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Sakura Wars Gets A Two-Part Shoujo Manga In Japan

By Ishaan . November 19, 2011 . 10:30am

Sakura Wars Gets A Two Part Shoujo Manga In Japan

Sakura Wars has an ongoing shoujo manga in Japan, broken up into two parts. Part 1, which is 86 pages in length, was published today in the latest issue of Hana to Yume magazine. Part 2 will be published in the Hana to Yume released on December 5th.

 

Sakura Taisen: Kanadegumi (Sakura Wars: Performing Division) is about a girl named Neko Miyabi, and takes place in Tokyo. Neko is surrounded by five male leads, and the story follows an opera company called “Kanadegumi”.

 

Sakura Wars games are usually aimed at males and have a single prominent male protagonist with a number of female leads the player can court. This trend also continues in a new, ongoing Sakura Wars manga that is currently published in Kodansha’s Monthly Shounen Magazine +.


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  • kroufonz

    first time i saw some picture on the net for  new sakura taisen and find it unusual why there is so much bishie on this bishoujo game franchise?, so it is shoujo manga maybe sega try to expand the audience in the future by making sakura taisen: girl side based on this manga,almost similar like what konami did with tokimemo franchise

  • aoihana

    Okay, Sakura Wars now officially has my attention (◕‿◕✿)

  • Eric Chan

    ST6 confirmed, lol!

  • Roses4Aria

    Now see, if the Sakura Wars game that was released over here had been like this, I would have actually bought it, lol.

    • J Beagle

      Ignoring the incredibly poor depictions of some parts of America (I wonder if they ever bothered to actually even read a book on Harlem) there’s also the problem of gameplay. One day I want to sit down with the designers and say ‘you need to give us a combat simulation ability’.

      • Eric Chan

        Sakura Taisen was never about the gameplay. It’s always been a dating sim series with mech battles on the side. Still, I’m not exactly buying this new troupe. These designs just scream generic. They don’t even look like they fit in with the rest of the old cast (Sakura, Erica, Gemini). 

        I expect at least some consistency when choosing character designs. These have none. 

      • mikanko

        It’s an intentional bad representation of that historical period of America, just like the games taking place in Japan and Paris are filled with inaccuracies.  It’s part of the games charm to be sure.

        That said, STV is the black sheep of the series for a reason, and sold worse than re-releases and remakes of the other ST games on PS2.  Chances of their being a proper STVI after all these years are pretty close to null.

  • http://www.angryrabbit.com/ RamuneIgasu

    Sounds good. Glad Sakura Wars is still going in some vicinity. Us guys shouldn’t have all the fun. Nice to see girls can be a Division leader too!

    I’d hope some company will release these to our side of the pond. But Tokyopop isn’t what it used to be and the market for manga kinda went POP! shame too. They were even putting out stuff like the Atelier Marie and Elie series even when none of the games were coming out here! ^_^;

  • puchinri

    Oh la la, lovely art~. They really should have made a Sakura Taisen anything aimed more at the female audiences sooner (though I did love one of the anime versions). 

    I just might have to read this. And hope they start making some Girls’ Side versions…

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