Yugiri/History

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

Episode 2
After coming back to her senses, Yugiri spends most of her time smoking in addition to training with Kotaro. However, she still participates in the group's first real performance at the Saga Castle. As Sakura and Saki verbally fight each other on stage, Yugiri and Lily team up for backup, turning it creatively into a rap battle. The performance was successful, and the girls receive a standing ovation from the audience.

Episode 3
Before meeting Kotaro's hasty expectations, Lily suggests that the group present an original group name, as she feels that the ones provided by Kotaro are too bland. Yugiri suggests a complicated, traditional name, but it was denied. When Tae sneezes while rambling, Lily appears with an inspired and original group name. Yugiri and the rest of the girls agree, and that is why they have decided to call themselves “Franchouchou”.

The girls then train overnight to prepare for their public flash performance, though it ended bittersweet for everyone.

Episode 4
Arriving in Ureshino, Yugiri is accompanied by Lily. She wants to see what a modern city is like, since she has been dead for more than 150 years; she along with the other girls enjoy her stay in Ureshino. At the time of the hot springs standing up, she says that it is the first time she has gone out with friends for a walk and says that she wants to please the guests at night, to which Sakura tells her not to say such things. In the hotel, the bandages that were given to them are tested, taking on greater flexibility, and now they can give a better concert.

Later, when Sakura scares the owner of the pharmacy, she scares her even more when she mistakes her for a customer and turns her head, revealing her zombie form.

Episode 5
When Kotaro tells the girls that they are going to Drive in Tori, Yugiri doesn't know what it is. However, at the restaurant, she seems to enjoy the food together with the other girls, and she even pouts when Kotaro scolds them. In the filming of the commercial, she says that she would like to have a chicken suit when she was working.

In the Gatalympics, she tries to cheer on Junko or is simply confused because Junko does not seem excited and touches her back. In the Gatalympics, she demonstrates her skills in the rope test by getting a good score for her performance. However, she should jump in and not do something scenic. When Tae jumps up and loses her body parts, she looks visibly scared of being discovered and runs to accommodate Tae's body.

Episode 6
In episode 6, Yugiri is seen in a very sexy way when taking pictures with fans, but she is surprised by what is happening with Junko turning her face. Yugiri cannot continue long and has no idea what is happening, but she still does things without complaining. This shows how mature she is. Also tries to help Ai and Junko to recover after their fight together with Saki and Lily.

While all the zombies are out of their point in time, Yugiri is the most egregious example, being the oldest of the seven, having been revived from the period of the Meiji Restoration. She basically exposes how she deals with the situation in Episode 6, explaining that being confused about what's going on wouldn't be helpful, so she decided to accept things as they come. When Ai leaves after making Lily cry, she just says that many fights start because both sides were right at one point but never managed to agree with each other. This being a nod to what happened in her time.

Episode 7
In episode 7, Saki asks what they should do something to bring back Junko, Yugiri says they should wait and emphasizes Lily's maturity with an answer she gave. When Junko finally decides to go and is run over by Kotaro, runs to hug her, showing that she cares for the group as it is. In Saga Rock, she manages to have a good performance together with the rest of the group and become known.

Episode 8
Being surprised by Takeo, Yugiri stays with Lily outside the room where he is being interrogated to find out why he touched Lily. Realizing that he was her father, she is surprised along with the rest of the girls. At the mansion, she mentions how dangerous it is to work when they're exposed to the world, implying that she knows the risks. After Lily tells them her true identity, she only says that it was a surprise, but she decides to accept her into the group regardless of her condition.

Episode 9
Appearing at the beginning of episode 9, her only relevant action is in the truck because when Junko feels dizzy, she tries to use one of her techniques to calm her down; however, Sakura reminds them that they are dead.

Episode 10
Kotaro decides that the girls will now appear in Arpino. Surprised, Yugiri knows that Kotaro plans something. The next day he sends them to Mount Tenzan where they must relax and not practice so that everything goes well in Arpino. The girls decide to take different roles, and Yugiri goes by fungus. When talking to Sakura, she realizes what Kotaro was planning and his relationship with Sakura.

