Todai Icchokusen

Author: Yoshinori Kobayashi

Run: 1976–1979

Chapters: 168

Genres: Comedy, Gag Humor, School

The exam wars of Toru Todai, a student dead set on getting into the University of Tokyo even though his brains and study habits fall hopelessly short of the dream, from middle school into high school. Kobayashi's breakout gag series lampoons the entrance-exam frenzy of 1970s Japan.