S01E01 After the Rain
The year, 1955. Six delinquents nicknamed Mario, Cabbage, Soldier, Turtle, Uncovered, and Joe are taken to a prison-like reform school due to their various crimes. They are introduced to Dr. Sasaki, the school physician, who...
Rainbow
S01E05: Someday...
After leaving the hospital, Sakuragi reunites with his cellmates. A new guard, Kumagai, has replaced Ishihara who is on house arrest related to the fire. While doing community service outside one day, the boys each relate their dreams. Before returning to the school, the boys carve their dreams into a large tree and promise to meet back at the spot after they get out of the school. Ishihara returns and conspires to with Dr. Sasaki to deal with Sakuragi, who will be released in a month. They remove Sakuragi from cell 2-6 and place him in another cell with several large, strong boys. They beat him nightly, yet Sakuragi continues to bear the pain and smile, frustrating them. Mario, learning of the beatings, begs to take Sakuragi place in exchange for them sparing him. They beat Mario and shatter his right hand with a large stone. That night, the bullies taunt Sakuragi with what they did to Mario. After hearing they shattered Mario's hand, Sakuragi pulverizes the ringleader's face with a single punch. The other bullies stare in shock as Sakuragi's tells them that he was willing to put up with their abuse, but that they crossed the line when they attacked his friend.
Overview
About ten years after the Second World War, a group of juvenile offenders are sent to the Shounan Special Reform School, a kind of juvenile detention center, to deal with the atrocities and injustices they experienced in the war.
Episodes
S01E02 Fugitive
The seven boys have become comrades and spend time working out in their cell. Joe reveals that he has a younger sister on the outside. Seeing her again is his sole motivation to endure the...
S01E03 Distrust
Joe leaves solitary and Sakuragi's words are able to comfort him. Joe resolves to survive and one day reunite with his sister. Ishihara tells Uncovered that Sakuragi murdered his parents. Uncovered confronts Sakuragi in the...
S01E04 Dissolve
Uncovered can't believe Sakuragi would risk his own life for someone else, believing that you can only rely on yourself. Sakuragi arrives at the cell, but can't open the door. The building begins to collapse...
S01E05 Someday...
After leaving the hospital, Sakuragi reunites with his cellmates. A new guard, Kumagai, has replaced Ishihara who is on house arrest related to the fire. While doing community service outside one day, the boys each...
S01E06 Truth
The other bullies attack Sakuragi, while Ishihara listens from outside the cell. Ishihara leaves content that Sakuragi will be bludgeoned to death by morning. In the morning, Ishihara opens the cell, but is horrified to...
S01E07 Determination
Ishihara is apoplectic that Sakuragi is still alive after more than two weeks of starvation, unaware that Turtle and later Guard Kumagai have been sneaking him food. Kumagai tells Mario and Nurse Setsuko about Dr....
S01E08 Freedom
Uncovered devises a plan to free Sakuragi and shares it with the others. Needing to get a key from Dr. Sasaki, Joe volunteers to go to the doctor's office, despite knowing Sasaki's perverted lusts. Joe...
S01E09 Lament
After hearing about the escape, Nurse Setsuko encounters Turtle and gives him directions to an unused farmhouse, where they can hide and treat Sakuragi. Setsuko brings medicine, food and clothing, committed to keeping a promise...
S01E10 Vengeance
Sakuragi begins training Mario in boxing so he can win his next match. Turtle takes a job selling black market goods. At the school, Soldier learns that he's been accepted in the Japanese Defense Force...
S01E11 Showdown
Turtle tells Sakuragi about Ishihara. Sakuragi leaves determined to finish his battle with Ishihara once and for all. Soldier leaves the school with the other boys cheering him on. Sakuragi confronts Ishihara who vents his...
S01E12 Promise
Mario finally succeeds in knocking out his opponent. Outside the police order Sakuragi to put down the knife, but Sakuragi's only thought is of returning the boxing match. Several Army MPs arrive, and in the...
S01E13 Recollect
A summary of the previous episodes, told through a series of flashbacks from Mario's point-of-view.
S01E14 Revenge
Sasaki, unnerved by his encounter with the boys, locks himself in his office. His thoughts are interrupted by a phone call, and leaves to rendezvous with a 'lover' at a local motel. After arriving, Sasaki...
S01E15 Annoyance
Mario takes Setsuko to the movies. Setsuko has something to tell him about her family, but cannot work up the courage to. Later, Mario gets in a fight at the bar, and is arrested...
S01E16 Hidden
The gang executes a plan to prevent Mario from going to prison, and during the plan, the uncover how he really ended up with them in the first place.
S01E17 Parting
Turtle fulfills his promise to introduce Uncovered to women...by taking him to a brothel. Mario confronts Setsuko about her upcoming wedding. Mario plans to head to Tokyo to accept a bartending job. Joe finally gets...
S01E18 Unbreakable
The gang settles in in Tokyo. Joe flashbacks to his beginnings as a singer, and his wish to be reunited with his sister by becomming famous. Turlte runs into Joe on the street, but Joe...
S01E19 Reunion
Joe and his new manager are held captive, while Meg eagerly awaits to find out if her brother is the Joe she is at the festival to see. Mario, Turtle, and Cabbage race to rescue...
S01E20 Vocation
Cabbage contemplates getting a job. Turtle and Uncovered try and talk him out of joining the yakuza. He does anyway, and they are attacked. Mario, Turtle, and Uncovered desperately search for Cabbage, who went missing...
S01E21 Blinded
Uncovered invites Turtle over for dinner. Uncovered tells Turtle of his plans to study law after he graduates. Turtle gives him money to buy textbooks. Uncovered is actualy spending all his money on Eri, a...
S01E22 Emergence
Mario bandaged Uncovered's wounds from the beating he received from Solider. Uncovered goes to the shrin to meet with Eri, as they'd planned. Instead, she meets up with someone else, leaving him waiting in the...
S01E23 Chance
Turtle continues his routine of selling American cigarettes to local shop owners on the black market. An old man approaches him to try to buy a single cigarette, which he refuses, and instead simply gives...
S01E24 Desperate
Lily and Mario find Turtle collapse from sickness. They take him to the doctor, who diagnoses it as just a simple cold with fever. Mario believe it to be more serious, but can't afford to...
S01E25 Independence
Turtle goes to collect the debt for the old man. Mario and Lily search for Turtle to tell him about the doctor. Turtle returns, with the deliquent loanee. Mario and Lily take him to the...
S01E26 Over the Rainbow
Mario receives a visit from Jeffrey, the American boxer, who asks him to visit the Army Camp. Mario obliges and is observed by a professional boxing trainer who comments that Mario's broken right hand will...
Cast
Koji Ishii
Ishihara (voice)
Romi Park
Noboru Maeda (voice)
Tatsuya Hasome
Jô Yokosuka (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Narration
Shun Oguri
Mario Minakami (voice)
Takaya Hashi
Gisuke Sasaki (voice)
Takaya Kuroda
Tadayoshi Toyama (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Rokurota Sakuragi (voice)
Tomohiro Waki
Mansaku Matsuura (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Ryuuji Nomoto (voice)
