Saint Petersburg, 1858. A group of composers known as The Five meet at Balakirev's. Young Modest Mussorgsky, both a civil servant and a musician, has become a fixture there. He tells about the first opera he plans to compose. Then he goes to the country where he discovers the lowly conditions of the peasants and the bloody conflicts with the rich land owners. He works on Gogol's 'The Marriage', trying to render into music the natural accents of the play's naturalistic dialogue. But his efforts do not pan out. On the other hand, he starts writing his opera on the story of Boris Godunov. The Marinsky Theatre refuses to stage the work. The Five, and Mussorgsky among them, are libeled and the group starts disintegrating. When 'Boris Godunov' is finally performed in 1874, it is a popular success.
This tv show contains 98 potentially triggering events.
Season 4, episode 5 at around the 11:20 mark a barking dog is very graphically killed, dismembered by a monster on screen. The scene is quick but it is very disturbing and graphic.
A character is chained, manipulated, repeatedly beaten, and coerced into intimacy. They later appear to have a kind of mutual warm friendship with one of their abusers.
There are multiple partially decomposed cats that are shown to have been reanimated through necromancy. They do not appear in pain and are never shown while dead.
A lot of the monsters have bug-like qualities, but the majority are background characters and you have to really look for them.
In season 3, however, a man has a long conversation with a monster that is like a bipedal fly.
There are 2 sex scenes in season 3 where consent is debatable. In one, the sex is consensual but one of the characters is manipulating the other into a spell. The other has two characters approach a third for sex, and they do not get clear consent before proceeding. The third character seems to be into it as the scene progresses, but then it is revealed that the other characters had seduced him in an attempt to murder him.
There is no sexual violence in either of the scenes.
In season 4, the protagonist is choked to the point where his vision starts to go black at the edges. There is also a random person being choked by a vampire as human sacrifice, and likely more that I can't recall at the moment.
Many heads get squashed in season 4. Alucard smashes the head of monsters multiple times. A monster that uses bandages and needles to fight gets their head squashed by Trevor. I believe a cultist that was trying to ritually sacrifice people also got their head squashed? Lots of head squashing in Season 4.
there is a scene, in i think season 3 ep1, when a background character removes teeth from a dead creature. It is not shown directly, and it is not graphic!
But you see the man trying to pull teeth out.
In episode 1, a hillbilly states that he hit the village idiot in the face with a shovel for boinking his goat, and the guy went blind.
Issac blinds his master in a flashback.
Throughout the whole show really. It’s all animated of course, but is still pretty grotesque! I’d be careful if you’re approaching this with previous triggers or are just sensitive to gore in general.
In early season 1, an infant can be seen hanging out of a night creature's mouth. The scene then changes to the baby's (assumed) mother screaming over a bloody crib.
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Almost all of the antagonists die. A main protagonist appears to be dead; there are several scenes of characters grieving them before it is revealed that they in fact survived.
Trevor mentions a few times that his entire family was murdered by the church. Alucard's parents both die on screen, Sypha's are... never mentioned, so maybe still alive somewhere? Entire villages and towns of families are murdered in both Seasons 1 and 3.
In season 4, the village headwoman says she had a boyfriend and a girlfriend at the same time, and the boyfriend's wife tried to kill her. Nothing is shown onscreen.
Shown in season 4 - a child's bedroom is destroyed to show buildings taking damage, and several dolls are obliterated. The room is dark and no children can be seen at the moment.
In season 2 episode 7 after [[character that will be obvious when it happens]] dies some ghostish spirits leave the body. It’s not for very long nor is it super important as far as I’m aware, and they’re pretty cartoony.
In Season 1 Episode 2, Trevor stumbles out of a bar and vomits. It is mostly audio. There is another point in the episode where Trevor arrives at a marketplace, it shows a guy throwing up.
Not exactly trasphobic, but, throughout season 4 there's mentions and later depiction of the alchemist rebis
In that the word herma*hrodite is used to describe a human/humanoid person, which is considering at best outdated at worst a slur in the intersex community
Not specifically. A character states she had a boyfriend and a girlfriend simultaneously, and the boyfriend's wife tried to kill her. Unclear if this was related to cheating
S4 Ep10, a vampire character chooses to end their (un)life by walking into the sun.
Several times a risky course of action is referred to as "long suicide" or similar; the word is said several times throughout. A character alludes to dying, presumably by taking their own life, but does not attempt to do so.
People are shown screaming/crying in extreme stress and mourning in very emotional situations. It's not strictly an anxiety attack, but could still be triggering.
A character called Hector that, although not explicitly described as autistic, is very clearly autistic. He is called stupid by multiple characters for being unable to pick up on implicit tone. He is also compared to a dog and generally dehumanized through much of the 3rd and 4th seasons.
The castle teleporting has flashing lights.
The combination of the high pitch sound the forge hammer makes and the castle teleporting soon after gave my partner a seizure.
Nope. But there are comments made about a group called Speakers that might... be considered... uncomfortable, especially with the attitude displayed by some characters towards the Speakers.
There is lots of bigotry from humans towards vampires, and vampires towards humans, and humans towards forgemasters, and humans towards witches (the person is not actually a witch), humans towards Speakers, and more I'm not recalling, I'm sure.
It's noteworthy that the only Asian (specifically Japanese) characters that have had some screentime were evil. Cho was part of Dracula's Army. Two minor characters who used to be slaves of the vampire Cho, turn out to be bad as well and the latter is rather suddenly, with no foreshadowing or signs.
There actually aren't, (spoilers)
the vampires are not literal sisters,
just sisters in a sense as
they are the same species.
Also Sumi and Taka are not siblings as confirmed on Twitter by the director.