Rainbow - Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin

Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin
Cover of the first Japanese manga volume featuring Mario Minakami
RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人 (Reinbō: Ni-sha roku bō no shichi-nin)
Genre	Drama, Historical
Manga
Written by	George Abe
Illustrated by	Masasumi Kakizaki
Published by	Shogakukan
Demographic	Seinen
Magazine	Weekly Young Sunday Big Comic Spirits
Original run	2003 – 2010
Volumes	22 (List of volumes)
Anime television series
Directed by	Hiroshi Kōjina
Written by	Hideo Takayashiki
Music by	Yu Takami
Studio	Madhouse
Licensed by	NA Funimation
Original network	NTV
Original run	April 6, 2010 – September 28, 2010
Episodes	26 (List of episodes)

Rainbow: Nisha Rokubō no Shichinin (RAINBOW 二舎六房の七人, Reinbō: Ni-sha roku bō no shichi-nin^?), is a Japanese manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki. It began serialization in 2003 in Shogakukan Publishing's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine but was moved to Big Comic Spirits when the magazine stopped publication. It was later published in twenty two bound volumes by Shogakukan from April 2003 to February 2010. The story is set in the 1950s and focuses on six junior delinquents aged sixteen to seventeen that are sent to the Shōnan Special Reform School. They learn to cope with the atrocities and unfairness they encounter there. In 2005 it won in the general category of the Shogakukan Manga Award along with A Spirit of the Sun.

An anime television series produced by Madhouse Studios and directed by Hiroshi Koujina began airing in Japan on April 6, 2010.

Set in the 1950s, the story centers around six junior delinquents and their mentor at the Shōnan Special Reform School near Tokyo. The manga follows the boys' lives during their time in the school and the years after they leave.

Rainbow began as a manga series written by George Abe and illustrated by Masasumi Kakizaki, which began serialization in Shogakukan Publishing's Weekly Young Sunday manga magazine but was moved to Big Comic Spirits when the magazine stopped publication. The chapters of the manga have been collated into 22 bound volumes by Shogakukan between April 2003 and February 2010. In 2005 it won in the general category of the Shogakukan Manga Award along with A Spirit of the Sun.