Yosuke Hanamura

Yosuke Hanamura is a playable character from Persona 4. Like the protagonist, Yosuke arrived in Yasoinaba from the city.

Appearances

 * Persona 4: Playable Character
 * Persona 4 Manga
 * Persona 4 The Animation
 * Persona 4: The Golden: Playable Character
 * Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena: Playable Character

Design
Yosuke has slightly unkempt brownish orange hair, and brown eyes. At school and inside the Midnight Channel, he wears a school uniform of Yasogami High, except he wears a white v-shirt with long sleeves and red v on the top of his shirt, along with his red headphones (save for two occasions, he is never seen without them) and wears orange glasses in battle. In summer he wears his summer uniform except he still wears v-shirt with short sleeves. On the days off, he is wearing a white leather jacket with a orange v-shirt, and dark yellowish-greenish pants. On the days off in summer, he is wearing a white v-shirt with picture of a red eagle. On the School Festrival while cross dressing he wears a school uniform with a light-yellow sweater vest, a loose red ribbon, a red checkered mini skirt, black stockings, brown shoes and has a strawberry red rubblehead on top of his head.

In Persona 4: The Animation, his swimming trunks are now orange and have a floral pattern on them.

Personality
Yosuke is a clumsy, somewhat paranoid transfer-student who arrived six-months before the Protagonist. He is often used for physical comedy and fights with blunt, double-handed objects - such as knives and wrenches. The protagonist first sees him crashing his bike into a garbage-can - a first of many times - but doesn't actually meet him untill he helps him out of a garbage-can. He cares a lot and respect about Saki when working together, when he finds out about Saki he fell into despression.

Profile

 * Age:16 (17)
 * Date of Birth: June 22nd, 1994
 * Zodiac: Cancer
 * Height: 175 cm (5'8")
 * Weight: 58kg
 * Blood Type: A
 * Initial Persona: Jiraiya
 * Ultimate Persona: Susano-o
 * Weapons: Knives, Kunai
 * Arcana: Magician

Persona 4


Yosuke Hanamura is an awkward and clumsy student who attends Yasogami High School.

Yosuke makes his first appearance during the Protagonist's first day at school, where he comically crashes his bicycle. He is later shown to be apologizing to Chie Satonaka, due to the fact that he broke the DVD "Trial of the Dragon." which he borrowed from Chie. Enraged, Chie kicks Yosuke in the crotch, and demands that he buy her a new one. The Protagonist befriends Yosuke the next day, where he helps Yosuke after having his head stuck in a trash can after crashing his bicycle. Later, to express his gratitude, Yosuke invites the Protagonist to Yasoinaba's delicacy store. However, Yosuke later scraps his plans after Chie hears his proposal, and takes them to Junes' Food Court instead.

Chie later tells the Protagonist and Yosuke about the urban legend of the Midnight Channel, and asks them to try it out. Their conversation is interrupted when Yosuke sees his senior, Saki Konishi taking a break. Seeing her looking frustrated and tired, Yosuke becomes worried and talks to Saki. In their conversation it is revealed that Yosuke, like the Protagonist, came from a city, and his father is a manager of Junes. Yosuke later tries to tell Saki something, however Saki simply brushes him off and tells him that her break-time was almost over. Chie takes note of Yosuke's disappointment and teases him, asking if he is falling in love with Saki.

Later that night, Yosuke tries to tune in to the Midnight Channel, and sees a blurred image of a female student in his TV. Expressing his bemusement that day, Yosuke, Chie and the Protagonist became intrigued due to seeing the same person in the Midnight Channel. Chie later asks Yosuke about the prices of a wide-screen TV, since her family was planning to buy one. The trio later goes to Junes, where the Protagonist tries to enter to the other side of the TV- this time using a wide-screen TV large enough to cover his body. The Protagonist becomes stuck halfway, and upon witnessing the Protagonist's actions, Yosuke and Chie panic and accidentally push themselves along with the Protagonist into the other side of the TV, Midnight Channel.

Inside the Midnight Channel, the trio are shocked to see their surroundings and panic. They anxiously try to return via searching the entrance they fell earlier, but failing to do so, they decide to check around the area. Eventually, they encounter a bear like cartoon character, who urges them to leave this place. The trio confess their inability to do so, and losing his patience, the bear, like cartoon character, summons three TVs and pushes them in, forcefully ejecting the trio out of the Midnight Channel. The next day, Saki Konishi was reported missing, and subsequently dead.



Devastated, Yosuke swears to investigate the Midnight Channel, as the female student they witnessed earlier in the Midnight Channel was in fact Saki Konishi. Yosuke requests the Protagonist to help him, since he is the only one who is able to enter the TV. Eventually the Protagonist and Yosuke enter the Midnight Channel one more time, leaving Chie behind. Inside the Midnight Channel, the Protagonist and Yosuke once again encounter the cartoon-like character, who introduces himself as Teddie. Infuriated by their presence, Teddie angrily asks them whether are they responsible for "throwing people" inside the Midnight Channel. Yosuke angrily stammers back, telling Teddie that he is the suspicious one.

