Akira

Movie • 1988 • Animation  

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A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
This movie contains 79 potentially triggering events.
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Does the dog die?
1 supporters
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Two dogs are shot, one right after the other, and the blood trail is shown. About minute marks 7:30-8:15 in the film.
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Unanswered Triggers
Is someone's mouth covered?
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Is someone stabbed?
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Are there dislocations?
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Abandonment
Yes
2
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Is a child abandoned by a parent?
16 supporters
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4
Is an animal abandoned?
1 supporters
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Abuse
Are there abusive parents?
25 supporters
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5
Yes
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Is someone stalked?
12 supporters
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16
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7
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cmrnfry
the government tracks and follows tetsuo.
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Lexichae
Tetsuo is verbally abusive to his girlfriend
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
37 supporters
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6
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Yes
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Is someone gaslighted?
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18
Is someone abused with a belt?
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Is a child abused?
59 supporters
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Lexichae
There’s a scene were the coach I think is punching the main characters who are all ~15
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Addiction
6
Memvarthemage
Drugs are a main topic in the story as tetsuo gets addicted to pills that repress his powers
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Is there addiction?
6 supporters
Yes
35
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5
Lexichae
The main characters are all addicted to pills
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Yes
33
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4
PlatoCrawford
Underage drinking.
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Animal
Were animals harmed in the making?
61 supporters
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8
Does a horse die?
49 supporters
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30
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
87 supporters
Yes
36
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1
Memvarthemage
A dead rat can be seen in the sewer
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Are animals abused?
101 supporters
Yes
24
No
8
5
Lexichae
A dog is shot
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Yes
0
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25
Yes
27
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cmrnfry
a dog dies fairly immediately and there are dead rats in the sewers
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Is an animal sad?
1 supporters
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5
Are rabbits harmed?
35 supporters
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5
Does a cat die?
91 supporters
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27
Does a pet die?
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Does a dragon die?
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Are there spiders?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Are there snakes?
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Are there sharks?
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Are there bugs?
16 supporters
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7
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fia99
a dead rat with maggots in it is briefly shown
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
8 supporters
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Yes
5
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Is someone drugged?
13 supporters
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Yes
5
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Is there pedophilia?
57 supporters
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4
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4
0
Parrot
Clown gang members appear as adults.
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Is someone held under water?
8 supporters
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Yes
5
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Is rape mentioned?
39 supporters
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Yes
1
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3
Is someone beaten up by a bully?
8 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Is someone restrained?
9 supporters
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Yes
15
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Yes
34
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Memvarthemage
When Testuo and kaori steal Kanedas bike they stop in the street and get attacked by the gang know as “the clowns.”
They pin kaori to the wall and rip her shirt off exposing her b*****s briefly then pinch her in the face knocking her out.
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Yonah
No, but a female character is beaten and has her shirt ripped off of her chest before the assailants can be stopped
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Bodily Harm
Yes
30
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2
4
PlatoCrawford
There is a scene where Tetsuo gets glass embedded in his foot.
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Are any hands damaged?
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Is there throat mutilation?
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Yes
14
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3
2
Shadra
The character Mr. Nezu overdoses accidentally on his heart medication in one scene and is seen and heard choking on his pills before collapsing. In a previous scene, he is also seen struggling to breath while trying to take his medication.
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Is there decapitation?
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3
Is there cannibalism?
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19
Yes
8
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tasharomanoff
*SPOILER*

Near the end, as Tetsuo mutates he pulls a character in and she is crushed to death inside him as he rapidly expands.
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Is someone choked?
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4
Yes
30
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1
2
Lexichae
Burned in a bike crash.
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1
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17
1
passerby
many people are enveloped by (not earth but something) and a city is partially destroyed
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Is there body horror?
25 supporters
Yes
8
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0
0
Sibelos
Tetsuo's iconic Transformation scene
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Is there amputation?
11 supporters
Yes
26
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1
3
CosmoGarden
Tetsuo's arm gets cut off at one point, but he regenerates it with mechanical parts
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Yes
28
No
1
6
Memvarthemage
Near the end during Testuo’s mutation, he absorbs his girlfriend who gets crushed by his mass
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
11 supporters
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6
Is there a hanging?
18 supporters
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19
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jmaa
No actual hangings, but there is one mention of hanging, and one short shot of a statue with a loose noose around it's neck.
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5
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1
1
tasharomanoff
Not technically, but a character dies after being pulled into a mutated body mass in a way that is probably crushed to death but could be interpreted as being suffocated.
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Yes
33
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0
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cmrnfry
multiple characters are shown getting hit in the face and losing teeth.
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Does someone become unconscious?
2 supporters
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Yes
6
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Yes
27
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0
2
ToddCallahan
In the opening, a man has his arm crushed by a motorcycle
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Does someone have a seizure?
