Saki Nikaido/History

"There’s no way in hell I’m gonna die!"

- Saki to Reiko,

Chapter 11
She crashes her bike at high speed into Eikichi accidentally. Thinking that he is badly injured, she goes to help him until she hears him babble negative things against himself. Angered by Eikichi's indifference, she gives him a slap and an emotional speech so that he corrects himself and begins to decide if he does things for others or for himself. After beating him physically and emotionally, she leaves as Eikichi begins to reflect more on himself.

Episode 1
After their successful death metal performance at a death metal festival, all the zombie girls regain their senses, and she wakes up along with Yugiri.

Episode 2
Saki doesn't like the idea of ​​becoming an idol to save a city that doesn't really matter to her, and is more concerned with conquering Japan. Saki ends up accepting the preform and is impressed with how “alive” she looks thanks to makeup. She doesn't help with acting and, like the others, she lets Sakura do it alone. However, she is distracted as Tae's head flies away. While showing it to the crowd, Sakura loses her temper with Saki for not even trying to protect her zombie identity. Sakura's outburst turns into a rap battle, where Saki is retrieved for her words. After the concert, Saki approaches Sakura, saying that she has earned her respect.

Episode 3
Lily suggests that their idol group needs a leader, and Saki takes on the role in a somewhat aggressive way. She seems to be committed to taking Saga by being an idol and forming a new group to accompany her on her way. At the end of the episode, after the disastrous dance at Karatsu Station, she flees with the rest of the girls as she sees police officer A getting too close.

Episode 4
Saki is told that Kotaro will take the girls to the hot springs for budget negotiations, in which Saki is excited to be taken to a royal bath. But Kotaro prohibits everyone from using them, leaving her upset.

After the girl-sponsored performance, Saki decides to sneak into the bathroom against Kotaro's instructions, taking the reluctant Sakura and interested Junko Konno with her. Taking the time to cool off, the girls end up being seen by their sponsored executive, where further chaos ensues as she tries to lead the trio back to their rooms, to the point where she ends up colliding with the scared executive.

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

Episode 5
The group is dragged into making a commercial for a restaurant Saki was a fan of when she was alive. After a success, they decided to participate in the Gatalympics, a sports competition that Saki seems quite fond of. However, everyone expects Kotaro to fail.

Episode 6
Saki does her best as the group leader to comfort Ai and help her make up for Junko after their fight. When Ai leaves alone after a discussion about Junko and her next performance, Saki starts looking for her and finds Ai scared by the sound of the lighting. When taking refuge in a park, Saki talks to Ai about how, although she doesn't have idols and admirers, she knows how one needs guts and comrades to face any problem. When Ai reveals how the lighting killed her, Saki is shocked and comments that such an event is legendary. Saki comforts Ai as she expresses both disdain for such a legend and that they confront the problem together.

Episode 7
Without knowing how the Saga Rock duo will do, Saki is upset that she does not know how to convince Junko and Ai to reconcile, after asking her companions what they think, Sakura gets up to ask Kotaro what to do; however, she says it's useless since he won't help them at all. And she was right because he didn't do anything but yell at Sakura to fix it for herself.

In the training room, she tells Ai if it will be okay, she replies that yes, she had already done this type of training before, but Saki was referring to whether it would be okay to act outdoors.

Episode 8
At the beginning of the episode, Saki laughs at Lily's stature, calling her a shrimpy, to which Sakura replies that she is a shining star. Later, after a concert Franchouchou hands over autographed photos and signatures, a giant man appears and Saki says that he is a bill collector that Kotaro messed with, however, it was Lily's father who when recognizing or thinking that number # 6 is her daughter grabs her. Saki reacts immediately and jumps on the man, giving him a kick that leaves him on the ground.

After confronting the man and realizing that he was related to Lily, at the mansion, they discuss the risks of being discovered. After Sakura goes to talk to Lily in the courtyard, Saki laughs at her last name since it is very masculine, but ultimately, she ends up accepting her name.

At the end of the episode, she continues that they should not leave the poor man like this and is one of the supporters to write a song for Lily's father, Takeo.

Early Life
Saki was the captain of the Dorami special attack unit who conquered the Kyushu region through her tough and tough attitude. She was best friends with her partner Reiko Amabuki, who was also the boss of Dorami. After her regional conquest, Saki planned to spread beyond Kyushu and conquer all of Japan. Reiko, however, considered getting married and raising a family. Although Saki was initially disappointed that she considered a normal life, she rejected it by focusing on conquering the country. One night, Saki was challenged by rival biker gang Korosuke in Kagamiyama in a chicken game against a cliff. She died in the incident, but at least she won the game.

