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Just because Action Taimanin now omits the explicit NSFW content the Taimanin series is infamously known for doesn't mean it's also bereft of horrific and unsettling moments.

Main Quest

• Momochi instigating a Zombie Apocalypse in Venam using the Creeping Death Virus, a bioweapon developed by the UFS that mutates humans (and even animals) into zombie-like creatures upon inhaling said virus. What's worse though is the CD virus is being illegally sold on the black market by a researcher named Heiji Takenaka, who deserted against the Japanese government and leaked it to anti-UFS forces for his own interests.
• Astaroth's introduction. The Queen of the Inferno and the very first high-ranking demon the player faces. As far a demonstrating the extent of her power goes, she even melted Asagi's weapon after making short work of the Almighty Taimanin, and even survive a chain reaction of exploding cars... The task force has to spend the first four sections of Chapter 10 escaping her until Shiranui arrives.
• Tokyo Kingdom, being a Nomad turf despite looking like a normal city at first glance, is probably not the safest place to be around the Taimanin universe given that it acts as a safe haven for local gangs, organized criminal syndicates and demons affiliated with Nomad. Even Noah herself isn't safe from the thugs attacking her in Chapter 11, to the point she herself causes the task force even more trouble all the way to chapter 12.
• The introduction of Edwin Black, the vampiric crime lord of the Nomad. His very presence alone is enough bring chills to everyone's spines, even Kotaro isn't immune either. During the raid on the Nomad base in Chapters 18 & 19, Kotaro could have met his permanent end if it weren't for the King of the Death Wraiths' intervention, freeing him from Black's Gravity Psychic Strangle.
• Kotaro is normally a Nice Guy in this game compared to the TABA incarnation of Kotaro who seems to be a creepy Handsome Lech at worst. However, there's a certain line that you don't want to cross in front of him: that is treating your own comrades as expendables than people. Not only Momochi earned him Kotaro's hatred not even helped by Momochi's utter Lack of Empathy and mocking the idea of "friendship" on his earshot, Momochi ends up being the distinction as one of the only Taimanin antagonists that is not Oboro, Astaroth, or even Edwin Black to make Kotaro very angry, to the point that (even though he's only a POV character and not playable) he wants to kill Momochi personally but chose not to. Even Su herself is visibly shocked seeing him immediately incensed upon confronting Momochi, showing just how terrifying Kotaro becomes when pushed past his breaking point.
• Momochi's goal of further widening the rift between humanity and demons by planning to leak all the information about the Nomad for the entire world to see, knowing it could only worsen the vicious cycle of violence between humans and demons. What's the point of further turning an already Crapsack World into Hell on Earth by starting a war between two races until there would be no survivors on either sides? Unfortunately for the task force, Astaroth did Momochi a huge favor, all just to draw out Edwin Black for her own amusement.
• The Death Wraiths in general. They are demons, but they are not as malevolent than the others. Their eldritch and grotesque appearance can make your stomach churn even if they are not hostile to humans. But special mention goes to the King of the Death Wraiths himself: a gigantic, armored skeleton armed with a colossal mace. He manages to withstand everything the Taimanins throw at him even when the numbers are against him.
• The three-way showdown between the King of the Death Wraiths, Astaroth, and Edwin Black is basically the closest to Armageddon. The Taimanins roped the Death Wraiths in their fight against the Nomad, only to turn a supposed Enemy Civil War between Astaroth and Black into a catastrophic battle with the last high-ranking demon standing reigning supreme over demonkind. The real kicker? Both monarch demons reduced an entire military base, run by the Nomad no less, into a fiery wasteland.
• Throughout Chapter 20, the mooks you fight includes a demonic giant wasp. Hearing their buzzing makes you a bit unsettled, especially if you are deathly afraid of bees.
• Chapter 21 being appropriately called "Unseen Threat" is the beginning of a new story arc, and everything about it comes off as unsettling. Shockingly, Yukikaze and Murasaki attack a UFS underground base, and attack Sora and Sakuya when they stumble at their senior and teacher who are not acting like themselves. Either Yukikaze and Murasaki were kidnapped and brainwashed, or impostors sent to diminish the Taimanins' reputation, and the chapter ending with the task force finding themselves in uncertainty. With Edwin Black and Momochi out of the picture, all of the events in this chapter is just a foreboding implication of what's to come.
  • The UFS introduced a new set of hardware following Momochi and Edwin Black's defeats, and proving Asagi and Yamamoto's assumptions of a greater conspiracy within the UFS, they have every right to be suspicious of the pro-Nomad congressman knowing that someone is out there trying to sabotage the Taimanins.
    • Even worse, the Cyborg Maidens are revealed to be Tyke Bombs, Fuyumi Hiiragi's commentary on the flavor text suggests that the UFS are stooping to such lows to the point they are willing to create Child Soldiers.
  • The Yukikaze and Murasaki the player has to fight at the the very end. The fact they both speak in a robotic tone is uncomfortable, meaning they are more than just being brainwashed. As Asagi already insinuated to the UFS politician, they are confirmed to be clones.
  • Playing as Shiranui in said chapter brings a more foreboding and morose implication: your daughter goes missing and found out that the one you fight is actually a clone. And the chapter ends in a cliffhanger with Yukikaze's whereabouts remain uncertain, especially for those who remember the tragic fate that befell Shiranui in the Taimanin Yukikaze duology. Only this time is that Shiranui needs to go on a mission and find Yukikaze.

Miscellaneous^note Including Events, Intimacy Events, and Collections

• Sakuya Igawa, one of the junior Taimanins who joins in the last few chapters of the main quest, has a rather dark background in addition to her tumultuous upbringing due to being forced to live up to her distant relative, Asagi's accomplishments. The simple fact that she is abusing the use of demonic substance to awaken her Ninja Art may come off as already disturbing if one takes into consideration Momochi and his minions having done the same thing, at the expense of sacrificing one's own humanity. Given that this is also a cautionary tale of taking shortcuts through performance-enhancing drugs, it's made even worse that Sakuya is still a minor.
• An Intimacy event ^Details"Chaotic Void" Noah brown, a Supporter Variation. Noah went to buy groceries and was heckled by children for being a demon, with one throwing a rock at her that she dodged, only for it to hit Kotaro instead sees Kotaro accidentally hit by some kids while Noah is in sight. Despite the wound being minor, simply seeing Kotaro hurt pushed Noah into her Chaotic Void form and she nearly murders two children while ranting that she would not let anyone hurt Kotaro.

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