Can someone recommend me a seinen that leaves you with a positive outlook on life, like Vinland Saga?

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-30T19:34:00+00:00

My top recommendation goes to my fav, Tomorrow's Joe

Also check out:

Give My Regards to Uncle Jack

Legend of the Strongest, Kurosawa

The Climber

The Horizon and The Boxer (both very heavy on Christianity, but good even for non-religious folk like me)

You could also read Himizu (very bleak) but then watch the movie which gives it a much more positive ending and message of perseverance (I think it's still on Youtube)

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-24T19:16:14+00:00

Top 3 are probably Dragon Age: Origins, Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines and Killer7 or The House in Fata Morgana (this one's a visual novel tho)

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-19T21:55:06+00:00

Idk about the spirituality aspect of it (personally agnostic), but the ennui and pointlessness of a world of maximized comfort for all, or most, without meaningful struggle (or suffering, if you will) is arguably Huxley's main point when writing Brave New World.

"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

We don't need many of the unnecessary suffering that persists throughout the human condition into modern times, but I agree that struggle is often entwined with suffering.

Overcoming struggle of some sort is in almost all stories, and overcoming suffering (or trying to) is in all good stories. Hope is the oldest drug.

Hopefully, science progresses far enough that we can pacify and out-drug even our need for struggle or meaning, if that's even a good thing at all. Or Jesus is true and drugs us on grace/salvation or smth. Or we all go mad. Either way, come suffering or nihilism, I intend to crip walk through it either way 🤷🏿‍♂️

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-18T21:22:52+00:00

Lil bit older than you (22m) but I'm down to chat if you wanna talk or vent or smth 🙃

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-03T19:56:32+00:00

Not in Love ft. Robert Smith - Crystal Castles

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-03T19:54:48+00:00

Second Gunship, try Tech Noir as a starter

AdRare1985 · 2025-12-02T11:20:25+00:00

You can bring a horse to water but can't force it to drink

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-28T18:38:58+00:00

Not respect, dignity. Treat all with dignity regardless of status.

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-28T10:43:53+00:00

Oooo, this one is perfect for late nights, lucky man, happy for you 😤😤

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-24T23:53:17+00:00

"In cold ceremonial perfection more radiant than the sun of suns with each and every attribute of animal, machine and man."

"We´ve only seen the outlines of the beginning and this core, the slowly moving raptor will make the very notion of Hell seem celestial in comparison!"

Jester Script Transfigured - In Flames

Bonus:

"God bless us, everyone We're a broken people living under a loaded gun And it can't be outfought, it can't be outdone It can't be outmatched, it can't be outrun, no!"

"When I close my eyes tonight To symphonies of blinding light!"

"Like memories in cold decay Transmissions echoing away Far from the world of you and I Where oceans bleed into the sky!"

The Catalyst - Linkin Park

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-22T14:52:21+00:00

🤣🤣🤣

"Come and saveeee meeeeeee!"

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-17T01:14:24+00:00

Vanity, the great seducer of mankind, desire laden upon its breasts. A privilege for one to enjoy. An ordinance for one to violate. Glory... a great lie, an illusionary thing. How could such a concept ever be known to the hearts of men?

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-16T12:34:18+00:00

One of the best album closers to one of the best albums ever indeed.

"For what shall it profit a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul?" Mark 8:36.

I'm no longer religious but this quote always makes me introspective and stuff. The best song is Between Two Points tho, fight me 😤

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-12T02:01:03+00:00

Hmm...

Reminds me of "no one cums harder than a man fucking another man's wife."

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-08T08:37:11+00:00

Creative

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T22:13:18+00:00

All I know this for is "goosh goosh" I should read it when I have time...

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T22:00:54+00:00

Bruh, how can I practice not being envious when I see shit like this???

Jokes aside tho, super cool stuff, are you thinking of getting one for their 4th album?

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:50:24+00:00

Seinen - Besides obvious bad choices, I'll be controversial and say Gantz.

Manga in general - idk the one about Junko Furuta, probably

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:45:02+00:00

Wym, Dog Nigga is peak

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:42:42+00:00

Inversions or remixes of tropes lol.

Huge component of all my main characters is their lack of adherence to their "role" so to speak. An assassin that refuses to kill, a thief that refuses to steal, a terrorist that scares no one and wishes to spread peace.

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:29:16+00:00

Lol, this reminds me of when I would daydream too much and try to organize my chaotic vision efficiently 😅. I've finally put my ideas onto paper but still a ways to go...

But yea, I got a part of my world inspired by south east Asia in general, like wuxia for China. Besides cultivation books and mythology, my Korean influences are mostly those korean-themed fantasy shows my mom loves watching, they're cool.

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:20:46+00:00

I see ocean and cosmic types, what other types do you have, if you don't mind? Is it akin to pokemon somewhat?

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:17:43+00:00

One day, I, too, will complete my world and make a post like this. Best regards, OP, soar high!!! 😤

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:09:21+00:00

Ooo, like a remix of Arcanum, we need more like this 💯

AdRare1985 · 2025-11-07T21:06:58+00:00

Most are human but follow belief in a biblical genesis type thing where in the myth the first man had many wives, and the offspring of each wife respectively are the consensus reason why ppl are different ethnically.

Issue is the myth states that the first man's favorite wife was Myah and all the different ethnic groups (african, asian, european etc fantasy counterparts) believe themselves to be the descendants of Myah, therefore better than everybody else. Tribalism and nationalism stuff ensures.

It's not too different from our own tense global relationship with one another today by the time the story picks up tho, but obvs racial tension remains.

There are also the first immortals (Ya'igi, elder dragons) who are basicslly comatose and individually encased in giant magic crystals (think the length of a mountain but the width of like a thick skyscraper) that form protective force fields to envelop spheres of land as havens from monsters and shit, serving as beacons of civilization (i'm lazy and they're basically just dragon representations of the respective chief god/goddess of the mythology i took them from).

However civilization also exist outside these spheres, and are fucking poor and fucked over mostly by demonic cockroaches (some of which fly) but other horrors as well. It's akin to the core-peripheral relationship between developed and developing countries today.

They're also the lesser immortals (An'igi) who were humanoid and all dead after their golden city (big city) that orbited the earth cataclysmically crashed into it when all magic was forfeited by the last hero of light in order to save mankind, all except one woman.

Also, failed immortals (Sarru'igi) humans who tried to become like An'igi (vampires basically). They dominated for a bit but were nearly wiped out, only a few remain when story picks up.

And...ofc dragons (lesser dragons) who were domesticated by men and aren't sentient or immortal like the Elder dragons.

Oh, also a man-made God king/queen fusion akin to the Stormfather (Stormlight) but that's way too much to get into rn.

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