User blog:Emgaltan/SSSS. Gridman Theory: Sho Utsumi wasn't supposed to be there.

Now, I acknowledge the fact that SSSS. Gridman has been dead for a while, but this is an interesting revelation I've come too. Sho Utsumi compared to many of the other characters is an anomaly. He seemingly doesn't have a proper reason to exist besides to exist in the story, and it just seems strange when everyone else has a role. He's also nothing except the butt of most jokes throughout the show and is treated kind of badly by most characters. I have a theory that he wasn't even meant to be there in the first place in terms of plot.

The Theory
Sho Utsumi was originally programmed to be nothing but a background character. He was meant to be like Sakiru, Rikka's mom, Namiko, Hass, and others with the only purpose being a side character who wasn't really part of the plot. Akane's intended plot line was to have only her, Yuta, and Rikka as the main characters with the story being that Yuta would admit his feelings to Rikka, be rejected and broken, this would allow Akane to swoop in as his heroine with her cheering him up and bringing his life out from the dumps, eventually the two coming to fall in love and live happily ever after.

This plan was ruined when Sho Utsumi accidentally came in, becoming friends with Yuta and Rikka. His presence angered Akane and so rather than just killing him off with a monster like she'd done with previous "threats", she made him suffer slowly by programming everyone to have an increasing hostility with him. He was to eventually be phased out and left to the mercy of the Illusion Monsters/Venoras like Sakiru. The reason he and other background characters seemingly have more personality than Yuta or Rikka is because less restrictive programming was put into them, the background characters never having been intended to be part of the main thing and to add "realism" to Tsutsujidai City.

While this theory seems kind of iffy or possibly stupid, Rikka acts with more hostility as the series goes on with her accusing him of being a "molester" in the final voice drama for really no reason. Most characters, even the fan base make jokes at the man's expense. In Akane's dream world, she seemingly accepted his existence and tried to be friends; however, his life is so sucky that he realized too many good things happened into close of sequence to be real, causing him to notice the dream world and become the first to escape. Akane tried to convince him to stay and while he wished he could, he wanted the real world more than a false reality.

I'm not trying to promote Sho as the messiah of SSSS. Gridman, but his role is still kind of interesting. What do you guys think?