Introduction
In 1941, one year after the defeat of Sotetsu Genan, captain Seijuurou Kamiyama of the Imperial Combat Revue's Flower Division in Tokyo leaves on a secret mission, with Sakura Amamiya temporarily assuming command. Following an incident in Europe, Kamiyama takes a young Russian girl named Klara M. Ruzhkova and leaves her in the Flower Division's care. However, Moscow Combat Revue captain Valery Kaminski is sent to Tokyo to retrieve Klara and the Flower Division must stop him.
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Audience reviews
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Lecus01
As someone who played and thoroughly enjoyed the 2019 Shin Sakura Taisen game, watching this anime adaptation was a deeply frustrating experience. While it isn’t a visual disaster by any means, it ultimately translates into a rushed, hollow project that feels completely incomplete, failing entirely to live up to the game's true potential.
The plot itself is an absolute snoozefest. Built around the Moscow Combat Revue, the central conflict is generic, predictable, and completely devoid of any real stakes. Worst of all, the show is entirely unapproachable for newcomers; because it acts as a direct sequel to the PS4 game, anyone who hasn't played the source material will be left entirely in the dark. Thus, it fails both as a standalone story and as a meaningful expansion of the game's lore.…
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tl;dr: An anime that while definitely lacking in some areas should still be pretty enjoyable for fans of the game.
Sakura Wars the Animation is a sequel to the 2019 Sakura Wars game. Considering that these days it seems most anime is made primarily with the goal of advertising other media, it’s pretty rare for an anime to just straight up require having consumed some other type of media. However, that very much is the case with this anime, which was very clearly designed for people that already played and enjoyed the game. If you don’t, you’ll probably understand most of the major story beats, but you’ll miss out on a lot of the more subtle elements and will lack any context to what’s going on in the larger scheme of things. You’ll also be confused by who some of the side characters are b…
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Uhm.. I don't understand the low score. it's true that this anime is not fantastic or anything of the sort, but it's very enjoyable nonetheless. I don't even play the game (yet) nor watch the previous animation, but I feel nostalgic and drawn to the character and the world setting. These are the good things I can say about this anime:
-music
the opening and ending are fantastic and strangely give nostalgic feeling I could listening to them all day, another soundtrack or song also good. without these, the anime itself maybe only score 7 at most for me.
-character
it's not liking the characters because of the great ability/superb analytical mind/wicked personality, I'm not talking about isekai heroes or hikigaya hachiman here, on the contrary what appeal me is the silliness of the characte…
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As someone that has never seen any other form of this story, even the games or the previous anime, I will say that this show is average at best. If you have prior knowledge of the story and characters, you probably will enjoy it far more than I.
The story was average at best.
The sound was okay, but I think a big part of it was recognition.
The character development was poor, but again, I have never played the games, so I will give this a leg up assuming that I missed the bulk of character development.
Enjoyment was very spotty. The fights were so-so and the character interactions felt a bit bland, but again, I did not play the game, so I assume this was targeted toward the game audience primarily.
Overall, if you are watching the anime without any prior engagement in the series, you'…
Read at the sourceSyureria
This is the story about Imperial Combat Revue 's Flower Division in Tokyo, which consists of: Sakura Amamiya, Hatsuho Shinonome, Anastasia Palma, Azami Mochizuki, and Clarissa. The division once again faces a new demon invasion while trying to keep their home at the Imperial Theater open.
I have to admit that I first started watching New Sakura Wars because of two main reasons: Girls who always wear yukata and loli girl named Kurara "Clara". But once I began watching the show, I found more than what I wanted. New Sakura Wars is a promising show, the mecha fight against the demon is something that needs attention.
I like their fighting style, the effects of sword swipes, the sound of explosions, the design of robots, it seems real to my eyes. Although New Sakura Wars was adapted from a g…
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