Tae Yamada/History

Tae Yamada is a mysterious girl with an unknown past. She is the only zombie who has not awakened so far, but is capable of performing certain actions that seem to indicate that she is awake.

Early Life
All that is known of her past is that she died when she was only 29 years old.

Death
Nothing is known of her death except the fact that she has bandages wrapped around her forehead and from her neck down to her bust.

Afterlife
Tae is the only character whose conscience has not returned, and has only the intelligence of a baby or a beast. Therefore, she does not know how to hide her true identity, and she moves with the zombie instinct and priority in her appetite. Not able to speak normally.

However, she seems to understand a few words, and her actions have gradually become smarter and more cooperative as the series progresses. In fact, in Saga rock's waiting room, she is able to imitate Saki's response and gestures, try to lie when Lily asked her where her squid is, and when she is in the mountains, she can skillfully make a snow sculpture of Romero, etc. There are many behaviors that are impossible only with instinct. In other words, she may have woken up already but is in that state.

She doesn't sing and dances awkwardly, but she's definitely on stage as a member of the group, and her dance improves as the story progresses. in the second half she changes her attitude from a normal zombie to a dog that follows orders. Thanks to Sakura's work, Tae achieves a relationship with her position since she was one of the people who helped her progress and follow the choreography of the group.

Episode 1
Being just like the legendary, Kotaro does not give more details of who she is for some reason, throughout the episode she spends her time biting Sakura and if it is not Sakura it is some object that is in her path.

After their successful death metal performance in a death metal festival, all of the zombie girls regain their senses excluding Tae, who is still acting like a mindless zombie.

Episode 2
Being the only zombie in the group who hasn't woken up, Tae still remains in her feral state. She is primarily driven by monstrous instinct to bite people.

During the girl's first event at the Saga Castle, Tae takes notice of a whole squid in the audience and immediately moves towards them. Sakura tries to stop her but ends up accidentally knocking off her head, nearly exposing the group's identities as zombies. As Sakura tries defusing the situation, Saki rebuffs her and plays around with Tae's head to mock the audience. Sakura eventually gets mad and knocks Tae's head away from Saki, where the two girls fight each other in a rap battle. Tae's head was later reattached to her body as Sakura and Saki verbally fight with each other.

Episode 3
While the other girls focus on training to meet Kōtarō's hasty expectations, Tae lounges around mindlessly. At one point, Tae instinctively chews and sucks on a marker, later causing her to sneeze. The sneeze inspires Lily with an original name for their group and suggests the name "Franchouchou", based on Tae's sneezing fit.

Despite her invisible sloth atmosphere, Tae was still able to train with the girls for their upcoming performance, which ended in bittersweet for everyone.



Episode 4
When everyone visits a Hot Spring Resort in Ureshino to earn a sponsorship with a pharmaceutical company, Tae is seen among her zombie idols sightseeing. When Sakura, Junko and Saki accidentally revealed their zombie forms to the pharmaceutical company president, Tae also ends up scaring the president by surprising the president in the hallway of the resort in a horror-like position.

Episode 5
When everyone was given a commercial deal by Drive-in-Tori she goes with everyone eating the chicken they served (she eats the chicken raw). When everyone dresses up for the commercial, Tae attempts to attack the mascot. During commercial performance, everyone faced various problems due to Tae's inability to speak and how she badly timed her roles. It eventually ended in success when Tae only crowed like a rooster near the end. When Kōtarō and Saki expressed their desire to do more with greater vigor, Tae responds by attacking the mascot again. Her attack was added to the commercial which became very popular.

At the 34th Kashima Gatalympics, she performs at the various events and manages to she win a gold medal in the Mud Tarzan Swing but was almost found out when her body fell to pieces. The other idols managed to put her back together without anyone finding out. Due to Tae's inability to speak she was unable to advertise her idol group. When Sakura thought Tae had a Franchouchou shirt under the muddy shirt she was wearing, Sakura calls to Tae to rip her outer shirt to reveal the inner shirt. Unfortunately, it was revealed that Tae was actually wearing a Drive-in-Tori shirt that they were given as a gift for the commercial. Tae then crows to the crowd, much to her idol companion's disappointment.

Episode 6
In a mini concert and photo op event, Tae is cheered by many for her Drive-in-Tori commercial performance, she replies by doing the same crow she did in the commercial.

Episode 7
While Junko locked herself up, Tae continues practicing and resting with the other Idols for the upcoming Saga Rock event. When Junko gain new resolve and decided to perform with everyone, Tae embraces her with joy along with the other Franchouchou Idols. Right before their performance, both her and Saki tries to invigorate the group by shouting but is told to quiet down.

She performs with everyone during the Saga Rock (notably she is the only one who isn't singing and isn't dancing in sync with everyone) and receives applause at the end with everyone.

Episode 8
When a giant man revealed to be Lily's biological father was questioned for suddenly approaching Lily and touching her, Tae is seen growling at the man in displeasure. When Lily sings a lead performance for her father, Tae is performs in the background with the rest of the idols.

