{"id":15775,"date":"2009-05-08T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2009-05-08T19:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/08\/better-late-than-never\/"},"modified":"2009-05-11T08:57:29","modified_gmt":"2009-05-11T12:57:29","slug":"better-late-than-never","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/better-late-than-never\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Late Than Never"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sakura-taisen-v.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sakura-taisen-v-207x300.jpg\" alt=\"Sakura Taisen V\" title=\"Sakura Taisen V\" width=\"207\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-15788\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sakura-taisen-v-207x300.jpg 207w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sakura-taisen-v-311x450.jpg 311w, https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/sakura-taisen-v.jpg 341w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 207px) 100vw, 207px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/nisamerica.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">NIS America<\/a>, the domestic arm of Japanese game developer Nippon Ichi Software, has announced plans to release &#8220;Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love&#8221; on the PS2 and Wii this fall. The strategy adventure game originally released in Japan in 2004 as &#8220;Sakura Taisen V ~Saraba, Itoshiki Hito yo~&#8221; is the final game in the core Sakura Taisen console game franchise. It will be the first and only Sakura Wars game to be officially released in America.<\/p>\n<p>Sega &amp; Red Entertainment&#8217;s Sakura Taisen franchise launched in 1996 and lasted over ten years. The most recent Sakura Taisen anime series, Sakura Taisen: New York NY., ended in 2007. Tokyo&#8217;s Sakura Taisen cafe closed last year, and the Sakura Taisen stage musical performed its final show last August.<\/p>\n<p><i>While it&#8217;s nice to see Sakura Wars finally getting an American release, it&#8217;s a little bit disappointing that we&#8217;re not getting one of the games with the original &#8220;classic&#8221; cast.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kotaku.com\/5245006\/segas-sakura-wars-finally-coming-stateside-but-not-from-sega\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Network<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIS America, the domestic arm of Japanese game developer Nippon Ichi Software, has announced plans to release &#8220;Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love&#8221; on the PS2 and Wii this fall. The strategy adventure game originally released in Japan in 2004 as &#8220;Sakura Taisen V ~Saraba, Itoshiki Hito yo~&#8221; is the final game in the core [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anime-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15775"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15789,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15775\/revisions\/15789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}