Lily Hoshikawa/History



Lily Hoshikawa was a breakout star in a long-running drama show and a famous actress who starred in multiple primetime shows of multiple networks. Nothing could stop her now! Until one fateful day...

Early Life
Lily's mother passed away when she was young and she lived a peaceful life with her father Takeo Go. She later took up acting roles with Takeo as her manager. She became renowned for her cute persona, appearing in many series and shows. Sometime between Lily's birth and before taking up acting she began identifying as a girl. Her birth name was "Masao Go."

Over the course of her acting career, Lily was overworked numerous amount of times by Takeo, who had now become too attached in career management and neglected Lily's feelings. As his ignorance continued, their relationship soon rifted apart as Lily began to shut herself away from Takeo for ignoring her. She later expressed worry she was going to be an adult. While keeping herself away, she looked into a mirror and --- to her shock --- sees facial hair growing on her. The combined mental shock and exhaustion caused Lily to have a heart attack and died as a result. When Takeo found her body, he was riddled with grief as he became alone.

Death
Her exposed heart and often rapid heartbeat represents her cause of death, meaning mental shock, which caused her death from heart attack /cardiac arrest.

Upon closer listening to Lily's heartbeat, it is observed clear evidence of sinus bradycardia, arrhythmia, and unusual metallic noise. Their conclusion seem to be that Lily probably already had some sort of congenital organic cardiopathy, her family probably knew about this and had mitral valve replacement for her, but that didn't save her as more stress built up in her TV career; moments before her death, Lily's extreme emotions most likely led to a sudden increase of catecholamine in her blood stream and a excitatory sympathetic nervous system, which ultimately failed the synthetic replacement parts and led to sudden death due to extreme cardiogenic shock.

Afterlife
Sometime in the future, Lily's body was found by Kotaro Tatsumi and revived her as a zombie to become part of his zombie idol project. Her zombification made her into an eternally young girl and Kotaro used her stage name to cover her real identity. From this point onward, she uses Lily Hoshikawa as her preferred name.

Episode 1
After their successful death metal performance in a death metal festival, all of the zombie girls regain their senses, she wakes up along with Ai Mizuno and Junko Konno but was frightened upon seeing Tae Yamada's primal nature.

Episode 2
With Lily's senses restored, she can now think and act freely like a normal human. However, she lounges back doing nothing like the rest of the girls, while Sakura Minamoto remains proactive with Kōtarō Tatsumi. Nevertheless, when the girls are later given a performance opportunity at the Saga Castle, they try to follow Kōtarō's performance instructions, even though Tae Yamada almost compromises the all of girls' human disguises. As Sakura tries to keep everything under control, Saki pushes Sakura aside and mocks everyone in the audience with Tae's head. Sakura eventually snaps and knocks Tae's head away, then verbally fights Saki in a rap battle. Lily and Yūgiri join alongside the fight as background rappers to appeal to everyone in the audience and intuitively make the performance a success.

Episode 3
Before training to meet with Kōtarō Tatsumi's expectations, Lily suggested that they should elect a leader among them, where Saki Nikaidō stands up to elect herself as the leader. Secondly, Lily says they should come up with a new group name as she feels that Kōtarō's provided ones are too bland. She insists on a cute name, but the rest don't feel comfortable with that. Just then, Tae Yamada sneezes and interrupts everyone. The sneeze inspires Lily and she comes up with an original name: "Franchouchou." Everyone agrees with her idea and so they've decided to be called Franchouchou.

Episode 4
While Kotaro presents her collaboration with the Hotel Kasuien and the hot springs, Lily is surprisingly unnoticed by the viewer, since she did not like the hot springs for personal reasons, in ureshino, Lily accompanies Yugiri through the city and visit several temples and tourist places, at night when Sakura scares the pharmacist lady she accidentally surprises her in the style of the glow

Episode 5
During the morning presentation on Drive in tori, she mentions that she does not know the place, although she is from Saga, arriving at the place she is excited by the taste of chicken and at the time of the commercial she follows the letters without any problem.

Episode 6
In the next half of the chapter she mentions how ugly the Kotaro shirt made for Franchouchou, although she participates in the Gatalympics she does not manage to win the necessary position to be on the podium

While Ai is on Kotaro's computer it is implied that she knows quite a bit about show business, she also participates in the indoor concert and taking photos with fans (in addition to taking photos), after Ai and Junko's fight, she makes nervous about the future of the group

Episode 7
Concerned about Junko and about Saga Rock, she gives several ideas on how they can solve the problem, but does nothing, Yugiri mentions how mature Lily is in secret.

She participates in the training in an energetic way for the open-air concert, on the verge of leaving the mansion, Kotaro runs over Junko and after saying that she will go, Lily proceeds to hug them as they can now participate in the normal way.

Before the concert, she almost reveals her zombie nature by her outstanding heart.

Episode 8
As Franchouchou enjoy a string of new gigs and events, a large man named Takeo Gō comes to one of their events after noticing something familiar about child star named Lily Hoshikawa. Lily then explains to Sakura Minamoto that the man was her father, further revealing that she was a boy named Masao Go. She died from the shock of growing facial hair, made worse by many months of overwork. Realizing how much Takeo cared for Lily, Franchouchou invites him to a concert where Lily performs a special song to give him a proper goodbye.

Episode 9
When Kotaro sends them with the elders, Lily is surprised by the kashima dance and proceeds to follow the dance, when Maria arrives to challenge Sakura she just doesn't do anything and encourages Tae to bite Maria's hair. In Kotaro's truck she starts fighting with Tae for the squid that she stole from him.

Episode 10
Happy that now her father comes to the concerts, Lily feels better and after Kotaro sends them to the mountains, where we are implied that Lily participated in a survival television series where it is implied that Lily participated in a survival television series and apparently learned how to survive in the wild, during the episode she is seen with Saki lighting a fire and making a makeshift camp.

Episode 11
In the beginning of the episode, Sakura accidentally hits her lower part making her scream, but when Sakura does not respond she becomes sad because she does not recognize her, she tries to make Sakura return to normal, being useless because Sakura is indifferent makes her cry

Episode 12
Concerned about Sakura's attitude, Lily feels very sad but they can't do much to cheer her up, after Tae brings her down from the attic and the girls give a speech about how Sakura kept the group together, she is unfazed, as she continues without remembering the girls and she doesn't care, however Yugiri makes her see reason and convinces her to go to Arpino, the next day in practice, Sakura manages to involuntarily remember the dance for Arpino and Lily is very excited because at the everything is fine.

Already in Arpino, and after the collapse of this, the girls welcome the Sakura they met and sing to end the series, however Okoba seems to recognize Lily and is beginning to investigate.

Season 2
Lily Hoshikawa/Sipnosis