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Taimanin Asagi, or Anti-demon Ninja Asagi, is a rather dark four episode Hentai OVA based on the namesake Visual Novel by Black Lilith.

The main character is Asagi Igawa, a ninja who fights demons but is planning to retire in order to marry her boyfriend Kyousuke. However, Oboro, a demon who Asagi supposedly killed earlier in her career, is back with a vengeance, and kidnaps Asagi and Kyousuke, turning Kyousuke into a monster and forcing Asagi to fight in the Chaos Arena, an illegal fight in which the losers are raped for the crowd's entertainment. Asagi's sister Sakura, also an anti-demon ninja, attempts to rescue them but is captured and also forced to fight.

The show is noted for looking like it was filmed on a shaky handheld camera with focus problems, and for the extreme tentacle and non-tentacle rape.

Thanks to popularity amassed from both the first game and OVA series, the Taimanin series has become Black Lilith's biggest Cash Cow Franchise. Over the years, the series has spawned 2 sequels, several Spin-Offs, a couple manga and live action adaptations, a PrequelReBoot, a currently ongoing Card Battle Game, a mobile Hack and Slash game, and (as of now) four more animated OVA adaptation, Hell Knight Ingrid (which is loosely based on the spin-off Taimanin Murasaki), Taimanin Asagi 2, Taimanin Yukikaze, and Taimanin Asagi 3.

The Series in General:[]

  • The Ace: Asagi is often refer to as " The Strongest Taimanin".
  • Action-Hogging Opening: Many of the visual novel openings with its fast pace music and imagery of the characters fighting. It almost makes you forget that you are playing a Hentai.
  • Action Prologue: Tends to be a recurring theme in the franchise. Near every installment starts out with an action-heavy scene to establish the characters as Badass Action Girls. The rest of the story would focus on... "other things".
  • Adaptational Heroism: Curiously, the villains suffer these in the ovas, since the most atrocious tortures and punishments are usually eliminated in the adaptations.
  • All Your Base Are Belong to Us/The Siege: During the midpoint of Taimanin Asagi 3, the JSDF raid Gokuruma City. In reality, a deniable black ops unit sent out to do the most depraved forms of wetwork, heavily supported by Edwin Black's goons.
  • Alternate Timeline: Hoo boy. Apparently, there are many existing timelines in the "Taimanin-verse". Supposedly, there are dozens of timelines (i.e. the various Bad Ending routes throughout the franchise) but the series focuses on 3 "main timelines" that follows as such:
    • The Old World/Original Timeline: This timeline was the original canon of Taimanin series, which chronologically starts with Taimanin Kurenai and ends at the Golden Ending of Taimanin Asagi 3 where Edwin Black is defeated by Asagi and Asuka.
    • The New World/ZERO Timeline: This timeline branches off from the "Old World" timeline. In this new timeline, Edwin Black wins and Asagi becomes his vampiric mate. They then apparently "recreated" the world together, thus resulting in the new alternate timeline seen in ZERO.
    • The Another World Timelines: These timelines are supposedly separate from the previous two timelines. It serves as the setting for Taimanin Asagi: Battle Arena, Taimanin RPGX, and Action Taimanin. These alternate timelines are the settings for various other Lilith-Soft games like the Kangoku Senkan series, Cara the Bloodlord, Tentacle and Witches, and many others.
  • Amazon Brigade: Averted. While most of Taimanin featured are female, there are several male members within their rank, notable examples include Kuroi Yatsu and Tatsurou Akiyama.
  • And Then Oboro Was A Vampire: At some point after the first game.
  • Ask a Stupid Question: When Asagi ask "Is Sakura alive?", someone replies " Of course she is, idiot."
  • Ass Shove: Well this is a Hentai, so many of the Taimanin are forced to suffer this.
  • Audience Participation: In the chaos arena, the audience members may punish the loser.
  • Back From the Dead: Original Oboro, TWICE.
  • Badass in Charge: By the time of the third game Asagi is pretty much the leader of the Taimanin faction.
  • Balloon Belly: Many of the characters suffers this, not from over eating, but from cum inflation, as well as having various other uncomfortable biological violators shoved into every orifice.
