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Sakura Shinguji vs. The Physical Embodiment Of The Sega Dreamcast

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Thank goodness I thought  it was you!... is what Sakura Shinguji might say but for me I got a lot more baggage to unload. Hello fans of the channel both new and old, it has been awhile. All of you probably thought I had abandoned this channel and the social media surrounding it forever and for a time that’s what I did. I had grown sick of doing Sakura Wars related content day and day out and felt trapped by the confines that the franchise entails. So I left and founded my own digital production company, Chronicler Media, where we cover the behind the scenes history behind video game franchises and more for my show Chronicles of Gaming. To atone for leaving the channel in the state it was in, and relieve myself of the burden that was Sakura Wars story, I made a lengthy documentary series on the subject. But I didn’t stop there. I continued forward into new franchises such as Fallout, Fire Emblem, and my personal favorite Tales. We will be continuing this and expanding our reach even further in the future.

But with its rampant success why even bother coming back here? Why even bother with something that no one even watches, let alone cares about? Nostalgia. Its a simple reason as that. I’ve been in a nostalgic mood as of late and have a longing to finish what I started four long years ago. So i’m back, with a yearlong successful documentary series, a college degree, and a damn good sense of design to boot. I’m going to make The Sakura Wars Channel and its subsidiaries the best they can be and truly become the ultimate compendium of all things Sakura Wars. Henceforth the name for this place will be The Sakura Wars Compendium. Everything will be compiled here. From interviews, to artwork, to everything from the main channels and anything else Sakura Wars. Welcome to Chronicler Media my friends, tomodachi, mon amie!

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Sakura Wars Returns In Full Force 7/7/15

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An Actual Continuation?

Well hello SakuTai fans! I'm back again!... You see we do this a lot. I come back, post a few videos, then return to the dark void of the internet once again. Now I hold no promises about returning to The Sakura Wars Channel full time and as it was in it's prime one year ago as it would rather not lie to anyone again that I would. It's to creatively draining for me. Instead i'll give you this. I will return to uploading videos on the one year anniversary of the channel, February 11, with some new videos and other old and refurbished ones but after that is a mystery. Will I complete a walkthrough and Let's Play of every game? Will I take all of the Sakura Wars Special content I had planned and put it on the channel? Will I finish uploading all of the animated cutscenes to the Sakura Wars Extras channel. Who knows but i'll see you in a month!

Sayonara, Au revoir, and Goodbye for now!

Chris

Edit: It turns out I won't be celebrating the channels one year anniversary right on the mark. Filmmaking is beginning to take over my life so it will take me longer to craft the anniversary video. Other projects including but not limited to: Sakura Wars 3 Walkthrough, Music on the Sakura Wars Extras channel, Recording the missing footage for Sakura Wars 1, and the Anniversary Video/Trailer.

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Fortunately, audiences are often smart enough to spot a game with an explicit (or at least strongly stated) political message. What about Sakura Taisen, though? Unlike Call of Duty: Black Ops or Battlefield: Hardline, it doesn’t espouse any immediate political messages. It’s just a dating sim/strategy game set in the Japanese Jazz Age: the Taisho Era. However, by understanding this game in a historical context (both the period it covers and the period in which it was made), we can see that Sakura Taisen serves a very clear political purpose. It responds to an ambivalent time by looking back on an era that audiences would have held in fond nostalgia. Regrettably, understanding this game in the historical context it covers illustrates the dangers inherent to nostalgically including historical settings in video games. In doing so, the game must, by necessity, rewrite the more controversial elements lurking about its historical premise.

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Taisen’s second, more notable aspect was its setting. The Taisho Era ran from 1912 to 1926, coinciding with the eponymous Emperor Taisho’s rule. Yet because the Emperor was too eccentric to be a viable public figure, power shifted to the Diet (Japan’s parliamentary body), setting the stage for the trends this era is best known for. Both contemporary and historical views of this time see it as a cultural boom. The American flapper saw a Japanese equivalent in the moga: young girls who wore their hair shirt, their clothes Western, and took control of their own sexuality. A new intellectual crowd read voraciously from European philosophy, and espoused new (often left-leaning) political philosophies. The modernization seen in the preceding Meiji continued through Taisho. In fact, Tokyo at the time looked almost like Paris or New York, but with a splash of East Asian culture.

History, nostalgia, and Sakura Taisen.

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Sakura Taisen 3 

Hanabi’s Ending

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さくら by ☆keal☆

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Sakura Taisen fanart by StudioZEL

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Sakura Shinguji by FlavioSY

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So I tweeted to the Japanese Sakura taisen twitter account in Japanese so I could make an attempt at getting into a contest they were running (who knows if they’d let me win because I told them I was an American but eh) and today. Today, one of the VOICE ACTRESSES TWEETED BACK TO ME.

It was Ayaka Saitou, who voices Rosita/Rikkarita Aries.

am I dreaming

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if I could type well in Japanese on my ipad I would write her back…maybe I’ll go find an actual computer….

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A lot of people have forgotten you existed. I haven’t. The Kanadegumi from Sakura Taisen 

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Sakura Wars 3: Is Paris Burning? × Shingeki no Kyojin (Attack on Titan) 

Ever wanted a parody of the Attack on Titan opening Sakura Wars style? Your wish has been granted sir and or madam.

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