Episode 15

"“Franchouchou’s Number 3, come join us at Iron Frill!”"

”Love and Youth Acoustic SAGA” (愛と青春アコースティック Ai to seishun akōsutikku sāga) is the third episode of the second season of Zombie Land Saga and is the fifteenth episode overall.

Synopsis (Kotaro’s Diary)
(Note: This is an unofficial English translation of the synopsis from the website.)

"With the radio media, Franchouchou's name will become even more widespread. From here, we have to gain more momentum and fill the tomb that was opened due to the failure of the station star. Just when I was thinking that, ridiculous information came in. They attack Saga. To counter it, we must significantly strengthen our strength. He's the one who has the key, but... I don't think the enemy thought about it either."

Plot
TBA

Characters

 * Kotaro Tatsumi
 * Romero
 * Franchouchou
 * Sakura Minamoto
 * Saki Nikaido
 * Ai Mizuno
 * Junko Konno
 * Yugiri (non-speaking)
 * Lily Hoshikawa
 * Tae Yamada
 * Iron Frill
 * Shiori
 * Makoto
 * Yui
 * Hikari
 * Julia
 * Death Metal fans (cameo)
 * Metalhead A
 * Metalhead B
 * Journalists (cameo)
 * Shinta Okoba
 * Inuhashi

Locations

 * Saga Prefecture
 * Abandoned Mansion
 * Plaza 656
 * White Ryu’s Radio Station
 * Cation Mall
 * Ekimae Stadium (mentioned;flashback)
 * Saga Stage (mentioned)
 * Fukuoka (mentioned)
 * Nagasaki Ajisai Festival Stage (mentioned)
 * Beppu’s Jigoku Onsen Inn (mentioned)

Songs

 * ”NOPE!!!”
 * ”Mezame RETURNER (Ai’s solo)”
 * ”50 and 4 Things Left Behind”

Instrumentals

 * TBA

Trivia

 * It is revealed that Junko can play the guitar.
 * This episode takes place during the first two weeks of June 2019.
 * Kotaro’s diary entry for the episode was presumably written during the scene wherein Junko and Sakura eavesdrop on Ai and Shiori’s conversation, albeit, offscreen. Foreshadowing the destruction of Saga in a future episode.
 * The title of the episode refers to the names of the girls: "Love and Youth Acoustic SAGA" Ai (愛) = Love/Junko (ko 子) = girl, youth.
 * Additionally, the episode title having the term “acoustic” included indirectly references the type of guitar Junko plays throughout the episode. Which is the exact opposite of an electric guitar, with “electric” being used in the title of the following episode.
 * Junko’s chronological age is indirectly referred to in the title of her solo in the episode, “50 and 4 Things Left Behind”. With the numbers in the song title adding up to her actual age of 54.
 * This was also the song that Ai was about to listen to on Kotaro’s computer before being interrupted by Sakura and Junko herself.

Dub Differences

 * TBA

Cultural References

 * The website Ai uses to watch Iron Frill’s music video is called “MyTube”, which is a parody of YouTube.
 * The search engine Junko tries to use is called “Cookle”, a parody of Google.
 * Kotaro's Daily Gathering is a parody of the famous Stanley Kubrick movie "Full Metal Jacket". Kotaro acts as Sergeant Hartman, who, in the original film, insults his recruits and gives them degrading nicknames.

Continuity

 * This is the third episode to focus around Ai and Junko, with the first being “Episode 6” and the second being “Episode 7”.
 * The girls continue to not let Kotaro know they have been using his computer in secret.
 * Several mentions and flashbacks of their failed performance at Ekimae Stadium from “Episode 13” were shown in this episode.

Errors

 * The girls still try to hide the fact that they have been using Kotaro’s computer behind his back despite Kotaro telling Junko that he already knew about it in “Episode 7”.
 * Ai’s arms were drawn smaller than usual during the scene wherein she and Kotaro had their one-on-one talk.
 * Saki mentions how the mansion does not have any roof access in “Episode 10” although Junko was able to get to the roof in this episode as well as Tae and Romero on multiple occassions.