Baseball cards
The narrator compares the baseball cards that came with wax packages to chewing gum. The narrator says, “My hobbies were building model cars from kits, the type you glued piece by piece painstakingly, not the type that could be snapped together, and collecting baseball cards, which came in those wax packages with their cardboard-like chewing gum.”
The Simile of the Giant Flying Robot
The Giant Flying Robot is a significant character in the TV movie series, and the narrator compares him to all other superheroes. The narrator writes, "Like all superheroes, he had an origin story. He was born when Science Patrol Officer Hayata crashed into Ultra Man's spacecraft."
The Simile of the Asian Eyes
The narrator is a fan of the Giant Flying Robot series, in which most of the characters are Asian. Unfortunately, the narrator's classmates do not like Johnny Sokko in the series because he has small eyes. All the Asian figures in most series described by the narrator have tiny eyes. The narrator's classmates compare good vision to tiny eyes. The classmates ask the narrator, “How can you see with eyes like that?”
The simile of the narrator's mother and his girl cousins
According to the narrator, his mother and girl cousins are Madame Butterflies, who became television newscasters because they looked flawlessly like premed hair. The narrator says, "My mother and my girl cousins were Madame Butterfly from the mail order bride catalog, dying in their service to the masculinity of the West, and the dragon lady in a kimono, taking vengeance of her sisters. They became the television newscaster, look-alikes with their flawless premed hair."
The simile of the narrator’s image
The comparison of the narrator’s body in the mirror contrasts what he physically sees about himself. The narrator says, "Through these incredible images, I grew up. But when I looked in the mirror, I could not believe my reflection because I was not like what I saw around me."