Present
Saki stops a public altercation between Franchouchou and the remains of her former motorcycle gang, Dorami, whose current leader, Maria Amabuki, is challenged by rival gang Korosuke to a chicken run to a cliff at Kagamiyama. Maria accepts the challenge by challenging her mother, Saki's friend and former Dorami boss Reiko, who retired from the gang for a normal married life after 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 for a second time. After Saki returns unharmed, Reiko punches and scolds her for her recklessness, regaining Maria's respect. Saki and the rest of Franchouchou celebrate the reconciliation of Reiko and Maria by performing an idol concert for both gangs.

Episode 10
Being excited to go to the mountain, she interacts with the group and even annoys Lily a bit. When Sakura loses her mind to the boar, she goes after the head.

Episode 11
After Sakura's memory loss, she is visibly worried about her staying in Franchouchou, since she is the glue that holds them together. At night, she pretends to go to wash her, but it is, in fact, to go for Sakura and try to convince her to come back, being useless because she is indifferent, so she goes to cry in bed while cursing.

Episode 12
Still worried about Sakura, Saki and the other girls try to cheer up Sakura unsuccessfully, in the end, Tae takes Sakura out of the attic and takes her to the training room where the girls give a speech about why Sakura is a fundamental part of the group, only for Sakura to reply that she doesn't care, taking the slap from her afterlife.

After the first song on Arpino, the group and Saki are happy that Sakura finally remembered who she was.

Fierce Fighting Training
Kotaro leaves the girls in Imari city to walk and entertain themselves while he goes to do business. Saki happens to go into a ramen shop to eat, to which Sakura reminds her of Kotaro's warning, and Lily says that they just shouldn't interact with fans.

Nostalgic Roman Edition
Together with Franchouchou and the other girls, they go to Yoshinogari, but even without knowing the purpose of the trip, they are a bit puzzled. But without being able to ask Kotaro about his aggressive attitude, they restrict themselves to following his orders. However, the girls are distracted when they see that the park has many places where they can relax while they search for Saga's secret. Little by little the girls become distracted by the attractions and Saki enters with Lily, Ai, and Yugiri in an old-fashioned fire-lighting competition. But due to their little experience, they only manage to get a little smoke out. Yugiri instead manages to light the fire. Tae shows Saki what she did with Sakura. However, Kotaro is angry that the girls are not taking seriously the job he gave them, and Saki annoys him by establishing her dominance over Saga on a hill.

Now, with Kotaro depressed, the girls continue with their activities; Saki tries on Yayoi-era clothes together with Yugiri and Lily. Sakura notices Kotaro's attitude in those moments and wonders what he's happening to him because it's not his normal attitude, but Saki says it's only temporary.

With Saki and Tae together doing one of her biker poses, they realize what is happening upstairs, and she decides to help, but she is overtaken by Tae and manages to save them both. With Sakura crying because she just saved them from being discovered she hugs Tae, Sakura decides to help Kotaro with his problem of finding Saga's secret by getting engaged to the other girls.

With their attention now, Franchouchou decides to discuss the experiences they have had until Yoshinogari's trip. It is where Kotaro realizes that the secret he was looking for is the team experiences and the entire journey that has taken them there. Finally satisfied with the answer, he decides to take more into account the opinion of the girls and not get carried away so much by himself.

In the mansion, they continue training for a concert during the night. At the end of the practice Saki decides to cook something for themselves, and it is almost New Year, so she prepares a Saga soup arguing that Kotaro does not know how to cook, and they eat it while they talk about their experiences like Franchouchou. It's New Year's Eve, the girls wake up hungry and Junko, Ai, and Sakura discuss their experiences with Police Officer A. Following several panels on how to make a new soup, the girls decide to eat it, but Tae chokes and Sakura goes to help her (even though they are already dead), but accidentally, she hits Kotaro with what Tae spat; however, he only screams them a little and gives them more food for the new year, leaving only crumbs.

The Future Development of Saga
Kotaro takes Franchouchou to a restaurant to prepare a meal that an old man from Saga taught him and at the same time learn how to make it. Overall, it turned out quite well and the owners congratulate the girls. At the mansion, and with their new food on the table, they decide to go practice their new song.