  • Big Bra to Fill: In many of the ZIZ's live action adaptations. Many of the actresses, including the ones for Sakura, Ingrid, and Oboro, are noticeable rather flat chested, which is a sharp contrast to the far more bustier animated characters.  
  • Bio Augmentation: Tends to be a recurring theme in the franchise. Usually the antagonist would modify the protagonist's body in order to make them more susceptible to sex. The most popular would be drastically increasing their sensitivity toward sexual pleasure and turn their entire body into an erogenous zone.
  • Blood Sport: The Chaos Arena definitely fits the bill, only difference is that the defeated combatant can be raped and humiliated instead of killed.
  • Bob Haircut: Oboro in addition to a ponytail.
  • Body Snatcher: This how Oboro comes back to life in the first game, she body jacks Kyousuke and morphs his body to resemble hers. The real Oboro [Koukawa]'s power is basically this.
  • Breakout Character: Ingrid first appears as a side character in "Taimanin Murasaki". Thanks to her overwhelming popularity among the fan base, she was given a much larger role in "Taimanin Asagi 3" and even given her own OVA series.
  • Break the Badass: The usual premise of each installment in the franchise, normally by having the antagonist trying to drive the protagonist to madness through sexual torture.
  • Breast Expansion: Medically induced to both Asagi and her younger sister in the first game.
  • Card Battle Game: Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena, doubles as a *Crossover between Black Liliths various other titles (such as Witch of Steel Annerose and Diviner Knight Towako, etc).
  • Call a Rabbit a Smeerp: In the Card Battle game demons are referred to "Asmodian's".
  • Cash Cow Franchise: The Taimanin series as a whole is Lilith Soft's best source of income. As of now the franchise includes (but limited to), several Spin-Offs, at least animated 5 OVA adaptations (counting Spin-Offs), a couple live action adaptations, a Card Battle game series, 2 sequels, and Prequel/ ReBoot. Because of the franchise's popularity, Lilith Soft started working on making more "mainstream" content such as the Hack and Slash mobile game, Action Taimanin. Not bad for a Hentai series.
  • Cloning Gambit: What's going on behind the scenes throughout "Taimanin Asagi 2".
  • Crapsack World: Most definitely. To add more detail, it's about as terrible as the worst aspects of Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex on it's public face, with Japan being mostly decent but with a lot of problems festering under the surface even without the demonic threat, America is about as bad as in GiTS:SAC (though largely because of Edwin Black's influence), and China has a lot of tensions with America, meaning Japan is often caught between the two in their power struggles. On a more fundamental level, it's heavily implied Japan is one of the last holdouts against the demonic influence that has mostly firm control over America, and Edwin Black is working to change that.
  • Cold War: Between the United States of America and the Chinese Union, instead of stockpiling nukes its demonic technology. Japan is just the one caught in the middle.
  • Come For The Hentai Stay For Wakamoto: Anybody who watched this hentai would be fine just listening to his voice.
  • Crossover: Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena has crossover from other Lilith-Soft games like Koutetsu no Majo Annerose and Cara the Bloodlord. Surprisingly, they were able to a crossover Super Sonico.
  • Cruel Mercy: In the game, If a girl loses in the chaos arena, her fate is decided by the audience, but sparing the girl's life only means she will suffer humiliation.
  • Cutting Off the Branches: The easiest way to follow the canon story-line is to see the next installment, although the series mostly follows a No Canon for the Wicked formula. Some examples include:
    • Kiryuu working for the Taimanins after the events of Taimanin Murasaki, indicating that the game indeed ended with his capture.
    • Ingrid's route in Taimanin Murasaki is made non-canon after it was revealed that she was still a virgin in Taimanin Asagi 3.
    • In a similar case, Yukikaze and Rinko were still virgins in Taimanin Yukikaze 2, rendering most of the possible advents in the original Taimanin Yukikaze as non-canon.
  • Cyberpunk: The setting has shades of this.
  • Darker and Edgier: For a series that's already dark and edgy Taimanin Asagi 3 cranks it Up to Eleven.
