Cromartie High School

Eiji Nonaka, the toughest kid in school, transfers to Cromartie High, a school so notoriously delinquent that even its students are baffled by its sheer absurdity. This Tokyopop manga series, created by Eiji Nonaka, ran for seven issues from 2005 to 2007, delivering a deadpan comedy about a robot student, a gorilla classmate, and the bizarre daily lives of its misfit teens. It matters as a cult classic that parodies the "delinquent school" genre with surreal, laugh-out-loud humor.