Sega announced during its Tokyo Game Show stream that the Shin Sakura Taisen (Project Sakura Wars in English) game is inspiring a television anime that will premiere in 2020.
Manabu Ono (Sword Art Online: Alicization, The irregular at magic high school, The Asterisk War) is directing the anime at Sanzigen.
The game is inspiring a manga adaptation by Koyori Noguchi that debuted in Shueisha’s Weekly Young Jump magazine on September 12.
Kōhei Tanaka, the composer for much of the music of the game franchise (including the new game), is composing the anime’s music.