  • Death Is Cheap: Between the demonic technology that can bring someone back as a demon, cloning technology that can provide a near-prefect replacement, and all the Alternate Timeline shanaghans that technically makes everything "canon", it very rare for a character to actually say dead for good in this series, unless your name is Kyousuke Sawaki.
  • Dirty Harriet: Both Asagi and Sakura go undercover as prostitutes in the second game.
  • The Don: Edwin Black.
  • Downer Ending: A standard of the series. Most of series's Multiple Endings are these. Also, any OVA adaptation created by ZIZ Entertainment is likely going to end on a downer ending. Word of God later confirms that all the bad endings are all "technically canon", as the entire franchise takes places in a multiverse with many Alternate Timeline.
  • Driven to Madness: The usual goal of the antagonist is to do this to the protagonist. For what purpose, depends on the antagonist, but usually is to turn the protagonist into their mind broken Sex Slave.
  • Eagleland: America has a background role in a lot of series backstory, and while they aren't portrayed in an entirely flattering light, a lot of that is chalked up to corruption and Edwin Black's shadow influence over them, and there are factions in the American government that are fighting back against him. The Taimanin fight alongside one of these factions (and one of their members, Emily Simmons, joins the task Force) in Action Taimanin.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Asuka's true ending in Taimanin Asagi 3. Is also Asagi's true end by proxy.
  • Elaborate Underground Base
  • Ensemble Darkhorse: Ingrid, who first appeared in the Taimanin Murasaki spinoff.
  • Even Evil Has Standards: Black may be a vampire criminal boss who runs an arena of rape, but even he's disgusted by how far Oboro goes for revenge.
  • Failure Is the Only Option: In Taimanin Yukikaze, Yukikaze and Rinko's mission to rescue Shiranui, Yukikaze's mother, would ultimately end in failure regardless of the choices the player makes. In the bad ending route(s), Yukikaze and Rinko would end up as mind broken Sex Slaves. The only way the player can attain the good ending (after completing all bad ending routes) is by having the mission aborted before it can really start, resulting in a Bittersweet Ending. While Yukikaze and Rinko are spared from a life of subjugation, with the body modifications done to them so far being completely reversible, Shiranui still remains missing and can't be rescued in this game.
    • In Taimanin Asagi 3, Asagi's route can only end on a Downer Ending. The only way to attain the one true ending is by playing Asuka's route, which is unlocked after completing Asagi's route.
  • Fan Disservice: Unless you find it to be Fetish Fuel.
  • Flanderization: In the bonus mini-episode, Asagi is a pervert.
  • Friend to All Children: Ingrid actually has a big soft spot when it comes to kids. In her OVA, Kiryu was able to exploit this when capturing her.
  • Gag Boobs: Played For Drama.
  • Go-Go Enslavement: In Taimanin Yukikaze, the standard uniform for slave prostitutes at the brothel at Under Eden include evening gloves, stockings, high-heel shoes, and an almost see-through micro bikini.
  • Government Agency of Fiction:The Public Security Intelligence Agency Third Investigation Division (Section Three), which the Taimanin forces are apart of.
  • Hidden Elf Village: Gokuruma, home of the Taimanins. The third game fan translation calls it Gosha Village.
  • In-Series Nickname/Affectionate Nickname: Ero-Kunoichi
  • I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: As punishment against Asagi, Oboro decides to punish her sister Sakura.
  • Katanas Are Just Better: A Taimanin's main weapon of choice by default, although the Yatsu siblings are an exemption(Kuroe uses a huge jack knife and sub machine gun, Murasaki on the other hand uses a large battle axe). We find out in the third game more experienced Taimanin can specialize in whatever weapons they show particular skill in and usually switch to that as their default choice.
  • Kill the Ones You Love: Asagi does this to Kyousuke close to the end. He had been turned into a monster, he was lucid at that moment, and she said "I love you" just before breaking his neck and killing him quickly. You would have to have a heart made out of stone not to feel anything over that.
  • In Taimanin Asagi 3 near the end of Asagi's route she is force to choose between sparing her loved ones or killing them, go ahead and guess which one is required for the true ending. Not the true ending, thankfully.
  • Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Asagi kills off her Arch-Enemy Oboro in this way at the end of the first game.
  • Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja: Sexy demon-hunting Cyberpunk ninjas that wear tight Form-Fitting Wardrobes, including Spy Catsuits and Leotards of Power. No wonder this is Lilith-Soft most popular franchise.
  • Lighter and Softer: The OVA in comparison to the games, being that in the games in the bad routes there are usually more explicit torture, amputations or even executions. In the OVA these events do not happen, or they happen off-screen.
  • Loads and Loads of Characters: Just check out the character page that, so far, only covers the characters that appeared in the canon storyline. The ongoing card game has already introduced over 50 new characters.
  • Lovely Angels: The series really love to play this tropes. To list them off we have, Asagi and Sakura (Taimanin Asagi 1 and 2), Murasaki and Sakura (Taimanin Murasaki and Taimanin Asagi 3), Yukikaze and Rinko (Taimanin Yukikaze 1 and 2), and Kurenai and Ayame (Taimanin Kurenai).
  • Made a Slave: Many of the characters suffer this.
  • Mad Scientist: Kiryuu Sabato. His mentor, Furst, is arguably even more depraved.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Oboro turned Asagi's boyfriend into a monster, turned Kyousuke away from her, painfully expanded her sister's breasts and butt to make her a human sex doll, and making Kyousuke nearly kill Asagi by raping her.
  • Multiple Endings: Comes standard in each visual novel. Most of them are usually Downer Endings, but the one good/bittersweet ending were the heroes escape is usually the canon ending.
  • This trope overlaps with Once More, with Clarity in TA3, as the true ending of Asagi's route unlocks Asuka's route, which not only clarifies a few things in Asagi's route, it also causes a divergence that relegates Asagi's route ending to non canon by changing events so that Asagi can have a Bittersweet Ending, which is surprisingly heavy on the sweet instead of bitter.
  • Naughty Tentacles: A metric fuckton exist in every single game.
  • Netorare Genre: There are elements of this in the first Taimanin Asagi and in Taimanin Yukikaze.
  • Ninja School: Gosha Academy. Somewhat double's as a Super-Hero School.
  • No Canon for the Wicked: If the sequels/spin-offs are any indication, it is that the canon endings of each of the visual novels are normally " the good ending" (the heroes escape, the bad guys are captured/killed). However, please keep in mind that the best possible ending can still be a Bittersweet Ending
    • This is finally averted in Mama wa Taimanin, where the only two possible ending that can be achieved are Downer Endings.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: In the second episode of the anime, Asagi suffers this at the hands of a wrestler woman, Power Lady. Also occurs in the first game, but can be subverted in the third.
  • Noble Demon: Ingrid and Edwin Black to a certain extent.
  • Porn with Plot: Yes, there is a LOT of porn, but once you get past it there is surprisingly amount of detail and backstory to the game world, which explains why it got so crapsack.
  • Pyrrhic Victory: The true ending of the second game.
  • One-Winged Angel: Edwin Black in the third game.
  • OOC Is Serious Business: Taimanin are proud and strong-willed warriors, so if they get to a point where they start begging for mercy or more sex, it means they are already starting to break down.
  • Ordinary High School Student: Sakura, doesn't last long as she eventually transfers to an Academy of Adventure after the Chaos Arena incident.
  • Pragmatic Adaptation: In many of the live action adaptations. While the overall story usually follows the same plot line as the visual novels, many of the h-scenes had to be remove or altered either because of the low budget to replicate the scene, the fact the some of the scenes are so extreme, or just impossible, that they can't be done without causing lasting injury to the actresses.
  • Reincarnation: In the "true end" of Asagi's route, Asagi and Black discuss this trope. Which explains why they are on the same side now but were once enemies and why Murasaki and Sakura and alive again.
  • Rape Leads to Insanity: Like in most hentai, after a character is raped after a long period of time, they are likely to end up as mind broken slaves to the antagonist. Depending on the player, the protagonist(s) can either recover with most of their sanity intact, or remain in a state of insanity. Results vary in the OVA series.
  • Retirony: At the beginning, Asagi was planning to marry Kyousuke and leave the demon-hunting business...
