History Videogame / SakuraWars

* AnAxeToGrind: Glycine's weapon, a poleaxe to be precise.

* WeaponOfChoice: Mostly everyone.

[[caption-width-right:264:''"Maidens who pledged their lives to steel, [[TheyFightCrime cut through evil]] and [[ForGreatJustice show the way to justice]]!"''[[note]]Clockwise from bottom left: [[GadgeteerGenius Kohran Li]], [[BareFistedMonk Kanna Kirishima]], [[MindOverMatter Iris Châteaubriand]], [[ColdSniper Maria Tachibana]], [[{{Ojou}} Sumire Kanzaki]], and [[TheHeroine Sakura Shinguji]][[/note]]]]

** It's not the first time that Creator/ColleenClinkenbeard, who voices Glycine, has played [[Anime/FullMetalAlchemist a blonde woman who fights in blue]].

* FiveTokenBand: The five ladies in your squadron in the fifth game consist of a white CountryMouse, a SassyBlackWoman, a young Hispanic [[TheGunslinger bounty hunter]], an Asian [[InsufferableGenius super-genius]], and an IllGirl in a wheelchair.

** The Star Division of the New York Combat Revue consists of the ''nephew'' of the aforementioned Navy soldier, a clumsy Texan cowgirl, a Harlemite gangster-turned-lawyer, a Mexican bounty huntress, an androgynous Japanese savant, and the IllGirl niece of the commanding officer.

* ''LightNovel/SakuraTaisenZenya'' (1997—1998) — A prequel to the first game, it focuses on the lives of Sumire Kanzaki, Iris Châteaubriand and Kohran Li before they joined the Imperial Combat Revue.

* ''LightNovel/SakuraTaisenParisZenya'' (2005—2006) — Set a few years before ''Is Paris Burning?'', focusing on the early lives of the Paris Combat Revue members.
* ''LightNovel/ShinSakuraTaisenTheNovelHizakuraNoKoro'' (2019) — Set one year before the 2019 ''Sakura Wars'', focusing on Sumire Kanzaki organizing a new Flower Division.

->''"Hashire kousouku no Teikokukagekidan!''
->''Unare shougeki no Teikokukagekidan!"''
->(Run, lightning-fast Imperial Flower Combat Troupe,
->Roar, glorious Imperial Flower Combat Troupe!)

** RetiredBadass Ratchet uses [[KnifeNut throwing daggers]].

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: The series has an extended cast of recurring characters.

* ExtraordinarilyEmpoweredGirl
* FestivalEpisode
* FighterLaunchingSequence

* GrowingUpSucks

* HermeticMagic

* WhoWearsShortShorts: Sumire is shown wearing a pair backstage at several points in the manga. Consider that women often wore shorts backstage back in the day, as evidenced by pre-Code musicals such as ''Film/TheBroadwayMelody'' and ''Film/FortySecondStreet'', and [[OlderThanTheyThink it really isn't as anachronistic as it seems]].

** In ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2ThouShaltNotDie'', Keigo Kyogoku has Shiro Amakusa and the Imperial Japanese Army stage a coup d'etat and invade the Imperial Theater, temporarily forcing the Imperial Combat Revue into hiding.

* ''Sakura Wars GB'' (2000): A spin-off on the Nintendo UsefulNotes/GameBoy set between the first and second mainline games, wherein the PlayerCharacter is a new recruit to the Imperial Combat Revue who works with Ogami and the rest of the Flower Division to keep the peace.

* ''Sakura Wars GB 2'' (2001): The sequel to the first Game Boy spinoff. Set after the second game, the PlayerCharacter is, once again, a Combat Revue newcomer fighting to protect Tokyo. Unique to this game is the ability to customize your own spirit armor.

* ''Dramatic Dungeon: Sakura Wars — Because You Were There'' (2008): A GaidenGame for the Nintendo DS that brings together the Imperial, Paris, and New York Combat Revues to contend with a new demonic threat that has left our heroes unable to use their spirit armors! Taking place after the events of the fifth game, it would be the last game in the original series before the soft reboot...

