Sega announced today more news and gameplay forProject Sakura Warswill be coming on June 26 through a live stream. It’ll be held at20:00 JSTand last for around one hour and 30 minutes. The stream will be broadcast onYouTubeand Periscope. The Periscope link will be published onSakura Taisen’s official Twitterslightly before the stream begins.
The stream is officially named the “Sakura Taisen Imperial Communication Department’s Broadcast”. This stream will be MC’ed byYohei Azakami, the seiyuu ofProject Sakura Warsprotagonist’s Seijuro Azakami. He will be accompanied by professional MCMisuzu Araki.Project Sakura WarsProducer Tetsu Katano will obviously be present as well.
Sega also confirmed that more streams like these will be coming regularly to introduce more info. I personally hope they won’t fall for the bait and do their own Virtual YouTuber, as making one actually takes a lot of time and resources, which could instead go towards the game. Plus, a franchise as big asSakura Taisendoesn’t really need the buzz a VTuber would bring in the first place. Ever since the stream’s YouTube went live, there have been Japanese fans constantly discussing in its chat, even though it starts in a week.
Along with commenting on theSumire thing,Sega’sToshihiro Nagoshi mentioned weeks agohow ”we’ve only seen 20% of the interesting bits ofProject Sakura Wars”,so I’m particularly looking forward to this stream.Just like what I do withSuper Robot WarsorRune Factorystream, I’ll be writing an extensive summary of it.
Project Sakura Warsis known in Japan asShin Sakura Taisen, orNew Sakura Wars. The game will launch on PS4 next winter in Japan, and next spring in the west.
We’ve covered everything aboutProject Sakura Warsrevealed so far, most notablyan extensive Famitsu interview of the game’s staff, comments from the cast,the unfinished trailer incident,and the characters' profiles.
Sakura Warscreator Oji Hiroi recently spoke about how the franchise influenced Japanese culture inan interview we’ve summarized.
