Berserk

Manga • 1989 • Horror  

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This manga contains 133 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
356 supporters
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Beeeeeen
Going forward, you should expect a 'yes' on almost every trigger here. Berserk is not for the faint of heart
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Abandonment
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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Is an animal abandoned?
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
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Myniko
The story almost praises them for not forgiving them
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Is someone stalked?
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Is there domestic violence?
73 supporters
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
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Yes
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Is someone gaslighted?
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dadawgisdead
not exactly a belt but they are whipped with something similar and they suffer greatly
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Is a child abused?
89 supporters
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OrangeCat313
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).
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Addiction
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Anraku
That kind of “satanic sect”
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Is there addiction?
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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24
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Animal
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HiddenPerson
It's a manga, what did you expect?
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Does a horse die?
81 supporters
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Yemon89
There are many battles in which horses and their riders are slain.

There's one specific horse later on which it's for the best that the it is killed.
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Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
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Are animals abused?
171 supporters
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27
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Yes
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Yes
28
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Many throughout series
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Is an animal sad?
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Are rabbits harmed?
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Does a cat die?
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Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
1 supporters
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HiddenPerson
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.
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
16 supporters
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Geraldy
Someone ate snake
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
28 supporters
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heronssong
children are turned into bug-like creatures.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
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Is someone drugged?
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Is there pedophilia?
101 supporters
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OrangeCat313
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).
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Is someone held under water?
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Is rape mentioned?
75 supporters
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dadawgisdead
as well as shown. please keep your own peace in mind when watching.
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Boogagoob
Guts is physically abused by his father as a child in a manner meant to degrade and taunt him.
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Is someone restrained?
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Yes
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heronssong
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.
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Maktopus
Men are sexually assaulted, but there are certainly no jokes
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Maktopus
Ch 10 contains a child r*pe
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
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Bodily Harm
Is there shaving/cutting?
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Are any hands damaged?
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Yes
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dadawgisdead
early on a character is threatened with arm dislocation. later it is completed
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Is there decapitation?
27 supporters
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Is there cannibalism?
31 supporters
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Common throughout series
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Is someone crushed to death?
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Is someone choked?
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Yes
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shoewheels
Many people are burned at the stake.
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Is someone buried alive?
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Is there body horror?
45 supporters
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Frequent, primarily during conviction and eclipse
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Is there amputation?
27 supporters
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SamuelEris
Someone rips his arm off
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Common throughout series, often with teeth and eyes flying
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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Is there a hanging?
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Yes
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Myniko
There is a whole powerup based around you not caring about broken bones
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Yes
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Anraku
Farnese
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Yes
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Common throughout series
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
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Is someone tortured?
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Berserk heavily features torture
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Does someone fall to their death?
11 supporters
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Yes
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AnonymousTriggerWarnings
Common throughout series
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Is someone stabbed?
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Yes
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YES.
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Children
Is an infant abducted?
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Does a kid die?
41 supporters
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heronssong
several children are, so please be aware of this. children are also turned into demonic creatures.
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VISCEREPTILE
Yes. There are many instances of children being assaulted, sold to slavery, or creeped on. It is never fetishized, however.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Death
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dadawgisdead
consentually? yes. nonconsentally? also yes
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Does a major character die?
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Yes
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Apostles could be considered non-human
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Does someone die?
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Yes
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Disability
Yes
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Is the r-slur used?
30 supporters
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VISCEREPTILE
Depends on the translation you read.
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Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
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Family
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Boogagoob
Guts's adoptive mother dies when he's young, and he ends up killing his father in self defense.
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Does a parent die?
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Yes
16
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Maplelev
In a childhood flashback a character destroys their loved toy.
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Does someone cheat?
17 supporters
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Maplelev
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.
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Fear
Are there ghosts?
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Yes
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Are there jump scares?
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14
Yes
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Myniko
Not in a shower, but the purpose of shower scenes is fulfilled by it
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dadawgisdead
the show largely takes place outside
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Are there clowns?
12 supporters
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Rickert
There are no clowns in the Manga, but when you read online forums, there are thousands of clowns who say that 'Griffith did nothing wrong.'
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Is someone possessed?
14 supporters
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Anraku
Guts (by the berserker armor) and Farnese
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Yes
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Boogagoob
There are fields of faces that could potentially trigger a trypophobic response.
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
12 supporters
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Yemon89
"That thing was too big to be called a razor. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.."
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
91 supporters
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1
In black swordsman when he kills the girl and in lost children when he goes to the misty valley
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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Is there farting?
10 supporters
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graywolf2010
Puck
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Is someone eaten?
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Yes
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Is there on-screen pooping?
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Does someone spit?
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Yes
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Is there audio gore?
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
8 supporters
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
27 supporters
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No
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4
The authorities in the story, while not cops, are portrayed as nasty and corrupt






