Paprika
Anime • 2006 •
ReportWhen a machine that allows therapists to enter their patient's dreams is stolen, all hell breaks loose. Only a young female therapist can stop it: Paprika.
This anime contains 40 potentially triggering events.
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Abuse
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Is someone stalked?
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EmmaDilemma
One character has unrequited love for another character, and later sexually assaults her. His behavior can be seen to exemplify “toxic masculinity” and he comes off as pretty creepy.
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Does the abused become the abuser?
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EmmaDilemma
There is a shot of some pedophilic magazines, but no mention of whether abuse has actually taken place.
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Addiction
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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ph03n_x
A cop is seen drinking alcohol at a bar and getting drunk immediately.
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Animal
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Are there bugs?
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ph03n_x
Large swarms of butterflies are a reoccurring image. They usually disappear quickly but the characters either vanish into butterflies or need to run into swarms of them.
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Assault
Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is rape mentioned?
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Avisect
Heavily alluded to for an entire scene but doesn't happen
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Is someone restrained?
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ph03n_x
The main character is restrained on an examining table like a displayed butterfly, large needles are keeping her down on the table.
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CameronRichter
A man kidnaps a woman, restrains her and rips off her clothes. Literal sexual assault is not depicted but the scene is a visual metaphor for sexual assault. Disturbing and potentially triggering.
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SiRenfield
See sexual assault for details
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Bodily Harm
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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ph03n_x
In two scenes, one where a cop is being choked with a garrote/wire, the cop clearly struggles against it. In another scene, someone has a panic attack and their breathing is very heavy.
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Is someone choked?
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Anonymous
Branches grow into a woman's throat and around her neck. She's unconscious for 99% of it though so it's not too graphic
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Does a head get squashed?
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EmmaDilemma
A man has another man’s head suddenly sprout out of his body, and the first man’s head gets shoved to the side uncomfortably.
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Does someone asphyxiate?
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trashbirdfilmwatcher
During a scene with implied sexual assult the character being assaulted seems to struggle to breathe.
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
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icosa
During a sexual assault scene, the abuser puts his hand through the woman's genital. No gore is shown however the skin does eventually rip leaving a somewhat shell of the woman.
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Is someone tortured?
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CameronRichter
A character pins a woman by her clothes to a table with giant sewing pins. The man rips the character's clothes off and assaults her.
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Does someone fall to their death?
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teapotcutie
Falling scenes occur but don't cause death.
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Is there eye mutilation?
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SarahMarieBailey
BUT; someone is ripped open including their face.
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Children
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Is a minor sexualized?
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SiRenfield
In-universe, at least it’s meant to be satirical in context though
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Disability
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Family
Is someone kidnapped?
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CameronRichter
A character is kidnapped and physically, emotionally and sexually tortured.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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icosa
Children's toys do get ruined/broken, but none are related to a specific child.
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Fear
Are there jumpscares?
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ph03n_x
There are very unexpected scenes where the world around characters warp in dream-like ways but there are no "horror" jumpscares.
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Is someone possessed?
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SarahMarieBailey
But some people enter a trance like state
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Are there ghosts?
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EmmaDilemma
Ghost-like figures, but they’re not ghosts, they’re technically figments of dreams.
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Are there clowns?
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alison444
Clowns appear at various times throughout the film.
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Are there mannequins?
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bigbud
Lots of creepy doll scenes.
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Is someone eaten?
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Technically yes? However it is not at all graphic. A character gets swalled whole briefly while in a dream. It's not cannibalistic.
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Large-scale Violence
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
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One of the main characters is a cop, and is portrayed as being heroic and having joined because he wanted to feel powerful and like a main character in a film
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Loss
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Medical
Is electro-therapy used?
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ph03n_x
No electro-therapy but the whole movie's theme is around a new type of psychotherapy where an electric device on your head is able to record and control your dreams.
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Are needles/syringes used?
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Maktopus
No needles, however a device is removed from injured patients' foreheads as a medical procedure. We see the removed fragments of the device in a dish with blood on them.
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Is there a mental institution scene?
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Maktopus
There is a psychiatric research facility where the main cast works however it isn't a hospital nor are there patients.
