Sakura Minamoto/History

==Season 1==
===Episode 1===
After being run over by a truck and dying, Sakura wakes up 10 years later in a mysterious mansion. While exploring a bit, a zombie attacks her. When she runs away to another room, several zombies surround her. But she finally escapes from the mansion. While outside in the pouring rain, she discovers that she is in Saga prefecture, and soon comes into contact with a police officer. When he inspects her, the police officer recoils in shock and points a gun at Sakura. Confused, she turns around and looks in the traffic mirror, and discovers that she is a zombie.
The policeman shoots her in the chest and Sakura collapses. Then she sees the cop knocked out with a shovel, and Sakura passes out. When she arrives, Kotaro Tatsumi approaches to comfort her and eccentrically introduces himself. She wants Sakura to become an idol to save Saga prefecture, along with the other six zombie girls. Then she immediately takes Sakura and the girls to their first performance at a metal concert club, trying to give the girls 'encouragement' to wake them up.
During her first performance, Sakura has doubts about Kotaro's chosen venue, as she is the only sane zombie at the time and has no idol training. Despite this, the performance was successful, with only headbanging and screaming. During their performance, Sakura retrieved fragments of her memories.
The next day, most of the other girls have regained their sanity, and Sakura proceeds to greet them all with a good day.
===Episode 2===
Sakura is still proactive in helping with the goal of Kotaro Tatsumi, but she realizes that the rest of the girls, most of whom have regained their senses, do nothing. Then she has to settle for dealing with various personalities, including forgetfulness, rebellion, and reluctance. But a personal goal that Sakura had in mind is to recover the memories she lost before her death.
Sakura and the girls finally have a real acting opportunity at Saga Castle. During such a performance, Tae Yamada instinctively goes after a dried squid in the audience, but Sakura tries to stop her. She accidentally hits Tae's head and almost compromises the girls' human costumes. As Sakura tries to maintain her facade, Saki Nikaido repeatedly pushes Sakura aside and plays with Tae's head in front of the audience. Sakura then loses her cool and hits Tae's head away from Saki, then verbally fights Saki in a rap battle, where she finally succeeds. Her hip-hop fight with Saki impresses the audience, and Saki respects Sakura for having the guts to confront her.
===Episode 3===
A few days after becoming idols, the group “Death Musume” decided on the current name of Franchouchou which was accidentally proposed by Tae Yamada; however, Sakura feels depressed that they cannot perform the guerrilla concert just one day in advance and receives a slap from Yugiri the moment she begins to find motivation.
On the day of the concert, Sakura forgets Mezame Returner's lyrics and is saved by Ai and Junko, who joined in when they saw the group's determination on stage. That same night, Sakura talks to the two girls about their support for Franchouchou and how they got over their isolation from the early days.
===Episode 4===
Taken to the hot springs where Kotaro will negotiate an additional budget, Sakura decided to follow the instructions to keep her costumes despite having the opportunity to visit a suitable public bath. The girls then tour the city, where they take the opportunity to get to know each other better.
After her sponsored performance, Sakura ends up being invited by Saki to sneak into the public bathroom against Kotaro's instructions, to her concern. Junko ends up listening to their conversation, and she expresses interest in joining them, much to Sakura's dismay. So, after taking the time to renew themselves in the warm water of the bathroom, the girls meet their sponsored executive, where Sakura loses her head in front of her and the girls end up being exposed to their zombie identities, leaving the executive terrified.
Sakura is mortally embarrassed to have to watch her incident on the news, believing it to be her fault.
===Episode 5===
Failing to promote himself at the drug store, Kotaro asks the girls to do a chicken commercial on the “Drive in Tori”. Sakura helps her group to stay together and Tae to collaborate with the group when recording.
Later, the girls go to the Gatalympics, and Sakura due to her clumsiness fails in all the tests of the day. And Tae is the one who saves Franchouchou, but accidentally advertises Drive in Tori instead of Franchouchou.
