Tae Yamada

Tae Yamada (山田 たえ, Yamada Tae) is a mysterious girl with an unknown past. She's the only zombie who hasn't awakened. She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is just titled as the Legendary Tae Yamada (伝説の山田たえ, Densetsu no Yamada Tae).

Appearance
Tae has long, straight, dark prune hair with two parts slightly sticking out with her bangs are also straight with one piece sweeping down across her face and reddish-brown color.

Normally, Tae has bandages on her neck, chest, head, and upper leg with a loose black dress tied with a white rope. She also supports grey over-the-knee socks with black flats. As an Idol, she wears a long-sleeved purple striped shirt and a violet skirt with white frills.

Personality
Tae is the only one of the girls who has not fully regained consciousness, and so has remained a mindless zombie. As such, Tae is unpredictable and driven by pure instinct, doing things such as biting at the other members and launching herself at the crowd. However, she does seem to have some semblance of awareness, being able to at least understand the members to some degree and be cooperative enough to participate in the practices and performances. She also appears sentient enough to have a caring side for her fellow zombie idols.

Tae is often eating or chewing something which shows a gluttonous and sometimes predatory (related to her zombie nature) side to her personality. <!-- Hiding, but not removing

Episode 1
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 Minamoto 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 Nikaidō rebuffs her and plays around with Tae 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 Tatsumi'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 Hoshikawa 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 Konno 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
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 on her misfortune, 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. -->

Trivia

 * Her first name, Tae, is written in hiragana (たえ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (多恵), it could possibly mean "many, much" (多) (ta) and "blessing" (恵) (e).
 * Tae's surname Yamada means "mountain" (山) (yama) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (da).
 * Up to the third episode, Tae's voice actress was credited as "???"
 * Tae is the only member of Franchouchou who hasn't done any lead songs as she's unable to properly speak.
 * Tae's hair resembles a squid, which is fitting as her favorite food is squid.
 * In Episode 9, Tae chews on Maria's Odango Hair.
 * The former's voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi's breakout role was Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon, who actually wore buns in both her civilian and Sailor guise.
 * Along with Yūgiri, Tae is the only zombie who's cause of death hasn't been revealed yet.
 * By actual age at death, Tae is the oldest of the girls as she died at the age of 29.
 * Tae's Outfit if we take her name to translate as Blessing of the Mountain, closely resembles Buddhist Motsuke Koromo style robes
 * Tae is one of three with most curvaceous figures in group. Sharing same cup size and body type with Sakura Minamoto and beaten only by Yugiri.

Character concept
They wanted Tae's image to be "sexy onee-san who comes for your blood." Give the impression of a beautiful long-haired Japanese horror character. They thought it would be nice if the hair moved like the ears of the dogs and could move independently, they also enjoyed designing the clothes, choosing prisoner style T-shirts and pajamas that they really liked.