Sakura Minamoto/History

Second year high school student, Sakura Minamoto, is eager to head over to her audition in order to become a pop idol. But little did she know, something that happens to her would immediately change her (after)life forever.

Early Life
Back when she was alive, Sakura was a girl with unbelievable bad luck that had always stopped her from doing anything right. Because of this, she undergoes a depressive state and becomes cynical and jaded, she later discovers Iron Frill, the idol group her soon-to-be idol, Ai Mizuno, is a member of. After watching Ai’s interview and response to what her failures mean to her, this inspires Sakura to become an idol like her and giving her hope for herself once more.

Death
As Sakura prepares to head off to her audition on April 7, 2008, a speeding truck hits her the moment she steps out of the front gates of her house. This impact immediately sends her flying and kills her the moment her body drops to the street. Despite not having shown any physical injury, she later on acquires a forehead scar, representing her concussion.

Afterlife
Sakura wakes up in an abandoned mansion, ten years after her death and is terrified after running into the rest of the girls, who have yet to wake up. She tries to ask for help from an unsuspecting police officer only to get shot in the chest after the officer and she herself find out that she, too, was also a zombie.

Episode 1
After being run over by a van and dying, Sakura wakes up 10 years later in a mysterious mansion. While exploring a bit, she is attacked by a zombie. When she runs away to another room, several zombies surround her. But she finally escapes from the mansion. While outside in the pouring rain, she discovers that she is in Saga prefecture, and soon comes into contact with a police officer. When he inspects her, the police officer recoils in shock and points a gun at Sakura. Confused, she turns around and looks in the traffic mirror, and discovers that she is a zombie.

The policeman shoots her in the chest and Sakura collapses. Then she sees the cop knocked out with a shovel and Sakura passes out. When she arrives, Kotaro tatsumi approaches to comfort her and introduces herself in an eccentric way. She wants Sakura to become an idol to save Saga prefecture, along with the other six zombie girls. Then she immediately takes Sakura and the girls to their first performance at a metal concert club, trying to give the girls 'encouragement' to wake them up.

During her first performance, Sakura has her doubts about choosing Kōtarō's venue and, as she is the only sane zombie at the time, and has no idol training. Despite this, the performance was successful with only headbanging and screaming. During their performance, Sakura retrieved fragments of her memories.

The next day, most of the other girls have regained their sanity, Sakura proceeds to greet them all with a good day.

Episode 2
Sakura is still proactive helping with the goal of Kōtarō Tatsumi, but she realizes that the rest of the girls, most of whom have regained their senses, do nothing. Then she has to settle for dealing with various personalities, including forgetfulness, rebellion, and reluctance. But a personal goal that Sakura had in mind is to recover the memories she lost after her death.

Sakura and the girls finally have a real acting opportunity at Saga Castle. During such a performance, Tae Yamada instinctively goes after a dried squid in the audience, but Sakura tries to stop her. She accidentally hits Tae's head and almost compromises the girls' human costumes. As Sakura tries to maintain her facade, Saki Nikaidō repeatedly pushes Sakura aside and plays with Tae's head in front of the audience. Sakura then loses her cool and hits Tae's head away from Saki, then verbally fights Saki in a rap battle where she finally succeeds. Her hip-hop fight with Saki impresses the audience and Saki respects Sakura for having the guts to confront her.

Episode 4
Taken to the hot springs where Kōtarō will negotiate an additional budget, Sakura decided to follow the instructions to keep her costumes despite having the opportunity to visit a suitable public bath. The girls then tour the city, where they take the opportunity to get to know each other better.

After her sponsored performance, Sakura ends up being invited by Saki to sneak into the public bathroom against Kōtarō's instructions, to her concern. Junko ends up listening to their conversation and she expresses interest in joining them, much to Sakura's dismay. So, after taking the time to renew themselves in the warm water of the bathroom, the girls meet their sponsored executive, where Sakura loses her head in front of her and the girls end up being exposed in their zombie identities, leaving the executive terrified.

Sakura is mortally embarrassed to have to watch her incident on the news, believing it to be her fault.

Episode 6
Sakura tries to help Junko make peace with Ai by consoling her on the beach

Episode 7
Sakura is seen trying to practice with everyone, but expressed concern that Junko is not participating. Before they were about to leave for their first concert, Sakura mentions a sense of deja vu when Kotaro accidentally hits Junko with her car after Junko suddenly tries to stop them so she can join them. Sakura immediately expresses her joy when Junko decides to join them. During the concert where it started to rain, she showed concern when Ai started shaking from the sound of thunder. After Junko begins supporting Ai, Sakura along with everyone else began to perform better. Even when the lighting hit them, they came out unscathed and were able to finish their performance brilliantly.

