Kotaro Tatsumi/History

## Season 1

### Episode 1

After one of the zombies escaped from his mansion and was shot by a police officer, he rescued her by hitting the policeman with a shovel. This is the first time we have seen Kotaro in the series.

After Sakura wakes up after being unconscious, Kotaro explains to Sakura that she turned into a zombie and will now work as a team to save Saga Prefecture. The other girls are currently zombies and are now part of their newly formed idol group in hopes of resurrecting the regional idol trend and bringing attention to Saga Prefecture.

That same night, he booked the girls' first performance at a death metal festival at GEILS, stating that this is the only show they can participate in their zombie mode. Although Sakura is skeptical of his plan, she has no choice but to do the death metal concert with the 6 zombie girls around her.

### Episode 2

Kotaro informs the girls that they will be performing at Saga's castle. Disgusted with their situation, Ai and Junko secretly try to leave, a worried Sakura following them. After running into police officer A and a few rappers, and scaring them out of the place, it was revealed that Kotaro was watching from the shadows the entire time.

During the performance at Saga's castle, things heat up between Sakura and Saki and build into a rap battle, with Kotaro providing the music for the boxing beat.

### Episode 3

Kotaro made plans for a live guerilla performance in front of Karatsu Station.

After they finished the performance, he revealed his terrible driving skills after trying to quickly turn around and somehow end up on the pavement.

### Episode 4

With his budget running low, Kotaro sends the girls to perform at a hot spring resort in Ureshino in an attempt to win a sponsorship deal with a pharmaceutical company.

Despite saying that he was going to go sightseeing while they practiced (much to his chagrin), it was revealed that he was actually establishing relationships with the pharmacy representative at the time. Unfortunately, the girls scared her so much that she ended up forgetting everything about the day.

### Episode 5

Although upset the girls ruined his paid sponsor opportunity for them, Kotaro apathetically decides to increase the girls' publicity despite their recent setback. He gives them a commercial acting job at Drive-In Tori. Then he sets the girls to compete in the Gatalympics while wearing their group T-shirts—Although he never realized the girls must stay muddy to cover their zombie identities. Regardless, the games went on normally, but hardly any publicity for their group.

### Episode 6

It is revealed by Kotaro that the girls will be performing at the Saga Rock Festival and that Junko and Ai will be performing a duet, causing the group to feel uneasy.

### Episode 7

Junko refuses to practice and locks herself in a room in the mansion, closing the door. Kotaro destroys the barricade, saying “The zombies belong on the other side of the barricade!” but after realizing that he had accidentally knocked out Junko, he quickly calms down.

He explains to Junko that she does not need to follow the modern standards of the idol industry and that she may be her own type of idol, convincing her to join the group again.

### Episode 8

After finding out that Lily Hoshikawa was born a male, the girls confront Kotaro about it, who reveals that he knew all along and didn't see why it was an issue. After rebuking the girls, he throws them out of his office and slams the door.

Later, they discuss the matter of Lily again and the group together with Kotaro plans a song so that Lily can say goodbye to her father.

### Episode 9

Kotaro sends the girls to a park in Saga to become popular with the area's elders, arguing that they need to attract a new population to Saga.

He argues with the girls about the mess they are causing in the van, and is shocked when Lily tells him that Saki jumped out of the van. At the mansion, he reproaches her for her behavior, telling Saki that such behavior and getting involved in gang fights could bring future problems for the group.

### Episode 11

Kotaro is seen talking to someone in a bar, where he and the bartender talked about the Zombie Land Saga Project. The bartender warns him not to touch Yugiri and that Kotaro is unable to forget the past.

He saves Sakura again from the cop who shot her and hears her complaints about how, regardless of what she does, she always ends up failing. Even after Sakura Minamoto regains her memories and refuses to act, Kotaro refuses to give up on her and tells her that he would never abandon her.

### Episode 12

It is revealed that Kotaro used to be Sakura's classmate under the name of “**Inui**”, but Sakura couldn't recognize him as he got older, and it is possible that “**Kotaro Tatsumi**” is an alias he used in the entertainment industry.

