FAQ

## General Questions

### What is Taimanin Wiki?

The Taimanin wiki covers the media of the Taimanin series and other Lilith Soft games, that were part of crossovers. It tries mostly to give the lore and context, unlike current wikis covering the mechanics and gameplay of the online games.

### Who owns Taimanin Wiki?

No one, it simply is a fan cooperation, we have no direct link to the creators or working for anybody. Also members are around the world.

### Who is responsible to edit this Wikia?

Anyone willing to help, please read Guidelines and Blocking Policy first.

### What can I do to help?

**Spell checking** and **quality control**, adding lore information, adding characters, adding artwork, adding game/OVA/manga descriptions and so on. Priorities are existing pages with little information.

## Series Questions

### Who created the Taimanin Series and who are the main artists?

Lilith Soft especially the subdivision of Black Lilith. The main artist of the Asagi series are Kagami Hirotaka, followed by ZOL and Aoi Nagisa. The online games have a large mix of other artists.

### What is the genre?

Most games are darker eroge visual novels, they feature a lot of those tags nobody admits to watch. The free online games are gacha, with Action Taimanin being a SFW, Hack and Slay.

### What's the story about?

It plays in an alternative near future, around Japan and beyond, a world in which magic and technology exists. Taimanin are ninja that counter the corrupting aspects of technology and demons. Some games feature Asagi, as the protagonists but not all. The Taimanin tend to go on a mission, something goes horribly wrong and they need to escape or kill their opponent, something of that sort.

*Tl;dr* Super powered ninja ladies of the future, fighting demons and cyborgs. Stories tend to be rather dark and lewd.

### What other series can it be compared with?

X-Men+A Certain Magical Index+La Blue Girl

### Which game should I start with?

Currently Action Taimanin and the upcoming Taimanin RPGX might be good entry points. In the case you want to see the whole series check Chronology.

### There are many characters, which ones do I need to know?

Because of the Online Universes, many characters show up in the series, but those you should at least check out at the beginning are Asagi, Sakura, Murasaki, Yukikaze, Kurenai and Kotaro as protagonists and Oboro, Kuroi Ryuuji and Edwin Black as antagonists.

### Where can I play it?

Currently not all games are released "officially" in English but fan translations exist for all games, outside of Mama wa Taimanin. Steam has demo's of Taimanin Asagi and Taimanin Yukikaze as well as a free to play game Action Taimanin. The also free, currently still running, Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena, is on Nutaku.

### What is Mahou Kaiju?

Another wiki that tends to show up in searches. The maker use Taimanin and other franchises characters for fanfiction, of a "movie franchise," that will be made in the future, by him(?). It should not be used as a source of information to learn anything about Taimanin, as the site doesn't make it clear where official material starts and fanfiction begins.

### How do I read names?

Characters with a Japanese name, will have their surname and **then** the firstname. While american (UFS) characters and most demons, will be written first name and **then** surname. Western names in Japanese letters tend to have a "**・**" like Edwin Black (エドウィン**・**ブラック) .

Example: "Igawa Asagi and her sister Igawa Sakura are from Japan. Asagi and Sakura are joined by Emily Simmons of the UFS, to fight the vampire Edwin Black."

## Lore Question

### What is a Taimanin?

A human, with supernatural powers given by demon blood in their past ancestry. They are typically also trained as a ninja to fight demons. The word "Taimanin" also can address the "group" of Taimanin operating in Gosha Village or ex-members. It translates roughly to "Anti Demon Ninja".

### When do those games take place?

Most games don't give a direct date, putting it around the later half of **20XX**. We did some speculation on our History page. However, Taimanin RPGX has been revealed to play in the year **2082**.

### Where do those games take place?

Near Future Japan. Repeated locations are the village of the Taimanin, Gosha Village and the criminal filled dark cities Tokyo Kingdom, Amidahara and Yomihara.

### What games are part of that Taimanin world?

Check Main Taimaninverse Games for this. The main three to remember are Witch of Steel Annerose, Onmyo Knight Towako and Carla The Blood Lord, which play in the same universe setting, even if this is a retcon in the case of Towako and Carla.

### What does TABA/RPGX/Action/ZERO timeline mean?

The games Taimanin Asagi ZERO, Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena, Taimanin RPGX and Action Taimanin each, have their own continuity against the main canon. Should a character be very different in one of the timelines that will be noted. Check Glossary for some more term use.

### How old is X?

Currently only a few ages are vaguely mentioned in Taimanin Asagi 3 or in offical non joke material. Between Taimanin Asagi 1 and Taimanin Asagi 3 also are 10 years, so people do age. The main protagonist Asagi, is 20 in her prologue and 23 in Taimanin Asagi 1 and 33 in Taimanin Asagi 3 because of this. Other characters like Murasaki, turn 30 around "soon" in TA3. Consider all characters in nfsw situations as over 18, as disclaimers for other games state this as well.

Some characters appear within other universe and age up or down, Igawa Asagi (ZERO) version of Asagi might be between 18 and 23 years old. Additionally in the Online Universes, since years pass within those stories, at the same rate as real life, people do age multiple years depending on how many anniversaries and new year events take place. Meaning, every character that appears in the Online Universes can be even older. On that topic, RPGX is currently on the 4th Anniversary, and TABA ended on 4th. Meaning characters aged 4 to 5 years.

### Didn't that character die in the OVA?

Check the Lilith Multiverse page and the History page for an idea of events. OVA's are more what if ends, so if you are worried...just think of it happening in an alternative world. The true ending routes of the games tend to be what you read on the character and game pages.

