Sumire Yoshizawa
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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.[1]
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".
| Language | Name | Meaning |
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 Japanese
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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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References
- ↑ "I designed Kasumi Yoshizawa, but Shimada did her Phantom Thieves outfit, so the work there was evenly split." Persona 5 Royal Art Book, Shigenori Soejima. Published by Atlus. English. p. 46.