Episode 10
After Franchouchou was scheduled to hold a concert at the Arpino show venue, Sakura came to believe that it might help her regain her memories. However, this makes her try too hard and ruins her rhythm with her teammates. Realizing this, Kōtarō sends them on a survival training in the mountains to enhance their teamwork, but instead only caused Sakura to become irritated when her teammates put survival on performance (despite the fact that the first it was clearly the most pressing problem))

Upon returning from the mountains, Sakura's pace with her teammates was even worse, which she believed was because the others were not trying hard enough. However, after watching the others perform the performance without her, she realizes that she was the culprit and apologizes.

With just a week to go before the concert, Sakura goes for a run when she is suddenly hit by a truck again. This causes her to finally regain her memories of when she was alive, while in turn losing her memories of being a zombie.

Episode 11
After being hit by a truck again, Sakura is taken inside where she wakes up late at night and panics when Tae jumps on her. Similar to the first episode, she freaks out and runs around the building where she soon meets other sleeping zombie idols and accidentally wakes them up. Upon awakening, Sakura tries to defend herself, but then collapses and becomes depressed, saying that everything she does is meaningless and she loses consciousness when Tae attacks her.

When the others realize that Sakura regained her old memories but lost her memories as a zombie, Sakura is left alone with Ai, who then explains everything to Sakura when she wakes up. While amazed at these revelations, and informed of her upcoming performances at Arpino, Sakura insists that they practice and act without her. Sakura would lock herself in a room separate from everyone else. Concerned about her, the zombie girls individually start trying to cheer her up. After Saki, Junko, and Lily were unable to cheer her up, Sakura ends up running away before Yugiri tries to cheer her on.

As Sakura wanders off aimlessly, she looks back at the various misfortunes that constantly happen to her, where no matter what or how hard she tries, it always ends terribly. Her past then reveals that she began to change after seeing Ai Mizuno saying on television that failures can help someone become their best self. Sakura's flashback ends where she meets Policeman A again in the park while sitting on a swing. Even though Policeman A once again panicked at Sakura's zombie appearance, Sakura showed no resistance. Kotaro saves her again, saying that it is not where she belongs.

Kotaro takes her to an observation point where they discuss her problems and she reveals more of her past. Sakura reveals how she became a fan of Ai Mizuno and attended one of her concerts in Arpino, where the moment inspired her to get stronger and she decided to give herself one more chance to try to do something. This leads to the events at the beginning of the first episode where Sakura decided to attend an idol audition, but is later killed after being run over by the truck. Sakura continues her conversation with Kotaro about how, upon learning of her tragedy, she made her believe that she really has no choice. Sakura asks why they bring her back as a zombie to become an idol to save Saga despite her horrible luck and declares how everyone should continue without her. Just when Sakura thought Kotaro abandoned her,

Episode 12
After Kotaro yells that he never intends to give her up, Sakura returns with the other zombies. However, she continues to isolate herself from others as they continue to practice for the next Arpino event. Tae tries to communicate with Sakura by imitating the Drive In Tori commercial she did with everyone, but Sakura ignores it. As Sakura watches the other zombies practice, she begins to realize her familiarity with them. By doing a handshake event, Sakura reflects and ridicules herself for what she was thinking before regaining her original memories. They brought her back when two fangirls congratulated her and awaited her performance at Arpino. Despite all the support, Sakura continues to be cynical, remembering that every time she had hope, misfortune would fall upon her.

The next day, Tae once again tries to interact with Sakura by showing her the news of them doing the Saga Rock event together, but Sakura pushes the news magazine aside while crying because she didn't know or care. Later in the night, Sakura locks herself in while Tae tries to contact her once more. Sakura is dragged into the practice room by Tae, who breaks up after being ignored by Sakura many times. Sakura questions Tae's actions until everyone else enters the room and realizes that Tae is trying to show what Sakura meant to her and to everyone else. Despite this, she simply replies how idiotic it was for them to be so excited about something they don't even remember and planned.

After apologizing. Yugiri slaps Sakura and says her that she should stop running away and that she has the responsibility to be with her until the end. It was from there that everyone's words began to reach Sakura when Sakura warned them how her performance would likely end terribly, and they replied that they would stay with her regardless of the results. Sakura finally complied and decided to practice with everyone again.

During practice, even though Sakura continued to doubt herself, everyone persisted and went like pushing their own luck, surprising her.

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Kotaro leaves the girls and Sakura in the city of imari to walk and entertain themselves while he goes to do business, Sakura happens to enter a store to see what there is following Kotaro's rules.

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Along with Franchouchou and the other girls, Sakura goes to Yoshionagari, but even without knowing the purpose of the trip she is a bit puzzled. But she, without being able to ask Kotaro about his aggressive attitude, restricts herself to following his orders. Meanwhile, she prevents Tae from making a mess with her impulsive attitude and tries to follow Kotaro's new order to search for Saga's secret. Still, the girls see that the park has many places where they can relax while searching for Saga's secret. Little by little the girls are distracted by the attractions and Sakura is no exception as she enters a modeling competition with Junko and Tae.