===Episode 6===
During the night, the girls check Kotaro's computer to see where they can perform next. After a concert was held at GEILS, Junko refuses to take photos with fans, sparking Kotaro's anger when they arrive at the mansion. Junko and Ai fight over their ideology of how idols should be. Sakura goes to talk to Junko, and she tells her that she died in a plane crash when she was going to Saga to give one of her concerts.
===Episode 7===
Sakura is seen trying to practice with everyone, but expressed concern that Junko is not participating. Before they were about to leave for their first concert, Sakura mentions a sense of déjà vu when Kotaro accidentally hits Junko with his truck after Junko suddenly tries to stop them, so she can join again. Sakura immediately expresses her joy when Junko decides to join them. 
Before the concert, it started to rain, and she showed concern when Ai started shaking from the sound of thunder. After Junko begins supporting Ai, Sakura along with everyone else began to perform better. Even when the lighting hit them, they came out unscathed and were able to finish their performance brilliantly.
===Episode 8===
A big and mysterious man harasses Lily, Saki stops him cold when he touches Lily, and they discover when talking to him that he is Lily's father. At night, Sakura talks to Lily, and she confesses that her name was Masao Go and that she was a child actress who died of a heart attack from the stress of working.
Although Takeo apologizes due to the inconvenience, Lily only thinks that her father still loved her, and thanks to the girls, they decide to compose a song of Lily's farewell to Takeo so that they can both rest in peace.
===Episode 9===
Sakura is bullied by Maria Amabuki, a gang member who thinks she's tough and wants to spread her gang throughout Saga; Saki saves her from this unfriendly encounter. In Kotaro's truck, Sakura is surprised that Saki suddenly jumps out of it into a fight with gang members.
===Episode 10===
After Franchouchou was scheduled to hold a concert at the Arpino show venue, Sakura came to believe that it might help her regain her memories. However, this makes her try too hard and ruins her rhythm with her teammates. Realizing this, Kotaro sends them on survival training in the mountains to enhance their teamwork, but instead only caused Sakura to become irritated when her teammates put survival over performance (even though the first it was clearly the most pressing problem).
Upon returning from the mountains, Sakura's pace with her teammates was even worse, which she believed was because the others were not trying hard enough. However, after watching the others perform the performance without her, she realizes that she was the culprit and apologizes.
With just a week to go before the concert, Sakura goes for a run when she is suddenly hit by a truck again. This causes her to finally regain her memories of when she was alive, while in turn losing her memories of being a zombie.
===Episode 11===
====Early Life====
Back when she was alive, Sakura was a girl with unbelievable bad luck that had always stopped her from doing anything right. Because of this, she undergoes a depressive state and becomes cynical and jaded, she later discovers Iron Frill, the idol group her soon-to-be idol, Ai Mizuno, is a member of. Watching Ai’s interview and response to what her failures mean to her inspires Sakura to become an idol like her and gives her hope for herself once more.
====Present====
After being hit by a truck again, Sakura is taken inside, where she wakes up late at night and panics when Tae jumps on her. Similar to the first episode, she freaks out and runs around the building, where she soon meets other sleeping zombie idols and accidentally wakes them up. Upon awakening, Sakura tries to defend herself, but then collapses and becomes depressed, saying that everything she does is meaningless, and she loses consciousness when Tae attacks her.
When the others realize that Sakura regained her old memories but lost her memories as a zombie, Sakura is left alone with Ai, who then explains everything to Sakura when she wakes up. While amazed at these revelations, and informed of her upcoming performances at Arpino, Sakura insists that they practice and act without her. Sakura would lock herself in a room separate from everyone else. Concerned about her, the zombie girls individually start trying to cheer her up. After Saki, Junko, and Lily were unable to cheer her up, Sakura ends up running away before Yugiri tries to cheer her on.
