Saki Nikaido

"There’s nothing legendary about throwing your whole life away, I’ve found something way more badass to work towards. I’m here to show you a taste of what it means to be a REAL legend!"

Saki Nikaido (二階堂サキ,) was a motorcyclist in life who together with her Dorami gang conquered the entire island of Kyushu (九州 Kyūshū). She is currently the leader of Franchouchou.

She is titled as The Legendary Chief Biker (Densetsu no Tokkō Taichō).

She was the captain of the Dorami Special Strike Unit, the legendary motorcycle gang team that conquered Kyuushu in the 1990s. As a resident of Saga, she speaks the Saga dialect and has a good knowledge of local businesses. She has a good command of kanji, so much so that she likes to write everything she hears in kanji.

Saki Nikaido
A delinquent who respects herself and threatens others: "Do you want to die?", But will immediately respect anyone with guts. In life she was obsessed with her Tamagotchi, but they always turned out to be an Oyajitchi (One of the ugliest pets).

In life, she used to hang out with her gang at "Drive-in Tori", a popular chicken restaurant, and grew up watching the Kashima Gatalympics. No wonder she was in tears when she learns that Franchouchou is scheduled to act in a commercial for the first, and later participating in the second.

Sakura outplayed her in an impromptu rap battle, earning her Saki's respect. Before that, Saki spent most of the episode antagonizing Sakura or treating her like an easy target.

Her modus operandi, even in life, was an unfettered thrill seeker who often sought out challenges, and one of those even cost her her life. She never loses this trait as a zombie and repeats the same trick she did previously, only this time she survives

She is the only one who has no experience in singing, dancing or any form of entertainment. Nonetheless, she introduces herself as an idol quite easily, keeping up vocally well and still not showing the same level of difficulty coordinating dance with the group that Lily or Junko have at different points.

Human appearance
Saki has long blonde hair with orange and green highlights tucked into a high ponytail. Her bangs are mostly swept to the left with a single orange highlight.

Her casual outfit consists of a brown and white jacket over a white blouse and a blue knee skirt. She also wears her shirt with a red tie

Zombie appearance
Like the other zombies, Saki has grayish blue skin and red eyes, along with scars on her left cheek, left arm, and right leg, as well as bandages that cover her torso, upper left arm, right arm, and left leg. As a zombie, her hair is noticeably messier and duller in color. She lets go of her hair while she sleeps.

To sleep, wear an oversized, long-sleeved shirt in light blue with orange pants.



Idol appearance
Her idol outfit changes throughout the series: On episodes 1-6, Saki wears a gold T-shirt with the word "弐" ("two") written on it, along with an orange skirt with white ruffles. Using makeup, she and the other zombies make their skin look like a normal human. Saki also wears contact lenses to achieve her golden eyes that she had as a living person.

After Saga rock, her idol outfit changed to a red jacket with a plaid decoration, orange skirt is orange with cotton inside it and knee-high boots

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."

Personality
Saki has a tough and rebellious demeanor, qualifying Sakura as a brat and openly declaring that she has no respect for those who have no guts. However, after a successful performance, Saki takes being an idol very seriously and becomes the leader of Franchouchou. Saki also occasionally shows a soft side, as seen on episode 6, where she comforts Ai.

She is certainly impetuous and courageous, but this trait of hers ended up being her fatal flaw, because she was so determined to win the chicken game against the rival gang that she kept speeding up and fatally crashed. She gets a second chance as a zombie and does the exact same thing again. She survives this time thanks to her undead nature, even though there was no guarantee that she would have survived the accident intact enough to continue functioning.

Despite being a rude criminal with the purpose of taking over the country, she shows great kindness towards children and awareness of social norms, knowing full well that her harsh and violent attitude towards her gang will not work for her to be the idol group.

Normally, she is just as upset with Kotaro as the rest of the girls, and she didn't hesitate to look down on them. On episode 5, she becomes much nicer to him when she discovers that he has booked appearances for them in Drive-In Tori and Gatalympics, engaging in a ham-to-ham match with him for their shared enthusiasm.

Sakura Minamoto
Since it was shown that she was someone to respect in the rap battle, she has recognized her as a partner and she appreciate her as a partner who will take her to the top idol, When Sakura, who had regained her memory, and did not want to return to Franchouchou she used physical violence to bring her to her senses but when she saw that it did not work, she cried of impotence.

In the last episode, when she saw the mirror break in front of Sakura, she hit it until it totally broke everything so that Sakura would not be overwhelmed by her bad luck.

Ai Mizuno
In the sixth episode, it was Saki who was next to when Ai was shaking as she remembered her death, and after that, she understood her determination to go back to being an idol. Since then, Saki has grown up as an idol and has managed to get along better with the other girls.

Junko Konno
Junko followed Saki's plan to go to the hot springs and it looked like she had no regrets about it even after almost being discovered.

Yugiri
She seems to have a lot of experience in life, and shows a longing for her by calling her "Yugiri-san", perhaps because she had been looking at her from the beginning.

Lily Hoshikawa
She calls her "shirimpy" because of her size (although Saki is the second smallest of the group) which bothers her a lot, she was the first to declare that she would treat her like a girl, even though she laughed a lot in the great incident from episode 8. On top of that, there are also scenes where the two of them are talking happily for some reason.

Tae Yamada
Because of their irresponsibility with Tae's head they were almost discovered in the rap battle

Kotaro Tatsumi
Although he was teased by him in the first episodes, it is progressively shown how both are changing their relationship to the point of taking Kotaro's warnings seriously

Reiko Amabuki
Saki's best friend and Dorami's leader, she was entrusted with the "Tamagotchi" that she had attached to her motorcycle key, and it had become a remember of her death. Now, she has fulfilled her dream of having a normal family from a normal family environment, but her daughter, María, who is now a rebel who has no respect for her, but after the incident with Saki, she managed to reconcile with her daughter.

Maria Amabuki
Reiko's daughter grew up with her greatest affection, but at some point she learned of Reiko's past and her mother's old surname Kirishima as the eighth leader of Dorami.

However, unlike Reiko, who seems to have the same ability as Saki, Saki has perceived that Maria in fighting is weak, and is not really fit to be in a gang, Saki, seeing that she will do the same trick as her. mato is going to prevent that from happening by saving Maria

Etymology

 * 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 Nikaido 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.

Trivia

 * Contrary and almost ironically, Saki is one of the most educated (if not the only one) because she has an excellent command of kanji; something that is only seen in senior years. (She was probably part of a kanji-writing art club at some point in high school)
 * Her age chronologically is 39 years.
 * Saki was revealed to be only 18 when she died in 1997.
 * 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.


 * At the end of the episode 9, Saki wore "Captain-for-a-day" ("1日特工队长") which hinted "旧特工队长" (ex-captain)
 * "1日" = one day
 * "旧" = old; past; ex

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