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For a franchise that's known for over-the-top fanservice featuring female ninjas set in a Cyberpunk Crapsack World, Action Taimanin delivers some much-needed levity to balance the darker aspects of the game.

It was at this moment Sakura realized she trick-or-treated at the wrong house.

Main Story

• In Chapter 11, the team is infiltrating Tokyo Kingdom, a small town that's more or less run by Nomad. Having had to pass a checkpoint, Yukikaze complains that the guards took advantage of it to grope her mother (which Kotaro notes, seems to be said with more envy than actual anger). They then overhear the guards chatting among themselves that they had no interest in "the scrawny and the flat girl" (Yukikaze and Su). Yukikaze's outburst is to be expected. What isn't is that being called "flat" like that sends Su Jinglei into a Cluster Bleep-Bomb.

Events

• Mad Party in the Labyrinth starts out by detailing the infirmary beneath Gosha Academy which is run by Sabato Kiryu while making it sound like he has turned it into his own personal Supervillain Lair what with all the state-of-the-art medical equipment and Murasaki-themed Stalker Shrine.
• While tidying up the infirmary, Nurse Yuuna is startled by Kiryu loudly screaming, "You're WRONG!!!!!", who in turn debates with Emily over whether Murasaki or Asagi is "the Almighty Taimanin." The plot of the event is set in motion because the two of them were having a "best girl"-debate.
• One of the Halloween event has Ingrid goes on a patrol and stumbles upon a bunch of Corporate Warrior Ingrid cosplayers. Some of them are men. The fans even mistake Ingrid for a cosplayer of herself, only wearing the wrong costume.
• In the Concerto of Red and Crimson event, we are introduced to Ashigaya Yasuna, an Onomyoji who has a knack for gambling, and due to her having accrued so many debts from one too many losses, ultimately forcing herself to work for Kurenai. This is made doubly ironic with her fully upgraded supporter skill which deals 666% damage on enemies, with another added damage of the same calculation at a 50% chance. Supposedly this should be reference to the term, "devil's luck", since it means being Born Lucky. Yasuna, on the other hand, is actually Born Unlucky.
  • For further irony, her supporter passive increase the amount of gold recieved from missions, as well as gives a chance to obtain an additional item upon doing so. The Cobbler's Children Have No Shoes indeed...
  • Spinel, of all people, stumbles into Kurenai's team, where she found herself being held captive by a bank robber, leading to a standoff between said robber and Spica. Spinel manages to send her captor flying when things got way out of hand and tags along.
  • On the fourth part, Kurenai runs into Lapis while investigating the stolen jewelries. Only for one another to accuse the other of being the thief, leading the two women to tussle.
  • As soon Spinel and Lapis managed to regroup, the former reveals that she's even terrified of Lapis when she gets mad while being scolded. Then again, while Lapis is Affably Evil at her best, one has to imagine if what would she looked like if she blew up a gasket.

