Tae Yamada

Tae Yamada (山田 たえ, Yamada Tae) is a mysterious girl with an unknown past. She's the only zombie who hasn't awakened. She's also a member of the idol group Franchouchou.

She is just titled as The Legendary Tae Yamada (伝説の山田たえ, Densetsu no Yamada Tae).

While most zombies have details about their past lives (Yugiri is an exception, as we only know about her occupation and apparent ties to Kotaro's well-known waiter), Tae is so far the only one whose details are still largely in the dark. The only clue available is her profile, which lists her hobby like visiting different travel agencies. She has a backstory but it wasn't shown in the first season because it was still unnecessary.

Human
Tae has long, straight dark plum hair with two parts that stand out slightly with her bangs, they are also straight with a piece that runs down her face and is reddish-brown. Her normally baggy clothing hides a very well-endowed and curvaceous figure which is proportionally identical to those of Sakura Minamoto, with only slight differences by sheer numbers mostly due to Tae being much taller. However, her idol outfit her impressive proportions are much more noticeable.

Zombie
From what you can see under her clothes, everything except her face and hands is covered in bandages.

Tae typically has bandages on her neck, chest, head, and upper leg with a loose black dress tied with a white rope. She also has gray over the knee socks with black shoes.

Idol
Her idol outfit changes throughout the series: As an idol, she wears a long-sleeved purple striped shirt and a purple skirt with white ruffles.

Wear a sweater with sleeves that is too long during your first public performances.

Pajamas
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Personality
Tae is the only one of the girls who hasn't fully regained consciousness, so she's still a mindless zombie. As such, Tae is unpredictable and driven by sheer instinct, doing things like biting the other members and throwing herself into the crowd. However, she seems to have some semblance of a conscience, at least being able to understand the members to some degree and be cooperative enough to participate in the practices and performances. She also seems smart enough to have a caring side for her fellow zombie idols.

As the only zombie that hasn't awakened, she makes little contribution to the team and often gets in the way of their attempts to bite people or when her head falls off. On the other hand, it is surprisingly useful in times of a pinch, such as when she bites into one of Maria's buns when trying to threaten Sakura and Lily, and scares a large boar after it attacks the girls.

Tae's zombie antics and girlish demeanor are often sources of comedy. However, on Episode 12, when Sakura, blinded by depression, vehemently pushes her away too many times, Tae reaches her Breaking Point of anger and shows that even if she is ultimately a harmless zombie, she can actually be quite scary when she's really mad.

Episode 5 in particular shows her extreme appetite, going so far as to attack a guy in a chicken suit because she thinks he's a real chicken, not to mention swallowing a whole plate of raw meat before this, and a plate of eels on a stick (including plate) followed by five eel sticks later

She tends to bite and gnaw on anyone or anything she can get her hands on, including her own hair. However, according to Kotaro, she is totally harmless.

Natural Abilities

 * Superhuman Strength - As shown in the eleventh episode, she is able to drag Sakura out of the room she locked herself in and into another area in the mansion just by hanging onto the collar of her pajamas with her mouth.

Skillset

 * Cross species Communication - She is able to communicate with Romero using dog language and often howls with him at the moon.
 * Dancing - Although she is unable to sing, she is able to move her body to the beat of any song.
 * Snowman Building - In the tenth episode, she is shown to have built an accurate snowman of Romero that is thrice the size of the girls.

Unique Abilities

 * Immortality - As a zombie, she is granted the ability to stay the age she died, appearance-wise, and the immunity to circumstances that would normally be fatal to humans.
 * Detachable Limbs - Parts of her body are detachable, whether she intends to do so or not.
 * Phosphorescent Vision - Like the rest of the girls, her undead eyes are shown to be able to glow in the dark.
 * Monstrous Form - After having had enough of Sakura’s self-deprecation and sulking, she briefly morphs into a more terrifying form of herself with a larger and pointer set of teeth and her phosphorescent eyes are more prominent. This form also makes her more nimble.

Etymology

 * Her first name, Tae, is written in hiragana (たえ), which has no special meaning. However, when written in kanji (多恵), it could possibly mean "many, much" (多) (ta) and "blessing" (恵) (e).
 * Tae's surname Yamada means "mountain" (山) (yama) and "field, rice paddy" (田) (da).Bf3a7b6e3a03e1903b4f9a3c48eaf15d0b650ad4r1-1363-2048v2 hq.jpg

Trivia

 * They wanted Tae's image to be "sexy onee-san who comes for your blood." Give the impression of a beautiful long-haired Japanese horror character. They thought it would be cute if the hair moved like dogs' ears and could move independently, they also enjoyed designing the clothes, choosing prisoner style shirts and pajamas that they really liked.


 * Up to the third episode, Tae's voice actress was credited as "???".
 * Tae is the only member of Franchouchou who hasn't done any lead songs as she's unable to properly speak.
 * Tae's hair resembles a squid, which is fitting as her favorite food is squid.
 * In Episode 9, Tae chews on Maria's Odango hair.
 * The former's voice actress Kotono Mitsuishi's breakout role was Usagi Tsukino/Sailor Moon, who actually wore buns in both her civilian and Sailor guise.
 * Along with Yūgiri, Tae is the only zombie whose cause of death hasn't been revealed yet.
 * By actual age at death, Tae is the oldest of the girls as she died at the age of 29.
 * Tae's Outfit if we take her name to translate as Blessing of the Mountain, closely resembles Buddhist Motsuke Koromo style robes.
 * Tae is one of three with most curvaceous figures in group. Sharing same cup size and body type with Sakura Minamoto and beaten only by Yugiri.


 * One of the foods that she likes the least (Takoyaki), it was created in 1933 in the Showa era so she can only come from a nearby time.
 * Or as a zombie she taste the food and do not like it, and as a curiosity the Takoyaki contains octopus.