## Manga

### Awakening Edition

The girls, now (mostly) regained their consciousness, gather underground from the mansion, where Kotaro comes to greet all the girls now that they have regained their senses. To begin their journey as idols, he first informs them that they are zombies and instructs them to never be seen by people in their zombified guise, as they would be stereotypically treated as monsters seen in many zombie horror media. Above all, he enthusiastically relies on girls who will become idols to save Saga's idol entertainment.

We go back to the past, exactly a few days before the girls woke up, Kotaro is in Takeo's library and is worried about how to generate demand for them for the group to be successful. After listening to a casual conversation between mother and daughter, decides to go to Drive-In Tori to eat and do business.

Kotaro arrives at Drive-In Tori where he sees hungry customers, he arrives intending to do business with the restaurant owner and promote the girls and their idol group. When he asks one of the waiters, he tells him that the president is missing and will be here soon, so Kotaro orders chicken from the restaurant to hang out.

After having orgasms with the chicken and the restaurant food, a mysterious guy arrives saying that he does not know the true power of Drive-In Tori and Kotaro thinks that he is the president of the restaurant.

The weird guy sits with Kotaro, who feels a strong presence emanating from him and still thinks he is the president of Drive-In Tori. Kotaro tells him that he wants to save Saga using local idols as Saga's reputation has been declining due to the age of his inhabitants, unemployment, and lack of new talents, causing in a few years the population to be reduced by half. He says that with the group of girls, he will be able to bring excitement to Saga.

The mysterious boy mentions that he has lived in Saga for a long time and that he has felt the blow of depopulation, emphasizing that it is because the big cities are more prosperous than the prominent rural areas in Saga. He tells Kotaro if it is in his capacity, and he agrees, saying that he has an ace up his sleeve.

The mystery boy gets up when Kotaro mentions that the Drive-In Tori is the true flavor of Saga, he tells Kotaro that he does not know the “true Saga”. The next page shows us Kotaro thinking about what he said to him while Tae bites the bars behind him, thoughtfully, in his mind, he remembers that they will wake up, and he must act fast to save Saga.

Later, the mysterious guy arrives to pick up Kotaro at the mansion and takes him to Yobuko, a well-known fishing area in Saga that has a variety of squid.

Kotaro and the mysterious uncle go to Yobuko, which was previously one of the most visited places in Saga with at least one million visits on weekends, but due to Saga's loss of reputation, there are hardly any tourists. The man mentions that he used to go there with his family to eat squid, he reflects on how if the popular places in Saga are neglected they will never be the same again.

The reason this happens is because of the distribution of goods, as people can enjoy Yobuko's squid without having to go there.

They stop for a meal and Kotaro delights the local squid, calling it the true flavor of Saga.

After a short trip, he mentions that Kotaro must learn quickly about Saga and waits for the day when he saves Saga. When he leaves, he remembers that he forgot to ask him about the collaboration with the girls, but before doing something, one of the restaurant employees tells him that its president is in the restaurant and that he will attend to him in a second. Kotaro is confused now he wonders about the true identity of the boy he met, while the real president of the restaurant gets excited about the idea of ​​Kotaro's idols.

### Fierce fighting training

A Kotaro, exhausted from all the work he does for the girls, collapses with a stomach ache, so he turns to a doctor who tells him that his pain is due to stress; he sends him to eat something light for his stomach.

Kotaro goes to the udon store, where he has more orgasms with food. Eventually, that food managed to free him from stress and stomach pain.

Franchouchou is practicing for their next event, and we see signs of Ai and Junko's ideological discussion, With both, Franchouchou having been able to grow, and they became the center of the group. He has a brief flashback of everything they have done so far is seen, noting that Ai and Junko are opposites and that they will collide with their different ideals about idols. In this way, Kotaro decides to make a duet song for the two of them, but things were not as simple as he anticipated since the lyrics did not suit an idol group, desperate he looks for the bartender of the “Bar New Jofuku”

Once he arrives, he is surprised to see the mysterious boy sitting in the Bar, he mentions that the Bartender is not in those moments but that he will listen to everything he has to say. Kotaro talks about the duo of Ai and Junko and their inevitable clash of ideals, the mysterious guy recommends that he go to Ureshino for inspiration.

