Hisashi Mitsui Husbando

Hisashi Mitsui (三井 寿 Mitsui Hisashi) is the Shooting Guard of the Shohoku Basketball Team. Though he was on hiatus due to his knee injury, he still has the skills to put the team on a win. Despite having the opportunity to join more prestigious high schools like Ryonan, he choose to go to Shohoku because of Coach Mitsuyoshi Anzai. Anzai had given him the courage to win in the Junior High tournament by encouraging him during the last seconds of the match. However, an injury to his left knee in a training session in his first year at Shohoku interrupted his basketball career. An imprudent early return to the court reinjured the knee more severely, leading to a basketball hiatus of over a year. In his 1st year, Mitsui has an overflowing confidence and is very competitive, especially towards Akagi. In the 1st year match, as there were 12 freshmen that year, Mitsui split from his middle school teammates. He envisions a bright future for Shohoku until his left knee injury during practice aggravates due to returning early instead of waiting for full recovery. Despite his eventual recovery, his exclusion embittered him and quits basketball. He became a gang leader but regretted it eventually. He returns with a renewed determination of conquering the nation he once dreamed of. While being competitive against Akagi during their 1st year, he has learned to accept the latter as the suitable captain for the team. He is also not afraid to stand up for a friend, just like what he did for Tetsuo; he insisted Ryu and his gang to beat him up instead of the latter. While his lack of stamina is his main weakness, the great determination and trust for his team is what keeps him going, shown when he is totally worn out against Sannoh. His lack of stamina and resilience also showed when he gets involved in fights, easily getting knocked out and having his teeth knocked out. He retained a great resentment toward the basketball club for a long time, and he and his gang picked on Ryota Miyagi during the latter's 1st year. A fight ensued, in which Miyagi beat Mitsui senseless, before taking a beating himself, knocking out a few of Mitsui's frontal teeth. Both of them were in the hospital until after the practice game against Ryonan in Mitsui's third year. At this point, Mitsui attempted to ruin the basketball team by forcing them to fight against his gang and trying to get them banned from the regional tournament for fighting. In the end, Sakuragi's own gang - Yohei, Takamiya, Ohkusu and Noma - along with Norio Hotta and Mitsui's own friends voluntarily took the blame for the fight, and Mitsui was filled with remorse when he saw Anzai again. He rejoined the team and vowed never to fight again - a promise that he upheld even when he found himself cornered by some members of his old gang outside Shohoku.