Yuunosuke Kyokuhara

**Yuunosuke Kyokuhara** is a contestant on Total Drama: Free Agents II and Total Drama: Free Agents VII as *The Outgoing Goofball (TDFAII)* and *The Oven (TDFAVII)*. Yuunosuke is played by Psy, who also played as Gary Parker and Carolina Martel.

## Competition History

### TDFAII

Yuunosuke started off on the Boys team, his very goofish personality proving to also be very polarizing. He quickly befriended fellow teammates Wesley Shine and Matteo Rossi while irritating many of the girls, notably Hanako Akiyama. The boys lost the first challenge of the season, and several of the girls targeted Yuunosuke and attempted to convince the guys to eliminate him for making people uncomfortable. However, Jay and Phil Armando ended up as targets instead. Despite being informed of this, Yuunosuke voted for neither of them. Instead, he cast his vote to eliminate Russell Takeyama, solely to make a joke. This backfired when Russell was upset by this vote.

After the first elimination, Yuunosuke gained a reputation as a strong challenge competitor, playing a major part in the boys winning the next three immunity challenges. During this time, he strengthened his relationships with several of the guys while planning to target Kesh Wade for his weakness in challenges. He also entered into a “fake showmance” with Matteo, which later developed into a real showmance. Yuunosuke also found the boys hidden immunity idol. Due to him not needing to use it throughout the entire premerge, it was automatically played at the merge and granted him safety for the entire round.

After the initial merge vote, Yuunosuke found himself without immunity for the first time since the first vote, as Annabelle Simons did not give it to him. However, she purposefully placed him with allies Hien, Russell, and Kesh in order to eliminate Naomi Lee for being a threat. Yuunosuke went with this plan and explained the decision to Naomi. In doing so, he evoked a strong emotional response when referring to her by a nickname used by her ex. This sparked a major conflict between him and Naomi’s showmance, Payton Rothman.

During Week 8, Yuunsouke and Annabelle were pitted against Hien and Payton in a 2-2 vote between Yuunosuke and Payton. However, Payton played the merge hidden immunity idol, negating both votes against her, leaving Yuunosuke with the most votes. Annabelle shifted things by revealing a secret advantage, the Uno Reverse Card, that allowed her to reverse the votes on Yuunosuke to any other player. She chose to move them onto Hien, and he was eliminated instead.

Due to Yuunosuke’s low threat level, he was invited into an alliance with Kesh and Iris Wong. The three of them being a trio targeting duo Payton and Russell. After Wesley returned from being voted out in Week 9, a double elimination took place which also featured one of Yuunosuke’s most infamous moments. Payton and Wesley planned to give their immunity to Kesh and Yuunosuke in order to prevent them from voting and therefore, gain a majority of the votes to eliminate Iris and Annabelle. However, upon being given immunity, Yuunosuke denied and gave it back, convincing Kesh to do the same. This led to the Immunity Hot Potato, in which immunity was given back and forth between multiple players with no one wanting to end up with it. This led to Karma leaving no one immune and everyone vulnerable to be voted out. Yuunosuke’s allies successfully voted Wesley out, but Annabelle flipped during the second elimination to vote out Iris.

During the final five, a family visit occurred for which Yuunosuke invited Naomi back in order to attempt to appease Payton. However, she and Russell still voted against him, causing a 3-3 tie between him and Russell due to the latter’s extra vote. On the vote, Yuunosuke was kept in the game by a vote of 2-1. Unfortunately, Payton won the final immunity leaving the majority to turn on one another. Yuunosuke pushed for Kesh’s elimination for being a major jury threat. However, his unlikability proved to be the nail in his coffin, as Payton and Annabelle didn’t want to keep him around and he was eliminated in 4th place by a vote of 3-1.

At the jury questioning, Yuunosuke asked the final three why their fellow finalists did not deserve to win. Although he was initially dissatisfied with Kesh’s answer, a second attempt proved to be enough for Yuunosuke to award him his jury vote, granting him second place in a vote of 6-5-2.