> こいつはこっち **系** の **ネタ** にとにかく弱いのだ

The definition I found of 系 (system) doesn't seem to fit here. What does that
mean?

As for ネタ, I know it can mean ''joke'' but is it really what it means here? In
the official translation, this sentence has been translated as ''She's
especially weak to this sort of talk.''
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Help translating 系 and ネタ this sentence
As psosuna notes in the comment, 系 here means something more like "style,
type, sort of thing".

ネタ derives as slang from 種【たね】, and originally referred to "seed" as in "raw
material from which to make something else". I think ネタ still has this
meaning, in addition to the broader sense of just "stuff".

Looking at your sample translation, I see that you may have misparsed とにかく.
This isn't とくに ("especially"), but rather its own word とにかく ("anyway").

So putting all that together:

> こいつはこっち **系** の **ネタ** に **とにかく** 弱いのだ  
>  She's weak **anyway** when it comes to this **sort** of **stuff**.
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