  • Sex Slave: Several of the characters are forced to be this at one point or another.
  • Sexy Backless Outfit: Many of the Taimanin's uniforms have their backs complete exposed. Many villains have a similar theme.
  • Shoot the Shaggy Dog: A few of the game tends to be this. For example, in the first game Asagi was planning on leaving her life as demon hunting ninja so that she could marry her boyfriend. However, her boyfriend is captured and turned into a monster by her arch nemesis. After spending days having both Asagi and her sister sexual tortured, Asagi is forced to Mercy Kill her boyfriend before breaking free. The sisters are able kill Oboro and destroy the Chaos Arena, and Asagi goes back to career as a ninja. However, Oboro is revived in the next and the Chaos Arena is rebuilt in TA3, rendering Asagi's accomplishments in TA1 moot.
  • Shout-Out: There are quite shout outs to other series, mythology, etc if you are paying attention.
    • While discussing the Raiden powered armor suits, Sakura makes a joke that references Neon Genesis Evanglion.
    • Interestingly enough Edwin Black draws a few parallels from Hindu mythology. His true form seems to draw a lot of inspiration from Shiva the Hindu god of destruction, avenging and creation. Like most Hindu gods, he has multiple arms, a third eye and weapons that corresponds with Ones that Shiva uses. Even in the second eroge he shows up disguised as a Rakasha another being from Hindu mythology.
  • Sidekick: Sakura Igawa, up until the third game.
  • Slave Brand: Most of them usually have a magical purposes other than mark a person as a slave, for example the brands used by Under Eden in Taimanin Yukikaze is used to prevent one of their slave prostitutes from running away or disobeying. If they do etheir of these two action, the branded person would be inflicted with pain, or in worse case scenario, have their limbs blown up. The heart-shape brand in Taimanin Asagi 3 is an extreme form of brainwashing, forcing the brand to perform any action ordered by the person who branded them. It can be broken by killing the originator of the seal, though, but only through a creative use of Briar Patching, as displayed by Asagi in her route.
  • Sorting Algorithm Of Evil: When it come it villains in the series, each installment normally tries to one up itself:
    • In Taimanin Asagi, the main villains were Oboro and Edwin Black. However, Black chose to take a back seat to these event and watch them unfold. Oboro is skilled enough to defeat an average Taimanin but can't defeat Asagi in a fair fight. She ended up using trickery to capture both Asagi and Sakura. But when the sisters were free to attack Oboro, she didn't last long.
    • Taimanin Asagi 2 gives us Oboro's clone and Saya as the main villains, while Black once again takes a back seat to the advents. Clone Oboro is the same as the Oboro from TA1, meaning she still can't beat Asagi in a fair fight. However, Clone Oboro has more resources than TA1 Oboro and controls an entire city. Saya is stated to be much stronger than Asagi and Oboro, and was able to defeat and capture the Igawa sisters with little issue. But when Asagi was able to tap into her inner demon, she quickly defeated Saya.
    • Taimanin Murasaki, which takes place between TA2 and TA3, has Kiryuu serve as the main villain. While Kiryuu isn't physically stronger than Saya, he is still a lot smarter than Oboro and more well versed in demon technology.
    • The main villains in Taimanin Asagi 3 are a stronger vampire Oboro, Kiryuu's evil(er) mentor Furst, and Edwin Black who has finally taken center stage as an active threat against Asagi and her allies. Black also controls most of the world at this point, and is strong enough to defeat Demon!Asagi.
    • The Spin-Off series Taimanin Yukikaze has a noticeable shift in villain threat level from TY1 and TY2. The major villains include a brothel operator, a fat Corrupt Politician, and an orc that is about as strong as a Mook. None of these three can defeat a Taimanin in an actual fight, and only captured Yukikaze and Rinko because they were Skilled but Naive. In the canon storyline, their plan failed before it even began. In TY2, the villains now are much stronger, and have more fighting capabilities. Not to mention, the true main villain in TY2 is apparently almost as strong Edwin Black, and just as cunning.
