It's amazing how naive Mitsoumi was when he was younger.

They even passed over some stuff that the Jyuken club (spelled right?) did after the bowling alley from the manga, went straight to the flashback.

Please drag this out longer, please do. Make this anime the crap it wasnt supposed to be.
The fact that the flashback only pertains to Maya [who has done, lets see, not one damn thing in this flashback except beat some guy with Shin's finger technique], and Mitsoumi [who has, hey, how bout that, done nothing also] bothers me deeply.
The flashback isnt supposed to start as one thing and come out completely different. The Shin-Bunshichi fight was cool, but thats it.

What I'm trying to say is that they setup these 5 characters, and have veered away from whats good about the anime. I always thought the central character was supposed to be Souichiro, and his goal to be the strongest in the club. Thats just me...