Yousuke Hanamura

Yousuke Hanamura, also known as Biking Student, Pained Student, Bleak-Looking Student, Rolling Student, Captain Resentment, Boy with Dyed Hair, The Prince of Junes, Hana-chan and The Prince of Disappointment, is one of the main characters from the Persona series.
== Charactah Account ==
A second-year student at Yasogami High School, Yousuke Hanamura moved to the town about six months before the events of the game. His father is the manager of local department store Junes, and as such he is usually treated as an unofficial complaints box, much to his chagrin. Yousuke serves as the best friend and partner of Yuu, although he's often the butt of his other friends' jokes.
Yousuke is a clumsy transfer-student who arrived six months before the protagonist. He is often the target for jokes about his lack of muscles and body strength, and fights with blunt, double-handed objects such as wrenches, but moreso knives and kunai. The protagonist first sees him crashing his bike into a garbage can, the first of many times, but he doesn't introduce himself to the protagonist until he helps Yousuke by getting him out of a garbage can. Yousuke doesn't usually think before he says something, which results in him sticking his foot in his mouth, and unintentionally insulting someone, including Kanji Tatsumi about his sexual orientation.
Yousuke tends to be a bit of a wannabe ladies' man and has a fascination for girls, forcing the girls to enter a beauty pageant they can't back out of. But beneath most of that (more so in the original game), he shows great insight with decent deducing, and is often on task of the situation on hand, and can be very serious at times. Along with that, he is described by the other members of the Investigation Team as too nice, even from his own words. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* Persona 4 the Animation
* Persona 4 the Animation: No One is Alone
* Persona 4 the Golden Animation
* Persona 4 the Golden Animation: Thank You Mr. Accomplice
=== Light Novels ===
* Persona 4: Amnesia of the Fog
=== Manga ===
* Persona 4
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
* Persona 4 The Magician
* Persona 4: The Ultimate in Mayonaka Arena
* Persona 4: The Ultimax Ultra Suplex Hold
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P3
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth - Side:P4
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth Roundabout Special
=== Video Games ===
* BlazBlue Cross Tag Battle
* Persona 3: Dancing in Moonlight
* Persona 4
* Persona 4 Arena
* Persona 4 Arena Ultimax
* Persona 4 Colors
* Persona 4 Golden
* Persona 4: Dancing All Night
* Persona 5: Dancing in Starlight
* Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth
* Persona Q2: New Cinema Labyrinth
* Puzzle and Dragons
== Trivia ==
* Yousuke's headphones resemble the Audio Technica ATH-FC700A or the Audio Technica ATH-ES10. On the Volume 2 cover of Persona 4: The Animation, his headphones on the artwork are called the Music Technica ATH-EF11.
* During the Persona Stalker Club program, it was revealed that Yousuke, while in combat, listens to western music and film soundtracks.
* The word "Atlus" is printed on Yousuke's bike, a reference to Atlus, the company that is behind the creation of the Persona series and Shin Megami Tensei.
* The license plate on Yousuke's scooter is 6-22, which is likely a reference to his birthday, June 22nd.
* In the game, when Yousuke is inside Saki's Twisted Shopping District, he sees cut-up photos of him and Saki working at Junes. In the anime, he sees cut-up movie tickets he gave her instead.
* As part of Persona 4 Arena and Persona 4 Golden promotions, Yousuke is used as his seiyuu's avatar for the BlazBlue radio show "Bururaji" chatting along with the seiyuus of BlazBlue characters Ragna the Bloodedge (Tomokazu Sugita), Noel Vermillion (Kanako Kondou) and Tsubaki Yayoi (Asami Imai). His "opening act" is similar to his first appearance in the original Persona 4 where he crashes into a trash can while riding his bicycle although this time, he crashes into Ragna.
* The way Yousuke performs Garudyne in Persona 4 Arena resembles his Follow-Up Attack (Yosuke Strike in ENG or Yousuke no Kougeki/Yousuke's Attack in JPN) from Persona 4.
