Summary:. A steaming mass of stereotypes including but not limited to:
*evil prison warden
*Evil masochistic prison guard
*One for all and all for one friendship
*Fake infomercial like prison scenarios
*Men that fight at first and then later bond
*Limited character development. Why does this prison have only ONE sadistic guard. Other prisoners, do they exist? Oh right in the lunchroom scenes and NOWHERE ELSE.
*every criminal has a good person buried deep inside
*Looooong internal dialogs while time just keeps ticking away and one of the 206 crew may die but urgency doesn't exist until we are dragged thru 20 minutes of internal dialog And self conflict. 3 minutes of plot becomes an entire nauseating pointless episode.
*Cheesy nicknames typical of prison story stereotypes.
*The one "silent type" prisoner that has all this deep wisdom in life.
*Sob story backstories on the pack of 7 that would "break your heart" were it not for the fact that two episodes later the anime will contradict it's own backstory.
Worse yet, all the backstories are as stereotypical as can be. Alcoholic father, mother's a whore, starvation as an orphan, evil orphanage with an evil caretaker, blah blah. Sponge Bob SquarePants has more depth and meaning.than these backstories.
*the youngsters are HORRIFIED that BRO might have committed PARRICIDE (the act of killing ones parents).
.......ummmmm Huh? PARRI--what?
I'm sorry is that related to parrotcide (act of killing a parrot), elephcide (act of killing an elephant), or herbacide (the act of killing an herb or a guy named Herb or Herbert.
Caution:. Not to be confused with the "common" everyday word Herbslaughter (the act of accidentally slaughtering a guy named Herbert or Herb. SURE PARRICIDE is an actual word that NOONE uses except this dumb anime.
*What are the ODDS of encountering someone who committed PARRICIDE when you enter a prison. I'd say about 100%. Shall we still be terrified at the very thought of such a thing. Clearly the other six are.
And what are the chances an average prisoner knows this PARRICIDE word and uses it in conversation regularly. About ZERO percent., Maybe even less.
*this anime is loaded with Storylines that fall apart almost instantly. Take the prison fire episode. Guy smokes, guy gets caught by the one and only Evil prison guard. Guard throws key to 206 out window. Let em die he says. Bro against all odds reenters the burning building. No guards stop him nor do any other locked doors or gates. He being the wise one of the bunch never considers TELLING A GUARD about 206 so they can unlock it and rescue the crew. He would RATHER use all that wisdom to try and open a STEEL prison door with his bare hands while standing in a burning hall.
Meanwhile "uncovered", the prisoner who started the fire SOMEHOW gets all the way to the grassy area to look for the key and no guards stop him. Suddenly he is discovered by who else but....evil prison guard. They proceed to have like 10-15 minutes of dialog. A NORMAL EVIL guard type would just pull a pistol, shoot him in the head, take the key, justify the murder as prisoner trying to escape. NOPE, that's WAAAYYYY too logical. After some tussle, and endless dialog evil guard eventually leaves the prisoner CONSCIOUS and IN POSSESSION OF THE KEY.
The prisoner of course then ALSO enters the burning prison without being stopped by other guards, doors or gates, unlocks the door open his buddies and saves everyone just in the nick of time.
Whew my heart was in my throat that episode was so unbearably illogical not to mention pathetic.
Also, I wonder what burns in a prison made of steel and concrete? I guess flames can burn concrete in this anime as well since a bunch of it fell on Bro from the ceiling during this pathetic, nonsensical rescue attempt.
One last thing......Gotta love that news anchor 20/20 narrator post dialog of each episode Because this is "loosely" "based on a true story".
A more appropriate description of RAINBOW is ENTIRELY based on tired, worn out, pathetic, uninteresting stereotypes harkening back to made for TV movies that are loosely "based on a true story".
IN SUMMARY:. I believe High School DxD has a more competent storyline than this insane anime.
Thanks for reading, I hope this review helps you move on QUICKLY to another more deserving show.