Intimacy Events

• The very premise of Ingrid's Corporate Warrior skin and Supporter. A propaganda project by Nomad to create a multimedia franchise starring her battling an evil paper-thin Expy of the Task Force. Most of the scripts for said franchise are not very good, written in collaboration between her startstruck protegee Lina and Ingrid’s shut-in cousin Dolores, approved of by Oboro purely because she knows Ingrid dislikes wearing the very skimpy costume and the silly stories and Ingrid likes Lina and Dolores too much to tell them what she really thinks of said scripts.
  • In an Event story, Oboro manages to corner the taimanins but decides to let them live because her henchman reports her about the Corporate Warrior project that she was so eager to attend. Apparently seeing Ingrid suffer was much more worth to Oboro than letting the taimanins win!
  • Oboro's schadenfreude is best delivered in the Supporter comments, which is just this:
    "Pfft, ahaha! Aaah-hahahaha! Ha, ha, haaah....... Hmpfft, ahahaha!" ⎯⎯⎯ Oboro
  • Oddly enough, this actually works. Later events confirm that Corporate Warrior Ingrid gets an extended episodes and the second season, and even a dedicated fanbase.
  • Lina's Playable Intimacy event shows the sheer pettiness of Oboro's rivalry with Ingrid goes as far as Oboro approving that Lina be officially rewarded by Nomad, purely because it would let Oboro make a public speech congratulating Lina on creating "Corporate Warrior Ingrid" to humilate Ingrid further.
• Homura Sanada takes Kotaro for a motorcycle ride, leaving the poor guy in a screaming wreck.
• Arika Harusaki's episode has Fuuma being haphazardly thrown into a deserted island when Arika's Void Art accidentally sucked the task force CO into a wormhole that sent him into the island in the first place. The real kicker, Arika is a ditz, meaning her mastery of Void Art is nowhere as Rinko's level. The hijinks Fuuma goes through doesn't end there, as a wild boar chases him until Arika manages to save his keester. Fuuma chides Arika and forbids her from using her Ninja Art, unless they risk getting Trapped in Another World without any means to return to Gosha. The event ends with the two Taimanins placing an SOS on the shore to call for help.
• "[Prophet] Eleonor" sees the dark elf use her magic to run a fortune-telling shop for Halloween, the end of the day see her getting a visit from Yukikaze, enquiring about her love future with "a friend, a bit dense", then Asuka, asking about her future love with "a coworker... from a different branches as I", then Kurenai, curious about her love future with "a childhood friend... our clans were close". Each time, Eleonor's crystal ball gives her an omnious fog, leaving the elf more and more confused. When Kirara comes in to ask if Eleonor is doing well, Eleonor all but forces her into the client seat to ask about her "love future", and once again get the same strange dark fog. When Kotaro walks in later, to see if she is fine and to ask if he will ever get a girlfriend (as he isn't sure any girl likes him in that way), Eleonor realizes all the girls were asking about their love future with Kotaro, and the omnious dark fog is because "there are dozens, no, hundreds", of girls who could/are/will be in love with him. She simply tells Kotaro to be very careful with his future love "or [he] could die", freaking him out.
• Pictured above, Shadow Fairy Sakura's Intimacy Event, being a Halloween Episode, Sakura and Emily stumble into Murasaki's house in the worst possible moment when Murasaki herself answers the door. Not helped by the fact that Sakura is competing with Su in a trick-or-treat around Gosha and Emily letting it slip by accident. Once Murasaki got the gist of it, she immediately blows a gasket on the two, ending with a Big "NO!" from Sakura. To add insult to injury, Su wins.
  • Even funnier with the simple fact Sakura giving a cheeky smile just as she pushes the doorbell, and when Murasaki answers the door, the whimsical music comes to a sudden stop. In conjunction with Murasaki giving Sakura a Death Glare, an ominous droning playing on the background; with Sakura realizing that Murasaki is the type of person who is hardly the fun-type and going into her house proved to be her fatal mistake.
• Su Jinglei's Lil' Witch episode, which takes place before Shadow Fairy Sakura's reveals that Sakura actually provoked Su into playing along with the trick-or-treat game. So much that she's completely nervous when she and Noah solicit at Tokiko's house, not helped by Noah's stoicism. Luckily, Tokiko is generous enough to give them snacks. And thanks to Noah, they narrowly avoided Murasaki's house given she's aware how the Undying can be a buzzkill in addition to her tyrannical disposition.
• Lapis' Intimacy Event has Lapis pointing at Fuuma, Ace Attorney style, and accusing him as secretly hiding his power of seducing women because he have powerful and gorgeous women around him all the time. Then she further presses him because even she feels fuzzy when she's with him. Oops.
• Shikanosuke's episode has him going on a mission, and then Fuuma mistakenly rescues him from a gang of thugs. Not helped by the fact that being raised by the Uehara clan, he is forced to dress like a girl. When Shikanosuke uses his Elec Art to fend off their pursuers, Fuuma does not even recognize his own best friend, until Shikanosuke finally snaps and slaps him. And when Fuuma meets up with Shikanosuke talking about the ordeal, he instead gets punched to the face.
• Torajiro's Intimacy episode has her bathing with Fuuma is both cute and funny as this give the impression of bathing with a fur-friend. Then, her brother Ichirota out of all people, barges in much to Fuuma's chagrin. While Ichirota is confused by the fact Torajiro is bathing with a Taimanin, it gets even more awkward when he joins in the tub. The scene ends with Tokiko freaking out seeing her master bathing with two Beastmen, chewing them out for not following the customs in Gosha.

Collections

Weapons, Supporters, and Monsters collections sometimes have Flavor Text that adds some comments from characters (mostly supporters). Some of them are worth the chuckles.

