Tropes/Trivia

This page gives an overview of certain tropes and some trivia that generally applies to the Taimanin Universe.

## Tropes

* Action Girl: More so in RPGX and Action Taimanin otherwise also Faux Action Girls.
* Arc Fatigue: Yukikaze's goal to find her mother, Shiranui, and defeat the King of the Incubus is the main drive of Taimanin Yukikaze and Taimanin Yukikaze 2, ⁣⁣ but even after years, no final game has solved the plot.
* Les Yay: Many moments like this.
	+ Oboro as twisted as she is, it is interpreted by her fans, as a Yandere obsessed with Asagi but also is willing to kill her if she gets in her way.
	+ Murasaki with either Sakura or Asagi.
	+ Ayame and Kurenai, share a kiss just to power up in a fight of course, but Ayame is still very interested.
	+ Yukikaze deeply admires Rinko both have kissed when younger tough they claim it doesn't count. Additionally, Yukikaze got slightly aroused by hugging her in Under Eden.
* Nausea Fuel: As the series goes on, it tends to throw a lot against a wall and see what sticks. As a result, some scenes explore rather appeasing fetishes, like some scenes in Taimanin Kurenai.
* Super-Powered Evil Side: Inner Demon of Igawa Asagi.
* They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Many scenes and characters have been skipped, much to the dislike of fans.
	+ Koukawa Oboro had no erotic scenes in Taimanin Asagi 3 and didn't even appear in the OVA.
	+ Sakura was removed from the Hell Knight Ingrid OVA, an adoption of Taimanin Murasaki.

## References

* While discussing the Raiden powered armor suits in Taimanin Asagi 3, Sakura makes a joke that references Neon Genesis Evangelion.
* The Achievement Milestones, in Action Taimanin, refer to multiple things.
	+ "Gotta Go Fast" from Sonic.
	+ "Such is a Taimanin Skill" meme line "Such is a Samurai skill" of Shin Megami Tensei IV.
	+ "Watch The World Burn" from the Batman movies.
	+ "O Captain! My Captain!" English poem.
	+ "One Weapon to Rule Them All" based of one ring to rule them all-Lord of the Rings.
	+ "How I met my Supporter" based of How I met your mother.
	+ "Say Hello To My little Friend" quote from Scarface.
	+ "Money, Money, Money" based on the Abba song.
* Multiple characters are named after mythological figures or gods or historical people or locations: Astaroth, Ragnarok, Kuri Marie, Orcus, Zaqqum. Alice.
* Multiple weapons in Action Taimanin reference other fiction.
	+ The skeletal sword **Naraku** to H.P. Lovecraft's works
	+ The **Skeleton Blade** to the Skyrim meme catchphrase "curved swords", spoken by a guard of the dark realm.
	+ **Phantom Knife** quotes Moby Dick
	+ The **Magnum Revolver** to the movie "For A Few Dollars More".
	+ The **Ley-Line** blade to Golden Swords of Minecraft, having poor durability.
	+ The **Ninja Axe** mentions the line "There are many like it, but this one is mine" from Full Metal Jacket.
	+ The weapon **White Mage** referes to the Konami code.
	+ The **Split Moon Dorje** refers to Sailor Moon lyrics of the English opening.
	+ The weapon **Soleil** is a European replica weapon of the sword in the stone. Given that it also shoots lasers, a "Fate" reference.
	+ The Rifleman's Creed is mentioned in the Ninja Axe.
* TBA

## Trivia

* Taimanin created a meme, the "3000 times sensibility" being part of the Body Modification. The author, has revealed that originally it was 1000–3000 times but since TA2, had made it 3000.
* Taimanin was most likely inspired by La Blue Girl and X-Men.
* The games take place in the year 20XX, later on releases made it play around 2083 in the case of RPGX.
* Some of the games take place in a short time span, but specially in the bad endings can take place over multiple month. Taimanin Yukikaze bad end route takes place over half a year, with the final screens being almost 9–10 months. Other games, like TABA and RPGX, also go on for multiple years showing different canonical Christmas events.
* Taimanin was an early adopter of the ahegao face.
* The true ending of most games end with the main characters saving themselves, except for Mama wa Taimanin.
* As a darker eroge series, the games have a high amount of Bad Endings.
* Multiple members of the Taimanin devs seem to be Baseball fans. Koukawa Asuka was made a fan, and characters like David Dahl are named after players.
* Kagami the main artist of Asagi before his work on Lilith projects made a lot of One Piece artwork. Nico Robin and Nami also resemble the early on designs of Igawa Asagi and Igawa Sakura.
* Aoi another important artist, has stated that without Lilith from Darkstalkers, there wouldn't have been Futaba Lily Ramses or Mizuki Yukikaze.
* TBA

## References

1. ↑ https://x.com/sasalilith/status/1707728516467536272?s=20