Nogizaka46: "Hatsumori Bemars" drama episode 5 recap and screenshots

Nanase Nishino as Nanamaru

Erika Ikuta as Chopin

Kazumi Takayama as Kote

Nanami Hashimoto as Marukyu

Rina Ikoma as Academy

Yumi Wakatsuki as Imadoki

Manatsu Alimoto as Harvard

Reika Sakurai as Bunan 

Sayuri Matsumura a sYuutsu

Mai Fukagawa as Kachan

Mai Shiraishi as Kirei

Misa Eto as Shelly

 While it's still an enjoyable watch have to admit the drama has gone downhill in the last few episodes, would still recommend viewing it but if you happened to miss an episode here or there you really wouldn't be missing anything important. What's really brought it down is that it's too predictable, while most dramas are this one is taking it to the next level. Every single game the team has played, there's been three so far, has ended with them hitting a home run in the bottom of the 7th inning to win the game, you could almost turn ot off with five minutes to go because you know exactly what's going to happen.

 Every show now focuses on one player on the Bemars team, which could be okay but the stories have kind of gotten weaker as it's always about that player overcoming some obstacle to hit the game winning homer. This episode Rina was the feature player, she's not one of my faves so perhaps that's why I didn't enjoy this as much as the other episodes. However next show Kazumi will be the player in the spotlight, she's my #2 fave member so I'm already predicting it'll be a much better watch.
 The recaps have been getting shorter because you already know what's going to happen, as mentioned above the featured member will hit a homer in the bottom of the 7th inning to win it, softball teams just play seven innings. Academy besides being on the team is also a member of the drama club, she has the star role in their next play "Macbeth".
 Doing both has affected her performance in both things badly, through two games she hasn't even hit the ball once plus her acting which was once admired by all is really suffering. But thanks to Nanamaru and the coach Academy was able to overcome both the difficulties she was having and of course hit the homer to win the game sending the Bemars team into the fourth round of the tourney.
 The teams they play are much more interesting then the Bemars team is, this game they played the Versailles Music School and they were a bunch of odd yet fun characters. Of course eventually the Bemars will have to beat the local powerhouse team from Polalis High School, sadly we don't see too much of them in the episodes and I don't know why as it's two star players are Mai and Misa.

 Hopefully next week's recap will be much longer but to be honest every episode now follows the same formula: a players has difficulties juggling two activities but is able to eventually overcome those problems and ends up being the hero by hitting a game winning homer. Still say it's worth a watch but it has slipped but seeing as how there should be five more episodes it still has time to right itself and end up being a solid drama.
 Few more screenshots here and of course the next post is loaded with even more, regardless of whether an episode is not all that great still end taking such a huge amount of screenshots.