*Prince of Tennis belongs to Takeshi Konomi, not me.
(Update: In response to Annon's review, the author of "Kyle and Orville" and I are the same person. Nobody copied anyone.)
Really Tall Middle School Kids
I walked into my living room and noticed my brother sitting at the computer. I went over to him and looked over his shoulder. The computer screen showed a picture of a rather goofy-looking anime character above several paragraphs of text.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
My brother responded with a question. "Do you know how tall the kids in Prince of Tennis are?"
"No."
"Well, I was watching Prince of Tennis the other day, and I noticed that everybody on the show is freakishly tall. So I'm looking their heights up now. I don't know how many centimeters are in an inch, but it seems that everyone is really tall – way taller than me, even though they're in middle school. Are middle school kids really supposed to be like six feet tall?"
"Why does that bother you?" I questioned.
"What do you mean, 'why does it bother me'? I think their tallness is unrealistic!"
"Dude, in Prince of Tennis the kids destroy courts, break rackets, split balls in half, create cyclones, raise tsunamis, crucify people on fences, make giant smoke clouds, have glowing eyes, bring ruin to the dinosaurs, incite thunderstorms, disable three of the five senses, set stuff on fire, defy every law of physics at least twice, clone themselves, run at supernaturally fast speeds, do showy back flips, control the weather, and occasionally almost kill their opponents, all with nothing more than a racket and a ball. You're bothered by the players' heights?"