DCG TRANSLATION UPDATE Hi everyone! While I'm deeply thankful for the outpour of support this post got in likes and retweets, literally not a single person ever DMed me😭 Even if you only have enough time to crop 5 cards, that would still be a huge help! (1/3)

🎂 | Today, September 8th, is the birthday of seiyu Saeko Shimazu, who played Glycine Bleumer in the games, OVAs, CD dramas, and stage shows! Happy Birthday!!

🎂| Today, September 7th, is the birthday of og Teito Hanagumi member Kanna Kirishima! Happy Birthday!!

❗️| The mobile game Sega NET Mahjong MJ changed its icon in time with the Sakura Wars collab that is currently running untill September 14th!!

🎉 | These past 3 days are the 13th anniversary of the Sakura Wars New York Hoshigumi Show "Anyone has Someone on Mind" which ran from August 31st to September 2nd with a total of 4 performances! This was the first and only show to be written by the games writer Satoru Akahori!

📸 | More backstage pictures of the Sakura Wars V 20th Anniversary Live "New York ✰ Gathering of the Stars" held last July from Kaya Matsutani's account on Twitter!!

❗| Sakura Wars TV anime will be streaming on Toei Anime Channel subscription on Amazon Prime Video starting this month!!

🎉 | Today, August 31st, is the 25th anniversary of the Sakura Wars Teikoku Kagekidan Super Live, an open air concert that was part of the Avec Summer Paradise music festival!

🎉| These 3 days are the 11th anniversary of the New York Hoshigumi show "You Ain't Heard Nothin' Yet", it ran from August 29th to 31st with a total of 5 performances! This was the last official Sakura Wars show! It introduced 2 new characters and had Reni and Orihime as guests!

❗| More guests revealed for Kaya Matsutani (Diana)'s upcoming Sakura Wars event "New York ♪ Perfect Weather for a Walk ♪": Hisayoshi Suganuma (Shinjiro), Kaori Asoh (Plum), Yoko Honna (Anri), the 2 Dandy members Takeda and Nishimura, and ex-sega producer Masahiro Nakayama!

‼️| The 10th instalment of Kaya Matsutani (Diana)'s event series "New York ♪ Perfect Weather for a Walk ♪" will be held on October 4th and 5th. She'll be showing the 2013 Sakura Wars show "Wild West Wish" followed by a talk show with guest Hisayoshi Suganuma (Shinjiro)!

❗| All the Sakura Wars OVAs and the Shin anime are now streaming on Bandai Channel!! They have been previously made available in multiple other Japanese streaming services some years ago!

🎉 | This week is the 17th anniversary of the Sakura Wars New York Revue Show "Utau Dai NY 3/Great NY to Sing 3" which ran from August 27th to 31st with a total of 8 performances! It was Ratchet's stage debut, the Dandy gang intro to NY, and had Sakura and Erica as guests!

❗| An example of Sakura Shinguji's newly recorded voiced lines for the Sakura Wars x Sega NET Mahjong MJ collab!!

‼️| To commemorate the Sakura Wars x Sega NET Mahjong MJ collab, the official account @sega_MJ is holding a giveaway campaign! There'll be 4 giveaways with a total of 9 winners, all you have to do is follow the account and retweet the specific posts! More info in this thread ↓

❗| Animatetimes made an article about the Sakura Wars V 20th Anniversary Live "New York ✩ Gathering of the Stars" held last month. There you can find a report with many pictures of the show, so check it out! www.animatetimes.com/news/details...

‼️| The Sakura Wars V 20th Anniversary Live "New York ✩ Gathering of the Stars" will be rebroadcasted on e+'s streaming+ for one week from August 29th till September 4th!!

🎉 | This week is the 23rd anniversary of the Sakura Wars Super Kayou Show "Shinpen Hakkenden" which ran from August 15th to 25th with a total of 16 performances! It was the first show after Sumire's retirement and deals with its aftermath on the troupe as well as Ogami taking Yoneda's place!

Just in: the collab will have newly recorded voiced lines by Sakura, Erica, and Ogami! The game is also available on PC and as an arcade game!

‼️| Mobile gacha game Sega NET Mahjong MJ will be holding a Sakura Wars CUP where you can win in-game collab items featuring the Teito and Paris casts! Round A will be held from August 25th to 31st. Round B from September 9th to 7th. And the final round from Sept 8th to 14th!!

🎉 | This week was the 22nd anniversary of the 2nd Sakura Wars Super Kayou Show "Shin Takarajima / New Treasure Island". It ran from August 15th to the 21st with a total of 9 performances!!

❗| The Sakura Wars official Twitter account now has a blue checkmark that wasn't there before! Meaning Sega has recently paid for it, despite the account not tweeting anything for the past couple of years. This could mean that the account will become more active in the future!!

🎂 | Today, August 20th, is the birthday of New York Hoshigumi captain and ticket clipper, Shinjiro Taiga. Happy Birthday!!

🚨 | Chapter 12 of the English fan-translation of the Sakura Wars Manga Version Part 2 is now up on mangadex!!

The Meigumi is finally back with another chapter of Sakura Wars Manga Version Part 2!! Read chapter 12 now here! mangadex.org/chapter/8fec...

🎉 | This past week is the 20th anniversary of the 4th Sakura Wars Super Kayou Show "Shin Aoi Tori / New Blue Bird". It ran from August 13th to 20th with a total of 9 performances! This show marked Sumire's stage comeback after her return CD drama as well as Shinjiro's stage debut!

