Riot Bids Farewell to Arcane With a Hauntingly Romantic Music Video

Riot Games‘ award-winning animated collection, Arcane, concluded its story with its second season on the tail finish of final 12 months. The main criticism from followers of the present was that they demanded extra time with a few of its characters. Now, 4 months after the present’s finale, Riot Video games and animation studio Fortiche have given followers precisely what they’ve been asking for in essentially the most League of Legends trend: a trendy music video.

Earlier this week, the official Arcane X/Twitter account posted a teaser picture of Jinx and Ekko with the caption, “One last dance.” The submit, which has over 124,000 likes and over 5 million views, basically was an announcement teasing the discharge of the music video for the season finale’s “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” track.

Featured in what’s arguably the season’s best episode, the track is carried out by Stromae and Pomme, and sees Ekko and an alternate-timeline Jinx dance earlier than the boy savior has to return to his authentic timeline and save the day. Translated in English as “My Greatest Enemy,” the track’s lyrics embody the tumultuous romance between the childhood buddies who change into a pair within the present’s alternate timeline and are estranged enemies within the present correct.

The music video’s significance goes even additional by appearing as “what occurred off-screen between Jinx and Ekko after he used his time-rewinding powers to forestall her from blowing one another up.” Within the video, we see a VHS overlay of the pair dancing as Ekko and Jinx sing the lyrics to the track at one another earlier than closing on a heat embrace.

A lot of the fanfare over the track for “Timebomb” shippers is because of the present’s depiction of the 2 characters saving the day within the animated collection’ last moments. They don one another’s outfits and draw artwork on one another’s our bodies, implying that one thing occurred between them off-screen. This burning query was additional fueled by the discharge of the Arcane artbook, which reveals Jinx annotating and doodling around Ekko, virtually outright calling him her man. Whereas the music video doesn’t truly showcase what occurred off-screen, it ties into the emotional climax of the 2 reconciling within the present’s foremost timeline.

“My first response once I noticed the scene was, frankly, I discovered it fairly poetic,” Stromae stated within the music video teaser. “I understood the imaginative and prescient that the administrators and all of the animators had of the collection. They clearly knew what they needed… I believed the music and every part labored nicely collectively, particularly because it’s a reasonably essential second.”

“Even to at the present time, it’s a track that continues to exist in folks’s lives, and I believe what occurred is de facto magical… I truly understood the folks’s response and enthusiasm as a result of there was a sort of magnificence, romanticism, and sweetness that’s truly fairly uncommon within the collection,” Pomme added. “There was one thing particular about that episode.”

“Ma Meilleure Ennemie” is Riot Video games’ greatest streaming debut. The season two monitor peaked at over 10 million streams each day and reached quantity three on Spotify’s world chart. Along with being Stromae and Pomme’s first Billboard Top 100 track, “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” was additionally featured throughout CNN’s 2025 New 12 months’s celebration. Kudos to the music video are as a result of Fortiche animator Tom Gouill; inventive administrators Pascal Charrue, Arnaud Delord, and Bart Maunoury; government producer Christine Ponzevera; and co-producers Alex Seaver and Luc Van Haver.

As talked about earlier, Riot Video games is no stranger to making music videos that tie into League of Legends. Within the lead-up to and following Arcane season two, the sport developer launched two music videos tying into characters Mel and Ambessa Medarda’s lore, which dovetail into their novel and new seasonal update in League of Legends. Moreover, through the rollout of Arcane‘s last episode, followers shortly deduced that Vi and Caitlyn Kiramman would hook up within the present’s finale based mostly solely on armchair detective work for the tracklist of the present, together with queer artist King Princess.

Seeing as how the one issues Fortiche artists are posting on their social media are behind-the-scenes manufacturing supplies of storyboards and unrendered scenes from Arcane, the “Ma Meilleure Ennemie” will function the final piece of Arcane content material till Riot Video games and Fortiche unveil their spin-off animated series. That’s except Riot Video games decides to go for broke and provides Jayvik shippers some further love, too.

You’ll be able to stream each seasons of Arcane on Netflix.

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