Tae Yamada/Relationships

## Saga Sagako Busters

### Eikichi Hyodo

After kidnapping him, Tae forces him to participate in at night hunt so that he can use the power of onions against the Sagako, like his sister did before she turned into an onion. At the end of the battle, Eikichi fails to seal the Sagako, and Tae decides that she will personally train Eikichi to make him a useful member of the team. As he progresses in Sagako Busters, Eikichi's skill improves and makes Tae proud with each battle. Little by little, Tae understands how Eikichi is someone different from Yuko, and he contributes to the group in what he can. Deep down, she is quite proud of his accomplishments, though she tries to hide it.

Although at first Tae was quite aggressive with him, she begins to show more sincere emotions when the situation calls for it. Tae was not only a leader who bullied Eikichi, but also a person with feelings. Tae begins to show this part of her when Eikichi is in a state of negativity after being hit by Higashino earlier. She is genuinely concerned for Eikichi, and even feels that, thanks to him, she has been able to change the way she is. Although Eikichi wanted to feel like a part of the group and runs away when Tae says that they will solve Higashino's problem without him, he comes back when Saki makes him see reason.

When Anna and Hanako go missing because of Magatsuhi, only Eikichi and Tae are left to save Saga. The two work as a team like never before, and even now, they are confident enough to talk about each other's dreams. For the final battle against Magatsuhi, both Eikichi and Tae care for each other. Even if Eikichi is injured in the leg, he will see to Tae's happiness by wanting her to be happy. Her words to her Tae make her sister's onion glow, and she passes the power to him, who passes it to Tae by hugging her. Now that Tae has the power to seal, she asks Eikichi for one last order, and that is to go up to the Sagako, where Tae seals Magatsuhi inside her.

### Yuko Hyodo

A member of the group who turned into an onion after using her full power. Tae was so upset by the incident that she decides, with Yuko's last words, to recruit her brother. Although she takes it very literally when she kidnaps him. Even when Yuko was still a young girl, she defended Tae from being hurt. Years later, Yuko decides to work together with Tae at her burger joint and thanks to Yuko this place thrives very well. When Yuko sealed herself in an onion, the place fell into oblivion. But Tae is still willing to treasure that place when Yuko comes back.

For Tae, Yuko was the only person who showed her feelings apart from revenge and rancor. Yuko was the only one who showed Tae all this time a “maternal” love that Tae always sought. Obviously, when Yuko was sealed in an onion, Tae is so upset by it that she tries to fill the void with Yuko's brother, Eikichi. Although little by little she begins to understand that they are entirely different people, before she tried to make Eikichi as perfect as Yuko.

### Anna Shuri

Tae's right-hand and who is responsible for disasters after the fight against the Sagakos, such as cleaning the springs from the onions that Eikichi threw unsuccessfully. Tae recognizes that Anna is not as innocent as she seems and knows how to defend herself very well. As such, she is the perfect girl for strength tasks within the team and the one in charge of doing chores around the house.

Before her arrival in the group, Tae tended to be very aggressive due to arguments or different points of view when it came to fighting the Sagakos. Anna helped Tae a lot to fix that flaw by making the arguments disappear. She was very helpful to the team and the best manpower they could get. As such, Anna is an important member of the group's logistics.

### Hanako Hakase

The scientist of the group is responsible for the weapons and tools that the Busters use against the Sagakos. Although Hanako is usually a full-fledged mad scientist, she also has a voice of reason within the team and often advises Tae. Hanako is very sincere, sometimes too much for Tae. She not only mentions her age secret, but sometimes doesn't measure the consequences of what she says in the first place. While both girls get along well, in the past they have both constantly fought over how to defeat some troublesome Sagako.

For Tae, the human experiments that Hanako performed on other former members were not a problem. Even on Eikichi, who is Yuko's brother, Hanako continues to perform her crazy experiments.

### Jofuku (MJ)

Tae is the adoptive daughter of Jofuku, since he adopted her after the death of her parents at the hands of Sagako. Jofuku likes that Tae calls him “Father”, even though she doesn't like it. They mutually agreed to only speak to each other through the mansion's television and rarely spoke to each other in person unless Tae needed something. This is because Tae doesn't like her father, since he is very overprotective of her and rarely lets her act on her behalf. During chapter 5, they manage to reconcile more or less through the mansion's television and go to a restaurant to have a good time as a group. Both work at Karatsu Burger, MJ being the owner of several stores in the area and giving work to his daughter.

