Episode guide
Rainbow: Season 1
26 episodes · premiered Apr 6, 2010
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- Episode 1: After the Rain Apr 6, 2010 · 22m 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…
- Episode 2: Fugitive Apr 13, 2010 · 22m 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…
- Episode 3: Distrust Apr 20, 2010 · 22m 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 Apr 27, 2010 · 22m 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. The building…
- Episode 5: Someday... May 4, 2010 · 22m 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. While doing community service…
- Episode 6: Truth May 11, 2010 · 22m The other bullies attack Sakuragi, while Ishihara listens from outside the cell. Ishihara leaves content that Sakuragi will be bludgeoned to death by morning. In the morning, Ishihara…
- Episode 7: Determination May 18, 2010 · 22m 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. Kumagai tells Mario…
- Episode 8: Freedom May 25, 2010 · 22m 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…
- Episode 9: Lament Jun 1, 2010 · 22m After hearing about the escape, Nurse Setsuko encounters Turtle and gives him directions to an unused farmhouse, where they can hide and treat Sakuragi. Setsuko brings medicine, food and…
- Episode 10: Vengeance Jun 8, 2010 · 22m Sakuragi begins training Mario in boxing so he can win his next match. Turtle takes a job selling black market goods. At the school, Soldier learns that he's been accepted in the Japanese…
- Episode 11: Showdown Jun 15, 2010 · 22m 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 Jun 22, 2010 · 22m 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. Several Army MPs…
- Episode 13: Recollect Jun 29, 2010 · 22m A summary of the previous episodes, told through a series of flashbacks from Mario's point-of-view.
- Episode 14: Revenge Jul 6, 2010 · 22m 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. After…
- Episode 15: Annoyance Jul 13, 2010 · 22m 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 Jul 20, 2010 · 22m 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 Jul 27, 2010 · 22m Turtle fulfills his promise to introduce Uncovered to women...by taking him to a brothel. Mario confronts Setsuko about her upcoming wedding. Mario plans to head to Tokyo to accept a…
- Episode 18: Unbreakable Aug 3, 2010 · 22m 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. Turlte runs into Joe on the street, but Joe…
- Episode 19: Reunion Aug 10, 2010 · 22m 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 Aug 17, 2010 · 22m Cabbage contemplates getting a job. Turtle and Uncovered try and talk him out of joining the yakuza. He does anyway, and they are attacked. Mario, Turtle, and Uncovered desperately search…
- Episode 21: Blinded Aug 24, 2010 · 22m Uncovered invites Turtle over for dinner. Uncovered tells Turtle of his plans to study law after he graduates. Turtle gives him money to buy textbooks. Uncovered is actualy spending all…
- Episode 22: Emergence Aug 31, 2010 · 22m Mario bandaged Uncovered's wounds from the beating he received from Solider. Uncovered goes to the shrin to meet with Eri, as they'd planned. Instead, she meets up with someone else…
- Episode 23: Chance Sep 7, 2010 · 22m Turtle continues his routine of selling American cigarettes to local shop owners on the black market. An old man approaches him to try to buy a single cigarette, which he refuses, and…
- Episode 24: Desperate Sep 14, 2010 · 22m Lily and Mario find Turtle collapse from sickness. They take him to the doctor, who diagnoses it as just a simple cold with fever. Mario believe it to be more serious, but can't afford to…
- Episode 25: Independence Sep 21, 2010 · 22m Turtle goes to collect the debt for the old man. Mario and Lily search for Turtle to tell him about the doctor. Turtle returns, with the deliquent loanee. Mario and Lily take him to the…
- Episode 26: Over the Rainbow Sep 28, 2010 · 22m Mario receives a visit from Jeffrey, the American boxer, who asks him to visit the Army Camp. Mario obliges and is observed by a professional boxing trainer who comments that Mario's…