Add to My List Add to Favorites Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Rainbow: Criminal Seven of Compound Two Cell Six Japanese: RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人 English: Rainbow More titles InformationType: TV Episodes: 26 Status: Finished Airing Aired: Apr 7, 2010 to Sep 29, 2010 Premiered: Spring 2010 Broadcast: Wednesdays at 00:59 (JST) Producers: VAP, Nippon Television Network Licensors: Funimation, Discotek Media Studios: Madhouse Source: Manga Genres: Drama, Suspense Themes: Delinquents, Historical Demographic: Seinen Duration: 22 min. per ep. Rating: R - 17+ (violence & profanity) StatisticsScore: 8.461 (scored by 161,947 users) 1 indicates a weighted score. Ranked: #1662 2 based on the top anime page. Please note that 'Not yet aired' and 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #608 Members: 409,177 Favorites: 8,515 Available AtResources |
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Apr 11, 2010 Nyron Recommended After finishing episode 1 of this series, I took a deep breath. I was so engrossed that I had apparently forgotten to breathe while I was watching. After finishing episode 26, I finally exhaled. This series was a rush of nonstop emotion all the way throw and never faltered for a second. Everything I said here over a half a year ago holds completely true and I can't flaunt my glowing recommendation for this series enough. Rainbow is definitely one of the best things Japan has put out in a long time, and not in an ironic "Oh, Japan!" flashy comedy/campy/ridiculous way. It's a serious story. So ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 24, 2015 mkzxwing Mixed Feelings *This review WILL contain spoilers Since the anime has such a high score and a crazy amount of 10/10 reviews (what aggravates me, because its far from perfect), i will write a review, pointing all of the problems i found with it. This anime was very hard to watch and relate to at a lot of points. No, not because of how sad and harsh it is, but because as an anime that takes itself seriously its too inconsistent and illogical. Now don't get me wrong, this anime has a lot of strong points, but they still can't fully cover for all the flaws. Ill ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 13, 2014 HappyHarryHardOn Recommended What exactly is friendship? Are your friends more important to you than your family? What are you willing to go through for a friend? Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin (for the rest of the review the anime will be referred to simply as Rainbow) focuses on friendship, as well as several other themes based around friendship, such as humanity, morality, violence, love, family etc. This is my review: Story - Rainbow is a tale about seven inmates in a special reform school who grow closer with the increased time they spend together. All seven of them are there for committing several crimes which shaped these very ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 21, 2013 Radeon Recommended Rainbow : Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin - after watching episodes of this anime, one word kept coming to my mind. "Beautiful". This anime shows how beautiful friendship can be. Acts of selflessness, sacrificing oneself to help another, returning to that one special place - It's all present in Rainbow. It's a good mix of emotion, struggle and drama. Rainbow is one superb anime, regrettably, it's buried deep within the other numerous popular titles out there and I'm glad I found it(more like stumbled upon). Story? Rainbow focuses on seven teenagers who are found guilty of committing crimes and are sent to a Disciplinary school/Reformatory. In reality, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Nov 7, 2010 8thSin Recommended 'RAINBOW - The Seven from Cell 2-6' is about seven teens who spent time in same cell of Shounan Disciplinary School after committing separate juvenile crimes in 1955. This series is one of the purest example of Japanese "Yankee" or "Furyou" (high school deliquent) Drama . Although prominent in Japanese films, this genre is extremely rare in recent anime series possibly due to lack of interest from typical otaku demographics and decline of furyou in Japan. As far as I know, 'Sakigake! Cromatie High School' being the only other one (and many other series in lesser extent, such as 'GTO' and 'Gokusen'). 'RAINBOW' is a hard-boiled ... Read more Open Gift Report
Oct 7, 2010 A2ZOMG Mixed Feelings Rainbow starts off fine with an interesting concept (boys from post WWII) but this show could have been so much more if they really stuck to that principle. As stated early on, the author wanted to emphasize the coolness of his characters, and given that, it shows in how little this anime develops anything else. The art aside from some violent scenes is pretty average, and it's generally made obvious who the antagonists are from the art style alone. Given that, it reduces the amount of surprise and suspense that the show has. Minor points for the art successfully making me hate the villains and find ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 6, 2010 akromataof Recommended Preliminary (19/26 eps) Rainbow is one of those precious gems that get lost among the popular action/romance/silly anime, that happen to air at the same time. At first glance, it might seem as a well-worn drama set in an after-all dramatic post-war period. That 's what I thought. And I regret that thinking.. One episode was more than enough to captivate me..What is exceptionnal about this show, is the great deliverance of emotions. With no exaggerations or deficiencies, the emotions are there, the way they should be.. You 'll find yourself cry - be it of joy or of sorrow-, get angry, anticipate anxiously and share the same ... Read more Open Gift Report
May 12, 2010 savetherocks Recommended Preliminary (21/26 eps) If I was to sum up the entire series so far in two words, it would be these: simply amazing. Story: 10 This story is definitely one of the best I have seen so far in an anime. It follows the story of seven young men who are put in a school called the Shōnan Special Reform School, which is basically just a prison. They don't know anything about each other at first but eventually they grow closer and form a bond that is so strong it can never be broken. Art: 9 The art in Rainbow is decent. Nothing spectacular but nothing to complain about. The animation is ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 17, 2016 cubelet Not Recommended Funny By halfway through, I originally decided to go ahead and mark this one "dropped," but honestly dropping a show like that drives me nuts regardless so I decided to go ahead and finish it. My biggest problem was that the characters and story were all pretty shallow, and seemed to count on some of its shock value type moments to grab the viewer emotionally rather than really building up an emotional attachment. It just felt like "oh, some stuff's happening to some guys," basically. It does improve eventually though, enough that I suppose I don't mind having finished it after all. I think for the story, ... Read more Open Gift Report
