Tae Yamada/History

## Zombie Land Saga Gaiden: The First Zombie

### Chapter 1

The Busters head to a new outbreak of Sagako in the forests of Niji-no matsubara. Due to the constant battles against the Sagako, Yuko is weakened, but, even so, she is motivated to fight against Sagako. During the fight, Yuko uses all of her strength and sacrifices herself to seal the Sagako, sealing herself in an onion to preserve herself as well. Before being sealed in the onion, Yuko tells Tae that she has a twin brother who may have the same sealing power as her.

One week, the Busters arrive at the Hyodo house, kidnapping Eikichi. He awakens in the mansion, where he is greeted by the Sagako Busters, who appear before him. The leader, on the other hand, doesn't seem to want to give her name at the moment. She tells Eikichi that he will now be her sister's replacement, whether he wants to or not. The alarm sounds and warns of a Sagako outbreak, so the Busters prepare to go.

In Ureshino, the Busters search for the Sagako inside the hotel. The leader guides Eikichi through the place, which is full of old people. Eikichi gets distracted and goes to the hot springs. Suddenly, Eikichi screams in fear and Tae arrives where he is. It turns out that Eikichi had found the Sagako that affected the elderly. Tae defends Eikichi from the first attack and tries to radio her teammates. But due to the humidity, her radio doesn't work. Eikichi attacks the Sagako with a baseball bat and manages to save the old people. Moments later, Anna and Hanako arrive with Yuko's onions and Eikichi seals the Sagako. Or at least for a few seconds, since he ends up escaping, leaving the place smelling of onions; Tae asks Anna to clean up the place.

Back at the mansion, Tae discusses Eikichi's future as a Sagako Buster and decides that she herself will train and rehabilitate him to fill the role of his sister. Finally, she introduces herself to him as the ultimate office lady warrior, “Tae Yamada”.

### Chapter 2

The chapter begins with Eikichi in front of Tae saying good morning. Tae responds by saying that the greeting is essential to have the respect of others. Eikichi recalls the events of the past few days and how he ended up at the mansion.

In Eikichi's flashback, the Busters perform a ritual to communicate with the head of the Busters. Eikichi is confused because he thinks they are communicating with an alien. Suddenly, the television behind him turns on and Jofuku's silhouette appears, saying that he is Saga. The video is a VHS tape and shows on screen messages from the end of the world in 1999 and how the Sagako outbreaks are the beginning of the end for Saga Prefecture and the world.

Tae tells Eikichi that his training should start, and that his mother left him in the mansion so that he would learn to behave. Eikichi's training consists of him working out with Anna's help and using a toy called Dr. Zombie Paw, which they use to measure Misogi power.

Although Eikichi tries hard, Tae still doesn't trust him because despite doing the training and cleaning the house, he's still not as perfect as his twin sister. Hanako tells Tae that she should stop comparing them, since, after all, they are entirely different people. Tae returns to the room where Yuko's onion is, and Tae talks to her, remembering how Yuko always cared for Tae in the battles against Sagako. Tae is visibly affected by how Yuko ended up, as she was never able to protect her from the curse, and she sees Eikichi as the way to make amends for her.

When a Sagako shows its true form to Eikichi, and he ends up running away, Tae was already prepared and brings more onions to Eikichi and tells him to seal it. Eikichi throws all the onions at the Sagako and they finally seal it. Tae is proud of Eikichi, but she covers it up by yelling at him and compares him to Yuko again.

### Chapter 3

Anna informs the group about an incident at a club, and how they have to stop the cursed song in order for the club to reopen again. Eikichi asks Tae why they were contacted for commission, and Tae replies that they are usually called for this type of problem in Saga.

The Busters arrive at the club, where the manager reports a cursed song playing at night. In that, the Sagako makes her presence and attacks the Busters with her cursed song, quickly knocking them out. At the mansion, Tae discovers that Sagako is searching for a “Triple A” man. Since they don't know any man who meets those requirements, they decide to use Eikichi to meet them and defeat the Sagako; Tae helps him with his learning by using a tape with her voice that she plays every time Eikichi sleeps so that he will subconsciously learn something.

Days later, they arrive at the cursed club, where Eikichi tries to “conquer” the Sagako. The Sagako realizes that Eikichi is a fraud and attacks the group. Since they were already prepared, all the girls put on their headphones to avoid hearing the cursed music. Eikichi was also prepared and brought onion sour to weaken Sagako and prepared a toast with it to seal the Sagako once and for all. This act causes Tae to feel proud of Eikichi and blush.

### Chapter 4

Eikichi is looking for a part-time job to buy a console he saw in a store. Arriving at Karatsu Burger for the part-time job notice, he finds Tae working on the food bus and is very different from the Tae he knows, as she attends to her customers in a very nervous manner.

Eikichi hides from Tae's view behind a bush but is surprised by an imposing figure of a man. They both recognize each other, and Eikichi realizes that he is the same voice behind the television and that Tae calls him father. Tae tells Eikichi that he is not her biological father and that he is the boss of the place where she works and that they call him “Master Jofuku” (MJ for short). However, MJ doesn't like that Tae calls him that and tells her to call him father, even though Tae doesn't like calling him that. So that both do not disturb her, Tae sends them both to go for the necessary purchases so that she can continue cooking.