When Sakura is eaten by a wild boar, she says that the Sonno Joi taught her something about playing dead, but they are already dead. In the evening, after returning to the mansion, she decides to go out to talk to Kotaro and tells him that he is very nice to Sakura, implying that she knows that there is something between the two of them. At the end of the episode, she tells Kotaro that what he was planning works, to which Kotaro tells her that he doesn't know what she's talking about.

Episode 11
After Sakura wakes up to find herself surrounded by zombies, she asks to slap her back to her normal self, but Tae knocks Sakura unconscious soon after. It doesn't become relevant again until the girls, trying to get Sakura out of the attic, just come downstairs crying, so she decides to do it herself. She dresses up in all her Oiran attire, but when she tries to snap Sakura out of her depression, she is shocked to see that she is no longer in the mansion.

Episode 12
With Sakura still refusing to go to Arpino and attacking Tae in her attempts to cheer her up, the other girls seem worried about Sakura's attitude. When Tae breaks into the attic where Sakura locked herself up, Tae breaks her out to the training room, where she tries to inspire Sakura to be an idol again, but Sakura is still reluctant to change. At that moment, although she can contain his anger while maintaining her composure, she slaps Sakura with her hand and tells her that they are going to Arpino. Whether she wants it or not.

In Arpino, she tries to make sure Sakura is okay and encourages her by winking at her when the stage is about to fall.

Fierce Fighting Training
Kotaro leaves the girls in Imari city to walk and entertain themselves while he goes to do business, the girls happen to enter a ramen restaurant following Kotaro's warnings.

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 Yugiri enters with Lily, Ai, and Saki in an old-fashioned fire-lighting competition. But because of their little experience, they only manage to get a little smoke out. Yugiri instead manages to light the fire effortlessly, presumably thanks to Oiran's abilities from her. 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 over a hill. Now, with Kotaro depressed, the girls continue with their activities; Yugiri tries on Yayoi-era clothes together with Lily and Saki.

After Tae rescues Kotaro and Sakura from a fall, the girls finally have their attention. 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 led 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 they decide to cook something for them since it is almost the new year. They prepare a Saga soup and eat it while they talk about their experiences as 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 prepare a new soup, the girls decide to eat it, but Tae chokes and Sakura she goes to help her (even though they are already dead), but accidentally, she hits Kotaro with what Tae spat; however, he only screams 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 prepares the best meal to win. At the end of the contest, the girls unite and win. 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 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
Now and with the girls' debt, Yugiri got a job as a bartender in a small bar in Saga, where her most frequent client is Policeman A. The same one who tried twice to shoot Sakura before in the first season.

In the mansion again and together with the other girls, they discuss about Kotaro and how to bring him back until Ai says that there is something that he did not tell them and that he was rushing, so they decide to enter Kotaro's room, but they only find his recording from a month ago. Back at Yugiri's bar, she attends to the Policeman and tells him to continue taking care of Saga, to which he happily replies that he will come to see her at night. She is interrupted by a drunk Kotaro who entered the wrong bar, he quickly leaves when he sees Yugiri. Yugiri follows him outside the bar, where she finds him vomiting and saying that he was wrong, completely falling apart.

Later in the training room, it is mentioned that Yugiri told the other girls about how Kotaro was and although Sakura tells them that she is going to bring him back, she fails completely and in the end, they decide to go without him.

Now, without the help of Kotaro, they decide to go to GEILS and do the presentation alone, but their concert is received with boos from the public and when they are about to leave Kotaro arrives unexpected and encourages them, which generates a fight for his interference and fuss, the girls sing the new song “REVENGE” and manage to have a bit of success afterward.

Finally, at the mansion, she is surprised to see the new Kotaro refreshed and ready to continue the zombie idol project.

