Yosukesaurus

Yosukesaurus is a boss and a major character in Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth.

Appearances

 * Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth: Major Character, Boss

Design
Yosukesaurus is a Herbivore Dinosaur that has fur with deep blue and grey patterns on it. Its build is similar to the other herbivore dinosaurs, having a large body, narrow arms and stubby legs. His head is the same as Yosuke Hanamura's.

When he transforms to attack the party, Yosukesaurus seems to take more carnivore dinosaur traits, having a sleek build, and he resembles Jiraiya, wearing a red scarf, having a pair of long horns, and camouflage patterns on his body. In this form, he also has a black head with a white band on the center.

Personality
Unlike the other Herbivore Dinosaurs who act as a hivemind and act completely based on mockery and cowardice, Yosukesaurus is friendly and cheerful, and is willing to befriend humans. He believes that friendship isn't simply a hivemind, but is forced to participate in the other herbivore dinosaur's odd and detrimental decisions due to peer pressure as otherwise he would be treated as an outcast.

When the other Herbivore Dinosaurs force him to attack the party, he goes berserk, clutching his head constantly and going onto a rampage against them.

Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
The party first encounters Yosukesaurus eating grass, in which he was attacked by a bunch of shadows while the rest left him and fled. They mistake the dinosaur for the real Yosuke, but he does not understand what humans are and is in fact a completely different entity. He befriends the party and is willing to assist them to trap and outsmart carnivorous dinosaurs.

The other Herbivore Dinosaurs do not respect him and just treated him as an outcast. Every time he makes a decision, it is instantly rejected by the other dinosaurs who simply acted based on how many among them agree with things. After the party successfully traps the carnivore dinosaur in an electric cage, he was forced to vote for lynching the party from reality, kicking them back to the cinema.

Eventually despite the party's assistance, the other dinosaurs began to view humans as threats and wants to remove them. Yosukesaurus was chosen to confront the party in the farthest clearing of the movie reality despite he did not want to. He then goes berserk and transforms into a dinosaur resembling Jiraiya to attack the party, even calling the other Herbivore Dinosaurs for help. Yosukesaurus and the other Dinosaurs were defeated and they apologize to the party for their actions, but at this time the carnivore dinosaur F.O.E reaches the farthest clearing. The party fends off the F.O.E. with the help of Yosukesaurus and his dinosaur comrades removing a huge chunk of its health and it flees. Yosuke and the other dinosaurs now officially agree to build actual friendships instead of simply acting as a hivemind.

It was later revealed that Yosukesaurus is a cognitive copy of the primary school Hikari that appeared in Junessic Land. During her secondary school era, she was often bullied but had a few friends. One of her friends known as Miyuki would help her clean the desk when the bullies drawn insults and dumped trash on top of it. Hikari asked her out to watch a dinosaur movie which is about herbivore dinosaurs uniting their strength to overthrow their carnivore dinosaur oppressors. She agreed but the other girls refused, so they unfriended her because they considered her an outcast for not agreeing with the hivemind.

Yosuke's form was simply casting for the movie, so the cognition was able to take on a completely different form from its host, only inheriting her behavior and thoughts.

Near confronting the true mastermind of the game, a projection of Yosukesaurus is required to be defeated and replaced with Hikari's film of positivity.

Right before the final battle against the mastermind, the Herbivore Dinosaurs had built a real friendship with Yosukesaurus and they appear to actually respect him as a friend.

When the Investigation Team return to reality and receive a movie DVD from an unknown source, Yosukesaurus is implied to appear in the movie. However, none of the P4 cast recognized him, as their memories of the adventure are wiped out.