Nogizaka46: "Zambi" drama episode six recap

 Start Date: January 23rd on Hulu at 1:00 am
The following day it airs on NTV

Cast:

Asuka Saito as Kaede Yamamuro

Miona Hori as Minori Morodzumi

Manatsu Akimoto as Asumi Saijou

Yuki Yoda as Sei Kai

Mizuki Yamashita as Yui Kanenura

Ranze Terada as Sena Sakaki

Miria Watanabe as Suzune Sakura

Junna Ito as Rena Igarashi

Momoko Ozono as Yuzuki Sakikawa

Ayane Suzuki as Marina Fujusaki

Minami Umezawa as Kana Kiuchi

Kaede Sato as Azusa Seki

Shiori Kubo as Honoka Hanamura

Mai Shinuchi as The beautiful woman....

..... plus seven other third generation members.....

 No need to do any recapping of where we are as you just need to read the above post. At the end of the fifth episode Kaede had ran into the school's art room where she found four students who didn't seem to be Zambis though all were suspicious of each other. Banging on the room's locked door was Hijiri, she had manged to subdue a Zambi long enough to allow Kaede to escape. As we can see Hijiri was also able to escape from the Zambi but the natural question is was she bitten and is a creature waiting to attack the group of girls?
 In the art room had been four students who are all third generation members. Their leader is in the bottom screenshot, she's a character who we hadn't met yet and her name is Sawa. She does not want to let Hijiri in the room as she's fully convinced she's a Zambi. Sawa also does not like Hijiri these days as she had once been a part of her group though once she began to hang around with Kaede she broke off all ties with the group.
 Took a while but Kaede was able to persuade Sawa and her mates to allow Hijiri into the room. There was one minor catch which is that Hijiri had to be tied up but guess that was much safer than being in a hallway with Zambis but then again is Hijiri one? Doesn't seem so and her friend Kaede soon had tied her up in a chair, for some reason Zambis can act like a normal human and then for no reason transform into a creature. Sawa has an idea on how to tell if any of the six students in the room are Zambis, she'll take a photo of each of them.

 Seems like a wise idea to take everyone's photo as that's how you can tell if a person is a Zambi or not. As in the 'Ring' movies when a person is a creature their face on film appears as a very distorted one though for some reason that wasn't the case for Yui. Before we go on with this scene there are a few more happenings occurring around the Freeasia Academy. At the end of the previous show the third person of the Zambi catching team, Minori, had become separated from her two friends Kaede and Hijiri.
 She was now holed up in the school's library, there's been a few Zambi's wandering in here and there but for now Minori is safe. There's very few places that are safe at school as the amount of Zambi's has been increasing drastically, seems there's more of them then humans. Plus the girl's wacked out teacher is also prowling the halls, she doesn't appear to be a Zambi but would't doubt if she is. Now let's head back to the art room to see if any student is a Zambi.
 There are six students in the room, Sawa slowly began taking pictures of everyone with her phone. None seem to be Zambis and Sawa was furious when Hijiri's photo came out normal, she was convinced she had been a Zambi. In her fury Sawa pounced on the helpless Hijiri who had been tied to a chair and began to strangle her ruthlessly. The only thing that stopped Sawa from killing her once good friend was that there was a Zambi in the room. Forgot to mention that before two students who had passed the camera test had left the room. One had asthma and needed to take her medicine, she had been accompanied by another innocent gal but it's unknown if the pair are still humans as they had run into their teacher in the hallway.

 Only one student in the room didn't have their photo taken and of course that person ended up being the Zambi. It was Rena and her transformation was the only thing that saved Hijiri from being strangled. When Sawa saw what was going on she jumped up to take down the new Zambi Rena, these girls don't make wise decisions for as you can see in the bottom screenshot Sawa's existence as a human came to a quick end.
 In the commotion. Kaede was able to untie her friend Hijiri and both fled the room. Where they ended up was the school's library and there they found their good friend Minori who was still holed up. She was safe and like her two friends Minori hadn't been bitten, there aren't many more living humans at the school besides these three. Now the questions for them is what to do, try to defeat the Zambis which is impossible or to flee the school for help?
 They may have to flee as none of the school's phones are working along with the girl's cellphones. Now we're at the final few seconds of this episode, a show is only 22 minutes in length. While the trio is thinking of what action to take next they noticed a red mark(blood?) on a locker in the room they were hiding out in. There also appeared to be some barely noticeable sounds coming from inside the locker, we have no clue on what awaits the girls as this show came to it's conclusion.

 As mentioned in the previous two recaps this show has improved so much since the second episode and is really turning out to be a fun watch. Hope it can keep it up as there's six more episodes to go and while not a must watch series it is if you're a Nogi fan. Am caught up with these recaps as I do two at a time and the eighth episode hasn't aired yet so there should be another pair of them next weekend. As is my norm for recaps here's plenty of screenshots to follow the story better.