Cool Yoshimi

Cool Yoshimi (, Kūru Yoshimi) is a character featured in the Taxi Driver Side Story in Yakuza 5.
He is one of the "Four Kings", the leading members of the Devil Killers street racing gang, who run an illegal race gambling operation in the highways of Fukuoka.
== Profile ==
=== Personality ===
Yoshimi is an exceedingly calm man who is famous for keeping his cool even when participating in dangerous street races. This attitude earned him the nickname of "Cool" Yoshimi. However, despite his demeanour, Yoshimi admits that he does admit that his main motivator in street racing is that it "excites" him.
He's also an avid statistician and researcher who investigates every one of his opponents before races to find any possible weakness he can exploit, be it in their past driving performance, the type of car they drive or their personal character.
=== Appearance ===
Yoshimi is a young man with brown hair who always dresses in a neat, professional suit. His outfit of choice is a pair of thin rim glasses and a dark grey suit with a dark blue dress shirt underneath. He always keeps his hair neatly combed and has a pen in his suit pocket at all times to take down notes.
== Involvement ==
=== Yakuza 5 ===
In 2012, Yoshimi learns that his immediate subordinate within the Four Kings, Crash Kajiwara, is set to race taxi driver Kazuma Kiryu (who at the time is living under the alias of "Taichi Suzuki"). Intrigued by the fact that Kajiwara deemed a taxi driver worthy of his time, Yoshimi silently followed his colleague to witness the race. To his surprise, Kiryu actually defeated Kajiwara, prompting Yoshimi to make his presence known and then belittle his gangmate for being defeated by an amateur. After Kiryu additionally beats Kajiwara in a fight, an impressed Yoshimi challenges Kiryu to race him, but only after he's had time to do his research about him.
A few days later, Yoshimi summons Kiryu to the same out of town rest stop where he'd met Kajiwara for his race. Yoshimi informs Kiryu that he's concluded his research and informs Kiryu that, based on his past performance, car model, the current weather and the state of the roads, he estimates that he only has a 1% chance of defeating him, so he offers him the chance to back down gracefully. Kiryu disregards Yoshimi's calculations and races him anyway, ultimately defeated him. Shaken by how badly his estimations failed him, Yoshimi runs away from the rest stop in shame once the race is over.
Yoshimi shows up again to be a spectator when Kiryu takes on the Devil Killers' leader, Devil Takamura. After beating Takamura in a race, Kiryu demands that the defeated racer disband the Devil Killers, as per the bet they'd made. However, Takamura reneges on his deal and instead orders the other members of the Four Kings to help him kill Kiryu. Yoshimi states that he is "generally not one to resort to violence", but joins in on the attack anyway, both out of duty to his gang and because he estimates he'll be likely to defeat an outnumbered Kiryu. Unfortunately for him and the other members of the Four Kings, Kiryu easily beats them regardless.
After Kiryu has humbled them once more, the gang's humiliation only deepens when Toru Onisaka, one of their two original founders, shows up and belittles them for how low the group has fallen, both for so easily beaten by an amateur and because of the dirty tactics they've resorted to. Under pressure from Onisaka, Yoshimi and the other Kings are forced to disband the gang.
Category:Devil Killers
Category:Racing Opponents
Category:Yakuza 5 Characters
Category:Yakuza 5 Antagonists