Taimanin Asagi/YMMV


 * Broken Base:
 * The original OVA looking like it was filmed on a shaky handheld camera with focus problems. One group of fans found this style of animation unique, while others found it to be annoying.
 * The ending to the spin-off OVA series, Hell Knight Ingrid or Makia Kishi Ingird. Fans either enjoy the a happy ending of Ingrid and Murasuki getting their long awaited revenge on Kiryuu, or hate because it teases a scene of both Ingrid and Murasaki being rape by a Cerberus-like demon, only for it to not occur. Their are a few fans that actually wish OVA would have ended on a bad ending were Ingrid and Murasaki are forced to be Baby Factories for Kiryuu's hell hound.
 * The OVA of Taimanin Asagi 2 in general.
 * Come For The Hentai, Stay For Wakamoto: Anybody who watched this hentai would be fine just listening to his voice.
 * Counterpart Comparison: Its hard not to talk about this series without compare it to Lilith-Soft others works like Kangoku Senkan, Tentacles and Witches, Tokumu Sousaka Rei & Fuko, and Koutetsu no Majo Annerose.
 * The series seems to take some inspiration from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex. Just replace the cyborgs with demons.
 * A series about ninjas fighting demons in an Urban Fantasy setting, with plenty of Fanservice. Are we talking about Taimanin Asagi or Ninja Gaiden?
 * In terms of recent anime, some fans have pointed out that Studio Trigger's Ninja Slayer does share some similarities to this series, namely taking place in a dystopian future with a bunch of ninjas running around. There is also quite a bit of crossover fan art between the two series. It also helps that many of the female characters from Ninja Slayer, namely Nancy Lee and Dragon Yukano/Amnesia, can easily pass off as Taimanin in terms of character design.
 * Crowning Music of Awesome: The ending theme, Mugen Renga.
 * Darkness-Induced Audience Apathy: It's a hentai about Superhero ninjas being sexually tortured. If you follow the entire series, it's slightly more bearable knowing that the canon ends of each game aren't totally grimdark Downer Endings, but the trope can still be induced.
 * Ensemble Darkhorse: Ingrid, is the most notable example. Even though she was just the third billing character in Taimanin Murasaki, after Murasaki herself, and Sakura. Ingrid was so popular with the fan base that she got an entire OVA series dedicated to her.
 * The card game "Taimanin Asagi: Battle Arena" introduces many new characters that qualify as this, however there is just too many to list them all. Still, Tokiko Fuuma and Ren Ikenami merits special mention.
 * Many of the characters' Super-Powered Evil Side that were featured exclusively in "Taimanin Asagi: Battle Arena" became a hit with the fans, with Sakura's and Ingrid's being the most popular.
 * Oboro Kokawa from TA3. Despite her limited screen time (and zero H-scenes) in TA3, her popularity already rivals, and arguable even surpassing, her Evil Counterpart.
 * Evil is Sexy: Just pick any female villain, nearly all of them fits this description. As for the guys, we have Edwin Black, Ryuji, and even Kiryuu (their human forms at least).
 * Fridge Horror: It is implied by Oboro's Clone in Taimanin Asagi 2 that most, if not all, Taimanins are born with some form of demon lineage, which explain their superhuman powers and why all Taimanins have a Super-Powered Evil Side. However, considering that most demon in-series live to rape any human woman that they can find, this implies that at least one of their ancestors was a Child by Rape.
 * A slightly more subtle version of this trope is in effect for the series as a whole. Most applications of demonic technology lead to little good for anyone, yet the nations of the world are obsessed with obtaining it, so even if most of the notable demonic warlords are dealt with and the demonic threat to the world of men is pared down to negligible, that still leaves the possibility humans could prove to be even worse given their lust for such things.
 * After of be raped by the demonic citizen of Tokyo Kingdom, Asagi and Sakura almost became in mindless whores. The fridge horror comes from the fact that only spent three days, while the end of the ova takes place 3 months later.
 * Even though the bonus episode may seem lighter than the normal series at beggining, One has to think about the kind of "training" that the Chaos Arena had to give Asagi, to turn she from a strong woman into Man Child obsessed with the cocks.
 * Idiot Plot: This is a Hentai, so honestly who comes for the plot. However, the Taimanin Yukikaze storyline deserve special mention. Sending two relatively new Taimanin to go deep undercover to a Wretched Hive as prostitutes where they will have little to no contact with the outside world, while trusting their lives to a well known criminal, wasn't their smartest move. Granted in the actual canon route, Asagi did wanted to send more experience Taimanin, and did in fact save her two students after finding out that they were betrayed.
 * Just Here for Godzilla: The Taimanin Asagi 2 OVA has been widely regarded as the worst OVA anime adaptation from this series, and one of the worst OVA based on a Lilith-Soft game. One it's only saving graces is that it's only other OVA, apart from the original, that features Asagi and Sakura.
 * Same could be said with ZIZ's live action adaptations. While it is widely agreed upon that the live action adaptations are vastly inferior to the animated adaptations, it stills has girls dressed as the characters from the series.
 * Les Yay: Naturally, their are many moments of this.
 * Some of Oboro's action has many fan interpret her as a Yandere thats obsessed with Asagi, which might not be complete out of the question.
 * Sakura and Murasaki certainly have their moments. The card game certain plays up the subtext.
 * Rinko is certainly willing to go to great lengths to help Yukikaze find her mother, while Yukikaze deeply admires Rinko. In helps that Yukikaze did mention that they actually kissed each other when they were kids.