As Sakura wanders off aimlessly, she looks back at the various misfortunes that constantly happen to her, where regardless of what or how hard she tries, it always ends terribly. Her past then reveals that she began to change after seeing Ai Mizuno saying on television that failures can help someone become their best self. Sakura's flashback ends when she meets Policeman A again in the park while sitting on a swing. Even though Policeman A once again panicked at Sakura's zombie appearance, Sakura showed no resistance. Kotaro saves her again, saying that it is not where she belongs.
Kotaro takes her to an observation point, where they discuss her problems, and she reveals more of her past. Sakura reveals how she became a fan of Ai Mizuno and attended one of her concerts in Arpino, where the moment inspired her to get stronger, and she decided to give herself one more chance to try to do something. This leads to the events at the beginning of the first episode, where Sakura decided to attend an idol audition, but is later killed after being run over by the truck. 
Sakura continues her conversation with Kotaro about how, upon learning of her tragedy, she made her believe that she really has no choice. Sakura asks why he brings her back as a zombie to become an idol to save Saga despite her horrible luck and declares how everyone should continue without her. Just when Sakura thought that Kotaro abandoned her, he immediately dismissed all of her problems, claiming that he will never give up on her, which puzzles her.
===Episode 12===
After Kotaro yells that he never intends to give her up, Sakura returns with the other zombies. However, she continues to isolate herself from others as they continue to practice for the next Arpino event. Tae tries to communicate with Sakura by imitating the Drive-In Tori commercial she did with everyone, but Sakura ignores it. As Sakura watches the other zombies practice, she begins to realize her familiarity with them. By doing a handshake event, Sakura reflects and ridicules herself for what she was thinking before regaining her original memories. They brought her back when two fangirls congratulated her and awaited her performance at Arpino. Despite all the support, Sakura continues to be cynical, remembering that every time she had hope, misfortune would fall upon her.
The next day, Tae once again tries to interact with Sakura by showing her the news of them doing the Saga Rock event together, but Sakura pushes the news magazine aside while crying because she didn't know or care. Later at night, Sakura locks herself in while Tae tries to contact her once more. Sakura is dragged into the practice room by Tae, who breaks up after being ignored by Sakura many times. Sakura questions Tae's actions until everyone else enters the room and realizes that Tae is trying to show what Sakura meant to her and to everyone else. Despite this, she simply replies how idiotic it was for them to be so excited about something she doesn't even remember and planned. 
After apologizing. Yugiri slaps Sakura and tells her that she should stop running away and that she has the responsibility to be with them until the end. It was from there that everyone's words began to reach Sakura. When Sakura warned them how their performance would likely end terribly, they replied that they would stay with her regardless of the results. Sakura finally complied and decided to practice with everyone again.
During practice, even though Sakura continued to doubt herself, everyone persisted and went like pushing their own luck, surprising her.
In Arpino, the group sings for a group of 500 people, even with a heavy snowfall outside. The snow makes the roof collapse and the stage falls on the girls. Sakura, seeing the disaster, is about to fall back into her depression, but she is surprised to see the other girls get up and hear Kotaro's applause, which motivates her to continue.
After this, she recovers the memories of herself as a zombie and apologizes for her attitude towards others. They finally end the concert with a new song, as Sakura seems to be happy to get all her memories back.
==Manga==
===Fierce Fighting Training===
Kotaro leaves the girls and Sakura in Imari city to walk and entertain themselves while he goes to do business. Sakura happens to enter a store to see what there is, following Kotaro's rules.
thumb|201x201px|Sakura performs one of the activities on the site
===Nostalgic Roman Edition===
Along with Franchouchou and the other girls, Sakura goes to Yoshinogari, but even without knowing the purpose of the trip, she is a bit puzzled. But she, without being able to ask Kotaro about his aggressive attitude, restricts herself to following his orders. Meanwhile, she prevents Tae from making a mess with her impulsive attitude and tries to follow Kotaro's new order to search for Saga's secret. Still, the girls see that the park has many places where they can relax while searching for Saga's secret. Little by little the girls are distracted by the attractions and Sakura is no exception as she enters a modeling competition with Junko and Tae.
