I agree with your theory. But also with those who express concern at the lack of referee and rules that were enforced previously in the same manga.

I can understand you being overwhelmed by the InuKai, which does deserve love. But I am somehow puzzled everytime you give Konomi more credit than he deserves.

Samurai tennis, codes of honor... It all sounds very nice. And maybe below everything else, he aims for that. But then we remember that Ryoma has lost his memory stupidly and that they had to retrieve him by helicopter and the background character aren't better than cardboard figures with a tape repeating the same lines over and over again... ::Sigh:: It's all for the random joys. Like with Shitenhouji's games. We had the clown pair making up for all the remaining crap.