Yuuki Mishima

*This article is about the **Yuuki Mishima** character. For articles that share the same name, see Yuki.*

## Yuuki Mishima

### Alias

Well-behaved Student
Quiet Student
Admin (管理者, ***Admin***) (On Phan-Site/Codename)
Nishima (by Futaba)
The King of Random Facts (by Ryuji)
Self-appointed Public Relations Officer

## Professional Status

### Occupation

Admin of the Phantom Aficionado Website
Student
Phantom Thief

### Affiliation

Phantom Thieves of Hearts
Shujin Academy

## Voice Actors

### English

Sean Chiplock

**Yuuki Mishima** (三島 (みしま) 由輝 (ゆうき) , *Mishima Yūki*) is a student of Shujin Academy and the founder of the Phantom Aficionado Website, who lives a double life as a Phantom Thief.

## Description

### Appearance

Mishima is likely of average height or shorter, with spiky blue-tinted black hair, black eyes and a relatively "average" face. He is designed to look absolutely ordinary to represent *all* fans of the Phantom Thieves, as well as the players. Otherwise, people might think only a certain type of person supports the main cast.

Mishima generally wears Shujin Academy's standard winter uniform sans the blazer and with the shirt untucked, sleeves rolled up to his elbows and suspenders off his shoulders. He also wears white tennis shoes with green accents. In the summer, Mishima again wears the standard uniform with the suspenders off. In casual settings he dons a long-sleeve shirt with green sleeves and a volleyball image sits in the middle with the words "BOYS' FIGHT" encircling it. He pairs this with tan cargo pants and blue sneakers.

At the beginning, Mishima's face was fairly injured and his left arm was wrapped in bandages due to being constantly abused by Kamoshida.

### Personality

Bullied, abused and ignored, Mishima is an isolated individual who craves freedom from his day-to-day tortures. He used to be one of the students that Kamoshida likes to abuse and harass the most and often uses him to spread unfavorable rumors to students that he dislikes against his own will. He was also beaten a lot, and was heavily injured when first met. At one instance seen in-game, Kamoshida blatantly spikes a volleyball into Mishima's face.

Initially nervous and scared because of Kamoshida's abuse, once the tyrant of Shujin was neutralized, his excitable and loyal nature undoubtedly shines through. While his enthusiasm can become annoying, at times Mishima will still be hesitant and respectful, often apologizing for texting when he is sure Ren is busy. Mishima idolizes Ren as a cool superhero, most likely viewing the protagonist as his "savior" from his abuse under Kamoshida. There are times when Mishima will cling to Ren, once saying he will never forgive the protagonist if he is left behind. This clinginess and other socially awkward behaviors is likely due to his past of social isolation as a victim of bullying.

Although he looks up to the Phantom Thieves, he feels envious that he himself could never make an impact upon the world as they do. Mishima has always wanted to change himself and help others, but has internalized past taunts as a "nobody" and thus considers himself too pathetic and weak to do anything. As a result, when he was making the Phan-Site initially, he was merely using it to take advantage of the Phantom Thieves' popularity, and he has planned to use Ren to take down his past bullies. It required the protagonist to go to Mementos and speak with his Shadow just to make him reconsider on his own. When he saw one of his former bullies being beaten by a mob while investigating him, he instead protected him with a blank threat that he may report the mobs to the police with solid proof, which worked, making him realize that he doesn't need the Thieves' help to overturn his fates.

Mishima seems to be rather perceptive. He quickly realizes Ren is a member of the Phantom Thieves. Additionally, he can both sense and articulate the mood of Tokyo's population before the other Phantom Thieves can as reflected in his poll questions. Mishima may be fairly intelligent as well, as he clearly knows how to build and maintain a website and has shown that he can gather enough evidence to build up a case against the Mementos targets put under his charge. He also has a perverted side, as he is responsible for the "Operation Maidwatch" event that led to Kawakami's double life being exposed in front of her students.

Mishima is surprisingly good with girls, as he receives chocolate on Valentine's Day while Ryuji doesn't.

According to the character anthology, Mishima is designed to be the "grounded" character among the Phantom Thieves.

## Etymology

Yuuki Mishima's name is probably a reference to the author Yukio Mishima. Mishima would also inspire the *Shin Megami Tensei* character Gotou. Mishima also bears some resemblance to the protagonist of Yukio's novel *Confessions of a Mask* which many believes to be an autobiography of Yukio himself. In the novel the protagonist is physically weak, socially awkward and constantly tormented by the idea of how he looks in other's eye which is primarily contributed by his gay orientation.

* The name **Yuuki** means "reason, case, cause" (由) (**yuu**) and "brightness, radiance, shine, sparkle, gleam, twinkle" (輝) (**ki**).
* Yuuki's surname **Mishima** means "three" (三) (**mi**) and "island" (島) (**shima**).

## Trivia

* Mishima does not have a particular food he likes or dislikes, but he'll eat the parsley that often comes with sandwiches because he feels bad to see it left behind.
* Mishima is the only Confidant with a Shadow but not a Palace.
* Mishima and Goro Akechi are the only student Confidants who are referred to by their surname rather than their first name. All of the other student Confidants (the Phantom Thieves plus Hifumi Togo and Shinya Oda) are referred by their first name. Unlike Akechi however, Mishima possesses no antagonistic traits whatsoever.