Forum - View topicQuestion regarding Sakura Wars/Taisen.
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Unit 03.5-ish
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To be frank, the only stuff I know about the franchise is what I've read online, but what makes me wonder is this: the RPGs were exclusive to the Japanese Saturn and Dreamcast, and of course, due to this, most people on this side of the world have not played them. So why was it that US distributors decided to license the anime and release it here, especially since according to the reports (mostly the reviews I read here on ANN), the anime makes little to no sense without a solid knowledge of the games?
I'm mostly wondering why these marketing decisions happen at times, and I know it's happened before where cross-media franchises don't get ported to the US in every format they span, but Sakura Wars just seems so odd in that the show might leave viewers clueless. |
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Zalis116
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I'm guessing the original OVAs and the TV series were brought over during the late 90s / early 00s time when R1 companies and ADV in particular were licensing everything under the sun, regardless of quality or popularity with the fanbase. So at the time, the fact that the underlying games were unknown to the North American fanbase wasn't an issues. I guess Geneon and Funimation tried to latch on to whatever popularity ADV's releases might have had with the relatively small investments of the movie and the Ecole de Paris / Sumire OVAs. But note that the more recent Nouveau Paris and New York NY OVAs have not been brought over.
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Kruszer
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Well Sakura Wars TV, the 26 episode series from ADV, is an excellent series and stands up very well on it's own. The OVAs are the ones that don't really make much sense or are all-arround just unspectactular. It's the only one I'd recomend.
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Unit 03.5-ish
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You mean what FUNimation is doing these days (with the licensing of EVERYTHING they can get their hands on)? 
If the TV series is good and doesn't require much of a knowledge of the other media, I might check it out in the future. Plus, SW seems to be one of those series where it has a gazillion spin-offs, sequels, and movies with no discernible chronological order...love that. |
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Mai Yukino
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I wish there had been a Sakura Wars TV series that followed the storylines of Sakura Wars I-IV video games, that would've been at least a four or five season series and the events of Sakura Wars V would've made a standalone season sequel series. At least that's I would've marketed Sakura Wars for the anime watching audience.
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