As promised, here's the reaction story of Zombie Land Saga, in which Franchouchou find out about things that happened ever since their deaths and how they react to it.
I also said before that this story won't be treated all that seriously in terms of update. It's more of something that I will only update when I feel like it or if new ideas come to me, so don't expect consistent updates.
The story itself isn't serious either and is mainly done for laughs, so enjoy whatever you read and don't think too much about character portrayals and canon consistency.
Please enjoy!
A Game2002 Production
ZOMBIE LAND SAGA
GET WITH THE TIMES!
Chapter 1
The Internet
Franchouchou was currently gathered together in front of Kotarou's computer, with Ai using it to surf the internet. The group was curious about what people were thinking about them, so they decided to check out comments on videos posted YouTube and even forums dedicated to idols.
As they were watching a video on YouTube about one of their past performances, Saki said, "Wow, watching videos sure has become fast and easy! I don't really use the computer much when I was alive, but I remember that when you wanted to watch videos, you had to download them, and the wait can take several minutes..."
"With the introduction of LAN, broadband connect, ADSL, and the likes, internet has become super fast!" Lily told her. "Video sharing sites also made it really easy to watch videos! You don't have to wait for them to finish loading and instead watch while they load! It's super convenient!"
"I'm surprised you can find so much thing on this internet thing!" said Junko in awe. "It's basically one giant library containing every information in the world!"
"You can indeed find lots of things on the internet and do several things too, like shopping and chatting with people!" Sakura told her. "You can basically say that it replaced telephones too!"
"Incredible...!" commented Junko.
"So... what are the people saying about us?" Saki asked Ai as the latter scrolled down the comment section. "They think we're awesome, right?"
They saw various comments, such as:
Nice!
First!
I love their singing and dancing!
No. 4 is hot! I want to bang her! (Junko's face turned red when she saw this comment)
Does anyone know their names?
Boring...
My grandma can sing better than them.
Anyone realize that No. 0 never sings? Her dance moves are even off!
I want to marry No. 1! (Sakura blushed when she read this)
I can never understand idols... What's so special about them?
Meh... Hatsune Miku beats them any day. Virtual idols are superior to real idols.
This is what people find entertainment in nowadays? Bleh... Can you believe the absolute state of the world we live in? I lament for the future generation...
After looking through some of the comments, the zombies had different things to say regarding what they read.
"Typical YouTube comments..." grumbled Lily. "Either they say stupid things or negative ones... Nothing's changed since my death..."
"I think it might have gotten worse since my death..." said Ai.
"What does the 'first' mean?" asked Yuugiri.
"That's from the first person to make a comment on this video, and he wants to let people know about it," Lily told her. "Basically just to show off..."
"Did someone say he wanted to sexually harass me?!" said a shocked and embarrassed Junko.
"He just means he likes you... You won't actually do it, so don't worry," Sakura told her.
"Still, I can't believe he would say such lecherous things!" said Junko, starting to sound angry.
"That's the internet for you..." Ai told her. "People can say whatever they want without getting into trouble. Even if rules are enforced, it's not stopping anyone from saying what they want..."
"How can people not like our performances? We're really awesome! How bad can we get?!" said Saki, not sounding pleased.
"Different people do have different opinions. You cannot expect everyone to agree to the same thing," Yuugiri told her. "I remember back in my days, there were actually some people who don't find me attractive."
After they were done with the comment section, they decided to look in a forum dedicated to idols. There was a sub-forum dedicated to Franchouchou, so Ai checked out that section to see if there was anything interesting.
Looking through the topics, she found threads that asked people what they thought about Franchouchou, their favorites songs, their favorite idols, and also one asking if anyone knows what their real names are. Curious about the last one, Ai entered that thread.
The zombies looked through the thread and saw people trying to find out who they are. Nobody knows who they are, however, but they did find some rather... shocking posts.
One particular person said:
No. 1 looks like a lot like a classmate of mine back in high school. She was hit by a truck and died.
Reading this post sent shivers down Sakura's spines, but at the same time, she was actually glad that someone remembered her, as she had always considered herself to be a forgettable person with no redeeming qualities back then. "Someone's actually starting to figure this out..." said Sakura, a bit scared.
