After leaving the reformatory he becomes a very skilled and dedicated black market businessman, earning large amounts of money by selling cigars within the USA army vicinity. Despite having no real fighting skills or strength, he has very powerful jaws which he is quite proud of. He lost his entire family in an atom bomb explosion. He was sent to the disciplinary school for theft, con, dine-and-dash, and several other crimes which could not be fully investigated during his detention. Chinese soft-shelled turtle) from his love of biting, he is the smallest of the seven boys. Noboru Maeda ( 前田 昇, Maeda Noboru) Voiced by: Romi Park Aged sixteen and nicknamed Turtle ( スッポン, Suppon, lit. He has black hair, making him resemble Sakuragi. After leaving the reformatory he works as a bartender, and is in love with Setsuko. He has demonstrated to be a very straight man, and will often take the blame or suffer injuries for the sake of others. Mario came to admire Sakuragi and began to train to box under him and was shown to be quite skilled. He tried to pick a fight with Sakuragi the first day they met but was knocked out easily. He was sentenced after inflicting life-threatening injuries to one of his teachers when he discovered the man had just raped a female student. Mario Minakami ( 水上 真理雄, Minakami Mario) Voiced by: Shun Oguri Aged seventeen and nicknamed Mario ( マリオ), he is the unofficial leader of the six new boys.
Unaware of his surroundings as he made his way to the arena, he was shot by American soldiers who thought he had the intention of harming people. Later on he is stabbed by Ishihara on the day of Mario's match, shortly after he made his way to the arena while unknowingly gripping the knife that he was stabbed with. Before committing suicide because of the rape, Hagino wrote a suicidal note which blames both Ishihara and Sasaki, giving Bro evidence of their crimes. His friend and former cellmate, Eiichi Hagino ( 荻野 栄一, Hagino Eiichi), was violated by Dr. As a result of this, Bro resolves to never lose anyone else important to him. His father later committed suicide after arguing with Bro one night, leaving him racked with guilt. Only his father survived and returned home a broken man and a drunk. When he was younger, his father and five brothers went off to war. He is the only boy at the school who does not fear Ishihara. This often means sacrificing himself for them, making him the routine victim of Ishihara's schemes. He constantly looks out for the well-being of his cellmates, just like they treasure him. A strong and benevolent young man, Bro has great boxing technique which he demonstrated by knocking out all six newcomers when Mario started a fight. He was sentenced for inflicting bodily harm upon an American soldier. The manga follows the boys' lives during their time in the school and the years after they leave.Ĭharacters Rokurouta Sakuragi ( 桜木 六郎太, Sakuragi Rokurōta) Voiced by: Rikiya Koyama Aged eighteen and nicknamed Bro ( アンチャン, Anchan) by his cellmates, he is the oldest of the seven protagonists in Rainbow. Set in the 1950s, the story centers around six junior delinquents and their mentor at the Shōnan Special Reformatory near Tokyo. In 2006, the manga won the 51st Shogakukan Manga Award in the General category.
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They learn to cope with the atrocities and unfairness they encounter there.Ī 26-episode anime television series adaptation produced by Madhouse and directed by Hiroshi Kōjina was broadcast on Nippon TV from April to September 2010.Īs of March 2010, the manga had over 3.3 million copies in circulation. The story is set in the 1950s and focuses on six junior delinquents aged sixteen to seventeen that are sent to the Shōnan Special Reform School. Its individual chapters were compiled into twenty-two tankōbon volumes. It was then transferred to Weekly Big Comic Spirits, being published from June 2009 to January 2010. It was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine from November 2002 to July 2008, when the magazine ceased its publication. "Rainbow: The Seven from Compound Two, Cell Six"), is a Japanese manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin ( Japanese: RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人, lit.
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