Nihilism in perspective with Johan

First nihilism is the rejection of all religious and moral principles, in the belief that life is meaningless. And nothing matters in this world.

Absurdism id the belief that a search for meaning is inherently in conflict with the actual lack of meaning, but that one should both accept this and simultaneously rebel against it by embracing what life has to offer.

The belief that peoples state is that Johan possesses nihilistic tendences and I shall agree upon this statement. But that alone is not an argument. On the contrary, Johan indeed is not a nihilist. If you go deeper into nihilism, it states that absolutely very thing is meaningless, there is no point in anything. And this would contradict to the fact that Johan did have some goals in his life. One of them being, the perfect suicide with his sister, this idea led him to believe that only this way the monster inside him would be put down, this alone shows that in some he saw meaning and had a goal, which greatly goes against nihilism.

If Johan truly had been a nihilist, the series would’ve ended after the first few chapters, because he would have done absolutely nothing, as there is no meaning to anything.

The more suitable title for Johan would have to be absurdism. In many scenes do we see Johan toy with other people. In a sense of absurdity, he sees no value in anyone, because the idea of this world to him is preposterous. That’s why everyone is equal to him, that’s why he sees no need to side with Nazis or become the next, world leader, he has no proper ideology. Johan simply does not care, as everyone will die and everything will go in vain. It would be absurd to even try, but he still has his own way of making objectives, killing Franz Bonaparta and everyone who knew him, this goal in general would view d absurd. I would say Johan understands humanity’s despair better that anyone, for somebody who had that many near-death experiences, life would mean like a toy.