Keyakizaka46: "Zankoku na Kankyakutachi" drama episode seven recap

 Start Date: May 17, 2017 on NTV, airs Thursdays at 1:00 am for ten episodes

 Through every episode the only characters have been the 21 Keya members in the show. All will probably have an important moment at least once in this ten episode drama so will list all of the members who are starring in the series. These screenshots list all of the characters along with their student number, these are from the final credits while Keya's tune "Eccentric" was playing.

 Thought that may make it easier for you to keep track off, can always change it in future posts such as have all 21 names written in order and may do something special at the show's conclusion.
 Been a long since the last recap, July 6th to be exact. The original subbers for the show were UKN48 but they dropped the project after this episode though think they did want to continue it. Another group has done the last three episodes, not as good as these first seven shows but all in all good enough. If you've forgotten what the plot is or what's been happening may be a good idea to read the previous recap or two, all of the shows have been reviewed.
 Where we left off the 19( or is it 18?) students are locked in their high school's gym. There trapped in a glass box was their teacher Hatada who appeared to have been beaten too. For him to get out of the box the gals must get 300,000 likes from the viewers watching at home. The best plan they had for getting that high number was to jump rope as a team one hundred times, there were many mishaps along the way but they're at 99 and looks like their teacher is about to be freed.

 That question was asked to Miko(Neru) who didn't jump on the 100th twirl of the rope. Everyone including the teacher was wondering why she didn't jump, them and us viewers were kept in the dark as Miko never answered the question. That failed attempt means Hatada is still trapped but he does tell the girls that there may be a way out on the third floor. He had been with others and two groups had tried to escape via the pool and art room which are on that floor.
 With no other alternatives the group heads to the third floor. There were a total of 21 students who started out this nightmare, think it's just eighteen left with #2 Erena and #16 Kaede definitely gone. As you can see in that top screenshot there's eighteen girls left, must have fallen asleep when the other one went missing.
 When the students hit the third floor they split into two teams with one heading to the pool. The other group heads to the art room and even by the end of the eighth episode we haven't seen them again since they split up. That naturally means the next two episodes will be only about the ten who travel to the pool for a way to escape.

 At the pool another laptop with a camera is set up, looks like the masterminds behind this sick 'game' knew they were coming. One person behind it could be Hatada, more on him later but as the above pic points out Miko has had her suspicions about him since the first minute and perhaps that's why she didn't jump to save him.
 As usual what's awaiting the girls is accumulating likes from the 'cruel audience' viewing their actions at home, to date they've been anything but cruel. The number to get this time is 30,000 likes per person, when they first started out they only needed to reach 10,000. But by now the girls are quite exhausted, discouraged and hungry as they just get in pairs and sit around the pool. From what we know there's no time limit but if they want to save their teacher time is of the essence.

 For a while we thought the only two who knew each other were Miko and Yuzuki but we find out that's not the case. Before arriving at this high school #9 Shizuka(Shiori) and #20 Anna(Rika) had gone to the same school and were very good friends. Both had a crush on an upper classmate named Yuuta who has been following their current adventure via his phone.
 Anna is the one who had the huge crush on Yuuta though things didn't work out as they never got together though Anna did try. Yuuta is now a college student who is 21, makes you wonder then how old are Anna and Shizuka as all three had gone to the same high school.
 There's been some encouraging remarks from Yuuta and Anna thought it was her crush writing them and he would eventually save them. That wasn't the case as it was someone else who was just using that name and Yuuta never did make an attempt to rescue them but how would he or any of the audience know what school they're at? Also Yuuta's girlfriend Keiko has been an avid watcher of the girls since the first minute and we see her often though it looks like she wants them to fail.

 Yuzuki is correct as it's time for the students to try to each collect 30,000 likes. Up until now Anna has been barely noticeable but certainly she was in this episode, first with her old flame Yuuta and then coming up with an idea to get likes. That idea was 'Human Ring Toss' and it was actually a very good and enjoyable one.
 The girls lined up and the thrower of a beach tube tried to get it around the neck of another gal. After some tries doing that they played bowling with the tube as the girls stood there like pins and would fall down when the tube hit them. It was a fun short segment but for some unknown reason it didn't connect with the audience as none of them received nearly as many likes as they needed.

 Not what you'd call cruel but as you can see the audience is getting a little tired of their games but they don't tell them what to do to obtain 30,000 likes. After that failed attempt is when we learned more about Anna and her crush on Yuuta, Shizuka was the one who did most of the talking about it and sometimes it's better to keep your mouth shut.
 Don't know what the figure is but bet the total amount of viewers is well over 100,000, now all of them know about Anna's secret crush which isn't secret any more. Getting close to the end of the show, the length of them is 23 minutes but about 1 1/2  minutes are for the credits.
 If you didn't know #12 Misora(Miyu) has been in love with their teacher Hatada for quite a long time. She did ask him out for a date, they did go on one but he said the relationship can't go any further. He's used Misora to an extent to get the girls to help him but she wonders at the very end is he okay? The answer to that is a big yes as we see Hatada outside of the glass box with a huge smile on his face. He wasn't beaten either and least for now it appears he's one of the masterminds behind this devious game as the show comes to it's conclusion.

 It was an okay watch but wish the gap wasn't so long between views but really didn't forget too much. This was the last subbed episode by UKN and they did a solid job with the subs, hope they continue to do more shows as they haven't done any since this one which was done on July 24th. Next post has the recap for the eighth episode, two more shows to go after that one. Will also be having some more recaps soon for season three of 'KeyaBingo', wanted the subbers to get a few shows in front of me.