Sakura Wars Chapter 2: The Ungratifying Pressures of Work

[ozaline]

So some more news has come out for Project Sakura Wars, Sega's French division accidently put out an unfinished version of the trailer that gave us a bit more information than Sega wanted us to have on the characters. Famitsu did a spotlight (my favourite part was findng out series director Takaharu Terada had been submitting Sakura Wars proposals every year when Sega took game submission ideas from staff (his coworkers apparently knew it was Summer time when Terada began working on a new Sakura Wars proposal), and it was after the 2016 poll where Sega asked what franchise that fans wanted to see revisited that Sega took this seriously (always nice when a company listens). And finally there was a poster of a painting by the new cast, by character designer Tite Kubo In this week's Shounen Jump

Comments

[alicemacher]

Yoneda's such a troll, isn't he? :D

[ozaline]

Yep, in the OVA when Oogami is tired out from a long day Yoneda first reaches out with a bottle of sake, before stating that he lifted the wrong hand, and holding out the flashlight for Oogami's evening patrol of the theatre.

[alicemacher]

If this were a Western series and also a magical one, Yoneda would basically be John Constantine. Except that John would never willingly serve in the military unless he were infiltrating it for some agenda of his own.

[ozaline]

I wouldn't think to compare them but I guess they're not totally dissimilar. He's more being Yoda here I think, testing Oogami's paitence and also getting making sure he sees the ladies of the Teigeki as people first and not canon fodder.

He is more a fatherly type. Where your comparison gets interesting is that his joking attitude does disguise some trauma. He lead the Spirit Powered Anti-Kouma squad in the first demon war, they were underarmed and so one of his allies was sacrificed, and one went missing. And a little girl (one Sakura Shinguji) lost her father, and that trauma could be Yoneda's Newcastle in this analogy.