** Yousuke's new Shunten Hisougiri (Blink Turning Soaring Cutter) move in Persona 4 The Ultimax resembles Leona's V-Slasher from King of Fighters. It is even blatantly localized as "V-Slash" in the English versions.
* When Yousuke equips the Yellow Featherman outfit in Persona 4 Golden he says "Hey, I'm in yellow!? I'm not the fat one! Am I...?" The line alludes to the Persona 2 duology where Eikichi Mishina used the Yellow Featherman mask when he was an overweight kid. It also alludes to the character Raita Oishi, Yellow Owl from Chojin Sentai Jetman, the Super Sentai series Featherman is a parody of.
* Prior to entering "Marukyu Tofu," Yousuke reveals that he can't eat tofu for untold reasons, yet exclaims he would buy tofu and accept the extra tofu Rise gave.
** This creates a continuity error with Persona Q: Shadow of the Labyrinth's "SOS: Save Our Stomachs!" request, where Yousuke is able to eat a hot pot made with tofu without comment or ill effects.
* Yousuke mentions several times throughout the game that he is disgusted by fish - not only the idea of eating fish but the idea of fish in general. Ironically, Yousuke can use a weapon called "Inaba Trout", which can be obtained from a quest.
* In the weeks that Nanako appears on the Midnight Channel, if the protagonist decides to go to the Void Quest dungeon and talk to Yousuke at the entrance, he will say after his primary lines: "Our princess is in another castle, dude." This is a reference to a line spoken in the Mario Bros. games by Nintendo.
* Yousuke has a nurse fetish.
** If the Cleaning Uniform received from Sayoko Uehara in Persona 4 Golden is equipped to Yousuke, talking to him while in a dungeon will have him remark on how the protagonist is lucky to work with nurses, and in Persona 4 Arena, in Yu's route, Teddie will ask him to get Yousuke a new nurse porn magazine, as his old one was burned.
** Teddie teases Yousuke on this multiple times in Persona Q: Upon reaching the nurse's office for the first time, Teddie will call out for a nurse. When he doesn't get a response he tells Yousuke not to be sad, yet Yousuke responds by telling Teddie that he didn't say anything. He also explains Yosuke's fascination with nurses during the group date cafe and exclaims that they might see nurses in the Evil Spirit Club when seeing an examination room sign implying they were in a hospital.
* In Persona 4 Arena, Yousuke has a poster that parodies AKB48. He also has the albums (in order from left to right): Persona 3 OST, Mr. Big's Deep Cuts, the Grammy Nominees 2008 album, Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight, and Nickelback's All the Right Reasons displayed on two shelves.
* On the ski trip in Persona 4 Golden, Yousuke tells a ghost story about how his friend's sister and her group of friends bullied another student. As Yousuke continues, he states that his friend's sister would lock herself up in her room, mumbling to herself, "I'm next." Worried, his friend tried asking her friends about it only to find out that they had all passed out and were in the hospital. That night, she bursts out of her room and didn't turn up until the next morning where she was found unconscious outside of the school gates. This story was actually a loose retelling of the events that happened with Fuuka Yamagishi in Persona 3, with some false details being added, such as how the girl "died." Naoto mentions that she read a police report that sounded similar as well.
* During his introduction in the P3 side of Persona Q, Yousuke is referred to as "Boy with Dyed Hair." In Persona 4 Design Works Soejima confirmed that he and Chie dye their hair, but their true hair colors are unknown. He is one of three out of the members of the Investigation Team to have been confirmed to have dyed hair, the others being Chie and Kanji, while only Kanji's true hair is revealed in Persona 4 Golden.
* Because of his highlighted interest in music, all three of Yousuke's Personas have a disco motif, including his ultimate Persona, Takehaya Susano-o, who has an afro haircut.
* Dummied content including English and Japanese voice clips from the PS2 and the Golden release of Persona 4 reveals not only an earlier draft of Yousuke's Social Link, but leftovers of a script that implies he was written as a potential romantic partner for the protagonist at some point.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Yosuke Hanamura at Megami Tensei Wiki
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