Thanks to hot tofu, Kotaro gets the inspiration to make the song of the duo Ai-Junko. Kotaro proposes to Franchouchou his new song, Atsuku Nare, but he feels worried about how the concert will be, so he goes to a restaurant to climb “Mount Fuji” which is just a dish in a restaurant in Imari.

While he is enjoying the food, he realizes that the dish is missing something. He makes a sauce on the dish to make it taste better, so he can “climb” Mount Fuji.

After Franchouchou's success on Saga Rock and Kotaro describing how well the group did for the song Atsuku Nare, he later finds a way to promote the girls more and goes to Ekimae Fudosan Stadium to eat noodles at a restaurant and imagine himself being a footballer against bushes.

Overall, after eating his noodles, the strange boy appears again and tells him that the fact of coming to Tosu means that he is ready for the “test”.

The mysterious boy tells Kotaro that he must improve his skills as an idol producer starting from the basics that are to know his Saga better, and gives him some indications to meet three wise men in Saga who will teach him more about this test, and he must pass them to find the truth of Saga.

We are shown a jump with Franchouchou at the Imari station, with Saki almost entering a ramen shop because it looked delicious, Sakura notes that Kotaro just left but does not do anything about it because she must take care of Franchouchou. One of the wise men, who is just a boy who runs a ceramics business in Imari who has been surviving in Saga for many years, tells him that he must draw his Saga on a piece of ceramic, Kotaro feels that he cannot because he cannot connect with Saga.

In the end, he achieves his goal by emerging victorious from the first test by recognizing that the answer for this test is Franchouchou and their relationship with him as a producer and passing this test. The first of three.

Kotaro arrives at Matsuura Ichishuzo, the place of the second test, he goes inside and hears a voice that came from the back of the shop saying, “Please go here.”

Kotaro is in an exhibition of old motorcycles and the oldest in Japan with only 5 of them in that store. The person who attends him is a mechanic who repaired motorcycles in addition to attending a 300-year-old liquor store. The clothesline asks him the reason the store has been able to remain in force for so long, this being the second test that he must pass.

Looking inside the liquor store, Kotaro looks for the answer to the second test to find out how the store has been able to remain active for so long. He finally finds it by looking at a Kappa mummy and motorcycles and realizes that the reason it is still active is that they take good care of things and always repair broken things.

He reflects that he should do the same with Franchouchou. By continuing the daily lessons and constant work, Franchouchou will become a true group of idols! Now the next test says, “Come to Ureshino”.

Kotaro comes to the bar with a place reserved for him, but that he had reserved in the morning, but when he enters he gets a tight position in the main section of the bar.

The owner tells him that to pass the test, he must stay in the store until it closes. Kotaro, although still pending the test, gets drunk with the other customers of the bar, but that is because he has no idea what to do in this test. The television shows news from Franchouchou during Saga Rock, and many people in the bar support the new local idols that are emerging.

Kotaro realizes what the test was and his answer, and he finally understood. Idols shine only when there are fans who support them! With the test already solved, he says goodbye to the acquaintances with whom he drank at the bar and leaves happy because he finally found the last answer to the test and his Saga… or not?

### Nostalgic Roman Edition

After what Kotaro thought was the last test, he goes to the Ureshino onsen to rest, but when he was about to go, he hears a familiar voice, it was the mysterious boy who appeared at the same onsen where he was. Such his surprise that Kotaro gets scared.

The man tells him that this is only the beginning, only the people who passed the test of the 3 wise men of Saga can know “the truth of Saga”, the place where he sends it is Yoshinogari.

This time, at the request of a mysterious guy, Franchouchou accompanies him because, according to him, he cannot discover the true Saga by himself. He yells at the girls to stop loafing and start looking for a Saga for their idol activities.

Still confused, Kotaro doesn't understand what kind of “Saga” he should look for this time and doesn't understand why he sent him to that site.

Yoshinogari is a historical place of Saga that comes from the Yayoi period, and they were the first to introduce agriculture and blacksmithing to Japan because they were in contact with foreigners ago 2200 years that they were taught these techniques. We have a flashback of Kotaro speaking in the onsen, this tells him that to find the true Saga, he must go with them to that place, even without understanding what to look for. He orders the girls to search each site in the park.

The girls, instead of looking for what Kotaro ordered them to find in the place, start playing in the playground as if they were ancient natives. The girls left Kotaro alone, while he only worried about finding the Saga he was looking for.

