Rainbow

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 see all the bullies beaten and bloody on the floor. Cowed by the beating they suffered, none of the bullies are willing to admit it was Sakuragi's fault, causing Ishihara to leave in a rage. Unable to intimidate Sakuragi, Dr. Sasaki suggests Ishihara make Sakuragi break the rules by hurting his friends. Realizing Ishihara's goal, the boys bear the abuse to protect Sakuragi. Sakuragi, no longer able to watch, grabs Ishihara and is in turn placed in solitary confinement. Ishihara plans to starve Sakuragi to death saying that he and Sasaki can't let him out because of what he knows. One year earlier, Sakuragi had a roommate named Ei'ichi who was sexually molested by Dr. Sasaki. Unable to live with the constant abuse, Ei'ichi committed suicide. Guard Kumagai reveals Ishihara's plans to the boys in 2-6. Turtle manages to sneak food to Sakuragi's cell, restoring his will to survive.

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

After the Rain

S01E01 After the Rain

April 6, 2010 22 min
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...
Fugitive

S01E02 Fugitive

April 13, 2010 22 min
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...
Distrust

S01E03 Distrust

April 20, 2010 22 min
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...
Dissolve

S01E04 Dissolve

April 27, 2010 22 min
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...
Someday...

S01E05 Someday...

May 4, 2010 22 min
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...
Truth

S01E06 Truth

May 11, 2010 22 min
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...
Determination

S01E07 Determination

May 18, 2010 22 min
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....
Freedom

S01E08 Freedom

May 25, 2010 22 min
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...
Lament

S01E09 Lament

June 1, 2010 22 min
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...
Vengeance

S01E10 Vengeance

June 8, 2010 22 min
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...
Showdown

S01E11 Showdown

June 15, 2010 22 min
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...
Promise

S01E12 Promise

June 22, 2010 22 min
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...
Recollect

S01E13 Recollect

June 29, 2010 22 min
A summary of the previous episodes, told through a series of flashbacks from Mario's point-of-view.
Revenge

S01E14 Revenge

July 6, 2010 22 min
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...
Annoyance

S01E15 Annoyance

July 13, 2010 22 min
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...
Hidden

S01E16 Hidden

July 20, 2010 22 min
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.
Parting

S01E17 Parting

July 27, 2010 22 min
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...
Unbreakable

S01E18 Unbreakable

August 3, 2010 22 min
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...
Reunion

S01E19 Reunion

August 10, 2010 22 min
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...
Vocation

S01E20 Vocation

August 17, 2010 22 min
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...
Blinded

S01E21 Blinded

August 24, 2010 22 min
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...
Emergence

S01E22 Emergence

August 31, 2010 22 min
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...
Chance

S01E23 Chance

September 7, 2010 22 min
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...
Desperate

S01E24 Desperate

September 14, 2010 22 min
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...
Independence

S01E25 Independence

September 21, 2010 22 min
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...
Over the Rainbow

S01E26 Over the Rainbow

September 28, 2010 22 min
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
Koji Ishii
Ishihara (voice)
Romi Park
Romi Park
Noboru Maeda (voice)
Tatsuya Hasome
Tatsuya Hasome
Jô Yokosuka (voice)
Megumi Hayashibara
Megumi Hayashibara
Narration
Shun Oguri
Shun Oguri
Mario Minakami (voice)
Takaya Hashi
Takaya Hashi
Gisuke Sasaki (voice)
Takaya Kuroda
Takaya Kuroda
Tadayoshi Toyama (voice)
Rikiya Koyama
Rikiya Koyama
Rokurota Sakuragi (voice)
Tomohiro Waki
Tomohiro Waki
Mansaku Matsuura (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
Keiji Fujiwara
Ryuuji Nomoto (voice)

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