Dec 9, 2012 mahoganycow Mixed Feelings "No matter how tired you are, or how much punishment you take, look into his eyes. Never look down." When I read the description for Rainbow, I knew I'd have to watch it. A story of a circle of friends being forged under the anvil of the Japanese disciplinary school system...sounds like an awesome “for men” type story, right? Well, as I quickly found out, Rainbow bites off way more than it can chew, and in the end its execution does not keep up with its ambitious ideas. It is still a fairly engrossing and entertaining series, but “The Shawshank Redemption” this ain't. Rainbow begins with six ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jan 3, 2013 Stark700 Recommended "Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins." - Carlos Santana. Dealing with the past is not easy especially when you commit something terrible. Say, a crime. Then, you think about the future but that little hope is so far away because where you are now is somewhere that you never want to be: prison. Trapped like a caged bird and nowhere to go, nowhere to run, your future is about to go down the drain faster than the rain pouring outside. This is what happens when ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jun 9, 2019 literaturenerd Mixed Feelings Overview: I decided to watch another one of MALs top 100 greatest anime of all time. It's hard to find something in MAL's top 100 that isn't a Kintama spin off, so Rainbow seemed like a good choice. Sadly, I was a little bit disappointed by this series. Don't get me wrong! Rainbow is a very addicting watch and it's by no means a bad anime. However, I feel it had the potential to be even better. What I expected: This is a series about 7 juvenile delinquents who have been sentenced to serve time in the worst juvenile detention center in Japan...and possibly the world. It's less ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 13, 2010 BionicCommando Recommended Preliminary (1/26 eps) After I finished watching the episode,I could think of only one thing......"Holy S***,was that really aired on TV?" Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 10, 2021 Natsude_tanaka Mixed Feelings For me, this is one of the most underrated and overrated show that ive ever seen. truly, don't deserve the love that it gets. People from 2010, im very disappointed because angel beats was released in the same time and defo was better than Rainbow. Here i was, thought to myself im seeing a gem but nooo. This review is just for the ppl that feels the same like me since in the forums and reviews full of ppls saying that it was good and underrated and etc lol ( SPOILERS DUHH ) There's a few characters that i liked and a few that i ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 26, 2010 apatch3 Mixed Feelings Preliminary (2/26 eps) Having only seen the first 3 episodes I'm unable to guarantee that this review is wholesome, but at this moment I'm wondering if I should in fact drop this anime. The first episode was fine .. I mean they wanted to give off the whole "evil detention centre" feel which they accomplished, the only problem is that each successive episode has done nothing but emphasize the same thing, how everyone has tragic pasts and how they're all brothers in the same cesspit , Will there ever be any real character development, any real plot? gah I'm really quite frustrated at the moment I have yet ... Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 18, 2013 Kynov Recommended The problem with ourselves right now is we usually too arrogant and easily judged anime just by seeing the cover. Without watching or see it, we can easily bashed and even judge the anime before even giving it a shot. Many covers in anime sometimes didnt really represent on whats gonna happen in the anime itself, Like Rainbow : Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin. STORY Read more Open Gift Report
Jul 27, 2015 CoolCat0615 Recommended Friendship is an extremely common theme in anime (in any medium for that matter) but rarely is it portrayed in hell. Set in a crippled 1950's Japan, Rainbow thrusts its seven protagonists into a juvenile refinement center, which is essentially a youth prison filled with guards who are out for blood. They give each other nicknames, befriend each other over a smoke, and carve their dreams on a tree for when they're finally free, and agree to meet there once again in the future. It is a very gripping story and throughout the series you as the audience will be kept on your seat almost ... Read more Open Gift Report
Feb 3, 2024 AnimeEnjoyer420 Not Recommended Funny This is a series that I desperately wanted to like, and it does have the occasional good moment, but generally speaking, this is a story with interesting ideas that is constantly failed by poor writing. The core ideas here - a story about a group of boys that bond while being abused at a reformatory school in 1950s Japan, and which follows them after their release and into adulthood - are loaded with potential, and that brotherly bond between the characters is easily the strongest part of the series. The storytelling ambition to progress through its story and the lives of its characters rather than muddling ... Read more Open Gift Report
Sep 3, 2014 Akai_Shuichi Recommended In the aftermath of the most devastating war in history, inside a reformatory, an unbreakable friendship is born between seven children. There probably aren't many anime that can depict a friendship between a group of men as good as Rainbow. This group of friends will try to survive to a very harsh environment, and their friendship will prove to be their biggest weapon. In the 50s, Japan was really in a very poor state because of World War II, and this anime makes it a goal to really show the viewers a bit of how things were back then; how much injustice was all over and how ... Read more Open Gift Report
Apr 19, 2015 Kazman Recommended Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin. This anime goes into the dark theme of seven teenagers forced to suffer for their crimes in a detention facility just after the WWII. The story follows these seven teenagers in trying to survive the cruelty of the warden and the detention center in general. The story progression may be a bit slow at times but it surely delivers. Story: 8/10 The theme of the art is generally dark which makes perfect sense for what it is trying to portray. The animation is superb and the style is very suiting. Art: 9/10 The sound, even though nothing too unique or amazing, was ... Read more Open Gift Report More Reviews |