  • Spin-Off: Quite a few in fact. Taimanin Murasaki, Taimanin Yukikaze 1, Taimanin Yukikaze 2, Taimanin Kurenai, and Mama wa Taimanin.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Murasaki really, REALLY loves Asagi. To the point where she has Sakura steal Asagi's bath towels and seeing her naked gives Murasaki heat flashes.
  • Super-Powered Evil Side: Asagi gains one near the end of the second game. According to clone Oboro, all Taimanin are capable of having a Super-Powered Evil Side.
  • Superpowerful Genetics: Taimanin's have various abilities (Asagi can move at light speed, Sakura can travel through shadows, etc). Its actually implied by Oboro that most, if not all, Taimanins have some form of demon lineage.
  • Super Soldier: Saya. This is what Oboro's clone wants to turn Asagi and Sakura into.
  • The Syndicate: The NOMAD organization. In an interesting twist on the trope, it's two tiered, with an overt legitimate business conglomerate front and somewhat more covert human criminal organization that engages in a lot of nasty yet mundane criminal enterprises, and the even more hidden yet nastier demonic element controlling the former. With Edwin Black's death in the true end of TA3, it falls aparts pretty hard, as he was the glue holding it together by force of will, and given how prone certain factions were to backstabbing each other before he died, NOMAD pretty much devolves into rampant self destruction without him to keep them focused.
  • Throwing the Fight: A spectator of Chaos Arena accuses to Asagi of losing the fight on purpose.
  • Took A Level In Badass: Sakura goes from plucky sidekick in the first two games, to a plucky combat instructor for the Taimanin school in the third game.
  • Token Good Teammate: Ingrid, for the NOMAD organization. She is pretty much the only member that does not indulge in raping or torturing her opponents. In fact, the only thing "evil" about her is that she just works for the organization. Naturally, this makes her a target among the other members.
  • Twenty Minutes Into the Future: The series takes place in near future, usually the story would label year(s) to be 20XX. Accord to Word of God, the series takes place somewhere between the years 2050-2100.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: The Taimanin are the reason why Black's demonic forces are contained to the demon district in Japan, rather than having enslaved/raped/consumed the entire country, and all they ask in return is shelter, supplies, and intel so they can hopefully succeed at liberating the "demon district" and rescuing those Black has already victimized. The government liaison spends the entire first game looking at the ninja village and its citizens like he's bit into a bitter bug, especially any time Asagi asks for anything at all, and the instant Japan's soldiers are equipped with power armor, they attack the village, raping and killing as they go, not only treating the Taimanin with nothing but utter contempt, but even selling the most talented of them to the demon district for daring to defend themselves. After several time-loops, Asagi winds up a demon working with Black as a result.
  • The Unmasqued World: By the time of Taimanin Asagi 2 the general population becomes aware that demon's live amongst them. Hell, even in the first game there's an Orc named Pig who runs an antique shop!
  • Urban Fantasy
  • Villainous Crush: Many villains are motivated by their attraction to the heroines, though the "crush" can range from simple lust, to even a twisted sense of love.
  • You Have Failed Me: The losers of fights are severely punished, in the game the punishments vary between death and humiliation, in the anime it is only humiliation.
  • You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Asagi: Blue (though usually a subdued blue-black version). Sakura: Yellow. And Oboro: Red-violet. Murasaki: Blue. Ingrid: Pink.
  • Your Approval Fills Me with Shame: In some cases the villains will praise the kunoichi's bravery, their bodies, or their ability to have sex, and unless they are already broken, they often act angrily towards such supposed praise.
  • Your Princess Is in Another Castle: Twice in the Taimanin Yukikaze visual novels, although it is more like your "Your Mother is at Another Evil Brothel". No matter what choices the player make, Yukikaze will not be able to save her mother in either game.
  • Your Size May Vary: The Chaos Arena.
  • Waif Fu: Asagi is stronger than she looks..
  • Was Once a Man: A couple of the demons in series were once human, but through some form of dark magic and/or mad science they were turned into monsters. Examples include Kiryuu, Saya, Shigeru, Kyousuke, and possible Oboro (which is debatable considering her true origins).
