Berserk: The Golden Age Arc

Director(s)Toshiyuki Kubooka & Yuta Sano

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes26m

CastHiroaki Iwanaga, Takahiro Sakurai, Toa Yukinari, Shinji Ogawa, Yûki Kaji, Yoshiro Matsumoto, Takahiro Fujiwara, Kenta Miyake, Kazuyuki Okitsu, Miyuki Sawashiro, Toshiyuki Kubooka, Yuta Sano, Kentaro Miura, Ichirô Ôkouchi, Shirô Sagisu

Berserk: The Golden Age Arc

BERSERK: THE GOLDEN AGE ARC is a Japanese animated series; in this episode, Guts meets Griffith on the battlefield.

strong bloody violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Men are slashed with blades during a battle sequences, which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

injury detail

A man is stabbed in the head through his helmet and there is brief focus on his eye popping out of its socket.

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is slashed with a blade, causing blood spurting detail in a scene of strong violence.

injury detail

There is a scene of bloody injury detail in which a man examines dead bodies.

flashing/flickering lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

strong violence, bloody images

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01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

injury detail

A man accidentally stabs a child, who coughs up blood as he dies. There are scenes which feature an emphasis on blood in the aftermath of violence.

sexual violence, strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on bloody detail.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is a scene of sexual violence and a scene of sexual threat, both of which contain nudity.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

strong bloody violence, gore

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is an emphasis on bloody detail during battle scenes, including severed limbs.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is a brief flashback in which a man's hands are covered in blood during a fight.

strong sex, violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of strong violence include an emphasis on bloody detail.

sex

A scene of strong sex features thrusting, nipple sucking and breast and buttock nudity. A man accuses another man of 'lusting' after his own daughter.

strong violence, sex

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Humans and animals are slashed, stabbed and decapitated in scenes featuring blood spurts and blood in the aftermath.

sex

Sex scenes include sexualised male and female nudity, as well as thrusting.

flashing/flickering lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

People are slashed, stabbed, decapitated and bisected in scenes accompanied by blood spurts. A person's tongue is sliced out; however, strong detail is masked.

injury detail

A captor boasts sadistically about torturing a prisoner and chews on a severed tongue. An emaciated prisoner bears cuts on his body where his tendons were previously severed. There is sight of blood on corpses, walls and floors.

strong violence, sexual violence, suicide references

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A character stabs his knife into the eye socket of a living skull, accompanied by a close-up blood spurt.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is a scene of sexual threat in which a person climbs on top of a woman and lies between her legs. Both characters remain clothed, and there is no further sexual violence after the woman's attacker slumps between her legs.

suicide and self-harm

In a person contemplates taking his own life; however, he does not do so.

strong bloody violence, injury detail, sex references, nudity

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Humans and fantastical creatures are slashed, stabbed and decapitated in scenes accompanied by bloody detail. These scenes are often accompanied by intense threat.

sex

A warrior briefly nuzzles a woman's exposed breasts before she is revealed to be a fantastical creature.

injury detail

There is close-up sight of heavily bloodstained corpses and severed heads.

sexual violence, strong bloody violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are stabbed and slashed, often accompanied by blood spurts.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A prolonged rape scene thrusting and nudity.

injury detail

In a scene of strong bloody injury detail, a character hacks his own arm off after a fantastical creature traps it between its teeth. Wounds leak blood in close-up.

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Classified Date:

08/07/2024

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Crunchyroll Limited

Classified date01/07/2024

LanguageEnglish

violence

Men are slashed with blades during a battle sequences, which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

injury detail

A man is stabbed in the head through his helmet and there is brief focus on his eye popping out of its socket.

additional issues

The episode features moderate bad language ('bitch') and uses of 'ass', 'bastard', 'piss' and 'damn'. A man has a nightmare in which a monster is on top of a woman, briefly shown from her point of view.

sexual violence, strong bloody violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are stabbed and slashed, often accompanied by blood spurts.

sexual violence and sexual threat

A prolonged rape scene thrusting and nudity.

injury detail

In a scene of strong bloody injury detail, a character hacks his own arm off after a fantastical creature traps it between its teeth. Wounds leak blood in close-up.

strong bloody violence, injury detail, sex references, nudity

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Humans and fantastical creatures are slashed, stabbed and decapitated in scenes accompanied by bloody detail. These scenes are often accompanied by intense threat.

sex

A warrior briefly nuzzles a woman's exposed breasts before she is revealed to be a fantastical creature.

injury detail

There is close-up sight of heavily bloodstained corpses and severed heads.

strong violence, sexual violence, suicide references

Classified Date:

02/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A character stabs his knife into the eye socket of a living skull, accompanied by a close-up blood spurt.

sexual violence and sexual threat

suicide and self-harm

In a person contemplates taking his own life; however, he does not do so.

strong violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

People are slashed, stabbed, decapitated and bisected in scenes accompanied by blood spurts. A person's tongue is sliced out; however, strong detail is masked.

injury detail

strong violence, sex

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Humans and animals are slashed, stabbed and decapitated in scenes featuring blood spurts and blood in the aftermath.

sex

Sex scenes include sexualised male and female nudity, as well as thrusting.

flashing/flickering lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

brief bloody images

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

injury detail

There is a brief flashback in which a man's hands are covered in blood during a fight.

strong bloody violence, gore

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

There is an emphasis on bloody detail during battle scenes, including severed limbs.

strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

sexual violence, strong bloody violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on bloody detail.

sexual violence and sexual threat

There is a scene of sexual violence and a scene of sexual threat, both of which contain nudity.

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Characters are slashed with blades during scenes of violence which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

injury detail

A man accidentally stabs a child, who coughs up blood as he dies. There are scenes which feature an emphasis on blood in the aftermath of violence.

strong violence, bloody images

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

A man is slashed with a blade, causing blood spurting detail in a scene of strong violence.

injury detail

There is a scene of bloody injury detail in which a man examines dead bodies.

flashing/flickering lights

This work contains flashing images which may affect viewers who are susceptible to photosensitive epilepsy.

strong sex, violence

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Scenes of strong violence include an emphasis on bloody detail.

sex

A scene of strong sex features thrusting, nipple sucking and breast and buttock nudity. A man accuses another man of 'lusting' after his own daughter.

strong bloody violence, injury detail

Classified Date:

01/07/2024

Use:

Physical Media + VOD/Streaming

violence

Men are slashed with blades during a battle sequences, which include an emphasis on blood spurting detail.

injury detail

A man is stabbed in the head through his helmet and there is brief focus on his eye popping out of its socket.

Director(s)Toshiyuki Kubooka & Yuta Sano

Production year2022

Genre(s)Animation

Approx. running minutes26m

Classified Date:

08/07/2024

Use:

Physical media

Distributor:

Crunchyroll Limited

Classified date01/07/2024

LanguageEnglish