Ace Nakamura's best friends are Pelswick Eggert, who is a wisecracking boy in a wheelchair due to a tragic childhood accident, and Goon Gunderson, a nearly 300-pound boy with a very low intelligence level who is always saying hilariously stupid things. Ace is unfortunately overshadowed by those two and many have dismissed him as a "smart Asian" stereotype just because he is Japanese American and a very smart straight A student. But Ace longs to be seen as a three- or even four-dimensional human