Jason Arriola and Vanessa Cahill are joined by Josh Carpenter from RPGamer this week to watch Sakura Wars: The Movie. Neither Vanessa or Jason had any familiarity with anything Sakura Wars, so Jason roped in the closest thing he knew to a ringer to help fill in the blanks as to what exactly the hell is going on with this movie. It’s not that crazy, but there are a lot of blanks to fill in if you’re unfamiliar with the series and its various ventures into other multimedia. Thankfully, Josh filled in that role well, so we’re not completely confused through the whole episode!

And if you want to hear more of Josh, he did the first part of the Tactics Ogre Game Club with us a ways back and he recently did the RPG Backtrack on Final Fantasy XV over at RPGamer. You can also hear him regularly on RPGamer’s (mostly) weekly RPG Cast!

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Our theme song that’s far too good for the material we cover was composed by Megan Carnes. The three of us attempt to sing along to “Geki! Teikoku Kagekidan” before blowing out our vocal cords and deciding it’s better to let Chisa Yokoyama handle it and let her sing us out.

Movies Ranked

1. Resident Evil / March 15, 2002 (live action)
2. Street Fighter II: The Animated Movie / August 6, 1994
3. Mortal Kombat / August 18, 1995 (live action)
4. Street Fighter / December 23, 1994 (live action)
5. Pokémon 3: The Movie: Entei – Spell of the Unown / March 29, 2001
6. Pokemon: The Movie 2000 / July 17, 1999
7. Pokemon Heroes / July 13, 2002
8. Pokemon: The First Movie / July 18, 1998
9. Super Mario Bros. / May 28, 1993
10. Double Dragon / November 4, 1994
11. Pokemon 4Ever / July 7, 2001
12. Art of Fighting / December 23, 1993
13. Battle Arena Toshinden / 1996 
14. Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within / July 11, 2001
15. Ninja Gaiden / November 22, 1991 
16. Tekken: The Motion Picture / January 21, 1998
17. Mortal Kombat: Annihilation / November 21, 1997 (live action)
18. Lara Croft: Tomb Raider / June 15, 2001 (live action)
19. Street Fighter Alpha: The Movie / April 26, 2000
20. Super Mario Bros. : Peach-Hime Kyushutsu Dai Sakusen! / July 20, 1986
21. Samurai Spirits 2: Asura Zanmaden / December 22, 1999
22. Sonic the Hedgehog / May 31, 1996
23. Samurai Shodown: The Motion Picture / September 8, 1994
24. Mortal Kombat: The Journey Begins / April 11, 1995
25. ZOE: 2167 IDOLO / March 1, 2001
26. Fatal Fury: The Motion Picture / July 16, 1994
27. Wing Commander / March 12, 1999 (live action)
28. SIN: The Movie / October 24, 2000