Rainbow is about a group of students who are sent to the Shonan Special Reform School for committing petty crimes, around 10 years after World War II. Here they are treated like harden criminals by the tyrannical staff, and they do not receive much love from the rest of the prisoners as well. However, not everyone in the “school” is terrible, for they share a room with a man who will change these boys lives forever.

He is a man’s man, an almighty figure of GAR, a character similar to Gurren Lagann’s Kamina. This man supports the boys, forcing them to throw away all their previous grudges and work together so that they can survive this brutal prison. This is what this story is truly about, not about the blood or the sadness, but individuals surviving through a horrible period in their lives, while also becoming better in the process.

This is a decent looking anime, with character designs that are reminiscent of seinen manga. I can also freely confess that anime opening that features American-like rock, is an opening I’m going to enjoy. (show less)