For Tae, that place was important to her, since Yuko worked there before. Yuko told Tae that she should smile more to serve customers. Previously, the venue was declining and about to close. Until Yuko arrived, bringing prosperity and fame to the place. Tae regrets what happened with Yuko and says that she gave her a place to belong and therefore she herself must treasure it as much as she can. Jofuku and Eikichi arrive from shopping and notice how customers leave the store for an inexplicable reason. Tae starts to feel sad because she feels that she has failed to keep the place, while MJ tries to comfort her, saying that it's just her fate and she can't change it.

Eikichi proposes that he can take Yuko's place and replace her, which makes Tae angry with him. Eikichi also mentions that the shop's mascot is scaring the customers, but Jofuku tells him that it's not a mascot, it's a Sagako. This Sagako sensed the prosperity of the place and drives away customers with his shape; the group prepares to fight the curse in the form of a squid, and with the onion burgers they manage to defeat him and bring peace to the place.

At the end of the day, Eikichi works at Tae's place, and with his help, they manage to give customers a good smile and bring prosperity. In that, a girl arrives asking for a hamburger and Eikichi makes Tae smile instinctively, and she ends up hitting him. She runs into the woods after the awkward incident; however, Tae believes that this time she is fine with that smiling.

### Chapter 5

The Busters are celebrating that this MJ has reconciled with Tae through television and returned to the group. Eikichi, being a minor, cannot drink and just watches the others at the party. The reason Tae was in a fight with MJ was because he is very overprotective. They tease Tae by saying that it is unthinkable for a 29-year-old woman not to have a partner. Lest she be teased about her age and MJ's overprotectiveness, she says that she has an arranged marriage now.

After the party, Eikichi takes Hanako to her room, where she injects him with a love potion to make Tae fall in love with him. Eikichi says that he doesn't want to have anything to do with a person as violent as Tae. But unluckily for him, Tae herself was on the other side of the door and beat him up, knocking him to the ground.

In the morning, the Busters receive information about a Sagako appearing near a school and MJ perceives him in the direction of the Minami school. Through a Fax, the image of Sagako arrives to them along with the information about it. It turns out that the Sagako is a human student from the same school. A human possessed by Sagako… Or so they think.

### Chapter 6

A normal day in Takeo's life is interrupted by the Busters, who mistake him for a Sagako due to his enormous size. After the awkward encounter, Takeo explains that he has had that body since he was born and that his parents mistook him for a demon child, and they named him Takeo. The group is forced to apologize for almost attacking him, but before leaving they ask him about his bodily injuries. Takeo replies that there have been supernatural events at his school that are affecting many students, including himself.

Takeo's school is cursed, and anyone who tries to confess to another person suffers unlucky events. Takeo also suffers from them, and that's why he has all his body covered in bruises. However, the group is not willing to let him give up and with the power of love, they will save Saga!

Tae dresses as a schoolgirl, while Eikichi is the one who must confess to attract Sagako. Tae complains to Eikichi, since for him, she is a “violent” person. Eikichi confesses that Tae is beautiful to him and that he didn't like that she was getting married at all. However, Tae confesses to the others that she only said that to shut MJ up because he was being too loud about it and that she's not getting married. At that moment, the Sagako appears, scaring both of them. Despite their attempts, the mannequin is very agile and escapes attacks; Eikichi manages to catch him and put a love potion on him that Hakase had prepared.

MJ arrives at the school to see the situation and how the Sagako fell in love with Eikichi due to the effects of the potion. Tae tells him that Takeo was just a normal person, to which MJ replies that he only told them the address of the anomaly. After all, Saga's curse and prosperity go hand in hand like a two-sided coin, and Takeo and Sachika are the ones who bring prosperity to Saga. As Sachika and Takeo show their love for each other, Eikichi and Tae are a little uneasy about what happened in the fake confession.

### Chapter 7

After a day of fruitless searching for a Sagako, Eikichi returns to the mansion and tells Hanako and Tae about Anna's sudden disappearance. Although they initially think that she went to work at one of her part-time jobs, they quickly begin to question who she really is, as she came to the mansion looking for a part-time job and neither of them fully understood her past. Even so, they accepted her anyway.

Without Anna back after a day of disappearance, the group begins to worry about her. But they don't have time to think, since a Sagako has appeared on the shores of Saga, and they will have to fight without Anna in the group. The Sagako is a flock of goby eels with an actual body within the crowd. The three of them think of different ways to defeat Sagako, but none of them agree, and when they go to fight, their lack of planning causes them to quickly fail. Hanako spills salt everywhere, thinking that since the Sagako had a mollusk texture, they would be affected. Tae replies that eels are not affected by salt, starting an argument with Hanako. Eikichi tries to defuse the situation but is beaten up by the girls.

In the past, Anna interrupts a discussion between Tae and Hanako about how to get Sagako out of a wall. While Hanako proposes to take it down, Tae doesn't want to bother the residents with their activities. Anna proposes to think like Sagako and decides to use tickling to get him off the wall. Being someone who is very observant of details and attentive to her surroundings, she was the glue of the group and the one who guided the group on the right path for a long time.

### Chapter 8

After the failed mission to seal a Sagako, the Busters return to the mansion, where MJ scolds them for letting the Sagako escape. Eikichi thinks that something is wrong with Anna and goes looking for her, while Tae and Hanako stay at the mansion.

