Lily Hoshikawa/History

When she was alive, Lily was very close to her father, who raised her alone. Since her father loved watching television, Lily decided to become an actress in hopes of making him happy by appearing on television. Her father was very proud of his daughter's success, but sadly, their relationship became strained when he began to pay more attention to her career. After returning as a zombie and meeting her father again, Lily realizes how deeply she regrets what happened to him and forgives him. Although he cannot tell her that she is his daughter, she writes a song to express how happy she was that her father was.

Lily Hoshikawa was a breakout star in a long-running drama show and a famous actress who starred in multiple primetime shows of multiple networks

Early Life
Lily's mother passed away when she was young and she lived a peaceful life with her father Takeo Go. She later took up acting roles with Takeo as her manager. She became renowned for her cute persona, appearing in many series and shows. Sometime between Lily's birth and before taking up acting she began identifying as a girl. Her birth name was "Masao Go."

Over the course of her acting career, Lily was overworked numerous amount of times by Takeo, who had now become too attached in career management and neglected Lily's feelings. As his ignorance continued, their relationship soon rifted apart as Lily began to shut herself away from Takeo for ignoring her. She later expressed worry she was going to be an adult. While keeping herself away, she looked into a mirror and --- to her shock --- sees facial hair growing on her. The combined mental shock and exhaustion caused Lily to have a heart attack and died as a result. When Takeo found her body, he was riddled with grief as he became alone.

Scars
A representative of the cause of death of a heart attack / cardiac arrest. Lily is the only one of the other zombie girls with an exposed organ, that is her heart.

Her exposed heart and often rapid heartbeat represents her cause of death, meaning mental shock, which caused her death from heart attack /cardiac arrest.

Upon closer listening to Lily's heartbeat, it is observed clear evidence of sinus bradycardia, arrhythmia(irregular heartbeat), and unusual metallic noise. Their conclusion seem to be that Lily probably already had some sort of congenital organic cardiopathy (terrible heart since birth), her family probably knew about this and had mitral valve replacement for her (part of her heart was replaced with synthetic parts), but that didn't save her as more stress built up in her TV career; moments before her death, Lily's extreme emotion most likely led to a sudden increase of catecholamine in her blood stream and a excitatory sympathetic nervous system, which ultimately failed the synthetic replacement parts and led to sudden death due to extreme cardiogenic shock.

Death curiosities

 * All of these below are references to Lily's background and memory:
 * The shooting star at the end of the performance; Lily looking in the mirror (in case she saw facial hair) in episode 2 and happy to become a zombie; her strange reaction after being told that the girls are going to an onsen in episode 4; her interest in the heavy machinery magazine (pappy, her father, led her to see heavy machinery); her love of mayonnaise, tomato sauce, and mustard (all three sauces appeared on her plate with daddy); her dislike of Mozuku and Hijiki (similar to facial hair); her favorite color is yellow, the color of the little stars on her head (perhaps orange and red are her parents' favorite color?); the program is officially described as "... through age, gender, time period ..."; All of this information was revealed before episode 8 aired.
 * Episode 8 aired on November 22, 2018, which is Thanksgiving Day and one of only two double-tailed days in Japan, a day for Lily's hairstyle.
 * All the extremely disproportionate "daddy" figures appeared in Lily's memory, especially in the scenes of eating, watching television and going to the park; Anyone can tell they are disproportionate, but they weren't meant to be accurate in the first place, they were the exaggerated "pappy" figure in Lily's eyes.
 * After Lily's death, in Episode 8 3:42 PM, we see Pappy put the picture of Lily in the center of the house altar, and Lily's mother on the left; Having lost her sense of life, Pappy has already cleared the right side for her photo.
 * Masao (ま さ お) ≈ まっさお ("gray-ish blue") ≈ "zombie", and Lily (リリ) ≈ リリ ー ("Lily" the plant) ≈ symbol of pure / living human; so basically Kotaro told the girls "The rest of you are Masao ('zombies'), and I'm Lily ('living human')" in episode 8; on the other hand, Masao "正 男" literally means "the just man" or "the just son", exactly the opposite of the typical names for girls; (note that some argue that the correct kanji should be "正雄" instead of "正男", but that does not change its literal meaning in this context). after the concert, Lily is no longer the "zombie TV star "for pappy, but an independent girl pursuing her own dream.
 * In the final concert, Lily intentionally omitted all objects in her sentences; Similar to how the English word "you" can be singular and plural, while appearing to have spoken to everyone in the audience, Lily directed her feelings to Pappy alone.
 * Lily had four stars on her head:
 * the largest orange star represents pappy; the second largest red star represents its mother; the little yellow star that hides behind the big orange represents Lily's role as Masao (the accommodating son behind daddy's back); the small yellow star between orange and red represents Lily herself; Lily kept the four stars on her head until she saw Pappy come to her concert at the last moment, then removed the star from Masao (you could still see it at 19:16, it was removed at 19:30).