Upon learning that the Protagonist and Yosuke aren't responsible, Teddie promises to help, and gives them a pair of glasses which allow them to see the fog ridden Midnight Channel clearly. Eventually the Protagonist and Yosuke venture to an area resembling Yasoinaba's shopping street. Intrigued, the Protagonist and Yosuke try to enter Saki's family liquor store and begin to hear the voice of Saki Konishi echoing them. In there, Saki's voice reveals that she is tired of her life: her family liquor store's sales are falling because of the opening of Junes, and her part-time job in Junes has caused her father to detest her. Saki also reveals that she hated Yosuke, and never thought of him as a friend, but an annoying, irritating person; she was being friendly to Yosuke only because he is the son of the manager of Junes.

Hearing Saki's inner thoughts, Yosuke is devastated, and tries to convince himself that everything he heard was a lie. Another 'Yosuke' appears, and openly mocks Yosuke, asking if he is going to cry like a baby. Shocked, Yosuke tries to answer back, but the other 'Yosuke' proceeds to taunt Yosuke by saying that in reality, he is just afraid of being alone and his cheerful facade was nothing more than just a sign of escapism. The other 'Yosuke' then mentions that Yosuke never sees anyone as a friend, including Saki, but only as things to help him to feel secure.

Angered, Yosuke tells the other 'Yosuke' to shut up, and denies his claims. The other 'Yosuke' then mocks him, telling him that deep down, he is agreeing at with other Yosuke's claims. The other 'Yosuke' exclaims that he knew it because he is Yosuke. Not wanting to believe, Yosuke angrily exclaims that the other 'Yosuke' is not him.

Laughing at Yosuke's declination of his true feelings, the other 'Yosuke' transforms into a Shadow to attack them. The Protagonist defeats the Shadow, with Yosuke still reluctant to face himself. Under the encouragement of Teddie and the Protagonist, Yosuke painfully admits that he does feel that way, but it is always hard to face one's true feelings. Sensing Yosuke's resolution, the Shadow transform into Jiraiya, and becomes Yosuke's Persona. Later, when the Protagonist and Yosuke return to the real world, they are lectured by a worried and angry Chie, who promptly leaves after scolding them. Yosuke later thanks the Protagonist, telling him that he'll definitely have a good night's sleep tonight.

The next day, Yosuke tells the Protagonist that they must stop the murder incidents and investigate the culprit behind the Midnight Channel, allowing the Protagonist to forge the Magician Arcana with Yosuke.

Should the Protagonist manage to level up the Magician Arcana Social Link to Lv.8, Yosuke reveals that when he first moved to Yasoinaba, he was resentful towards the town because he feared that the opening of Junes would make the people in the Shop District hate him. Despite this, however, Yosuke began to open up when Saki Konishi told him that "parents are parents, you (Yosuke) are you".

Yosuke later exclaims that even after he knew the friendly Saki was a facade, he still loves her, and is sad to see her die. Yosuke also expresses his resentment of living in a small country town with little to do, as well as his wish to do something interesting like play hero. By the end of the Magician Arcana Social Link, Yosuke expresses that deep down inside, he didn't trust the Protagonist fully, and is jealous of his talents in combat and being a leader of the Investigation Team. Confessing his inner thoughts, Yosuke then requests the Protagonist to punch him, so they could get even for Yosuke's jealousy. The Protagonist eventually brawls with Yosuke, with their fight ending with a tie. Yosuke then exclaims that he'll live with his true self from now onwards, and hold precious the days he spends with others. Eventually having a change in his psyche and resolution, Yosuke's Persona Jiraiya transfigures into Susa-no-O. Noticing his newfound powers, Yosuke exclaims that he will use the power to protect the others, and thanks the Protagonist.

Yosuke's Persona, Jiraiya of The Magician Arcana, takes the form of a humanoid ninja whose head vaguely resembles a cartoon toad's, and wears a white disco suit and a red scarf. It also has a distinctive 'V' on its chest that is meant to be the toad's mouth.

Susano-O of the Magician Arcana, takes the form of a humanoid ninja wearing a light blue disco outfit with a towering red hair, he also has a mask that looks like a circular saw and sunglasses. Around its body is a circular saw that floats around like Saturn's ring.

Jiraiya and Susano-O use wind skills, single healing and physical skills along with supportive buffs. Should the Protagonist reach Lv 3 of the Magician Arcana Social Link, Yosuke will learn his distinctive follow-up attack, Yosuke Strike, where he performs a powerful combo with 100% critical rate on another enemy, downed or otherwise, provided the Protagonist has struck down a target.

