The Boy and the Heron: parents' guide

Mahito strikes his own head with a rock, leaving a bloody wound and a scar. Knife-wielding parakeets hunt people, pelicans are blasted with fire and one dies of its wounds, a big fish is cut open with guts spilling out, and a schoolyard fight breaks out.

Mild only: damn and dammit about six times combined, plus dang it, turd and shut up. No stronger words were noted.

Nothing beyond a glimpse of the boy's father and aunt embracing and kissing. The father has married his late wife's younger sister, who is pregnant.

Adults, including a maid and an old man with a pipe, smoke cigarettes. Mahito takes cigarettes from his family to trade for a servant's help, though he doesn't smoke them himself.

Nightmares show his mother in flames, and the other world is full of eerie images: frogs piling onto a person, a toothy bird-man, someone dissolving and ghostly figures. Peril is frequent but rarely sustained.