Berserk is interesting. There's an event that merges that real world with the astral world and is what every CERN alarmist claims will happen.

There is a character named Farnese. She's a member of the Holy See and a pyromaniac. There are magical beings in the world that she can't see until she leaves the church. The Holy See doctrine makes its believers blind to magical things in the real world. After she leaves the church, she becomes a witch.

The Idea of Evil has been taken out of official run. It's a being that exists because of human's desires to blame something else for their misery.

Guts the main character was a child soldier who was sold by his step-father to a child molester.