Saga Prefecture

"“I know Saga from top to bottom, everything there is to know.”"

The Saga Prefecture (佐賀 ​​県 Saga-ken) is located on the north side of Kyushu Island, Japan. The prefecture is the main setting for the events of the Zombie Land Saga anime series.

Geography
Saga Prefecture is located in the western and western part of Japan, and in the northern and western part of Kyushu. Both population and area are the smallest among the seven Kyushu prefectures, with both population and area ranking 42nd among all prefectures. However, the population density is 16th among all prefectures, which is average, and the third highest in Kyushu.

Due to the historical background that the prefecture was divided into the Saga domain and the Karatsu domain, the two divisions are best divided into the northern part (northwestern part) centered on the city of Karatsu and the southern part (southeastern part) centered in the city of Saga.

Cities

 * Imari
 * Kanzaki
 * Karatsu
 * Kashima
 * Ogi
 * Saga City (capital)
 * Takeo
 * Taku
 * Tosu
 * Ureshino

1870-1883
During the Bakumatsu, Saga was westernized faster than other places in Japan so it was a key place during the reform, but the samurai revolts in 1874 and the defeats of the wars, its glory remained in the past, by 1876 the Saga prefecture had been divided between Mizuma and Nagasaki which completely erased it from the map.

However, a boy named Kiichi Momozaki managed after 2 years to revive the old prefecture and create a new Saga that would prosper in the future.

2018-2020
During this time, Saga suffers a constant depopulation and threatens to be depopulated, so Kotaro Tatsumi gathers a group of zombie girls to bring attention to Saga again and prevent the prefecture from being forgotten and that Saga's curse prevents it from prefecture disappears from people's minds.

The Curse of Saga

 * Main Article: The Curse of SAGA

Trivia

 * The title of the anime, Zombie Land Saga, refers to both the saga (story) of the pop idol group consisting of zombies as well the prefecture itself.
 * As such, every episode has the word “Saga” included somewhere in the title.
 * In real life, Jofuku did come to Saga and found the elixir of immortality in one of the mountains in the prefecture.

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