Sakura, Junko, and Tae participated in the experience of making dumplings, and Saki, Ai, Yugiri, and Lily participated in the experience of making fire. We have a funny scene of Saki, Ai, and Lily trying to make a fire traditionally using the friction of two pieces of wood and a rope while they end up getting tired. Yugiri manages to do it in just a few seconds, leaving the other girls surprised.

Sakura, Junko, and Tae finish making their dumplings while Tae shows her results to Saki what she did. At least she tried. Desperate, Kotaro yells at them again, angry because they are not doing what he asked them. He is still searching exhaustively for that Saga, while Saki in a mocking tone says that she already found it, establishing her dominance over Saga by posing on a hill.

The girls enjoy the scenery from the hill and try on the classic clothing of the Yayoi period while Sakura prevents Tae from eating the decorated food that is on the site, meanwhile, Kotaro feels helpless because he has not been able to find that Saga he was looking, so he feels depressed. Sakura notices his attitude and feels strange.

Climbing a tower to think, Kotaro feels that he could not pass this last tests while Sakura feels that he is about to do something random like jumping from that tower. Worried, she runs to prevent Kotaro from doing what she thinks he will do, but accidentally, she runs into a raccoon, knocking Kotaro down the tower and causing them both to fall.

With the clumsiness of Sakura, she and Kotaro were about to fall from the tower. Sakura could barely hold on to one arm and support Kotaro with the other. Kotaro tells her to drop him because if he falls, It will be revealed that they are zombies, the girls stay close until they see what is happening, Sakura falls breaking her arm but luckily Tae manages to save them by taking a huge jump.

When Sakura falls, she tells of her concern about Kotaro's attitude, emphasizing that they will always be with him, Kotaro finally realizes that what he was looking for was for Franchouchou and him to complement each other on their way to save Saga.

Finally, reunited and with a clearer mind, Kotaro decides to listen to the girls and their experiences at Yoshinogari. Each one tells how they had fun in the park and each one of the activities they did. Sakura tells a small summary of the series from the death metal concert to the present, saying that this is her Saga.

There is only Kotaro left to say what he felt in the park. Until now, Kotaro has interacted with saga sages and mystery types and has enjoyed seafood, agricultural products, and beautiful seascapes. He realizes that the Saga he is looking for is actually interacting with people and loving them proudly.

After the park event at Yoshinogari, Kotaro touched on the truth of the saga and identified the saga that he loved. Now the days of battle as a talented producer have begun anew.

Imari, Ureshino, Yoshinogari… The knowledge he acquired in the famous places of the saga was wonderful, but he is confused because he has earned too much in this short period.

He wonders who is the mysterious guy who appears from time to time and helps him with the lyrics of his songs. For inspiration, he looks for something to eat and speaks well of food. Meanwhile, the girls get the smell of their room and also look for something to eat themselves. While Kotaro was bathing, Saki brought a stove to cook a Takana in Franchouchou's bedroom to eat on their own, but Tae made the rice too spicy, and she got burned. Now Kotaro realizes that his food has been stolen.

It's December 31st, the first time that the series shows us what happened after the Arpino event. The girls discuss the adventures they have had together as a group of idols in the last few months, usually they spend eating and their post-lives as zombies. Tae accidentally spits on Kotaro when she chokes on a piece of food.

### The Future Development of Saga

Kotaro, happy about the new year, decide to have a bottle of Japanese sake but gets drunk too much and falls into a dream where the Saga tourism mascot “Saga Travel Support” appears. He tells Kotaro about how delicious Japanese Sake is and the food from Saga prefecture, before waking up, the Saga Travel Support pet tells Kotaro that Franchouchou has a hidden power that will help him in his mission.

When he wakes up, he decides to do something of what this pet told him and demonstrate the value of the girls through a movie, is this an omen of the future?

With the necessary energy, Kotaro decides to write his own story of what he has learned with the 3 wise men and the search for his Saga, he takes a pencil and begins to write the script for his movie. After an intense Franchouchou battle is shown, Kotaro teaches a government official about his idea of ​​making a movie with the sketches already made, but he denies the idea of ​​him.

