Jofuku/History

## Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie

### Chapter 2

Jofuku appears at the Busters' ritual through a television and claims to be Saga itself. Through this, he gives messages in which he warns that the apocalypse is near and that Saga would soon be destroyed if they did nothing. Furthermore, he provides the date of the end of the world for the year 1999. The message cuts off with warnings to seal everyone from Saga's curses before the deadline.

### Chapter 3

Jofuku tells Eikichi that Saga's supernatural activity is well known to the inhabitants, and that from time to time some of them commission the Sagako Busters to deal with them. He informs Eikichi that thanks to his Misogi power and his constant fight against the Sagako, there will come a point where he can use this energy to revive Yuko Hyodo.

### Chapter 4

Jofuku is helping Tae in her work as a fast food vendor in a food truck. Here we are shown his real appearance in the Gaiden manga, and it is revealed to us that he is Tae's adoptive father.

Tae sends Eikichi and Jofuku to go shopping to help her with her food stall. Jofuku reveals to Eikichi that Tae used to work with Yuko and that during that time the place was thriving. After Yuko was turned into an onion, the place lost interest and only Tae was there to stop the place from disappearing. He reveals that the Sagakos murdered Tae parents years ago.

When they arrive at the food point, Eikichi feels a Sagako and the three of them are going to fight him because he was the one who was scaring away the customers of the place.

### Chapter 5

MJ accompanies the Busters at a party because he reconciled with Tae after talking on TV. Tae had gotten into a fight with him long ago for being too overprotective of her.

After a crazy night at the party, MJ sees Eikichi coming out after being hit by Tae, so he decides to tell him the story behind the group Saga Sagako Busters. They both enter a room filled with Sagakos sealed in onions. MJ mentions that the curse was born from the search for the Elixir of Immortality, and that since then, he has been struggling with the curses that originate from Saga. Over time, the curses took a new form and became Sagako. Eikichi asks why onions are special, and MJ replies that the land of the Hyodo is special because of long exposure to love that gave them the strength to seal the curses. MJ and Eikichi go to the bathroom, where MJ decides to release more information about the curse.

10 years ago, the Busters team was formed, but without Yuko's power it was impossible to seal them. Before Yuko, curses had no physical form, but changed form as Saga becomes prosperous. The force of the curses cause them to take physical force. Before, the curse manifested itself through natural disasters and ruin to the people of Saga.

However, the Sagakos will not possess humans and will eliminate people who bring prosperity for Saga. As Yuko brought prosperity to Saga, her power was weakening after so many battles with Sagako. She ended up being sealed and preserved in an onion. To get Yuko back, all of Saga's curses must be sealed, and that is where Eikichi has the responsibility for him as Sagako Busters.

In the morning, the group receives a fax indicating Sagako's presence. With Jofuku's power he manages to locate the Sagako and his suspicions of Sagako possessing humans are frighteningly closer.

### Chapter 6

After the Saga Sagako Busters managed to contain the Sagako, he appears to see how the situation is, clarifying that he only felt Sagako's direction and that they were the ones who concluded that Takeo was possessed. For him, Takeo and Sachika made such a good couple that they attract the prosperity of Saga.

### Chapter 7

#### Flashback

After MJ's speech about her destiny to save Saga from impending destruction, Anna accepts without much concern, especially since they offer food and a place to stay. Besides, reality is stranger than fiction, isn't it?

#### Present

With the Busters worried about Anna, it appears that he is not worried about her and says that it is up to Anna to come back or not.

### Chapter 8

Angered by the failure of the mission, he asks the Busters to take care of solving the problem and not letting another Sagako escape.

When Tae tells him that maybe he should fight them, he only replies that the human world should only be shaped by humans. With no other choice, Eikichi decides to go find Anna on her own.

### Chapter 9

At the group meeting about Higashino, he is aware of the issue he poses to the integrity of the group. Anna asks what would happen if a Sagako could be defeated with regular weapons because Keiji shot Sagako with a firearm. Upon hearing these words, he gets up from the table, visibly angry, and explains that if he destroys a Sagako with physical weapons, only their body will be destroyed and their soul will not be purified. In other words, if they are not sealed into an onion, the curse will regroup stronger than before.

### Chapter 10

After the beating caused by Higashino, MJ tries to talk to Eikichi about what happened. But he has a hard time getting information out of him.

