Tomodachi Gakuen

Author: Saburo Ishikawa

Run: 1974

Chapters: 5

Genres: School, Slice of Life

The story follows an exceptionally pure-hearted boy who transfers into a new school, where classmates at first find his innocence unsettling before he gradually wins them over and becomes popular. It is a friendship-themed school and slice-of-life story, and also the first weekly serial by Saburo Ishikawa, who had just earned an honorable mention at the Tezuka Award.