Post death
Sometime in the future, Lily's body was found by Kotaro Tatsumi and revived her as a zombie to become part of his zombie idol project. Her zombification made her into an eternally young girl and Kotaro used her stage name to cover her real identity. From this point onward, she uses Lily Hoshikawa as her preferred name.

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 Ai Mizuno and Junko Konno but was frightened upon seeing Tae Yamada's primal nature.

Episode 2
With Lily's senses restored, she can now think and act freely like a normal human. However, she lounges back doing nothing like the rest of the girls, while Sakura Minamoto remains proactive with Kōtarō Tatsumi. Nevertheless, when the girls are later given a performance opportunity at the Saga Castle, they try to follow Kōtarō's performance instructions, even though Tae Yamada almost compromises the all of girls' human disguises. As Sakura tries to keep everything under control, Saki pushes Sakura aside and mocks everyone in the audience with Tae's head. Sakura eventually snaps and knocks Tae's head away, then verbally fights Saki in a rap battle. Lily and Yūgiri join alongside the fight as background rappers to appeal to everyone in the audience and intuitively make the performance a success.

Episode 3
Before training to meet with Kōtarō Tatsumi's expectations, Lily suggested that they should elect a leader among them, where Saki Nikaidō stands up to elect herself as the leader. Secondly, Lily says they should come up with a new group name as she feels that Kōtarō's provided ones are too bland. She insists on a cute name, but the rest don't feel comfortable with that. Just then, Tae Yamada sneezes and interrupts everyone. The sneeze inspires Lily and she comes up with an original name: "Franchouchou." Everyone agrees with her idea and so they've decided to be called Franchouchou.

Episode 4
While Kotaro presents her collaboration with the Hotel Kasuien and the hot springs, Lily is surprisingly unnoticed by the viewer, since she did not like the hot springs for personal reasons, in ureshino, Lily accompanies Yugiri through the city and visit several temples and tourist places, at night when Sakura scares the pharmacist lady she accidentally surprises her in the style of the glow

Episode 5
During the morning presentation on Drive in tori, she mentions that she does not know the place, although she is from Saga, arriving at the place she is excited by the taste of chicken and at the time of the commercial she follows the letters without any problem.

Episode 6
In the next half of the chapter she mentions how ugly the Kotaro shirt made for Franchouchou, although she participates in the Gatalympics she does not manage to win the necessary position to be on the podium

While Ai is on Kotaro's computer it is implied that she knows quite a bit about show business, she also participates in the indoor concert and taking photos with fans (in addition to taking photos), after Ai and Junko's fight, she makes nervous about the future of the group

Episode 7
Concerned about Junko and about Saga Rock, she gives several ideas on how they can solve the problem, but does nothing, Yugiri mentions how mature Lily is in secret.

She participates in the training in an energetic way for the open-air concert, on the verge of leaving the mansion, Kotaro runs over Junko and after saying that she will go, Lily proceeds to hug them as they can now participate in the normal way.

Before the concert, she almost reveals her zombie nature by her outstanding heart.

Episode 8
As Franchouchou enjoy a string of new gigs and events, a large man named Takeo Gō comes to one of their events after noticing something familiar about child star named Lily Hoshikawa. Lily then explains to Sakura Minamoto that the man was her father, further revealing that she was a boy named Masao Go. She died from the shock of growing facial hair, made worse by many months of overwork. Realizing how much Takeo cared for Lily, Franchouchou invites him to a concert where Lily performs a special song to give him a proper goodbye.

Episode 9
When Kotaro sends them with the elders, Lily is surprised by the kashima dance and proceeds to follow the dance, when Maria arrives to challenge Sakura she just doesn't do anything and encourages Tae to bite Maria's hair. In Kotaro's truck she starts fighting with Tae for the squid that she stole from him.

Episode 10
Happy that now her father comes to the concerts, Lily feels better and after Kotaro sends them to the mountains, where we are implied that Lily participated in a survival television series.

Episode 11
In the beginning of the episode, Sakura accidentally hits her lower part making her scream, but when Sakura does not respond she becomes sad because she does not recognize her, she tries to make Sakura return to normal, being useless because Sakura is indifferent makes her cry

Episode 12
After the previous episode, she tries to get Sakura back to normal by supporting her.

After Sakura recovers her memories, they can finally continue singing, the journalist recognizes her in the final moments of the episode.

Second season
Lily Hoshikawa/Sipnosis