🎉 | This past week was the 21st anniversary of the third Sakura Wars Super Kayou Show "Shin Saiyuki / New Journey to the West" which ran from August 13th to the 19th with a total of 11 performances!!

🎉 | Today, August 17th, is the 20th anniversary of the only Sakura Wars NY CD drama "Over the Rainbow Sunshine" It's a day in the life story covering the Little Lip Theater's struggle against defamation by the concentrative press and trying not to turn into a sushi restaurant

🎂 | Today, August 16th, is birthday of veteran seiyuu and icon, Urara Takano. She plays Maria Tachibana and also contributed more to SW, like being part of the inspo behind Maria and fighting for the actors to get more creative control over their characters. Happy Birthday 🫶

❗| Animatetimes made an article about the Sakura Wars Midsummer Festival "Odorimashou! (Let's Dance!)" held last month. There you can find a report with many pictures of the show, so check it out! www.animatetimes.com/news/details...

🎂 | Today, August 15th, is the birthday of Paris Hanagumi member and everyone's favorite catgirl nun, Erica Fontaine. Happy Birthday!!!

📸 | Kumiko Nishihara (Iris), Kazue Ikura (Reni), and Yuriko Fuchizaki (Kohran), top to bottom, recently went out together to watch a Kabuki show!!

🎉 | Today is the 24th anniversary of the Paris Revue's stage debut "Paris Hanagumi Special Mini Live Show" which was held on August 13th as an opening act for that day's performance of Kaijin Bessou!

Correction: 24th anniversary not 21st!

🚨 | An English subtitled version of Shin Sakura Taisen the Stage: Ouka no Utage • Sai has been released!!

The Meigumi is back with another Shin Sakura Wars the Stage sub: closing off the live concert series with Ouka no Utage • Sai / Another Concert Under the Cherry Blossoms! Drive: drive.google.com/drive/folder... Archive: archive.org/details/meig... Additional notes and credits in the readme file!

🎉 | This week is the 19th anniversary of the Sakura Wars Kayou Show finale "Shin Ai Yueni" which ran from August 12th to the 22nd with a total of 15 performances! It was also broadcasted twice on the national television channel NHK BS!!

🎉 | This week is the 27th anniversary of the 2nd Sakura Wars Kayou Show "Tsubasa" which ran from August 11th to 16th with a total of 8 performances ! It was the first show set after 2 and marked the stage debut of Reni, Orihime, Kaede, Rose and Wind Divisions, and Dandy gang!

🎉 | This week is the 21st anniversary of the 5th Sakura Wars Kayou Show "Kaijin Bessou" which ran from August 10th to the 18th with a total of 10 performances! It was remarkable for its fun day in the live story and brilliant play within a play, which was restaged in the movie!

‼️| Sakura Wars will be present at the Animate Sega pop up store at Osaka Expo from August 15th to 28th with brand new merch that has new original art featuring Sakura and Ogami!! www.animate.co.jp/onlyshop/272... I'll be going through all the merch that will be present in this thread ↓

🎉 | This week is the 26th anniversary of the 3rd Sakura Wars Kayou Show "Benitokage" which ran from August 4th to 7th with a total of 6 performances! It was a huge success and inspired an OVA ep, a CD drama, and 2 spinoff games (Columns 2 and Ogami Ichiro Funtouki) based on it!

🎉 | This week was the 25th anniversary of the 4th Sakura Wars Kayou Show "Arabia no Bara" which ran from July 28th to August 4th with a total of 9 performances!

DCG Translation Project!!! Hi Guys! This is a bit of an unusual post, but I would deeply appreciate your help in a project of mine! I'm currently working on archiving and translating a substantial amount of the first two waves of the Sakura Wars Dramatic Card Game- (1/2)

💬 | Chisa talks about the Sakura Wars Midsummer Festival that was held on July 19th on her newsletter: "A large number of people came to the show. The cheers were so loud that we sometimes couldn't hear the instrumental back track... It made me so happy and lifted my spirit!"

❗| Xiaolong's stage actress in Shin Sakura Taisen the Stage, Mariko Honjo, was the motion actor behind the dancing Kobus in Vtuber's Marine birthday live that had Chisa Yokoyama as guest!

🎂 | Today, July 31st, is the birthday of former Anti-Kouma Squad member and former Imperial Revue vice-commander and vice-manager, Ayame Fujieda! Happy Birthday!!

❗| Chisa Yokoyama was a guest at vtuber Marine Houshou's birthday live today! They performed Gekitei and Marine Shukkou which were both composed by Kohei Tanaka! You can watch Chisa's segment in the VOD here (26:55-42:10): www.youtube.com/live/1Wbyakj...

🎉 | Yesterday, July 28th, was the 25th anniversary of the spinoff game Sakura Wars GB ~Go Forth, Young Cadet!~ on the Gameboy Color! The game has you play as a self insert character where you get to know the Hanagumi girls during your one month stay as a recruit!

🎉 | These 3 days consist of the 14th anniversary of the Sakura Wars New York Hoshigumi Live "Inherit the Stars" which ran from July 29th to the 31st with a total of 4 performances! The show had Reni and Orihime as guests and explored the dynamics of the defunct Euro Hoshigumi!

🎂 | Today, July 28th, is the birthday of the legend, the icon, the Sakura Wars herself, Sakura Shinguji! Happy Birthday!!!