History Fridge / ZombieLandSaga

* During Tokkou Dance, there's a point where all of the girls point upwards as a part of their dance routine, except Ai, whose hand is tilted sideways. Knowing her skill and experience as an idol, it's unlikely she would make mess up the routine, until you realize that the position the rest are in is almost identical to the one she died in. Becomes HeartwarmingInHindsight when you realize Franchouchou respected Ai's trauma and accomodated her instead of forcing her to do the pose.

* Sakura's backstory shows that she also was "legendary", at least in her own school and neighbourhood. Sakura is a Legendary Jinx, a girl with talent, smarts and drive who never succeeds where it counts due to her bad luck.

* The 'Next Episode Preview' for Episode 11 has Lily talk about how Franchouchou is going to be more successful in the future, and she doesn't bring up the plot of the episode at all. This actually makes sense if you realise that the entire episode's plot is spoiler-heavy, and is probably the biggest WhamEpisode of the first season.

** Lily, who died from a fatal heart attack that was due to sheer stress thanks to her father (as well as the fact she was about to go the through early parts of puberty), waits at the door of the room, as if she was waiting for her father to come in.

* So, Tae's inability to talk and wearing that Drive-In Tori shirt ruined Franchuuchuu's chances of advertising themselves? Not quite. Their commercial for the dive was already out and seen by millions of Sagans by the time of the Gatalympics, with the crowing girl being probably the most memorable bit. So by outing herself as the same Crowing girl like that, anyone even remotely familiar with the restaurant's newest ad would connect the group to that incident at the Gatalympics. We see this in a later episode when the fans beg Tae to do the crow, which she obliges, soon enough getting the whole audience into it.

That's right, Tae advertised the group through the Power of MemeticMutation. As expected of '' '''[[MemeticBadass THE LEGENDARY TAE YAMADA!!!!!]]''' ''

* The ConspicuousCG was very stiff, dull, and low resolution in episodes 3 and 4's performances; but why has [[AnimationBump the CG suddenly gotten brighter and smoother in this one]]? It's ''empathetic'' CG! This is the first time that the girls (minus Tae) have all acted in sync with each other as professional idols where they had been a fragmented and internally conflicted RagtagBunchOfMisfits. The level of detail in their performances matches the group's progress as idols.

* While some of the girls do have detachable limbs and heads, some have yet to demonstrate this ability. Close examination shows that limb detachability is related to body integrity; Ai and Tae both have had their limbs removed because their bandages are keeping their body together, Sakura has only had her head fall off (most likely due to dying in a car crash), Saki has yet to lose any limbs but has had her head flipped around, and the others are either mostly uninjured anyway (Yugiri and Lily) or have been repaired too much for easy popout (Junko's stitches).
** Or not. As it since been revealed that Ai's cause of death was from a lightning strike, which would not have caused Ai's body to get dismembered in any way. Instead it would have caused Ai's body to be covered in Lichtenberg Figures or fractal-like scars. The reason Ai is covered in bandages is likely to preserve the animators' sanity when drawing zombie-Ai.

* The state of the girls' bodies has some pretty terrible implications in regards to their deaths. Sakura does have scars and bandages befitting a truck-impact victim, and as of episode six we do have implicit confirmation that method of death is related to Ai and Junko's current bandaging and stitches. Looking at the other girls' scars, and some unnerving implications are risen--Yugiri's neck stitches, the scar on Saki's cheek, Lily's exposed heart... and what had to happen to Tae to also be covered in bandages, anyway?

* This is fridge horror and fridge tear-jerker all mixed into one given the circumstance, but it's possible pre-awakened Ai grabbed Sakura in the mansion at the beginning because she was, while still not awakened, still had her final moment imprinted in her mind enough to be terrified of thunder even prior to regaining consciousness.

* Tae might have taken a liking to, and subsequently sucking a black marker pen because it produces black pigment, much like [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cephalopod_ink Cephalopod ink]], which squids (her TrademarkFavoriteFood) also release as an escape mechanism.
* So the girl group is named "Franchouchou" after Lily combines Sakura's insistence in thinking of a group name that starts with "Fran", along with the sound effect Tae made while sneezing. Sakura might have been trying to have their name [[ShoutOut reference]] ''Literature/{{Frankenstein}}'' to which some of the girls physically share similarities with the [[FrankensteinsMonster iconic monster]] - a reanimated creature with stitches all around the body, and an overall green-skinned appearance. Junko even bears all these traits in her zombie state, making her a downplayed case of Frankenstein's Monster.

* Of course the title of the episode has to do with its subject--"Neverland Saga" refers to Lily and her inability to grow up after dying young. But there's also one more important distinction: Neverland's associated with Literature/PeterPan, who ''never'' wanted to grow up because of what came with it. And frankly, [[GrowingUpSucks neither did Lily]].
* Junko, who died in the 1980s, takes a little time to process the fact that Lily is transgender due to the fact that such topics were simply not spoken of much during her lifetime. Yugiri however, who dates from the 1800s, has no such problems. This is likely because she is familiar with ''onnagata'' actors (men who take female roles) from her own time period. It is not that big a leap from men who perform as women on the stage to someone who lives as one full time for someone from an era where entertainers were expected to live their craft.
** Related, but the reason Junko only needs a little time to process it despite being from the 1980s may have something to do with the Takarazuka Revue and ''otokoyaku'' actresses, who are women acting in men's roles and are indeed expected to present male even off stage and outside the theatre. The Revue has been popular already in her age.

* How bad must it have been for Sakura's parents to come home and find out their daughter has been run over by an anime meme? Actually, since the zombies are mostly young girls, their deaths must have been a horrific experience for all of their parents.
** Given that Sakura announces that she's leaving, it's possible that her parents may have actually been home and ''heard'' the accident occur. In the scene where Sakura puts on her shoes for school, a pair of men's office shoes were also there on the veranda ready for use so it is likely that her father at least was home at the time.
** The part about their deaths being horrific experience for all of their parents are partially confirmed as of Ep.8, with Lily's dad still reeling from Lily's death 7 years later. Also, while not her parents, Saki's best friend who saw her death 21 years ago still was traumatized by the whole event.

* Yugiri mentions "Oh, like testing a sword on someone who's passing by" when the other girls describe a guerrilla performance for her. But why would she compare it to ''swords'' rather? It makes a lot of sense given the time period when she died - where bladed weapons are still the norm for Japanese warriors like the samurai, ronin and ninjas.
** If the whole sentence is given a deeper interpretation, "''testing'' a sword on someone" may imply "''hitting'' someone with a sword", injuring them, if not outright killing them in the process.
** This was a real practice in medieval Japan, named Tsujigiri (辻斬り). Of course it is disputed if people actually did this, or if it was just a popular myth to denigrate the nobles.

** At least Lily's heart has a comparatively tame reason: [[spoiler: her heart {{literal|Metaphor}}ly [[HeartBeatsOutOfChest beat out of her chest]] when she saw facial hair and it stayed like that.]]