Tae does what she can with her conscience, but Sakura encourages her with what she tries. However, Kotaro is angry that the girls are not taking seriously the job he gave them, and Saki annoys him by establishing her dominance over Saga on a hill.
left|thumb|Sakura accidentally pushes Kotaro
Now, with Kotaro depressed, the girls continue with their activities and Sakura prevents Tae from eating the decorated fruits by mistaking them for real fruits. Subsequently, Sakura notices Kotaro's attitude in those moments and wonders what is happening to him because it is not his normal attitude. Sakura follows him to a tower where she wonders why his personality changed from one moment to another, worrying about Kotaro, she is going to talk to him but accidentally bumps into a raccoon and pushes Kotaro down from the tower.
Hanging from the railing, now only one arm of Sakura prevents both from falling into the void exposing the zombie's secret, the girls realize the incident and with little time Kotaro says to hold on, but it lasts little because Sakura's arm is released and they both fall, but Tae takes a huge leap and grabs them out of the air before they hit the ground and holds Sakura and drops Kotaro when they both hit the ground. With Sakura crying because she just saved them from being discovered, hugs Tae, and Sakura decides to help Kotaro with his problem of finding Saga's secret by getting engaged to the other girls.
With their attention now, Franchouchou decides to discuss the experiences they have had until Yoshinogari's trip. It is where Kotaro realizes that the secret he was looking for is the team's experiences and the entire journey that has taken them there. Finally satisfied with the answer, he decides to take more into account the opinion of the girls and not get carried away so much by himself.
In the mansion, they continue training for a concert during the night. At the end of the practice they decide to cook something for them since it is almost the new year. They prepare a Saga soup and eat it while they talk about their experiences as Franchouchou.
It's New Year's Eve, the girls wake up hungry, and Junko, Ai, and Sakura discuss their experiences with Police Officer A. Following several panels on how to prepare a new soup, the girls decide to eat it, but Tae chokes and Sakura goes to help her (even though they are already dead), but accidentally, she hits Kotaro with what Tae spat. However, he only screams them a little and gives them more food for the new year, leaving only crumbs.
===The Future Development of Saga===
Kotaro takes Franchouchou to a restaurant to prepare a meal that an old man from Saga taught him and at the same time learn how to make it. Overall, it turned out quite well and the owners congratulate the girls. At the mansion, and with their new food on the table, they decide to go to practice and Sakura takes Tae, who was looking at a food magazine. 
left|thumb|170x170px|Sakura at the food making contest
Now, Franchouchou is preparing for a big concert, while Kotaro watches and decides that now they will stop being idols to participate in a restaurant to promote themselves through food. Now the girls will have a judge in a bird costume who will decide which of the girls will prepare the best meal to win. At the end of the contest, the girls unite and win. Later, Kotaro checks social media to see Franchouchou's performance.
thumb|254x254px|Sakura working on a farm
In the training room, the girls discuss the concerts and the places where Kotaro has taken them, they decide to thank the busy manager and leave the mansion, leaving a note in the room for Kotaro to read when he arrives. As Kotaro searches for Franchouchou throughout the Saga, the group searches various Karatsu locations as they discuss the upcoming EFS performance and how that will be their big leap. When Kotaro arrives, they all decide to do their best for the big concert and make the name of the group big.
In a time skip, Sakura works on the farm tending cows, stating that the concert was a resounding failure.
==Season 2 ==
===Episode 13===
Franchouchou was at the height of their glory after the concert in Arpino in December 2018. However, their concert, in March 2019, at the EFS is a disaster that gathers only 500 spectators out of 30,000 potential. Therefore, the group is in debt after this event.
