Sakura Taisen Appreciation Half-Week: Swashbuckling roosters ahoy!

First off, as ladykleo indirectly reminded me in the previous post, TVTropes.org has a really good Sakura Taisen entry, including a quick guide to the Tokyo characters, and an overview of some of the anime adaptations.

But, anyway. Moving on.

To recap what we've got so far! Sakura Taisen is a series of games/anime/manga about three groups of women who fight demons using giant robots powered by steam technology and psychic powers, who front their robot-demon-fighting operations with an opera company, a burlesque, and a vaudeville theater, respectively. The ST characters have also been brought to life by a series of live musical revues. Oh, and most of the women are eminently slashable.

But remember how I said that the stage shows got even freakier than what was hinted at two posts ago?

Yeah, ( they do. )

Still to come: A trip to the Sakura Taisen mecca, amazing toys that you could buy for the small price of four thousand dollars, still the greatest Christmas song every written, and a final musical bonanza.