Rainbow: Nisha Rokubou no Shichinin

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Beautiful manga, even yet a masterpiece. Really one of the best mangas I've read in a long time. The story made me tear up so many times I've lost count, and the character development is so realistically on point that it made many of the other mangas I read that I thought had a good character development look bad. I can see why people complain about the manga's tone, but considering this was a not-so popular manga back in early 2000's I'd say the art makes up for it. This manga is one of the motivations for me to start boxing, and now in 2months ... of now I will be joining the amateur boxing league and go aim for the highest I can go. Overall a masterpiece that I longed for many years. RIP George Abe, may he have peace on the other life.

the art is very mediocre, both in characters and locations, also, the fact that suppon resembles some cartoon character with those ears and his height while the rest of the characters are make to look more realistic, is a bad contrast in my opinion. The fact that by their looks alone you can establish who is bad a who is good takes away from the plot, from the moment characters are introduced you know who is going to be the enemy, also the fact that the plot is black and white, in the sense that good and bad people are very clearly delimited, the protagonist ... are angels underserving of their punishment and the antagonist are demons that fuck little children and drink blood, the beatings carry little weight, when someone is beat up the artist just adds some blood over their faces and thats it, their characters remain unchanged besides that, like some character is supposedly beated regularly but he doesnt even had a black eye, a broken nose or swelling, no, just some black ink seeping across his face.

a group of young men that continue to fight for their place in the world despite all the pushback and the continuous stream of problems they face. rainbow manages to take a simple and timeless premise and make it utterly unrecognisable.

the title's biggest downfall is sacrificing good, simple storytelling for moments of spectacle. everything has to be an event and our heroes have to fight against oppression and horrid villains all the time. to put it simply, it suffers from delusions of grandeur. it assigns nonsensical character motivations at every turn and all of this makes for a horrible reading experience.

if you look past all ... that you might find a heartwarming, inspiring tale about a couple of boys seemingly brought together by fate, striving to follow their dreams. unfortunately, it's very difficult to look past all of it's drawbacks and downright infuriating. you could chalk up my horrible experience to reading scanlations, though.