Sakura Minamoto/Relationships

Saki Nikaido (Zombie #2)
"If you can’t take this for real then you’re the zombie whose deal will be head trauma that don’t heal!"

After gaining her consciousness in the end of the first episode, she sees Sakura as one of her, if not easiest target to pick on. Threatening to kill her or do worse whenever she feels like Sakura was messing with her, which was never the case.

Sakura finally has enough of playing hot potato with the severed head of Zombie #0, which then culminates a rap battle between the zombie with amnesia and the zombie who was a former biker boss. After dishing out their lines, Sakura earns not only the applause of the retirement home but also Saki’s respect.

In the third episode, Saki tells Sakura to think of their group name because “she told her to”.

In the fourth episode, Saki invites Sakura over to take a quick trip to the baths whilst majority of the hotel was either asleep or doing errands elsewhere. Sakura refuses her offer at first but after a little persuasion, and being beaten 2 to 1 on terms of zombies who wanted to try out the spa, she finally gives in. As they got into the spa, they see the lady of the pharmaceutical also stepping into the water, as Saki orders Sakura and Ai to go underwater, Sakura’s head misses the water by a few centimeters and instead hits a rock which then bowls her head over to where the old lady was. This pisses Saki off as seeing Sakura’s decapitated head started a scene, Saki and Ai quickly grab Sakura’s head and body as they try to run back to their hotel room as the rest of Franchouchou unintentionally scares the living daylights out of the old lady. The following morning, they read a report about a “severed head like a bowling ball” found in the hotel’s hot springs to which Saki exclaims that she would kick the press’ asses for the unnecessary report.

Additionally, Saki also teasingly calls Sakura an egg-head, referring to her as one of her Tamagotchis from back when she was alive.

In the eighth episode, Saki is the first to alert Sakura about the mysterious man, thinking he had malicious intentions with Lily. After clearing up the misunderstanding, Saki and Sakura, alongside the rest of Franchouchou, help Lily write a song for her father.

In the tenth episode, she sarcastically congratulates Kotaro for finally pissing Sakura off.

In the eleventh episode, she starts to get annoyed with Sakura as she had been sulking in her depressive state for quite some time now. She and the rest of Franchouchou try their best to get Sakura back into her senses and into their idol group as well, since Sakura was the most excited about the event, out of the rest of the girls. That night, Saki comments on how gross and sweaty she was and excuses herself from their bedroom to confront Sakura. Telling her to snap out of it since this jaded attitude of hers is starting to upset her.

In the twelfth episode, Saki and the rest of the girls all huddle close together, surrounding Sakura in their sleep as their way or showing her that they all have their support.

Ai Mizuno (Zombie #3)
Sakura discovers Ai Mizuno from her pop idol group, Iron Frill, from when they were both still alive. At the time, she has spiraled into depression after all her attempts at success has been unluckily thwarted by fate. She hears Ai’s response to an interview, saying how her failures makes her stronger and that that was what pushes her forward to doing better. This inspires Sakura to do the same, which is when she develops her dream of becoming a pop idol similar to Mizuno.

Throughout her time as a zombie, she had always felt something familiar about Mizuno, but since she had amnesia after getting hit by a truck, she can only remember bits of her memories from before. She holds onto what is left of her memories as her driving point of keeping up with Kotaro’s plan to save Saga with the seven undead girls via the power of music.

After the rest of Franchouchou’s awakening in the end of the first episode, she spots Ai and Junko attempting to escape the abandoned mansion, stating how Kotaro’s plan was crazy and how it would never work out. Panicking, Sakura tries to convince them to come back as they would get shot or worse when exposed to the public without their make-up on. This makes Sakura accidentally pull off Ai’s arms from the rest of her body. After her failed attempt at getting the two former idols to get back to the mansion, she follows them in her pajamas, hoping to change their minds, only to be greeted by a group of shady men and the same policeman from before. This experience drives some sense into Ai and Junko, with the three fleeing back to the mansion afterwards.

In the third episode, she suggests Ai to become their group leader before immediately being cut off by her saying there was no way that was happening.

In the sixth episode, she tries to break up Ai and Junko’s fight but to no avail.

