Yōsuke Hirata

Yōsuke Hirata is a major supporting character in the manga, anime and light novel series Classroom of the Elite. As a first-year student at Advanced Nurturing High School, he was placed within Class-D where he held the role of the class representative. He quickly formed a bond with his classmate, Kei Karuizawa, to cover her past. Although he has one of the best academic abilities in his class, it is later revealed that violent action over his lust for vengeance in the past has made has caused him to fall into Class-D.
He is voiced by in Japanese and by in English.
==Appearance==
Yōsuke is a handsome young man with brown blonde colored hair and eyes. He generally sports his crimson-colored student uniform of the ANHS. His casual uniform is a colorful striped shirt during the summer break.
==Personality==
Yōsuke is a brilliant, warm-hearted, and positive individual who gets along with her comrades without much effort, easily giving receiving trusts from others to make him the class representative and has even earned the affection of a few of his female classmates, especially Kei, whom he agreed to protect from any form of threats. Once Kei confided in him about her past, he empathized with her fear of reliving traumatic past school experiences in high school. Understanding her apprehension, he offered his own reputation as an additional shield against potential bullies. Hirata frequently demonstrates his thoughtful nature. In practice, he covered Kiyotaka Ayanokōji for being guilty of stealing Karuizawa's underwear, accepting his claim regardless of their limited acquaintance and lack of evidence to substantiate it. His outstanding leadership as evidenced in the survival test where he successfully mediated a consensus among the group after a brief disagreement over provisions and scoring by expressing his viewpoint. 
His compassion over others would go as far as to prevent anyone from fall into expulsion, including Yamauchi, who strongly perceived as the least valuable member and even a traitor. Hirata modestly encouraged the class to change their decision of their negative votes over him, risking expulsion despite his perceived emphasis. As things have gotten out of his control, he has confronted his classmates on multiple occasions over disagreements, starting to express his frustration and dissatisfaction for the first time to everyone's surprise, when he could no longer to contain his inner turmoil. In one instance, Kiyotaka bluntly addressed his failures and urged him to stop making excuses to avoid facing challenges. This candid intervention led him to confront his errors and acknowledge his shortcomings, albeit with a jest about Kiyotaka's directness. His determination of protecting his friends from expulsion has pushed him away from making the same mistake as he did in middle school where he used violence against his bullies just to avenge his unconscious friend. 
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