Does the dog die?
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Berserk
Manga • 1989 • Horror
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Your Triggers
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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
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Abandonment
Is a child abandoned by a parent?
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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.
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Yes
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Abuse
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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).
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Is there domestic violence?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Are there abusive parents?
71 supporters
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The King of Midland, as well as Guts' adoptive father Gambino and The Count of Koka Castle.
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Does an abused person forgive their abuser?
54 supporters
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The story almost praises them for not forgiving them
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Is someone gaslighted?
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Griffith is the gaslighter of the century
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Is someone abused with a belt?
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not exactly a belt but they are whipped with something similar and they suffer greatly
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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.
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Addiction
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Yes
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Yes
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That kind of “satanic sect”
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Animal
Are animals abused?
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A canine entity is repeatedly abused throughout the series, though its form is metaphorical.
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Yes
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Were animals harmed in the making?
229 supporters
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No
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It's a manga, what did you expect?
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Is there a dead animal?
194 supporters
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Many throughout series
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Are there bugs?
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children are turned into bug-like creatures.
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Are there snakes?
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Someone ate snake
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Yes
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Does a horse die?
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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.
There's one specific horse later on which it's for the best that the it is killed.
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Does a dragon die?
1 supporters
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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.
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Assault
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Ch 10 contains a child r*pe
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
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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.
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Is there pedophilia?
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Ch 10 contains a child r*pe
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
Skip to pg. 12 when beginning vol 4!
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Is rape mentioned?
124 supporters
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as well as shown. please keep your own peace in mind when watching.
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Are there jokes about sexual assault on men?
74 supporters
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Men are sexually assaulted, but there are certainly no jokes
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Is someone restrained?
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Several characters are imprisoned throughout the series.
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Is someone held under water?
40 supporters
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Occurs to a major character in the Eastern Exile Arc.
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Does a woman get slapped?
National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233)
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Is someone beaten up by a bully?
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Guts is physically abused by his father as a child in a manner meant to degrade and taunt him.
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Bodily Harm
Is there eye mutilation?
149 supporters
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Common throughout series
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Is there excessive gore?
144 supporters
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YES.
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Is someone tortured?
130 supporters
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Berserk heavily features torture
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Is there body horror?
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Frequent, primarily during conviction and eclipse
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Yes
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Does a head get squashed?
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Common throughout series, often with teeth and eyes flying
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Are any teeth damaged?
80 supporters
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Common throughout series
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Is someone burned alive?
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Many people are burned at the stake.
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there cannibalism?
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Common throughout series
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there amputation?
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Someone rips his arm off
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Is there Achilles Tendon injury?
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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
edit: this is not the only time this type of injury occurs, but it is iirc the most spesific and lingered on
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Does someone break a bone?
43 supporters
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There is a whole powerup based around you not caring about broken bones
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Yes
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Is someone stabbed?
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With all the action scenes, the number of characters who have been stabbed is probably three digits long.
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Are there dislocations?
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early on a character is threatened with arm dislocation. later it is completed
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Does someone have a seizure?
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Farnese
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Does someone fall to their death?
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Everyone btw
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Yes
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Children
Is a minor sexualized?
142 supporters
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Yes. There are many instances of children being assaulted, sold to slavery, or creeped on. It is never fetishized, however.
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Does a kid die?
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several children are, so please be aware of this. children are also turned into demonic creatures.
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Creepy Crawly
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Death
Does a non-human character die?
60 supporters
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Apostles could be considered non-human
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Does someone sacrifice themselves?
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consentually? yes. nonconsentally? also yes
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Yes
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Disability
Is the r-slur used?
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Depends on the translation you read.
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Drugs/Alcohol
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Family
Does a parent die?
42 supporters
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Guts killed her father Gambino with a sword
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Does someone cheat?
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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.
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Does a family member die?
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Guts's adoptive mother dies when he's young, and he ends up killing his father in self defense.
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Is a child's toy destroyed?
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In a childhood flashback a character destroys their loved toy.
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Fear
Are there jump scares?
97 supporters
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No
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Characters are often ambushed, but the medium means there are no conventional jump-scares.
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Is trypophobic content shown?
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There are fields of faces that could potentially trigger a trypophobic response.
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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.."
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Is someone possessed?
23 supporters
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Guts (by the berserker armor) and Farnese
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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.'
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Is there a shower scene?
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Not in a shower, but the purpose of shower scenes is fulfilled by it
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Yes
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Are there natural bodies of water?
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the show largely takes place outside
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Gross
Does someone vomit?
177 supporters
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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?
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Due to the medium, there is no audio.
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Yes
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Yes
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Is there farting?
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Puck
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Large-scale Violence
Are there 9/11 depictions?
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No
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The series takes place in a medieval fantasy setting.