In the tenth episode, she worries Ai and the rest of Franchouchou after Sakura gets hit by yet another truck. Franchouchou then proceeds to try their best to cheer her up and bring her memories back.

In the eleventh episode, Ai was the one to explain Sakura’s current situation to her, hoping to help her regain her post-death memories.

In the twelfth episode, Ai alongside the rest of Franchouchou, all huddle up close to Sakura, surrounding her in their sleep, showing her that she has all their support.

Junko Konno (Zombie #4)
Despite not knowing much about Junko’s time as an idol, she still has high respects for her. The two are in good terms, despite them not having as much interactions as Sakura does with either Kotaro or Saki.

After the rest of Franchouchou’s awakening at the end of the first episode, she sees Junko and Ai try to escape the abandoned mansion by jumping over the fence. Sakura tried to stop them and get them back but to no avail, this prompts Sakura to follow the former idols into the city in the midst of the night only for the trio to get confronted by a group of shady men and the policeman from before. This incident is what wakes Junko and Ai up regarding their current situation, forcing the two to go back alongside Sakura.

In the fourth episode, Junko overhears how Sakura and Saki were planning to sneak into the baths, which she shyly asks to join in on. After the whole incident involving Sakura’s head coming off, she and Saki quickly grab Sakura’s head and body and quickly head for their hotel room while the rest of Franchouchou unintentionally scare the living daylights out of the old lady.

In the fifth episode, Sakura compliments Junko, saying how she looks great in Drive-In Tori’s chicken costume, to which she responds with “Please, don’t lie to me.”.

In the sixth episode, she tries to mend Ai and Junko’s relationship after their disagreement regarding what their relationship with their fans are supposed to be. After finding Junko to herself by the beach, she attempts to fetch her straw hat for her after the wind sweeps it off her head. This leads the two to have a talk, which is also how Sakura and the audience find out about Junko’s cause of death.

In the seventh episode, Sakura shows her concern for Junko as it has been weeks since Junko has locked herself up in a separate room, away from Kotaro and the rest of Franchouchou. After Junko regains her willpower after being confronted by Kotaro, she decides to join the rest of Franchouchou during the last minute. As a visibly saddened Sakura looks off to the mansion just as the van door closes, Junko runs in front of the van, hoping to make Kotaro step on the breaks, stating how she changed her mind about not joining them for their performance, but instead gets hit by Kotaro, to which Sakura exclaims how this particular moment gives her deja vu somehow.

In the eleventh episode, Junko and the rest of Franchouchou try their best to cheer Sakura up and help her regain her memories from when she was a zombie after Sakura gets hit by another truck. That night, she exclaims how she could not sleep so she excuses herself to go out to “listen to the sounds of nature“, and heads for the same room she isolated herself in back in the seventh episode to confront an apathetic Sakura. Hoping to get Sakura back, she tries to strike up a conversation, only for Sakura to snap back at her and make her cry.

In the twelfth episode, Junko, alongside the rest of Franchouchou, huddle close to Sakura together, surrounding her in their sleep, showing her that she has all their support.

Yugiri (Zombie #5)
As the mother figure of the group, Yugiri tries to calm Sakura whenever she feels as if any of the other members of Franchouchou are tensed. The two are in good terms, but since Yugiri tends to have her reactions to things be delivered rather late, she often gets into misunderstandings with Franchouchou and Kotaro.

This is first shown in the third episode, as she shamelessly slaps Sakura straight across the face, thinking Sakura was still at the point wherein she still has not thought of practicing harder. This only elicits a confused “okay” from Sakura.

In the tenth episode, Yugiri tries to calm a fussy Sakura down by telling her they have all the time to practice after they gather the things they needed for survival up a mountaintop first. After returning from the snowy mountains, Yugiri pays a visit to Kotaro who is currently at their local cafe terrace. Yugiri talks to Kotaro about their trip, pointing out how she has figured out that the entire trip was his way of helping Sakura snap back into her senses, and comments on how she has a soft spot for people who can not express their feelings straightforwardly. Her tendency to have a late reaction is shown again when she slaps Kotaro across the face, thinking that he does not have any faith in Sakura when he just outright said so. After Sakura comes to her senses and apologizes to the rest of Franchouchou, Yugiri is happy to see the result and tells Kotaro of how she is glad that his plan somehow worked out, to which he responds by acting like he has no clue what she was talking about.