At night, Eikichi finds Anna and gets her to rejoin the group. Tae and Hanako fight the Eel Sagako again, but there is little they can do, as they regenerate their heads every time one is cut off. Fortunately for them, Eikichi appears along with Anna, and Anna doesn't hesitate and attacks the Sagako with all her might, making Tae proud.

### Chapter 9

At the Busters' headquarters, Anna reports on Higashino and what he did to a Sagako by shooting one of them. Tae explains that by doing this, he will make the curse stronger by not sealing the Sagako properly.

According to a talk that Tae had with Yuko, the Sagako have a purpose for which they exist and take the forms of living or inanimate beings in relation to the area of their appearance. Although Tae doubts that they can communicate with these creatures, Yuko tells her that it might be possible to communicate with Sagako and understand these curses. With that in mind, the group splits up to search for Higashino.

### Chapter 10

At the mansion, the Busters are worried about Eikichi and MJ. Tae informs them that she convinced MJ to talk to Eikichi and reveal what happened. Higashino apparently punched Eikichi, leaving him psychologically affected by it. They have no time to waste as MJ warns them of another Sagako outbreak. Arriving at the location, the group sees numerous Sagako of the type that Higashino had previously shot. As a result of that, the curse multiplied. Since they can't leave them in that place because they would cause damage, the group takes the Sagako to their mansion, so that when Eikichi recovers, they can seal them.

A week later, the group unsuccessfully tries to get Eikichi out of his room. Tae talks to Eikichi from the other side of the door and tells him that if he wants, he could file a lawsuit against Higashino for what he did to him. Eikichi in a state of negativity says that it's not worth doing. Tae tries to cheer him up by mentioning all the time that no matter the situation, Eikichi always manages to pull through, even when Tae treats him harshly. He has been working hard to take his sister's place in the group. Thanks to him, Tae realizes that she can change. Eikichi's strength is to carry his feelings to others.

Tae tells Eikichi that he has had enough, as she did not believe that human evil could hurt him. Since the Sagakos will become stronger in the future, she won't let Eikichi get hurt again and asks him to stay put while the group finds a way to fix it. Contrary to what she thought, Eikichi leaves the room crying, running away from the mansion.

### Chapter 11

A storm hits Karatsu, leaving heavy rain and thunder in its wake. The girls are in the main room, taking shelter from the storm outside and worried about Eikichi's situation in the storm. Tae has a bad feeling. Meanwhile, the Sagako they had previously captured and imprisoned are shocked with electricity from a powerful lightning bolt that strikes the mansion. This same sudden and powerful energy causes them to merge into an even larger Sagako, baffling the Busters, who quickly seek cover. A special type of Sagako has just manifested again in Saga. Sagako emerges from the rubble of the now-destroyed mansion, with flashes of remnant electrical energy and negative energy surrounding her.

The huge Sagako begins to move towards the city. The Busters manage to get out of the rubble and rescue Jofuku, who managed to save Yuko's onion before the collapse. Tae resentfully looks at this huge Sagako as if he already knew her before and prepares to fight.

The Sagako then murders Higashino in front of a terrified crowd of people. The Busters are speechless about what happened, while Tae just watches and prepares to fight this huge Sagako that she knows from that incident.

### Chapter 12

Tae prepares to fight with a piece of rubble from her mansion. Her look expresses revenge and rancor towards such a creature. The fight between them is intense, and both Tae and Sagako are severely injured as a result. Sagako manages to free herself from Tae by throwing her quite far against a tree, an action that leaves her immobilized and much more injured. The Sagako subsequently disappears, as if it never existed in the first place.

The Busters are now in a park while Anna tends to Tae's wounds. She refuses to go to a hospital because she doesn't consider it necessary because those injuries are nothing to her. The girls, surprised, say that it is not like Tae to fight like this. Hanako also reminds them that they don't have health insurance and are now homeless, which means they'll have to find a place to stay temporarily and recuperate. With no place to stay, with MJ old and “delusional,” Tae injured, and the Busters penniless, they have to find a place to stay.

Eikichi leads the team to his parents' house, where they can rest and eat in peace. Eikichi's parents serve the group a large welcome meal and talk casually about the state of Yuko and the team. Already at night, the Sagako Busters prepare to sleep. Tae highlights the fact that she would have wanted a family that cared for her, since she couldn't have one of her own because of the Sagako, who murdered her parents.

About two decades ago, Tae's parents worked as folklorists and were busy most of the day. Tae's grandmother took care of her until the day she died. She was home alone all day, and she hated it quite a bit. One day, her mother found a strange creature, something that looked like a baby. So, they raised and studied the strange creature in their university labs, turning it into some spooky research. Because of that investigation, Tae was spending even more time alone at home.

On Tae's birthday, her parents come home early to bring her a birthday present. Tae is excited because they remembered that day, and she excitedly asks when they will finish their project so the three of them can spend time together. Tae's gift is a stuffed rabbit that her parents found in a store that reminded them of the child they were raising. That comment that angers Tae, who is already tired of hearing about that strange creature that her parents are raising, explodes in anger against her parents, wanting them to abandon that project and the child. That was Tae's response and the last thing she said to them. Her parents, distraught, returned to the laboratories.

