Hirofumi Yoshida

Hirofumi Yoshida is a major supporting character in the Chainsaw Man manga series. He served as a minor supporting character in Part 1 but became a major supporting character in Part 2. 
He used to be a Private Devil Hunter and is now a Public safety Devil Hunter. Makima consider him as a high-class bodyguard. He was ordered to keep Denji safe and later to keep him from revealing his identity as Chainsaw Man to the Public.
==Appearance==
Yoshida is a handsome tall young man with black hair, a mole on his chin, eight piercings on his left ear. As a devil hunter he wears a white jacket with a black shirt underneath and as a student he wars a basic Gakuran school uniform with gold buttons.
==Personality==
Yoshida is a calm, collected and civil young man who takes his job as a Devil Hunter quite seriously. However he is also shown to be quite confident arrogant and cocky almost always having a smile on his face when facing his opponents. He is shown to be affable and kind to people asking Asa if she was okay and even validating her beliefs to make her feel better. He can also be civil about solving disputes and does not skip to violence util it's needed, having treated both Denji and Fami to dinner to discuss their conflicts and politely yet threateningly warning Denji about his actions as Chainsaw Man. 
However despite his kind exterior he is not afraid to act violent, ruthless and even sadistic. He viscously beat one of the Three Brothers Joey to death and mockingly smiled at his brother Aldo seemingly knowing he could not do anything to avenge him. He also isn't above hurting and threatening children like Nayuta telling Denji that Public Safety would kill her if he were to transform into Chainsaw Man again and when he breaks this voow he has Public Safety dismember him so he can't regenerate. He also attempted to kill Asa when she resisted arrest and even cut off her arm although he did show some remorse in doing by apologizing to her. He does however seem to have humanities best interests at heart, wondering if it's possible for Chainsaw Man to eat the Death Devil and even questioning Fami about the Prophecy of Nostradamus presumably wanting to avoid it.
== Biography ==
===Public Safety Saga===
===International Assassins arc===
Yoshida is a high school student and a part-time private Devil Hunter. He was first seen when he was assigned to be one of the body guards to protect Denji when various assassins around the world came after him. After going to a park at eating lunch at a burger joint they are soon confronted by "Kurose" who claims he was ambushed. However he is accidentally hit by Power with her car which reveals that he is actually a member of the Three Brothers Gang a group of assassins from America who were gunning for Denji and surmises they must have used a Skin Devil to disguise themselves. Although one of the brothers Joey attempts to attack the group for killing his brother Yoshida confronts him and brutally kills him in an alleyway. He then confronts the last brother Aldo who is disguised as an old man but he ignores him and lets him walk albeit after mockingly smiling at him.
The next day the group are cornered in a mall by one of the assassins Santa Claus who uses her army of dolls to attack them. However Quanxi appears and takes all of the dolls down. Yoshida seeing he has no choice fights Quaxi and managed go blow to blow with her but he is quickly outmatched and nearly killed but is spared because Quanxi sees that two of her Fiend girlfriends have been taken hostage. Although Kishibe attempts to reason with Quanxi and form an alliance with her to kill Makima she denies this and continues her assault leading to Yoshida being forced to fight her again. During their rematch Yoshida managed to do a lot better even managing to land a blow on her face. However his efforts are stopped when Quanxi throws him out of a window but the Octopus Devil saves him before he falls.
Yoshida and Kishibe later finish off the remaining Dolls while discussing about Makima and her ulterior motives for her actions. Kishibe then asks whether she can hear them, to which Yoshida reveals that Makima can only borrow hearing from lower forms of life. The veteran Devil Hunter warns Yoshida to not involve himself with things he shouldn't be concerned with and offers him a swig of alcohol but he insults him for it as he is underage. When Quanxi and her remaining Fiends are caught by Makima him and Kishibe put blindfolds over their eyes to avoid seeing the horror of them getting executed. Yoshida then returns to his high school to finish his final exams.
===Academy Saga===
===Justice Devil arc===
Yoshida is seen again when he sees his fellow student Asa Mitaka distressed at the entrance to the school. He offers to take her to the nurse only for Yoru to take control of her body and question of he knows anything about Chainsaw Man going to the school. He lies and claims that he might be in the Devil Hunter club. Yoru then proposes he become her boyfriend but after briefly contemplating it he denies her proposition. 
==Abilities==
* Hand-to-hand combat: With his fight against Quanxi, he has been shown to be very skilled at fighting her despite and able to hold against her for a few minutes as she is very well known for her abnormal physical strengths and speeds, however he lost the fight since Quanxi is a hybrid.
* Octopus Devil Contract: Yoshida has made a contract with the octopus devil for unknown price, which grants him to use the abilities of the devil.
* Tentacle Summoning: Yoshida summons the tentacle of the devil that is produced from clouds made of ink and can also summon multiples of these tentacles to use as protections by wrapping around or can also use it to catch him to save him from falling great height.
* Ink: Whenever Yoshida says ink, the devil's tentacle produces a large amount of ink to use as smokescreen so that he can blind his enemies.
*Swordsmanship: Yoshida seems to be very proficient with a Katana being able to easily slice off Asa Mitaka's arm so quickly she had little to no time to react.
==Gallery==
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File:Octopus Devil Arm.webp|Yoshida using Octopus Devil's tentacle
File:EVcuwuxXkAAk AP.jpg|Yoshida fighting Quanxi
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==Trivia==
*He ranked both number 10 and 6 in the first and second popularity polls even Fujimoto stated that he was genuinely confused as to why Yoshida became so popular.
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