Nogizaka46: "Zambi" drama preliminary post....

 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.....

 The drama is actually pronounced 'Zanbi' but the official title is 'Zambi', if you do a search it's better to use the second title. Have talked briefly about this new drama in a few recent group posts, what I had been wondering more than anything else was will the series be subbed? Well it is being subbed, so far two episodes have aired and both shows have been done.
 Have viewed both of those episodes, an okay show so far but wish there was more gruesomeness. Will be recapping this drama, will be doing two shows at a time and the first pair will either be tomorrow or Thursday, then after that will be doing them every other week. Wasn't planning on doing a post like this until about an hour ago so it's definitely a 'spur of the moment' one. Thought I'd give Nogi fans a heads up on what do expect, know most aren't drama fans though their 'Bemars' series from 2015 drew a good amount of viewers. Here's one more 'heads up', first two shows of 'SKEBingo! have been subbed and will be recapping that show as well.
 There's a total of 21 Nogi members in the show, most are third generation gals. Also some Undergirls are in the show but after two shows their roles haven't been too big, actually only two roles have been biggish so far. Asuka as Kaede is the lead character in the drama and has had the most screen time so far. But the most important character has been Asumi who is played by Manatsu, not going to get into any details yet as those will be saved for the recaps. Did list most of the cast above but here's some pics of all 21 members, these are from the NTV site and it also airs on Hulu.

 There's also been two stage plays of "Zambi" which the members of Nogi have starred in. The first one took place in late 2018 and it also featured some members from Keya. The second version began last month, unsure if it's still being performed bu this time around no Keya gals are in it. On January 13th there was a press conference for the drama, sadly Asuka and Miona weren't there.

 At the top of the post is a short promo video for the series, there's a few others on YT. Will be ending off with a few screenshots from the first two episodes, eight from each of them and won't give any spoilers on what took place.