Ai Mizuno

**Ai Mizuno**, also known as **Zombie 3**, is one of the main characters from the *Zombieland Saga* series.

## **Charactah Account**

The legendary lead singer of Iron Frill, the top idol group of the 2000s, which Sakura idolized in life. A serious and strong-willed girl, she's initially skeptical of Kotarou's plan, but eventually dives whole-heartedly into the role and puts all her effort into building Franchouchou's legend. As the most experienced (current-era) idol of the group, Ai is effectively the team manager, planning out the group's choreography and roles with occasional input from the others.

## **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
* Rage of Bahamut
* Shadowverse
* Super Robot Wars X-Ω
* The Idolmaster Cinderella Girls
* Trinity Seven: The Dream Library and the Seventh Sun
* World Flipper

## **Trivia**

* Staff has commented that, because it was a popular hairstyle at the time, they wanted to incorporate a "short" haircut in a design. Furthermore, Ai being a "legendary idol" was through the blooming flowers on her head.
* According to the official art book, zombie girl bandages are like body tattoos, so they will never be removed. This explains why Ai can speak without any problems, despite having bandages on her mouth
* Ai died in 2008, only 4 months after Sakura Minamoto was struck and killed by a truck.
	+ She died in the stadium of Tosu, Tosu City.
	+ Additionally, the numbers depicted on the license plate of the truck that hits Sakura in the tenth episode are Ai’s date of death.
* Ai has better kinetic vision and hearing than the other girls in the group.
* Ai has same cup size and body type as Junko Konno.
* Because of her cause of death, she has developed astraphobia alongside PTSD, in her afterlife. She overcomes her fears when performing at Saga Rock during a lightning storm.
	+ When Ai, she was directly struck by lightning. Her live performance was immediately canceled and Mizuno was taken to the hospital, but her burns were severe and she had no pulse after arriving at the hospital.
* When asked if Ai and Junko have the possibility of developing a romantic relationship, the crew responded that they did not think of the two as such outside of just "An idol from the Heisei Period and another from the Showa Period."
* As of “Episode 13”, she works part-time as an employee of the Kojima Dried Squid Factory, under the alias "Sanko Tatsumi."
	+ The work alias Ai uses, Sanko Tatsumi, is a combination of her order in Franchouchou as Zombie #3 (San-gō) alongside the last name of Kotaro’s alias, Tatsumi.
* There are currently four episodes that focus on her which she shares with Junko. The episodes being “Episode 6”, “Episode 7”, “Episode 15”, and “Episode 16”.
	+ With both “Episode 7” and “Episode 16” being direct continuations of their previous episodes.
* She shares the same Japanese voice actress as Erina Nakiri from *Shokugeki no Soma*.
* Her flower earrings that she wears multiply when she goes on stage.