Now, Franchouchou is preparing for a big concert, while Kotaro watches and decides that now they will stop being idols to participate in a restaurant to promote themselves through food. Now the girls will have a judge with a bird costume, and it will be the one who decides which of the girls will prepare the best meal to win. Saki is frustrated because she cannot cook well and tries to hit the pet, but he defends himself by throwing her through the air. At the end of the contest, the girls unite and win. Later, Kotaro checks social media to see Franchouchou's performance.

In the training room, the girls discuss the concerts and the places where Kotaro has taken them, they decide to thank the busy manager and leave the mansion, leaving a note in the room for Kotaro to read when he arrives. As Kotaro searches for Franchouchou throughout the Saga, the group tours various locations in Karatsu as they discuss the upcoming EFS performance and how that will be their big leap. When Kotaro arrives, they all decide to do their best for the big concert and make the name of the group great.

Episode 13
Franchouchou was at the height of their glory after the concert in Arpino in December 2018. However, their concert, in March 2019, at the EFS is a disaster that gathers only 500 spectators out of 30,000 potential. Therefore, the group is in debt after this event.

To pay off this debt, Saki works on construction sites, the Franchouchou girls all work on her side, and they begin to hope that they will be able to pay off their debt faster than expected thanks to her efforts.

However, without their producer, Kotaro Tatsumi, who is depressed and spends his days drinking since the failure of the concert at the EFS, business for Franchouchou is likely to go awry. Saki and the girls wonder how to make Kotaro go back to how he was before. Therefore, Lily suggests going searching his room for clues that will allow them to understand why their producer seems so pressed for time and that would also explain why he absolutely wanted Franchouchou to organize a concert at the EFS so Quick. However, they will find nothing in his room, besides a recording of the prototype of their new song, which shows how passionate Kotaro is about what he does. Sakura will do her best to bring Kotaro back to their next concert at Geils Hall, but eventually, the girls will have to perform without Kotaro. The concert in Geils is going awfully, the public dislikes Franchouchou, and Saki spends her time responding to provocations.

Kotaro finally bursts in during the concert and will encourage the girls to sing their new song, REVENGE. The audience starts fighting each other because Kotaro and Saki want to go and hit one or two, however, Kotaro reminds her that their goal as idols is to sing.

The next day, Saki waits in the basement of the mansion with the girls, discussing the concert that was possibly the worst in their history. Sakura, with her legendary bad luck, believing that she is guilty of this failed job, Saki immediately stops her and reminds her to stop being depressed. Kotaro bursts into the basement and Saki seems happy to find the producer who has returned to being himself.

Episode 14
Franchouchou is back! The girls are training again to become the biggest idols in Saga! Saki, more motivated than ever, leads the other girls in her legendary training. Kotaro then summons the girls to the basement, where he grants them a fake interview about their return to public life. Saki, annoyed by Kotaro's behavior, immediately stops him and reminds him that their month-long stoppage is his fault. To change the subject, he immediately announces that they are going to participate in a television program to announce their return to the public arena and thus reach a fairly large audience. The girls will visit and present the Yutoku-Inari temple in Kashima with the rocker and radio host, White Ryu. Saki is a huge fan of the latter, and therefore she is excited to spend the day with her longtime idol! On the same day, the girls from Franchouchou arrive at Yutoku-Inari and introduce themselves to the film crew of the show. Then White Ryu arrives, sitting on the hood of his car, driven by his assistant. Saki is awed by the old rocker with the Pompadour cut. Saki accompanies White Ryu throughout the day, who at one point during the visit wishes to free the gobies kept in the aquarium by an old woman, the latter will prefer to sell them miniatures of her gobies. The girls are quite taken aback by the scene, except for Saki and Ryu, who seem to be satisfied to have obtained these miniatures.

After visiting the temple, the film crew believes they have enough footage to show their show. However, for White Ryu, this is not enough. To end the visit in style, he must explore the back altar, the Myobu Shrine. Saki insists that the staff climb the steps to access the shrine, they accept the proposal and the group climbs. The effort is difficult for the living, and Ryu collapses on a bench once he arrives. Saki is thrilled to see her idol making such efforts to achieve his goal. The filming day ends and the show crew is quite satisfied with Franchouchou's performance as opposed to White Ryu's, whose director doesn't understand much of what he says. Saki gets angry hearing these words but is repressed by Sakura, Saki tells her that to understand Ryu's words, you should not use your ears but your heart! And that's why she escapes from the van to say goodbye to her longtime idol. She takes the opportunity to tell him that she will be listening to his show again and that she will catch up with the ones she missed, but White Ryu sadly announces that he will be leaving the show soon.