"Should... Should we be worried?" asked a nervous Junko.
"As long as we keep on denying it, the truth won't be revealed," Ai told her, though the former also looked a bit nervous.
She saw one particular post that said:
Anyone realize that No. 3 looks a lot that one member from Iron Frill who died about ten years ago? I think she was struck by lightning.
To which someone responded:
Glad to know I'm not the only one who thinks that! The resemblance is uncanny! Does anyone know if Ai has a younger sister? The appearance might run in the blood!
"Whoa... These people have sharp memories..." commented Saki. "Gotta give it to them for thinking of all this..."
"I don't think this something praiseworthy..." said a nervous Ai.
"We can't hide ourselves forever, you know," Saki reminded her.
"Leave it to Tatsumi to figure out what to do when things become harder and harder to hide," the bandaged zombie told her.
They came across another post that made Lily's heart beat rapidly:
No. 6 looks a lot like that child actress Lily Hoshikawa some years back! She died young, and really suddenly too...
In response to that post:
Some time ago, the Lily's father actually mistook No. 6 for his daughter and tried to touch her, only to get kicked by No. 2. What an awesome kick that was! You should've seen it yourself!
"This is starting to get scary..." commented Sakura nervously.
"Lily agrees..." said Lily with a nod.
"Glad to know someone liked my flying kick!" said Saki proudly.
Then there was this post:
Do you know that Lily is actually a dude? How do I know? I've seen too many crossdressers in my life to be able to tell at first glance!
The zombies turned to look at Lily, who had a frustrated look on his face that was also blushing. "Does anyone know back then your real sex?" Sakura asked him.
"Other than TV producers and sponsors, no," replied Lily.
"Well, looks like some people still managed to figure it out..." Saki said to him.
There was this one particular post that shocked them:
I recognize No. 0's appearance! She's looks almost exactly like that one criminal from the 70s named Tae Yamada! Here's a pic of her.
That post then showed a prison mugshot of a woman who looks just like Tae. The zombies had widened eyes of shock when they saw that picture and also what the post said. Tae currently wasn't in the room to see this.
Curious, Ai looked up Google for anything on Tae Yamada. It took a few minutes due to this being extremely old news, but she eventually came across a female criminal from back in the 70s named as such. According to the article, she was wanted for murder, theft, and several others acts of violence. She was arrested after years of being on the run from the police. She got into a violent fight with inmates while in prison, which ended with her being violently beaten to death.
The zombies were in complete shock and silence after finishing the article. They then looked at each other while sweating nervously, unsure what to say.
Sakura finally broke the silence. "I think I know why Tatsumi didn't say anything about her past now..."
"Come to think of it, Tae's pajamas look just like prison clothes, right?" Saki reminded them.
"Now that you said it..." said Junko with a nod.
Ai hurriedly closed the browser and said, "For our sake, we better not tell Tae anything about this... Who knows if learning about her past will cause her to finally awaken, and if she is as dangerous as the article claims..."
"Indeed, for our sake, I also hope she doesn't awaken..." said a worried Yuugiri.
After reading that article, the zombies could never look at Tae the same way again. Every time they looked at her, they would be reminded of how the article described her: dangerous, unreasonable, and sadistic.
They also wondered why Kotarou even chose to resurrected her as part of their group and if he even knows about her past.
Some time later...
Ai was using the internet again, this time with Sakura and Junko. The former was looking up a man named Roy Sullivan, who was known for getting hit by lightning seven times throughout his life and survived every single one of them.
"Wow! He survived all seven times he got hit?! That's incredible!" commented Sakura in awe.
Ai, on the other hand, looked depressed. "Some people get all the luck..."
They read that people close to this man also got struck by lightning, albeit they all survived, but because of this, people started to be afraid of him and kept their distance from him, especially when it was going to rain. As a result, this man spent most of his life alone, and he even chose to stay away from other people in fear of making them get struck by lightning. In the end, he lost the battle against depression and committed suicide by shooting himself with a gun.
"That's... That's terrible...!" said Junko, feeling bad for him.
"I feel bad for him..." said Sakura, feeling equally sad.