In the eleventh episode, Yugiri shows her concern by suggesting to slap the post-zombie amnesia off of Sakura. That night, unlike the other girls, she did not make up any excuse to go see Sakura, getting to the point and stating how she has no choice but to bust out her “preparation”. Moments later, she comes out of their bedroom, all dressed up with dyed hair, heading towards the room Sakura locked herself in, only to see that she was no longer there. Later on, she has had enough and slaps Sakura a second time, reprimanding her for her negative attitude and telling her how they would rather fail together than succeed without Sakura.

In the twelfth episode, Yugiri and the rest of Franchouchou huddle close together, surrounding Sakura in their sleep, showing that she has all of their support.

Lily Hoshikawa (Zombie #6)
"You have a smile that could bright up a room!"

Sakura and Lily are in good terms as Sakura treats her as a younger sister figure, despite the two also having little to no one-on-one interactions.

In the eighth episode, Sakura and the rest of Franchouchou find out about Lily’s past and her cause of death. After confronting Kotaro about it, they all help Lily write a song to her father after they have cleaned up their misunderstanding with the man.

In the eleventh episode, Lily was arguably the most distraught over how Sakura has no recollection of her time with them as a zombie after getting hit by yet another van. That night, she exclaims how she wanted to go stargazing since she could not fall asleep. She heads over to where Sakura was and tries to have a one-on-one talk with Sakura, reminding Sakura that she was the one who told her that her star was cute and that she had a smile that could brighten up a room. Sakura snaps at her, scaring Lily off and making her cry.

In the twelfth episode, Lily and the rest of Franchouchou gather around Sakura and huddle close together as they all fall asleep, showing Sakura that she has their full support.

Tae Yamada (Zombie #0)
Tae is the first zombie Sakura meets as Tae was the one who headbutts her way into the hallway Sakura was in in the first episode, effectively scaring Sakura into running away from the mansion. After she gains consciousness, she once again finds out that she has somehow returned to the mansion. Kotaro then introduces Tae alongside the rest of Franchouchou to her, but after getting to Tae Yamada, Sakura asks Kotaro confusingly as to what made Tae legendary as he had no description for her. This pisses Kotaro off and tells her that Tae is legendary just because she is.

Tae and Sakura are on good terms, since Sakura is the one who pays the most attention to Tae, which helped her gain Tae’s loyalty and affection.

In the first episode, she exclaims how Tae has bitten her at least fifteen times that day only.

In the second episode, she and Saki fight over Tae’s head after it gets dismembered in front of their elderly audience.

In the third episode, she shows her concern for Tae after she sticks her mouth onto the tip of the whiteboard marker, exclaiming how ingesting the ink would be bad for her, forgetting that they were all dead which would be ineffective regardless.

In the fifth episode, Sakura tells Saki to cut it off as Saki demanded Tae to “sing properly”, telling her she knows fully well Tae was incapable of doing so. She instead tells Tae to do the “Cock a doodle doo” at the end of the commercial song. In the second segment of the fifth episode, Sakura helps Tae get her Franchouchou shirt on and was the one who thought of making Tae wear two sets of shirts, hoping she could still help advertise their idol group regardless if she accidentally tears open the first shirt. Unbeknownst to Sakura, she mistakenly got Tae to wear the order of the shirts wrong, making her tear apart the Franchouchou shirt instead, which ended up gaining more traction to Drive-In Tori rather than Franchouchou despite of Tae’s win in the Tarzan Swing activity.

In the eleventh episode, Tae is shown to be one of girls who was heavily affected by Sakura’s depression after once again getting hit by another truck. She and the rest of Franchouchou try their best to cheer her up and bring her memories as a zombie back but to no avail. The rest of the group takes notice on how Tae was “crying” for Sakura, only to realize that the drops of water weren’t her tears, but rather, her overflowing plethora of saliva with the camera panning over showing how Tae has had enough, which sends her to a brief psychotic episode and crashes into the same room Junko locked herself in via the windows. Effectively scaring her, she drags Sakura back to the rest of the team to try and get her back for good.