This sad news affects Saki a lot, Lily wonders if Saki was in love with this old rocker. Saki can't sleep, she is lost in thoughts of her. Sakura is worried about her friend, but Saki reassures her and tells her about her past as a criminal, that she fought against everyone and that she thought she was forever alone. But thanks to the show and White Ryu's words one night, she finally finds someone like her. That person is Reiko, with whom she will found the Dorami motorcycle gang. Ryu, therefore, is very important to Saki because she thinks it is thanks to him that she is no longer alone and lost in Saga. She, therefore, decides to flee the mansion with Sakura to find Ryu and persuade him to continue hosting the radio show. Sakura and Saki arrive at the recording studio on time, after pedaling hard. White Ryu welcomes Saki and Sakura carefree to his show. Saki begs him to continue hosting the show, a show that saved her in the past and may continue to save lost people like her in Saga. Ryu reminds her that the important thing is the show, not just him, and that he wanted to bequeath it to such a passionate person. This passionate person according to him is Saki, who agrees to repeat the show of her idol. After filming the show, Ryu and Saki say their goodbyes. Saki confesses her feelings to him, but he reminds her that it is not to him that she should direct this passion, but to those who are lost and to Saga. Saki and Sakura stop near a river and wait for the sun to rise. Saki is a little depressed to see her idol always leave, but Sakura reminds her that they will meet again one day, but when they become women, which will never happen, she reminds Saki because they are zombies. As she says these words, Saki breaks down in tears. She realizes that she will never grow back, and she will never be able to experience life experiences as an adult woman.

Sakura panicked at seeing her rebellious friend cry, she starts crying too! Therefore, Saki tries to comfort her, but Sakura cries so much that her body becomes completely dehydrated. In the distance, in the truck, Kotaro and the girls observe the scene and keep watch.

A few days later, Franchouchou performed again in the Geils hall and Saki took on the most famous title of White Ryu, “Do you hate windy days?” Franchouchou now presents the show Ryu, which is now experiencing new adventures toward new horizons.

Episode 15
When Kotaro Tatsumi barges in and starts blasting Franchouchou with a water gun, Saki rushes him but gets blasted off her feet herself. Kotaro then reveals their new gig opening for Iron Frill, but Saki is angered when he insists that Ai not perform for fear of her being recognized as Iron Frill's previous center performer; however, she's unable to do anything about it. Later, with the rest of Franchouchou, Saki starts training, testing unorthodox performance ideas in order to ensure they have “impact”.

Episode 16
With Ai Mizuno absent from the group, Saki steps up in an attempt to figure out unique performances with more “impact” in order to avoid bombing again like in EFS. She wasn't successful, but Junko Konno managed to come up with a plan and Saki followed along with Junko's idea during the performance, playing rock at first and electric after. When Iron Frill continued attempting to poach Ai, Saki glared at them. In the aftermath, Saki notes that they'll have to face Iron Frill one day.

Episode 17
Saki went along to watch Lily Hoshikawa's performance at the “Japanese Got Performance” show, but noted that Light Oozora was the clear favorite to win. During Kotaro Tatsumi's impersonation of a mudskipper, Saki commented that “you can't do that on TV”. During Lily's second performance, Saki cheered for her.

Episode 18
When Kotaro began berating Franchouchou for being in debt, Saki protested that they were in debt because of Kotaro himself, and yelled at him to stop acting like a kid when he pretended not to hear her. When Maria Amabuki nearly witnessed Tae Yamada with her head detached, Saki quickly grabbed ahold of her to prevent her from turning around to look, just long enough for Sakura to put her head back in place.

Episode 19
Kotaro brings out Maimai Yuzuriha's “corpse” before them, presented as the newest member of the group, and saying that they shouldn't let someone being dead bother them; Saki disagrees. However, the corpse starts to move and crashes right through the chairs next to Saki, and eventually turns out to be alive. Saki is impressed by how nonchalantly she takes realizing that they're all zombies, although quickly starts laughing at her when she joins Franchouchou and keeps falling. Later, when Kotaro agrees to allow them to perform at a local high school by making a goofy face, Saki tells him to cut it out and asks if he wants to die. She's quite supportive of Maimai, however, insisting that with enough practice she can succeed.