2 supporters
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22
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2
Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
40 supporters
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1
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14
Yes
28
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0
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cmrnfry
tetsuo steps on glass and loses his arm. during his mutation, there is at least one mutated depiction of feet, and many mutated hands/fingers.
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Is someone tortured?
52 supporters
Yes
32
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0
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cmrnfry
tetsuo suffers and is experimented on throughout the film, and there are flashbacks to the young espers being tested on as well
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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4
Does someone fall to their death?
5 supporters
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Yes
23
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0
Yes
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0
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cmrnfry
during his mutation scene, tetsuo's eyes are affected. in a brief scene, someone is holding tetsuo's eye open with their fingers.
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Yes
15
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0
1
fia99
lots of body horror towards the end
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Children
Yes
2
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4
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Yonah
Children are shown to have been placed in government facilities to experiment on them, it is never explicitly stated that they were kidnapped
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Does a kid die?
24 supporters
Yes
32
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0
1
Memvarthemage
The physic children sacrifice them self’s to send tetsuo to another dimension
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Yes
9
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0
2
tasharomanoff
A girl (who goes to school with the main characters and is presumably their age at <15) is sexually assaulted, including having her top ripped off and otherwise threatened.
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
7 supporters
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Death
Does someone sacrifice themselves?
6 supporters
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Yes
6
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0
Does a major character die?
10 supporters
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Yes
6
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0
Does a non-human character die?
15 supporters
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Yes
5
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0
Does someone die?
8 supporters
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Yes
6
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0
Disability
Is the r-slur used?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
0
No
5
Drugs/Alcohol
Yes
8
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2
0
tasharomanoff
A character accidentally overdoses on their medication.
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Family
Yes
23
No
0
2
Lexichae
Tetsuo is kidnapped by government agents
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Does a parent die?
6 supporters
Yes
15
No
11
3
cmrnfry
no deaths are shown on-screen as none of the characters' parents are shown. it is implied that a majority of young characters are parent-less or missing at least one.
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Does someone cheat?
12 supporters
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0
No
18
Yes
7
No
5
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cmrnfry
children's toys are objects of tetsuo's violent hallucinations including a teddy bear, a toy car, and a pink bunny, though the toys are not real and are not explicitly destroyed.
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Does a family member die?
0 supporters
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4
Fear
Are there jumpscares?
27 supporters
Yes
22
No
7
1
cmrnfry
in the hospital, there is a surprising scene during which tetsuo suddenly kills many people at once
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Yes
21
No
1
5
PlatoCrawford
Kei is briefly possessed by one of the psychic children.
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Are there ghosts?
5 supporters
Yes
4
No
17
3
cmrnfry
there are ghost-like memories and hallucinations. (SPOILERS) akira's form is briefly shown alive and transparent at the end.
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Are there clowns?
8 supporters
Yes
30
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3
6
Anonymous
There is a biker gang that wears clown face paint.
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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2
Is trypophobic content shown?
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4
Are there razors?
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4
Is there a shower scene?
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22
Are there mannequins?
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5
Gross
Does someone wet/soil themselves?
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11
Does someone vomit?
54 supporters
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30
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2
2
cmrnfry
kaneda wretches in the sewers. (SPOILERS) at the end of the movie, tetsuo's mutation has green liquid flowing from its mouth.
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Is someone eaten?
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5
Is there on-screen pooping?
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4
Does someone spit?
7 supporters
Yes
23
No
1
1
cmrnfry
people spit out cigarettes, tetsuo drools, and kaneda spits out a bloody tooth.
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Is there audio gore?
26 supporters
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Yes
14
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0
Is there farting?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
3 supporters
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0
No
6
Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
8 supporters
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No
15
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Maktopus
No, but it's worth noting that the cops are violent.
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Is there incarceration?
3 supporters
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Yes
4
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0
LGBTQ+
Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
17 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there transphobic slurs?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
0
No
4
Is an LGBT+ person outed?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Is there bisexual cheating?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
2 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Medical
Yes
20
No
5
3
cmrnfry
various forms of experimentation are shown to have been performed on tetsuo and the espers.
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Yes
27
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0
3
cmrnfry
tetsuo is injected with sedative
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5
cmrnfry
there is no institution for mentally ill people, but there is a scene depicting a building where doctors collected children with psychic powers.
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Yes
29
No
1
3
cmrnfry
tetsuo is often in a hospital
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Is there menstruation?
5 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Does someone have cancer?
9 supporters
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Yes
1
No
22
Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
0 supporters
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Yes
6
No
1
Does someone have a mental illness?
11 supporters
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Yes
2
No
2
Yes
20
No
8
3
cmrnfry
characters do unhealthy things like drugs and alcohol, and tetsuo self-medicates with drugs. no characters purposefully physically harm themselves.
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Is autism misrepresented?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
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4
Is a mentally ill person violent?
