro samuria that never becomes old-fashioned but becomes eternal and shockingly epic
@@SexyFace You know, for all it worth, Night City could very well be our future (or at least close to it) if corp greed and culture does not change. And one thing for sure is that technology will not stop developing. It will just keep growing and growing until somewhere down the line, we could get our own Adam Smasher roaming the street like a demon.
completely agree. i am 21 now, with any luck i will be alive in the year 2077 for a comparison
@@huynhvuongviet2410
Cried more on this scene than I did David’s death, although I did cry a bunch for both
The music with this scene is perfection. And the voice acting... Just masterful all round 👏
Holy crap they managed to actually hit you in the feels in within the span of 6 episodes. That’s less than what it takes for like a shit ton of animes and when animes attempt to get here they usually fall flat and you tend to not give a shit about the characters. Edge runners is just different.
This was honestly the moment i just felt dread, when people talk about sad moments in this show it’s always about Lucy and David’s death but Maine is barely heard of which usually shocks me because to me Maine had the most beautiful yet messed up deaths in the anime I felt dread because after what he did to his girlfriend that was the moment he knew he couldn’t go back he couldn’t recover from this so when David showed up to help him Maine saw new hope a kid who’s life isn’t screwed up yet. He sees himself in David probably when he was younger so he passes on the torch to him. Maine showed David he needed to keep fighting keep fighting for Lucy and the gang and that’s why Maine was so important to David even after he passed
This episode is haunting, beautiful, hyper stylized, raw emotion. A perfect anime!
My favorite part is the last shot of Maine. That skinny guy at the end of the road. He, presumably, turned around and ran an entire life's worth but never far enough. More muscle, more tech, more. But never reached the goal. And in the end, he was still that skinny guy. The road was up, and he knew this was it. No more running.
I really like they set Maine's past as a runner in a desert-like place outside the NC, it shows that Maine was a poor, skinny young man chasing his dream so he started his life as a edgerunner here, and also tells that inside of this big guy Maine, is still the same young man and keep running for his dream.
However, he finally realized that he is about to be ended, his life, his dream, his love, his memory....the sky above that young man shortly flashed out with the explosion, imply that everything meaningful for Maine are gone at the moment he was blown up.
"Davido~"
Seeing David just... break in this episode was intense. Especially that PTSD face he showed when he got back in the car.
Just wanted to say thank you for being the few people who put spoiler tags in the title lets me know instantly to avert my eyes if I don't want to be spoiled
Sobbing, crying, screaming, throwing up oh god stop this madness...
The soundtrack gets me everytime.
who directed this episode? It is quite unusual that the character design and plans do not look very trigger style, was it directed by the same director of redline?
The entire project is cooperation between CDProject Red and Studio Trigger and the main showrunner is Rafał Jaki. Maybe that's why.
Kai Ikarashi, he’s a animator/episode director got lot of recognition on recent years in the industry from episode 9 of Gridman and episode 10 of Dynazenon, which is also made by Trigger
Kai Ikarashi, one of the GOATs of the industry!
I found my people.
@@wordsoflove8787 this episode is beautifully sad, in the end trigger didn't just try to plage himself with kill la kill in his other crappy works, here I felt old school anime, sad and metaphorically philosophical in art
God. I’ve watched this scene over a 100 times already. Maine taking everyone out, Dorio is dead, and a final send off to maxtac. The music, the anger, the frustration of it all too much. One hell of a scene
literally one of my all time favorite anime scenes
Mad respect for putting "Maine's end" in the title instead of..." that" word like every other CZcamsrs would have done.