History Trivia / SakuraWars

* TheDanza:
** Yantaro Nishimura and Beromucho Takeda from the live stage shows have their surnames derived from their actors Youichi Nishimura and Shigehiro "Velo" Takeda.
** Dan Dietz plays Kosuke Dan in the English dub of ''The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms''.

** Some of the English dub's voice actors from ''The Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms'' OVA returned to reprise their roles for ''The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms'', including Catherine Berry as Maria Tachibana, Jessica Schwartz as Iris Châteaubriand, Boni Hester as Kohran Li, Brian Gaston as Ichiro Ogami, Amy L. Gamber as Ayame Fujieda, and Bill [=McMillin=] as Ikki Yoneda.

** Funimation released the ''École de Paris'' and ''Su-Mi-Re'' [=OVAs=] in the early 2000s and they have since gone out of print. On the other hand, they would later go on to license ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' from Geneon in June 2013.

** And above all, ''So Long, My Love'' underperformed in both Japan and abroad, which put the main series on ice until 2018 when Sega announced a soft reboot of the series titled ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'', in a culmination of plans dating back to 2008.

** Before launching the official ''Sakura Wars'' website in March 2001, Sega already had official profiles of the original Sega Saturn releases of ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20000620020450/http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/p_cafe/DB/09037/09037.html Sakura Wars]]'' and ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20000917073002/http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/p_cafe/DB/09198/09198.html Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die]]''. When Sega redesigned their official website the same year, the content was not converted to Flash and was lost. There's little chance of finding some of the official material on Sega's pages for the SS releases, such as the promotional videos outside of Website/NicoNicoDouga and Website/YouTube.
** Even after Sega redesigned [=Sakura-Taisen.com=] again in March 2019, the original video content that was on the Sega Channel wasn't converted when it was shut down in late 2010, meaning the only places you can find the content are through Website/NicoNicoDouga or Website/YouTube, or in the case of ''So Long, My Love'', the promotional DVD that came with ''Samurai Daughter of the Wild''.

** Since the franchise was resurrected with ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'', the older games (especially the main ones) have been in high demand. However, the first five games, as well as several spinoffs such as ''Sakura Wars V: Episode Zero'' and ''Sakura Wars Story: Mysterious Paris'', are now out of print. This didn't stop Sega from including Sakura Shinguji, Erica Fontaine and Gemini Sunrise in the ''Project X Zone'' series, but to this day, they've dropped no hints of re-releasing the games. Not only do the games tend to be sold at higher prices, but the advent of the [=PlayStation 4=] as well as the discontinuation of the Sega Saturn, the Dreamcast, the [=PlayStation 2=] and the Wii makes playing them even more impossible.

** Oji Hiroi intended for ''Sakura Wars'' to be localized from the beginning, but Sega was uncertain that the franchise would have a profitable audience outside of Japan. It wasn't until 24 years later that Sega would eventually go on to localize the 2019 ''Sakura Wars'' game.

** Red Entertainment published the canonical ''Taisho Roman Route'' stories, written by Ryoma Kaneko and supervised by Naoki Morita, on their former official website, "Ryuseiza", throughout 2001. However, the site merged with Red's own website on September 30, 2003 and it can be only accessed through the Internet Archive.

** As part of the World Project, there were also plans for a {{Prequel}} game detailing the Kouma War, something that was touched upon in the games and given a WholeEpisodeFlashback in the [[Anime/SakuraWarsTV anime adaptation]]. Unfortunately, it was canceled.

