Issei Hoshino

Issei Hoshino (, Hoshino Issei) is a supporting character featured in Judgment and Lost Judgment. He is a defense attorney employed at the Genda Law Office.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Hoshino is above average height and has medium-length, dark brown, bowl-cut styled hair. 
==== Attire ====
Hoshino wears a navy blue three piece suit over a white dress shirt, a blue and white regimental striped necktie and black leather smooth toe oxfords. He can be seen wearing a black backpack whenever he is outside of the office. He wears his lawyer's badge in his lapel. While helping Kaito bust the Bato Detective Agency, Hoshino wears clubmaster sunglasses with black frames, brown lenses, and a gold bridge and lower frame.
=== Personality ===
Hoshino appears to lack confidence in himself and is prone to overthinking. This causes him to struggle to make decisions, and leads to some light-hearted teasing at the hands of his co-workers. However, Hoshino is deeply concerned with the pursuit of justice, and rarely hesitates to help his colleagues when they need it. When on the job, he is shown to be highly competent with his work.
== Background ==
Hoshino passed the bar examination on his second attempt. He became a lawyer for Genda Law Office at some point between 2015 and 2018.
== Involvement ==
=== Judgment: 2018-2019 ===
Hoshino greets Takayuki Yagami as he enters the Genda Law Office, and faces minor teasing from him.
Hoshino is accused by Saori Shirosaki of stealing her cake from the Genda Law Office refrigerator. Mafuyu Fujii is present during this, and Takayuki Yagami later shows up. The situation escalates into a mini-court case, with Hoshino acting as the defendant. Eventually, Ryuzo Genda shows up and confirms he had thrown out the cake, proving Hoshino's innocence.
Following Masamichi Shintani's death, Hoshino defies Genda's advice against looking into the case, and helps Yagami with research surrounding it. Eventually, Hoshino accompanies Yagami to the ADDC to learn about Shintani's recent phone call with Yoji Shono.
With Kazuya Ayabe being arrested, Hoshino is requested by Yagami to act as Ayabe's attorney.
=== Lost Judgment: 2021-2022 ===
Hoshino accompanies Saori as the defense for Akihiro Ehara, whose sexual battery trial causes a commotion as he reveals the discovery of the corpse of his son's bully, Hiro Mikoshiba. Eventually, a video of Ehara murdering Mikoshiba at a time too close to the sexual battery to be valid goes viral, further complicating the case.
Hoshino accompanies Yagami to Ikebukuro Station to try and find a lead. They retrace Ehara's steps on the day of the groping, leading them to take a train to Shinjuku Station and there, make a diagram of all the security cameras. Once the diagram is complete, a blind spot in the monitored areas is found, which would enable an Ehara impostor to swap places. When they review their evidence, Hoshino does a background check on the victim Yui Mamiya, and discovers she attended Kurokawa Academy, which Yagami notes is linked to multiple involved parties. 
Further research into the academy leads of a discovery of Mitsuru Kusumoto being bullied by Shinya Kawai. Hoshino and Saori both start looking further into Kawai. Saori chooses to investigate by looking around town, and Hoshino offers to accompany her, but she declines.
Hoshino is present when Mamiya confesses the groping was staged using the blind spot for the fake Ehara to swap places with the real one. Later, he notes that Daimu Akutsu is present in Kamurocho and will personally give a bonus to any hostess performing well at any RK-owned club. He and Genda are sent by Yagami to Queen Rouge to pose as customers and increase Saori's sales numbers to ensure she gets Akutsu's bonus. When they all return to the office, Hoshino and Genda accuse the other of having that idea.
To look for anything that could convict Ehara of murder, Hoshino and Higashi meet Ehara's wife for details, though, as she had not remianed in contact with him after their son's suicide, she has no information. He prays at the altar for Toshiro, completely unaware of the fact that it hid the knife used to kill Mikoshiba.
Hoshino is present for Ehara's retrial in 2022. When all is settled, he recounts the events that took place with the others at the office, as well as the resulting high-profile arrests.
====The Kaito Files: 2022====
Hoshino works with Saori and Kaito to bust the Bato Detective Agency by manipulating Shiro Senda, who Saori had hired to look into Hoshino. Hoshino is able to make Senda admit to extorting clients, and has the conversation recorded. Though he and Saori often feel distant, Kaito encourages him to propose to her. Later, Hoshino turns down an invitation for drinks from Kaito due to having work to take care of.
== Fighting Style ==
Though never having been seen in combat, Hoshino describes himself as having a third-degree black belt in Karate.
==Gallery==
===Judgment===
Issei Hoshino.jpg|Full body render of Hoshino in Judgment
J1 - Headshot - Issei Hoshino.jpg|Hoshino's headshot
J1 - Title Card - Issei Hoshino.png|Title card.
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===Lost Judgment===
Lost Judgment - Character Render - Issei Hoshino.jpg|Full body render of Hoshino in Lost Judgment
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===The Kaito Files===
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== Notes ==
== References ==
Category:Genda Law Firm
Category:Lawyers
Category:Judgment Characters
Category:Judgment Supporting Characters
Category:Lost Judgment Characters
Category:Lost Judgment Supporting Characters
Category:The Kaito Files Characters