Hayao Koshimizu

Hayao Koshimizu is a character in Shin Megami Tensei V.
==Appearances==
*Shin Megami Tensei V/Vengeance: Supporting character
==Design==
Hayao bears a near-perfect resemblance to Aogami.
===Shin Megami Tensei V' ===
Koshimizu wears an Imperial Seal of Japan pin on the left lapel of his suit jacket, much like real Japanese prime ministers. The pin's 16-petaled chrysanthemum on a red background is a symbol of the prime minister's role in the Japanese Diet, though Koshimizu's pin only has 6 petals.
Koshimizu also lacks the blue ribbon pin of modern day prime ministers Shinzo Abe and Yoshihide Suga waer, a reminder to "bring back the Japanese people who were abducted by North Korea in the 1970s and 80s."https://www.mofa.go.jp/announce/pm/abe/us_20130222en.html 
== Profile ==
===Shin Megami Tensei V===
Koshimizu is the prime minister of Japan and the head of Bethel's Japan branch. He is calm, collected and strategic. Staff commend him for his talents and ability to handle such heavy workflow, while the public questions why there's no background on him. That is because he's actually Tsukuyomi, but he keeps his identity as an Amatsukami secret. This also applies to his brother Aogami, who's actually Susano-o.
He offers the protagonist and Ichiro Dazai a chance to join Bethel once they're retrieved from Da'at, giving the latter a Demon Summoning Program, helping him fight demons.
Once Bethel defeats the forces of chaos in Chiyoda with the protagonist's help, with the world of Tokyo fading, he discloses the truth to the three students of Jouin, he announces that he will no longer cooperate with the other branches of the group, instead deciding to take the throne for himself in order to give Tokyo back to the Japanese gods. However, before he officially does this, he joins the Bethel Summit with Abdiel alongside the boys, Khonsu, Zeus, Vasuki and Odin. Upon observing Abdiel's defeat at the hands of the Nahobino protagonist alongside the other gods, who tried to slay him upon trying to enforce God's laws which his existence violated, he denounces the Creator as a "despotic tyrant" before leaving in disappointment like the other summit participants.
Once back to Bethel Japan HQ, he explains the war of the gods, the Empyrean, the Throne and the nature of the Nahobino to the boys and subsequently recruits Yuzuru Atsuta to his cause and plans to use him as a Nahobino vessel so that he may take the throne.
If the protagonist sides with his ideology, he and Yuzuru will be killed by Abdiel, with them being the first boss of their path, and will later confront Nuwa. If they don't side with them, they will take the spot of the side they support as a boss.
==Etymology==
* Hayao's surname Koshimizu means "overwater" (越水).
** It can also mean "surpass, cross over, move to, exceed, Vietnam" (越) (koshi) and "water" (水) (mizu) separately.
==In Other Languages==
Language 	Title
Japanese 	越水 ハヤオ
Korean 	코시미즈 하야오
Traditional Chinese	越水 駿
==References==
Category:Shin Megami Tensei V Characters
Category:Shin Megami Tensei V Allies
Category:Shin Megami Tensei V Enemies
Category:Chaos-Aligned Characters
Category:Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance Characters