Later that day, several people from the government health department come to her house looking for Tae's parents, who are raising an unidentified organism. Tae manages to hide a photo that her parents have with the child and evades the health workers. When they find nothing, they go to the university where they work. Tae overhears their conversation about the investigation of her parents and, concerned by what she hears, she goes looking for them. Her parents would have been doing experiments with the strange creature.

She finally makes it to the university, but there are already numerous guards trying to take the baby from Mrs. Yamada, who tells them that this creature is just a baby. The health department intervened because they were conducting unauthorized research on unknown creatures. Suddenly, the baby transforms into a huge spider-like giant Sagako, destroying the building and crushing Tae's parents with the rubble.

With no return to the past and with Tae's parents dead, Tae regrets what happened that day. Sometime later, Jofuku finds her while she was wandering around the city in dirty and torn clothes. He adopts her as his daughter and trains her to fight the increasing number of curses in Saga. Saga's curse of destruction has changed forms throughout history. One day, Sagako was born, and her parents were responsible for raising her without knowing that she was a creature of a curse. Now it is she who must take responsibility for Sagako and the aftermath of her. This is Tae's redemption.

### Chapter 13

The Sagako Busters group is ready to return to action after a few days of recovery. Eikichi says goodbye to his family and assures them that they will be fine. Tae tells them to take care of her father, who is still sick and old. Meanwhile, the media is talking about mysterious disappearances in the prefecture and suspected criminal activity.

The Busters arrive at a temporary hotel and check the newspaper articles to find out more details; Eikichi manages to find an article about a mysterious giant spider near Takeo. Now the group is heading towards this area. Without the van they previously used, they are forced to request transportation to a nearby location.

Upon arrival, Tae sets up the place as their temporary headquarters, while the rest of the team split up and Eikichi goes to the bathroom, accompanied by Tae. Hours later, they try to contact Hanako because she disappeared, and she doesn't answer the radio. Tae and Eikichi are left alone on the top of the mountain while Anna searches for Hakase. With only two members left, Eikichi and Tae break the ice between the two and can finally have a normal conversation. Tae, who has been in Saga her entire life, barely knows Saga despite her years as Sagako Buster and traveling around the prefecture. But who is she besides being someone from Saga?

She asks him about Eikichi's dream, who tells her that he previously dreamed of becoming a professional in some sport, so he played baseball constantly until one day he hurt his shoulder while playing dodgeball at school. Tae just laughs at the absurdity of the situation, causing Eikichi to blush and ask about Tae's dream in response. Inspired by Junko Konno, what Tae wanted to do is an idol group together with Yuko, like Junko did because they would look so cute and cool. Eikichi just laughs when he hears the absurd dream that Tae and his sister had, which earns him a beating from Tae.

At the same time, the radio reports that 16 more have disappeared that night. And with neither Anna nor Hanako in sight, the two begin to worry about their companions.

### Chapter 14

Eikichi and Tae return to the city, where women are reported missing around the same time. They both suspect that the incidents are related to the Spider Sagako who previously destroyed their house, and that Saga is witnessing an unprecedented disaster.

Searching for help, they go to Araki, who is a policeman. He tells them that the Saga police stations are flooded with cases of missing women and that the only thing that is known is that there are cases of disappearances that happened in two different places at the same time. Therefore, criminal activity is suspected. Despite being aware of the Sagakos, he decides to ignore the issue, arguing that no one would believe that and exclaiming that he wants to forget “that incident”.

Without Araki's help, they go searching for the missing relatives to learn their last known location. The locations are Ureshino Hot Springs, Cape Hado, Karatsu Burger in Nijinomatsubara, and the Karatsu Coast near the Busters headquarters. Arriving at their old mansion, Tae checks that the onions with Sagakos inside are in good condition, and luckily, they are. Since they are not in any danger, they decide to leave them there without worries. Eikichi also makes them a blanket made from the mansion's curtains, prompting Tae to joke that they are his own children.

With the information collected from the disappearances, Tae begins to realize something: the Sagako only appear in prosperous places, with large gatherings of people or places that will be prosperous in the future. The disappearances also happened in these places, so it is not a single coincidence, and it must be the spider Sagako going from place to place searching for power. With this data, both are heading to a place of great prosperity. A touristic place.

The place chosen is the Arita Porcelain Park. Eikichi cross-dresses as a woman and poses as a woman. Tae wanted to lure her, but Eikichi strongly opposed her because it would pose a danger to her. Still, she gets annoyed at how vulgar Eikichi is as a decoy, to which he tells her not to worry because the only thing that matters is that the decoy looks like a woman. Despite being in a tourist spot, no one shows up. Not even Sagako.

A girl is alone in the place, so Tae goes to talk to her. To her surprise, she was never a normal girl. As soon as she approaches her, she is attacked by Magatsuhi, who tries to kidnap her. Tae manages to dodge the first attack and is saved by Eikichi before the second, only for both of them to fall into a fountain and pass out.

Upon awakening, both find themselves in a mysterious amusement park and find the missing women locked up. With no reason to suspect a girl, multiple people were kidnapped, falling for her tricks. They both arrive at a statue of a squirrel, where strange music comes from. Upon entering, they find children's toys in what appears to be a makeshift room. There, Tae finds a photo of her parents with the mysterious baby and realizes that this girl is just another form of the Giant Spider Sagako.

