Moment subpages are Spoilers Off. You Have Been Warned!
Just because Action Taimanin now omits the explicit NSFW content the Taimanin series is infamously known for, but that doesn't mean it's also bereft of horrific and unsettling moments.
Main Quest
- Astaroth's introduction. The Queen of the Inferno and the very first high-ranking demon the player faces. To prove her power, 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 arrive.
- 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, compared to the TABA incarnation of Kotaro. But, there's a 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, 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.
- 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 collosal 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 entomophobic.
Miscellaneous
- 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 doing 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.
