Sakura Minamoto/History

Sakura Minamoto/Historia

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.

Season 2
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