"He may have been lucky to survive all this time, but... I guess that doesn't necessary mean it's a good thing when it causes people around you to get caught in your misfortune and keep their distances from you..." said Ai, also feeling bad for him. "Reminds me of what happened during Saga Rock..."
"That wasn't your fault," Sakura told her. "That was more of my bad luck that caused this to happen..."
"Whatever the case is, we all survived thanks to being zombies," said Ai. "Still, I think it's unbelievable that a normal person can get hit seven times in his life and survive all of them. Real life sure is weirder than fiction..."
"By the way, I'm wondering... Can you look up to see if people ever survived plane crashes?" asked a curious Junko.
"I don't think it's possible for anyone to survive something like that, but why not?" said Ai before looking up Google for plane crash survivors. To her surprise, there were actually quite a lot of people who survive plane crashes.
"Wow... These people sure are lucky!" commented Sakura while looking through a Wikipedia page that showed people who survived plane crashes. The youngest known person to survive it was two years old child, but no name was given for him. The youngest named survivor, however, was a four-year old girl named Cecelia Cichan, and she was the sole survivor.
"Incredible... They really are the fortunate ones, aren't they?" said Junko with a hint of jealousy.
"On the bright side, if our accidents hadn't killed us, we would never have known each other!" Sakura said to her. "Our deaths probably happened for the best of us!"
"I don't know... I'm not saying that I don't like things the way they are now currently," said Ai with a depressed look while looking at her bandages hands, "it's that... I still can't really get used to my current appearance... Makeups don't help when you realize that it's simply a mask and can't take away how you really look underneath..."
Looking at the different colors on her hands, Junko said, "It still scares me to think that my current body is composed of skins of several other people... I can still remember how horrified I was when I saw myself in the mirror for the first time..."
"I think it could've been worse," said Sakura, trying to comfort them. "At least we're not wrinkly and horribly disfigured like how they portray zombies on TV. I think we look rather attractive even as zombies!"
"I can agree to that to some extent," said Junko. "I always wondered how we would look like if we are still to this day."
"Well, you'd like you could be our grandmother!" Sakura jokingly said to her, which made Junko embarrassed.
"Whatcha guys doing?" asked Saki as she came over to them with a curious look.
"Oh, we were just talking about how we might look like now if we hadn't died," Sakura told her.
"Oh? Well, I'd imagine myself to still look really hot!" said Saki, looking rather smug.
"You'd be, like, forty years old or something?" Ai said to her with an unimpressed look.
"Hey, even forty years old women can still look good, if Reiko is any indication!" Saki said to her. "And on the same subject, I think Shrimpy... Well... If her dad is any indication..."
The other three girls tried to imagine a grown up Lily having the same physiques as his father, and they weren't sure whether to laugh or freak out at the thought of a massive and overly muscular version of Lily. "I think if there's anyone here who is truly glad that she is a zombie, it's a Lily..." said Sakura, and the others nodded in agreement.
"Though for all we know, she might end up looking more like her mother, since she took after her in the first place," said Ai.
"Now I wonder how Yuugiri will look like..." wondered Saki.
"She's going to be a literal skeleton! No doubt!" Ai told her.
END OF CHAPTER
Sorry for the abrupt ending... I couldn't come up with a good way to end this chapter.
I made up the part about Tae being a criminal, though there are some people who support this theory due to her pajamas looking exactly like prison clothes. Again, this is just a fun head canon that shouldn't be taken seriously. Considering all the secrecy regarding her backstory, however, I can imagine Tae's having the most complicated and tragic backstory if it ever gets revealed in season 2.
Speaking of season 2, while there was no news regarding it in the March 17 event, they did say that they are going to hold another event some time this year in Saga. If they're going to hold another one in the location the series takes place in, then I think it's safe to say there will be news regarding the series's future there.
It sort of makes sense for there to be no announcement at this time, considering that the producers had no faith in this series's success in the first place and so didn't plan far ahead, if at all. Therefore, they need time to plot out the series's future now that it is an unexpected success.
Anyway, let's hope for the best of the series!
On the side note, I think I may be able to start work on the sequel to Zombies' Superstar Saga sooner than expected. Ideas are coming along nicely for it, and I'm really excited for it! Hope you look forward to it!