In the twelfth episode, Tae and the rest of Franchouchou huddle closer to Sakura in their sleep, showing Sakura that she has their full support.

Kotaro Tatsumi
"Why does he...have squid on his pocket...?"

Even though the other members judged that Kotaro's idea seemed crazy, it seems that the reason why she obediently follows his plan from the start was because she hoped that doing so would help her regain her memories from when she was alive.

As Yugiri points out in the eleventh episode, she is treated different from the rest of Franchouchou, specifically, how, he is “especially nice” to her. This is evident by how he always consults her for her opinions regarding his plans before asking the rest of Franchouchou.

Though, Sakura seems either intimidated or clueless as to what his motives are most of the time, she occasionally follows his orders with little to no question, respectfully calling him sir and trying to get the rest of the girls to cooperate as to not upset him. She is also often the only one who sees through his unpredictable behavior and knows that deep down, he can and would be of help to them when needed.

Even though Sakura is often intimidated by him, he is not always above her in terms of authority. This is shown in the tenth episode when she finally has had enough of his antics of bringing them to a mountaintop for “no apparent reason”, where she draws the line and reprimands him for doing so.

After Sakura regains her memories after getting hit by another truck, she spirals into a depressive state and decides to avoid Franchouchou alongside Kotaro and Romero. Kotaro later finds her sulking by a swingset, being confronted by the same police officer from before, to which he responds with launching Romero at him which effectively knocks him out a second time and taking her to a cliffside with a view of the prefecture to give her a pep talk. After hearing her side of things, he tells her all of it does not matter and that it does not matter to him if she does not think she herself has what it takes as long as he has what it takes, he promises her that he would never abandon her. This finally gets Sakura to give everything another chance, which brings her back with the girls as Franchouchou.

In the twelfth episode, it is revealed that the two were classmates in high school, though the extent of their relationship is unknown. As Kotaro reminisces over this particular memory, he takes off his visor, looking away from the camera to silently wipe off his tears.

In Chapter 20 of the manga, Sakura notices that Kotaro has become somewhat depressed, so she follows him to the top of a small tower. She reveals herself from hiding as she rushes towards Kotaro, hoping to stop him, thinking he was going to commit suicide by jumping off. But because of Sakura’s horrible luck, she trips over a raccoon rushing over the opposite direction, making her bump into Kotaro and making them both fall over the building.

Romero
Sakura was first afraid of Romero as she has seen it morph into its scarier form after she sees it feed on the squid Kotaro rewards him for the first time. Though, as the series goes on the two are shown to have been on better terms.

This is evident in the tenth episode as she invites Romero to her morning walk when he is normally almost always seen with Kotaro or Tae. After getting hit by another truck, Romero quickly scares off the driver. With no one else to help, Romero barks up a storm, prompting Sakura to get up as he continues to show his concern by whimpering loudly.

Police Officer
Sakura first meets him during her getaway attempt in the first episode. Not knowing she herself is now a zombie, she approaches the man hoping to get some help from him. As he drags his bike and gets closer to Sakura, he threatens to jail her if she loiters around during that time at night any longer. After taking a good look at her, he drops his bike in fear and shoots her in the chest, he is then knocked out by Kotaro with a shovel.

Not long after, during the second episode, she bumps into him again but this time alongside Ai and Junko. He stops the shady group of men from confronting the girls only to find out that they were zombies. His lousy aim ends up targeting the glass window behind the three, which then scares them enough to run away from the scene.

In the third episode, the policeman confronts Sakura about having a guerrilla concert in the middle of the public train station. She immediately gets nervous after he tells her how she looks familiar, this then prompts Kotaro to get Franchouchou in the van and drives off before things could escalate any further.

In the eleventh episode, he sees a depressed Sakura sulking by a swingset and threatens to jail her for loitering yet again. He doesn’t get too far with this since Kotaro ends up launching Romero at him which then knocks him out a second time.