Should you watch Rainbow?
Who it’s good for, who it isn’t, and what’s in it. No ratings, no scores.
Rainbow
Anime · 2010
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.
The sides of Rainbow
- Seven boys in a postwar reform school
- Brutal guards and a cruel doctor
- A brotherhood that lasts beyond the walls
Rainbow is good for you if…
- you like seven cellmates who would do anything for each other.
- you can take a hard story set in the ruins of postwar Japan.
- you like getting to know each boy and what brought him there.
Rainbow is bad for you if…
- you can't watch beatings on screen.
- you roll your eyes at big speeches about brotherhood and never giving up.
- you don't watch anime.
About: brotherhood · injustice · survival
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