** Before launching the official ''Sakura Wars'' website in March 2001, Sega already had official profiles of the original Sega Saturn releases of ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20000620020450/http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/p_cafe/DB/09037/09037.html Sakura Wars]]'' and ''[[https://web.archive.org/web/20000917073002/http://www.sega.co.jp/sega/p_cafe/DB/09198/09198.html Sakura Wars 2: Thou Shalt Not Die]]''. When Sega redesigned their official website the same year, the content was not converted to Flash and was lost. There's little chance of finding some of the official material on Sega's pages for the SS releases, such as the promotional videos.
** Even after Sega redesigned [=Sakura-Taisen.com=] again in March 2019, the original video content that was on the Sega Channel wasn't converted when it was shut down in late 2010, meaning the only places you can find the content are through Website/NicoNicoDouga or Website/YouTube channels, or in the case of ''So Long, My Love'', the promotional DVD that came with ''Samurai Daughter of the Wild''.

** Even after Sega redesigned [=Sakura-Taisen.com=] again in March 2019, the original video content that was on the Sega Channel wasn't converted when it was shut down in late 2010, so fans searching for the original promotional videos outside of Website/YouTube will be completely out of luck.

** Funimation released the ''École de Paris'' and ''Su-Mi-Re'' [=OVAs=] in the early 2000s and they have since gone out of print. In a twist of irony, Funimation would later go on to license ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' from Geneon in June 2013.

** Funimation released the ''École de Paris'' and ''Su-Mi-Re'' [=OVAs=] in the early 2000s and they have since gone out of print. In a twist of irony, however, Funimation licensed ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' from Geneon in 2013, giving Funimation a piece of ''Sakura Wars'' history once again.

** Funimation released the ''École de Paris'' and ''Su-Mi-Re'' [=OVAs=] in the early 2000s and they have since gone out of print. However, in 2013, Funimation licensed ''Anime/SakuraWarsTheMovie'' from Geneon, whose license to the film expired after its 2007 shutdown.

** ''Sakura Wars'' (2019): Creator/YoheiAzakami, Creator/AyaneSakura, Creator/MaayaUchida, Ayaka Hirahara, Creator/HibikuYamamura, Creator/SaoriHayami, Tomizawa, Creator/YuiIshikawa, Creator/RyokoShiraishi, Creator/TomokazuSugita, Creator/YuichiroUmehara, Creator/SumireUesaka, Creator/NobunagaShimazaki, Creator/ManamiNumakura, Creator/NanaMizuki, Creator/RieKugimiya, Creator/HarukaTerui, Mayu Yoshioka, Creator/MiyukiSawashiro, Creator/DaisukeKishio, Creator/ShowHayami, Masaharu Sato, Creator/MarikoKouda, Creator/RyotaroOkiayu, and Yokoyama.

** Ogami and Sakura make a bit appearance in the start of ''So Long, My Love'' (the first game released widely in the West). But they, alongside the rest of the Tokyo and Paris personnel (with a few exceptions like Jean Leo), made their first major Western appearance in various anime/[=OVA=] adaptations.
** Sakura and Ogami, along with ''Is Paris Burning'''s leading lady Erica Fontaine, finally made a playable appearance outside of Japan in ''VideoGame/ProjectXZone'', alongside ''Sakura Wars 3'' villain Ciseaux. Aya-me is a subversion: Ayame Fujieda did appear in some of the media that came to the west, but never as a villain.

* ActorSharedBackground: Like his character Bob Lassie, Ren Tamura is a stage choreographer.

** Even after Sega redesigned [=SakuraTaisen.com=] again in March 2019, the original video content that was on the Sega Channel wasn't converted when it was shut down in late 2010, so fans searching for the original promotional videos outside of Website/YouTube will be completely out of luck.

** Red Entertainment published the ''Taisho Roman Route'' stories, written by Ryoma Kaneko and supervised by Naoki Morita, on their former official website, "Ryuseiza", throughout 2001. However, the site merged with Red's own website on September 30, 2003 and it can be only accessed through the Internet Archive.

** For the ''Shin Ai Tori'' and ''Shin Ai Yueni'' stage shows, Creator/DaisukeGori reprised his role as Yokihiko Ota. ''Shin Ai Yueni'' would be the final time Gori played Yokihiko before he committed suicide in 2010.

* ''Trivia/ShinSakuraTaisenTheAnimation''