• Some collection flavor texts are connected, creating a Running Gag.
  • Mutant Worm Larva:
    "Disgusting." ⎯⎯⎯ Mori Shizuka
  • Eater Worm Larva:
    "Disguisting." ⎯⎯⎯ Fuuma Hibiki
    "I said it first, Hibiki-chan." ⎯⎯⎯ Mori Shizuka
  • The Deep Wanderer (Noah's weapon, which is a fish):
    "Yuck, disguisting." ⎯⎯⎯ Nagi Kotone
    "Yeah, that's what I thought when I first saw it in Kotrara." ⎯⎯⎯ Mori Shizuka
• • Emily's weapon Magi Mk-II has this...
    "I heard it comes with voice recognition. Don't you wanna see how it responds to 'She sells seashells on the seashore?'" ⎯⎯⎯ Hanasaki Yozora
  • ...and the monster Drone Dog (Shooter) has this:
    Initiating checkup on voice recognition system. She sells sea sells on the seashore, she shells sea sells, she shells she-seasells...... ⎯⎯⎯ Drone Malfunction Log, #127
• Astaroth's weapon Blazelet has a fancy description, with it being a modern ritual decoration created with human technology. The kicker? That's what Astaroth thinks it is. We then get to see what it really is:
  "Uhh... girls? Would someone tell Her Highness that she's proudly wearing the trivets from my stove, please?"' ⎯⎯⎯ Shinjou Yuuna
• Remember the Black Familiars? Noah can use one as a weapon. Video Game Cruelty Potential aside, someone thinks they deserve it:
  Serves 'em right, after what we've been through because of those pesky little things. ⎯⎯⎯ Hanasaki Yozora
• Of all the supporters, Futaba Yui and Kiryu Kaoruko are Those Two Girls who just can't stop slipping in Shout-Out here and there. Heck, the two forms the unique Supporter Formation aptly named "Collection Commentators?"
  • Futaba Yui doesn't even try to hide her geeky sides.
    • Mock Naginata:
      We all know the saying that goes, "a bad workman always blames his tools". A well-trained Taimanin can take three demons with just a pencil. ⎯⎯⎯ Futaba Yui
      Uh, I think I'd rather blame the tool then. ⎯⎯⎯ Hiiragi Fuyumi
  • Kiryu Kaoruko is a wise-cracking troublemaker.
    • Yuuto:
      "Awww, look at that! Now who's a good bunny? Who's a neck-snapping demon bunny from the fiery pit of hell? Yes you are! Yes you are!"
• Summer season-limited weapons are mundane items made into weapons, including a wide variety of fish. For some reason, the first few weapons have what seems like a B-movie trailer scripts in their collection texts.
• Prunus Device (Emily's weapon) is painted pink. Hiiragi Fuyumi has this to say:
  What, you got a problem with this? Real ninjas ride pink, you know.
• Pumpkin Sword collection description reveals that it is an Evil Weapon that contains a fearsome demon that terrorizes the human world at the end of every October. The rest of the collection reads like a horror story, until we get to the end of the log...
  ...How exactly it turned up at the Task Force Halloween party is still under investigation.
  Hey Tam, what are you eating there? A pumpkin? Eww, it reeks of demon. If you go around eating everything you see, you're gonna have a serious tummy ache. ⎯⎯⎯ Fujibayashi Yuno
• Apparently there is the "archive management team" and the "Task force record keeper", who is responsible for all the silly comments in the collections. The very fact that someone in the team had the spare time to throw in some silly comments is hilarious by itself, but it gets evin sillier when sometimes whoever writing the description gets personal.
  • Supporters' Flavor Text is usually relatively dry, giving a brief summary of the character's history (and, if it's a special variant, why they look like that), followed by some quote to/about that character (with the quote containing a funny comment or two). The text for Minasaki, on the other hand? "This brat is a FRAUD!!! NEVER! Never believe her!!" leaving the "quote" to explain why she's so frustrating.
    • ...Then we get this gem from Ashigaya Yasuna's supporter collection:
      The worst kind of fraud. Worse than Minasaki. Gimme my money back already! ⎯⎯⎯Task force record keeper
    • This continues in Minasaki's entry in the "Monsters" tab of the collection, with the "description" being "Get this brat away from me! FRAUD!"
  • [Holy Night] Onisaki Kirara supporter text states that there was a Christmas Eve Party at the Task Force. The log ends with this rant:
    "I wasn't even invited to this party, what's the deal" ⎯⎯⎯Task force record keeper
  • [White Knight] Igawa Asagi support text dabs into the Magical Girl Show Within a Show until it's abruptly cut out, ending with this comment:
    "......Can you get me the director of the archive management team?"' —Igawa Asagi
• Gosha's R&D didn't want to make a weapon for Lina, seeing as she's a proud Nomad member. What convinced them to get to work on Cherry Storm? An off-hand comment that "Demon weapons are really hard to make for humans anyways".

  "......What a bunch of kids." ──Task force record keeper

Others

• The fact that the Official Twitter account mentioned This Very Wiki.
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