### Chapter 15

Tae is determined to stop the Sagako, even if she has to do it alone. Eikichi feels that he must do something, but at the same time he knows that the fate of Saga rests on Tae's shoulders. Knowing that he cannot stop her, he requests that before they kill the Sagako, they try to talk to her. Eikichi's words make Tae remember what Yuko told her a long time ago, that the Sagako have a purpose for which they exist. While she doubts it will work, they have nothing to lose by trying.

The Sagako appears behind both of them, surprising Eikichi, but not Tae, who immobilizes the Sagako from a fit after distracting her with the photo of her parents. Still immobilized, the Sagako manages to attack Eikichi and Tae, leaving Eikichi injured in the leg. It is there that Eikichi yells at the Sagako, trying to talk to her and find out her motives. The Sagako answers, but her words are unintelligible. Already in a final attempt, Eikichi shows her an onion and approaches the Sagako. When the Sagako touches the onion, she immediately gets scared and confused, attacking again. Eikichi notices it, but they can't do anything else. After all, all they can do is fight. Even with their attempts, they failed to learn the purpose and motives of the spider Sagako, so the only thing left for them is to run for their lives.

Surprisingly, Anna, Hanako, and the other Sagako join the battle. The Sagako had previously helped Anna and Hanako escape from Magatsuhi prison. It turns out that Yuko's love for onions with Sagako inside had passed her feelings to these now purified curses. And thanks to Eikichi having put a blanket to keep them warm, Sagakos would have “hatched” from the onions.

Now, it's time for the final battle. This is where it all ends. It's time to break the curse of the past.

### Chapter 16

The Busters manage to defeat the spider Sagako. Or so they think. Behind the dust and smoke, a new heart-shaped form of Magatsuhi emerges completely unscathed. Tae throws herself at her and their battle is fierce. Eikichi tries to go after her, but Anna stops him due to his leg injury, as he would be a burden on Tae. Fortunately, they were already prepared with a Sagako anti-spider cannon that Hanako had prepared shortly after they were released. The cannon works and destroys part of the Sagako, which is about to crush Tae, but Anna gets in the way. Even with damage from the cannon, Magatsuhi launches a spike attack and destroys all the Sagako in a single attack.

Tae is still fighting with all her might, but is interrupted by Eikichi, who decides to help her. Tae has already carried all the weight on her shoulders, and she is very hurt by it. Eikichi tells her that he doesn't want her not to be like this, and he wants her to be happy. Tae has only had one purpose all this time, and that is to take revenge on the Sagako who killed her parents. This being the only thing that has existed in her heart all this time. Everything was like that until she met Yuko, who showed her another side of reality that Tae had never experienced.

It is at that moment that Yuko's onion reacts and releases its power to Eikichi, making him glow. He now has his sister's power and hers together, so he hugs Tae so that now she has all that power combined. Now it is Tae whom has all the power of the brothers to seal this last curse. Tae asks Eikichi for one last favor in order to defeat the curse.

Eikichi climbs up Sagako's legs to the top, where Tae meets Magatsuhi. She touches her mask and immediately understands the curse, who calls Tae her mother. Magatsuhi has been looking for her mother all this time, looking to be loved. Just like Tae always wanted to be with her parents. With the sealing power, Tae hugs Magatsuhi, forgiving herself and accepting Magatsuhi. Magatsuhi's mask breaks, revealing her true face before merging with Tae.

Tae falls to the ground after the Sagako disappeared. Now, she is sealed within her dead body.

## Season 1

### Episode 1

Tae jumps on Sakura shortly after she wakes up in a mysterious mansion. Sakura, scared, runs away from the zombie that tries to attack her and finds herself in a room full of zombies. After being taken to the mansion after running away, Kotaro introduces Tae only as the “legendary”, without elaborating. Throughout the episode, she keeps biting Sakura and if it's not Sakura, it's some object getting in her way.

After their successful death metal performance, all the zombie girls come to their senses, except for Tae, who still acts like a mindless zombie.

### Episode 2

Being the only zombie in the group who hasn't woken up, Tae remains in her feral state. She is mainly driven by the monstrous instinct to bite people.

During Green Face's first event at Saga Castle, Tae notices a whole squid in the audience and immediately moves towards the man holding the squid. Sakura tries to stop her, but ends up accidentally ripping her head off, almost exposing the group's identities as zombies. When Sakura tries to defuse the situation, Saki plays with Tae's head. Sakura finally gets angry and slams Tae's head away from Saki. The two girls fight each other in a rap battle. Tae's head reattached to her body as Sakura and Saki sparred verbally.

### Episode 3

While the other girls focus on training to meet Kotaro's hasty expectations, Tae mindlessly rests. At one point, Tae instinctively chews and sucks on a marker, and then makes her sneeze. The sneeze inspires Lily with an original name for their group and suggests the name “Franchouchou”, based on Tae's sneeze.

Despite her invisible laziness atmosphere, Tae was still able to train with the girls for her next performance, which ended in bittersweet for all of them.

### Episode 4

Kotaro is looking for a way to earn money for the newly formed group, so he contacted a pharmaceutical company searching for a collaboration. The location of the collaboration is a hotel in Ureshino. While the plan was for the girls to train for the evening's concert, the Franchouchou girls decided to go see the town and hang out.

