Lily Hoshikawa

Lily Hoshikawa was a breakout star in a long-running drama show and a famous actress who starred in multiple primetime shows of multiple networks. After being resurrected from the dead, she becomes a member of the idol group Franchouchou and is titled as The Legendary Child Actress Prodigy. As a human, Lily has two bright blue pigtails with dark blue bows. She also has a large orange star and other stars in the middle of her hair. She has orange/yellow eyes and pale skin. She wears a school uniform which consists of a green shirt, a dark blue bow, a white skirt, brown shoes with white socks. Lily had four stars on her head: the largest orange star represents Takeo; the second largest red star represents her mother; the little yellow star behind the big orange represents Lily's role as Masao (the obedient son behind Takeo's back); the little yellow star between orange and red represents Lily herself; Lily kept the four stars in her head until she saw Takeo arrive at her concert in episode 8 at the last moment, then she removed the star from Masao. As a zombie, Lily has her literal heart stuck outside her body and like the other zombies, her blue-gray skin. Lily's idol outfit changes throughout the series: On episodes 1-6, Lily wears a multi-colored t-shirt with light blue, pink and yellow, with the word "six" written on it, along with an yellow skirt with white ruffles. Using makeup, she and the other zombies make their skin look like a normal human. Lily also wears contact lenses to achieve her golden eyes that she had as a living person. After Saga rock, her idol outfit changed to a red jacket with a plaid decoration, yellow skirt with cotton inside it and knee-high boots. When she was alive, Lily was very close to her father, who raised her alone. Since her father loved to watch television, she, Lily, decided to become an actress in the hope that she could make him happy by appearing on television. In fact, her father was very proud of her daughter's success, but sadly, her relationship became strained as she began to pay more attention to her career. Lily was very concerned when her body began to enter puberty because she never wanted to become an adult and develop a body that would conflict with her gender identity. Her death was caused by a combination of things that drained her emotionally, including a very strained relationship with her father and the overwork deprived of her job, the second that also drained her physically. The last straw for all this accumulated stress and depression was seeing a single facial hair begin to grow, with the impact of even her body going against her wishes, causing her to suffer a fatal heart attack. Despite having no experience before deciding to become an actress, she took it very quickly and every show she was on became a hit. She also proves to be a quick learner as an idol, quickly learning the skills required for song and dance. Once she was revived as a zombie, there was nothing in the way of her perpetually identifying as a young girl anymore (since zombies don't age), she eventually gave up her birth name "Masao Go" and dropped her accent for a "prettier" way of speaking. Lily is often seen with a smile, and due to her young age, she is also shown to be quite playful. She has also shown a professional aspect of her experiences prior to her death. She tends to sprinkle her speech with positive English words like "magical" and "wonderful", which probably make her look prettier. As befits her age, Lily is prone to saying exactly what she has in mind without giving it a good thought or sometimes just not caring. For example, when Kotaro reveals Franchouchou's shirts that she must wear for the Gatalympics, she immediately and cheerfully declares that they are the ugliest shirts he has ever seen in her life. Since she is still a child. She will cry easily if she feels threatened or hurt by others. Ai makes her cry while she is heated by her fight with Junko, and Sakura attacks her during a depressive episode, sending Lily crying herself to sleep. She also has a relationship with Yugiri and likes to be told nice things, despite being so young, she is quite mature mentally even more than the other girls who are older than her, but she is still a child emotionally. Lily argues that they better do Saga Rock even if Junko doesn't come back, explaining that the event is her big break, and even if they pass it on to Junko, Lily knows that won't make her come back. Yugiri shows how mature the reasoning is for Lily. In episode 8, a really big man appears and seems too interested in Lily. He later explains that the man was actually her real father, and while she was still alive he spent a lot of time with her. Although she is already the smallest of the group, she is extremely small when she is standing next to him. A photo of her reveals that she got it from her mother, which only went up to the waist of her absurdly large husband from hers. For understandable reasons, Lily hates being called her by her birth name her Masa or hers. Saki calls her "Chinchiku" (translated as "Shrimpy"), which is initially teasing and annoying Lily, but eventually turns into a funny nickname. She even accidentally calls her that during a performance, but Lily is unfazed. The last time Lily and Takeo saw each other, they got into a big fight that ended with Lily dying of a heart attack. Years later, when the two speak to each other again (although Lily hides her identity), Takeo admits that he feels really horrible about the way he treated Lily and regrets not being able to reconcile with her. Later that night, Lily, normally happy and cheerful, breaks down in tears in Sakura's arms when she realizes that her father Takeo really loved her and was deeply sorry for having neglected her, and that he still loves her despite the unfortunate history of her. Despite not having a good relationship with her father before her death, it shows that she still loves him for everything he did for her, being puzzled and nervous when he appeared in the girls' performances, after returning as a zombie and meet her father again, Lily realizes how much he regrets what happened to her and forgives him. While she cannot tell him that she is her daughter, she writes him a song known as "To My Dearest". She sings this song to her father, as a way of thanking him for being a part of her life, through all the good and bad parts. It is performed along the lines of a slow, ballad-like Broadway musical number. When Sakura got depressed she got very bad knowing that she no longer remembered her and that the girl who once told her that she was a star was gone, after trying to convince her she regretted Sakura's attitude and left to cry. She will occasionally display nasty childish behavior. Not out of malicious intent, but more because she doesn't know any better: When the girls are brainstorming their idol group names, Lily complains when she thinks a suggestion isn't cute enough for her, she makes fun of the pet so much Drive-In Tori as well as the Gatalympics telling Saki that she's too excited about it, she and Tae fight over a piece of dried squid during a van ride, and she tries to get the squid out of Tae's mouth. Not only does she deliver a heartwarming rakugo performance that brings much of the audience to tears, including the judges, Saki, and Sakura, but she then manages to rearrange the song that she was ready to perform for the finale into a scat- number jazz, adapting her outfit to a new costume, and improvising a full dance routine, all in the minutes it took for his opponent to finish his performance. During the talent show finale, Lily is forced to change her song routine at the last second after Light Oozora reveals that he is going to sing the same song as her. She sings the same song but makes her performance much more child-oriented, being simple, repetitive, and poppy, which delights the children who watch her. This contrasts nicely with Light's more adult-oriented performance. Towards the end of the episode, her performance is shown to have become an instant hit on the Web and is especially popular with children.