Yusuke Kitagawa (Persona 5)

**Yusuke Kitagawa** is an occasional background character in ***Workin' Stiff and Friends***, and the main character of ***Yusuke and Da' Boys!***, before that show got cancelled for various reasons.

### Relatives

Sasuke Uchiha, Makoto Yuki, Naoto Shirogane

### Occupation

Postman, Company Industries Employee, Restaurant Worker

## Appearances

### Portrayed by

Koji Kominami (Persona 5: The Stage)Microsoft Mike (Yusuke and Da' Boys!)

### Appears in

Persona 5, Workin' Stiff and Friends, Yusuke and Da' Boys!

## Personality

In ***Persona 5***, he is portrayed as being more level-headed than the other members of the **Phantom Thieves of Hearts**, although he suffers from Stockholm syndrome, which causes him to be highly judgmental of his art teacher, **Madarame**. Additionally, he also has the "ability" to summon rain wherever he goes, and since is a bad cook, he makes very bad meals.

However, his depiction in **Workin' Stiff and Friends** is vastly different, portraying him as rather unintelligent, as he used to for **Company Industries** with multiple jobs, including a postman, and other professions that usually always result in him getting fired from his job, but not permanently, as he always got his job back whenever he reappeared again.

This continued until he worked for **WingStop**, gaining lots of weight in the process, as he is a big fan of **spicy wings** and **Lousiana Voodoo Fries**. He later got enslaved by **Ronald McDonald** to work at **McDonald's**, along with **Workin' Lazy**, **Uniqua**, **Ttark**, and **Bomb The Mechanic** himself.

## **Creation**

Like **Joker**, Yusuke is one of the many characters found in the 2016 JRPG game, ***Persona 5***. In the game, he is the most mature member, not being very concerned about a phantom thief's life's troubles, but he is concerned about his family, being an orphan, as well as his art career.

## Role in Workin' Stiff and Friends

Like **Joker**, he is a background charater, and only appears very rarely in ***Workin' Stiff and Friends***.

### The Toronto Raptors Special

In this soon-to-be upcoming episode, he appears as the "Postman" who gives **Workin' Stiff** his Joker replica mask. He claims that he "has no time for this" after Workin' Stiff brags about his mask.

### Other Episodes

Later in the series, he is shown to have gained weight after he has eaten food from **WingStop** as a part of his lunch break. He appears in the episodes "***Workin' Stiff Goes Back To College***" as a background character who appears to be taking **Mr. Holmes**' engineering course, and "***The McDonald's Scandal***" as an employee at **McDonald's**.

## Role in Yusuke and Da' Boys!

In ***Yusuke and Da' Boys!***, he was the de-facto main character. Unlike his depiction in ***Workin' Stiff and Friends***, he is never shown as being a part of **The Phantom Thieves of Hearts**. The reasoning for this is because of his backstory on the offical website of **John Tvs**.

In this show, he was protrayed much differently. He was shown to follow **Zen**, as well as having a fuzzy attitude for the rest of the characters, even **Black Doom**.

## Trivia

* He was given his own series, called ***Yusuke and Da' Boys!***, because **John Tvs** argued with **Flex Central** about how **Yusuke** should be a more major character in the show. Due to this dispute, **Flex Central** is now the head chief of writing and directing for the series.
	+ The show got cancelled **due to the series taking way too much time to work on**, and **because of personal issues**.
* In the series, he is very noticably fat in later appearances, due to have eaten **WingStop** while he has worked there as a part of his lunch break.
	+ This is also due to an **ironic joke** being made by **John Tvs** in real-life about how **Yusuke would splurge on Red Lobster**, thus ganing weight.
		- This joke is very minorly referenced in ***Moral Beaver's Road Trip*** and **its spin-off**, ***Moral Beaver's Road Trip COMIX*** by having **Xaru The Lemur** (Whose physical appearance is based on **Yusuke Kitagawa**, **Sasuke Ucicha**, **Peni Parker**, **Shun Kazami**, and **real-life ring-tailed lemurs**) be overweight.
			* This is due to **Xaru The Lemur** formely being the **gūji** of **the Shinto religion**, before he left to become Christian.
			* Funnily enough, **Xaru The Lemur** was originally going to be called **Bub The Kitsune** and had even more of a physical appearance resembling Yusuke's.
* He is also the owner of **Robotnik**, a Pokémon that jumped onto his lap one day after eating a Voodoo Fry.
	+ Apparently, they are his *favorite* food.
* He is good friends with **Workin' Stiff**, **Workin' Hard**, **Workin' Lazy**, **Uniqua**, **Bomb The Mechanic**, **Drew Pickles**, **Fat Albert**, and, most noteably, **the main cast of *Yusuke and Da' Boys!***, as well as **Boris Anderson** and his pal named **Qozak**.
	+ Essentially, like Workin' Stiff, Workin' Hard, Workin' Lazy, and a few others, he is a friend to *everybody* except the employees of **Company Industries**, even though he *does* mean no real harm to them, despite the fact that he has got fired from many jobs.