In a park, Kotaro is exhausted from work and makes a metaphor that he has been mining gold for a long time, an older man offers him something to eat and Kotaro accepts, after a bite, they both go to a house, and Kotaro is amazed by this meal. The next day, he and Franchouchou go to a restaurant to prepare this meal and at the same time learn how to make it. Ultimately, it turned out quite well and the owners congratulated the girls.

Franchouchou prepares for a big concert, while Kotaro watches and decides that now they will stop being idols to participate in a restaurant to promote themselves through food. Now the girls will have a judge in a bird costume who will decide which of the girls will prepare the best dish!

At the end of the contest, the girls unite and win the contest. Later, Kotaro checks social media to see Franchouchou's performance.

When Kotaro arrives after being outside for a day, finds the mansion empty with no trace of the girls and a note in the living room saying not to bother them because they are busy. Kotaro wonders what the girls are doing. Kotaro looks for the girls around the city after they have suddenly disappeared from the mansion because he knows that without them Saga will not be saved, meanwhile, Franchouchou walks through the city and visits various places in Karatsu while they discuss the future presentation in the EFS and as that will be their big leap. When Kotaro arrives, they all, decide to do their best for the big concert.

## Season 2

### Episode 13

Kotaro's first appearance this season is set in a bar called “small Jofuku” where he is so drunk that he laughs at a chicken pope that had been served to him previously. Shortly after, Sakura enters to talk to him about making a clean slate at GEILS live where Franchouchou performed for the first time a year ago, and again, due to his drunkenness, he plays a jester and does not pay attention to Sakura.

Later at night, he goes close to the sea during a strong storm and kneels in front of the waves, and while they break Kotaro tries to conjure something, but because of the loud noise, we cannot hear his words. Then he goes back to the bar where he was drinking, but accidentally enters Yugiri's bar, surprising her. Yugiri leaves her bar to talk to him, and she only hears about him being entirely wrong, probably the scene in front of the sea has something to do here.

Again with Sakura, she keeps trying to talk to him and stop him from drinking, but her attempts are useless because Kotaro says that “I don't have what it takes” making a parallel to Sakura in episode 11, this makes Sakura sad who goes to do things on their own. A few hours later, he meets the Bartender who reproaches him for his condition and tells him to forget about the Zombie Land Saga project since the girls will now be able to live normal lives now; he is quickly interrupted by shouting that their time is running out and that now they will not be able to achieve it. As well as his attitude, the bartender then tells him to tell the girls to give up and that they are finished, which makes Kotaro reconsider and think of the group, breaking the glass in his hand and running out of the bar saying that the group's name is Franchouchou.

Finally, in GEILS, he applauds supporting the girls to sing the new song, which annoys the metalheads who give him a beating and start a fight, where Kotaro's strength is demonstrated by containing 5 people for the time. Finally, with the new song “REVENGE” the fight ends and in the mansion he cuts his hair and returns to being the usual Kotaro but still with the marks of the fight he had last night.

### Episode 14

A few days later, he announces to the Franchouchou girls, after having annoyed them with a pseudo interview and his microphone, that they will make their public comeback with a television program.

Ai and Saki try anyway to find out the reasons that led Kotaro to be depressed for a month. He will ignore their questions. Therefore, Kotaro announces that Franchouchou will film a program to introduce the Yutoku-Inari temple in Kashima, in Saga Prefecture. They are not the only celebrities who present to this temple, the famous rocker of Saga, White Ryu, will also be present. News that delights Saki in passing. The girls, Kotaro, the show staff, and White Ryu will spend the day together visiting the place. During filming, Kotaro will spend most of his time eating local specialties.

After Saki and Sakura's stint on White Ryu's radio show, he brings the rest of Franchouchou's girls to his truck to check that the two of them are okay. He will also attend the taping of the show, now hosted by Saki and Franchouchou.

### Episode 15

Iron Frill is coming to Saga soon to inaugurate Saga's new stadium, the Saga Arena. Kotaro can't stand the fact that a group of idols from Tokyo can open a stadium in his prefecture, he manages to find a place for Franchouchou at this concert. Therefore, he decides to break the news to the girls, whom he attacks with a water pistol.

They are upset by the arrival of Iron Frill and their participation in their concert, they seem to doubt their success, but Ai reassures them that they can do it.

