Asagi and Oboro in particular have great direction, with Oboro tormenting and belittling Asagi in her various sessions of torture, while Asagi remains steadfast during Oboro’s torment and the like, voicing her bemusement at Oboro’s try-hard attitude with contempt. The synergy of the cast in Taimanin Asagi is perfect. The Chaos Arena is a simple backdrop as it needs to be, but it just feels like a waste when there’s a whole hive of electronic science fantasy lurking outside it.īeyond the limited scope of the Chaos Arena, what carries the series and has lead to its success is really the characters. All of this building up before finally being captured is paced so well, charting a path of descent into this scummy world.
Asagi is called back into action, followed by an imposing encounter with her orc informant as she gets a lead on the returning OFA. The beginning sequences of Asagi’s normal life with her sister Sakura and her engaged boyfriend Kyousuke give a human element to her character. The bulk of the game is housed in this underground fighting den and it’s arguably the biggest fault of the VN. It’s a shame that so much world building is dropped pretty early on to be replaced with the main stage for the game, the Chaos Arena. The opening for the game is quite engaging too, evoking a manga vibe with the slide and cuts of the frame. This confrontation introduces our major characters and their conflict in a concise and simple manner. The two major powers at play, the ADN (Anti-Demon Ninjas) and the OFA (Oboro Forbearance Army) serve as a very anime-inspired backdrop for a clear conflict of good versus evil, with OFA head Oboro clashing with ADN oprative Asagi in the beginning of the game. There’s a unique blend of fantastical magic and creatures with sci-fi technology in a dense cityscape, which instantly brings the game to life.
Taiman Asagi places the reader into the skintight ninja suit of Igawa Asagi, a veteran operative of a secret government branch on a demon hunting mission in near-future Tokyo city.
The game is fan-translated by the now-defunct Dark Translations, so I’ll leave it up to your ingenuity to find the translation patch. It’s still the same experience, just with a minor touch-up. Ever since its arrival in 2005, this collection of seductive and menacing characters in a near-future, science-fantasy setting has sprawled its many tendrils into all facets of Japanese adult media.īefore we begin, however, a disclaimer: I am playing the 2006 re-release, Taimanin Asagi – Complete Edition, which added some more scenes and animation during the sex, akin to Kangoku Senkan. Black Lilith’s Taiman Asagi is just that: a series that has grown into a flagship for both Lilith and eroge visual novels as a whole. In every medium, there are elites - pieces of art that rise above the rest as a face for the genre.
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