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Is there a hospital scene?
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SarahMarieBailey
there's an earlier hospital bed that is lighter,
someone later in the show gets brain surgery, the open head is NOT shown but they show pieces of something getting taken out.
someone later in the show gets brain surgery, the open head is NOT shown but they show pieces of something getting taken out.
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Mental Health
Does someone suffer from PTSD?
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icosa
Yes, a main character does have trauma but does get over it at the end, and also forgives theirself.
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Does someone have a mental illness?
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H0n3yotu
A lot of the movie is focused on therapy and mental health, particularly psychosis. One of the main characters has PTSD as well.
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SarahMarieBailey
two people fall from a high place, one jumps off a building
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
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Amarikah
Possessed individuals do attack others and/or show total disregard for others around them.
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Does someone attempt suicide?
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
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H0n3yotu
The entire point of the movie is dreams seeping into reality. Scene Transitions from dream to reality can be completely unnoticed, so be aware.
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Is there body dysmorphia?
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ph03n_x
Potentially triggering language is used. A fat character is often called "slobbish" and harshly ridiculed for his weight by multiple characters.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Are there anxiety attacks?
19 supporters
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CameronRichter
No anxiety attacks, but anxiety is a central theme of the movie.
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
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CameronRichter
A character is teleported into a cage by a magician and is squeezed by the bars and people attempting to reach him through the bars.
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
23 supporters
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absolutesquash
A character is heavily implied to have a binge eating disorder, and the other characters are not respectful about it.
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CameronRichter
Multiple characters are seen jumping out of windows and off of buildings, but one character is shown receiving little injuries and no characters are revealed to die from these situations.
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Noxious
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Does a baby cry?
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Amarikah
A baby does make a brief coo, but does not cry.
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Are there flashing lights or images?
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EmmaDilemma
One scene specifically has a character taking a picture with an old-fashioned camera.
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
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absolutesquash
Somewhat minor, but there is a scene in a movie theater where the two on-screen character are discussing techniques to frame shots in film. The frame always reflects the one they're talking about, and there are arrows to further demonstrate it.
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Pregnancy
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Are there babies or unborn children?
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absolutesquash
Yes, a baby comes out of a giant robot.
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Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
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CameronRichter
One character is subject to callous fat jokes multiple times throughout the movie, at the character's expense.
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Does the black guy die first?
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ph03n_x
There are no black people in this movie.
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Are there homophobic slurs?
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ph03n_x
No slurs are said but in a scene where characters are searching an employee's apartment, a magazine for gay men is picked up and sneered at.
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SiRenfield
No but sometimes people in the parade trance do a salute that’s reminiscent of the N*zis albeit this is probably not intentionally
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
12 supporters
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SiRenfield
Two characters are somewhat vilified for being queer. In fact the film already had to tone down the homophobia from the novel
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Does an LGBT person die?
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CameronRichter
A character heavily implied to be bisexual is physically absorbed into another character.
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Race
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Relationships
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Religious
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Sex
Is there sexual content?
34 supporters
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CameronRichter
A character is assaulted during a torture scene with a visual metaphor of a character "ripping her identity" off. (non-sexual) female b*****s are briefly seen in two scenes.
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Is someone sexually objectified?
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Anonymous
as well as the assault and other sexual content mentioned on the other triggers, there is also a shot up Paprika's skirt at around 50mins.
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Are there nude scenes?
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There are a couple of scenes towards the end that depict a naked woman with her chest visible, though her genitals are not shown
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Are there incestuous relationships?
National Sexual Assault Hotline 800.656.4673
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Sexism
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Sickness
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Social
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Spoiler
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Vehicular
Does a car crash?
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Anonymous
no, but there are things that crash into cars.
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Is someone hit by a car?
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ph03n_x
A character skips through traffic and is almost hit by multiple cars but she stops time and is not hit.
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Violence
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Is there blood/gore?
30 supporters
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CameronRichter
Mild amounts of blood from a gunshot wound in a single scene.
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Is there gun violence?
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CameronRichter
A character is shot offscreen; we do not see the character being shot but the character is seen bleeding soon after.
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