However, Kotaro also announces that Ai will not participate in this concert because she was the former leader of Iron Frill, a decision that the other girls dispute. Kotaro doesn't back down from his decision and has already planned solo jobs for Ai the day after this discussion.

He, therefore, helps Ai during the various idol jobs and categorically rejects all other non-Saga prefectural jobs. Relations between him and Ai are strained, she doesn't understand why he removed her from the group at such an important moment in her career. Kotaro simply replies that Junko and the other girls can do very well without her and will make the concert at the Saga Arena a success. While the girls prepare and participate in this concert, Ai will have to pay EFS's debt with her odd jobs. Therefore, the two begin to argue severely.

### Episode 16

When Kotaro witnesses Junko's altercation with a policeman, he comes to her afterward and comforts her in his unique way — by air blasting her with his guitar and screaming out a motivational speech at her. He convinces her that if she wants to have Ai's loyalty, she can't keep devaluing herself, that she must be assertive and take Ai back, to “smash through” any challenge facing her. He then lends her his favorite guitar, so she can do just that.

The next day, Kotaro prepares Franchouchou's makeup for them and sends them off, watching the show with Ai Mizuno. She asks him if he was ever really worried about her identity at all, but he simply stays silent as they begin to perform — and excel, with Kotaro urging them on. At the apex of Junko's song, she smashes Kotaro's guitar, much to Kotaro's horror.

### Episode 17

Kotaro attempts to give Franchouchou direction once more with a pep talk, walking into the room in snorkel gear, but Lily Hoshikawa has already taken his podium today. He sits glumly down beside the other girls as Lily lays out a plan to try out for the “Japanese Got Performance” talent show. He later joins the talent show, appearing nervous on stage before beginning his “act” to impersonate a mudskipper in mating season. Naturally, the judges disqualify him almost immediately.

### Episode 18

Kotaro has another meeting with Franchouchou, appreciating Ai, Saki, and Sakura's desire to keep rising, so he suggests they get down to a strategy meeting: except they can't do that because they're still 20 million yen in debt. Saki insists that the debt is his fault anyway, but he pretends not to hear, and sends them all out to make some money — including Tae Yamada, despite protest. Miraculously, Tae accidentally manages to win 20 million yen at a boat race, which Kotaro accepts to pay off the debt. However, Saki's comment that Tae is far more useful than “shades” does bother him slightly.

### Episode 19

At the public showers (wearing his shades even here), Kotaro accidentally drops the soap even as Maimai Yuzuriha walks into the men's showers, slips on it, and knocks her head on the floor, knocking her out. Seeing this, Kotaro presumes she died, and takes her body back to the Mansion. There, he presents Maimai's “corpse” as Franchouchou's newest member. Everyone questions this, refusing to clap when Kotaro asks them to, so he wonders why they'd care about having another dead member in their group (given that they're zombies). Saki insists that they do care, but he assures them that the zombification process is well underway. When asked where he found her, he insists that he was “guided” to her, but the continued questioning causes him to break down and panic, hysterically insisting that he didn't kill her. Suddenly, Ai, Junko, and Sakura start screaming, Kotaro starts screaming in response, then dodges out of the way when Maimai stands up and nearly stumbles into him.

Afterward, in the mansion proper, Kotaro is grilled by Ai and Junko over not confirming that Maimai was dead and that this is just a kidnapping. Maimai eventually surmises that Franchouchou are all zombies, driving Kotaro into a panic. After mastering himself to a degree, he begs her not to tell anyone and orders the other zombies to join in. Maimai agrees, as long as she can join Franchouchou, so Kotaro puts his hands over his head and smiles comically to indicate her acceptance. Later, when Maimai wants to perform at her local high school, he agrees and use the same gesture, much to Saki's aggravation. When she then leaves the group itself, he apologizes for kidnapping her, but she forgives him due to the experience it allowed her to gain. She promises to keep Franchouchou's secret safe, so Kotaro thanks her and leaves.

### Episode 21

Near the end of the episode, Kotaro bursts into a staging room and hurries the zombies along to their performance.