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* ''VideoGame/{{Sakura Wars|1996}}'' (1996): [[WhereItAllBegan The one that started it all]]. In 1923, Ichiro Ohgami, a fresh-faced Imperial Navy Ensign, is assigned to the Imperial Combat Revue, a clandestine organization dedicated to defending Tokyo from the threat of demonic invasion. Joining him are swordswoman-in-training Sakura Shinguji, haughty aristocrat Sumire Kanzaki, feisty Okinawa-born martial artist Kanna Kirishima, French psychic prodigy Iris Châteaubriand, Chinese scientist Kohran Li, and Russian sharpshooter Maria Tachibana. The first game to be developed for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars3IsParisBurning'' (2001): When a supernatural menace threatens Paris, Ohgami is dispatched to the City of Lights to aid the fledgling Paris Combat Revue. Under his command are Erica Fontaine, a clumsy but spirited nun; Glycine Bleumer, a noblewoman; Lobelia Carnili, a notorious criminal; Hanabi Kitaoji, a grieving widow; and Coquelicot, a Vietnamese orphan. The first game to be developed by Overworks for the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars4FallInLoveMaidens'' (2002): No sooner does Ohgami return from his mission to Paris does a new threat emerge in the form of a golden spirit armor terrorizing the capital! It will take the combined might of the Imperial and Paris Combat Revues to save the day!

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove'' (2005): In 1928, Ohgami's nephew Shinjiro Taiga, a fresh-faced Navy graduate, is dispatched to America to aid the fledgling New York Combat Revue. Joining him in protecting the Big Apple are Gemini Sunrise, a Texan cowgirl and samurai aficionado; Cheiron Archer,[[note]]Named Sagitta Weinberg in Japan[[/note]] a Harlemite gangster-turned-lawyer; Rosita Aries,[[note]]Named Rikarita Aries in Japan[[/note]] a feisty bounty huntress from Mexico; Subaru Kujo, a mysterious and androgynous Japanese actress; and Diana Caprice, a frail but spirited physician. The first game to be developed by Sega's [=GE2=] division, it was also the first to be localized in North America and Europe for the [=PS2=] and the UsefulNotes/NintendoWii.

** Sumire's first scene in 1 has her asking Ohgami to get a replacement fork for the one she dropped. Guess what Sumire's first event with Ohgami involves, in the third game?

* {{Determinator}}: Everyone to an extent, but mostly Ohgami. In 4, there is a part where the boss disables everyone's kohbu, so everyone else is down except for him, and he has a few seconds left before he himself gets taken out of the fight. So what does he do? Fly right into the enemy's face, stab at it with his kohbu's swords, then get out of the pilot's seat moments after his kohbu has been totally wrecked, only to stab his sword at the monster's face. Followed by an UnflinchingWalk out of the explosion that occurs.

* HeroicBSOD: Happens to Ohgami and his nephew Shinjiro after being recruited to join with the Tokyo/New York Fighting Troupes. They had a hard time at first since they were suppose to be officers in the [=IJN=] before they were relegated to employee duties, but they eventually got over it.

* HotBlooded: Ohgami, Sakura, Glycine. Ohgami even gets this as a rank 3.

* InkSuitActor: Akio Suyama and Creator/ChisaYokoyama are really similar to Ohgami and Sakura respectively in RealLife, especially in theater plays.

* TheMusical: This starts to get confusing as it becomes a case of "A Show Within A Show Within A Show" at times. Aside from the in-game musicals performed by the various teams there have actually been several musicals performed in Creator/{{Takarazuka|Revue}} style (although it should be noted that these musicals do feature the majority of the male voice actots playing their respective characters too). What makes it even more special is that, unlike a lot of musicals based on anime/games, all the voice actors respectively play their characters leading to some very funny scenes such as the seiyuu who plays Ohgami being extremely short and Iris' voice actress makes a joke on it since she is taller than him. Usually a musical takes the form of two parts. The first part is a story that focuses on the characters themselves and the second part actually has the characters perform a play/musical such as Blue Bird. The latter got significantly longer as the musicals progressed. The Flower Division team naturally had the most musicals. The Paris and New York troupes did not get that many. In fact the Paris troupe only had one mini-musical made.

* OutOfTheInferno: Ohgami did this once after his kohbu was totaled in ''Fall in Love, Maidens''.

* {{Samurai}}: Ohgami, Sakura, Taiga; in a looser sense, Sumire and Gemini as well.

** When Ohgami is first transferred to Tokyo, he's only told about the theatrical side of the Flower Division, as a test to see whether he's compatible with the group outside of battle, and the kind of person they'd be willing to follow in battle.

