The zombie idol premise stops being the joke halfway through the first episode. What you're actually watching is a show that makes you laugh at absurdist chaos one moment, then gut-punches you with a character's forgotten life the next, then somehow makes both work together. Season 2 doubles down on the character spotlights, giving each girl a memory so specific and human that you forget they're undead, then reminds you it matters that nobody else remembers them. The comedy never stops, but it becomes cover for something sadder and more urgent: a show about people saving a place that forgot them first. Pacing gets loose sometimes, but the emotional swings are exactly what makes this show stay with you. It's genuinely funny, genuinely moving, and genuinely about something real underneath the absurdity.

Franchouchou, the zombie idol unit made up of legendary girls from different eras, returns in the Reiwa era for a second season. Their mission is still to rescue the struggling Saga Prefecture, but a disastrous concert leaves them deep in debt for the venue. The undead members take ordinary day jobs to pay it off, while their eccentric producer Koutarou Tatsumi falls into heavy drinking. Rival idols emerge, a well-known talk show host steps down, and a journalist starts digging toward the truth as Saga slides into turmoil. Blending comedy, music and the supernatural, the season puts the group through hard times without letting them give up, and Tae Yamada only grows more legendary.