YouTuber “Adventurer Yutabon” (17) announced on his X (formerly Twitter) account that he is withdrawing from the University of Tokyo entrance exam after a Todai professor allegedly made a discriminatory remark about “feeling the horror of genetic factors,” saying he wants to “use it as a cautionary example.” On the 5ch Entertainment/Sports News+ thread, though, the declaration itself drew less attention than doubts over whether he ever had the academic ability to sit the exam in the first place. Longstanding suspicions that the posts are actually written by his father rather than Yutabon himself also resurfaced, and the discussion drifted away from criticizing the Todai professor and toward debating Yutabon’s own abilities and the authenticity of his posts.
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A University of Tokyo professor made the discriminatory remark, “Every time I see people like this, I feel the horror of genetic factors,” so I’m withdrawing from the Todai entrance exam.
Source: x.com / Original post here
What does that crappy father even get out of it?
But bailing on the exam itself? Way too lame.
He probably just now realized it's a hotbed of commies ("aka," slang for leftists) lol
Apparently Yutabon's actually smart enough to breeze through the Todai exam
But he did manage to achieve baldness, so that's impressive
Other 'just for the memories' test-takers should follow his lead.
Given his general academic history and current situation, the probability of Yutabon getting into the University of Tokyo (Todai) from here is extremely low (close to 0%) — realistically, it's next to impossible.
Main factors behind this: Academic history — he was out of school for a long stretch starting in elementary school, returning to class in the second term of ninth grade. He later failed the general entrance exam for public high school and enrolled in a correspondence high school (Japan Airlines High School). [1]
High school equivalency exam: In 2024 he took the Upper Secondary School Equivalency Examination and passed most of the main subjects, but that only certifies an equivalent to a high school diploma — it's a world away from the level needed to sit and pass the entrance exam for Todai, Japan's most competitive university (which demands enormous exam prep from basics through advanced material, plus second-stage exam prep). [1]
Hold up ("chotto mate yo") — stating the plain truth is what they call the 'crime of listing facts,' you're supposed to read the room. AI's still got a ways to go lol
So it's not literally zero, huh?
Guess even AI knows how to be tactful
Getting into Todai requires years of intense exam prep and top-tier grades, competing against the best students in the country.
Given his current path and study habits, he's not in a position to be aiming for that, so the probability is considered essentially zero.
– Mastered speed-reading and would read every single page of the textbook, memorizing it word for word, during every 45-minute class
– Was poor and had no intention of going to university, but his grades were SO good (a hensachi of 42 — Japan's standardized deviation score, where 50 is average) that everyone around him strongly urged him to go
– In his third year of high school (hensachi 42), he went to visit Todai, saw all the Todai students just goofing off, thought 'I don't want to end up like that,' and lost all motivation to go to university.
What's a hensachi of 42 even like?
This year it came out he can't even read the kanji for 'territory' (領土) or 'leading a group' (引率)
He can do calculus? Not bad.
No interest in statistics?
How about getting a little smarter, you guys?
Don't worry, I don't know the first thing about Yutabon.
But since you guys are calling him a 'net-right-winger' (netouyo, online right-wing slang), I guess he must've gotten recruited by the righty crowd
We 5ch regulars only read the thread titles anyway
We posters keep it all contained right here, so you're criticizing in the wrong place
Background and Key Points of This Story
Yutabon has been in the public eye since his elementary school days, when he chose not to attend school, and there’s a long history of people pointing out that his father is deeply involved in the content he posts. This latest post reignited that same longstanding suspicion — that it’s his father, not Yutabon himself, doing the writing. There’s also the fact that while he passed several subjects of the high school equivalency exam in 2024, he had previously failed the general entrance exam for public high school, and that gap between his track record and the extremely high bar of the Todai entrance exam fueled the view that he likely never had a realistic shot at passing in the first place. It should be noted that neither the professor’s real name nor the full text of the alleged discriminatory remark was presented in the thread, so the truth of that claim itself has not been verified.
*This article is compiled and summarized from the 5ch (Entertainment/Sports News+) thread “Adventurer Yutabon (17): ‘I’m withdrawing from the Todai entrance exam… I want to use it as a cautionary example’.”