Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin (2025)

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Japanese: RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人

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Type: Manga

Volumes: 22

Chapters: 235

Status: Finished

Published: Nov 21, 2002 to Jan 4, 2010

Genres: Award Winning, Drama

Themes: Delinquents, Historical, Psychological

Demographic: Seinen

Serialization: Young Sunday (Weekly)

Authors: Abe, George (Story), Kakizaki, Masasumi (Art)


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Score: 8.451 (scored by 10,198 users)

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Ranked: #1852

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Popularity: #483

Members: 38,553

Favorites: 949


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MangaYoung Sunday (Weekly)Abe, George (Story), Kakizaki, Masasumi (Art)

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Synopsis

Six minors (16 or 17 years) answering to the nicknames of Joe, Mario, Suppon, Baremoto, Heitai and Kyabetsu are put into a reformatory for offences such as aggravated assault, swindle, flight, etc. Their stay in hell begins immediately. Accommodated by a doctor paedophile, they are placed under the monitoring of a despotic and brutal crew. Companions of cell of certain Sakuragi (called Anchan), the tension flares up between the band of buddies and their new "friend."

A brawl breaks out and our six prisoners are done rossés by mysterious young man thanks to his boxing talent.

The story will not only follow the lives of these seven characters surviving in their hellish environment, but also their disillusions due to the rejection by the outside world and by their close relations. This is about the extraodinary and invincible friendships between these young men.

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Background

Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin won the 51st Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category, along with Taiyou no Mokishiroku Dainibu: Kenkokuhen.

The series was serialized in Young Sunday until its final issue on July 31, 2008. Serialization transferred to Big Comic Spirits on June 15, 2009.

The series was published in French by Kazé in 3-in-1 omnibuses from October 7, 2015 to May 24, 2017.

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Characters

Sakuragi, Rokurouta

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Minakami, Mario

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Maeda, Noboru

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Yokosuka, Jou

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Nomoto, Ryuuji

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Tooyama, Tadayoshi

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Matsuura, Mansaku

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Ishihara

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Koike, Setsuko

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Lilly

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10 Recommended

2 Mixed Feelings

3 Not Recommended

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Jan 6, 2025

GoroTusk97

Recommended

Almost a decade after watching the anime (2015), I'm happy that I had the opportunity to read all the original manga. All these years I didn't know what to expect from the rest of the story the anime didn't cover, and I can safely say it was a pleasant surprise.

This is a tale about seven young men – Nicknames Mario, Suppon, Heitai, Kyabetsu, Joe, Baremoto and Anchan - in a juvenile reformatory in the post-war Japan (1955, more specifically), and how their encounter in prison changed their lives forever.

Being written by George Abe, who was a teenager in the 1950’s Japan, he clearly takes great ...

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Jun 20, 2022

rodmanii

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (24/235 eps)

the art is very mediocre, both in characters and locations, also, the fact that suppon resembles some cartoon character with those ears and his height while the rest of the characters are make to look more realistic, is a bad contrast in my opinion. The fact that by their looks alone you can establish who is bad a who is good takes away from the plot, from the moment characters are introduced you know who is going to be the enemy, also the fact that the plot is black and white, in the sense that good and bad people are very clearly delimited, the protagonist ...

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Dec 27, 2021

okaaaaay_kee

Not Recommended

FunnyRainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin (21)

a group of young men that continue to fight for their place in the world despite all the pushback and the continuous stream of problems they face. rainbow manages to take a simple and timeless premise and make it utterly unrecognisable.

the title's biggest downfall is sacrificing good, simple storytelling for moments of spectacle. everything has to be an event and our heroes have to fight against oppression and horrid villains all the time. to put it simply, it suffers from delusions of grandeur. it assigns nonsensical character motivations at every turn and all of this makes for a horrible reading experience.

if you look past all ...

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