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Explanation of all deaths seen in Zombie Land Saga
I haven't uploaded one of these posts to the group for a long time, and I take advantage of the fact that I have free time to do so.

As such, I will only explain the deaths that were caused by Saga's curse indirectly or directly. There are spoilers for both the anime and the spin-off manga. I know I posted a similar post a long time ago, but thanks to the spinoff manga, significant details were added.

Things to know before
In the first post I posted I didn't do this (I think) so I'll take the trouble to put a few details to give a little more context. Here I am going to expand a little more.


 * 1) All the girls from Franchouchou died one day from Butsumetsu. This day symbolizes the day Buddha died, and is considered the least fortunate day. Weddings and new product launches are usually avoided. Some Shinto shrines close on this day. The entire story of Zombie Land Saga is imbued with both Shinto, Taoist and Buddhist religious overtones.
 * 2) The origin of the power of Saga's curse is in Saga itself, in this case, its inhabitants. Large gatherings of people in one place generate a considerable amount of power that is harnessed for both curse and prosperity. The power of the curse and prosperity are together like two sides of the same coin, so the more prosperity there is, the stronger the curse will be. Therefore, it is implied that the great prosperity that the Franchouchou brought to Saga also generated great curses that subsequently ended their lives.
 * 3) Curses, as well as their physical forms (Sagako) take shape or power from existing underlying social issues.
 * 4) The Bagua are a set of eight symbols that originated in China, used in Taoist cosmology to represent the fundamental principles of reality, seen as a range of eight interrelated concepts. Each consists of three lines, each line “broken” or “unbroken”, respectively representing yin or yang. Like the religious undertones, ZLS is riddled with Yin and Yang symbolism.
 * 5) We know that the Bagua is intrinsically related to Franchouchou and Kotaro, but we don't know how. Kotaro's surname, Tatsumi, means “southeast” (巽), while Kotaro's old surname, Inui, means “northwest” (乾). If you look at King Wen's “Later Heaven” Bagua, you will see that the word “巽” is on the opposite side of “乾”, implying that Kotaro is related to this system.

Now, let's go to the explanations of the deaths.

Saki Nikaido

 * Date of birth: May 15, 1979
 * Date of death: August 30, 1997 (Butsumetsu)
 * Cause of death: Motorcycle accident

She was the leader of a motorcycle gang that wants to take over the island of Kyushu and then the country. Saki was discovered alive at the crash site, but she suffered severe lacerations from the crash and burns from the explosion, and she died approximately two hours later at the hospital. Due to her influence and the growth of the gang, the curse tried to stop Saki, and as a last resort, left her to die in a motorcycle accident which she initially survived, but leaving her alive for her gang to be traumatized by the accident.

Ai Mizuno

 * Date of birth: March 7, 1992
 * Date of death: August 4, 2008 (Butsumetsu)
 * Cause of death: Struck by lightning

Iron Frill was a very popular group and Ai was their center, a living legend. Their concert at the Tosu Stadium (EFS) would be one of the most important in the area. The curse killed her before the concert became a success and in a way that would leave a negative impact on the area, and even Saga. Even newspaper articles highlight the rarity of the incident, since she was the only one affected by lightning.

Junko Konno

 * Date of birth: September 2, 1964
 * Date of death: December 09, 1983 (Butsumetsu)
 * Cause of death: Plane crash

She had already become popular and well known, a living legend, similar to Ai. Junko's flight (“DSN Airlines Flight 842”) appears to have crashed into the sea, as the Japan Coast Guard was responsible for recovery efforts. Other glimpses in the article suggest that the plane “cracked in two” down the middle of the fuselage, and that there was something wrong with one part of the fuselage.

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