Audience reviews
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AnimeEnjoyer420
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 through a status quo of its own making is commendable as well. Unfortunately, all the other elements are far weaker. From unnuanced villains that do the worst possible things simply be…
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It’s been a while since I’ve seen a show on which I so dramatically disagree with the ratings on MAL and AniList, but here we are. This one was frustrating guys. Not sure why it’s above an 8 with most audiences. There’s a MAL review that I thought captured it pretty well, though: it’s a shonen cast and story set in a seinen world of pain and misery, which leads to a lot of cognitive dissonance as hyper-motivated boys (who are largely stereotypes) face down more realistic villains.
I'm having trouble deciding on a score because there was so much wrong with the first half and, though things got better in the latter half, I can't say that much of it was all that great. With a few exceptions (Turtle/Lily, Uncovered's love story and much of Meg's story up to a point), I can't say that many ch…
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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 dont like that. im only gonna talk abt the seven members only since the others are just there for plot.
Mario Minakami a.k.a Sakuragi 2.0 a.ka. i want Sakuragi inside of me, the start of the show i was like yeah u cool and i liked u but after fam he just want sak…
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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 like a Juvenile Hall and more like a Soviet Gulag or a Nazi concentration camp. The leader of the detention center is a pedophile who starts raping the kids the moment they arrive. The main guard is some guy who lo…
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Rainbow really is an anime of two halves. There is a tonal shift that happens about halfway through that completely changes the feel and the quality of the story. This is not a good thing in my opinion. Lets look at each half and assess its quality.
The story starts out in post-war Japan with a bunch of young delinquents being stuck in the same jail cell of a reformatory for young men. This half of the anime concentrates solely on the boys being subjected to some absolutely horrific treatment by the warden and one particular guard, whilst looking for an opportunity to escape. Now fair warning, this portion of the story is REALLY DARK. Holy shit, it might be some of the darkest, most effed up stuff Ive ever seen in an anime!!! Without going into detail, it involves regular beatings, child…
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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, there was just too much they tried to pack in to show everybody's individual story. There just wasn't any time to get attached to what was happening.
The art and sound were both good, but not…
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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 constantly. The atmosphere is always extremely tense, and this is in-part due to the brilliant presentation. There are a lot of sombre guitar-based musical pieces, which are not anything particularly memorable o…
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*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 start from the very beginning, and state every problem i personally spotted and can remember (by chronological order).
An-chan "kills" his father. Its also said he committed suicide. So how exactly did An-chan get to the reformatory? Did he turn him…
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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 pretty enjoyable to say the least. Most of the soundtracks were suited for the occasion and used very well. Sound: 8/10
In my opinion, the best part of this anime are the characters and character…
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Another beautiful anime. Rainbow is truly an underrated gem that I happen to stumble upon and I was really amazed of how well everything is made in this anime and how well it showed the values of love, friendship and hope is very important in life.
Story-10
The story is about teens who were sent to a detention facility where they meet a fellow inmate who changed they're lives for the better. Throughout the series this fellow inmate has been their inspiration to endure everything in life, move forward and shape their future.
The story is pretty simple and a little slow but it is delivered perfectly as there are no loose ends throughout the series and everything is wrapped up perfectly in the end.
Art-10
Art is amazing and animated very well with very vibrant colors.
Sound-9
The music is…
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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 human rights were violated daily, specially in a place like a reformatory. It was a hard life, and many people suffered a lot.
Our characters are challenged by many difficulties, which of course, included the relati…
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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 different yet very similar individuals. From the opening moments of the first episode right through to the last scene of the last episode I was hooked. The show grabbed me and force…
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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
Whats in your mind after seeing the cover? I can easily guess that you're gonna think this anime is about in prison and full of action. Well, thats 30% right. But, thats not all. Taking place after World War II, The story in this anime was about 7 prisoners that must struggle to live in prison and how they dealt with it and they follows their life together and how they move on afterwards. Quite attracting, if i could said after he…
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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, it was Hellhole for them because they received very harsh treatment by some of the authorities to the point where they got thrashed by a group…
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"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 you commit a crime. This is what happens when you disobey the law. This is what happens in Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin.
Well, I finished the series Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin over a rainy weekend. It's…
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"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 teenage criminals being taken by bus to a reform school. We're informed that the year is 1955. I guess in Japan in 1955 “reform school” basically meant “maximum security prison for kids,” because thi…
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'Grasshoppers can fly, so can birds. Yet.....aren't we even allowed to dream'
Growing up and living in an environment where a struggle is present every moment of your life can only take a toll on ones psyche. You have no friends and either have no family or, the family you have are troubled or distant from what they previously were. The only way to survive is by trusting no one but yourself as past experiences have dictated your innate perception of people. They are selfish and only get by; by looking out for themselves. Hate breeds hate, loneliness too does the same. This is the environment and setting of 'Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin 'or 'The Criminal Seven of Compound Two , Cell Six'.
For me this series had everything an anime enthusiast could ask for; a gripping story, charac…
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'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 furyou drama in its purest form.
Story/Character: 7.5/10
'RAINBOW' is a very character-driven series with at least two solid episodes dedicated to development of ea…
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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 the good guys...cooler though. If that was the purpose, at least it was consistent about that.
And of course the characters. Certainly...they are cool, all of them featuring somewhat blindly…
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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 serious that the first episode starts off with a disclaimer about explicit content. Think about that for a second. In a medium like anime where there's blood, tits and who knows that else in so many…
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