Despite the differences between the two, Tae cares a lot for her adoptive father and when he suddenly grows old, she entrusts the Hyodo family to take care of him. Years after Tae's death, MJ knows that Tae's spirit is still protecting Saga, so he isn't too worried about her.

### Magatsuhi

Originally, a strange baby that her parents found. Tae is wary of this creature, even in its harmless stage. Mistrust, which turned out to be true when the Sagako was born suddenly, killing her parents in the process. The murder of her parents made Tae bear a grudge against these creatures. Years later, this Sagako manifests herself again, destroying the mansion where the Busters live and causing chaos in the city. Tae desperately confronts this Sagako, dealing some damage, but she ends up knocked down before she can destroy her.

The Sagako disappear after Magatsuhi's appearance, and Saga starts filing missing women cases. Tae knows that she is behind all this, and together with Eikichi's help, they manage to set a trap for her so that Magatsuhi will guide them to the place where the kidnapped women are. The place, which is an amusement park, is the scene of the final battle. Tae realizes that the giant spider is just another form of that girl, and she is willing to destroy her.

The battle is heated, with Anna and Hanako teaming up after being kidnapped along with the previously sealed Sagako. Everyone is injured in the battle, including Tae, who is unwilling to give up. With the help of Yuko and Eikichi's power, Tae knows what she must do. She goes up to Magatsuhi and touches her mask, immediately understanding the curse with a burst of information. Tae realizes that she was looking for motherly love, just like she always wanted Tae. Accepting and forgiving herself, Tae seals Magatsuhi inside her body and dies.

### Mrs. Yamada

Tae's mother, and who cared for her daughter even though she spent more time on an investigation. She was the one who bought her a stuffed rabbit for her birthday. Following a discovery she made, she spends little time at home, leaving Tae alone for most of the day.

### Mr. Yamada

Tae's father, a scientist who accompanies his mother on her research. He spends little time with Tae as he is very busy.

## Franchouchou

### Sakura Minamoto (Zombie #1)

Tae is the first zombie Sakura meets because Tae was the one who headbutted into the hallway Sakura was in the first episode, effectively scaring Sakura into running away from the mansion. After she regains consciousness of her, she once again discovers that she has somehow returned to the mansion. Kotaro then introduces Tae along with the rest of Franchouchou, but after reaching Tae Yamada, Sakura confusedly questions Kotaro about what made Tae legendary, since he didn't have a description for her. This upsets Kotaro, and he tells her that Tae is legendary just because she is.

She is not afraid to attack people if she thinks they pose a threat. She will chase pets like Cocco thinking they are monsters, and she fought a giant boar to protect Sakura. Likewise, she was like that in life too, being a Sagako Buster.

In the eleventh episode, Tae is shown to be one of the girls who was greatly affected by Sakura's depression after being hit once again by another truck. She and the rest of Franchouchou tried their best to cheer her up and bring back memories of her as a zombie, unsuccessfully. The rest of the group noticed how Tae was “crying” for Sakura, only to realize that the raindrops weren't her tears, but her overflowing plethora of saliva. Showing how Tae had enough, she has a brief psychotic episode and jumping out of the window. Effectively scaring her, she drags Sakura back to the rest of the team to try to win her back for good.

Tae's zombie-like antics and girl-woman behavior are often a source of comedy. However, in Episode 12, when Sakura, blinded by depression, vehemently rejects her one too many times, Tae reaches her breaking point of anger. Showing that even if she is ultimately a harmless zombie, she can actually be quite scary when she's really angry. She does her best to help Sakura remember her successes. Sakura had previously acted as her caretaker, so she wouldn't end up biting people, and she had also taught her to pay attention and dance, earning her eternal loyalty from her. So, when Sakura sulks in the attic, Tae goes to great lengths to crash into the attic's window and drag her to the dance studio to try to jog her memories of her. After Sakura has all of her pre- and post-mortem memories of her, she happily chews on her head. For a zombie that has a bit of humanity, this really says a lot.

Zombie Tae is very animalistic, like dealing with threats like a mad dog, constantly eating even when she shouldn't, and easily distracted from her idol training. She often needs someone like Sakura to keep her focused.