To pay off their debt, Sakura and Tae found an irregular job on a farm in the Saga region. The Franchouchou girls are working on their own and are beginning to hope that they will be able to pay off their debt faster than expected thanks to their efforts. Sakura, still without giving up her dream of becoming a great idol, will announce this good news to his producer, Kotaro
The latter has been depressed since the failure of the EFS concert and spends his days drinking. Sakura announces that Franchouchou will perform at Geils Hall, the location of their first concert, and will sing the new song that they were unable to sing during the EFS. This news does not have much effect on Kotaro, who, an alcoholic, prefers to make fun of Sakura.
At the mansion, Sakura and the girls decide to inspect Kotaro's room for clues that will allow them to understand why his producer seems so pressed for time and that would also explain why he absolutely wanted Franchouchou to organize a concert at the EFS as quickly. However, they don't find anything in his room, besides a recording of the prototype of his new song, which shows how passionate Kotaro is about what he does. This recording reinforces Sakura's desire to bring Kotaro back at all costs to the next Franchouchou concert to return to his old pre-EFS persona.
After days of training, she decides to convince Kotaro to attend the concert at Geils Hall on the same day. However, the producer does not want to set foot there and prefers to go down and drink. Sakura then asks where the lucky Kotaro went, the one who comforted her when she regained the memories of human life from her and the one who had promised her that he would never leave her. The depressed producer simply replies that he may have overestimated his luck. Sakura gets angry with whom he, once, never gave up and decides to do the concert without his presence.
Franchouchou then performs at the Geils Hall, at the same metal festival in the year of its creation, however, this time, the concert goes wrong. The public dislikes Franchouchou, and the girls have a hard time acting. Luckily for them, Kotaro arrives at the concert and encourages the girls to sing their new song. Sakura, moved by the words of Kotaro, who is fighting against the audience in the room, decides to sing the song REVENGE. This song manages to calm the public and the girls receive at the end of the song some applause.
The next day, Sakura waits in the basement of the mansion with the girls, discussing the concert that was surely the worst concert of all. Sakura, with her legendary bad luck, believing that she is guilty of this failed job, Saki immediately stops her and reminds her to stop being depressed. Kotaro bursts into the basement and Sakura happily finds her producer, who has returned to being himself.
===Episode 14===
Sakura goes back to training to become Saga's greatest idol, and Kotaro summons her with the rest of Franchouchou. He gives them a fake interview about their return to public life and annoys Sakura with her microphone, which doesn't annoy her more than that.
He announces to them during the meeting that they will participate in a television program to announce their return to the public arena and thus reach a fairly large audience. The girls will visit and present the Yutoku-Inari temple in Kashima with the rocker and radio host, White Ryu. Sakura doesn't know this local star, which annoys Saki.
On the same day, the girls from Franchouchou arrive at Yutoku-Inari and introduce themselves to the film crew of the show. Then White Ryu arrives, sitting on the hood of his car, driven by his assistant. Saki is awed by the old rocker with his huge pompadour, Sakura doesn't seem so fascinated by the character.
Sakura is the host of the show and tries her best to cheer it up properly. She does not understand all the instructions given by the film crew, luckily for her, Ai and Lily are very comfortable doing this type of exercise; they know very well how to present a TV show. She also climbs to the top of the Myobu Shrine with the girls, the film crew, and White Ryu.
The filming day ends and the show crew is quite satisfied with Franchouchou's performance as opposed to White Ryu's, whose director doesn't understand much of what he says. Saki is upset to hear these words, but Sakura stops her for a moment because she escapes from the truck to go to say goodbye to the idol of her life. Sakura accompanies her friend, who finds out that White Ryu will soon be leaving the radio show.
This sad news affects Saki a lot, Lily wonders if Saki was in love with this old rocker. Follow a conversation about love and idols between Franchouchou. Sakura immediately asks Ai if she loved someone when she was alive, and the latter will answer the question in the negative.
