Sumire Yoshizawa

Kasumi Yoshizawa is a playable character from Persona 5 Royal. She is a student at Shujin Academy who lives a double life as a Phantom Thief.

Appearances

 * Persona 5 Royal: Playable Character; Faith Confidant

Design
Kasumi has red long hair tied into a ponytail, with a red ribbon tied into a bow, and red eyes. She wears a Shujin Academy winter uniform with black pantyhose and red loafers. Her summer casual outfit consists of a celeste blouse with black polka dots, a white skirt and white sandals.

As a Phantom Thief, Kasumi wears a black mask with silver highlights and has a black ribbon tied to her ponytail. Her main outfit consists of a strapless black leotard, a chain belt with two silver roses motifs and the scabbard for her rapier attached to it, a black choker and red gloves. Her black bolero jacket has gold buttons, ruffled sleeves and three floor-length coattails. She wears thigh-length hose and stiletto-heels that resemble ballet shoes on the top.

Personality
Kasumi is a cheerful, elegant and friendly person with a perfect life, as she received a Shujin scholarship. While she expresses admiration towards the protagonist and his friends, she greatly rejects Phantom Thieves and their existence, as she believes that people should learn how to solve their own problems instead of relying on other people. This stems from her own personal issues, having been helped throughout her life.

While Kasumi can cook, she is unpredictable and somewhat clumsy at it, since she isn't sure about the ingredients and she often uses stamina replenishing food due to her gymnast tendencies.

Profile
Kasumi is an accomplished rhythmic gymnast who transfers to Shujin Academy at the same time as the protagonist. Due to her accomplishments, the school has high hopes for her. At some point, Kasumi becomes involved with the Phantom Thieves, despite having different views from them. She joins them for her own reasons, rather than for the idea of changing the hearts of corrupt adults.

At July 7, after hanging out with Yosuke and Ryuji in the summer fair, the protagonist meets Kasumi near a construction site where she appears to be in depression; It turns out she was grieving for her twin sister whom she promised to go into gymnast internationals together. Unfortunately a month prior to the protagonist's arrival to Leblanc, her sister was killed in a car accident, presumably being related with the mental shutdown cases.

Etymology
Kasumi is often translated as "mist," but it also can be translated as "flowers" or "blossoms." Her surname of Yoshizawa does not have any direct meaning but was the same surname as, famous for being considered the creator of origami.

Trivia

 * Kasumi's Confidant has only five ranks, contrary to the ten that all Confidants have.

Appearances in Other media

 * : Playable Character (Collaboration event)