Persona 4 Manga
Yosuke is pretty much the same person in the manga adaptation. With a few differences of what happened to him while getting Jiraiya (Instead of the proagonist defeating his shadow first, he gets his persona during the battle and help defeat the shadow.) Then, he asks Souji to punch him in the 10th rank of his social link in the game

Persona 4 The Animation
Yosuke's role remains the same in Persona 4. When Chie, Yu, and Yosuke first enter the T.V world, they encounter the Shadows for the first time. The Shadows chase them until Yu summons his persona. Chie falls unconscious after being attacked by the shadows.

When they return to Junes, Yosuke and Chie embrace each other for being back in the real world but Chie kicks him in the gut. When they get back to school, they learn of Saki's death, pushing Yosuke to go into the TV world with Yu agreeing to go with him. When they meet his Shadow, Yosuke still remains conscious when his other self transforms. Throughout the fight he continually denies the Shadow's words. Eventually, Yu decides to punch him. This makes him come back to his senses and admit it's true about himself. Accepting his Shadow while in battle causes his Shadow to lose control and weaken, allowing Izanagi to do the finishing blow and defeat him. Yosuke then goes to his Shadow (who has turned back to human form) and tells him "You're me and I'm you". With this, his Shadow smiles and turns into his Persona, Jiraiya.

Some time afterwards, Yu and Yosuke meet up at Junes. Yosuke reveals that he brought actual swords for the next trip to the TV world – right in front of a police officer. After this slight delay, the two meet up with Dojima, Adachi, and Chie. The two police officers discuss the case with them and reveal that Yukiko is missing. Chie breaks down into tears after hearing this. When they arrive at Yukiko’s Castle, Chie runs ahead of the other two – while Shadows begin pouring out of the walls. Yu and Yosuke summon their Personas to fight the Shadows. While Izanagi efficiently cuts through the Shadows, Jiraiya only manages to take down two, one with a Garu and the other with a kick, while two others fly past. When they confront Chie’s Shadow, it summons a vast number of Shadows from the walls. Jiraiya uses a disk attack to cut through them. Yosuke protects Chie from her Shadow, but when his persona is injured, he feels the pain. He gets trapped by Shadow Chie's hair and it begins to strangle him until Yu switches his persona to Pyro Jack. Combining his Garu with Pryo Jack’s Agi, the Shadow is destroyed.

When Yu, Yosuke, and Chie at where Yukiko and her other self are, the chandelier was coming at them until Jiraiya try push to chandelier back put ends up taking the damaged as well as Yosuke felted where his Persona crushed to a wall with a chandelier and unable to call it out(due to his Persona distance) and Yu's Persona switch his Persona back to his current Persona to help Jiraiya out and got trapped along with Yu by the melted candles unable to move before Shadow Yukiko's transformation until the shadow flames burn the candles wax with they were to move again and help out Chie.Until he and Yu are unable to defeat Yukiko's Shadow self due to the flames blocking them except for Chie. After the shadow weaken Yosuke and Chie combined with Yu attacks and able to defeat it.

After they rescue Yukiko, they spend their normal lives until Yukiko's recovered. As the days go by he notices Yu ditching class with Ai. He finds out they're dating and later thinks that Chie is jealous. So he asks Chie to become a manager for basketball club. On the last game for Kou he ends up confused on why he's wearing basketball uniform and Kou tells him it's because they are short in players. After they lose they went to Chinese Diner Aiya and he notices one of his classmate working there.

As the few days gone by during the exam, Yosuke seemed to be taking the exam but when he got stressed, he ditched class until the exam was over. When they went to stake out on Kanji who was accompanied by Naoto, they hid in the residents area in Inaba. They were then discovered by Kanji and were chased. As they continued being chased by Kanji, he almost convinced Chie to become a decoy so that they can escape but Yukiko then convinced Chie not to be fooled.

When Yosuke and others are at the entrance of Kanji's bath house, he refused to go inside because his own interest in men along with Yu who agreed with, but Chie grabbed Yosuke by the ear to force him to go inside. When Yukiko's persona attack the shadow with her fire spell, Yosuke got caught on fire with his persona as well, then Chie uses her persona and uses her ice spell to blast the flames on the shadows and his persona which causes him to freeze and become frozen. Yu breaks the ice with his persona and frees him. When Yosuke got subdued by tough guy when he touch his rear end, it cause him and Yu to blush before passing out.