Sakura is worried about her friend, but Saki reassures her and tells her about her past as a criminal and how White Ryu helped her find her friend, Reiko, of hers. She, therefore, decides to flee the mansion by bicycle, with Sakura in the back, to find Ryu and persuade him to continue hosting the radio show. Sakura and Saki arrive at the recording studio on time, after pedaling hard. White Ryu welcomes Saki and Sakura carefree to his show. After the recording of the show, Ryu and Saki finally say goodbye and the young zombie confesses her feelings for him, which greatly surprises Sakura to the point of losing sight of her.
Saki and Sakura stop near a river and wait for the sun to rise. Saki is a little depressed to see her idol leave forever, but Sakura reminds her that they will meet again one day, but when they become women, which will never happen, she reminds Saki because they are zombies. As she says these words, Saki breaks down in tears. She realizes that she will never grow back, and she will never be able to experience life experiences as an adult woman. Sakura panicked at seeing her rebellious friend cry, she starts crying too! Therefore, Saki tries to comfort her, but Sakura cries so much that her body becomes completely dehydrated.
A few days later, Franchouchou performed again at the Geils hall and Saki took on the most famous title of White Ryu, “Do you hate windy days?”
===Episode 15===
Sakura continues the adventure with Franchouchou, who continues to do odd jobs. Sakura clings to Ai to continue to evolve her group and become great idols. Kotaro is still teasing the girls during their daily meetings, this time attacking Sakura with a squirt gun.
After soaking the girls, he announces that they will be participating in the opening of the Saga Arena with the Tokyo idol group Iron Frill. This news worries Sakura, their level seems far from that of Tokyo idols, but Ai wishes to accept the challenge, which reassures Sakura. However, Kotaro also announces that Ai will not be participating in this concert. An announcement that makes Sakura react, reminding Kotaro that all together form Franchouchou. Kotaro ignores the girls' requests and orders them to go train for the concert.
Sakura, therefore, decides to train thoroughly to succeed in her concert, but their current level is far from equal to that of the Iron Frill girls. She also realizes that Junko, who took Ai's place to manage her group during her absence, is stressed out by the current situation. Sakura is also stressed when she sees the television appearance of Iron Frill, who has just arrived in Saga.
So, she decides with Saki, Yugiri, Lily, and Tae to work on a piece of new music whose instrumental is created from… a broom, maracas, and a bucket, frantically typed by Tae. This performance doesn't seem to suit Junko, who runs away from the training room. Sakura decides to follow the old idol and finds her on the roof of the mansion, singing 50 to 4 tsu no Wasuremono.
Sakura is so moved by Junko's performance that she inadvertently slides on the roof of the mansion. Junko can only recover the young zombie's head when she falls. With Sakura's head resting next to her, she discusses the song Junko just sang, known to be used in many commercials today, it is the song that launched her career. Once Sakura's body has managed to climb on its own to the roof of the mansion and her head returns to her place, she offers Junko to go find Ai for advice. As Kotaro didn't forbid the girls to go talk to Ai, they both think it's a good idea, to help them get through the current situation.
The two girls go to meet her but run into Iron Frill's new mainstay; Shiori, who wants to chat with Ai. They attend the confrontation between the two idols and Shiori's proposal to Ai, that is, to leave Franchouchou and join Iron Frill. After this discussion, Sakura seems to be distraught.
===Episode 16===
Junko insists on keeping Ai's invitation to Iron Frill a secret, but is clearly unsettled the next day, which Sakura notices. She walks around, wondering what to do and thinking that she should ask Ai…before realizing that she can't ask Ai for help because of a problem with themselves. Instead, she decides to help Yugiri make food. She goes out to meet Ai herself later, but Ai simply walks past her, ignoring her. She later performs at the Saga Arena (stopping briefly to wrangle Tae Yamada) with the rest of Franchouchou, and glares at Iron Frill when their lead continues trying to poach Ai from them.
