Episode 18

“Walking Bet SAGA” (ウォーキング・ベット SAGA Wōkingu Betto SAGA) is the sixth episode and the midseason finale of the second season of Zombie Land Saga and is the eighteenth episode overall.

Synopsis (Kotaro’s Diary)
(Note: This is an unofficial English translation of the synopsis from the website.)

''”Money is important for living. It is also important for those who are dead. To recover from the failure of Ekimae Real Estate, we have to win more efficiently. Here I will remind you of the need for a producer. Life is not a game of chance. Success is achieved with your own efforts. First, let's think about how to sell this jar at a high price.”''

Plot
TBA

Characters

 * Kotaro Tatsumi
 * Romero
 * Franchouchou
 * Sakura Minamoto
 * Saki Nikaido
 * Ai Mizuno
 * Junko Konno
 * Yugiri
 * Lily Hoshikawa
 * Tae Yamada
 * Coco
 * Journalists
 * Shinta Okoba
 * Inuhashi
 * Gatalympics Announcer
 * Officer Suenaga
 * Pharmaceutical Agency Founder
 * Amabuki Family
 * Maria Amabuki
 * Reiko Amabuki (mentioned)
 * Iron Frill (mentioned)
 * Dorami Dance Team
 * Mikigawa
 * Sayanaga
 * Korosuke Biker Gang
 * Misa Azumatsuru
 * Group of Male Rappers (Episode 2)
 * Senior Citizens (Episode 9)

Locations

 * Saga Prefecture
 * Abandoned Mansion
 * Gofukumachi Community Spot - Plaza 656
 * Ekimae Real Estate Stadium (mentioned)
 * Tosu Stadium (flashback)
 * Arpino Stadium (flashback)
 * Drive-in Tori (flashback)
 * Unnamed Graveyard
 * Minamoto Family Grave
 * Yamada Family Grave
 * Boat Race Stadium (debut)
 * Tokyo (mentioned)

Songs

 * ”Little Bodda Bope”
 * ”Tokkou DANCE ~DAWN OF THE BAD~” (indirectly mentioned)
 * Tae’s shopping song

Instrumentals

 * TBA

Trivia

 * The episode title, Walking Bet Saga, refers to how Tae has been on her walk for errands as well as her having the winning bet at the boat race.
 * It appears that Maria Amabuki has taken a part-time job as a stocker in a supermarket.
 * Her reason for doing so is in order to save up money to buy her mother a replacement scooter.
 * And that ever since the events of “Episode 9”, Misa Azumatsuru has decided on wanting to surpass Saki Nikaido’s racing capabilities by taking up boatracing.
 * Misa is also shown to have since then cut her hair. Cutting one’s hair usually symbolizes a great change in one’s life, normally used to describe a change in lifestyle.
 * This is the first episode to center around Tae Yamada.
 * It is revealed by Kotaro that the amount they currently owe is nearly ¥20 million.
 * Coincidentally, it is the exact amount Tae wins by betting on Misa during the boat race.
 * The trifecta bet (pick 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the exact order) odds was 666.7:1 (board shows it normalized to 100 yen bets), so the payout was exactly 20,001,000 yen. And with only 6 boats in the race, the betting odds should never be that high, as the actual probability of guessing the top 3 in order is 120:1. But this venue runs on a parimutuel betting system, so the total payout is collected from all of the bets. In this unlikely scenario, what happened was that a disproportionate amount of money was put on the other boats. Very little money was put on Misa, so the winning bet odds for Misa was 21.3:1, even though the actual probability is 6:1.
 * It is revealed that the Minamoto Family Grave is positioned right next to the Yamada Family Grave, and that Tae occasionally pays a visit in addition to eating the offerings.
 * Since the events of “Episode 9”, Maria has reinvented the current Dorami Biker Gang into becoming the Dorami Dance Team.
 * And that it was all thanks to watching Saki’s performance. of “Tokkou DANCE ~DAWN OF THE BAD~”.
 * One of the venues that Franchouchou has been shown to perform in throughout Season 2 is revealed to be called Gofukumachi Community Spot - Plaza 656.
 * Romero is shown to be able to sleep with his eyes open.
 * This is Shinta Ookoba’s first major role in an episode.
 * This is the first time wherein someone other than the residents of the Abandoned Mansion has paid a visit.
 * In this episode’s case, Maria tags along with Tae after their trip to the boatracing stadium.

Dub Differences

 * TBA

Cultural References

 * Ookoba’s flashback of a website with people highly praising Tae is a reference to Twitter.

Continuity

 * This is the second episode to have the title be a reference to the live action zombie film series, The Walking Dead.
 * With the first being the fourth episode, “Warming Dead SAGA”.
 * The girls’ failed performance at the Ekimae Real Estate Stadium is bought up again in Kotaro’s diary entry for the episodeas well as by Saki.
 * The episode opens with Ookoba watching a recording of Lily’s performance of “Little Bodda Bope“ from the previous episode.
 * Additionally, her performance is recalled throughout the episode.
 * Ookoba recalls the girls starting their own radio show and starting a rivalry with Iron Frill.
 * Ookoba’s flashback includes the following scenes: Tae Yamada dancing in her chicken costume during the commercial shooting for Drive-in Tori, the girls performing at Saga Rock during “Episode 7”, the girls performing at Arpino Stadium during “Episode 12”, Tae excessively drinking from a water fountain in “Episode 9”, and Tae doing her signature chicken squawk in “Episode 8”.
 * A handful of scenes throughout the episode are callbacks to “Episode 9”.
 * Maria mentions wanting to save up money to buy her mother a replacement scooter for the one Saki broke.
 * Additionally, Tae nibbles on her hair in a similar manner again.
 * Misa gets a quick flashback of Saki’s stunt during her own boatracing stunt.
 * This is the second time wherein a group of people are sponsored to advertise Saganship Z.
 * The president of the pharmaceutical company starts getting traumatic memories of when she accidentally saw the girls as zombies.
 * Tae elicits her signature squawk again from “Episode 5”.
 * Tae starts sucking on a ballpen similar to the way she does so with the whiteboard marker in “Episode 3”.
 * Additionally, it also resulted to her sneezing out its ink.
 * At the 4:45 mark, Sakura first looks at both sides of the road before leaving the mansion. A callback to how she failed to do so twice before, which resulted in her getting hit by two separate vehicles.
 * After getting traumatized by Lily suddenly stealing his spotlight during his morning assembly from the previous episode, Kotaro starts checking for any other possible upstages before entering the basement.
 * This is the fourth episode wherein Kotaro does not have a major role.
 * The first three being “Episode 9”, “Episode 14” and “Episode 17”.

Errors

 * It is unknown how Ookoba has any memory of Franchouchou’s activities with the senior citizens in “Episode 9” as he was never shown to be anywhere near the area.
 * Coco’s name is changed as Cuckoo in the official Muse Asia subtitles, but is is currently unknown if this was a permanent name change for the character or if the subtitles spelled his name wrong.