Then during the school camp trip when he tries Chie and Yukiko's homemade curry he literally grosses out and passes out in disgust of their horribly cooking then regain consciousness but with an upset stomach so Yu brings him to the Health Association club tent for antacids. Then he saw Naoki who is Saki's younger brother. As Naoki leaves to go do his duties with the Health Association club he takes this investigation seriously and won't let anyone die again. The girls hide in the guys sleeping bags after Morooka appears outside. Chie hides in Yosuke's sleeping bag briefly while Yosuke looks over at Yu. After Morooka leaves Yosuke moves over to the same sleeping bag as Yu and Yukiko joins Chie in her sleeping bag. Then during the last day he wears orange swimsuit with a sunflower on it. He makes a perverted comment about the girls figure. So he gets pushed by Chie into the waterfall.

On June 21 at school, when Yosuke comment Rise's body and almost complare to Chie's he was kick on the stomach by Chie awhile she imitating Yosuke's persona name. Then on June 22 Yosuke was put in charge with the other members to catch the "curplit".

Battle Quotes

 * Let's do this, Jiraiya! (Hitting weak point/critical with physical skill)
 * Go! Susano-o! (Hitting weak point/critical with physical skill)
 * Throwdown! (Summoning Persona)
 * Persona!
 * Countin' on ya! (Summoning Persona)
 * Two left!
 * Two enemies left!
 * Four left!
 * All right, four to go!
 * Damn, it's not going down! (Failure to eliminate an enemy)
 * That's some thick skin! (Failure to eliminate an enemy)
 * Someone else's turn! (Fails to eliminate enemy)
 * What the hell? It's not working? (Enemy blocks attack)
 * It's not working--what is this? (Enemy blocks attack)
 * Too slow! (Dodging Enemy attack)
 * You're gonna pay, dammit! (Recover from Down/Dizzy)
 * Dammit... who do they think they are? (Recover from Down/Dizzy)
 * I'm pissed now! (Recover from Down/Dizzy)
 * Nice moves, partner! (Cheering on Protagonist)
 * Atta'girl! (Cheering on Chie)
 * Go, go! (Cheering on Chie)
 * Great move, Chie! (Cheering on Chie)
 * That's the Kanji I know! (Cheering on Kanji)
 * You're a beast! (Cheering on Teddie)
 * Let's go, partner! (Prompting All-Out Attack)
 * Now's our chance! You ready? (Prompting All-Out Attack)
 * All right, one for all and all for one! (Prompting All-Out Attack)
 * We're not gonna? What a waste.... (Declining All-Out Attack)
 * Uh.... If you say so.... (Declining All-Out Attack)
 * Okay! (Performing All-Out Attack)
 * All right! (Performing All-Out Attack)
 * Good answer! (Performing All-Out Attack)
 * OUT OF OUR WAY! (During All-Out Attack)
 * Ready or not, here we come! (During All-Out Attack)
 * That should do it! (Battle won)
 * Ugh... that took forever! (Battle won)
 * That's my true strength! (Battle won)
 * Another level for me! (Level up)
 * Ha ha, level up! (Level up)
 * Alright, I leveled up! (Level up)

Trivia

 * Yosuke and Chie appear to have a comic relationship very similar to that of Eikichi Mishina and Lisa Silverman from Persona 2: Innocent Sin.
 * When Yosuke is forced to cross-dress for the "Miss" Yasogami High Beauty Pageant during the school festival, his 'Yosuke-chan' form resembles Natsuki, Fuuka Yamagishi's friend from Persona 3.
 * Like Junpei Iori and Kenji Tomochika, being of the Magician Arcana, Yosuke's relationship with his crush ends tragically.
 * In the weeks that Nanako appears on the Midnight Channel, if the player decides to go to the Void Quest dungeon and talk to Yosuke at the entrance, he will say after the first dialogue: "Our princess is in another castle, dude", referring to the Mario Bros. games by Nintendo.
 * Yosuke Hanamura's headphones look like the red versions of Coby CV215 headphones
 * The name "Atlus" is written in Yosuke's bike.
 * One of Yosuke's alternate outfits in Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena resembles Jun Kurosu of the Persona 2 duology
 * In the manga, Yosuke can be seen fighting his own shadow with his persona, Jiraiya. It creates a paradox whereas his shadow is actually his persona (after he admits that the shadow is a part of him).
 * In the game when Yosuke went inside of the Twisted Distant of Saki's inner world usually he see cut up photos only a picture of him and Saki when working at Junes, but in anime he sees cut up movie ticket when he gave it to Saki.
 * Some of Yosuke's attack in Persona 4: The Ultimate In Mayonaka Arena is to throw multiples kunais to the ground with the intention to hit the opponent or use the kunais to simply attack the opponent, like Hazama (although he also uses punches or kicks) from the BlazBlue series of games from Arc System Works, the same developers that are making the game P4U. Their personalities match a bit with each other, while Hazama being plain evil and Yosuke being the total opposite, the two of them like to taunt some people, Hazama likes to taunt Ragna the Bloodedge more than anyone because of the plot of the story while Yosuke likes to make fun of Kanji more than taunting him because of his shadow.