Yosuke Hanamura

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"Distance doesn't matter to us! Even if we're separated we're still friends!" — Yosuke Hanamura

## Profile

### Background

Yosuke Hanamura is Yu Narukami's classmate at Yasogami High School in Inaba and the son of the Junes Department Store's Inaba branch manager.

Co-founder and unofficial vice-leader of the Investigation Team, Yosuke arrived to Inaba one year before Yu Narukami, after his father took over local supermarket, Junes. He developed a crush on one of Junes' workers, Saki Konishi, but his love ended with a tragedy after she became the second victim of a serial killer using the Midnight Channel and TV World for his purposes. Enraged, Yosuke entered the TV World with Yu in an attempt to find some clues, but instead he encountered his Shadow Self, a mirror image born of everything a person tries to deny and hide from world - in Yosuke's case, it was his boredom, desire to be "hero", and fear that Saki doesn't reciprocate his feelings. After accepting his Shadow as a part of himself and obtaining its power as a Persona, he and Yu formed the Investigation Team to stop the killer and bring him to justice.

Few months after the culprit Tohru Adachi is arrested for Saki’s murder, and the Persona universe’s Izanami is defeated, Yosuke and his friends are end up being the subjects to a Midnight Channel fighting tournament known as P-1 Grand Prix hosted by "General Teddie", and realize that a few of their friends are dragged into this bloodbath tournament for the culprit's deadly entertainments. Once entering the tournament, Yosuke and his friends will find their missing allies, while meeting other Persona users, the Shadow Operatives.

### Personality

Yosuke is a clumsy transfer-student who arrived six months before Yu. He is often the target for jokes about his lack of muscles and body strength and fights with blunt, double-handed objects such as wrenches, but moreso knives and kunai. Yu first sees him crashing his bike into a garbage can, the first of many times, but he doesn't introduce himself to the him until he helps Yosuke by getting him out of a garbage can.

He cares deeply about Saki Konishi and fell into depression after her death. Much of his character development stems from his feelings for Saki and dealing with the hurtful possibility that Saki probably never felt the same way about him that he did for her.

Yosuke doesn't usually think before he says something, which results in him sticking his foot in his mouth, and unintentionally insulting someone, including Kanji Tatsumi about his sexual orientation.

He tends to be a bit of a wannabe ladies' man and has a fascination for girls, forcing the girls to enter a beauty pageant they can't back out of. But beneath most of that (more so in the original game), he shows great insight with decent deducing, and is often on task of the situation on hand, and can be very serious at times. He also tends to keep a good face in order to make sure the team is in their best spirits and he cares a lot about Yu, as well as having a strong sense of justice. He's good with people's emotions, offering assistance at Junes. Despite his tendency to be a bit of a pushover, he has a strong vision of the future and displays uncanny deductive reasoning. A notable gag is that Yosuke seems to be at odds with Chie Satonaka several times.

Being an idol fan. Yosuke gets very excited when he sees his favorite idols like Rise Kujikawa or Kanami Mashita. However, he later sees them as friends after seeing their insecurities.

His biggest insecurities are boredom and loneliness. He feels the town has nothing compared to the city and that his life in the city is the reason for his unpopularity. By the end of the game, he has grown to love the town and has made friends with the rest of the Investigation Team and feels accomplished in having a notable contribution to the group.

Along with that, he is described by the other members of the Investigation Team as too nice, even from his own words. This is evident in Persona Q (Persona 4 route in one of the strolls) and by himself in the Persona 4: Dancing All Night storyline (in the pre-story chapter, after Rise is doing her entry). Regardless, his skills in deduction and reasoning place him as the second-in-command of the Investigation Team, as it is hinted that he often discusses things with Yu the most times regarding the team's final decisions.

## Abilities

The ability to utilize Personas, powerful manifestations of the mind and soul. Personas can move and attack independently of their users, allowing for double-teaming between their user and the equipped Persona. Each Persona has a set of elemental affinities, which also apply to their user while the Persona is equipped. Yosuke's initial Persona is Jiraiya, his evolved Persona is Susano'o, and his ultimate Persona is Takehaya Susano'o.
His standard equipment is usually his Team Glasses for entering the TV World, and his weapons are is knives/kunais.

# References

https://megamitensei.fandom.com/wiki/Yosuke\_Hanamura

https://vsbattles.fandom.com/wiki/Yosuke\_Hanamura

https://hero.fandom.com/wiki/Yosuke\_Hanamura

https://blazbluextag.fandom.com/wiki/Yosuke\_Hanamura