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Is there incarceration?
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Yes
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LGBTQ+
Are there transphobic slurs?
42 supporters
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No
11
Yes
0
No
7
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legallydragonic
Not unless you consider Griffith to be his dead name after he becomes Femto
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Is there bisexual cheating?
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
21 supporters
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
19 supporters
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Yes
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No
15
Yes
3
No
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0
I believe Casca sews Guts' wounds closed, shown for laughs
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kinuyo
Brief, but yes. One character's mother is mentally unwell and is sent to a mental institution, albiet a medieval-europe equivalent of one.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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No
13
Yes
5
No
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Myniko
Yes, but it is shown remarkably well.
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Does someone have cancer?
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Yes
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15
Mental Health
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Myniko
never stated, BUT MOST LIKELY
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Yes
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kLvcy
One of the main characters self-harms multiple times by scratching at his arms until he tears heavily bleeding wounds on them
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Is autism misrepresented?
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Yes
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VISCEREPTILE
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.
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Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
19 supporters
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Yes
1
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6
Is there autism specific abuse?
37 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
2
Demon
A character tries leaping off a cliff before being saved
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Yes
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No
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Myniko
3/4 of the story takes place in an unhinged world
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Yes
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Is there misophonia?
1 supporters
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No
12
Yes
21
No
0
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heronssong
anxiety and panic attacks as well as ptsd flashbacks.
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Is there ABA therapy?
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kLvcy
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
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Is there body dysphoria?
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2
Is there body dysmorphia?
29 supporters
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Yes
1
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12
Is there a claustrophobic scene?
17 supporters
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Yes
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0
Does someone have an eating disorder?
36 supporters
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No
15
Yes
20
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0
Yes
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dadawgisdead
bruh yes
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Noxious
Are there underwater scenes?
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Yes
4
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0
Yes
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Myniko
It's a comic. Non actually heard, but it does say that it happened
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Is there shakey cam?
36 supporters
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14
Does a baby cry?
13 supporters
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kinuyo
Infant Guts cries in the beginning of his childhood flashback
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Is there screaming?
12 supporters
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Yes
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Is there obscene language/gestures?
6 supporters
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Yes
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Yemon89
Flashing lights are used often in the 97 anime
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
13 supporters
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Yes
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Yes
5
No
2
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VISCEREPTILE
Puck breaks the fourth wall once early on, but it is not disruptive to the story.
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
23 supporters
Yes
0
No
8
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Boogagoob
No, but one is born prematurely and as a monster.
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Yes
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No
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Anraku
Casca after the eclipse
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Are there babies or unborn children?
14 supporters
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Yes
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0
Is there childbirth?
20 supporters
Yes
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heronssong
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.
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Are there abortions?
15 supporters
Yes
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No
14
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heronssong
contrary to the other comment, casca does not abort her child. she miscarries a corrupted fetus.
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Yes
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Anraku
Guts mother
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Prejudice
Yes
15
No
2
3
Maplelev
Corkus calls Guts the F slur at least in the dark horse translation.
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VISCEREPTILE
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.
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Are there usages of the n-word?
30 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
Yes
0
No
12
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
33 supporters
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Yes
1
No
9
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crabfish
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
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Does an LGBT person die?
30 supporters
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Yes
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No
11
Are there fat jokes?
51 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is there aphobia?
19 supporters
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Yes
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No
4
3
Maktopus
The slur g*psy is used casually. (Many folks don't realize it's a slur so this may have been an ignorant translation choice.)
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Yes
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No
13
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kLvcy
The first man ever killed by Guts was his abuser, a black man named Donovan who raped him as a child
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Is there hate speech?
28 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Race
Is there blackface?
29 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
1 supporters
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Yes
8
No
0
Religious
Yes
6
No
0
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graywolf2010
The main antagonist of the third arc is analogous to the Spanish Inquisition, with the Holy See as Berserk’s Roman Catholic Church
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Yes
6
No
0
1
Maktopus
Iconically so.
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Sex
Yes
14
No
0
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Cozychuu
Several. There is a LOT.
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Is there bestiality?
79 supporters
Yes
11
No
0
6
Boogagoob
A demon possessing a horse threatens sexual violence, but is killed before anything comes of it. Still fairly graphic and potentially upsetting.
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Does someone lose their virginity?
12 supporters
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Yes
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0
Is someone sexually objectified?
44 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
1 supporters
Yes
23
No
0
10
raakamieli
a king is attracted to his daughter.
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Is there sexual content?
55 supporters
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Yes
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1
Is there BDSM?
19 supporters
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Yes
2
No
3
Sexism
Yes
11
No
2
Sickness
Is someone terminally ill?
17 supporters
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Yes
4
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0
Does someone have a stroke?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Does someone have a chronic illness?
9 supporters
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Yes
4
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0
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
24 supporters
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Yes
3
No
7
Social
Are there fat suits?
1 supporters
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Yes
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No
9
Is someone homeless?
5 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Yes
6
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Maktopus
Life/death/humanity and heaven/hell are major themes
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Are there anti-abortion themes?
32 supporters
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Yes
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No
8
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
3 supporters
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Yes
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No
19
Are there end credit scenes?
33 supporters
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Yes
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No
5
Yes
0
No
13
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Anraku
The manga isn’t even finished
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Vehicular
Does a car honk or tires screech?
13 supporters
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12
Does a car crash?
19 supporters
Yes
0
No
19
1
Myniko
I don't even think wagon crash
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Does a plane crash?
11 supporters
Yes
1
No
20
2
Anraku
Planes didn’t exist
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Yes
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No
17
0
dadawgisdead
cars didnt exist
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Violence
Does someone drown?
18 supporters
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Yes
13
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0
Is there blood/gore?
54 supporters
Yes
25
No
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Crow75
It has all the gore.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
7 supporters
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No
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Yes
3
No
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Cozychuu
Canons, crossbow, arm canons, early gun prototypes essentially. No actual guns, however.
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