===Episode 17===
When Lily Hoshikawa decides to enter the “Japanese Got Performance” national TV show contest, Sakura starts training the rest of Franchouchou to properly cheer her on and make themselves heard. Later, she overhears Light Oozora's plan to make the judges “drown in their own tears”, along with his estimation that Saga has no serious competition to prevent him from making the finals easily. Sakura warns Lily about this, but Lily is unconcerned and proceeds with her act, making it to the finals herself. Subsequently, Sakura overhears Light's discussion with Lily and tells Lily that all of Franchouchou support her. She then leads the way, cheering Lily on during Lily's performance.
===Episode 18===
In the meeting room in the morning, Kotaro announces that they still owe 20 million yen and that Franchouchou will have to work hard to pay it off. Now it is Tae's turn to do her part and go shopping even if it is her day off, Sakura reproaches him for that but Tatsumi tells her that she is a bore, and Junko responds to Sakura that she does not think she is a bore. At the exit, Sakura looks both ways to avoid meeting her known enemy, the truck.
Upon arriving home with Maria, Sakura accidentally stumbles and beheads Tae, causing Arata to take a photo of them. To her fortune, Maria cannot see anything, and they manage to collect the 20 million in debt they owed in less than a day. Sakura, grateful to Tae, hugs her while she eats onions.
===Episode 19===
Kotaro arrives at the mansion after going out for a public bath, but he brought something with him, the “body” of a girl that he found thanks to the help of the gods. This body rises suddenly scaring the girls and especially Ai, Junko and Sakura since the corpses should not move, but it was not a corpse, it was the girl that Kotaro had brought thinking that she was dead.
This girl introduces herself as Maimai Yuzuriha, a high school student and a fan of Franchouchou. Sakura recognizes her because she had seen her in previous concerts they had performed. Maimai promises to keep the secret that they are zombies because after all, the girls from Franchouchou do not represent any risk to society.
The next morning, Maimai comes to her first practice with Franchouchou, since she wants to be an idol like them. Maimai is very clumsy and fails at everything she tries, but is willing to keep practicing and improving to become the #7 member of the team. As they head home with Sakura and her pet dog Romero, Maimai tells Sakura how Saga has changed since Franchouchou had become a success, describing that she wanted to live in Saga with that spirit, referring to Sakura who is also experiencing something similar; her when she saw Iron Frill. She even mentions the Ekimae Stadium. Maimai tells Sakura that it doesn't matter if she's a zombie, she still sees Sakura as a living person, and encourages her to be able to do a live event without her makeup, Sakura says that's too risky, and they can't do that.
The day before the school's next live performance, Franchouchou explores her school, while Tatsumi tries to seduce the school principal, surprising the two nearby female students. While separated from the group, Sakura explains to Maimai about her past life in high school, how during this she had such bad luck that she was about to give up, but meeting Iron Frill gave her the motivation to continue and how her life ended abruptly before she could attend auditions and her group's most recent crisis like Ekimae Stadium and ¥20,000,000 debt. Maimai realizes that joining Franchouchou is not for her, but for girls who once lost their lives before achieving their dreams.
On the day of the live performance, Maimai appears center stage and dances alongside Franchouchou, performing “Butchakete for You.” After she finished the song, Yuzuriha; Inspired by Sakura's backstory, announces that she will be graduating from Franchouchou and sing “Hikari e” as her last Franchouchou song No. 7. When the acting event came to an end. The girls say their goodbyes as they return home, and the scene ends with Maimai Yuzuriha placing the microphone on stage as she leaves.
===Episode 22===
====EFS disaster====
The episode begins in the time before Franchouchou's first performance at the Ekimae Fudosan Stadium. After a recent and successful album, hopes are high, but Kotaro does his best by insisting that they perform at a 25,000-capacity stadium, EFS. While Ai Mizuno is skeptical, Kotaro insists that everyone in Franchouchou was once a legend (clarifying that Sakura is obviously not) and that they can succeed. Afterward, most of Franchouchou have doubts about their possibilities, but Sakura convinces them to do everything possible since they are zombies after all, and they were able to overcome the collapse of Arpino and many other things as idols.
