The World Is Mine

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In both, an attempt is made to answer the question: Can violence shape our moral standards? 

Epic adventures in the super seinen league! That tag line should really be enough, lol, both these titles are great works of art that's looking at things like morals, society, fears, psychology, and still manage to keep it highly interesting at the same time.  

Nihilism is the main theme here, and a pitch black satire. Violence, sex, and all that is just the frosting of the cake.  

Many instances of unemotional brutality and gore are depicted in order to paint a bleak, nihilistic portrait of society with main characters changing drastically, taking on different appearances and playing a significant role as a renounced, perhaps respected influential character that dictates the future in humanity's changing standards of morals and what it means to be human. While both contain a heavy sense of realism, both also have lightly supernatural elements that are used to further develop its themes without the story seeming too fantasy which would make them seem incorrectly like comfortable works. They are unapologetic. 

i just see similairties  

Both manga are humanist stories about intense emotional turmoil, twisted worldviews, and degeneracy that taints the romantic elements heavily. Both provide immensely disturbing material at times to provoke complex thoughts about the human condition, meaning of life, and societal secularism and possess unique artistic qualities to achieve and enhance such messages. Both also contain religious undertones dealing and explore existentialism through it. 

When it comes to twisted, epic, realistic, awesome and gruesome seinen mangas there are few that are close to these two. Both of them start crazy and take it to a whole different level. Totally recommended! 

Violence as a mean of self development, it's never I good idea, and these two explain why, painfully detailed. Also, if you're not insane enough after reading Freesia you can always jack it up a bit with The World is Mine, which is like a clockwork orange tribut. 

Two young men set out to destroy society through means of terrorism. Destroy & Revolution is more PG and less gory/controversial than TWiM though. 

In both mangas main heroes are.... idiots! Both of them are anarchists that go around randomly killing people. And because of that these mangsa have a weary similar fill to them. TWIM is much more serious. 

Main characters who pretty much do whatever they want and face off against both people and monsters on their path to carnage. Though TWIM is definitely darker and more explicit than Island there's a similar feeling.  

Both manga leads the readers to root for the protagonist, despite it's morally indefensible acts. While Shamo worries more about developing a single character, it never really develops anything past the "corrupted by society" trope, while TWiM world is richer not only in terms of characters, but also reasons for their development and goals. 

The nihilistic traits found in Berserk (the lack of faith in humanity, the corruption of the establishment) are also found in The Word is Mine. Seemingly senseless murdering are turned into gritty poetry in both these mangas. 

Nihilism is a pretty unexplored area of the human psyche, even if it’s clearly a big problem in the world today. For some reason we tend to stay away from complex problems where simple concepts like “good” and “bad” doesn’t really apply. To dive down into the vast meaninglessness in The World Is Mine and Himizu can be pretty suffocating, but hopefully they can give some perspective on your existence.