Sakura Wars. Sakura Taisen. These words bring forth many feelings for quite a number of people both in and outside Japan. The mix of Japanese Adventure games, Dating Sim, Steampunk, Theater, Mecha, Fantasy and much more has changed anyone who has met its path. Whether you’ve actually experienced the franchise yourself, or only gazed at
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Sega held the 14th Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast stream on June 19, focusing on Sakura Wars The Animation. We’ve summarized every past Sakura Taisen stream on DualShockers, though on a more timely manner. So while it’s been a few days now since the stream aired, here’s our full summary, as usual. The stream
Sega held the 14th Sakura Wars stream on June 19. The stream featured as usual: MC Mami Yamashita, Seijuro Kamiyama’s seiyuu Yohei Azakami, and Producer Tetsu Katano. Present as guests were Kenji Akabane, who is the seiyuu of Kaminsky Valery in Shin Sakura Taisen The Animation, and Sakura Taisen composer Kohei Tanaka. The stream mainly
During the 14th “Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast” stream held on June 19, Sega newly announced Shin Sakura Taisen The Stage. First announced at Tokyo Game Show 2019 for March 5 to 8 2020, the show was canceled due to Covid-19. Now, it’s coming back for Winter 2020 in Japan. The stage play’s cast
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
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
PS4 exclusive Shin Sakura Taisen released on December 12 in Japan. The game is temporarily titled Project Sakura Wars in the west and will launch here in Spring 2020. We’ve played through the demo, so now we have done a similar Let’s Play video for the first chapter of Project Sakura Wars, live translating on
Sega held the final stream before Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan today. We got all the details on the DLCs, which we compiled in a separate article, along with new announcements, most notably regarding the Project Sakura Wars Anime, which will start airing in April 2020. But first off, one of the songs in the
Sega held the final stream before Project Sakura Wars‘ release in Japan, and most notably fully revealed all of the game’s DLCs. While swimsuit DLCs costumes were already teased in a previous stream, we now saw a video showcasing everything. Here’s a list of all the Project Sakura Wars DLC: The Sakura Taisen 1 and 2
As we’re getting nearer to the Japanese release of Project Sakura Wars (tentative title) more and more gameplay is getting revealed. The game is featured on the streams of all the biggest Japanese outlets. Famitsu most notably revealed the first hour of gameplay, which you can watch below. Shin Sakura Taisen begins in the same
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
Sega held the ninth Project Sakura Wars stream on November 20, revealing new info on the game. As usual, the stream featured game producer Tetsu Katano and was MCed by Mami Yamashita. Yohei Azakami, who voices protagonist Seijuro, was there too along with Hibiku Yamamura, who voices Azami. The stream most notably revealed a brand new
Are you getting hyped for Shin Sakura Taisen? The game’s promotion in the west is pretty much dead and I don’t get how non-Japanese players unaccustomed to the series can get interested in the current state of things. We still don’t even know how the game will actually be called, Project Sakura Wars being a
In Japan, Sega has been releasing plenty of new info on Shin Sakura Taisen, temporarily titled Project Sakura Wars in the west. Music videos for all of the main characters’ character songs have been published. And the game was featured at the PlayStation Live Sapporo 2019 event on November 5. We’ve got some new gameplay
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
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
During the Sega Fan Meet-up 2019 stage event at Sega Fes 2019, Sega Holdings CEO Haruki Satomi revealed the first trailer and release date estimate for New Sakura Wars on PS4. The game was initially announced at Sega Fes 2018. Right after the trailer was shown, New Sakura Wars‘ producer Tetsu Katano took the stage to