Sakamoto Days: parents' guide

Strong, bloody violence in nearly every episode: stabbings and shootings with spurting blood, throats cut, decapitations with close-ups of heads, severed limbs, necks snapped and rooms of bloodied corpses after a massacre. The hero himself fights without killing.

One review counted an f-word and four s-words in episode 1, and another lists 'f---er' and 'dumba--.' Elsewhere expect 'damn,' 'hell,' 'bastard' and 'son of a bitch,' constant death threats, and jokes mocking the hero's weight.

Crude sex jokes, references to sexual harassment and stalking, a couple implied to have just had sex, a brief sexual threat, and a fleeting image of a naked woman lying on a corpse with her buttocks visible. A man showers off screen and is seen shirtless while bandaged.

Adults smoke cigarettes, drink sake and beer, and talk about booze. A vampire-like villain drinks from a blood bag. No drug use shown.

Relentless life-or-death peril from assassins, a kidnapping, people falling from a damaged plane and a haunted-house episode. Gory aftermath shots, including severed heads and piles of corpses, can be genuinely disturbing.