The Youtube Channel Chronicles, which focuses on covering the complete history of popular franchises in all of media, has recently completed their documentary video of the Sakura Wars series, aptly called Sakura Wars The Documentary. The video is a combination of smaller videos published earlier, and the end results offers a very comprehensive look at all the Sakura Wars games and media that have been released since the debut of the original Sakura Wars on the Sega Saturn in Japan.
The documentary does a good job of explaining just how important the Sakura Wars franchise actually was for SEGA in Japan. Sadly, it also details how the franchise’s decline in sales ended up seemingly sealing its fate. While the documentary offers a rather bleak outlook for the future of the franchise, I’d like to stay optimistic and think that SEGA isn’t going to let the 20th anniversary this year go by with just a few crossover events to mark the occasion. With that said, I can only encourage SEGA fans to take a look at the video, illustrating the rise and fall one of SEGA’s most iconic franchises. You can view it here:
The individual videos posted over the past few months can be found on the channel’s video uploads section.