Tae does what she can with her conscience but Sakura encourages her with what she tries, however Kotaro is angry that the girls are not taking seriously the job he gave them and Saki annoys him by establishing her dominance over Saga with a T pose.

Now, with Kotaro depressed, the girls continue with their activities and Sakura prevents Tae from eating the decoration fruits by mistaking them for real fruits. After that, Sakura notices Kotaro's attitude in those moments and wonders what is happening to him because it is not his normal attitude, Sakura follows him to a tower where she wonders why his personality changed from one moment to another, worrying because Kotaro is thrown from the tower for some reason, she is going to stop him but accidentally bumps into a raccoon and pushes Kotaro down from the tower. 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 taken 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.

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
Franchouchou was at the height of his glory after the concert in Arpino in December 2018. However, their concert, in March 2019, at the EEF is a disaster that gathers only 500 spectators out of 30,000 potentials. Therefore, the group is in debt after this event.

To pay off their debt, Sakura and Tae found an irregular job on a farm in the Saga region. The Franchouchou girls are working on their own and are beginning to hope that they will be able to pay off their debt faster than expected thanks to their efforts. Sakura, still without giving up her dream of becoming a great idol, will announce this good news to her producer Kotaro of her.

The latter has been depressed since the failure of the EEF concert and spends his days drinking. Sakura announces that Franchouchou will perform at Geils Hall, the location of her first concert, and will sing the new song that they were unable to sing during the EEF. This news does not have much effect on Kotaro, who, an alcoholic, prefers to make fun of Sakura.

At the mansion, Sakura and the girls decide to inspect Kotaro's room for clues that will allow us to understand why his producer seems so pressed for time and that would also explain why he absolutely wanted Franchouchou to organize a concert at the EEF as quickly. However, they will find nothing in his room, other than a recording of the prototype of his new song, which shows how passionate Kotaro is about what he does. This recording reinforces Sakura's desire to bring her producer back at all costs to the next Franchouchou concert to return her former personality to EEF.

After days of training, she decides to convince Kotaro to attend the concert at Geils Hall on the same day. However, the producer does not want to set foot there and prefers to go down and drink. Sakura then asks where the lucky Kotaro went, the one who comforted her when she regained the memories of human life from her and the one who had promised her that he would never leave her. The depressed producer simply replies that he may have overestimated his luck. Sakura gets angry with who, once, she never gave up and decides to do the concert without his presence.

Franchouchou then performs at the Geils Hall, at the same metal festival in the year of its creation, however, this time, the concert goes wrong. The public does not like Franchouchou and the girls have a hard time acting. Luckily for them, Kotaro arrives at the concert and encourages the girls to sing his new song. Sakura, moved by the words of Kotaro who is fighting against the audience in the room, decides to sing the song REVENGE. This song manages to calm the public and the girls receive at the end of the song, some applause.

The next day, Sakura waits in the basement of the mansion with the girls discussing the concert that was surely the worst concert of all. Sakura, with her legendary bad luck believing that she is guilty of this failed job, Saki immediately stops her and reminds her to stop being depressed. Kotaro bursts into the basement and Sakura happily finds her producer, who has returned to being himself.

Episode 14
Sakura goes back to training to become Saga's greatest idol and Kotaro summons her with the rest of Franchouchou. He gives them a fake interview about their return to public life and annoys Sakura with her microphone, which doesn't annoy her more than that.

He announces to them during the meeting that they will participate in a television program in order to announce their return to the public arena and thus reach a fairly large audience. The girls will visit and present the Yutoku-Inari temple in Kashima with the rocker and radio host, White Ryu. Sakura doesn't know this local star, which annoys Saki.

On the same day, the girls from Franchouchou arrive at Yutoku-Inari and introduce themselves to the film crew of the show. Then White Ryu arrives, sitting on the hood of his car, driven by his assistant. Saki is in awe of the old rocker with his huge pompadour, Sakura doesn't seem so fascinated by the character.

Sakura is the host of the show and tries her best to cheer it up properly. She does not understand all the instructions given by the film crew, luckily for her, Ai and Lily are very comfortable doing this type of exercise and they know very well how to present a TV show. She will also climb to the top of the Myobu Shrine with the girls, the film crew, and White Ryu.

The filming day ends and the show crew is quite satisfied with Franchouhou's performance as opposed to White Ryu's, whose director doesn't understand much of what he says. Saki is upset to hear these words, but Sakura stops her for a moment because she escapes from the truck to go to say goodbye to her idol of her life. Sakura accompanies her friend who finds out that White Ryu will soon be leaving the radio show.

