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.

Chapter 1
Tae is the leader of the group of Sagakos hunters during the Saga nights, this time in particular she notices that Yuko is weak from the constant fights and says that she should not fight, something that she rejects. During the fight Yuko uses all of her strength and remains weak after sealing the demon and not before saying that she has a younger brother.A week later she finds Yuko's home and knocks on the door to be attended by her grandmother, Eikichi goes to see who is but is quickly kidnapped by Anna who puts him to sleep, then he wakes up in the mansion where he is received by Tae sitting with a whip while the rest of the group introduces themselves as the Sagako Busters Saga but she decides not to be introduced for some reason, however before continuing with her explanation a demon appears in Ureshino and decides to take Eikichi to fight them, however he gets distracted and goes to the onsen. When Tae comes to hear his scream, she fights with the shovels she had on and with her radio calls her companions but due to the humidity her radio does not work, fortunately they arrive moments later with Yuko's onions and fight the demon in a failed way. which was not sealed and they leave the place smelling of onions, Tae asks Anna to clean the place. Back at the mansion, Tae talks about Eikichi's future as a demon slayer and decides that she will train and rehabilitate him herself to fill the role of her sister, finally introducing herself as the warrior office worker Tae Yamada.

Chapter 2
The chapter begins with Eikichi in front of Tae saying good morning to which Tae responds saying that the greeting is essential to have the respect of others, Eikichi remembers the events of the last days and how I ended up in the mansion. We have a flashback of Tae performing a ritual to communicate with the head of the Busters, Eikichi is confused because he thinks they are communicating with an alien but suddenly the television behind him turns on and the silhouette of Xu Fu appears saying the same being Saga, the video is a VHS tape and shows messages on the screen about the end of the world in 1999 and how the Sagako outbreaks are the beginning of the end for Saga prefecture and the world. Tae tells Eikichi that his training should begin and that his mother left him at the mansion to learn how to behave, so he begins Eikichi's training by exercising and using a toy called Dr Zombie Paw that they use to measure Misogi power. But this doesn't seem to work with Eikichi. Following the learning, Eikichi now does his housework and Tae tells him that he will never look like Yuko, his sister. We have a flashback of Tae and Yuko a few years ago and how Yuko cared about Tae for fighting to the death with the Sagako, Tae is visibly affected by how Yuko ended as he could never protect her from the curse and sees Eikichi as her. way to patch up your mistake.

When a Sagako shows his true form before Eikichi and he ends up running away, Tae was already prepared and brings more onions to Eikichi and tells him to seal it, Eikichi throws all the onions at the demon and they finally seal it, Tae is proud of But Eikichi hides it by yelling at him and compares him to Yuko again.

Chapter 3
Anna tells the group about an incident in a club and about how they have to stop the cursed song so that the club can reopen again, Eikichi asks Tae why they contacted them on commission and Tae replies that they usually do so. They call for this type of problem in Saga and he is surprised because he realizes that the supernatural sightings in Saga were all the works of Sagako and the population of the prefecture was already related to the supernatural.

In the mansion, Tae discovers that Sagako refers to Triple A and that it must be a man who meets these requirements but since they do not know any man like that they decide to use Eikichi to fulfill them and defeat the Sagako, Tae helps him with his learning using a tape with his voice that he plays every time Eikichi sleeps so that he subconsciously learns something.

Days later they arrive at the cursed club where Eikichi, Eikichi tries to "conquer" him but Sagako realizes that he is not fulfilling the Triple A that the girls were preparing and attacks the locals but fortunately they were prepared and brought a hidden bat inside a bunch of flowers and with Hanako's Del Height now Eikichi is more flexible and asks the girls to put on Tae's audios to prevent Sagako from getting them out of control. Fortunately Eikichi was prepared and brought onion Sour to weaken Sagako and prepares a toast with it to seal Sagako once and for all, an act that causes Tae to feel proud of Eikichi, but the Busters still wonder why the Sagako I was looking for a triple A man in Saga.

Chapter 4
Eikichi, looking for a part-time job, finds Tae working for a food establishment and is very different from the Tae he knows as she attends to her customers in a very nervous way. Eikichi proceeds to hide from Tae's sight behind a bush but is surprised by an imposing one behind whom he thinks is harassing Tae but quickly recognizes that it is the same voice behind the television and that Tae calls him father, Jofuku asks if Eikichi can be used for fights with Sagako and that he also has bad manners, Tae tells Eikichi that he is not her biological father and that he is the boss of the place where she works and that they call him "Master Jofuku". However, Jofuku does not like that Tae calls him that and tells her to call him father although Tae does not like to call him that, then she sends both of them to go for the necessary purchases so that she can continue cooking.

