The Ancient Magus' Bride: Those Awaiting a Star
TV Show • 2016 • Animation
ReportA prequel to the manga The Ancient Magus' Bride, this movie tells the story of how the dispossessed 15 year old girl Chise Hatori (Hatori Chise in Japanese) is bought by a monstrous sorcerer named Elias. However, things are not as dire as they seem. Elias informs Chise that she has a rare magical talent, and that he will therefor take her on as his apprentice... and in the future, as his bride.
This tv show contains 27 potentially triggering events.
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One of the main characters is a sentient dog/Church-Grim Fae. He fights a lot
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After losing his human, a dog decides to watch over her grave until she wakes up. The family tries to take the dog back home, but he won't allow it. So, not abandoned, but...
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Yes. A dog loses the human he's attached to and is shown watching over the grave for her to wake up until he eventually dies.
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LOTS OF IT
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Warning Spoilers!
Chise’s mom almost strangles Chise to death and that happend when Chise was really young.
Chise’s mom almost strangles Chise to death and that happend when Chise was really young.
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Some of the things Elias does can be considered gaslighting
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Chise's mother attempts to choke her in episode 22.
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Some flashbacks of withdrawal and general discussion in episode 16, but no usage.
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Alice describes her past with parents who had addiction after someone from her past tries to convince her to go get h*gh with them. It shows clips of her in withdrawals after she’s taken in.
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Episode 4-5, and episode 19: experiments are performed on animals.
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Does a cat die?
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A whole episode is dedicated to cats, and a man who is shown to kill them on screen. This episode is pointless to the plot, so go ahead and skip it !! The episode is 4 and part of 5. Timestamps for Episode 4: 10:30 to around 14:26. It's referenced in 5 but explicit scenes are not shown. Enjoy!!
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Please skip episode 5 if you cannot watch cats die. A character slaughters them to use them as ingredients and it's very disturbing.
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Episode 3. (Peacefully, but the episode does focus on it.)
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Giant spider monster in episode 8.
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Giant mantis monster in very end of episode 7 and beginning of episode 8. Episode 24: wave of centipedes.
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Elias never expresses any sexual inclinations at all. Chise thinks Elias is messing with her when he talks about marriage, until she realizes he has no concept of what it actually means, just that it's what humans do when they get really close to each other.
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With regard to being kissed/hugged/grabbed without consent. Chise is often pulled away from danger or carried while injured or when magic may make her lose her way. In episode 1, Chise is kissed goodbye on the cheek by a butterfly fae. In episode 16, Elias asks if Chise would like to kiss under the mistletoe, and she asks him to crouch down to give him a kiss on the forehead. With regard to being hugged, there are many situations where Chise's trauma has her expecting to be punished for things going wrong, and another character present will hug her or pat her on the head as reassurance, typically Elias.
Elias and Chise both separately establish that their relationship is as family in the first episode, and repeatedly talk to each other and others about their dynamic throughout the series.
None of the interactions between Elias and Chise are sexualized in any way, and Elias is essentially ace. Titania says something about kids to his face and he literally has no idea what she's talking about. (I'm not even sure he knows where kids come from...)
Elias and Chise both separately establish that their relationship is as family in the first episode, and repeatedly talk to each other and others about their dynamic throughout the series.
None of the interactions between Elias and Chise are sexualized in any way, and Elias is essentially ace. Titania says something about kids to his face and he literally has no idea what she's talking about. (I'm not even sure he knows where kids come from...)
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Does someone struggle to breathe?
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Episode 3, episode 4, episode 11, episode 15, episode 22. Episode 15 and 22 are the bad ones.
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Referenced in episode 24.
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Limb gets shot off in episode 8. Episode 24: beheading. Also, a main antagonist is basically a Frankenstein, complete with stitched-on limbs.
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Episode 19: medical-based torture on a young dragon.
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Episode 22.
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Episode 8: A humanoid creature gets shot in the head. Episode 19: eyeless sockets. Episode 22: Characters trade eyes. Episode 24: eye removed.
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Not typically, but there is one short scene where animated sewn together corpses get torn apart. The main character grows very large and shadowy however, and most of it is hidden behind his form.
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Does a kid die?
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A child is killed in flashbacks in episodes 7-8. (Not shown.)
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Kind of? There are scenes where Chise is in the bath but the scenes themselves are not sexual
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The death of a parent happened in the past and is discussed throughout the series. Episode 22: flashback to the death.
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Episode 1: Someone tricks a main character into the woods. Fake kidnapping at the end of episode 2 to the start of episode 3. episode 17: a child is kidnapped. Episode 18-19: two dragons are kidnapped. Episode 20: someone is kidnapped. Episodes 17, 18, 19 are the bad ones.
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Ghosts and similar beings are prominent, though usually friendly.
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No genuine horror show jumpscares. Any jumpscare type situation is typically preceded by the music changing and a trumpet noise a few seconds before.
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One of the first episodes shows Chise having a bath. It's shown as a comedic scene, but it can make anyone uncomfortable. She is shown to be nude as well. Not quite to the level of sexualizing her, but it's still awkward.
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Episode 20.
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End of episode 14. Episode 24: someone vomits up blood. There are other instances where it's more implied.
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I'm pretty sure that in multiple episodes characters cough up blood and spit it out.
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Episode 15: magic hospital. Episode 19: evil hospital. Episode 22: evil hospital.
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Chise is suicidal for the first half of the 1st season and does a lot of self destructive things. At one point she self harms by digging her nails into her arm until she bleeds. In another scene she threatens suicide and holds a knife to her throat until it draws blood
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Chise attempts suicide in the first episode. In a flashback/dream sequence at the end of season 1 Chise relives the moment her mother throws herself off a balcony
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Episode 22. Also the main character used to be suicidal, talks about it, and shows it in flashbacks.
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While not gender specific, many characters have very specific terms they ask to be referred to as, and it's very important to refer to them as such. In episode 1, the fairies ask to be referred to as "neighbors."
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Elias is over a hundred years old and Chise is 15 at the start of the series. Their relationship isn’t necessarily romantic though, as Elias has no concept of romance and views marriage as just a longterm friendship commitment
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The relationship between the two main characters isn't, but it does come close in a way people who are triggered by this might have trouble with. (For example, they may be described in one scene as parent and child, but in another as husband and wife.)
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A carriage hits a child (described) in episode 8.
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Episode 15: Near-drowning.
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Blood is common.
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