### What is Taimanin Canon?

The Taimanin Multiverse has a handful of continuities. Some are easy to explain, others are not. OVAs, Bad Endings, What Ifs are "loosely defined as canon" in their own small variations of these continuities.

1. The Asagi Series, Yukikaze Series, Taimanin Murasaki, Taimanin Kurenai, Mama wa Taimanin are prequels, sidegames and sequels of the Canon Universe. Other games may or may not exist also within the Taimanin Canon Universe, and for certain in the Online Universes.
2. Taimanin Asagi ZERO plays in the ZERO Universe, as a follow up of a Bad Ending created new Universe from Taimanin Asagi 3.
3. Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena is an alternative world in which TA3 never plays out but is otherwise identical to the canon universe with all other games playing out just the same. It takes place in its own TABA Online Universe.
4. Taimanin RPGX is like the ZERO a follow up of the ending of TABA, in which a new Universe is created in the form of the RPGX Online Universe and Dark Future Timeline.
5. Action Taimanin exists in its own timeline, which mirrors RPGX in many elements. It exists in its own AT Online Universe.
6. Taimanin GOGO exists in its own wacky timeline, in which somebody from the normal human world is "isekaid", into the GOGO Online Universe.

Please understand that every claim for what is canon, in what timeline, is always connected to some level of speculation, with pro and contra guesswork. Given retcons, multiverses, prequels, sidegames and retcons within the online games, their is never going to be a version everybody, can 100% agree on to be correct. The fact we consider Carla The Blood Lord, Witch of Steel Annerose and Onmyo Knight Towako also as part of the "canon universe", retcon or not, is based on how TABA and normal Canon is otherwise identical prior to TA3. TL;DR: if all that is to complicated don't worry about it, in some other universe it all made perfect sense.

## Legal Questions

### Can I use Taimanin Wiki material on an other websites?

Yes but give credit. Links are always very appreciated.

### Can I put content from other sites on the Wiki?

Yes, as long as it seems to be authentic information and the creators are okay with it.

### Are all characters adults?

As stated by by Lilith Soft and repeated also on their own youtube channel, all characters in nfsw situations are adults.

## Community Questions

### Who are the Administrators here?

Also called Sysop/Bureaucrat/Creator: SagiAstrum is the current admin. Founder "Taimanin", and later second admin Red Duel are both retired.

### Since when is the Taimanin Wiki active?

The Wiki was created in 2018 but remained empty until it was fully abandoned for a long time. In june 2020 it was picked up first by Red Dual, with a few image uploads. SagiAstrum joined later in September, since then the wiki has daily updates to its content. April 2023 Red Dual retired as admin and became part of the moderator staff.

### What is the current state of the Wiki?

We were able to add all the characters released, with only minor once possibly having slipped past us. RPGX, Action and at some point Taimanin GOGO are still running online games and content is added continuously. We still struggle with some older pages for the games themselves, with outdated spelling and information. More information, about the Drama CDs will be available as translation becomes accessible. Light Novel and shortstories and some mangas of Lilith are currently not fully added, as we struggle to find the material in a translated state. RPGX and GOGO character names are the result of google and deepL translation, expect all names to change somewhat with an official release.

### Can I become an Administrator?

Be on this site for a long time, contribute and display ability. Also join the discord for such questions. You will always first become a content Moderator to prove yourself.

### Who defines the policies?

Defined by users and Administrators especially on discord.

### What games have you guys played?

I can not talk for everybody but as one of the main writers here. I played every single Taimanin release, translated or not. Including other Lilith games, which were mentioned by cameo or crossover. This includes at least ~45 games but to reduce the "flex", that is not even half of all the full releases of Lilith and most my experience is just with Black Lilith games. The series referencing old games they made like Ane Hara Mix, makes as much sense to me, as it does to 99% of the readers of this FAQ. As such, more help and expertise is always welcome.

### Are you guys on Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Instagram?

No, maybe at some point. People have posted "about us" or "for us" but nobody on the staff has. We still appreciate anybody who shared us.

### Discord?

Yes. Discord: https://discord.gg/ePhUmmt small and basic. Good place to provide us with news or information.

## Editing Questions

### "Source Mode" and "Visual Mode"?

Source mode allows you to edit the wiki code of a page, visual mode shows you what the page itself looks like. You can edit in both but some edits are only possible in Source Mode.

### How do links work?

Activate by holding strg+k or ctrl+k, clicking the link symbol in visual mode and typing "[[". A text box will open and you can type for an existing page on the wiki, if you type a page that has not been made yet it will show up red like this "Test". If you click into red text, it sends to to the empty page, after making one. All red text linking to the same former empty page will become blue and be a working link. If you want a link to a category, example "Anime". Type :category:Anime in that box. If you want to use a different word while still linking to the same page or category use a "|". Change into source mode (easier) and type something like [[:category:Anime|OVA's]] it will show up like this: OVA's. For anything more please research on your own or ask on discord.

### Where can I discuss pages?

Every page has a Talk Page that one can access by hovering over the drop-down arrow next to the Edit button. The Talk button should be at the bottom of the drop-down selection but preferred would be discord.

### Somebody reverted my edits, what should I do?

Edit wars should be avoided at all costs. Discussion and respecting the edits of others are the best ways to prevent them. If this has been done and you disagree, you can undo the undo (do not forget to state your point of view). If the reverting was done by a mod or admin, try using the discord or talk page. Keep evidence ready to prove your point.

### Where do I make test edits?

A good place would be https://community.fandom.com/wiki/Community\_Central.