Episode 14
Franchouchou is in the morning meetings together with Kotaro, who plays a TV presenter and annoys the girls. When he gets serious and says that they are going to spend the day with White Ryu is when Saki gets excited and screams with excitement.

Then they ask Ryu a few questions and follow him around the shopping area. Almost at the end of the program, Ryu says that he wants to climb the hill to reach the top of the sanctuary, and although he arrives tired due to his age, they succeed. In the mansion the girls discuss about love and how it is taboo for idols, Junko blushes when Ai tells her that idols had hidden crushes in her time and Sakura gets jealous because she does not deny having had a relationship in life.

Finally, Franchouchou present in the death metal of GEILS with a new version of White Ryu's song.

Episode 15
Yugiri trains with the rest of Franchouchou preparing for their opening at Saga Arena, but otherwise does not speak during this episode.

Episode 16
Yugiri makes dinner for Franchouchou and lunch for Ai Mizuno, and later has makeup applied to her, preparing for their performance at Saga Arena. She compliments Kotaro Tatsumi's skills with cosmetics, and then performs with the rest of Franchouchou. Although she glares at Iron Frill with the rest of her compatriots when Shiori keeps trying to poach Ai Mizuno from them, she later acknowledges their skill in the last moments of the episode.

Episode 17
After noticing that Lily Hoshikawa had a great deal of thought on her mind, Yugiri waits for Kotaro Tatsumi to brief them, only for Lily to instead present her idea of auditioning at the “Japanese Got Performance” national TV show. Yugiri attended the show and cheered Lily on.

Episode 18
Yugiri sends Tae Yamada to get groceries, but otherwise has little involvement beyond being pleased that Tae returned with 20 million yen.

Episode 19
When it becomes clear that Maimai Yuzuriha knows that Franchouchou are all zombies, Yugiri says Maimai will have to die, but then comments that it's probably a bad idea. When Maimai asks to join Franchouchou, Yugiri thinks it's bold. Maimai later suggests performing at her high school, which Yugiri finds intriguing. She encourages Maimai during her training, and they then go to visit Maimai's high school early; Yugiri can see more of the younger generation. After performing at the high school, Maimai leaves the group, so Yugiri advises her to hold on to her boldness before bidding her farewell.

Episode 20
Yugiri's backstory is central to this episode, back in 1881 when Yugiri was a living, legendary courtesan. Near the end of her career, she's freed from her profession by an older gentleman who soon dies, leaving a portion of his fortune to her, and she lives the rest of her days in Saga (now Nagasaki, during the interregnum). Yugiri takes up dance teaching in Saga, and her students insist that she go outside to see the cherry blossoms. While out, she meets Kiichi Momozaki, who saves her from getting run over by a cart but subsequently falls in a lake, so she pulls him out. Kiichi tries to give Yugiri a gift afterward, but soon passes out in embarrassment. Yugiri visits him in turn with her own gift, given that he “brav[ed] the blazing sun” to visit her earlier. They talk about Kiichi's vision for a free Saga, no longer occupied by Nagasaki, a vision he pursues because of his grandfather. Yugiri admires his dream, and later she, Kiichi, and Shojiro Ito have dinner together. Kiichi again passes out in embarrassment, so Shojiro talks to Yugiri about how times have changed and that everyone should accept that Saga is gone. Although Yugiri mentions Kiichi's ideal of a new Saga where everyone might pursue their own destiny, Shojiro is unmoved and soon leaves.

Episode 21
Yugiri lets Kiichi know that his grandfather is not doing well, and he lets her know that their plan to petition for the return of Saga moves apace. Later, she gets a picture with Shojiro and Kiichi, and afterward, Shojiro identifies Kiichi's new comrades as Saga's old ruling class, raising Yugiri's suspicions. She later overhears these comrades discussing a more violent means of retaking Saga and discusses it with Jofuku, who seems aware of their intentions and simply says that matters of life and death will be decided by men. When he refuses to take his medicine, saying that he is Saga, Yugiri forces him to take his medicine; given that Jofuku claims to be Saga, and waxes and wanes with it, this presages Yugiri's involvement in the freeing of the prefecture.