While the Busters do their missions, he takes it upon himself to keep an eye on Eikichi at the mansion, making sure he's okay while they're gone.

### Chapter 11

As the days go by, Jofuku begins to feel increasingly sick, and he has no choice but to stay in bed all day, accompanied by Romero. When the house collapses due to a giant Sagako, he manages to save Yuko's onion from the rubble and is rescued by Tae when they make it to safety.

### Chapter 12

#### Flashback

After the death of Tae's parents, he manages to find her several days after she was wandering around town in dirty and torn clothes. He adopts her as her daughter and starts the Sagako Busters, which seeks to recruit people to fight against the new threat of Sagako. Tae trains with Jofuku and is raised solely to fight the threat that killed her parents.

#### Present

In the present, Jofuku is so weak that he needs to be carried by the Busters to the Hyodo house, who offer to host them.

### Chapter 17

5 years after the events of the Sagako outbreaks, he meets a group at the cemetery where Tae's grave is located. There, he surprises Eikichi by telling him that Tae would have wanted him to follow his own destiny. Obviously, he is surprised, since the last time he saw him he was older.

## First season

### Episode 11

Kotaro tells him how the Zombie Land Saga Project is going. He knows who Yugiri is and that she is part of the project, when, as seen in previous episodes, zombies are not allowed to give their real names or interact with others outside of being idols. He protects Yugiri, warning Kotaro to keep her hands off her because he owes her a lot. He is also familiar with Kotaro about the old days, a trait he doesn't display with girls. Considering that he met Yugiri when she was alive, he could be an immortal or a zombie himself.

### Episode 12

Small on-screen appearance when Yugiri sings her part in the song “FLAG wo Hatamekasero”

## Second season

### Episode 13

With his first appearance in revenge, he is direct with Kotaro about his condition, saying that he can't stay every night at his bar. He tells him that he should forget about the Zombie Land Saga Project because it is a hopeless case and that the “Saga ettes” will treasure their return to life as a nice memory. He rubs in Kotaro's face his failure in the EFS and that if he started everything, he must finish it. Hearing this, Kotaro breaks the glass he was holding and shouts that their names are Franchouchou and runs out of his bar; However, all this was a plan of his to encourage him to come out and to recover his sanity.

### Episode 20

Introducing himself as Kiichi's grandfather, he appears to be much older than his appearance 150 years later. He himself says that Saga is him and that he is Saga. However, a sore back prevents him from talking to Yugiri, and he goes to bed while he throws dried squid at the family dog, Romero.

### Episode 21

Still weakened, he is now in the care of Yugiri, who helps him a lot to make him feel much better. In a talk with Yugiri, he mentions that humans are the ones who decide earthly matters and that their actions are what we call karma. He says that it is Kiichi's actions that will define the fate of Saga through a light that he sees shining over him. Yugiri tells him that he should keep drinking the tea that she left for him so that he can get better and although Jofuku doesn't like it, he should drink it to feel better.

When Ito kills several Saga rebels, Jofuku visibly shaken. He tries to reach for the medicine from him, but falls unconscious and Romero licks it off. The next morning, he wakes up much better and can walk and read the letter that was from Yugiri to him. In the letter, she informs him that by the time he reads this she will already be dead and that Kiichi will have already saved Saga.

In the present, Jofuku is tending his bar and Yugiri arrives, who tells him how comfortable she is in this time and everything that happened during the Saga incident. Jofuku still has the photo that Yugiri, Kiichi and Ito took a few days before the revolution.

### Episode 22

Kotaro goes to see him after Arata confronted him about the truth about the girls at the Ekimae Fudosan. Jofuku says that that's not Kotaro's only problem right now, and that he can't believe that the gloomy and timid young man has gone this far. Kotaro replies about his true identity as an immortal and that he still has to prevent his prophecy from happening. However, their conversation is interrupted when Saga's curse unleashes a massive storm throughout Saga.

### Episode 23

After the start of the floods, Jofuku laments that he did not act before the Reiwa era and says that the depopulation of Saga was already the beginning of the end for the prefecture. The bar is quickly flooded by a broken window, and Kotaro and Jofuku get caught in the water.

A few days later, the police officer comes to the bar to rescue them both from there. Jofuku tells Kotaro that regardless of what he tells him, he will always do crazy things for Franchouchou's sake.

### Episode 24

Cameo next to Kotaro and Romero shortly before Franchouchou's concert at Ekimae Fudosan.