During the manga chapters, Tae's attention to Sakura causes her to awaken her hunting instinct and save Kotaro and Sakura from a fall that would make them discover that they are zombies. She saves both of them, but clearly has a preference for preserving Sakura.

During the second season, Tae and Sakura usually go together to prevent Tae from doing crazy things or exposing that they are zombies. Both girls practice together when necessary and, much like a dog, Tae follows Sakura's orders and even goes after her when she asks for her company for some drinks for the other girls.

Sakura worries a lot about Tae because she knows that in some of her actions she can make them discover that Franchouchou are zombies. But she doesn't bear fruit of it due to her own clumsiness that she gets Arata to take a picture of Tae's head flying off her body during episode 6 of Revenge. After the Saga flood, Tae sneaks away from Franchouchou to go get food that she was giving to the flood refugees. Being zombies, it is not necessary to eat and therefore Sakura tells her not to eat that.

### Saki Nikaido (Zombie #2)

She literally follows Saki's instructions, seeing her as the leader. When it is said “literally” it is literally copying the actions that she does, as if she were the example for her to follow. Due to her irresponsibility with Tae's head, they are almost discovered in the rap battle of episode 2. In the manga, both are together in the Yoshinogari site and Tae imitates the actions of Saki as a gang member.

### Junko Konno (Zombie #4)

Tae intimidates her deeply. If Junko is present, but she doesn't have speaking lines in a given scene, Tae will probably chase her or cower at something Tae is doing. The irony is that Junko is probably such a specific target because she always reacts with a lot of fear, which triggers Tae's predatory instinct.

In fact, this may have an explanation, as Junko was Tae and Yuko's favorite idol when Tae was alive. Even Tae was thinking of making her idol group inspired by Junko Konno.

### Yugiri (Zombie #5)

Yugiri doesn't seem to pay much attention to Tae and vice versa. They both respect each other and have never been seen interacting intimately other than when Lily plays with Tae.

### Lily Hoshikawa (Zombie #6)

Although she is indifferent to Tae, as seen in episode 2, she treats her like her pet and even like a dog on several occasions, as seen in episode 10 when she plays with her. However, Tae likes to catch Lily's squid and lie about how she didn't do it.

## Others

### Kotaro Tatsumi

She tends to bite and gnaw on anyone or anything she can get her hands on, including her own hair. However, according to Kotaro, she is completely harmless. Kotaro gives a basic description of each girl to Sakura when she first awakens. But with Tae, he just says that she is “The legendary Tae Yamada”. When Sakura asks again, he just repeats himself and never gives any background information on her.

Kotaro never seems very concerned with what she does and treats her like a normal member of the group. In episode 6 of revenge, he even sends her shopping at the store, which sets off a chain of events that ends with her earning 20 million yen. Although he is happy that they can now pay off the debt, the girls' comments that Tae was more useful than Kotaro bother him.

### Romero

She likes to howl with him at night and be background characters while the other girls do their thing. In his zombie form, Romero is responsible for taking care of Tae when she leaves the mansion, guiding her where she should go. Romero also prevents Arata from taking photos of Tae while she is dancing, and takes care of Tae later when she wins the 20 million yen in a boat bet in Saga.

### Maria Amabuki

Maria and Tae have known each other since episode 9, although on that occasion Tae scared Maria. In the second season, it is implied that Tae goes shopping at Saga's supermarket regularly. Maria trusts her enough to tell her how her relationship with her mother, Reiko, is going, and how she is now working to pay for her destroyed motorcycle.

Maria takes Tae to the dance contest with her new group to see how number 2 has inspired them. Tae participates after seeing Cocco-san on stage and manages to win the contest prize. When police officer A arrives, she is taken to a boat racing site, where Tae gambles and wins 20 million yen. In the afternoon, Maria accompanies Tae to the girls' mansion to make sure Tae doesn't eat or vote on the money she's earned.

### Takeo go

After the incident with Lily in the anime, Tae growls like a dog when questioned by the girls. In the past, Tae and Takeo met when her group, The Saga Sagako Busters, helped Takeo with a curse that affected his school and brought bad luck to those who tried to confess. After restraining the Sagako, Takeo is free to confess his love to Sachika.