Saga Prefecture

"“I know Saga from top to bottom, everything there is to know.”"

The Saga Prefecture (佐賀 ​​県 Saga-ken) is located on the north side of Kyushu Island, Japan. The prefecture is the main setting for the events of the Zombie Land Saga anime series.

Geography
Saga Prefecture is located in the western and western part of Japan, and in the northern and western part of Kyushu. Both population and area are the smallest among the seven Kyushu prefectures, with both population and area ranking 42nd among all prefectures. However, the population density is 16th among all prefectures, which is average, and the third highest in Kyushu.

Due to the historical background that the prefecture was divided into the Saga domain and the Karatsu domain, the two divisions are best divided into the northern part (northwestern part) centered on the city of Karatsu and the southern part (southeastern part) centered in the city of Saga.

Cities

 * Imari
 * Kanzaki
 * Karatsu
 * Kashima
 * Ogi
 * Saga City (capital)
 * Takeo
 * Taku
 * Tosu
 * Ureshino

1870-1883
During the Bakumatsu, Saga was westernized faster than other places in Japan so it was a key place during the reform, but the samurai revolts in 1874 and the defeats of the wars, its glory remained in the past, by 1876 the Saga prefecture had been divided between Mizuma and Nagasaki which completely erased it from the map.

However, a boy named Kiichi Momozaki managed after 2 years to revive the old prefecture and create a new Saga that would prosper in the future.

2018-2020
During this time, Saga suffers a constant depopulation and threatens to be depopulated, so Kotaro Tatsumi gathers a group of zombie girls to bring attention to Saga again and prevent the prefecture from being forgotten and that Saga's curse prevents it from prefecture disappears from people's minds.

Saga curse
Saga prefecture suffers from a millennial curse that was born when seeking immortality, this curse is possibly the fault of Xu Fu, sent to Mount Penglai to bring the elixir of immortality by the magician Anqi Sheng. Saga's curse prevents the prefecture from being recognized from the outside and puts obstacles to anyone who wants the prefecture to be recognized, however this same curse will try to erase Saga from the map and from people's minds.

The curse is not only limited to preventing Saga from being recognized, but also targets the people who will make Saga a recognized place and kills them through rare accidents that no one would notice.

In episode 22 Xu mentioned that all the girls died from a curse.


 * In Saki's death, she is the leader of a bike gang that takes over Kyushu near Saga. Due to the popularity of her in the place, if she continued with the group quickly the name of Dorami would be associated with Saga, the target of the curse is her and she died in an accident.
 * In Lily's death, she is a popular actress in Saga. She makes Saga popular and known to her goes against the intentions of her curse, for which she killed her by growing a hair out of her and triggering her into cardiac arrest from stress.
 * In Ai's death, Iron Frill is a very popular group and Ai is its center, a living legend. Their concert at EEF will be one of the largest in the area. The curse killed her before the concert became a success. The curse killed her in a way that will leave a negative impact on the place.
 * With Junko's death, she already became popular and well-known, a living legend similar to Ai. Her when she went to Kyushu near Saga to bring popularity to the place. The curse stopped her immediately when the plane crashed.
 * In Tae's case, the curse is already stopping her to "save Saga" by spawning demons. The curse took the lead from her and killed her.
 * In Yugiri's case, she is also a living legend but not that popular, so the curse did not target her. Itou is the one who was sent to stop Saga's revolution, Itou was killed by Yugiri, therefore, she "saved Saga", which led to the curse opening a way to kill her.
 * Now it makes perfect sense why Sakura was the reason for Sakura's bad luck. It wasn't because SHE was unlucky herself, the curse of the Saga prevented her from succeeding and pursuing her dreams, since then she would have saved the entire Saga, and the universe set out to make sure that didn't happen. And after trying and failing several times to demotivate Sakura, only for her to still not give up, she finally decided that the only way to stop her would be to kill her. And when Sakura proved physically impossible to kill due to her being a zombie, the curse tried to kill her in an emotional sense by recreating the incident that killed her and gave her amnesia, leading to her losing memories of her time in Franchouchou. . get depressed again. and not wanting to continue. Although thanks to the efforts of her friends, Sakura was able to move on and finally regain her passion for being an idol as well as her memories. This explains the article Arata had in episode 6, about how the truck driver said that a mysterious light blinded him and "blinded" the truck down the street until he ran over Sakura.

The curse kills the people who are in Saga. Kill the people who have made or will make Saga popular and remembered. In the events of the anime, the curse is already marking them.


 * In S1Ep7: Lightning hit the stage but they survived and the concert was a success.
 * On S1Ep12: the storm ruined the stage but they continued to make the concert a success.

Now that the curse realizes that it cannot kill the dead, it will target the one who is Saving Saga and is still alive. The curse now targets Kotaro along with the girls. The curse already tried to kill Kotaro like attacking him near the sea and the huge object that fell into EEF, both survived. Now death will point to the Saga itself, creating the Sagapocalypse. In S2Ep1, Kotaro said "This is hell?" which can be interpreted as "Is this the curse that is trying to stop him?"

In the last two episodes, Kotaro will desperately try to keep the saga together so the girls can finally save Saga at the EFS concert.

Trivia

 * The title of the anime, Zombie Land Saga, refers to both the saga (story) of the pop idol group consisting of zombies as well the prefecture itself.
 * As such, every episode has the word “Saga” included somewhere in the title.
 * In real life, Xu Fu did come to Saga and found the elixir of immortality in one of the mountains in the prefecture.

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