Rainbow Days | |
Cover of Rainbow Days volume one.
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虹色デイズ (Nijiiro Deizu) |
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Genre | Romance, Slice of life |
Manga | |
Written by | Minami Mizuno |
Published by | Shueisha |
Demographic | Shōjo |
Magazine | Bessatsu Margaret |
Original run | 13 February 2012 – present |
Volumes | 13 |
Anime television series | |
Directed by |
Tetsurō Amino (chief director) Tomohiko Ohkubo |
Written by | Aki Itami |
Music by | Hiroyuki Kozu |
Studio | Production Reed |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Tokyo MX, ytv, CTV, STV, BS11 |
Original run | 10 January 2016 – 26 June 2016 |
Episodes | 24 |
Rainbow Days (Japanese: 虹色デイズ Hepburn: Nijiiro Deizu?) is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Minami Mizuno, and published in Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret magazine. A drama CD was released with the seventh volume of the manga in October 2014. An anime adaptation produced by Production Reed premiered on 10 January 2016.
The manga follows four high school boys who are all friends. They do not belong to any club and just like to hang out with each other. Natsuki, the protagonist, is a hopeless romantic who has a crush on a girl named Anna. His three other friends keep meddling with their relationship.
The series is written by Minami Mizuno, who began publishing it in Shueisha's shōjo magazine Bessatsu Margaret in February 2012.
The manga is published by Shueisha and has been compiled in twelve volumes since May 2012. A drama CD was bundled together with the seventh volume as a limited edition on October 2014. In France, the first volume was published by Kazé Manga on 3 February 2016 and the second volume was released on 13 April 2016.
An anime television series adaptation was announced in the September 2015 issue of Bessatsu Margaret. Tetsuro Amino served as chief director with Tomohiko Ohkudo directing at the animation studio Production Reed. Aki Itami handled series composition. The voice cast from the drama CD reprised their roles for the anime. The series debuted on 10 January 2016 with each episode 14 minutes length. Sonar Pocket performed the series' opening theme song titled "Best Friend" (ベストフレンド Besuto Furendo?), while its ending theme, "Rainbow Days!", was performed by Yoshitsugu Matsuoka, Takuya Eguchi, Nobunaga Shimazaki, and Kouki Uchiyama, the voice actors for Natsuki Hashiba, Tomoya Matsunaga, Keiichi Katakura, and Tsuyoshi Naoe, respectively. The anime is listed with a total of 24 episodes in the six Blu-ray and DVD volumes.