While Sega hasn’t released any new Sakura Wars games in years, the series lives on through cafes, slot machines, and stage shows like Sakura Wars: Budoukan Live 2 – Teito, Paris, New York.

At E3, we met up with Haru Akenaga, President of NIS America, and brought your questions. The first thing we brought up was Super Dimension Game Neptune.

Unlike us, the Japanese audience had been exposed to the Sakura Wars franchise prior to So Long, My Love. So, what did they think of it?

This is a game with an ever-ravenous Mexican bounty-hunter, a Texan samurai, and lots of mechs. Welcome to Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love.

With less than a week until Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love launches, NIS America sent out a new trailer highlighting the game’s cast.

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love is finally out this March 30th. NISA uploaded a giant batch of screenshots to celebrate.

Just a little note about Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love’s release date. It won’t be in stores on March 23. NIS America rescheduled its release to March 30.

Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love went through the usual poking and prodding by the ESRB staff before they rated it “T” for teen and outlined the game’s “references to the female anatomy.”

I haven’t fought a single battle yet, but I wanted to post my early impressions of the game anyway. Normally, this would be an odd choice, but Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love isn’t quite a regular JRPG.

NIS America sent us a final release date for Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, and it isn’t sometime in February like our pre-release copy says. The game will be in stores on March 23, 2010.

Sakura Wars’ long journey to North America is almost over. NIS America will release Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love on the Wii and PlayStation 2 in February 2010.

NIS America gave us an update on Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love. A huge update with a ton of English screenshots.

It’s been awhile since we heard anything about Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love so we checked in about the game’s winter 2009/2010 release window.

NIS America *is* keeping the original voice acting for Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love, but not in a way you might expect.