Berserk

Manga • 1989 • Horror  

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Your Triggers
Does the dog die?
1 supporters
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Going forward, you should expect a 'yes' on almost every trigger here. Berserk is not for the faint of heart
Beeeeeen
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Needs More Answers
Are there heart attacks?
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Abandonment
Is an animal abandoned?
165 supporters
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Yes
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In Episode 0-09/Chapter 9, Guts is shown at his birthplace, his father absent (some theories claiming him to be the apostle Zodd) and his mother having died in childbirth.
thejackierose
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Abuse
Is a child abused?
155 supporters
Yes
34
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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).
OrangeCat313
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Is a woman brutalized for spectacle?
146 supporters
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Is there domestic violence?
120 supporters
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Yes
26
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Yes
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The King of Midland, as well as Guts' adoptive father Gambino and The Count of Koka Castle.
thejackierose
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The story almost praises them for not forgiving them
Myniko
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Yes
9
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16
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Griffith is the gaslighter of the century
godsjester
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not exactly a belt but they are whipped with something similar and they suffer greatly
dadawgisdead
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A character ends up committing a horrific act after being saved from torture, though the act was part of their plan since before the abuse.
thejackierose
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Is someone stalked?
31 supporters
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23
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Addiction
Is there addiction?
32 supporters
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Yes
18
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Does someone abuse alcohol?
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Yes
25
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That kind of “satanic sect”
Anraku
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Animal
Are animals abused?
314 supporters
Yes
30
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A canine entity is repeatedly abused throughout the series, though its form is metaphorical.
thejackierose
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Does a cat die?
282 supporters
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Yes
20
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4
Does an animal die?
(besides a dog, cat or horse)
272 supporters
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Yes
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Does a pet die?
268 supporters
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Yes
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18
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It's a manga, what did you expect?
HiddenPerson
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Yes
32
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Many throughout series
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Does a horse die?
165 supporters
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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.
Yemon89
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Is an animal sad?
154 supporters
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6
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6
Are rabbits harmed?
125 supporters
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Yes
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12
Are there spiders?
76 supporters
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Are there bugs?
53 supporters
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children are turned into bug-like creatures.
heronssong
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Are there snakes?
28 supporters
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25
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Someone ate snake
Geraldy
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Are there sharks?
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Are there alligators/crocodiles??
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Does a dragon die?
0 supporters
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20
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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.
HiddenPerson
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Assault
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Ch 10 contains a child r*pe
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
Maktopus
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Yes
41
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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.
heronssong
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Is there pedophilia?
169 supporters
Yes
21
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Ch 10 contains a child r*pe
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
Maktopus
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Is rape mentioned?
126 supporters
Yes
19
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as well as shown. please keep your own peace in mind when watching.
dadawgisdead
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4
Men are sexually assaulted, but there are certainly no jokes
Maktopus
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Is someone drugged?
44 supporters
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Yes
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Several characters are imprisoned throughout the series.
thejackierose
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Does a woman get slapped?
37 supporters
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13
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Yes
15
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Guts is physically abused by his father as a child in a manner meant to degrade and taunt him.
Boogagoob
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Is someone's mouth covered?
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Yes
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Occurs to a major character in the Eastern Exile Arc.
thejackierose
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Bodily Harm
Yes
20
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Common throughout series
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Yes
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YES.
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Is someone tortured?
130 supporters
Yes
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Berserk heavily features torture
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Is there genital trauma/mutilation?
122 supporters
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Is there body horror?
110 supporters
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Frequent, primarily during conviction and eclipse
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Is there finger/toe mutilation?
85 supporters
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Yes
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Common throughout series, often with teeth and eyes flying
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Yes
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1
Common throughout series
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Is there decapitation?
70 supporters
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Yes
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Is there a hanging?
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Yes
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Is there throat mutilation?
62 supporters
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Yes
10
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Is there cannibalism?
