Zombie Land Saga

Season 1 is the first season of the Zombie Land Saga anime that has a total of twelve episodes and an additional extra dubbed as “Episode 12.5”. It aired from October 04, 2018 to December 20, 2018. It is later succeeded by Season 2, which is set to air sometime in 2021.

Season Overview
In 2008, Sakura reached the second year of high school, To go find Tokyo audition to become Idol, as soon as she leaves home trying to go to school and audition, she would be hit by a van resulting in her death.

In 2018, Sakura wakes up with a memory loss, in a certain western-style house, and is suddenly attacked by zombie girls and escapes outside, but finds that she also turned into a zombie. A young man, Kotaro Tatsumi, tells us that he was revived as a zombie for the local idol project "Zombie Land Saga Project" that raises awareness about Saga prefecture. Sakura formed the idol group "Franchouchou" with 7 members, Saki Nikaido, Ai Mizuno, Junko Konno, Yugiri, Lily Hoshikawa and Tae Yamada, who revived as zombies.

Summary

 * Episode 1: Sakura’s on her way to an idol audition and nothing was going to stop her! Except for a speeding truck that ends her life. She wakes up ten years later to find out she is part of an undead idol group whose mission is to advertise the Saga prefecture.
 * Episode 2: Sakura and Saki get into a rap battle while simultaneously hiding their undead identities from the elderly.
 * Episode 3: The girls think of a group name and partake in their first guerrilla show by the train station.
 * Episode 4: The girls have been cooped up in the mansion for a month so Kotaro decides to take them to the local hot springs.
 * Episode 5: Kotaro makes the girls star in a commercial for Drive-In Tori and gets them to partake in the Gatalympics.
 * Episode 6: Ai and Junko get into an argument on what their relationship with their fans is supposed to be.
 * Episode 7: Kotaro pep talks Junko into singing with the girls again.
 * Episode 8: A shady looking man is keeping his eye out for Zombie #6.
 * Episode 9: Saki teaches her old biker gang, alongside the rival biker gang, that throwing your life away over something trivial is stupid.
 * Episode 10: The girls go mountain climbing and Sakura gets a sense of deja vu.
 * Episode 11: The girls and Kotaro try to cheer Sakura up.
 * Episode 12: The girls say Good Morning to Saga once again.

Trivia

 * Apart from their causes and exact dates of death, Yugiri and Tae’s locations of death are also the only ones not disclosed during this season.
 * Meanwhile, both Sakura and Lily are shown to have died within their own house’s general radius.
 * There were supposed to be episodes briefly focusing on Yugiri and Tae’s pasts respectively but since they would not fit with the first season’s story, they decided against it.


 * If we take the chronological order of the songs on ZLS it tells us how the girls were revived.
 * Sensei Alive: Kotaro and his feelings for Sakura, song from the first PV of the series and the first to be recorded and possibly used before awakening.
 * Yomigaere: literally revive, the song and its lyrics prove it, it was actually going to be sung in episode 2.
 * Mezame returner: Wake up and follow your dreams after death, in episode 3.