The protagonist, Kujira Daigo, is a boy with a giant body and an even bigger heart, and he's determined to do whatever it takes to create a school where even the poor an experience the joy of learning! This monumental work was featured in full color on the cover and first page of Shonen Jump very first issue.

Akira Godai is a brilliant student who one day had his father, an unsuccessful painter, killed in a traffic accident, forcing him to work part-time as a door boy at a bar in Ginza to pay for his school fees. One day, Akira found a wallet containing a large sum of money left in a jacket entrusted to him by a customer, which he took with him to the bathroom, took the money inside and threw the wallet out the window; that quickly backfires, as a passerby saw him throwing the wallet, leading to his arrest. Now, as Akira is sent to prison, he'll have to struggle to survive in this harsh environment.