 * Memetic Loser: Due to the nature of the series, the fan base would often consider most, if not all, the Taimanin to be this since they are often getting capture by the villains in each installment. In the canon however, there are actually very few villains that can overpower a Taimanin, as the stronger anti-demon ninjas can wipe out legions of demon and/or an army of armed soldiers. Even the series foremost villain Oboro has never actually defeat Asagi in a fair, direct fight. Usually their capture is a result of an I Have Your Wife scenario, or justing being naive/overconfident for the more inexperience Taimanin.


 * Moral Event Horizon:


 * One True Threesome: Many fans have wanted to see an Asagi/Sakura/Murasaki pairings. It certainly helps that most promotional material features them together. Taimanin Asagi Gaiden, featured in Lilith-Izm04, certainly Ship Tease the three of them ending up together.
 * Yukikaze/Rinko/Tatsuruo, this threesome has the highest possibility of being canon. Tatsuruo has admitted that he is attracted to both Yukikaze and Rinko, and wouldn't mind having sex with them. Rinko seems pretty comfortable at the idea of "sharing" Tatsuruo with Yukikaze. Also, not only are Yukikaze and Rinko attracted to Tatsuruo, but the two do have their Les Yay moments. Yukikaze even stated that she and Rinko once kissed each other when they were kids.
 * ‎So Okay It's Average: For those who didn't complete hate the TA2 OVA, they tend to see that sequel series as this.
 * A couple fans see the Taimanin Yukikaze OVA series as this, largely to the drawbacks added due to the series being in Development Hell for some time.
 * Tearjerker: Well this is a Hentai, so most scenes that would be considered a "tearjerker" in any other series is either be played for Fetish Fuel, or just so ridiculously over-the-top that no one can take it seriously. That being said there are still a couple of scenes that find a way to hit you right in the feels, including:
 * In both TA1 and the OVA, we have Sakura's What You Are in the Dark moment. This is especially sad since Sakura is normal shown to be cheerful and upbeat, and has been mostly defiant during her capture. After Asagi and Sakura were locked in a jail cell and are finally alone together, Asagi tries to comfort Sakura by telling her to try to endure and that they shouldn't give up their pride as Taimanin. This actually ends up upsetting Sakura, who points that Asagi can at least can hold her head up high knowing she gave her virginity to the man she loved, while Sakura's first time will always be remembered as a traumatic experience. All Asagi can do is remain silent as her sister begins sobbing.
 * The first couple of minutes of episode 3 of the Taimanin Yukikaze OVA, is surprisingly pitiful, as we see of what has become of Yukikaze and Rinko after spending 6 months as Sex Slaves at Under Eden. During their conversation, the two are unable to look at each other. Yukikaze spent most of the conversation looking at the ground, while Rinko blankly stares into space, looking away from Yukikaze. Here they seem rather quite and distant from each other. This greatly contrasts their personality from episode 1, when they were upbeat, had at least one cartoonishly funny moment, and have acted as sisterly True Companions to each other.
 * Narm: Like with most Hentai, some of the scenarios and dialogue are so outrageous that it is hard to take any of it seriously.
 * The insult "pig bitch" is thrown around so much it becomes borderline ridiculous how uncreative the script is at giving evil characters dialogue, since they almost never use anything else.
 * Nausea Fuel: Let's just say that the series tends to explore some "unique" fetishes that certainly isn't for everybody.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character: Oboro Kokawa. She didn't even get a single H-scene in Taimanin Asagi 3, and was apparently killed off. Naturally, the fans were outraged. However, she is given a little more screen time in the card game.
 * Sakura was complete removed from the Hell Knight Ingrid OVA, despite being a major character in Taimanin Murasaki which the OVA was based off, to put more focus on the newer characters, Ingrid and Murasaki.
 * Despite heavy foreshadowing of her appearance, Shiranui (Yukikaze's mother) was never featured in Taimanin Yukikaze OVA outside the opening credits. This is later partly subverted in the bonus episode, however the episode is only 5 minutes, counting credits.
 * They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot: Between the large cast of unique characters and surprising amount of lore the series has, many fans have admitted that they wouldn't mind seeing the series being converted to an action-based anime that focuses more on plot, and less on sexual content.
 * Woobie: To save you time, pick any Taimanin, and chances are you will find at least one fan that feels bad for them for all the emotional and/or psychical abuse they have to suffer.
 * Even some of the villains get hit with this. Ingrid is the most likable and decent person on the villain team, and given how the series isn't fair to anyone who shows honor and decency, it's hard not to feel sympathy for her when she gets screwed over..