A child is born with 12 missing body parts, including eyes, skin and limbs. Some viewers can be uncomfortable with grotesque imagery
Intense scenes of demons and monsters attacking civilians. These creatures look creepy and often devour helpless people or kill them, sometimes leaving bloody corpses behind.
Famines and war are recurring themes in almost every episode. The two main characters encounter people experiencing all sorts of grief and misfortune. Violent death scenes are in almost every episode.
The atmosphere of the show, especially the first six episodes, is bleak and depressing. It's set in the Warring States era, one of the most violent periods of Japanese history. War is constant and people are starving everywhere. In one episode, a footless soldier is seen devouring another soldier's corpse to prevent himself from starving to death.