19 Facts About Sakura Wars

Sakura Wars is a Japanese steampunk media franchise created by Oji Hiroi and owned by Sega.

Original Sakura Wars was an ambitious title for the then-in-production Sega Saturn.

The Sakura Wars franchise includes numerous anime productions, manga, and other media projects such as stage shows.

Many Sakura Wars games have been localized for markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and Australia on numerous video game consoles, personal computers, and mobile phones.

Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens was released in 2003 for the Dreamcast.

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Sakura Wars series is set during a fictionalised version of the Taisho period, with the chronology currently running from 1923 to 1940 .

The 2019 soft reboot of Sakura Wars takes place in 1940, twelve years after an event called the "Great Demon War" saw the destruction of all three original Flower Divisions.

Gameplay of Sakura Wars incorporate role-playing, dating sim and visual novel elements.

The 2019 Sakura Wars continues this use of the LIPS system, featuring Analog LIPS and new free-roaming elements.

The original story planned for Sakura Wars 4 was moved for the team's next entry on the PlayStation 2.

The next entry, Sakura Wars V, formed part of a seven-game group dubbed "Sakura Wars World Project"; the aim was to release these games overseas.

Tanaka was among the first to support Hiroi with Sakura Wars, having worked with him during work on an original video animation of Tengai Makyou: Ziria.

Tanaka has been involved to some degree in most of the Sakura Wars games, composing the music for all mainline entries, and several spin-off titles.

The original Sakura Wars was an immediate success, with several stores being sold out of copies within hours of its release.

At the inaugural CESA Awards, Sakura Wars won the Grand Award, as well as awards in the Best Director, Best Main Character and Best Supporting Character categories.

Sakura Wars 2 won the Packaged Work Award at the 1998 Animation Kobe event.

The soundtrack album of Sakura Wars 4 won in the "Animation – Album of the Year" category at the 2003 Japan Gold Disc Awards.

Prominent feature was an annual stage show dubbed Sakura Wars Kayou Show supervised by Hiroi, for which new musical numbers were created by Tanaka.

Spin-off manga Sakura Wars: Kanadegumi was created by Chie Shimada, based on concepts from the Sakura Wars team, and published in the shojo magazine Hana to Yume published by Hakusensha.