The soundtrack isn't just good, it's the spine of the entire show, a 1930s-40s nostalgic fever dream that makes every scene feel like it matters even when the plot doesn't quite. The character cast works because they're allowed to exist as people first, soldiers second, which means the downtime between demon fights actually costs something. If you've never touched the Sakura Wars games, you're watching a solid mecha show that knows how to pace action and character moments; if you have, this is a love letter that understands what made those stories stick.

Tokyo is home to the Imperial Combat Revue's new Flower Division, assembled after the Great Demon War destroyed the older Flower Divisions of the Imperial, Paris and New York revues. In 1941, a year after the defeat of Sotetsu Genan, captain Seijuurou Kamiyama departs on a covert assignment, and swordswoman Sakura Amamiya steps in to lead the team while he is away. After an incident in Europe, Kamiyama places a young Russian girl, Klara M. Ruzhkova, in the division's care. When Moscow Combat Revue captain Valery Kaminski arrives in Tokyo to take Klara back, the Flower Division has to stop him. Action, mecha and supernatural elements drive this twelve-episode TV series.