The memory kill, reborn in confusion, represents Mitsui Shou, represents the three-pointer, represents miracle and hope.
Until the End of the World is the classic BGM of Mitsui Shou from the Slam Dunk cartoon.
In the match between Xiangbei and Xiangyang, Mitsui Shou was exhausted by the physical strength of Hasegawa's grappling, entered the memory killing mode in the song of "Until the End of the World", opened and hung the resurrection, and sent Xiangyang away with a wave of anti-sky operations, and this match also became Mitsui's first masterpiece in Xiangbei.
Brothers and sisters who love basketball, I believe that many people, like Seventh Brother, still burst into tears whenever the music plays.
In front of him, Mitsui knelt in front of Coach Anzai, shouting out the long-suppressed sentence with a trembling body and a whimpering voice:
Mitsui Shou: Coach, I want to play basketball!!
The singer and lyricist of the song is Sho Uesugi, whose musical career bears many similarities to Mitsui Shou.
Uesugi was born in 1972 to a truck driver to a van driver and a mother who worked in a snack bar.
Due to the tension between his parents and his father's frequent drunken violence, Uesugi moved with his mother to Yokosuka City, Kanagawa Prefecture when he was in the fifth grade.
When he was a young Uesugi junior high school, he joined the school volleyball club and dreamed of becoming a professional volleyball player.
However, he later realized that he might not be suitable for the field, so he gave up volleyball and began to devote himself to music.
At first, he heard Metallica's "Master of Puppets" in the hallways of his school and was drawn to the metal-rock music.
After Metallica, Uesugi began looking for more similar bands, and Guns N' Roses became his favorite. In later performances, he often imitated the dress and dress of lead singer AXL.
Uesugi Sho
At the age of 19, Uesugi was discovered at music school and made his official debut as a member of the band WANDS in 1991.
In the mid-90s, Uesugi Sho's WANDS band, along with Sakai Izumi's ZARD, dominated the boom in the Japanese music scene.
These two bands account for almost half of the Japanese music market.
WANDS Band's "Until the End of the World" co-written by Sho Uesugi and Tetsuro Oda amazed the world as the ending song of "Slam Dunk".
In the same year, the song won the honor of Japan's Top 10 Songs of the Year and Million Platinum Sales, and was also selected as "Japan's Top 10 Anime Songs of the Heisei Era" by many media around the world.
Interestingly, the song's Japanese lyrics don't quite match our imagined inspirational, rebirth theme.
The first line of the lyrics says: wandering alone in the metropolis is like an abandoned empty beer can.
This song cuts from the perspective of loneliness and confusion, just like the emotions in Mitsui Shou's heart, depicting a mental journey from glory to loss, from loss to depravity, and then from depravity to confusion.
And "Until the End of the World" just captures Mitsui Shou's inner waves at the critical point of confusion and rebirth.
The advent of this song and the death of Kurt Cobain also changed Uesugi Sho's state of mind. He re-examined his existence and was determined to devote himself to the music he loved.
As Mitsui said, "Coach, I want to play basketball." Uesugi also approached the owner of the company and expressed his desire for true rock music.
However, the transformed WANDS went down the path of metal rock, which apparently did not meet the taste of the Japanese public at the time, and the band's sales suffered a serious blow.
After sluggish sales, the company's boss asked WANDS to return to his original style, but the determined Uesugi was determined to defend his rock music.
Finally, in 1996, Uesugi left WANDS because he did not agree with the company's philosophy, and began a new journey that was not easy for him.
"Until the End of the World" develops with confusion to the first line of the chorus shouting, "Until the end of the world, I don't want to be separated from you", here seems to come out of the confusion.
But the repeated chorus that follows emphasizes "why is the time that will never be returned so dazzling, and the haggard heart falls into the well, as if the song has never been able to get out of the confusion, entangled in the dazzling regrets of the past, and the powerlessness and struggle of the current situation."
In fact, in the story of "Slam Dunk", the continuous struggle with his past self is precisely the inner game that Mitsui Shou never stops.
When the current Mitsui has the upper hand, he is the unstoppable MVP; And when Mitsui gained the upper hand in the past, he fell into a struggle and struggle.
Even if Mitsui helped Shonobei defeat the powerful Yamano Industry with his miraculous performance, he still couldn't forget that blank two-year period. This is exactly the idea that the author Yuhiko Inoue wants to convey——。
Youth always leaves regrets, which is true for everyone in Xiangbei, and even for readers, "Slam Dunk" came to an abrupt end when it just reached its climax, and it is also the regret that Inoue Yuhiko left us with our youth.
However, regret does not mean lost hope. The contrast between the lyrics and the melody of "Until the End of the World" is precisely the most ingenious part of this song.
When the first song sounds, do you feel tears in your eyes, but not the slightest despair? When Uesugi sings "se ka i ga o wa ru ma de wa", do you have the powerlessness and haggardness of being dropped into the well, or do you suddenly shout out your attachment to love?
Although Uesugi has changed from the "gun flower boy" of yesteryear to a fat old man with a hunchback, his voice seems to be more flavorful than when he was younger.
Is the song of the old Uesugi a 20-year-old passion, or a 50-year-old rock? I guess it doesn't matter how old the person singing it, because every time I hear the song, I stay at 16.
Finally, let's listen to the song while recalling the philosophy of life that "Slam Dunk" taught us...
Love can be so great, let people find ideals, find a lifetime of dreams. (Haruko Akagi)
Trust is that I am not there, and I know that you will not let me down. (Coach Anzai)
High-fives are an agreement, believe in each other, we will be able to succeed, as long as you and I firmly believe. (Takeshi Akagi)
From Fujima to Amu to Yamano, I have met the strongest defenders. I am as strong as my opponent is, and I am Yoshida Miyagi. (Ryota Miyagi)
What I want to achieve is not one person, but a team. What I want to do is not to be the best, but to be number one in the country. (Kaede Rukawa)
Genius is not the definition given to you by others, but given by yourself. As long as you believe, you are. (Sakuragi Hanamichi)
It's not scary to go through detours, it's not scary to fail, it's scary to forget the original dream and give up the initial firmness. (Mitsui Shou)