  • What Could Have Been: According to a creator's note, Kousuke was original supposed around Sakura's age, and would become Sakura's Love Interest, mirroring Asagi's relationship with Kyousuke. However in TA3, Kousuke was much more younger than Sakura, and became Asagi's Love Interest instead, in favor of Ship Teasing Sakura with Murasaki.
  • Why Won't You Die?: Oboro proves about as difficult to kill off as The Master from Doctor Who.
  • Wretched Hive: Tokyo Kingdom, home to terrorist organizations (for example the Ryuumon), unwanted refugees, and lower class demons(Orcs, Kobolds, and goblins ,etc).
  • Yomihara can also be considered this. Both the Taimanins and the Japanese government has little to no control of this place. It is for the most part, sealed off from the rest of the world with only a few individuals being able to go in or out of the town. Slave trade is very popular in Yomihara. Asagi even considers Yomihara to be much worse than Tokyo Kingdom.

The Bonus Episode has examples of:[]

The "Hell Knight Ingrid" Remake Anime has examples of:[]

  • Remake: Lilith-Soft's first attempt to remake one of their old OVA series. The actually OVA includes a redrawing (although noticeably less detailed) scene from Episode 4 of Hell Knight Ingrid and a new additional scene.
  • The Voiceless: Pretty much very character that isn't Ingrid, its painfully obvious that they were trying to save money on voice actors.

Action Taimanin[]

  • Action Girl: The Taimanin was always this, but this game lets them truly show off what they are capable of.
  • Adaptational Badass: With the game being a Hack and Slash many of the main characters are able to show off more of her combat abilities than in the H-games. However, the playable Taimanin in this game is able to pull off greater feats than their visual novel counterparts. Some examples include:
  • Adaptational Heroism:
    • For the villains in general. While all of them are still evil, at least the elements of them being serial rapists were remove, or at the very least greatly downplayed, as NOMAD's operatives and the demons in this game are more interested in straight-up killing the heroes instead of capturing them alive to torture, rape, and enslave them, like in the visual novels.
    • This does technically apply to Shiranui Mizuki, who in the visual novels was brainwashed to serve the evil demon Ryuji Kuroi and his followers, and is a recurring antagonist in the Taimain Yukikaze games. As of Action's release, Shiranui's plotline has yet to be resolved in the visual novels. However, in this game, Shiranui is still an active member of the Taimanin and is even part of a parent-child team with her daughter Yukikaze.
  • Alternate Timeline: While the game makes it clear that Action does technically take place in "Taimaninverse", the setting is a separate timeline from the visual novels and anime OVA. As a result, this game does fall under "Schrödinger's Canon" for the visual novels.
    • It further seems to have elements of all prior canons, like Yamamoto from ZERO, Asagi being Gosha Academy's headmistress from the third game, and Oboro and NOMAD appear to be as depicted in the second game, just for a few examples. And, since this is a Lighter and Softer universe where most of the darker elements clearly did not happen, that means some things that were canon otherwise did not happen, as Yukikaze's mother is alive and well, and not forced to be a Sex Slave/brainwashed minion.
    • Events from Taimanin Murasaki have partially occurred. Kiryuu Sabato is confirmed on the Taimanin payroll, but is still their Token Evil Teammate whose working for the Taimanin is heavily indicated to have occurred under similar circumstances, though most of the darker events of their story apparently did not occur and Murasaki can use the Combat Tentacles she acquired from Kiryuu without needing to do a Fusion Dance first.
    • The Taimanin Kurenai events are also semi-canonical. Kurenai and her sister Felicia both exist, but a lot of Felicia's more depraved aspects were filed off her character.
  • Big Bad: Toyo Momochi, at least for the first 5 chapters of the initial story mode. Later expansions to the game's story mode ends up making him a Disc One Final Boss, and he is replaced by Noah and Astaroth for chapters 6 through 10. After Astaroth's defeat, she is replaced by the original main antagonist of the series, Edwin Black. Only for Momochi to come up to retake his position as the story's main antagonist, again.
  • Biker Babe: Asagi now has access to a motorcycle.
  • Boobs of Steel: The game does not tone down the breast size of the more bustier Taimanin like Asagi, Sakura, Rinko, and Murasaki.
