Episode guide
Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin episodes
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Episode 1 · After the Rain
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 2 · Fugitive
Aired Tuesday, 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 school.
Episode 3 · Distrust
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 4 · Dissolve
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 5 · Someday...
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 6 · Truth
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 7 · Determination
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 8 · Freedom
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 9 · Lament
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 10 · Vengeance
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 11 · Showdown
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 12 · Promise
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 13 · Recollect
Aired Monday, June 28, 2010 · 22 min
A summary of the previous episodes, told through a series of flashbacks from Mario's point-of-view.
Episode 14 · Revenge
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 15 · Annoyance
Aired Tuesday, 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...
Episode 16 · Hidden
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 17 · Parting
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 18 · Unbreakable
Aired Tuesday, 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.
Episode 19 · Reunion
Aired Tuesday, 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 him.
Episode 20 · Vocation
Aired Tuesday, 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.
