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Rainbow: The Seven from Compound Two, Cell Six

★ 8.2 4K votes 2010–2010 1 season · 26 episodes Ended Nippon TV
FriendshipA friend group's dynamics carry the show.This show: 9/10AnimeJapanese animation traditions and grammar.This show: 9/10GrittyRaw, unglamorous realism in both look and subject matter.This show: 9/10Emotionally heavyDemands real emotional stamina from the viewer.This show: 9/10Gut punchWilling to devastate you, and remembered for it.This show: 8/10BleakGrim and heavy, with little easy relief. These shows sit with suffering instead of softening it.This show: 8/10DisturbingContent that lingers uncomfortably after the credits.This show: 8/10Found familyUnrelated people slowly becoming each other's family.This show: 8/10
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Starring
Shun OguriRomi ParkTakaya KurodaTatsuya HasomeTomohiro WakiKeiji Fujiwara
Starring
Shun OguriRomi ParkTakaya KurodaTatsuya HasomeTomohiro WakiKeiji Fujiwara
Ratings per Episode
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Votes per Episode
063125188250

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About

"Brutality and brotherhood inside a postwar prison cell"

Set in postwar Japan, this series follows seven teenage boys locked together in cell six of a brutal juvenile reformatory, ruled over by a sadistic guard who terrorizes them physically and psychologically. What starts as survival under cruelty grows into a story of loyalty and quiet resistance among the inmates. The tone is unflinchingly grim and often hard to watch, but it's carried by genuine emotional weight, strong character writing, and a slow-burn sense of brotherhood forming under pressure. It's less about plot twists than endurance, dignity, and what people cling to when everything else is stripped away.

Watch it for

the raw, earned bond between seven boys who refuse to let cruelty break them.

Maybe skip if

you're sensitive to sustained depictions of institutional abuse and violence toward minors.

Written by our AI editor to help you decide, spoiler-free by design.

All Seasons

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Season 12010
8.35K269h 32m
EpTitleRatingYoursVotesRuntime
▶1After the Rain7.9
24022 min
▶2Fugitive8.3
22222 min
▶3Distrust7.8
19022 min
▶4Dissolve8.5
21022 min
▶5Someday...8.4
18622 min
▶6Truth8.8
20222 min
▶7Determination8.0
17122 min
▶8Freedom9.0
21522 min
▶9Lament8.2
16722 min
▶10Vengeance8.4
17922 min
▶11Showdown8.7
20122 min
▶12Promise8.8
20222 min
▶13Recollect5.4
11722 min
▶14Revenge9.1
21522 min
▶15Annoyance7.8
14622 min
▶16Hidden9.2
20022 min
▶17Parting8.3
14822 min
▶18Unbreakable8.3
14722 min
▶19Reunion8.8
16822 min
▶20Vocation7.8
14322 min
▶21Blindness7.8
13822 min
▶22Emergence7.9
13622 min
▶23Chance7.9
13822 min
▶24Desperate8.2
13622 min
▶25Independence8.4
14222 min
▶26Over the Rainbow9.2
21122 min

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Shun Oguri Mario Minakami
Romi Park Noboru Maeda
Takaya Kuroda Tadayoshi Toyama
Tatsuya Hasome Jou Yokosuka
Tomohiro Waki Mansaku Matsuura
Keiji Fujiwara Ryuuji Nomoto
Takashi Hikida Jailer, Hashimoto, Policeman
Kôji Ishii Ishihara
Rikiya Koyama Rokurota Sakuragi
Megumi Hayashibara Narration

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