Jofuku tells Eikichi that he has learned to save since the store they both run stopped having as many customers as in the past when Yuko was there and that it is because of her that Tae is not willing to leave the food stall. According to Jofuku Tae, she was not good at serving and is someone nervous in public with customers but when Yuko joined the store they began to prosper a lot and that for this reason both girls got along well, Jofuku tells him that years ago Tae's parents They were killed by Sagakos and that is why she has a grudge towards them.

In a flashback from the past, Tae and Yuko work together and although Tae is prone to cutting herself when she cooks, Yuko tells her that she must smile more to attract customers as well as thanking him for allowing her to work at her local. In the present, Tae regrets what happened with Yuko and says that she gave her a place to belong and for that reason she must treasure it as much as she can, at the time that Jofuku and Eikichi arrive, the customers leave the store for a reason inexplicable which causes Tae to become depressed while Jofuku tries to comfort her saying that it is only fate and he cannot change it, Eikichi proposes that he can take Yuko's place which makes Tae angry but also mentions that the shop mascot He is scaring the clients but Jofuku reproaches him saying that is a Sagako, this Sagako felt the prosperity of the place and drives away the clients with his form; The group prepares to fight the demon in the form of a squid and with the onion burgers they manage to defeat it and bring peace to the place. At the end of the day Eikichi works at Tae's local and with his help they manages to give the customers a good smile although Eikichi intrudes and she ends up giving him a blow, however Tae is happy with the result of the day and the help he received on the part of both.

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 18
After being harangued by Kotaro about their debt, Yugiri sends Tae out to get groceries, and soon finds herself being followed by an investigative journalist, Arata Okoba. He stalks her, watching kids give her food, and eventually sees her eating the offerings in a graveyard. Okoba attempts to take a picture, but accidentally makes a sound that alerts Tae, whose head twists entirely backward to stare in his direction, frightening him into diving out of sight. The grave where she was eating turns out to be the Yamada ancestral grave.

At the store, an attendant named Maria Amabuki fills Tae's order for her, talking about her group performances and their intention to "get big". Tae doesn't listen and simply tries to eat the attendant's hair bun, disturbing Okoba, and then they all leave so that Tae can watch their performance. At the performance, "Cocco-kun" the dancing chicken wins, but Tae gets on stage at the last minute and the chicken accepts her challenge. They both break dance until eventually they start spinning upside down on their heads, with Tae's body simply spinning on her neck like a top. Cocco can't keep up and eventually passes out from dizziness, leaving Tae the victor. Although Okoba attempted to take a picture of this, Romero prevented it.

Tae tries to give Maria the prize money, but when Maria attempts to refuse it, Officer Suenaga intervenes and takes everyone to a jet ski race. There he spends the money on a bet, but is called by his chief before he can finalize it, allowing Tae to choose a contestant at random. This contestant, Misa Higashitsuru, wins despite being marked as the dark horse, and so Tae wins tens of millions in yen, just enough to absolve them of their steep debts. Maria brings Tae and the money back to Franchouchou's mansion, but in her excitement, Sakura accidentally knocks Tae's head off. Sakura puts her head back on, with Saki preventing Maria from seeing this, but Okoba was able to witness the entire thing — and get a picture.

Episode 19
When Maimai Yuzuriha is brought before Franchouchou, and suddenly starts moving around, Tae jumps on her and tries to eat her head, but only manages to pull the towel off of her, revealing that she's alive. Later, after Maimai has joined the group and suggests performing at her high school, Tae starts mimicking Maimai. Afterward, Tae performs at the high school with the rest of Franchouchou.

Episode 21
Tae appears only briefly, eating Saki Nikaido's hat before a performance, which she participates in.

Episode 22
After Kotaro's failure in the EEF and leaving the girls with a debt of 20 million yen and without food in the mansion, Tae decides on her own to go shopping, applying makeup as much as possible to try to go unnoticed, thanks to this action the girls get confident enough to go out and look for jobs themselves.

Episode 23
One day after the flood of Saga the girls disembark on a beach in Karatsu and are taken to a shelter by Ai's work friend, in the shelter Tae tries to eat the soup they serve but Sakura tries to stop her because They are zombies but then they allow you to eat at ease. At night she plays with the children with her head or does crazy things with her to brighten up the situation but she is stopped by Lily or by the other girls, she also helps to blow Junko's mask furnace.

Episode 24
Together with Franchouchou, he travels through a Saga destroyed by a flood to reach the EEF where in her presentation Tae makes a reference to Freddie Mercury.

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