Sumire Yoshizawa

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Sumire Yoshizawa
Other Name(s)	Kasumi Yoshizawa Violet (Phantom Thieves code name)
Date of Birth	March 25
Age	15-16
Height	162cm (5'4")
Relative(s)	Shinichi Yoshizawa (father) Kasumi Yoshizawa (sister)
School(s)	Shujin Academy
Occupation(s)	Student Gymnast
Affiliation(s)	Phantom Thieves of Hearts (Temporary)
Arcana	Faith
Persona(s)	Cendrillon Vanadis Ella
Voice Actor(s)	Sora Amamiya (JA) Laura Post (EN)

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Sumire Yoshizawa, who goes by the name Kasumi Yoshizawa, is a character in Persona 5 Royal. She transfers to Shujin Academy as an honor student at a similar time as Ren Amamiya. She is a cheerful and dedicated athlete aspiring to compete in gymnastics at the international level.

Profile

Sumire Yoshizawa is a first-year transfer student at Shujin Academy and a talented gymnast. She has a reputation as an honor student and has reservations towards the Phantom Thieves of Hearts and their goals. She has crippling survivors guilt for her twin sister after she sacrificed her life to save her. Her cognition is influenced by Takuto Maruki for what he believes to be treatment for her guilt, having herself believe that she is her sister and assuming her identity for much of the game's story. She joins the Phantom Thieves after learning the truth and regaining her memories and confidence.

Gameplay

For complete gameplay information, see Gameplay:Sumire Yoshizawa.

Game Appearances

Persona 5 Royal

Confidant

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A beautiful junior student, admitted to Shujin Academy the same year the Protagonist transfers. With an excellent track record in gymnastics since middle school, the Academy has high hopes for her athletic career. Her Persona is Cendrillon.

Manga Appearances

Persona 5: Mementos Mission

Sumire doesn't appear in the story itself, but appears on an illustration included in the Barnes and Noble exclusive version of Volume 3.

Trivia

• While living as Kasumi, Sumire refers to the protagonist and his friends by their last names then after she has remembered that she is not Kasumi, she refers to most of them by their first names instead.
• Sumire is the only confidant who will confess their love to the protagonist before being romanced.
• Sumire was designed by Shigenori Soejima. Her Phantom Thief outfit was created by Azusa Shimada.

Nomenclature

While her given name is spelled in hiragana, when spelled in kanji the word 菫 sumire means "violet". This is (as noted by Ann) the reason for her code name being the English word "Violet".

Sumire's name is a reference to Yoshizawa Ayame I (初代 芳澤 あやめ, Shodai Yoshizawa Ayame), a kabuki actor renowned for his talent as an onnagata, or specialist in female roles. Yoshizawa was so devoted to his craft that he thought it important to live life as a woman offstage as well, and his descendants continued to use the stage name. This dedication to a double life is similar to how Sumire chose to live all parts of her life as "Kasumi". Additionally, the given name the actor Yoshizawa used, Ayame (あやめ), is the hiragana spelling of 菖蒲, meaning "iris"— a purple flower like Sumire/"violet".

Names in Other Languages

Language	Name	Meaning
Japanese	芳澤 すみれ Yoshizawa Sumire	Sumire Yoshizawa
	芳澤 かすみ Yoshizawa Kasumi	Kasumi Yoshizawa
	ヴァイオレット Vaioretto	Violet

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