On the eve of the performance, Kotaro reveals that he did not sell any tickets and that instead, sales are available only on the day of. Naturally, the crowd the next day is small, and the performance is terrible. Indebted and dejected, Kotaro begins drinking for several weeks straight, leaving no food for the zombies (who need no sustenance in any case). However, Tae Yamada manages to put on makeup without Kotaro and goes out to seeking for food. This action of Tae makes Sakura laugh a little at the situation and encourages her companions to do the same, cheering on Ai, who died in the same stadium, on how they will overcome this adversity and move forward as an idol group.
====Present====
Kotaro is taking EFS's upcoming concert (scheduled for the anniversary of the ruinous first attempt) very seriously, investing in ad campaigns to drive sales, using merchandise sales as a predictor of audience attraction, and this time around, allowing pre-sold tickets. He apologizes to Franchouchou for his personal failure last time, insisting that it will be different this year. His speech of how they will have their revenge and then their counterattack is fixed directly on Sakura, who is willing to fulfill her dream no matter what.
Suddenly, a strange storm arrives. Franchouchou notices it and worries about Kotaro, the girls try to console themselves by saying that their revenge will begin the next day.
===Episode 23===
Sakura wakes up in the morning feeling weird as a zombie for the first time, she goes to talk to Kotaro about it as she walks through the corridors of the mansion. But she realizes what is happening and quickly looks out a window, warning the other girls that they are drifting in the sea.
Already on the beach, not far from where their mansion was, they take out what they can, but they forget their makeup, and before going back inside the mansion collapses, burying everything that was inside. Homeless Franchouchou goes to a makeshift shelter at the Kation Mall, Sakura prevents Tae from eating the refugees' food and volunteers to help the refugees as a cook.
Days later, the girls' makeup falls apart, and they have to improvise masks to prevent them from being discovered. Tae turned Sakura's face black as she lit a fire to dry these masks. In the performance, that night the masks are broken, but the girls cunningly use the innocence of the children to save themselves from being discovered as zombies. Kotaro would arrive later to bring them the makeup they so badly needed and tell them about the revenge concert still going on. Sakura is determined and says that they will do everything possible to make this concert go as well as possible.
Afterward, Sakura thanks Kotaro for helping her achieve her dream and especially for what happened since the group recovered from their failure, and she thanks him for making her an idol. Tatsumi, surprised at these words, remains silent for a few seconds before lunging at Sakura, yelling at her that he will always have what she needs as long as Franchouchou continues to exist.
===Episode 24===
Just weeks before the revenge concert, Saki asks Sakura about the date since they must work on the radio on Fridays, Sakura says it is Friday. Saki mentions that they should go to the radio because or if not, Saga will stop being Saga.
When they arrive at the station, they realize that it was the wrong date, and it is actually Sunday. Saki threatens Sakura with killing her (although she is already dead) but the station director lets them pass because no one has come in several days and only news about the disaster is passing. Saki speaks from the heart to the people of Saga, saying that they must be united to overcome the disaster they are facing and inviting them to the Franchouchou concert on March 8th.
On the day of the concert, at 10 in the morning, the stadium is empty and Kotaro is nowhere to be seen. Sakura mentions out loud, that regardless of what happens, whether they must face God or the Devil, she won't give up until she has her revenge. After saying this, thousands of people come to Saga thanks to Kotaro's promotional campaign and Saki's radio.
Franchouchou performs the revenge concert and in the dressing room assures that Franchouchou's path is still very far and that now the next step will be to become internationally known.
Their last song is “Oikaze Travelers” which they sing while showing the epilogue of the concert with Franchouchou helping Saga to recover. Finally, after dying and spending a year in Franchouchou, Sakura can make her dream of becoming an idol come true.
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