Summary: >

The setting takes place around 1919. The story is about... well various girls developing their abilities I guess. The world was in a demon war, and in order to survive the impending second, various girls with various spiritual powers gather in Tokyo to form an elite group. (I had to learn that from a web page, the show tells you little to nothing). After watching the first two episodes, I still know nothing about it. Perhaps it's because this anime is based off of a video game that the storyline is so poorly put together.

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The problem with this OVA is that you already need to be familiar with the Sakura Wars franchise to understand anything. As the series was mainly released on Sega Saturn which bombed big time in America, and never released in game form over here anyway, the chances of you having that context is virtually nil. In Japan, this anime was made to capitalize on the Sakura Wars buzz. I can't understand why the Japanese go batshit crazy over Sakura Wars stuff, but they do.

The story has no coherency which is at least ok since this title has no real beginning or end anyway. Instead this anime basically takes clips of the characters doing stuff. Kind of like a drunk person's scrap book. Why is this group that is supposed to save the world in steam powered mecha practicing dancing around in fairy costumes? The story behind that must be interesting. It's too bad I'll never know what that is. Not from this anime anyway. I think with decent context, this anime may be decent, but we'll never get that so this being released in America is probably just a big mistake.