Lily Hoshikawa/History



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. Nothing could stop her now! Until one fateful day...

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.

Death
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, and unusual metallic noise. Their conclusion seem to be that Lily probably already had some sort of congenital organic cardiopathy, her family probably knew about this and had mitral valve replacement for her, but that didn't save her as more stress built up in her TV career; moments before her death, Lily's extreme emotions 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.

Afterlife
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 where it is implied that Lily participated in a survival television series and apparently learned how to survive in the wild, during the episode she is seen with Saki lighting a fire and making a makeshift camp.

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
Concerned about Sakura's attitude, Lily feels very sad but they can't do much to cheer her up, after Tae brings her down from the attic and the girls give a speech about how Sakura kept the group together, she is unfazed, as she continues without remembering the girls and she doesn't care, however Yugiri makes her see reason and convinces her to go to Arpino, the next day in practice, Sakura manages to involuntarily remember the dance for Arpino and Lily is very excited because at the everything is fine.

Already in Arpino, and after the collapse of this, the girls welcome the Sakura they met and sing to end the series, however Okoba seems to recognize Lily and is beginning to investigate.

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Kotaro leaves the girls in the city of imari to walk and be entertained while he goes to do business, the others think it is a good idea to enter a ramen shop because of Saki's idea, to which Lily says that Kotaro only wants them. She said not to physically interact with the fans and everything would be fine.

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Together with Franchouchou and the other girls, they go to Yoshionagari, 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 Lily enters with Lily, Ai and Saki in an old-fashioned fire-lighting competition. Due to their little experience, they cannot light the fire and they end up exhausted, but Yugiri was able to finish the challenge.

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 with a T pose. Now, with Kotaro depressed the girls continue with their activities, Lily tries on a Yayoi era clothes together with Yugiri and Saki. 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 their 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 hugs Tae, Sakura decides to help Kotaro with his problem of finding Saga's secret by getting engaged to the other girls.

With her attention now, Franchouchou decides to talk about 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 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 Franchochou.

It's New Year's Eve, the girls wake up hungry and Junko, Ai and Sakura talk about 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 by mistake he hits Kotaro with what Tae spat, however he only screams a little and gives them more food for the new year, leaving only crumbs.

Episode 13
Lily now works delivering milk to the people of Saga on her bicycle during the mornings, in the mansion she is happy because Ai brought the squid of the day but is interrupted by Tae when her head jumps on her which makes the other girls they laugh a little, it also highlights Tae's lack of manners in the dining room, the next day she is in the mansion along with the others after delivering the merchandise, it should be noted that she is reading a heavy machinery magazine as she used to do.

In the training room after Sakura spoke with Tatsumi, she comes up with the idea of ​​entering Kotaro's room to see why he was in such a rush. Already in his room they find nothing more than his recorder with his new song.

At the GEILS, the girls are prepared for their anniversary of the first concert and go out, but as usual nobody pays attention to them and shortly after a fight breaks out because of Kotaro in which the girls continue with their new song until the end this.

At the mansion the next day, Kotaro arrives shaved and with his hair cut to greet the girls as usual.

Episode 14
Franchouchou is in the morning meetings together with Kotaro, who plays a TV presenter and annoys the girls as usual, Kotaro asks her what they will do now that they returned as an idol group and when Sakura's turn comes she answers telecommuting What annoys Kotaro and makes him pass the microphone over his face, this action results in Saki hitting him for this, but he just says it is zombie bullying. 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.

The girls arrive in the city where the shrine is and Lily makes fun of Ryu's crazy fallen pompadour and Tae mockingly imitates him.

Then they ask Ryu a few questions and follow him around the shopping area, they try to buy some pet fish freedom but only get a holder for chopsticks. One of the presenters tells them to go to the shrine of the God of marriage, which makes Junko nervous to mention that topic, in the shrine the girls begin to pray and wonder if God will listen to them as they are zombies.

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 performs at GEILS death metal with a new cover song by White Ryu while watching shots of them on the station he left behind.

Episode 15
Lily is present when Kotaro barges in and blasts everyone with a water gun, telling them that they'll be opening for Iron Frill. She helps prepare with the rest of Franchouchou for the show, and when Saki Nikaido mentions that Iron Frill's self-assurance was probably a direct challenge to them, Lily comments that Franchouchou probably isn't even on Iron Frill's radar.

Episode 16
While practicing, the rest of Franchouchou notices that Junko Konno is acting oddly, and Lily recommends she get some rest, but Junko brushes it off. After leaving, Lily notes that Junko has had a "scary look" on her face ever since Ai Mizuno left to do solo-acts. She later performed with the rest of Franchouchou at the Saga Arena, and glared at Iron Frill when they continued trying to poach Ai from them. In the aftermath, she spoke about "leveling up" before they could go against Iron Frill directly.

Episode 17
Lily has a plan to accrue even more fame for Franchouchou by trying out for "Japanese Got Performance", a national TV talent show. Her main competitor is Light Oozora, a child-actor, who Lily greets amicably. However, Sakura Minamoto warns Lily that Light has a plan to win over the audience, but Lily is unconcerned and breezes to the finals by telling a humours, heartfelt story as her first act. For the finals against Light, Lily intends to sing "Life", which she used to sing with her father.

While talking with Light before the performance, Light insists that he plans on making it to Broadway, to not fizzle out and lose his fame when his youth fades, and that he intends to blow her out of the water as part of that process. Lily remains sportsmanlike however, and Sakura tells her that all of Franchouchou support her. However, she briefly panicks when she sees Light sing the same "Life" song that she was going to perform, so instead she quickly throws together a costume and makes a Bodda Bope/gibberish variation of the song on the fly with upbeat vocals, dancing, and only a few of the song's original lyrics.

Although her performance goes viral almost immediately, she still loses to Light. She congratulates him and continues to show good sportsmanship, which unsettles Light and makes him think his skills are lesser than hers, despite his victory. Lily reassures him in the bathroom and encourages him to continue after his dreams as he planned, which cheers him and prompts him to offer to work with her if she ever found herself in Tokyo.

Episode 24
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