Tae Yamada

Tae Yamada (山田 たえ, Yamada Tae) is a mysterious girl with an unknown past. She's the only zombie who hasn't awakened. She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is just titled as the Legendary Tae Yamada (伝説の山田たえ, Densetsu no Yamada Tae).

Official biography
Zombie No. 0 with long black hair.

The only zombie of the seven who has not regained consciousness, and the most zombie-like zombie who is always biting something. She's basically just groaning, but she seems to understand what the members are saying to a degree. However, she can't beat her instincts, so she bites Junko.

History
While most zombies have details about their past lives (Yugiri is an exception, as we only know about his occupation and apparent ties to Kotaro's well-known waiter), Tae is so far the only one whose details are still largely in the dark. The only clue available is her profile, which lists her hobby like visiting different travel agencies. According to the staff, she has a backstory but it wasn't shown in the first season because it was still unnecessary.

It starts out as a wild animal that attacks and bites people. Little by little she becomes a little more civilized, being able to understand human language and communicate through moans or gestures, showing curiosity about the world like a girl would and imitating the dance movements of the other girls. She's even capable of imitating a rooster crowing for the Drive-In Tori ad. Later, she begins to mimic the expressions and speech of the other girls (albeit in a rather confused way) and acquires a sufficient theory of mind to attempt to lie. In episode 11, she is emotionally aware enough that Sakura's current situation hits her hard, sending her into a corner of grief; He spends the first half of Episode 12 trying to lift Sakura's spirits by doing dance moves and showing her the article about her performance at the Saga Rock Festival. Eventually, he got so fed up with Sakura's abandonment that he drags her back to the dance studio and tries to recreate a training lesson Sakura once gave him.

Sakura had previously acted as his caretaker, so she didn't end up biting people, and had also taught her to pay attention and dance, earning her immortal loyalty. So when Sakura locks herself in the attic, Tae tries his best to get in and drag her to the dance studio to try and refresh her memories. Once Sakura's memories come back and mingle with her past memories, Tae happily bites into her head.

Although Tae can't speak properly, he obviously remembers their interactions and the frustration in his eyes is clear.

Human appearance
Tae has long, straight dark plum hair with two parts that stand out slightly with her bangs, they are also straight with a piece that runs down her face and is reddish brown.

Her normally baggy clothing hides a rather impressive bust that is second largest only after Yugiri, even visibly surpassing Sakura. However, her idlo outfit fully shows it.

Zombie appearance
from what you can see under his clothes, everything except his face and hands is covered in bandages.

Tae typically has bandages on his neck, chest, head, and upper leg with a loose black dress tied with a white rope. She also has gray over the knee socks with black shoes.

Idol appearance
As an idol, she wears a long-sleeved purple striped shirt and a purple skirt with white ruffles.

Wear a sweater with sleeves that is too long during your first public performances.

Character concept
They wanted Tae's image to be "sexy onee-san who comes for your blood." Give the impression of a beautiful long-haired Japanese horror character. They thought it would be cute if the hair moved like dogs' ears and could move independently, they also enjoyed designing the clothes, choosing prisoner style shirts and pajamas that they really liked

Personality
Tae is the only one of the girls who hasn't fully regained consciousness, so she's still a mindless zombie. As such, Tae is unpredictable and driven by sheer instinct, doing things like biting the other members and throwing himself into the crowd. However, it seems to have some semblance of conscience, at least being able to understand the members to some degree and be cooperative enough to participate in the practices and performances. She also seems smart enough to have a caring side for her fellow zombie idols.

As the only zombie that hasn't awakened, he makes little contribution to the team and often gets in the way of their attempts to bite people or when his head falls off. On the other hand, it is surprisingly useful in times of a pinch, such as when it bites into one of Maria's buns when trying to threaten Sakura and Lily, and scares a large boar after it attacks the girls.

Tae's zombie antics and girlish demeanor are often sources of comedy. However, in Episode 12, when Sakura, blinded by depression, vehemently pushes her away too many times, Tae reaches his Breaking Point of anger and shows that even if he is ultimately a harmless zombie, he can actually be quite scary when she's really mad.

Episode 5 in particular shows his extreme appetite, going so far as to attack a guy in a chicken suit because he thinks he's a real chicken, not to mention swallowing a whole plate of raw meat before this, and a plate of eels on a stick (including plate) followed by five eel sticks later

It tends to bite and gnaw on anyone or anything it can get its hands on, including its own hair. However, according to Kotaro, it is totally harmless.

Trivia

 * Her first name, Tae, is written in hiragana (たえ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (多恵), it could possibly mean "many, much" (多) (ta) and "blessing" (恵) (e).
 * Tae's surname Yamada means "mountain" (山) (yama) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (da).
 * Up to the third episode, Tae's voice actress was credited as "???"
 * Tae is the only member of Franchouchou who hasn't done any lead songs as she's unable to properly speak.
 * Tae's hair resembles a squid, which is fitting as her favorite food is squid.
 * In Episode 9, Tae chews on Maria's Odango Hair.
 * The former's voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi's breakout role was Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon, who actually wore buns in both her civilian and Sailor guise.
 * Along with Yūgiri, Tae is the only zombie who's cause of death hasn't been revealed yet.
 * By actual age at death, Tae is the oldest of the girls as she died at the age of 29.
 * Tae's Outfit if we take her name to translate as Blessing of the Mountain, closely resembles Buddhist Motsuke Koromo style robes
 * Tae is one of three with most curvaceous figures in group. Sharing same cup size and body type with Sakura Minamoto and beaten only by Yugiri.

Gallery
Image gallery


 * -|Anime=

Anime
 zls_bd_3.jpg fukagawa_12292018.jpg Busty zombies.jpg|Tae and Sakura in bikinis have very similar well-endowed figures. EYXpuoxVAAAy7lB.jpg EZK8qtwUMAECzID.jpg
 * -|Manga=