SEGA has announced that the Sakura Wars (Shin Sakura Taisen) game is getting a new stage play adaptation titled Shin Sakura Taisen the Stage: Seiden Tsurugi (New Sakura Wars the Stage: Tale of Truth Tsurugi). The new Sakura Wars stage play will run from September 18 to 27 at the Theater Sun Mall in Tokyo.
The cast of the stage play includes:
- Yūri Ōta as Asagi Tо̄dо̄
- Haruki Iwata as Shirahime Okita
- Chihaya Yoshitake as Hagane Hijikata
- Momoyo Koyama as Zuying He
- Uta Kawase as Juri Sawada
- Yūna Sekine as Sakura Amamiya
Additional cast members include:
- Kanon Matsuzawa as Shizuka
- Hikari Aimura as Shiori
- Erina Oda as Shungaku Harada
- Narumi Koga as Izumi Sannan
- Machi Chitose as Gо̄kai
- Kana Aoi
- Honami Shibuya
- Yūki Suzuki
- NANA Hayashimoto
- Kogiku
Tomoharu Suzuki will write and direct, Kōhei Tanaka is the music composer, and Keiko Matsumoto provides choreography for the adaptation. Ōji Hiroi is credited with the original concept of Sakura Wars.
SEGA previously revealed a new logo celebrating the 30th anniversary of Sakura Wars and teased new merchandise and events on the franchise’s official website.
The original Sakura Taisen game released on September 27, 1996 for the SEGA Saturn. The most recent title in the series was the ill-fated Sakura Kakumei mobile game, which ended service in June 2021—six months after the December 2020 launch.
Rumors and reports from January 2024 indicated that SEGA was developing new Panzer Dragoon, Neon Genesis Evangelion, and Sakura Wars games. These games would be in addition to SEGA’s various revival projects, which include Crazy Taxi, Jet Set Radio, Golden Axe, and Streets of Rage: Revolution. Shinobi was also part of the initial revival lineup, later releasing as Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.
