Lily Hoshikawa

Lily Hoshikawa, also known as Zombie 6 and Masao Gou, is one of the main characters from the Zombieland Saga series.
== Charactah Account ==
Lily is a legendary child actress who took primetime networks by storm with her breakout period piece performance. She acts sweet and innocent most of the time, and revels in the opportunity of being forever young and cute now that she can never age. Lily a transgender girl, born as Masao Gou.
Lily is often seen with a smile and she is shown to be quite playful as well due to her young age. She has also demonstrated a professional aspect from her experiences before her death.
Lily does not like nicknames. She forcefully emphasizes her name when being called "Squirt" by Saki Nikaidou; especially early on in their relationship.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Zombieland Saga
* Zombieland Saga: Revenge
=== Manga ===
* Zombieland Saga
* Zombieland Saga: Official Manga Anthology
=== Video Games ===
* BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!
* Chunithm Crystal Plus
* Girl's Frontline
* Grimoire A
* Maimai Deluxe
* Shadowverse
* The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
* Trinity Seven: The Dream Library and the Seventh Sun
* World Flipper
== Trivia ==
* Staff said they were aware of the "childish" aspects of Lily's design, like the width of her shoulders. They liked designing Lily's clothes, as she seems to be particularly important to the cuteness of the show.
* Lily was only 12 years old when she died in 2011.
** Lily died one month after her twelfth birthday.
* Lily is the only zombie not shown with bandages or stitches due to her death not being from a physical injury.
** However, her death was visceral: a heart attack/cardiac arrest caused by mental shock. This makes Lily the only member of the group with an exposed organ.
* Lily was initially considered to be a pair of twins but was later merged into just one character.
* Lily is the first, and so far only, official LGBT+ character in the series and the first canonically transgender character in a popular idol franchise.
** In addition to the gender issue, Lily also died at a very young age, and that of course was difficult to address properly. But they wanted to make her a very strong person who stays positive no matter what and lives life to the fullest… well, as “living” zombies it's a bit of a stretch, but you get the point. They worked very hard to include scenes like Lily talking to her father, but at the same time, they didn't put too much emphasis on it. Since everyone is a zombie, nothing stops them anymore, least of all gender. Whether it's someone like Tae or Lily, who was born as a boy, but none of that matters to the other members of the group. They see beyond that. They had to be careful and considerate with this kind of thing, otherwise it could become troublesome. Of course, the easiest option is to just avoid it altogether and not have to worry about a thing. But in the end, they relied on intuition, striking the right balance between funny and serious elements while asking themselves “will viewers understand what we’re trying to convey?” It's not something the writers could know for sure. Sometimes they were sure that doing this or that would be okay, but they were still nervous about how things would turn out until the broadcast. Due to such concerns, they did a lot of dialogue modifications during the recording sessions.
** Fortunately, Lily's inclusion was received by Western and Japanese fans, so it all worked out. As the creators of the show, they didn't feel it was absolutely necessary to bring the topic of gender to an idol group. But on the other hand, they wanted to defy convention and do what other idol series didn't.
* Some people predicted Lily's identity as a transgender female.
** Lily is seen reading a magazine on heavy machinery.
** Lily's reaction when Koutarou Tatsumi said they were going to the hot springs.
** The phrase "Age and gender are timeless" in the introduction of the official website.
** In the illustration of the swimsuit, Lily does not wear a bikini but pants.
** In the description of the relation to her b/w/h.
** The name Lily itself has an alternate meaning, "a feminine man", although this would contradict Lily's identity as a girl.
* Lily is the first to have her relatives be shown in the show. In her case, being her parents.
* Lily's official profile says that she doesn't like mozuku and hijiki, which are seaweed foods. Episode 8suggests this is because she thought she had seaweed leftovers on her face before realizing it was budding facial hair.
* Lily shares the same English voice actor as Yuki Kusakabe from Interviews with Monster Girls and Tohrufrom Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid.
** Lily's English voice actor also voices Ruby Kurosawa, another idol character from the anime series Love Live! Sunshine!!.
* As of "Episode 13", Lily works part-time for the local milk delivery service of their area.
* Lily currently has two episodes centered around her, with the first being "Episode 8" and the second being "Episode 17".
** Interestingly, her episodes come after the group performs Mezame Returner (Electric Returner).
* Lily being a transgender girl is hinted at twice in "Episode 17".
** Its design incorporates teal and pink, two of the colors that represent the transgender flag. Her final outfit for her performance in Episode 15 incorporates a lot of white, pink, and teal. Special mention should be given to her bow which has pink and white stripes, combining with her teal hair to fully correspond to the flag.
** And during the scene wherein Lily enters the men’s bathroom, to which she responds to Light questioning her about it as “Lily does whatever she wants to.”
* One of the interests listed on the site is heavy machinery magazines, which will often be seen reading in the background. The end credits of Episode 8 reveal a flashback of Lily and her father sitting together on a shovel, and the last episode of Revenge shows that her father is a construction worker.
* Lily’s first performance at the Japanese Got Performance talent show in “Episode 17” is a pun based on “Roku-go performing Rakugo”, with her stagename as Zombie #6 (Roku-go) performing Rakugo onstage.
** Later in the Drama CD 1: Secret Before Christmas SAGA, it is revealed that Lily's inspiration for making the Rakugo was a Christmas book she had received.
** During her flashbacks of Episode 8, a Rakugo program can be seen on television that possibly inspired Lily later.
* Because Lily refers to herself in the third person rather than a first person pronoun in Japanese, she unintentionally revealed her name to Maria Amabuki by saying "I'm/Lily's a permanent grade schooler, though!".
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Lily Hoshikawa at Zombie Land Saga Wiki
Category:Characters
Category:Females
Category:Zombieland Saga