  • Bowdlerise: Since it is the franchise's first non-Hentai game. Action alters many of character designs by removing the nipple bulges and camel toe that comes with wearing Form-Fitting Wardrobe. The IOS version of Action takes it a step further and adds additional coverings to their suits.
    • Worth noting the toning down was in proportion to the outfits. For the more explicit outfits, like Yukikaze's, they got a severe toning down, such as expanding the skirt greatly and preventing crotch lines from appearing. With the mildly risque outfits, the changes were more minor, like Asagi's Vampiress alternate outfit getting a small skirt and Rinko's outfit having the black part cover her formerly exposed Underboobs. (this was later partially undone in an update, merely covering her shoulders entirely only)
    • Curiously averted for (the evil) Oboro. Aside from some very minor tweaks, it's basically the same evil Taimanin outfit she had in the original visual novels.
  • Bribing Your Way To Victory: Par for the course for a game with microtransactions. It is possible to avoid this, the occasional daily rewards are fairly generous, but you can save yourself a lot of trouble grinding if you are willing to spend a little real-world money on booster packs at least.
  • Colony Drop: Rinko's Special Attack involves her using her Space Master ability to teleport a meteor from space and then cutting the meteor into pieces so that the debris will rain down on her opponents.
  • Dark Action Girl: Several of the game's bosses, including Oboro and Snake Lady.
  • Disc One Final Boss: Toyo Momochi ultimately become this in the story mode after later expansions were made to the game. Antagonists like Noah and Astaroth end up taking his place as the main villains for the next 5 chapters. Later, Astaroth becomes this when she reveals that she was working for Edwin Black, who then show up in Chapter 12 to replace her as the Big Bad. Only for Black direct the Taimanin to next true main villains of the story: Momochi (again).
  • The Dragon:
    • Noah to Astaroth during the demon queen's time as the Big Bad.
    • Ingrid once again take her position as this to Edwin Black.
  • Fighter, Mage, Thief: The first 3 playable Taimanin, Asagi, Yukikaze, and Sakura, respectively.
  • Final Boss: Toyo Momochi in the story mode, complete with a One-Winged Angel transformation, referred to as "Toyo Momochi Creature", later he becomes a Disc One Final Boss with new chapters added to the story mode.
  • Hack and Slash: The main style of the game.
  • Hijacked By Ganon: Once again, Edwin Black makes a return in Chapter 12 and before that its revealed in Chapter 10 that he has been controlling the actions of the other antagonists, like Momochi and Astaroth, up until that point.
  • Hotter and Sexier: Inverted. This is the first Taimanin game that isn't a hardcore H-game. It still has a lot of Fanservice.
  • Jiggle Physics: One of the advantages to using 3D models as opposed to the "bounce" from 2D drawing. The original games had some mild 3D effects in some of the semi-animated images, but it's more apparent in a full 3D engine.
  • Lighter and Softer: Compared to other games of the franchise, as this game franchise's darker elements like rape and torture are generally absent. They are still alluded to or hinted at, but not shown.
  • Male Gaze: Being the franchise's first non-Hentai game, naturally most of the sexual content was removed or greatly toned down. That said, the game still has a lot of Fanservice. A good chunk of the game will have the camera focused on the butts of sexy demon slaying ninjas wearing Spy Catsuits and/or Leotard of Power as they mow down legions of demons.
  • McNinja: The new "honorary" Taimanin, Su Jinglei and Emily Simmons, are this as Su is Chinese and Emily is American, whereas most of the other anti-demon ninjas have been traditionally Japanese.
    • Su somewhat averts this, she does have 1/8th Japanese ancestry and some Taimanin blood as an extension of this. Emily remains a purer example, though she can get her own Taimanin outfit as an alternate costume to cosmetically fit in.
  • Mighty Glacier: Murasaki's fighting style.  Her attacks has some of the longest wind-ups, but deals out the most damage compare to the other playable characters.
  • One-Man Army: All the playable Taimanin certainly qualify as this.
  • One-Winged Angel: Toyo changes into a giant monster during the last stage of his Final Boss fight.
    • Snake Lady will change from her human form to her Naga form during the second stage of her boss fight.
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