Sakura Taisen: New York

Japanese title: サクラ大戦 ニューヨーク・紐育
Number of episodes: 6

Some info:
1) ANN
2) Wiki Article on the Sakura Taisen title and franchise
3) Official Site (Japanese)

Honestly I have not watched any of its other OVAs (or movies or whatnot), nor have I played their games (I think I haven’t done so before… iirc), so I thought no harm trying to see why this series can keep going and going. At least I get to see new titles being released under the name of Sakura Taisen, so it must have some sort of merit. Heh.

Well, I guess this OVA is set after some major event, be it referenced from its game counterpart, or continuation of some other OVA. Also, it’s set in an era where it’s supposed to be quite “old school” (judging from the people’s dressing and fashion sense) but at the same time, the main characters do have access to some super high tech robots and stuff. Really kinda weird. Ah well, just treat it as some fictional timeline that the creators came up with. Lol.

Anyway, this short OVA is about some pharaoh that was released from a deep sleep (or something) and intends to complete his mission to save and help his people (dated some 3000 years or earlier) by doing some ceremony to make the land a better place. So well, you can expect the main aim for the main characters (aka the people featured in that picture) to stop him, and protect New York (yea well, they are in NY mah…).

Then again, the actual face-off between those guys and the pharaoh isn’t that much. Most of it are just “unimportant” stuff with many parts with the guy cross-dressing for a character he’s gonna play in their play (wow, what a use of words) titled Cleopatra. How coincidental right. Yeah well, it is of some use though, since the pharaoh sees someone he knew back long, long ago, in this character. Yah, you can see where it’s heading liaoz. Lol.

Well, the 3D animation is pretty not bad, though at some parts it looked kinda weird lah. Don’t know why though. Hic. The mecha action isn’t say very exciting, but still passable lah. Lol, I wonder if the game is more “exciting” in that sense. Overall, it’s an okay show only lah. Probably will not bother with future series/OVAs of this liao. Yeap.