* TheUnwantedHarem: Ohgami's relationship with the girls -- a leftover from the "dating sim" part of the original games.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars1996'': In 1923, Ichiro Ohgami, a fresh-faced Imperial Navy Ensign, is assigned to the Imperial Combat Revue, a clandestine organization dedicated to defending Tokyo from the threat of demonic invasion. Joining him are swordswoman-in-training Sakura Shinguji, haughty aristocrat Sumire Kanzaki, feisty Okinawa-born martial artist Kanna Kirishima, French psychic prodigy Iris Châteaubriand, Chinese scientist Kohran Li, and Russian sharpshooter Maria Tachibana. The first game to be developed for the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'': In 1940, a new generation of the Imperial Combat Revue, led by Seijuro Kamiyama, must rise to protect Tokyo. Under the guidance of Sumire Kanzaki, a founding member of the previous Revue who had retired from the front lines, he is joined by Sakura Amamiya, a fan of Sakura Shinguji; Hatsuho Shinonome, a hot-blooded shrine maiden; Azami Mochizuki, a prodigious shinobi-in-training; Anastasia Palma, a reknowned Grecian actress; and Clarissa "Claris" Snowflake, a Luxembourg-born scholar and magician. The first game to be developed by Sega's reorganized [=CS2=] division for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation4, it was also the first to be localized by Sega themselves.

* ''VideoGame/SakuraRevolutionBloomingMaidens'' (2020): A GaidenGame released for smartphones, and the franchise's first mobile entry to date. In 2011, Japan is recovering from an attack on the imperial capital made 16 years prior. Using a form of energy known as "Mirai", the country appeared to be on the road to reconstruction, but after activating the New Captial Tower, demons known as "Kouki" began to appear and the cherry blossoms stopped blooming. To protect and entertain the people, the government created the Great Imperial Combat Revue B.L.A.C.K., but their current peace is a false one. A separate Imperial Combat Revue, along with new recruit Shino Sakura, rose among the people to expose the conspiracy and take back Japan.

* MagicalGirl

In addition to the [=OVAs=], there is a movie, released in 2001. Like the episodes of the second series, the film is also a self-contained story in the same continuity (no AlternateContinuity here, thankfully) and leaves no hanging plot threads behind; the new character introduced here even goes on to appear in the later ''Sakura Wars V'' game. The movie also substantially expands the world of ''Sakura Wars'' beyond Japan, exploring in greater depth the dynamics of the prototype team fielded in wartime Europe. The movie takes place just after the end of the third game (Paris) and before the beginning of the fourth (which ended the "Tokyo arc"). This makes extensive use of CGI effects, particularly for the ''kohbu''. Creator/{{Geneon}} (then known as Pioneer) licensed and dubbed the movie instead of Creator/ADVFilms (Note: Creator/FUNimation now owns the license to the film, along with other titles by Creator/{{Geneon}}), along with different voice actors and fewer attempts to provide diverse accents that ADV did.

* ThemeMusicAbandonment: The Paris Combat Revue themes were never used for ''So Long, My Love'' nor the 2019 ''Sakura Wars''.

* TeamShot: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed.]] After every battle, the heroines ([[MyFriendsAndZoidberg and Ogami]]) pose for a photo with the tagline "Shouri no POSE, kime!" (Roughly, "Victory Pose, Go!"). Ogami finds this somewhat awkward the first couple of times it happens. Every time new characters are introduced, they also find it incredibly dumb - but a couple of battles later, they're happily joining in. The high-water mark is in the third game, where Ogami is assigned to command a new team of girls - and is left as the only one posing, whilst his new comrades-in-arms recoil in confusion.

* LetsPlay: A notable one by Something Awful member Spirit Armor that vowed to show off the entire series started up back in 2007 (before the series would become more prominent in the West through the fifth game being localized, characters showing up in [[VideoGame/ProjectXZone crossover games]], and an entirely new entry in the series being released ''worldwide'') that not only translated all of the game's original dialogue but also added in new dialogue akin to [[AbridgedSeriesTropes abridged series]]. Unfortunately, updates became more and more scarce due to the author's increasing lack of free time, and the project seems to have been abandoned just short of finishing the first game with the last update being posted in late 2014. The LP can be found [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2564759 here]].

* LetsPlay: Spirit Armor's LP of ''Sakura Wars'' has been ongoing for ''six years'' and is nearing completion. The man has pledged to do ''I-V'', so at this rate he very well might have a ''Sakura Wars VI'' or even ''VII'' to deal with by the time he finishes ''V'' ([[MarthDebutedInSmashBros Although that last one might be unnecessary]]). The LP can be found [[http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2564759 here]]. He translated his entire playthrough for your enjoyment, so you'd better be appreciative.
** TheAbridgedSeries: ''Inverted'' -- in addition to the literal translation of actual game dialogue, Spirit Armor includes additional dialogue in most scenes that [[AbridgedSeriesTropes carries on in the finest traditions of Abridged Series]].