“Six juvenile delinquents endure brutal reformatory life, forming unbreakable bonds while facing violence and societal rejection.”
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin
RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人
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Synopsis
Six juvenile delinquents endure brutal reformatory life, forming unbreakable bonds while facing violence and societal rejection.
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.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 16 sampled reviews
What 16 readers settled on.
Polarized
σ 2.57 · split reception
5.9 pts
Recommenders 8.9 · others 3.0
↑ 3.38
Running avg · Oct 2013 → Apr 2026
- 8 “Truly a story about friendship. Makes me jealous, I wish I had friends like this. The story has twists and you don’t know where it’s going in the end but you wanna follow them along their journey ....”
- 8 “The absence of color pages is not striking, since the tone of the story does not claim them either. It would be different if it were a fantastic cut story where the reader, although accustomed to...”
- 10 “Beautiful manga, even yet a masterpiece. Really one of the best mangas I've read in a long time. The story made me tear up so many times I've lost count, and the character development is so...”
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A Manga Publication
- Format 235 × 22 ch × vol
- Total read 31h 20m approx
- Published Nov 2002 – Jan 2010
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M5361 catalog