13 supporters
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Yes
5
No
6
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
5
0
Kibble
A character hallucinates very strongly and there are moments where reality blends weirdly due to that and psychic abilities.
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Yes
3
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0
Is there misophonia?
21 supporters
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Yes
0
No
10
Is there ABA therapy?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is there body dysphoria?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is there body dysmorphia?
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Yes
27
No
5
0
passerby
no but someone else is told to kill themself after a failed attempt to kill himself and many others
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Yes
6
No
12
3
cmrnfry
when tetsuo hallucinates, he panics and expresses great distress.
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Yes
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0
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cmrnfry
two characters are crushed. tetsuo and espers are strapped to a table. two characters are locked in jail for a short period.
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22
Is there autism specific abuse?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
4
Shadra
Several unnamed background characters are shown to have likely committed suicide offscreen and are seen deceased in a bathtub with much blood around them. Afterwords, a character dies via an unintended overdose.
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Noxious
Are there sudden loud noises?
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Yes
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0
Are there underwater scenes?
5 supporters
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Yes
2
No
2
Does a baby cry?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
9
Is there shakey cam?
22 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Is there screaming?
6 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
0
Sibelos
The f-word is seen written in graffiti a few times, the english dub also has a spoken use of the word, language isn't as frequent as other r rated films.
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2
cmrnfry
when in the hospital, tetsuo's power grows and there are various light changes.
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Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
0 supporters
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Yes
3
No
1
Is the fourth wall broken?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
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Yes
0
No
7
Is there childbirth?
12 supporters
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Yes
1
No
19
Are there abortions?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
15
0
shroomoss
Near the end a character who is not a baby becomes shaped like a very detailed giant baby.
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Does someone miscarry?
12 supporters
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Yes
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No
20
Does a pregnant person die?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
24 supporters
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Yes
0
No
18
2
cmrnfry
tetsuo misgenders kaneda twice by using a feminine name and suffix, though kaneda is not explicitly transgender
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Does the black guy die first?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Are there homophobic slurs?
0 supporters
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Yes
0
No
14
Yes
0
No
14
Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
14 supporters
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Yes
0
No
12
Is there hate speech?
14 supporters
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Yes
1
No
22
Is a minority is misrepresented?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Does an LGBT person die?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
24
5
cmrnfry
as tetsuo's health downgrades, his friends call him cr*zy, say he's lost his mind, say he's acting like a crackhead, etc.
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Are there n-words?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Is there aphobia?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Race
Is there blackface?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
20 supporters
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Yes
0
No
8
Religious
Is religion discussed?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there demons or Hell?
8 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Sex
Yes
31
No
0
2
cmrnfry
various times, background characters are shown being intimate though not explicitly. a young female character's chest is exposed briefly.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
21 supporters
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Yes
10
No
1
Yes
8
No
0
1
tasharomanoff
During an assault, an underage girl's chest is exposed.
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Is there bestiality?
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5
Is there BDSM?
10 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Does someone lose their virginity?
6 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there incestuous relationships?
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43 supporters
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Yes
0
No
19
Sexism
Yes
1
No
8
Sickness
Does someone have a stroke?
4 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
0
tasharomanoff
Not traditionally, but the espers could be construed as having a chronic condition.
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Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
13 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is someone terminally ill?
10 supporters
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Yes
1
No
2
Social
Is someone homeless?
3 supporters
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Yes
7
No
1
Are there anti-abortion themes?
19 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Are there fat suits?
11 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Is existentialism debated?
6 supporters
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Yes
2
No
2
Spoiler
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
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21
Are there end credit scenes?
12 supporters
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Yes
0
No
4
Yes
17
No
3
6
PlatoCrawford
It's bittersweet; many people are dead, but there is implied to be hope for rebuilding Neo Tokyo.
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
3 supporters
Yes
23
No
0
5
Lexichae
bike crashes happen a couple times
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
4 supporters
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Yes
9
No
0
Does a plane crash?
4 supporters
Yes
16
No
4
3
Memvarthemage
There is a scene when satellites fall from space but no planes
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Is someone hit by a car?
6 supporters
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Yes
18
No
0
Violence
Yes
28
No
0
6
Memvarthemage
The movie begins and ends with an explosion
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Is there blood/gore?
26 supporters
Yes
29
No
0
3
cmrnfry
tetsuo steps on glass. characters fight and end up bloody. a character is crushed. tetsuo hallucinates gore.
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Does someone drown?
9 supporters
Yes
2
No
18
3
cmrnfry
in the sewer scene, characters are pushed under water but are never in danger of drowning. people also die in water from other causes. the city is flooded and destroyed at the end. there are no drowning scenes/no one dies from drowning.
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Yes
22
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0
1
denialol
Several graphic scenes of gun violence, with explosive sprays of blood and gore.
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