59 supporters
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22
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Common throughout series
AnonymousTriggerWarnings
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Is someone crushed to death?
58 supporters
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Yes
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Is there shaving/cutting?
57 supporters
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Yes
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Is someone buried alive?
55 supporters
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Yes
19
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2
Does someone asphyxiate?
47 supporters
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9
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Yes
19
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There is a whole powerup based around you not caring about broken bones
Myniko
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Is someone choked?
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Yes
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Someone rips his arm off
SamuelEris
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Does someone become unconscious?
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Yes
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Are any hands damaged?
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Yes
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early on a character is threatened with arm dislocation. later it is completed
dadawgisdead
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Is someone stabbed?
1 supporters
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11
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With all the action scenes, the number of characters who have been stabbed is probably three digits long.
thejackierose
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Yes
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Many people are burned at the stake.
shoewheels
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Does someone fall down stairs?
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Everyone btw
Anraku
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relitively early on a majot character gets the tendons in his hands and feet all severed to prevent escape from torture and it spesifically shows the ragged and poorly healed wounds on his achilles tendons and his wrists to demonstrate this
edit: this is not the only time this type of injury occurs, but it is iirc the most spesific and lingered on
graygh0st
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Yes
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1
-1
Farnese
Anraku
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
141 supporters
Yes
17
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Yes. There are many instances of children being assaulted, sold to slavery, or creeped on. It is never fetishized, however.
VISCEREPTILE
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Does a kid die?
113 supporters
Yes
27
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several children are, so please be aware of this. children are also turned into demonic creatures.
heronssong
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Is an infant abducted?
40 supporters
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Yes
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Creepy Crawly
Are there bedbugs?
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Yes
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No
7
Death
Yes
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Apostles could be considered non-human
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consentually? yes. nonconsentally? also yes
dadawgisdead
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Does a major character die?
1 supporters
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Yes
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1
Does someone die?
1 supporters
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Yes
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
43 supporters
Yes
10
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Depends on the translation you read.
VISCEREPTILE
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8
Drugs/Alcohol
Does someone overdose?
27 supporters
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No
10
Family
Does a parent die?
42 supporters
Yes
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-2
Guts killed her father Gambino with a sword
Anraku
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Yes
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4
In a childhood flashback a character destroys their loved toy.
Maplelev
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Yes
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Guts's adoptive mother dies when he's young, and he ends up killing his father in self defense.
Boogagoob
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Does someone cheat?
30 supporters
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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.
Maplelev
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Is someone kidnapped?
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Fear
Yes
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No
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Characters are often ambushed, but the medium means there are no conventional jump-scares.
thejackierose
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Yes
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There are fields of faces that could potentially trigger a trypophobic response.
Boogagoob
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Are there razors?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
29 supporters
Yes
1
No
7
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"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.."
Yemon89
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Is someone possessed?
23 supporters
Yes
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Guts (by the berserker armor) and Farnese
Anraku
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Are there clowns?
18 supporters
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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.'
Rickert
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Yes
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Not in a shower, but the purpose of shower scenes is fulfilled by it
Myniko
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Are there ghosts?
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Yes
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the show largely takes place outside
dadawgisdead
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Are there mannequins?
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
177 supporters
Yes
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0
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In black swordsman when he kills the girl and in lost children when he goes to the misty valley
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Is there audio gore?
73 supporters
Yes
2
No
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Due to the medium, there is no audio.
thejackierose
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Is there defecation?
60 supporters
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Yes
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Is someone eaten?
51 supporters
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Yes
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Does someone wet/soil themselves?
33 supporters
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Yes
12
No
1
Does someone spit?
19 supporters
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Yes
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No
6
Is there farting?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
7
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Puck
graywolf2010
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Large-scale Violence
Yes
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No
14
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The series takes place in a medieval fantasy setting.
thejackierose
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Law Enforcement
Is there incarceration?
8 supporters
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Yes
7
No
1
Is there copaganda?