This sad news affects Saki a lot, Lily wonders if Saki was in love with this old rocker. Follow a conversation about love and idols between Franchouchou. Sakura immediately asks Ai if she loved someone when she was alive, the latter will answer the question in the negative.Sakura is worried about her friend, but Saki reassures her and tells her about her past as a criminal and how White Ryu helped her find her friend Reiko of hers. She therefore decides to flee the mansion by bicycle, with Sakura in the back, to find Ryu and persuade him to continue hosting the radio show. Sakura and Saki arrive at the recording studio on time, after pedaling hard. White Ryu welcomes Saki and Sakura carefree to his show. Sakura will attend Ryu's broadcast of the show to Saki and Franchouchou. After the recording of the show, Ryu and Saki finally say goodbye and the young zombie confesses her feelings for him, which greatly surprises Sakura to the point of losing sight of her.

Saki and Sakura stop near a river and wait for the sun to rise. Saki is a little depressed to see her idol always leave, but Sakura reminds her that they will meet again one day, but when they become women, which will never happen, she reminds Saki because they are zombies. As she says these words, Saki breaks down in tears. She realizes that she will never grow back and she will never be able to experience life experiences as an adult woman. Sakura, panicked at seeing her rebellious friend cry, she starts crying too! Therefore, Saki tries to comfort her, but Sakura cries so much that her body becomes completely dehydrated.

A few days later, Franchouchou performed again at the Geils hall and Saki took on the most famous title of White Ryu, "Do you hate windy days?"

Episode 15
Sakura continues the adventure with Franchouchou, who continues to do odd jobs. Sakura clings to Ai to continue to evolve her group and become great idols. Kotaro is still teasing the girls during their daily meetings, this time attacking Sakura with a squirt gun.

After soaking the girls, he announces that they will be participating in the opening of the Saga Arena with the Tokyo idol group Iron Frill. This news worries Sakura, their level seems far from that of Tokyo idols but Ai wishes to accept the challenge, which reassures Sakura. However, Kotaro also announces that Ai will not be participating in this concert. Announcement that makes Sakura react, reminding Kotaro that all together form Franchouchou. Kotaro ignores the girls' requests and orders them to go train for the concert.

Sakura therefore decides to train thoroughly to succeed in her concert but her current level is far from equal to that of the Iron Frill girls. She also realizes that Junko, who took Ai's place to manage her group during her absence, is stressed out by the current situation. Sakura is also stressed when she sees the television appearance of Iron Frill, who has just arrived in Saga. So she decides with Saki, Yugiri, Lily and Tae to work on a new music whose instrumental is created from... a broom, maracas and a bucket, frantically typed by Tae. This performance doesn't seem to suit Junko, who runs away from the training room. Sakura decides to follow the old idol and finds her on the roof of the mansion, singing 50 to 4 tsu no Wasuremono.

Sakura is so moved by Junko's performance that she inadvertently slides on the roof of the mansion. Junko will only be able to recover the young zombie's head when she falls. With Sakura's head resting next to her, she talks about the song Junko just sang, known to be used in many commercials today, it is the song that launched her career. Once Sakura's body has managed to climb on its own to the roof of the mansion and her head returns to her place, she offers Junko to go find Ai for advice. Kotaro not having forbidden the girls to go talk to Ai, they both think it is a good idea, to help them overcome the current situation.

The two girls go to meet her, but run into Iron Frill's new mainstay, Shiori, who wants to chat with Ai. They attend the confrontation between the two idols and Shiori's proposal to Ai, that is, leave Franchouchou and join Iron Frill. After this discussion, Sakura seems to be distraught.

Episode 16
Junko insists on keeping Ai's invitation to Iron Frill a secret, but is clearly unsettled the next day, which Sakura notices. She walks around, wondering what to do and thinking that she should ask Ai...before realizing that she cannot ask Ai for help about a problem with Ai herself. Instead, she decides to help Yugiri make food. She goes out to meet Ai herself later, but Ai simply walks past her, ignoring her. She later performs at the Saga Arena (stopping briefly to wrangle Tae Yamada) with the rest of Franchouchou, and glares at Iron Frill when their lead continues trying to poach Ai from them.

Episode 17
When Lily Hoshikawa decides to enter the "Japanese Got Performance" national TV show contest, Sakura starts training the rest of Franchouchou to properly cheer her on and make themselves heard. Later, she overhears Light Oozora's plan to make the judges "drown in their own tears", along with his estimation that Saga has no serious competition to prevent him making the finals easily. Sakura warns Lily about this, but Lily is unconcerned and proceeds with her act, making it to the finals herself. After that, Sakura overhears Light's discussion with Lily, and tells Lily that all of Franchouchou support her. She then leads the way, cheering Lily on during Lily's performance.

Episode 24
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