Episode 9
Together with the other Franchouchou idols, Tae starts practicing Kashima Dance with to some elders to appeal them into being fans. Afterwards, everyone takes a break where she over drinks a drinking fountain. She then bites the buns of a biker girl who tries to intimidate Sakura and Lily.

In Saki's lead performance, Tae is seen dancing with the other idols while also dressing in a biker-gang theme like outfit.

Episode 10
When Kōtarō sends everyone in the mountains, Tae mostly slept or got frozen. At one point, she makes a "Christmas Tree" out of ice and snow. When Sakura's head gets eaten by a large boar, Tae attacks the boar with a ravenous attitude which saves Sakura.

Episode 11
Tae, she was waiting for Sakura to wake up after being run over, but she realizes that something is wrong when she just pushes her off and runs away, then knocks down the door when Yugiri was about to slap her and knock her unconscious again.

After Sakura got hit again by a truck and reverts back to her past memories. Sakura lost her confidence to perform due to having several instances of bad luck during the course of her life, as shown when she reminiscences her past up to her final days of her life before she became a zombie.

Fully understanding to what Sakura is suffering through, Tae strives to convince her by doing whatever it takes to fully remember not only everything they've done as a group, but also her close relationship to her group-mates.

Episode 12
When Sakura was depressed due to her misfortunes, Tae attempted to help her remember what she did as an idol. Firstly by Cock-a-doodle-dooing whilst wearing the Drive-in Tori shirt to help her remember the commercial they were a part of. Later, she got out the magazine article regarding Saga-Rock, but Sakura brushed her off.

When Sakura locks herself up, Tae attempts to reach out to her again but with little success. After being ignored and brushed off so many times, Tae snaps in a rage. She breaks through the window in the room that Sakura locked herself up in and forces Sakura into the practice room. She then tries to show Sakura how much effort she made Tae practice and focus. Her actions gave the other idols, especially Yūgiri, the revelation how Sakura gave everyone so much and she has a responsibility to see through to the end no matter the results.

Along with the other idols, Tae performs in the Arpino concert and renewed Sakura's confidence despite the various misfortunes that fell on the stage. When Sakura regains her memories of being a zombie, Tae happily bites her head affectionately.

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Along with Franchouchou and the other girls, Tae goes to Yoshionagari. Meanwhile, Sakura constantly prevents Tae from making a mess with her impulsive attitude and tries to follow Kotaro's new order to search for Saga's secret. Looking at the other areas of the park, the girls decide to play a bit and have fun and Tae follows Sakura to make a craft game but due to Tae's almost animal position, she barely manages to overcome the challenge. Tae does what he can with her conscience but Sakura encourages her with what I try, with Kotaro depressed the girls continue with their activities and Sakura prevents Tae from eating the decoration fruits by mistaking them for real fruits because obviously, no it is food. After that, Sakura notices Kotaro's attitude in those moments and wonders what is happening to him because it is not his normal attitude.

Hanging from the railing, now only one arm of sakura prevents both from falling into the void exposing the zombie secret, below the girls realize the incident and with little time Kotaro says to hold on, but it lasts little because Sakura's arm is released and they both fall, but Tae takes a huge leap and grabs them out of the air before they hit the ground and holds Sakura and drops Kotaro when they both hit the ground. 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 his 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 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 Franchochou. Tae decides to cook something with what she knows, but she mixed up the ingredients and made the food hot sauce.

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
Tae appears along with Sakura accompanying her in her work, presumably because Sakura is taking care of her, after this introduction we go back to the girls' mansion and Tae pounces on Lily's squid that Ai gave her seconds ago. In the dining room she still has no manners and pounces on the squid as she always has.

Continuing with her attitude, she just keeps doing random things during the episode like yelling at her reflection or imitating Romero's actions, finally in the GEILS she gets angry when they tell her that Franchouchou should go but she doesn't act as instinctively as before. They finally manage to sing their new song and already in the mansion she lies asleep before the entrance of Kotaro with a good morning.

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 her 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
Tae is oblivious to most of the early events of this episode, spending her time distracted by a fly buzzing around her head. When Kotaro Tatsumi lines them all up for a speech and blasts them with a water gun, Tae simply drinks the remaining water from the gun and makes a fountain with her mouth, ignoring everything else. Junko Konno later asks Tae where everyone is, but she's busy playing tug of war with a dog over a scrap of meat and doesn't respond; although, she does see Ai performing solo on the TV and moans "Ai" in response. When the rest of Franchouchou decide that they need something with more impact, they set Tae as the drummer, being a simple task she can handle.

Episode 16
Tae continues practicing with drums and is set as the drummer during Franchouchou's actual performance at Saga Arena, performing excellently as they open with a rock number. When they switch to an electronic song, Tae leaves the drums and dance-sways at the sides and later the center of the performance. Being electrified with a power cable, eventually the electricity manifests as a set of angel-wings on her shoulders. Afterward, she growls at Iron Frill when they try to poach Ai Mizuno from them.

Episode 17
Tae does little other than carry some drinks for the rest of Franchouchou, watching Lily Hoshikawa perform at the "Japanese Got Performance" contest.

Episode 24
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