1 supporters
Yes
0
No
17
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The authorities in the story, while not cops, are portrayed as nasty and corrupt





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LGBTQ+
Yes
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No
8
Are there transphobic slurs?
75 supporters
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Yes
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No
12
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Not unless you consider Griffith to be his dead name after he becomes Femto
legallydragonic
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Yes
2
No
5
0
During a battle, a nobleman publicly declares that he has had sex with another male character, and that he wishes to do so again. However, it was not done with the intention of "outing", and the character's sexuality is not explicitly explored beyond that.
thejackierose
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Is there bisexual cheating?
1 supporters
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Yes
12
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Loss
Is a priceless artifact destroyed?
7 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Medical
Yes
3
No
11
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I believe Casca sews Guts' wounds closed, shown for laughs
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Is there a mental institution scene?
42 supporters
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Yes
14
No
3
Yes
0
No
16
0
Electricity has not been harnessed in the series' setting.
thejackierose
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Does someone have cancer?
28 supporters
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Yes
0
No
16
Yes
7
No
0
1
Yes, but it is shown remarkably well.
Myniko
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Is there a hospital scene?
1 supporters
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Yes
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No
14
Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
131 supporters
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Yes
21
No
0
2
A character tries leaping off a cliff before being saved
Demon
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Does someone self harm?
S.A.F.E. ALTERNATIVES® (1-800-DONTCUT)
119 supporters
Yes
24
No
0
3
One of the main characters self-harms multiple times by scratching at his arms until he tears heavily bleeding wounds on them
kLvcy
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Is there autism specific abuse?
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0
No
18
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No, but a character's severe weight loss after their torture is shown. It is not pretty.
thejackierose
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Is autism misrepresented?
51 supporters
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Yes
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No
7
Is there misophonia?
50 supporters
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Yes
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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.
VISCEREPTILE
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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
kLvcy
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Yes
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0
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bruh yes
dadawgisdead
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Yes
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0
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Reality significantly shifts with two major events in the plot, and Episode 083 (not in any volume due to the author feeling it spoiled crucial lore) reveals the extent of instability in the setting.
thejackierose
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Is there a claustrophobic scene?
35 supporters
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Yes
16
No
0
Is there body dysmorphia?
34 supporters
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No
13
Yes
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0
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anxiety and panic attacks as well as ptsd flashbacks.
heronssong
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Is there ABA therapy?
23 supporters
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Yes
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No
7
Is there body dysphoria?
21 supporters
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Yes
4
No
2
0
Several characters have post-traumatic stress disorder.
thejackierose
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Does someone have a meltdown?
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Yes
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0
Is there D.I.D. misrepresentation?
1 supporters
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Yes
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No
7
Natural Disasters
Are there tsunamis?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
3
Noxious
Is there shakey cam?
64 supporters
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Yes
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No
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0
Flashing lights are used often in the 97 anime
Yemon89
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Yes
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No
3
1
It's a comic. Non actually heard, but it does say that it happened
Myniko
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Does a baby cry?
28 supporters
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Yes
17
No
0
Is there screaming?
22 supporters
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Yes
8
No
0
Are there underwater scenes?
15 supporters
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Yes
5
No
0
Is there obscene language/gestures?
14 supporters
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Yes
12
No
0
Paranoia
Is someone watched without knowing?
23 supporters
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Yes
9
No
0
Yes
6
No
2
2
Puck breaks the fourth wall once early on, but it is not disruptive to the story.
VISCEREPTILE
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
53 supporters
Yes
1
No
9
3
No, but one is born prematurely and as a monster.
Boogagoob
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Yes
25
No
1
2
Casca after the eclipse
Anraku
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Is there childbirth?
37 supporters
Yes
19
No
0
5
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.
heronssong
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Yes
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No
0
3
Guts mother
Anraku
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Are there abortions?
