Chapters 9, 10, and the first part of chapter 11 (The Golden age parts 1-3). You can skip to page 17 of chapter 11 (the double page spread of a battle on a castle wall).
Only 1 guy from what I can recall could be considered a dragon and he's doing fine. The sword's name is cool but no dragons were harmed in the making of this manga.
Chapters 9, 10 (The Golden Age parts 1 and 2), with graphic content involving a child also in the first part of chapter 11. You can skip to page 17 of chapter 11 (the double page spread of a battle on a castle wall).
there are several instances of graphic rape. please refrain from reading this serious if rape is a serious trigger for you. not only are adults raped, but a child is raped as well. it is not romanticized, and is depicted as disgusting, however.
Yes! An early villains wife explicitly/graphically cheats on him! One of the later main characters backstory is that he is an illegitimate child and half siblings with another character.
There are many portrayals of mental illness in Berserk. Mostly PTSD, but they are not portrayed as being violent due to their mental illness. Some (not all; see: Farnese later in the story) characters are violent, but the rest of the world is just as violent if not moreso than them.
One girl contemplates suicide out of despair, and the main character tells her to go on and do it, which eventually shakes her back into reality, and the will to live back into her
kind of. you see a hanging corpse with an umbilical cord hanging out of it. you also see pregnant women used to produce trolls. the trolls usually burst through their stomachs. you only see this a couple times.
One character loses her mind after a traumatic event. Many villains or random street urchins make comments about her childish behavior, but it is never portrayed as being okay.
No one is intentionally misgendered, but there are many comments about one of the male main characters, Griffith, looking like a girl, and many characters say they confused him for one at first glance