Lily Hoshikawa

Lily Hoshikawa (星川 リリィ) was a breakout star in a long-running drama show and a famous actress who starred in multiple primetime shows of multiple networks. When she was born, she was named Masao Go (豪 正雄, Gō Masao) who died of a heart attack stemming due to a combination of severe exhaustion and the mental shock from growing a facial hair. She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is titled as the Legendary Child Actress Prodigy (伝説の天才子役 Densetsu no Tensai Koyaku).

Appearance
As a human, Lily has two bright blue pigtails with dark blue bows. She also has one large orange star and other stars in the middle part of her head. She has orange-yellow eyes and pale skin. She wears a green school uniform with a dark blue bow and a white skirt. She is average height for a 12-year-old, but much shorter than the rest of Franchouchou. On her feet, Lily wears brown shoes with white socks.

As a zombie, Lily has her heart sticking outside of her body and like the other zombies, grayish-blue skin and red eyes.

In Episode 8, Lily has a strong resemblance to her late mother.

Personality
Lily is often seen with a smile and she is shown to be quite playful as well due to her young age. She has also demonstrated a professional aspect from her experiences before her death.

Lily does not like nicknames. She forcefully emphasizes her name when being called "Squirt" by Saki Nikaidō; especially early on in their relationship. When it comes to things she finds lame and/or ugly, she becomes very honest and blunt about it.

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 move 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, the girls are later given a performance opportunity at the Saga Castle where he normally follows Kōtarō performance instructions. Even though Tae Yamada almost compromises the entire 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, where she verbally fights her in a rap battle manner. Lily and Yūgiri join alongside the fight as background rappers to appeal everyone in the audience to intuitively make the performance a success.

Episode 3
Before training to meet with Kōtarō Tatsumi's expectations, Lily quoted to the girls that they should elect a leader among them, where Saki Nikaidō stands up to elect herself as 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 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 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 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.

Trivia

 * The name Lily is a feminine given name directly derived from Lily the flower. The name is derived from the flower, whose meaning is "pure", "passion" and "rebirth".
 * Lily's former name Masao (when she was alive) means "righteous man" (正雄).
 * Lily's surname Hoshikawa means "star" (星) (hoshi) and "river, stream" (川) (kawa).
 * This is possibly to pay homage to the stars she has in her hair and her attire (idol ribbon and in episode 8 flashback).
 * Lily was only 12 years old when she died in 2011.
 * Lily is the only one out of the other zombie girls with an exposed organ, that is her heart. Her exposed and often rapid beating heart represents her cause of death, that is mental shock, which caused her demise by heart attack/cardiac arrest.