Saki is impressed by Maimai's game console because it has full color, but soon enough they end up performing at the high school and Saki announces Maimai as their new member. To everyone's surprise, Maimai immediately leaves the group and performs one last song together. Maimai then gives Saki her console as a gift, which Saki promises to take care of, inviting Maimai to rejoin them in case she ends up dead one day.

Episode 21
Saki has a brief cameo while she's preparing to perform, having lost her hat (which Tae Yamada appears to be chewing on). She goes out to perform with the rest of Franchouchou.

EFS disaster
The episode begins in the time before Franchouchou's first performance at the Ekimae Fudosan Stadium. After a recent and successful album, hopes are high, but Kotaro does his best by insisting that they perform at a 25,000-capacity stadium, EFS. While Ai Mizuno is skeptical, Kotaro insists that everyone in Franchouchou was once a legend (except Sakura) and that they can succeed. Afterward, most of Franchouchou have doubts about their chances, but Sakura convinces them to do their best. During the night, Saki goes to talk to Ai about the situation, since Ai died in that stadium more than 10 years ago while she was giving a concert with her group, Iron Frill. Junko overhears their conversation and, like Ai, she also has her doubts about the performance of the concert. The 3 decide to do the best they can to make their first concert with 25 thousand people a success.

On the eve of the performance, Kotaro reveals that he did not sell any tickets and that instead, sales are available only on the day of. Naturally, the crowd the next day is small, and the performance is terrible. Saki, as a leader, can only watch what they hoped for collapse in a single day. Indebted and dejected, Kotaro begins drinking for several weeks straight, leaving no food for the zombies (who need no sustenance in any case). However, Tae Yamada manages to put on makeup without Kotaro and goes out seeking for food. This inspires the other zombie to “live” without Kotaro and to make themselves, Saki decides to work in construction due to her physical strength.

Present
Kotaro is taking EFS's upcoming concert (scheduled for the anniversary of the ruinous first attempt) very seriously, investing in ad campaigns to drive sales, using merchandise sales as a predictor of audience attraction, and this time around, pre-sold tickets are accepted. He apologizes to Franchouchou for his personal failure last time, insisting that it will be different this year and giving a motivational speech ruined by a sneeze that makes Saki angry, just because it was anti-climactic.

Suddenly, a strange storm arrives. Franchouchou notices it and worries about Kotaro. Saki says that tomorrow they will start their revenge for the 1st anniversary of the group's failure.

Episode 23
The girls wake up in the middle of the sea, realizing that their mansion is adrift due to a storm. Saki jokes with Lily about filming a TV show with the girls being shipwrecked due to the situation. Arriving at the coast, Saki tries to remove the rest of the things from the house, but before she can do anything the mansion collapses, destroying their instruments, clothes, and makeup. Now homeless, Franchouchou helps people in the Kation's shelter by entertaining them with songs. Saki for her part, working in a construction company, helps with heavy materials and clearing the area around.

Days go by, and the makeup is falling apart, so they must use masks to avoid being exposed. Junko has the idea of ​​making clay masks to cover their faces that night, an idea that literally breaks when they try to do a concert with them. Saki tries to tell the truth, that they are zombies, but the children in their innocence assure that they are not zombies, they are Franchouchou.

Kotaro arrives later to talk to the girls and is greeted by Saki violently asking where he has been all those days. Finally made up, he says goodbye to them until the concert on March 8.

Episode 24
A few weeks before the revenge concert, the girls find themselves taking a bath in a barrel since they have nowhere else to bathe. As they talk, Saki remembers that they worked on the radio on Fridays but since the storm, they have not been able to go to the station. Sakura tells her that it is Friday and asks why so much desire to go to the radio, Saki insists that if they leave going to the radio, Saga will stop being Saga.

Unfortunately for her, it was not Friday, but Sunday, and the radio is now only broadcasting news of the flood. Saki tells Sakura that she is going to kill her for that mistake. The one who was responsible for the station lets them pass because, after all, no one has come for several days for the same reason. Speaking from the heart, Saki representing Franchouchou talks to the people of Saga about the tragedy they are currently experiencing, and how her group has been growing thanks to the support of the locals and their fans. With soul and heart moved, she gives her words of encouragement so that during the revenge concert everything goes well. One day before the concert, the girls cross Saga to reach the city of Tosu. On March 8th, the stadium is still empty and for a moment Saki remembers that they are bad for the dates, just minutes later hordes of people arrive in Saga to support the Franchouchou charity concert, attracting the attention of Japan and many countries that will provide aid to the prefecture of Saga.

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