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Law Enforcement
Is there copaganda?
51 supporters
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No
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The authorities in the story, while not cops, are portrayed as nasty and corrupt
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LGBTQ+
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Yes
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Is there deadnaming or birthnaming?
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No
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Not unless you consider Griffith to be his dead name after he becomes Femto
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Is an LGBT+ person outed?
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No
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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.
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Loss
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Medical
Are needles/syringes used?
53 supporters
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3
No
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I believe Casca sews Guts' wounds closed, shown for laughs
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Yes
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Is electro-therapy used?
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No
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Electricity has not been harnessed in the series' setting.
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No
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Yes
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Is there menstruation?
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Yes, but it is shown remarkably well.
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Mental Health
Does someone die by suicide?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
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Yes
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A character tries leaping off a cliff before being saved
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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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Yes
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Does someone have an eating disorder?
51 supporters
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No
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No, but a character's severe weight loss after their torture is shown. It is not pretty.
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Is a mentally ill person violent?
48 supporters
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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.
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Does someone say "I'll kill myself"?
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255)
43 supporters
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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
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Is reality unstable or unhinged?
38 supporters
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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.
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Does someone suffer from PTSD?
38 supporters
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bruh yes
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No
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Yes
1
No
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Yes
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No
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Are there anxiety attacks?
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anxiety and panic attacks as well as ptsd flashbacks.
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Yes
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No
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Yes
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No
2
Does someone have a mental illness?
15 supporters
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Several characters have post-traumatic stress disorder.
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Yes
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Yes
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Natural Disasters
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Noxious
Are there flashing lights or images?
61 supporters
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No
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Flashing lights are used often in the 97 anime
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Are there sudden loud noises?
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It's a comic. Non actually heard, but it does say that it happened
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Yes
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Paranoia
Is the fourth wall broken?
15 supporters
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No
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Puck breaks the fourth wall once early on, but it is not disruptive to the story.
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Yes
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Pregnancy
Is a baby stillborn?
53 supporters
Yes
1
No
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No, but one is born prematurely and as a monster.
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Yes
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Does a pregnant person die?
1 supporters
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Guts mother
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Does someone miscarry?
1 supporters
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Casca after the eclipse
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Is there childbirth?
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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?
1 supporters
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2
No
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contrary to the other comment, casca does not abort her child. she miscarries a corrupted fetus.
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Prejudice
Are there homophobic slurs?
66 supporters
Yes
18
No
2
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Corkus calls Guts the F slur at least in the dark horse translation.
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Yes
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No
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Yes
2
No
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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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Is there ableist language or behavior?
53 supporters
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No
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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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Does an LGBT person die?
43 supporters
Yes
0
No
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This is a non autistic manga
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Is a minority is misrepresented?
41 supporters
Yes
5
No
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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.)
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No
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Yes
0
No
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Does the black guy die first?
27 supporters
Yes
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No
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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?
1 supporters
Yes
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No
0
0
A fortune teller in a character's backstory is referred to using a slur against Romani people in many translations.
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Race
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No
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Relationships
Is there a large age gap?
45 supporters
Yes
10
No
0
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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.
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Religious
Is religion discussed?
16 supporters
Yes
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No
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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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Are there demons or Hell?
15 supporters
Yes
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No
0
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Iconically so.
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Sex
Is there bestiality?
121 supporters
Yes
13
No
0
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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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Yes
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No
0
11
a king is attracted to his daughter.
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Yes
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No
1
Are there nude scenes?
67 supporters
Yes
15
No
0
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Several. There is a LOT.
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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.
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Yes
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No
0
Sexism
Yes
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No
2
Sickness
Yes
3
No
8
Yes
4
No
0
Yes
0
No
9
Yes
5
No
0
Social
Yes
0
No
9
Is existentialism debated?
17 supporters
Yes
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No
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1
Life/death/humanity and heaven/hell are major themes
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Yes
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No
0
Yes
0
No
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Spoiler
Does it have a sad ending?
90 supporters
Yes
0
No
14
5
The manga isn’t even finished
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Yes
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No
6
Yes
0
No
21
Vehicular
Does a car crash?
32 supporters
Yes
0
No
20
1
I don't even think wagon crash
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Does a plane crash?
23 supporters
Yes
1
No
21
2
Planes didn’t exist
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Yes
0
No
13
Is someone hit by a car?
1 supporters
Yes
1
No
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cars didnt exist
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Violence
Is there blood/gore?
84 supporters
Yes
26
No
0
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It has all the gore.
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Yes
14
No
0
Is there gun violence?
43 supporters
Yes
4
No
14
5
Canons, crossbow, arm canons, early gun prototypes essentially. No actual guns, however.
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Is there a nuclear explosion?
17 supporters
Yes
0
No
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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.
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