### Episode 22

#### EFS disaster

Before the disastrous EFS performance, Kotaro decided, after a successful show and rising album sales, to try a new challenge: the Ekimae Fudosan Stadium, where Ai died. He insists that because they're all former stars (except Sakura) that they can succeed, and proceeds with the show without even pre-selling any tickets, instead only allowing them to be purchased the day of. This naturally is a disaster, and drives Kotaro to drink for several weeks straight, even noting one night that they now have 20 million yen in debt.

#### Present

Back in the present, Kotaro washes ashore with several squids and is mistaken for a corpse until he spits a squid out of his mouth and staggers away (only to be harassed by seagulls). He presents his disheveled self to Franchouchou and apologizes for his failure at EFS the previous year, and insists that they'll have their revenge concert there this year, on the anniversary of their failure. This time, he has advertisement campaigns to make sure it's a success, and their sales indicate a more promising draw — which will allow pre-sold tickets this time.

Kotaro is later confronted at the stadium itself by Ookoba, with evidence that Franchouchou are zombies, but Kotaro is supremely unconcerned, saying that Franchouchou is unstoppable, and will perform at EFS next month. Afterward, he goes for drinks with Jofuku, who is surprised no one discovered their scheme sooner. Kotaro and Jofuku discuss Saga, and Jofuku's prophecy that Saga will be stricken from memory in some form of cataclysm, but Kotaro seeks to prevent it by making Saga too famous to forget. Soon enough, a storm comes and kills the electricity in the room, with Jofuku doubling over and saying that it has begun.

### Episode 23

The day after the storm, Jofuku and Kotaro are locked in the underground bar. The water from the flood tries to enter through the door but eventually, it ends up breaking the glass that was on the door, flooding the bar with Kotaro and Jofuku still inside it.

Several days later, both men are still inside the bar and are rescued by Police Officer A, who was searching for survivors in Saga. Kotaro immediately leaves the place searching for Franchouchou so that they save Saga. The police officer A tries to stop him unsuccessfully, while Jofuku tells him that he always does crazy things. In his search for Franchouchou, Kotaro will realize that his mansion was washed away by the sea, and now he too has to search for the girls' makeup in the rubble of the mansion on a nearby beach while he tries to reach the other one in Karatsu's side.

In the afternoon, he manages to find the girls and talk to Arata about something he has planned for the Franchouchou concert. He is already re-meeting with the girls, who reproach him that they have been waiting for him for days. He puts makeup on each girl while he gives a speech on how they will get their revenge concert, he will do everything humanly possible, and they do everything zombiefically possible.

Before going down the stairs, he is overtaken by Sakura, who decides to speak with him. She tells him how grateful she is that Franchouchou has recognition in Saga, and thanks him for making her an idol. After saying this, Kotaro remembers part of his past when he learned of Sakura's death at school, and we see how their classmates cry about Sakura's death while he is in the background, he manages to read Sakura's letter to become an idol and feels helpless to see how someone like her was simply snatched from her dream.

On the verge of tears, Kotaro won't let Sakura's dream end and jumps on her, yelling at her. He says that he will never abandon Sakura and that he will have what it takes for Franchouchou to continue to exist forever and to be immortalized as the best idols.

### Episode 24

Senior officials from Saga Prefecture meet to discuss actions to be taken to deal with the flood. Suddenly, Kotaro enters the room yelling to restore Tosu's area first, so Saga can recover faster, but to no avail. He yells at the governor that this is for Franchouchou to do a benefit concert to get Saga back. In the end, he is taken out of the government offices and receives a call from Arata, where he expresses that it is difficult to get a helicopter but that he will try, but that he still does not trust Kotaro and only does this for the Franchouchou girls. With a goodbye, Arata says that he expects God to be on his side that day, but Kotaro with a shaky tone tells him that he doesn't want God involved, much less at this point.

On the day of the concert, thousands of people come to see Franchouchou's concert and Kotaro gives his thanks to the governor of Saga, who replies that Saga will never give up.

Franchouchou performs their concert successfully while the public asks for a BIS, Kotaro talks with the girls about the success of this one and how he feels proud of how the group has grown in a year, so much so that he falls to the ground crying and yells at them that his stupid zombies have become arrogant since they are still far from saving Saga. As the girls walk away, Kotaro wipes up the blood he had left behind as he cried and coughed on the ground.