The Curse of SAGA

The Curse of the Saga Prefecture, also known as The Curse of Saga, is the greatest danger that the Saga Prefecture currently faces, thanks to the Zombie Land Saga project, Kotaro Tatsumi tries to overcome the curse in order to defeat it. This the cataclysm disaster are main antagonis of this series.

Origins
According to the first chapter of Gaiden, the curse of Saga was born by the search for immortality in the area hundreds of years ago and as we already know that Xu Fu is confirmed who was sending Saga to look for the elixir of immortality 2200 years ago to Saga by part of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, is the possible origin of the curse.

After he found the elixir of immortality it is said that a magician (presumably the Taoist magician Anqi Sheng) offered the elixir of immortality called Furofuki to Xu Fu after his arrival. However, Chinese legends speak that Xu Fu met a huge sea beast that did not allow him to continue and had to return in search of archers, possibly this beast was a demon guarding the islands of the gods or also called Mount Penglai, This sea beast may be the monster from the first opening of Zombie Land Saga.

After his arrival in Saga, Anqi Sheng, angry at having altered the order of life and death, cursed the emperor at the emperor of China by launching a meteorite on the yellow river in China and threatening the emperor with death with the phrase "the First Emperor will die and his lands will be divided." Shortly after, just the same year that Xu Fu was sent on his second mission, the emperor died of mercury poisoning in 210 BC while trying to find the formula for immortality.

The presence of Saga's curse is linked to the formula of immortality and therefore anyone who looks for this formula will be cursed in some way or another, just as happened to Xu Fu, who was blessed with immortality but nevertheless the the price to pay for this immortality was to be linked to the prefecture of Saga and the conscience of Saga in the collective of the area. Meaning that the curse is constantly trying to kill him but being the immortal the only way to kill Xu Fu is for Saga's consciousness to disappear by being linked to this consciousness.

The curse of Saga seems to be some kind of thinking entity for the actions that this takes, by preventing Saga from being more recognized by killing people or simply making people forget Saga, the curse would be constantly cutting the years of Xu Fu's life to reclaim the mystical order of the area.

Skills

 * Physical presence - The curse manifests its power in response to a threat, the greater it is, the more effort it will make to stop it, which means that if Franchouchou arrives at the EFF and is broadcast nationally, Saga's curse will not hesitate to use all his available power to stop the girls or even destroy Saga in moments before they achieve their goal.
 * Demons - Spawn demons in Saga to destabilize the area and stop people from thinking about Saga Prefecture.
 * Accidents - The curse sees as a threat anyone who wants Saga to be more popular, so it will generate accidents or small or large inconveniences that will hinder Saga in his progress.
 * Bad luck - Franchouchou's girls were cursed by the curse with bad luck, but being dead and with Kotaro on top of them, this bad luck is not effective, in fact the curse tried to take them to the sea and try to expose the girls on multiple occasions during the last episode because the curse doesn't want the people of Saga to have something to remember.
 * Deaths - It is implicit in these season 2 episodes that memory is the factor that allows Saga to persist, not its official recognition as a prefecture, because committing an assassination against Saga's rebels effectively reduced the number of people who remember Saga in their hearts. The death of the girls is the last measure of the curse to end anyone who dares to interfere with Saga's popularity.
 * Natural Disasters - As seen in recent episodes, Saga's curse is capable of causing natural disasters that are sure to have killed multiple people.
 * Aliens - Literally calling aliens after Franchouchou's benefit concert became popular in various countries.

Weaknesses

 * Onions - Onions are the method of sealing the Sagako demons, a physical manifestation of Saga's curse that tried to end the prefecture in 1989-1999
 * Memory - Saga's collective memory is what allows Xu Fu and possibly the girls to exist, This is Kotaro's plan and that's the way Kotaro plans to save Saga and why it has to be the way he does it. is doing, if all mankind remembers Saga, it is impossible to destroy her from people's hearts and since the curse only operates in Saga's area, it will be impossible for him to do anything.

No deaths
The curse doesn't just need to kill, it just needs to negatively impact the area.