Shojiro later advises Yugiri to leave, implying that Kiichi has unwittingly stirred up a revolution that could be dangerous for her, but she instead admonishes him for underestimating Kiichi's ambitions. Unsettled, Shojiro simply tells her to watch after Kiichi, then leaves. She takes him seriously and writes several letters: one which she mails immediately to her allies in Nagasaki, putting them on alert to assist Kiichi when the time comes; another, to Kiichi himself with instructions on how to free the prefecture, to be given to him later on; and one last, to Jofuku himself, which she hides with his medicine to also be found later. Snow falls, and Shojiro massacres the nascent revolution, leaving their blood on the white snow. He nearly kills Kiichi as well, but at the last moment, Yugiri emerges with a sword and blocks Shojiro long enough for the police to arrive, sending them all scattering in different directions. Yugiri guides Kiichi away, insisting that he should leave Saga, but he has given up hope, and simply wants to surrender and let Yugiri leave. She slaps him, admonishing him to not allow the men who died for his cause to have died in vain, and sends him on his way to Nagasaki with her letter, telling him to read it when he arrives and to call on her old allies so that he can free Saga. Yugiri then remains, smoking, in the middle of their trail — which Shojiro was following. He arrives before her, hunting Kiichi, but Yugiri doesn't intend to let him pass. He rushes her, but she dodges at the last second and mortally wounds him with her sword. He collapses, and as he lies dying, admits to her that he wants to see the Saga that Kiichi will bring into being. He then dies in her arms, and she leaves to take the blame for the failed revolution, being executed summarily by the military. With Kiichi leaving to restore Saga, Jofuku's health is restored. He finds her letter for him, which explains her actions, and asks him to lie to Kiichi that she escaped to safety, in case Kiichi asks about her. Kiichi then goes on to free Saga, while Yugiri is brought back as a zombie.

Snapping back to the present, Yugiri is preparing to perform with the rest of Franchouchou and sings a courtesan's ode to Saga with the rest of the group. Afterward, she retires to a private bar, tended by none other than Jofuku himself — still alive, slightly younger, and restored to complete health. They discuss the modern era, and Yugiri says that she intends to walk her own path in Kiichi's new Saga.

Episode 22
Before the disastrous performance at EFS, Yugiri was given confidence by Sakura Minamoto's optimism, saying that all of their previous performances required something crazy anyway. The performance nonetheless went terribly, and she walked dejectedly offstage with the rest of Franchouchou at its end. In the aftermath, when the group takes inspiration from Tae Yamada, Yugiri assures Lily that she can help them to drag themselves out of their rut to keep going.

Episode 23
Saga Prefecture is destroyed by a storm that left many cities completely flooded, the girls arrive at a Karatsu beach after their mansion was washed away by the sea and then collapsed on a beach. At the Kation Mall, the now homeless girls set out to help the survivors by being local idols from the prefecture.

Ai, Sakura and Yugiri work cooking for the survivors while the others do their own thing. However, the makeup of the girls begins to crumble and little by little their identity is put in danger. Together with Junko, they make ceramic masks to cover the makeup on their faces, masks that break due to their fragility and expose their faces to the public. Instead of being scared, the children exclaim that they are Franchouchou and that real zombies are scary.

Kotaro arrives where the girls are, Yugiri just looks at Kotaro with a smile because she knows what he's going to do. While he is putting makeup on them, he talks to them about the revenge concert that will take place on March 8, 2020.

Episode 24
A little less than 2 weeks away, the girls are still helping the citizens of Saga. Yugiri talks to Lily about that person she knew a long time ago, and who must be taking care of her and Franchouchou.

On March 7, they prepare to cross the prefecture and reach the city of Tosu, where they will carry out their revenge concert. Finally, on the day, thousands of people come to Saga to see Franchouchou's benefit concert while Yugiri watches everything with a mischievous smile, knowing that the plan of Kotaro, Saga's current savior has paid off.

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