At night, Sakura, Junko, and Saki accidentally revealed their zombie forms to the president of the pharmaceutical company. The commotion caused the girls to wake up and come out of their rooms. Tae ends up scaring the poor lady by surprising her in the hotel corridor in a horror position.

### Episode 5

When Drive-In Tori gives everyone a business deal, Tae is so excited about the food that she even eats the raw chicken on the plate. Now, the girls dress up for the commercial and Tae tries to attack the mascot, who is dressed as an anthropomorphic chicken. During the commercial performance, they all faced various problems due to Tae's inability to speak and how she mistimed her roles. Ultimately, it ended in success when Tae just crowed like a rooster near the end. When Kotaro and Saki expressed their desire to do more with greater vigor, Tae responds by attacking the pet again. Her attack was added to the commercial, which became very popular.

At the 34th Kashima Gatalympics, she performs in various events and manages to win a gold medal in the Mud Tarzan Swing. Tae was almost found out to be a zombie when her body broke into pieces in midair. The other idols managed to put it back together without anyone finding out about it.

When Sakura thought that Tae had a Franchouchou shirt under the muddy shirt she was wearing, Sakura called for Tae to rip off her outer shirt to reveal her inner shirt. Unfortunately, it was revealed that Tae was actually wearing a Drive-In Tori shirt that they were given as a gift for the commercial. Tae then sings to the crowd, much to the disappointment of her fellow idol group. Due to Tae's inability to speak, she was unable to announce her idol group.

### Episode 6

At a mini concert and photo event, Tae is applauded by many for her Drive-In Tori commercial performance; she responds by doing the same crow she did in the commercial.

### Episode 7

While Junko locked herself up, Tae continues to practice and rest with the other idols for the upcoming Rock Saga event. When Junko gets out of the attic thanks to Kotaro's talking to her, she jumps over the mansion's fence and is accidentally run over. Even so, she is willing to be part of the concert. Tae hugs her happily along with the other Franchouchou idols.

Just before her performance, both she and Saki try to energize the group by shouting, but are told to shut up. She performs with everyone during the Rock Saga (notably, she's the only one who doesn't sing and dance in sync with everyone) and receives applause at the end after the electrifying performance.

### Episode 8

A giant man gets very close to Lily, and the girls suspect that it is a kidnapper. Seeing potential danger, Saki jumps in and knocks out the big man with a kick. The group takes the big man to a room where they question him, while Tae snarls at the man in disgust. Later, it is revealed that he was Lily's father.

When Lily sings a lead performance for her father, Tae performs in the background with the rest of the idols.

### Episode 9

Kotaro has a plan for the Franchouchou idols, and it is to win fans of all ages. For that, Tae and the others start practicing Kashima Dance with some old people to attract them to be fans. Then, they all then take a break where Tae drinks water from a drinking fountain until it is full, and water comes out of her mouth. In that, a girl and her friends arrive threatening Sakura. Tae jumps on Maria and bites into her hair buns, scaring her enough not to bully Sakura again.

In Saki's main performance, Tae is seen dancing with the other idols while she wears a biker gang-themed outfit.

### Episode 10

At the beginning of the episode, Tae plays with Lily where they will hold their concert in Arpino. Kotaro sends everyone to the mountains to clear their minds before the concert. Upon arrival, the cold causes Tae to freeze while she was sleeping. While the girls “survive” Tae makes snow and ice statues with Romero. When a large boar eats at Sakura's head, Tae attacks the boar with a ravenous attitude, which saves Sakura.

### Episode 11

Sakura is run over again and wakes up with no memory of being a zombie. Tae jumps on her again like she did in the first episode but realizes that something is wrong with her. When she arrives at Franchouchou's room, she breaks down the door as Yugiri was about to slap Sakura and jumps on the latter.

Sakura lost her confidence to act due to her having had several instances of bad luck over the course of her life. Fully understanding what Sakura is going through, Tae strives to convince her to return to acting, doing whatever it takes to make her remember everything they've done as a group.

### Episode 12

Sakura is now depressed by her misfortune and refuses to act again. Tae tries to help her get her memory back; first doing the cockcrow of the Drive-In Tori to help her remember the commercial they were a part of. Later, she showed Sakura a magazine article about Saga-Rock, but Sakura turned her away angrily at her.

As Sakura locks herself in the attic, Tae tries to catch up with her again, but with little success. After being ignored and rejected so many times, Tae is furious. She breaks the window of the room Sakura locked herself in and forces her into the practice room. Tae then tries to show Sakura how much effort she put into practicing and concentrating. Tae's actions gave the other idols, especially Yugiri, the revelation of how Sakura had helped them all, and she has a responsibility to see through to the end no matter the results.

Along with the other idols, Tae performs at the ⁣⁣Arpino's⁣⁣ concert and renews Sakura's confidence despite the various misfortunes that befell on stage. When Sakura regains her memories of being a zombie, Tae happily bites her head off lovingly.

## Manga

### Nostalgic Roman Edition

Along with Franchouchou, Tae goes to Yoshinogari because of Kotaro's influence. Meanwhile, Sakura constantly prevents Tae from making a mess with her impulsive attitude and tries to follow Kotaro's new order to search for “Saga's secret”. Seeing the other areas of the park, the girls decide to play a little and have fun. Tae follows Sakura to make a craft game, but due to Tae's almost animalistic position, she barely manages to overcome the challenge. Tae does what she can, and Sakura encourages her with the misshapen figure she made.

