Saki Nikaido

Saki Nikaido (二階堂サキ,) was a former biker who conquered the entire Kyushu (九州, Kyūshū) with her biker gang Dorami. She's currently the self-appointed leader of the idol group Franchouchou. She died in a game of Chicken against a rival Biker Gang driving over a cliff.

She is titled as the Legendary Kamikaze squad leader (伝説の特攻隊長, Densetsu no Tokkō Taichō)

Appearance
Saki has long blonde hair with orange and green highlights pulled into a high ponytail with bangs that are mostly swept to the left with a single orange highlight and orange eyes. Like the other zombies, Saki has blueish-grey skin and red eyes, along with scars on her left cheek, left arm and right leg, as well as bandages covering her torso, upper left arm, entire right arm and left leg. As a zombie, her hair is noticeably messier and duller in color. She lets her hair down while sleeping.

Her casual outfit consists of a maroon and white jacket over a white top and a navy blue knee-length skirt. She also wears her shirt with a red tie. To sleep, she wears a long-sleeved, oversize light blue top with orange pants. As an idol in episodes 1 to 6, Saki wears a golden top with the word "弐" ("two") written on it, along with an orange skirt with white frills. With the use of make-up, she and the other zombies manage to get their skin looking like that of a normal human. Saki, like the others in Franchouchou, also uses contacts to achieve the golden eye color she had as a member of the living.

Personality
As a former biker gang leader, Saki has a tough and rebellious attitude as she calls Sakura Minamoto a goody-two-shoes and outright stating that she has no respect for those who don't have guts. This also makes Saki very intimidating. However, after a successful performance, Saki begins to take being an idol very seriously and becomes leader of Franchouchou. In addition to this newfound seriousness, she can be mischievous and teasing as she warms up to her zombie friends. Saki also occasionally shows a soft side, as seen in episode 6 where she comforts Ai Mizuno and in episode 9 when seeing her old biker gang. She expresses her fondness of her Tamagotchi and going to Drive in Tori when she was alive. When threatening someone, either seriously or leisurely, she often follows up with saying, "I'll kill you".<!--

Episode 1
After their successful death metal performance in a death metal festival, all of the zombie girls regain their senses, she wakes up along with Yūgiri.

Episode 2
Saki doesn't like the idea of become an idol to save a city she doesn't really care about, and is more concerned about conquering Japan. Saki does end up agreeing to preform, and is impressed with how "alive" she looks with the help of makeup. She doesn't help with the performance, and like the others, lets Sakura go at it alone. However, she get distracted when Tae Yamada's head flies off. While showing it to the crowd, Sakura losses her temper at Saki for not even trying to protect their zombie identity. Sakura's outburst grows into a rap battle, where Saki is taken back by her words. After the concert, Saki comes up to Sakura telling her that she's gained her respect.

Episode 3
Lily Hoshikawa suggests that their idol group needs a leader and Saki steps up to the role.

Episode 4
Saki is being told that Kōtarō Tatsumi will be taking to the girls to a hot springs for budget negotiations, in which Saki is excited to be taken to a real bath, but Kōtarō forbids everyone from using them, which leaves her upset.

After the girl's sponsored performance, Saki decides to sneak into the bath against Kōtarō's instructions, taking the reluctant Sakura and the interested Junko Konno with her. Upon taking time to refresh, the girls ends up getting seen by their sponsored executive, where further chaos ensures as she tries leading the trio back to their rooms, to the point she ends up crashing into the frightened executive.

In the end, Saki is upset that the news broke out of their incident.

Episode 5
The group gets dragged into making a commercial for a restaurant that Saki was a big fan of when she was alive. After a success, they decided to participate in the Gatalympics, a sports competition Saki seems fairly fond of. However, all of them expect Kōtarō fail.

Episode 6
Saki tries her best as the group leader to comfort Ai and help her make up with Junko after their fight. When Ai goes off on her own after an argument regarding Junko and their upcoming performance, Saki starts searching for her and finds Ai scared at the sound of lighting. When taking shelter in a park, Saki talks to Ai on how while she doesn't get idols and fans, she knows how one needs guts and comrades when facing any problem. When Ai reveals how it was lighting that killed her, Saki is surprised and comments that such an event is legendary. Saki comforts Ai as she express both disdain over such a legend and resolve to face it.

Episode 9
Saki stops a public altercation between Franchouchou and the remnants of her former biker gang, Dorami, whose current leader, Maria Amabuki, is challenged by the rival gang Korosuke to a chicken race towards a cliff at Kagamiyama. Maria accepts the challenge in defiance of her mother, Saki's friend and former Dorami boss Reiko Kirishima, who retired from the gang for a normal married life following Saki's death during the same race in 1997. Saki takes Maria's place using Reiko's motorcycle, which she destroys in an explosion after jumping over the cliff a second time. After Saki returns unscathed, Reiko punches and scolds her for her recklessness, regaining Maria's respect. Saki and the rest of Franchouchou celebrate Reiko and Maria's reconciliation by performing an idol concert for both gangs.

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Trivia

 * Saki was revealed to be only 18 when she died in 1997.
 * Her first name, Saki, is written in katakana (サキ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (咲), it could possibly mean "bloom."
 * Her last name is a name of a clan of Japanese samurai that ruled the Iwase District of Mutsu Province during the Sengoku period during the Kamakura era. The founder was Nikaido Yukimasa and they lived in the Sukagawa Castle.
 * Saki died three months after her eighteenth birthday.
 * Saki sports probably most athletic figure in a group. Showing great agility several times during course of show.

Character concept
Although she was a young girl, she was designed to be "pretty". And unlike the usual outfit, I think one of Saki's charms is that he likes to wear things that are easy to wear. In the Saki era, there were no people with hair colors like this, but since it's an anime, they used the "fusion of modern and nostalgia."