RAINBOW Nisha Rokubo no Shichi Nin 1 (Young Sunday Comics)

[Machine Translation] We will survive. Someday, we will get out! This is a coming-of-age story of seven boys who were placed in the Shonan special reformatory in 1955. The year is 1955 and Japan still bears the scars of defeat. Six boys fall into the Shonan Special Juvenile Training School's Nisha Rokubou. The boys are emotionally scarred by the effects of war caused by adults, and have turned to crime for their own reasons, and have come to be despised as the scum of society. Mario and the other six, and Rokurota (Anchan), who they met there, eventually develop a friendship and bond with each other, and overcome the harsh days of their lives with the sole and great dream of going outside (to Shaba) in the summer of the next year. This is the first volume of a realistic story written by Joji Abe and drawn by Masazumi Kakizaki. This volume focuses on the episode of Joe and Supon's escape. Included at the end of the volume are postscripts by both Joji Abe and Masazumi Kakizaki. Synopsis July 1955. Six juveniles, including Mario Mizukami, who were considered to be heinous criminals, were sent to the Shonan Special Juvenile Training School. After being treated like insects by the instructors and undergoing a humiliating physical examination, they are placed in a room called Nisarakubou. There, they find an elder named Rokurota Sakuragi. Mario and his friends suddenly start a fight with Rokurota, but he knocks them down. However, Rokurota was a kind man who only knocked them down and did nothing more, and even gave them all cigarettes. The Mario boys begin to adore Rokurota, having been exposed to the kindness of an elder they had never known before ( ep.1 ). Characters Mario Mizukami ( Mario, 17 years old. He seriously injures his homeroom teacher who tries to assault a high school girl and is sent to a reformatory for attempted murder), Rokurota Sakuragi ( Anchan, 18 years old. He is the big brother that Mario and his friends look up to. His own crime seems to be murdering his parents), Tadayoshi Toyama ( Heitai, 17 years old. Charged with violence and unlawful confinement), Ryuji Nomoto ( Balemoto, 17 years old. Fraud, embezzlement, and leaving a bag behind), Mansaku Matsuura ( Cabbage, 17 years old. Assault and injury, drunkenness and other delinquent behavior), Takeshi Yokosuka ( Joe, 16 years old. Assault and injury, impure sexual intercourse), Noboru Maeda ( Supon, 16 years old. Accumulated theft of large sums of money), Ishihara ( Instructor at a juvenile reformatory, but he is not conscious as a correctional educator. However, he is not conscious of being a correctional educator, and treats juveniles with a distorted sense).

俺たちは生き残る。いつか必ず外(シャバ)に出る!! 昭和30年、湘南特別少年院の二舎六房に入れられた七人の少年たちを描く、壮絶な時代の青春群像。 まだ敗戦の傷跡が残っていた昭和30年(1955年)の日本。湘南特別少年院の二舎六房に六人の少年が堕ちてきた。大人が起こした戦争のあおりを喰らって心に傷を負い、それぞれの理由で犯罪に手をそめて、社会のクズと蔑まれるようになってしまった少年たち。マリオをはじめとする六人と、そこで出会ったアンチャンこと六郎太との間には、いつしか友情と絆が芽生え、「再来年の夏、外(シャバ)に出る」ことを唯一の、そして大いなる夢として心に抱き、過酷な日々を乗り越えていく。安部譲二・原作、柿崎正澄・作画によるリアリティーあふれる物語の第1集。本巻では、ジョーとスッポンの脱走のエピソードを中心に描かれる。 巻末には、安部譲二、柿崎正澄両作者のあとがきを収録。 あらすじ 昭和30年7月。水上真理雄をはじめ、凶悪犯とされる6人の少年たちが、湘南特別少年院に送られてきた。教官から虫ケラのように扱われ、屈辱的な身体検査を受けた後、彼らは二舎六房という部屋に入れられる。そこには桜木六郎太という年長者がいた。マリオたちはいきなり六郎太にケンカをしかけるが、逆に叩きのめされてしまう。だが六郎太は殴り倒しただけでそれ以上は何もせず、さらに煙草をみんなにまわす優しい男だった。それまで馴染みのなかった年長者の優しさに触れ、マリオたちは六郎太を慕いだす(第1話)。 登場人物 水上真理雄(マリオ。17歳。女子高生に暴行を加えようとした担任教師に重傷を負わせ、殺人未遂で少年院へ)、桜木六郎太(アンチャン。18歳。マリオたちから慕われる兄貴分。自身の罪状は親殺しらしい) 遠山忠義(ヘイタイ。17歳。罪状は暴力行為・不法監禁容疑)、野本龍次(バレモト。17歳。詐欺横領・置き引き)、松浦万作(キャベツ。17歳。暴行傷害・飲酒等不良行為)、横須賀丈(ジョー。16歳。暴行傷害・不純異性交遊)、前田昇(スッポン。16歳。多額窃盗累犯)、石原(少年院の教官。だが矯正教育者としての自覚はまるでなく、歪んだ感覚で少年たちに接する)