Sakura Wars TV - Opening Night (Vol. 1)
Sakura Wars TVis a more satisfying treatment of this popular  continuity than the feature or OVAs. The longer format gives the filmmakers time to  delineate characters more fully, to explore the nature of the threat the  Imperial Flower Combat Troupe faces, and to explain how putting on plays prepares  the Troupers for specialized warfare. When klutzy swordswoman Sakura Shinguji  arrives in Tokyo in the mid-1920s, she inadvertently alienates the other  members of the Troupe. As she works to make amends, she learns that these young  women fight in Koubus, specialmechathat run on spiritual energy. They  battle the Wakiji,mechathat wreak destruction whenever they appear. The  first episodes introduce the principle cast members: arrogant Sumire Kanzaki,  sharpshooter Maria Tachibana, and petite psychic Iris Chateaubriand. Handsome  Second Lieutenant Ohgami assumes command of the Troop, but receives a less  than warm welcome. (Rated 12 and older: violence)--Charles Solomon