 * Episode 5 - Prevent Sakura from winning the gatalympics by knocking her down.
 * Episode 7 - First lethal attempt of the curse when trying to assassinate the girls with lightning, resulting negative for being zombies.
 * Episode 10 - A Wild Boar in It to the girls' camping area and then the truck running over Sakura, all to stop Franchouchou.
 * Episode 11 - Basically all of Sakura's life
 * Episode 12 - Sudden snowfall and causing the building to collapse on the girls.
 * Episode 13 - Trying to get Kotaro run over by turning all the traffic lights green, however his good luck counteracts this.
 * Episode 14 - Frustrating White Ryu's radio by causing his station to lose popularity.
 * Episode 15 - Kotaro sabotages the Japanse got Talent twice to avoid drawing the attention of the curse, first with his interpretation of the mud fish making the prefecture look bad and second by sabotaging Lily's song by giving Light the song she was playing to sing, when Light won the curse did not focus on the girls this time. Besides that Light emphasizes that nobody in Saga triumphs.
 * Episode 18 - Generate Saga Wars
 * Episode 19 - Kill Yugiri and Kiichi, but Kiichi escaped from Saga before doing so.
 * Episode 20 - Start the cataclysm and nearly kill Kotaro twice.
 * Episode 21 - Killing Kotaro by drowning him and blocking his way, for Franchouchou the curse dragged their house and demolished it, in addition to trying to expose them on several occasions, but the girls were saved from it.

Death of the girls

 * In Saki's death, she is the leader of a cycling gang that wants to take over the island of Kyushu and then her country. Due to her influence and the gang's growth, the curse tried to stop Saki and as a last resort left her to die in a motorcycle accident that she initially survived, but by leaving her alive for her gang to see what happened, with the traumatized gang they stop the project of taking over Kyushu
 * At Lily's death, she was a popular actress in Saga. She makes Saga popular and known to her goes against the intentions of her curse, which is why she killed her by growing her hair at an early age and triggering a cardiac arrest from stress.
 * In Ai's death, Iron Frill is a very popular group and Ai is its center, a living legend. Their concert at EEF will be one of the largest in the area. The curse killed her before the concert became a success. The curse killed her in a way that will leave a negative impact on the place so no one wanted to remember the place. Even newspaper articles highlight the bizarreness of the incident.
 * With Junko's death, she already became popular and well-known, a living legend similar to Ai. Her when she went to Kyushu near Saga to bring popularity to the place. The curse stopped her immediately upon crashing the plane and she had no restrictions on collateral damage, as Junko was in a plane crash with hundreds of other passengers.
 * In Tae's case, the curse is already stopping her to "save Saga" by spawning demons to stop her group, we still don't know anything about Tae but most likely she has been brutally killed by a very powerful demon.
 * In Yugiri's case, she is also a living legend but not that popular, so the curse did not target her. Ito is the one who was sent to stop Saga's revolution, Itou was killed by Yugiri, therefore, she "saved Saga", which led to the curse opening a way to kill her. Kiichi escaping from Saga was out of the curse's control and thus was able to restore Saga from outside.
 * This also implies that the wars that destroyed Saga after her prosperity were the fault of the curse itself in the area.
 * In the case of Kotaro, the curse has been trying to kill him many times trying to drown him in the sea and in the bar where he is, as well as trying to crush him with a figure from Tosu's stadium.
 * Now it makes perfect sense why Sakura was the reason for Sakura's bad luck. It wasn't because SHE was unlucky herself, the curse of the Saga prevented her from succeeding and pursuing her dreams, since then she would have saved the entire Saga, and the universe set out to make sure that didn't happen. And after trying and failing several times to demotivate Sakura, only for her to still not give up, he finally decided that the only way to stop her would be to kill her and according to Arata's files, the truck driver was skewed by a mysterious light and that his truck was pulled by this light towards Sakura.
 * And when Sakura proved physically impossible to kill due to her being a zombie, the curse tried to kill her in an emotional sense by recreating the incident that killed her and gave her amnesia, leading to her losing memories of her time in Franchouchou get depressed again and not wanting to continue. Although thanks to the efforts of her friends, Sakura was able to move on and finally regain her passion for being an idol as well as her memories.

Relationship with the Bagua
The curse generates bad luck to those who curse, therefore they even Franchouchou's bad luck coughs were generated by the intentional curse or as a result of their deaths, this is because all the girls died or Butsumetsu on a bad day and therefore the by-product is that in post-life they have bad luck. But the eight girls had extreme bad luck, in Bagua philosophy, going too far to one extreme will take you to the other extreme, so the extreme bad luck of the girls really gives the group great luck to counter the effects of the curse of Saga.

The only people with good luck in the series are Kotaro and Tae, with Kotaro explaining his name change based on the Bagua system which gave him the good luck necessary to prevent Saga's curse from reaching him easily as it did with the girls. Tae for her part is shown in episode 16 that she has good luck to a surprising level since in one day she earned 20 million yen to pay the debt of the girls and Kotaro, so even with that excessive amount of good luck Curse found a way to kill her, surely in a brutal way.

Trivia

 * Eikichi was also affected by Saga's curse, causing the accident that left him with no chance of being a baseball player.
 * The Ekimae Fudosan concert takes place on an unlucky day.

Maldición de Saga