New OG Teito Sakura Wars live show is getting international streaming!
The upcoming Sakura Wars Midsummer Festival "Flowers and Stars, a Dream Stage" which will be held on July 18th, 18:00 JST is getting live-streamed with a VOD that will last for 2 weeks until August 3rd! Streaming tickets are ~24 USD (tax included).
Here's the link to buy tickets: https://animate-ticket.com/events/104
The Midsummer Festival is a live show that's been held every year since 2018, sponsored by the Ueno tourism board, with Sakura Shinguji as a regular and different guests from the cast each year! This year the guests are Ogami and Reni. Moreover, this will be Reni's first in-character appearance since 2014!
These shows have been getting international streaming since 2022, and this year is no different! The platform for the past 2 years has been Animate. Here's some important notes on buying tickets:
- You need to register on Animate Club first. They have the option to register with an international phone number (though their SMS provider might take a couple minutes), and the name and address aren't even required fields for registering.
- They do accept international credit cards/payment methods.
- You need to enter an address when placing an order, however this is just to keep face with foreign export laws and they don't actually check nor ship anything. You can put a proxy service mailbox if you have one, or any random Japanese address (that actually exists on the map) from the internet!
It is important to support the show as we approach the 30th anniversary to show Sega that there's interest in the franchise, especially from overseas.
2024's show ended up getting over 200K live views, not counting views from the VOD after the live stream ended. There's so much potential to reach that number again or even surpass it this year! I hope everyone will be able to buy a ticket and enjoy the show!