27 supporters
Yes
2
No
15
4
contrary to the other comment, casca does not abort her child. she miscarries a corrupted fetus.
heronssong
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Are there babies or unborn children?
21 supporters
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Yes
13
No
0
Prejudice
Are there fat jokes?
66 supporters
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Yes
0
No
11
Yes
18
No
2
3
Corkus calls Guts the F slur at least in the dark horse translation.
Maplelev
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3
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
crabfish
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Are there "Man in a dress" jokes?
55 supporters
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Yes
1
No
10
Yes
0
No
13
-3
This is a non autistic manga
Anraku
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Is there hate speech?
42 supporters
Yes
14
No
0
0
A fortune teller in a character's backstory is referred to using a slur against Romani people in many translations.
thejackierose
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Yes
3
No
15
7
The first man ever killed by Guts was his abuser, a black man named Donovan who raped him as a child
kLvcy
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Is there aphobia?
26 supporters
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Yes
0
No
5
Yes
0
No
13
Are there usages of the n-word?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
17
3
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.
VISCEREPTILE
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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.)
Maktopus
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Race
Is there blackface?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Relationships
Yes
10
No
0
0
Several scenes of child sexual abuse. Later in the series, a 13-year-old character has a crush on a young adult, but it is thankfully not reciprocated.
thejackierose
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Religious
Yes
8
No
0
1
Iconically so.
Maktopus
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Yes
9
No
0
2
The main antagonist of the third arc is analogous to the Spanish Inquisition, with the Holy See as Berserk’s Roman Catholic Church
graywolf2010
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
120 supporters
Yes
13
No
0
7
A demon possessing a horse threatens sexual violence, but is killed before anything comes of it. Still fairly graphic and potentially upsetting.
Boogagoob
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Are there incestuous relationships?
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103 supporters
Yes
25
No
0
11
a king is attracted to his daughter.
raakamieli
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Is there sexual content?
82 supporters
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Yes
29
No
1
Yes
15
No
0
3
Several. There is a LOT.
Cozychuu
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Is someone sexually objectified?
55 supporters
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Yes
14
No
0
Is there BDSM?
37 supporters
Yes
3
No
4
0
The interplay of sex and violence is a common theme in the series, but there are no characters who are shown engaging in this kind of relationship.
thejackierose
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Does someone lose their virginity?
21 supporters
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Yes
11
No
0
Sexism
Yes
12
No
2
Sickness
Is there dementia/Alzheimer's?
43 supporters
Add comment
Yes
3
No
8
Is someone terminally ill?
29 supporters
Add comment
Yes
4
No
0
Does someone have a stroke?
22 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Does someone have a chronic illness?
17 supporters
Add comment
Yes
5
No
0
Social
Are there anti-abortion themes?
44 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
9
Are there fat suits?
36 supporters
Add comment
Yes
0
No
10
Yes
7
No
0
1
Life/death/humanity and heaven/hell are major themes
Maktopus
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Is someone homeless?
4 supporters
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Yes
14
No
0
Spoiler
Yes
0
No
14
5
The manga isn’t even finished
Anraku
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Are there end credit scenes?
73 supporters
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Yes
0
No
6
Is Santa (et al) spoiled?
1 supporters
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Yes
0
No
21
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
34 supporters
Yes
0
No
20
1
I don't even think wagon crash
Myniko
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Does a car honk or tires screech?
16 supporters
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Yes
0
No
13
Yes
1
No
19
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cars didnt exist
dadawgisdead
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Does a plane crash?
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Yes
1
No
21
2
Planes didn’t exist
Anraku
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
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It has all the gore.
Crow75
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Yes
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No
14
5
Canons, crossbow, arm canons, early gun prototypes essentially. No actual guns, however.
Cozychuu
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Does someone drown?
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Yes
14
No
0
Yes
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No
17
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There is an event depicted with explosion imagery that has its aftermath kill thousands of people. However, the series is set in a medieval fantasy world.
thejackierose
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