It's been bothering me for a while, but let me try and PREDICT the main plot. Meo is intro...

It's been bothering me for a while, but let me try and PREDICT the main plot. Meo is introduced into the plot not as the main character, but as man character's main opponent (to be defeated in the end, of course. Without a doubt). Just when chapter 55 started, I already knew the match between Meo and the Kappa boy wouldn't be shown properly (because the author's too busy preparing Ootsuki for his major disappointment when Takeru learns about Meo's loss. By the way, Ootsuki will take the Kappa boy down in this very tournament, I'm so sure of it). Later, Meo will return to Thailand (because of that one-sided "promise" with Takeru) and off the screen become a powerful champion, no less ('cause Ootsuki needs to beat a champion and become a champion himself, right?), meanwhile, the plot will follow Ootsuki's hard work, development and growth in Japan with occasional outbursts of Meo's presence and maybe even Meo himself here and there, so that the reader wouldn't completely forget who's that one guy the main character is mysteriously infatuated with. I mean, the reader will never be shown Meo's growth and development properly, never be shown Meo's hard work and fruitless matches, his glorifying victories, because he as a plot tool doesn't really need that. He needs to be just slightly above Ootsuki's other opponents so that the victory over him would be especially joyous. And let's be real: the author will just not be able to pull off Meo's story properly if he returns to Thailand after the current competitions are over, since they would need to dig into Thai's culture too good and too deep in order to balance it with Japanese culture, carefully detailed and precise. The author can be ve-e-e-ry good about martial arts, but that doesn't necessarily go for other countries' culture. Anyhow, I've noticed from the very beginning that all names of the chapters revolt around events or things important for Takeru's development (apart from a couple of chapters about Meo in order to establish his character only slightly above Ootsuki's other opponents, but since it's finished now, there's no need for that anymore). And to me this is so annoyingly misleading, to be honest. Why not just show openly that Takeru's the one and only main character and the one who's going to become the champion of all champions? Why introducing such and interesting character as Meo to just use it as another plot tool, another stepping stone on the road of the main character's pedestal? And they dare say this manga is a seinen? With such childish and shounen'ish development right from the start? That's even more misleading providing a false hope for a more versatile and wholesome story. ugh.

Gosh, I keep reminding myself to never expect of manga too much, but keep failing and hoping for something, especially after finishing a book book, ohmigawd. +_+