{"id":5035,"date":"2002-07-02T12:14:00","date_gmt":"2002-07-02T16:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/2002\/07\/02\/sakura-taisen-moving-to-the-ps2\/"},"modified":"2002-07-02T12:14:00","modified_gmt":"2002-07-02T16:14:00","slug":"sakura-taisen-moving-to-the-ps2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/sakura-taisen-moving-to-the-ps2\/","title":{"rendered":"Sakura Taisen Moving to the PS2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sega officially announced at recent <a href=\"http:\/\/sakura-taisen.com\/worldproject\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Taisen World Project<\/a> press conference plans to further expand the best selling Sakura Wars franchise with new animation and at least 7 new games.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sakura-taisen.com\/worldproject\/game_sakura.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Taisen: Atsuki Chishioni<\/a> (Sakura Wars: Young Spirited Blood) will be an enhanced re-make of the original Sega Saturn Sakura Taisen game, available on the PS2 in spring 2003.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpara.com\/news\/02\/07\/news200207010001_se.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Taisen 5: Saraba Itoshiki Hotoyo<\/a> (Sakura Wars 5: Farewell my Love) will follow the pattern established by Sakura Taisen 3 and introduce a new hanagumi team, this on based in New York City. An untitled Sakura Taisen action game using the characters from Sakura Taisen 5 is also planned for worldwide release, tentatively in 2004.<\/p>\n<p>Sakura Hime Nishiki Emaki will be an adventure game in which Sakura Shinguji&#8217;s spirit travels back in time to become a princess in feudal Japan.<\/p>\n<p>The PS2 game &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gpara.com\/news\/02\/07\/news200207010001_se.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Kouma<\/a>&#8221; will be a prequel to Sakura Taisen 1, focusing on the Anti-Kouma Battalion seen in the Sakura Taisen TV series and hinted at in the games- the team that led to the creation of the Sakura Wars Kagekidan unit.<\/p>\n<p>Sakura Taisen Monogatari for the PS2 will focus entirely on the dating simulation and &#8220;adventure&#8221; aspects of Sakura Taisen, set in the opera house of Sakura games 1 &amp; 2, and the Paris setting of Sakura Taisen 3.<\/p>\n<p>A PC port of Sakura Taisen 3 for Japanese and Chinese language release is also in the works.<\/p>\n<p>In terms of animation, the single OAV <a href=\"http:\/\/sakura-taisen.com\/worldproject\/media_ova.html#sumire\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Taisen: Kanzaki Sumire Intai Kinen<\/a> will be released in Japan this Christmas, followed by the 3 episode <a href=\"http:\/\/sakura-taisen.com\/worldproject\/media_ova.html#pari\" target=\"_blank\">Sakura Taisen: Ecole de Paris<\/a> OAV series next spring.<\/p>\n<p>The continued Sakura Taisen marketing blitz will also include new manga, continued live stage shows, and possibly a second anime television series and theatrical film.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.animenewsservice.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Anime News Service<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mb.vgdirectory.com\/game070102h.htm\" target=\"_blank\">The Magic Box<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.planetps2.com\/mmcafe\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Madman&#8217;s Cafe<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sega officially announced at recent Sakura Taisen World Project press conference plans to further expand the best selling Sakura Wars franchise with new animation and at least 7 new games. Sakura Taisen: Atsuki Chishioni (Sakura Wars: Young Spirited Blood) will be an enhanced re-make of the original Sega Saturn Sakura Taisen game, available on the [&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-5035","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\/5035","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=5035"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5035\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5035"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5035"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.animenation.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5035"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}