Mitsui Shou was set as a villain from the beginning, and even his appearance was very annoying.
His mission was originally just to go to the basketball stadium to fight, and then help the basketball club improve cohesion and complete internal team building, and then disappear from the plot forever.
But in the process, Inoue developed a strong empathy for the role of Mitsui, and constantly stacked all kinds of complex mental journeys for him.
Why does Mitsui hate the basketball club so much?
Why would he rather burn the jade than stop?
In addition to the conflict with Miyagi, Mitsui must have a deeper bond with the basketball club, but it was cut off for some reason, and this bond can be repaired under certain conditions.
So there was a later memory drama, the MVP of Wushizhong was launched, and then all kinds of magical three-point hanging, plus tear-jerking memories sensational, and the appearance was upgraded in a plastic surgery style.
Coupled with the animated version of BGM until the end of the world, it was too hot, and directly pushed Mitsui to the level of a two-dimensional male god.
But jumping out of the emotional filter to examine the plot of Mitsui's whitewashing, in fact, there are a lot of bugs, although the author has patched it one after another in the follow-up plot, and the later big movies are still continuing to make up for it (Anzai is not ignoring Mitsui's departure, but Mitsui has been hiding from Anzai for two years), but he can't completely come back.
Just imagine a hooligan who led the society to destroy the basketball club and shot to kill people, inexplicably became an MVP, and returned gorgeously as a starter, and those who were beaten by him with blood all treated as if there was no such thing, and they respected him very much.
And those hooligans who were originally messing with him either completely cut off contact with him with a word (goodbye sports boy), or directly packed up and laundered into cheerleaders.
Such a split whitewashing method makes people feel that the rogue floating hair version of Mitsui Shou and the inch-headed sports boy version of Mitsui Shou are actually two completely different characters, and there is not even a trace of association.
The villains in other anime masterpieces are either whitewashed after death, such as Toyu Lu Di and Xianshui, I have indeed done so many evils, even if there are touching reasons, it is not worth forgiving.
Either it hasn't been washed at all, such as Ikki in "Saint Seiya", Onisan is determined to be the protagonist group when he appears, but he just shows off his combat effectiveness as a starting mini-boss.
There is also Vegeta of "Dragon Ball", who has always been a militant who likes to kill, and the enlightenment of the Majin Buu chapter is just an admission of the gap between himself and Kakarot, and the resurrection of the dragon is also based on his merits and demerits, so he is attributed to the good guy, not that Lao Bei is really a virgin.
And Mitsui is more like the Itachi God in "Naruto", the author did not form a closed loop in the logic of the plot and forcibly aphrodisiac washing, and the result was directly cut off before and after.
Mitsui proves that he wants to play basketball by destroying the basketball club, just like Itachi God himself exterminated the clan just to keep the second pillar, which is very touching but not rigorous.