Edwin Black

Edwin Black is the main, overarching series antagonist. Black also is responsible for the creation of the ZERO Universe and many other Universes in the Lilith Multiverse.

He is the head of Nomad and rules the criminal underworld. Black is a primal vampire, and the father of Kurenai and Felicia. Wishing to corrupt Asagi and create a new world with her, for that purpose he has revived Oboro multiple times.

Personality
Black is an imposing with enigmatic qualities, seemingly not fazed a lot by threats or plans not working out. He remains calm and of little words, extremely confident but doesn't boast only angered, when people conflict with his plans for Asagi. He remains careful, as other powerful demons try to take him down.

He seems to fear, not that he can die but that his own immortal self will be swallowed up by darkness in solitude. Therefore, he requires an eternal companion like Asagi, this fixation on her is one of his main motivators.

On top of that he has shown a desire to reform the world through destruction and rebirth, showing signs of a god complex. He stated before that he wishes to be the Adam, and Asagi the Eve of the new world.

Regardless of his methods within Nomad he is seen as a rather noble Demon, staying true to his word and to a degree playing fair. He has no qualms about fighting women, men or demons alike

Before focusing on Asagi, he sought others who could potentially be a threat to his existence. For him, the threat to his own life was the greatest excitement he could get. Conspiracies and life-and-death battles were the only things that give his life satisfaction but has become far more aloof.

Appearance
He is a tall, middle-aged, gray haired men. In his true Majin-form he turns purple gains long white hair and four arms with magical weapons.

History
Black existed for an unknown amount of time in the Dark World and became known as a true immortal.

Based on his own statments, he has reset and restructed the universe many times in the past, which resulted in many more groups of Universes to be created. However, as dates, memories and ages shift he is the only one that knows the details.

A lot of mystery still is around Edwin Black, at some point in his life he created the organization Nomad. He in some way killed Koukawa Oboro and created Oboro out of her as a proxy for him to stay in the shadows. He kidnapped Shinganji Kaede and as part of an experiment had two (known) children, Kurenai and Felicia.

With Felicia working with her father, while Kurenai was saved by her Taimanin grandfather Shinganji Gen-an. He was the real owner of the Chaos Arena in Taimanin Asagi and ordered one of the Oboro be made to act as an executive there, observing Asagi's fights with interest.

Black tries to gain access to the research of rival crime group Ryuumon in Taimanin Asagi 2 but is badly hurt by clone Oboro's weapon Saya. Hiding within the demon Sokushitsuki, he fighting against Asagi and later switches to Yatsu Kurou to heal. He infiltrates Ryuumon with the now vampire Oboro, to kill the Oboro clone, and takes the research done by Ryuumon for himself at the end. Using that body he infiltrates Ryuumon with the now vampire Oboro, to kill the Oboro clone, and takes the research done by Ryuumon for himself at the end, however leaves Kurou's body afterwards.

He had at this part killed most of the Koukawa clan and Koukawa Asuka, wishing revenge, would fight him but lose her limbs in the process.

In Taimanin Asagi 3, Black used his human persona of Asai Koujirou, to become the prime minister of Japan. Blaiming the Taimanin for the death of Nonomura Hiroo, which he had orchestrated himself. He send out part of the Japanese military, the Kanda Brigade, and raids Gosha Village taking it over as most strong Taimanin are on missions.

He is responsible for the true death of Koukawa Oboro, that had been surving by moving her soul to an other body. Black revived of Sakura and Murasaki planning to use demonization and let them fight Asagi but in the Asuka route was convinced by Oboro to delay that plan for something else.

In the True ending failing to fuse with Asagi, as her corruption is not complete. He is killed in a final fight against Asuka and Asagi and even using his true form is not enough. As Asuka's Taima Particles charged blast, makes it impossible for him to reset the universe, Black dies in the canon main universe.

Timeline ZERO
Fusing with the bad end route Asagi of Taimanin Asagi 3. Black uses his control over gravity to draws the Human World and Dark World into the Mother Sea. Resulting in the end of the universe and death of everybody. This triggers his ability of immortality and he is able to recreate a new universe in the form of the ZERO Universe of Taimanin Asagi ZERO.

Black and "vampire" Asagi exist within a single body, in that world and are only able to switch but never touch.

He wants the Asagi (ZERO) of the new universe as a vessel for Vampire Asagi. For her to have her own body, he uses the Nomad and the Chaos Arena of the new world. Kaliya (ZERO) the leader of this Chaos Arena doesn't understand this new fixation with Asagi, creating an almost silent revolt against his wishes. Edwin Black meets up with these worlds Koukawa Oboro (ZERO) corrupts her body, with a street thug, and uses her body to interact with the events more directly. Making sure that Asagi (ZERO) can survive the events, should be display any potential. He is later revealed and leaves Oboro (ZERO) body behind as he flies.

