Stray Kids MANIAC Concept & Story Explained: Lyrics and MV Breakdown and Analysis 

I probably sound like a complete moron but what exactly is a neurodivergent person ?

@@fullluvrinnie6793 No, it’s great that you’re asking! ‘Neurodivergent’ refers to someone who’s brain functions/processes things differently from the majority of society. Not worse, just different. Some examples include people with autism, adhd, dyslexia and Tourette’s. The opposite is ‘neurotypical’, but I personally don’t use it since I dislike how it makes it sound like everyone without a diagnosis functions the same way.

@@SpringoFlamingo thank you sm 💕💕for responding I Fr learn more on RU-vid than in school

@@fullluvrinnie6793 Happy to help😊 and same, don’t know why school is even a thing anymore🤷

Hello!! ❤️ thank you so much!! 🥰

I’ll be answering your question for now. The entire thing with two cities is because of the two moons combining from Levanter. The red moon represents fantasy from the I Am/Cle world and the white moon represents reality. When they combine, the cities are seen together simultaneous because that’s the combination of the moon’s worlds happening. MIROH’s clothes are essentially “highlights.” They look like yellow highlighters. A symbol of individuality? Which means that MIROH and Maniac’s themes are one in the same but Maniac is a more mature way of thinking rather than MIROH. Think of it like a mountain with a high peak and you’re trying to climb it. In MIROH, they must run through the jungle because they are at the bottom of the hill. In Maniac, they are near the top of the mountain and see all of the mistakes they’ve done in the past. It is indeed Back Door scenes. Although, the white scenes here in the mind and the doors may convey that this jumping power comes from in the mind. They’re most likely not jumping dimensions; they’re jumping time through memories in the brain. For I.N.’s eyes could refer to the fact that he has clones that are jumping two dimensions. I Am Not I.N. ditched the bus to find his happiness, and there’s two I.N.’s. One is in NOEASY and one is with SKZ. The true Jeongin is in NOEASY, and the other Jeongin is in for the ride. SKZ loves multiple meanings for the same thing. On a tweet that I made that went viral, I said “ I guess SKZ made that trailer because they’re trying to tell the story from the opposite side: the traditional people who want conventionality. They see people who are not normal as freaks or villains, the connotation we’re getting in the trailer!” Freeze and Cheese have similar functions in double meaning. If we aspire to see what they see as a double meaning (or multiple), then we can see more aspects of what SKZ aid trying to portray. Back to the original memo, storyline. SKZ’s storyline is the struggle to find happiness through reality and fantasy and through peace and conflict. Maniac connects everything from the Live trilogy and the previous trilogies together to form: jump between reality and fantasy at will. SKZ find a ticket with “to new world” in Levanter and opens a door, which allows them to see their prospects in the world more clearly. Also in Maniac is the “trapped in the mind” mindset. When they go outside of their mind (getting untrapped), they see the world in a new light that allows them to flick their “maniac” switch off and on.

@@annanguyen4560 THANK YOU. This both: explains a lot and leaves me with more questions lol. But it is very helpful so thanks

@@blackcat6374 I’ve been down in the rabbit hole for three years. You’ll get yourself into it slowly. Lately, I’m trying to connect the I Am series to everything else. Maniac helps me with that a lot. Ask me any questions you want. I’ll answer them for you :)

Yes it’s definitely connected! The double city was first introduced in Hellevator and now its back! I personally think they have the same significance with the difference that now they learned to travel back and forth between their two worlds! The way I see it, even if Stray Kids’s story is full of action it’s still very much introspective because it’s about them growing and learning in a difficult world where you can take many paths. To an extent the different roads you can take are symbolised by the split between dimensions, but after Levanter, the Highlight Reels said that after the moon reunited they awakened their true self so that’s who we are following since God’s Menu! Personally I think the odd eyes of Changbin and I.N mean that after the two moons got together, their two sides are now reunited and they are ‘whole’, so they are free to embrace their full potential 🤔 Also, the one information about I.N that was confirmed by Chan is that he is some sort of Oracle in the story, so he has the ability to see the parallel worlds! He said it a while back during Chan’s room! :D

@@bookishtheories Thank you for answering

For sure, I agree with those people too! :D The way I see it, I still think they hold the same significance in the sense that the upside down world is their inner world 🤔 Hellevator was kind of the prologue of the story, so it had the purpose to introduce the journey of growth ahead of them and their inner conflict or “division” if you will. In Levanter, when that part of the story concluded, there was no city in the field, but they danced on a mirror after Felix said ‘it’s all good now’. That implied that they understood their lesson and their inner conflict was healed, hence the two worlds reuniting once again. In Maniac the two worlds still exist, but now with a huge difference: now they can jump back and forth with no consequences! To me this means that now they know themselves and fully embraced all their potential. I think this change started with God’s Menu on, because in the Highlight Reels they say that when the moons reunited, the light brought back their true selves! I think what we are seeing is that concept coming to life!! :D

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