On the other hand, Kotaro is depressed about something. The girls carry on with their activities while Sakura prevents Tae from eating the decoration fruits by mistaking them for real fruits because it's obviously not food. In that, Sakura notices Kotaro's attitude in those moments and wonders what is happening to him since it is not his normal attitude.

Hanging from the railing, now only one arm of Sakura prevents both of them from falling into the void, exposing the zombie secret. The girls realize the incident as Kotaro tells Sakura to hold on. Sakura's arm gives way and they both fall into the void. Tae, who was with Saki a few moments ago, runs at high speed and makes a massive jump, catching Kotaro and Sakura in the air. Tae saves both of them, although she has a preference for Sakura. With Sakura crying because she just saved them from being found out, she hugs Tae for her help. Now on the ground, Sakura decides to help Kotaro with his problem of finding Saga's secret by engaging with the other girls.

With their attention now, Franchouchou decides to discuss the experiences they've had up to Yoshinogari's trip. It is where Kotaro realizes that the secret he was looking for is the team’s experiences and the whole journey that has led them there. Finally, satisfied with the answer, he decides to take the girls' opinion more into account and not get so carried away by himself.

At the mansion, they continue to train for a concert overnight. At the end of the practice, they decide to cook something for them, since it is almost New Year. They prepare Saga soup and eat it while talking about their experiences in Franchouchou.

It's New Year's Eve, the girls wake up hungry, and Junko, Ai, and Sakura discuss their experiences with a certain Police Officer. After several panels on how to make a new soup, the girls decide to eat it, but Tae chokes and Sakura goes to help her (even though they are already dead), but mistakenly hits Kotaro with what Tae spat out. However, he only yells at them a bit and feeds them more food for the new year, leaving only crumbs.

### Future development saga

Kotaro takes Franchouchou to a restaurant to prepare a meal that an old man from Saga taught him and at the same time learn how to make it. Overall, it turned out quite well and the owners congratulated the girls. At the mansion, and with their new food on the table, they decide to go practice their new song. But Tae is left looking at a food magazine, apparently recognizing someone.

Now, 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 prepares the best dish of food to win. Tae, seeing the bird costume, jumps on him trying to attack him, but is stopped by the girls in time. At the end of the contest, the girls come together and win the contest. Kotaro later checks social media to see Franchouchou's performance.

In the training room, the girls discuss concerts, and the places Kotaro has taken them. They decide to thank the busy manager and leave the mansion, leaving a note in the living room for Kotaro to read when he arrives. While Kotaro searches for Franchouchou throughout the Saga, the group tours various Karatsu sites while they discuss the future presentation at the EFS and how that will be their big leap. When Kotaro arrives, they all decide to do their best for the big concert and make the group's name great.

## Season 2

### Episode 13

Tae now works alongside Sakura taking care of the cattle. At the mansion, Tae pounces on Lily's squid that Ai gave her seconds ago. In the dining room, she continues with no manners and pounces on the squid like she always has.

Sticking with her attitude, she just keeps doing random things throughout the episode, like yelling at her reflection or imitating Romero's actions. When Franchouchou performs again in GEILS after their failure, she gets angry when the audience boos them. Thanks to Kotaro, they managed to sing their new song and have relative success. The next morning, she lies asleep before Kotaro's entrance with a good morning.

### Episode 14

Franchouchou is at the morning meetings along with Kotaro, who plays a TV host and pesters the girls as usual. Kotaro asks the girls what they will do now that they are back as an idol group. Finally, he gets serious after all this nonsense and tells them that they are going to spend the day with White Ryu.

The girls arrive in the town where the shrine is, and Lily makes fun of Ryu's crazy drooping quiff and Tae mockingly imitates him.

They then ask Ryu a few questions and follow him through the shopping area. They try to buy the freedom of some pet fish, but only get a toothpick holder. One of the hosts tells them to go to the Shrine of the God of Marriage, which makes Junko nervous to bring up that topic. In the sanctuary, the girls start to pray and wonder if God will listen to them as zombies.

Almost at the end of the program, Ryu says that he wants to climb the hill to reach the top of the sanctuary, and although he arrives tired due to his age, they all make it. In the mansion, the girls discuss love and how it is taboo for idols. Junko blushes when Ai tells her that in her time, idols had hidden crushes, and Sakura gets jealous because Ai doesn't deny having a relationship while she was alive.

Finally, Franchouchou performs at GEILS Death metal with a new cover song by White Ryu.

### Episode 15

Tae is oblivious to most of the early events of this episode, and is even distracted by a fly buzzing around her head. When Kotaro Tatsumi lines them all up for a speech and shoots them with a water gun, Tae simply drinks the remaining water from the gun and makes a fountain out of her mouth, ignoring everything else.

Junko Konno comes home from work in the afternoon and asks Tae where everyone is, but she is busy playing tug of war with Romero for a piece of meat and doesn't answer; though, she sees Ai performing solo on TV and moans “Ai” in response. When the rest of Franchouchou decide they need something with more impact, they put Tae on the drums. Being a simple task that she can handle.

### Episode 16

Tae continues to practice the drums and establishes herself as the drummer during Franchouchou's actual performance at Saga Arena, playing excellently when they open with a rock concert.