Timeline TABA/RPGX/Action Taimanin
TABA Black remains mostly in the background in TABA but shows intrest in Fuuma Kotaro and his ability. In the final event of the story, Kotaro absorbs Asagi to fight Black and kills him which results in a world reset and multiple new worlds forming. The one seen in the epilogue not being the RPGX world but RPGX could be one of the new worlds created.

RPGX Black appears in the form of Kuroto which explains that this is a reset world and somehow, parts of him became mixed with Kotaro. Kotaro having now some of Black's powers while Kuroto seems weaker but is possibly a fusion of the TABA version of Kotaro and Black.

Action Taimanin shows Black in some events has he observes the conflict of Fuuma Kotaro and Momochi Toyo, as this story is still ongoing some motivations are unknown. However, he has connection to characters like Noah Brown and other.

OVA
Black has similar appearances to the games within Taimanin Asagi 1-3 OVAs. Being shown in the background mostly, he has a sex scene with Oboro. He also is allowing Asagi to flee the Chaos Arena unhindered, in TA1, after she defeated Oboro. Asagi asking him what his objective is, but he refuses to answer, only saying that humans with their limited lives, are not worth the answer however if Asagi should obtain immortality, he might tell her another time.

In 3, he will be seen leaving disappointed, after Asagi tries to hit him with a sneak attack defeating her with no trouble, telling Oboro to do what she wants with her.

The most "good" version of him shows up, in the strongly changed story of Hell Knight Ingrid, in which he teams up with Yatsu Kurou to defeat Kiryuu Sabato to save his subordinate Ingrid. He will demonstrate some of his abilities within this OVA like shape-shifting himself into a kid as well aura and physical power

Powers/Abilities
Main Weapon: Black mist

Main Weapons in Majin form: Demon Sword, Demon Chakram, Demon Sickle and Demon Halberd


 * Immortal: By Time Manipulation. Black's most powerpul ability, if Black is killed he can reset and restructure the universe. Being reborn with the same memories and powers, while the new world shifts the dates, ages and removes all memories for the people. He has done this many times in the past, leading to creation of numerous worlds in the Lilith Multiverse. As multiple Black's in other worlds also reset and create more and more worlds. He has not total control of the new world formed but remains "immortal" as his death did not occur in this new world. Additionally if Black fuses with somebody at the time of the world reset for example his "killer", he also gains there powers. This ability can only be negated if he is hit by a strong enough Taima Particle charged ninja art, as those interrupt Demon powers.


 * Aura: Can use his aura to kill demons without moving and shield himself.
 * Mist Weapons: Can create scythe-like dark mist from his body that can cut off limbs.
 * Gravity Manipulation (重力操作, Jūryoku Sōsa) : Black has the ability to freely manipulate "gravity". The gravity barrier protects against all attacks, including magic and ninja arts. It seems to be a power possessed by a race from the Mother Sea that became the ancestors of the Taimanin, but the relationship between that race and Black is unknown. He is able to use this to connect Human World and Dark World to the Mother Sea, which ends the world. As this also means his death, it activates once more his Immortal ability and triggers a world reset.
 * Vampire: Immortal or very hard to kill.
 * Energy Drain (エナジードレイン, Enajīdorein) : One of Black's abilities as a vampire. Just by touching the target, he can absorb its life energy and anti-demon power. It is also possible for him to transform into mist or dust, and to suck the blood of others to turn them into vampires.
 * Daywalker: As a primal vampire he is immune to sunlight.
 * Enhanced Strength: He is able to counter a demon turned Kiryuu that rushes him with his tentacles with just one hand.
 * Enhanced Speed: Can move with incredible speed almost instantly, able to surprise even fast and experienced Taimanin like Koukawa Asuka.
 * Transformation: Is able to transform into a three eyed demon with white hair and four arms with four weapons.
 * Shape Shifter: Has been shown to look like a small child if he wants.
 * Possession: He can take over the body of people that are not considered "pure" in some way.
 * Fusion: Able to fuse with Asagi, should his plans be successful of turning her into a vampire.

Media

 * Taimanin Asagi
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi 2
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Asagi 3
 * OVA
 * Taimanin Kurenai
 * Taimanin Asagi Battle Arena
 * Taimanin RPGX
 * Action Taimanin
 * Hell Knight Ingrid
 * Taimanin Asagi ZERO
 * Taimanin Yukikaze 2 (mention)

Trivia

 * He is much older than he looks.
 * He is one of the most powerful demons in the series.
 * His multi-armed demon form and powers seem to be a reference to Hinduism and Shiva. Shiva standing also for the "male unchanging destructive energy", as Black is also a god-like, male, destoyer of many worlds and as a vampire an "eternal unchanging". This create parallel to Asagi that could be viewed as Parvati (goddess of fertility, love, beauty, harmony, marriage) the wife of Shiva that "with him" as the "female changing creation energy", creates new worlds. As also both Shiva and Parvati fused form is Ardhanarishvara a being with male and female features. This also connects to Black's plan to become one with Asagi. As Vampire Asagi also exists only as a fusion of the two, with both sharing one body that can switch between the male and female.