Sakura Minamoto

Sakura Minamoto, also known as Zombie 1, Number 1 and Ichiko Tatsumi, is the main protagonist from the Zombieland Saga series.
== Charactah Account ==
A high school student from Karatsu and aspiring idol singer who got fatally hit by a truck at the start of her second year in 2008. She is the first zombie to regain her human mind, but is also the only one who can't remember anything about when she was alive. She's something of a klutz and a pushover, but does her damnedest to make the best of her situation.
Sakura is shown to be an energetic girl when she was still alive. However, that spirit seemed to turn into confusion, worry, and slight fear after she regains her consciousness as a zombie. However, she becomes very passionate whenever she is singing as an Idol.
When she regains her memories of her life but loses her memories of her Zombification, Sakura becomes very defeatist and detached due to the failures she kept facing in life no matter how hard she tried. After she regained all of her memories and with the encouragement from her friends she regains her confidence and love of performing.
== 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
* Ekimemo!
* Girls' Frontline
* Grimoire A
* Illusion Connect
* Maimai Deluxe
* Shadowverse
* The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
* Trinity Seven: The Dream Library and the Seventh Sun
* World Flipper
== Trivia ==
* According to Sakura's designer, Kasumi Fukagawa, she said that her vision for Sakura was that everyone loved her and would be the "ideal girl for a boy".
* Sakura's leading cause of death was blunt force trauma to the head, and the truck was speeding on a residential street. It is later revealed in the post-credits scene of "Episode 19" that the driver who hit her reported the same about and accident and what had happened, the reason he ended up hitting her was that he was briefly blinded sudden flash of light and that his truck was thrown towards Sakura.
** Sakura's forehead scar was caused by her apparent cause of death, a head concussion.
*** This is also the reason why she had acquired amnesia of her memories when she was alive.
** If Sakura hadn't been hit by the truck and made it to the audition, the chances of her being accepted would have been slim. If they rejected her, she would have sunk further into depression. Even if she was accepted, a few months later she would have seen her hero die in front of her eyes, which would depress her again (or maybe Sakura would have been struck by lightning). The curse would still try to prevent her from achieving her achievements in her lifetime because she would make Saga a popular place.
* With Sakura’s birthday being on April 2nd, this makes her an Aries.
* It is revealed in the eleventh episode that, right before her death, and before acquiring amnesia in her afterlife, she suffered from severe depression that left her unwilling to continue with all her dreams, since they had all failed. It wasn't until she met Ai through a TV show that she somehow managed to get her hopes up and create her dream of becoming an idol.
* Sakura died five days after her seventeenth birthday.
* Sakura is the only member of Franchouchou to not have a "Legendary" title.
** Despite not having a similar title, her backstory shows that she was "legendary" too, in her own way. Sakura is a legendary Jinx, a talented, intelligent, and driving girl who never succeeds at what she counts due to her bad luck. This supposed bad luck may actually be the effects of the Saga curse preventing her from bringing glory to Saga, meaning she could have been a legendary actor, runner, or idol if the curse hadn't interfered.
*** For this very reason Koutarou never called her legendary, he knew that if he told her that and she remembered who he was, she would have recognized him.
* In episode 10 there appears a paper with the choreography of the next song that reveals the plot of Sakura's past an episode before. It's basically a song where Sakura takes almost all the spotlight, and Tae just wanders in the back and doesn't move to the front of the group at all, and there's an incredibly wild mix of all the different dance types.
** The main point of the song is that Sakura says, "I will not succumb to my fate, no matter how many misfortunes and adversities I have to face."
* It is possible that the parents' house where she lived is in an area about a 40-minute walk from the mansion in the series, which has been identified by a Japanese viewer.
** A search has been made and it was found that she lived near Mount Kagamiyama in Karatsu, within a radius of 300-500 meters.
* As of “Episode 13”, she and Tae Yamada work part-time as caretakers of a local pasture farm.
* It is revealed in “Episode 18” that her family’s gravestones are positioned right next to the Yamada family’s gravestones.
* Her seiyuu, went to lunch at the Drive-in Tori restaurant, as an extra documentary on Volume 2 of the Blu-ray.
* Sakura Minamoto doesn't have a picture song of her own during the first season, but on the album "Franchouchou The Best", she gets her own solo song specific to hers known as "Sensei! ALIVE Sensation". This song focuses on her own "life after death" goals backed up with an upbeat feel, which would not sound out of place for an "overflowing with life" anime opening theme.
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== External Links ==
* Sakura Minamoto at Zombie Land Saga Wiki
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