History Trivia / SakuraWars

* GodDoesNotOwnThisWorld: Series co-developer Creator/RedEntertainment hasn't been involved with the ''Sakura Wars'' franchise since Sega bought their co-ownership rights in 2017.

** Shoichiro Irimajiri served as chief executive producer from the 1996 ''Sakura Wars'' to ''Is Paris Burning?''. Upon his retirement, Tetsu Kayama became the chief executive producer for ''Fall in Love, Maidens'' and ''In Hot Blood''. For the 2019 ''Sakura Wars'', Haruki Satomi served as a chief executive producer.

** Takaharu Terada first worked as a planner for ''Thou Shalt Not Die''. He would later serve as the main planner for ''Is Paris Burning?'' and ''Fall in Love, Maidens'' before he was promoted to series director starting with ''In Hot Blood''. For the 2019 game, he worked as a scenario part director.

** The first two games were initially co-developed by Sega's [=CS2/AM7=] R&D team. In 2000, Sega split off the in-house Consumer Software (CS) and Amusement Machine (AM) teams, and Overworks was formed; the team developed ''Is Paris Burning?'' and ''Fall in Love Maidens'' as well as the remake of the second game. Then, after the Sammy Corporation purchased Sega in 2004, Sega restructured the development teams once again; ''So Long, My Love'' and its prequel were developed by their [=GE2=] R&D team and Neverland developed the DS game. Finally, ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' was developed by a reorganized [=CS2=] team, which included team members from both Overworks and Creator/SonicTeam.

** The first four games were released in Simplified Chinese.

** The first two games were initially co-developed by Sega's [=CS2/AM7=] R&D team. In 2000, Sega split off the in-house Consumer Software (CS) and Amusement Machine (AM) teams, and Overworks was formed; the team developed ''Is Paris Burning?'' and ''Fall in Love Maidens'' as well as the remake of the first game. Then, after the Sammy Corporation purchased Sega in 2004, Sega restructured the development teams once again; ''So Long, My Love'' was developed by their [=GE2=] R&D team and Neverland developed the DS game. Finally, ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' was developed by a reorganized [=CS2=] team, which included team members from both Overworks and Creator/SonicTeam.

* TheWikiRule: There's a wiki dedicated to the series. You can find it [[http://sakurataisen.wikia.com/wiki/Sakura_Taisen_Wiki here]].

* DawsonCasting:
** Theater plays only: Many of the actors are much older than the characters they're supposed to play. The most notorious examples are both Creator/MayumiTanaka (Kanna) and Creator/KumikoNishihara (Iris). Iris is supposed to be a little kid, but Nishihara is an ''adult woman'' and much ''taller'' than Creator/MayumiTanaka, who (in-universe) is supposed to be one of the tallest women of the games.
** Subverted with Creator/EtsukoKozakura (Coquelicot): Despite the fact she's also voicing and playing a little kid, she's as short as Tanaka and is able to look as closely like Coquelicot as she looks in the games.

** Kohran Li and Komachi Oba speak with a KansaiRegionalAccent. Their respective actresses, Creator/YurikoFuchizaki and Creator/RyokoShiraishi, hail from the Kansai region.

** For years, localization efforts for the first four games were not planned because Sega was uncertain that the series would find a large audience outside of Japan. However, the fifth game, ''So Long, My Love'', became the first to be released overseas in 2010 by Creator/NISAmerica. Later on, Sega itself announced that they would localize ''VideoGame/SakuraWars2019'' for an international release in April 2020.

** All of the four games were released in Simplified Chinese.

* DuelingDubs: Considering that [=ADV=], Funimation and Geneon had a hand in dubs for North America with different people playing different characters (This was cut down on in the wake of So Long, My Love with the Bang Zoom dub being used).

* FakeNationality: Many of the foreign characters such as Maria Tachibana, Orihime Soletta, Leni Milchstrasse and most of the New York Combat Revue are played by Japanese voice actors.

* ''Trivia/{{Sakura Wars|TV}}'' (TV)

** Creator/NaoyaUchida made his ''Sakura Wars'' debut playing Tetsuma Shinguji, Sakura's uncle, in [[Anime/SakuraWarsTV the 2000 TV series]]. Uchida would later voice Michael Sunnyside in ''[[VideoGame/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove So Long, My Love]]'' and physically play the character in the subsequent stage plays and concerts.

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

** ''Thou Shalt Not Die'': Yokoyama, Tomizawa, Takano, Fuchizaki, Tanaka, Suyama, Maya Okamoto, Creator/KazueIkura, Ikeda, Orikasa, Suyama, Hikami, Okamura, Masuda, Kitamura, Creator/KazukiYao, Creator/TaikiMatsuno, Creator/DaisukeGori, Creator/AkioOhtsuka, Creator/MasashiEbara, Creator/RyoHorikawa, Michio Hazama, Creator/ShigeruChiba, Masako Ikeda, Creator/ShuichiIkeda, Creator/SumiShimamoto, Creator/YoshikoSakakibara, Creator/ShinichiroMiki, Creator/NachiNozawa, Yanaka, Creator/ToshihikoSeki, Creator/MisaWatanabe, Creator/JojiYanami, Creator/FumihikoTachiki, and Creator/AkiraKamiya.

** ''Sakura Wars'' (1996): Creator/ChisaYokoyama, Creator/MichieTomizawa, Creator/UraraTakano, Creator/YurikoFuchizaki, Creator/MayumiTanaka, Creator/AiOrikasa, Masaru Ikeda, Akio Suyama, Creator/KyokoHikami, Creator/AkemiOkamura, Creator/YukiMasuda, Koichi Kitamura, Yumi Hikita, Hideaki Ono (Creator/HisaoEgawa in the remake), Creator/AkiraIshida, Katsuhisa Hoki, Creator/ToruOkawa, Shinpachi Tsuji, and Hiroshi Yanaka.

** ''Sakura Wars'' (2019): Creator/YoheiAzakami, Creator/AyaneSakura, Creator/MaayaUchida, Creator/AyakaFukuhara, 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.