Sakura Wars

Claiming that Sakura Wars (aka Sakura Taisen) is a huge franchise is an understatement. The steampunk, East meets West stylized series featuring courageous women who act as a theater revue by day and fight demons at night left a huge mark on Japanese pop culture and on anyone who encountered it. When Sega and Red
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Valentine Day 2020 happened and as usual when such events rolls around, Japanese games studios, artists, character designers and developers all shared some Valentine-themed artwork on Twitter. Mobile and gacha games all do their own events too, revealing new illustrations for their characters. In Japan, Valentine Day is about women giving presents to men, with
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Sega held on January 29 the 11th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream. You can find the full stream here.  As usual, it featured MC Mami Yamashita, Yohei Azakami, and Producer Tetsu Katano. At the beginning of the stream, Producer Tetsu Katano mentioned the development team is closely analyzing the feedback and impressions they
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Sega held on January 29 the 11th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream. You can find the full stream here. It was the first stream since 2020 began. As usual, it featured MC Mami Yamashita, Yohei Azakami, who was cosplaying Seijuro, and Producer Tetsu Katano. The stream included many new details on the upcoming
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As we’re getting closer to Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan, Famitsu started publishing new interviews related to Sega’s legendary franchise. The first interview is a chat on Project Sakura Wars with Chisa Yokoyama who voices Sakura Shinguji in past games, and Michie Tomizawa, who voices Sumire Kanzaki. In Project Sakura Wars, Chisa Yokoyama voices
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Shin Sakura Taisen, tentatively titled Project Sakura Wars in the west, was featured at the “PlayStation Festival Sapporo 2019” event on November 2. During the event, Producer Katano announced a demo for Project Sakura Wars will be released on the Japanese PlayStation store on November 21. Project Sakura Wars‘ demo will be divided into two
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Star Ocean Anamnesis, the mobile game, is currently running a three chapter Valkyrie Profile campaign called Valkyrie Profile: The Purged Wizard. The scenario takes place between the first and second games, tying in the plot for both titles. All the original Japanese VAs have returned for the scenario. Dreamboum posted a nice summary of events
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Famitsu published today an interview with Shin Sakura Taisen Producer Tetsu Katano, Sakura Taisen Series Director and Scenarist Takahara Terada, and Sakura Taisen series Development Director Tetsuya Otsubo. Well, the interview actually isn’t brand new but is a much longer, uncut version of the interview first published when Shin Sakura Taisen’s first trailer was revealed. We’ve already covered that interview, but tons
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On the latest Sega Nama stream, Sega’s Chief Creative Officer Toshihiro Nagoshi spoke about Project Sakura Wars, giving new production details on the upcoming reboot. Sega also published more information and screenshots at the end of April, Most of it is information we’ve already covered, but the story pitch was revamped with more details, along with new
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