- Acclaimed Flop: Critics gave So Long, My Love positive reviews (81 for the PS2 and 75 for the Wii port on Metacritic) and it won two "Editor's Choice" awards from RPGFan and IGN. Unfortunately, it became the lowest-selling installment of the Sakura Wars series, selling only 144,668 copies in Japan.
- Acting for Two: In the English dub, Ichiro Ōgami and Michael Sunnyside are both played by Dave Wittenberg.
- Delayed Release Tie-In: Onionbat (formerly DoubleJump Books) planned a strategy guide for the English PS2 and Wii release in 2010, but it was unaccounted for and was thought lost for good... until 2014, when they released it on digital outlets such as Amazon and iTunes.
- Dueling Works: The worldwide release occurred around the same month as Final Fantasy XIII, another well-known JRPG.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes:
- With the discontinuation of the PS2 and Wii, So Long, My Love has long since gone out of print and used copies can be hard to find legally these days. It also hasn't seen a digital release. This didn't stop Sega from including Gemini Sunrise in the Project × Zone series, however.
- The promotional videos that were featured on the Sega Channel were lost after the website shut down in 2010, so the best bet would be to watch them on video-streaming services like Nico Nico Douga or YouTube, or even the promotional DVD that came with Episode 0.
- Late Export for You: While it was originally released in Japan in July 2005, it didn't get an overseas release until March 2010note .
- Marth Debuted in "Smash Bros.": So Long, My Love's international release marked the first in-game appearances of Sakura Shinguji, Ichiro Ogami, Gemini Sunrise and Yuichi Kayama.
- No Export for You:
- While the PlayStation 2 version got a North American release, it did not make its way into Europe.
- The Wii port was exclusive to North America and PAL territories.
- The Original Darrin: Dave Wittenberg returns as Ichiro Ogami after he was replaced by Daniel Katsük for the École de Paris OVAs.
- The Other Darrin: In the English dub, Keith Silverstein replaces Steve Blum as Yuichi Kayama from Sakura Wars: The Movie.
- Reality Subtext: According to Word of God, Gemini Sunrise was born in Texas, a part of the southern United States. Her English VA, Laura Bailey was born in Mississippi, also in the southern United States, and also lived in Texas. Bonus points for her being born on May 28, which makes her a Gemini.
- Refitted for Sequel: In the opening scene, Shinjiro arrives in New York City to lead the Flower Division, which was one of the scrapped concepts for Sakura Wars 4: Fall in Love, Maidens.
- Role Reprise: In the English dub:
- Julie Ann Taylor reprises her role as Ratchet Altair from Sakura Wars: The Movie.
- Dave Wittenberg and Wendee Lee respectively voice Ichiro Ogami and Sakura Shinguji for the first time since the Su-Mi-Re OVA was released in North America in 2004.
- Sequel First:
- Against all odds, So Long, My Love was released in English in March 2010 courtesy of NIS America.
- Gemini from So Long, My Love actually first appeared in Sakura Wars V: Episode Zero, which is a prequel action game that has still not been localized.
- Studio Hop: This time around, M.S.C. handled the 2D animation sequences.
- What Could Have Been:
- Originally, there were going to be eleven chapters. Tutankhamun was also considered to be a villain in the game and a storyline involving Cleopatra was also considered. However, they were nixed due to unavoidable circumstances during development. Fortunately, Tutankhamun would return in the New York, NY OVA.
- Sega planned to release So Long, My Love under the "Sakura Wars World Project". Unfortunately, this all changed in 2008 when Sega temporarily pulled the plug on the franchise.
- You Sound Familiar:
- In the Japanese version:
- Akiko Toda provided additional voices for Fall in Love, Maidens and In Hot Blood before she voiced Jing, one of the Harlem Centaurs, in So Long, My Love.
- Masafumi Kimura voiced a few background characters in The Radiant Gorgeous Blooming Cherry Blossoms and Carlos in So Long, My Love.
- Naoya Uchida voiced Tetsuma Shinguji in the TV series and Michael Sunnyside in So Long, My Love.
- In the English release:
- Laura Bailey voiced Salu in the English dub of École de Paris, and would later go on to play Gemini Sunrise in So Long, My Love.
- Karen Strassman played Kasumi Fujii and Diana Caprice in Sakura Wars: The Movie and So Long, My Love, respectively.
- Doug Stone (Wong Xingzhi) previously voiced Ikki Yoneda in the film.
- Melissa Fahn voiced Orihime Soletta in both the English dubs of film and the Su-Mi-Re OVA as well as Rosita in So Long, My Love.
- Dorothy Elias-Fahn voiced Kohran Li in the English dub of the film and would later go on to voice Ranmaru in the game.
- Kate Higgins (Subaru Kujo) was an uncredited additional voice in the English dub of the film.
- Philece Sampler provided the English voice for Tsubaki Takamura in the film before voicing Yumedono.
- In the Japanese version:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/SakuraWarsSoLongMyLove
FollowingTrivia / Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love
Go To