When they switch to an electronic song, Tae leaves the drums and joins in as the center of the performance. Being electrified with a power cord, the electricity manifests as a set of angel wings on her shoulders. Later, she snarls at Iron Frill when they try to steal Ai Mizuno from them.

### Episode 17

Tae accompanies Sakura throughout the episode and does little more than bring a few drinks for the rest of Franchouchou. She also encourages Lily Hoshikawa to perform in the “Japanese Got Performance” contest.

### Episode 18

After being harangued by Kotaro about their debt, Yugiri sends Tae grocery shopping and soon finds herself being followed by an investigative journalist, Arata Ookoba. He stalks her, watches the children feed her, and eventually sees her eating the offerings in a graveyard. Ookoba tries to take a picture of her, but accidentally makes a sound that alerts Tae, whose head turns all the way back to look in his direction, scaring him out of sight. The tomb where she was eating turned out to be the ancestral tomb of the Yamadas.

At the store, an assistant named Maria Amabuki fills out Tae's order for her, talking about her group performances and her intention to “make it big”. Tae doesn't listen and just tries to eat the assistant's bow. Then Maria takes Tae to a dance contest where the Dorami Dance Team participates. In the performance, “Cocco-san”, the anthropomorphic chicken, wins, but Tae comes on stage at the last minute and the chicken accepts her challenge. They both break-dance until they finally begin to spin upside down on their heads, with Tae's body simply spinning on her neck like a top. Cocco is unable to keep up and eventually passes out due to dizziness, leaving Tae the victor. Although Ookoba tried to take a photo of this, Romero immediately stops him.

Tae tries to give Maria the prize money, but when Maria tries to refuse it, Police Officer A steps in and takes everyone on a jet ski race. There, he spends the money on a bet, but his boss calls the policeman before he can finalize it, allowing Tae to pick a random participant. This contestant, Misa Higashitsuru, wins despite being marked as the dark horse, so Tae wins tens of millions in yen, enough to clear them of their large debt. Maria brings Tae and the money back to Franchouchou's mansion, but in her excitement, Sakura accidentally hits Tae's head. Sakura puts her head back on, with Saki preventing Maria from seeing this. However, Ookoba was able to witness everything and get a picture.

### Episode 19

Maimai Yuzuriha is brought before Franchouchou, and suddenly starts moving around, Tae jumps on her and tries to eat her head, but only manages to pull the towel off of her, revealing that she's alive. Later, after Maimai has joined the group and suggests performing at her high school, Tae starts mimicking Maimai. Afterward, Tae performs at the high school with the rest of Franchouchou.

### Episode 21

Tae appears only briefly, eating Saki Nikaido's hat before a performance of the song Saga Jihen.

### Episode 22

#### EFS disaster

The episode begins in the time before Franchouchou's first performance at the Ekimae Fudosan Stadium. After a recent and successful album, hopes are high, but Kotaro does his best by insisting that they perform at a 25,000-capacity stadium, EFS. While Ai Mizuno is skeptical, Kotaro insists that everyone in Franchouchou was once a legend (clarifying that Sakura is obviously not) and that they can succeed.

On the eve of the performance, Kotaro reveals that he did not sell any tickets and that instead, sales are available only on the day of the performance. Naturally, the crowd the next day is small, and the performance is terrible. Indebted and dejected, Kotaro begins drinking for several weeks straight, leaving no food for the zombies (who need no sustenance in any case). However, Tae Yamada manages to put on makeup without Kotaro and goes out to seek food. This action by Tae makes Sakura laugh a little at the situation and encourages Franchouchou to do the same and find a job to support themselves.

#### Present

Kotaro is taking EFS's upcoming concert (scheduled for the anniversary of the ruinous first attempt) very seriously, investing in ad campaigns to drive sales, using merchandise sales as a predictor of audience attraction, and this time around, allowing pre-sold tickets. He apologizes to Franchouchou for his personal failure last time, insisting that it will be different this year.

Suddenly, a strange storm arrives. Franchouchou notices it and worries about Kotaro, the girls try to console themselves by saying that their revenge will begin the next day.

### Episode 23

The next morning the girls are shocked because now their mansion is adrift in the sea. Tae plays with the albatross on the roof of the mansion. The girls land on a beach in Karatsu and their mansion collapses, but they are taken to a shelter by Ai's work friend. At the shelter, Tae tries to eat the soup they serve, but Sakura tries to stop her because they are zombies, but Machiko gives Tae the okay, and she thanks her by biting her on the head.

While Franchouchou helps the inhabitants of Saga, Tae plays with the children with her head, but she is stopped by Lily before she reveals that they are zombies. Tae also helped blow Junko's mask furnace so hard that she even burned Sakura's face. That same night, Kotaro arrives with the makeup the girls needed.

### Episode 24

A few days before the concert, Franchouchou goes to the radio station, where they notify all the residents of Saga of the benefit concert that they will do on March 8. Along with Franchouchou, she travels through a Saga destroyed by a flood to reach the EFS, where they will perform their presentation.

The day arrives, and although no one appears in the first instance, suddenly thousands of people from Saga, Japan, and the rest of the world arrive at the Franchouchou concert. At the concert, Tae also makes a reference to Freddie Mercury during one of her performances.